"All of Vlad's forces and all of Vlad's men, are out to put Humpty together again." (6 Viewers)

[GrauGeist]

An idea of how stupid Russians are:

Russia: "Let's cause a Ukrainian reactor to melt down and spread radioactive material all over. That'll teach them a lesson!"

*The prevailing wind carries the radioactive dust into Russia*

Russia: "We've been attacked by NATO!!"

 

[buffnut453]

The night vision kit provided by the West will make a big difference here.

https://mil.in.ua/en/us-night-vision-technology-for-ukrainian-sof-2/

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Latest from Moscow: Those perfidious fascist Ukrainians have now recruited inter-stellar mercenaries in the form of Sand People. Are there no depths to which Kyiv will stoop to perpetuate this war of aggression against Mother Russia?

 

[WARSPITER]

Can't fool me, Admiral. That' a Tusken Sand Raider!

No it's a Ukran mud raider.

 

[buffnut453]

News coming in that Russia has blown up a dam at Nova Kakhovka. There are concerns that it might cause issues for the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, not to mention causing downstream flooding that will be a major distraction for Kyiv.

EDIT: Sorry…just saw others had already posted this. The BBC has a live updating thread on the topic.

 

[RogerdeLluria]

View: https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1665796654295908353

 

[RogerdeLluria]

Some vids about the Dam


View: https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1665950775783161857

View: https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1665952871584608257

 

[RogerdeLluria]

I second that. Notice we are talking old Hornets here, not the newer superhornets.

Retired RAAF fighter jets could be sent to Ukraine

Australia, the US and Ukraine are discussing sending 41 Royal Australian Air Force F/A-18 Hornets to Kyiv, rather than sending them to the scrapheap as planned.

www.afr.com

However that should only be the start ... Canada, Finland, Spain should follow pace, all of them have some F-18 that are about to be retired soon.
E.g.:

Spain finalizes $2.1 billion deal for 20 Eurofighters to replace old F-18s

Eurofighter had something of a lock on replacing the oldest of Spain's American-made planes, stationed on the popular tourist island of Gran Canaria. The government in Madrid had cleared the purchase in late 2021.

www.defensenews.com

Why scrap if you can recycle. And why recycle if you can reuse.

 

[RogerdeLluria]

Russians started to publish "evidence" of destroyed leopards.

This is a screenshot from a lancet drone that reportedly destroyed a Leo-2

And here screenshot from a leo-2 documentary

 

[Snowman]

Ha, this is their old tradition:

Russia uses game screenshot to try and claim US is working with ISIS

The Russian Ministry of Defence has released an image it claimed showed US forces covering the retreat of so-called Isl…

www.eurogamer.net

Next time Russians will post a screenshots from their victory parade at the Pennsylvania Avenue. And population will take it as a truth too.

 

[Snautzer01]

The night vision kit provided by the West will make a big difference here.

https://mil.in.ua/en/us-night-vision-technology-for-ukrainian-sof-2/

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It is justva normal ukrainian tractor driver, nothing special to be seen.

 

[machine shop tom]

An idea of how stupid Russians are:

Russia: "Let's cause a Ukrainian reactor to melt down and spread radioactive material all over. That'll teach them a lesson!"

*The prevailing wind carries the radioactive dust into Russia*

Russia: "We've been attacked by NATO!!"

The Master Strategist brings warmth to everybody.

 

[Denniss]

These russian assholes try to kill even more civilians - not only are they trying to drown them but now they started shelling the evacuation parties in Kherson.
This dumb action with blowing up the dam actually cut off Crimea from its only fresh water supply so they give a shit about what they claim is their own population.

 

[Snautzer01]

Its a panic reaction.
1 try to make terrain inpassible
2 make shore comming management does not have the benefits

Both mean you are in trouble.

 

[Ascent]

Its a panic reaction.
1 try to make terrain inpassible
2 make shore comming management does not have the benefits

Both mean you are in trouble.

I was going to say that this whole dam thing smacks of panic on the Russian side. An immediate reaction to prevent the Ukrainians from being able to cross the dam or river downstream without any thoughts of other consequences.

 

[RogerdeLluria]

Counteroffensive? Probing defenses? A look at the fighting in Ukraine

Moscow claims it has successfully fended off a Ukrainian attempt to ram through Russia’s defenses, but some pro-Kremlin military bloggers painted a different picture, acknowledging that Kyiv’s troops made some quick gains

english.elpais.com

 

[RogerdeLluria]

View: https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1666019644065415168

 

[RogerdeLluria]

Confirmation that it was the Russians

"We strongly reject the accusation of blowing up the Kakhovka HPP. This was a deliberate sabotage by Kyiv. One of its goals is to deprive Crimea of water, the supply of water to the North Crimean Canal is reduced," Russian Press Secretary Peskov said.

 

[Denniss]

As usual - take Ukrainian claim with a grain of salt. For russian claims there's not enough salt in this world to believe their claims.

 

[Admiral Beez]

These russian assholes try to kill even more civilians - not only are they trying to drown them but now they started shelling the evacuation parties in Kherson.
This dumb action with blowing up the dam actually cut off Crimea from its only fresh water supply so they give a shit about what they claim is their own population.

Putin doesn't care about protecting the water supply to Crimea - I'm surprised the Ukrainians hadn't already cut that off. What the Russian military likely thought was that the Ukrainians were about to launch a major offensive with crossings of the Dnipro river, and figured making the river much wider would hinder those plans.

Though there's also the possibility that this was strutural collapse from earlier damage. Were there any reports of a massive explosion yesterday?


View: https://twitter.com/gbrumfiel/status/1665969972349108224?s=20

 

[Denniss]

Beware of circulating vids claiming to show the dam destruction by explosives, those are from 11/22 showing the russians blowing up the road/rail connection
It is possible the dam broke because of structural failure, raising the water levels to a record high by the russians did not really help with an already structually weakened dam.

View: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-63607625