"All of Vlad's forces and all of Vlad's men, are out to put Humpty together again." (1 Viewer)

[RogerdeLluria]

Take with a grain of salt, probably Ukrainian propaganda.

View: https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1641262471179583492

 

[RogerdeLluria]

Spot on.
Another brave man that should stay away from windows.


View: https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1641162497951518722

 

[RogerdeLluria]

330 a month, assuming only half destroy their target, that's about 1000 Russian tanks a year. Yeah, I think that that will do for a forever war.
And in case "forever" means more than 5 years, I like the "sextuple" part
Not to mention the many other ATGM and RPGs that are making its way into Ukraine.

View: https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1641349273425002496

 

[Warspite63]

Pretty sure it was actually a Russian pilot who took out the Death Star.

Yes, it was that young Skywalkerov fellow.......

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

I knew it!

 

[Ralph Haus]

 

[GTX]

Banking executives convicted for helping Putin ally move millions through Swiss accounts

Four bankers who helped a close friend of Vladimir Putin move millions of francs through Swiss bank accounts have been convicted of failing to perform due diligence in financial transactions.

www.abc.net.au

 

[GTX]

China-linked Russian body armor is landing on the battlefield in Ukraine

Photos on eBay and other sites show the Russian body armor, which Ukrainians say they've recovered from the front lines.

www.politico.com

 

[at6]

Doctrine ...,.,. again

Female Russian Army medics forced into sex slavery by officers

Russian officers are using the euphemism "field wives" to describe their sickening sexual arrangements with female combat medics.

torontosun.com

Better that than subjecting Ukrainian women to anymore brutality.

 

[GTX]

View: https://twitter.com/Gjallarhornet/status/1641493259116589059

 

[GTX]

Ukraine’s Super-Upgraded M-55S Tanks Are Urban Demolition Vehicles

Mobile guns are great for certain missions and terrible for others. You wouldn’t send a mobile gun barreling across an open field while under fire in order to close with, and destroy, an enemy tank force. You would send a mobile gun into an enemy-held city.

www.forbes.com

 

[GTX]

Marder 1A3 tracked armored IFVs donated by Germany enter into service with Ukrainian army | Defense News March 2023 Global Security army industry | Defense Security global news industry army year 2023 | Archive News year

first Marder tracked armored IFVs (Infantry Fighting Vehicles) donated by Germany have now entered into service with the Ukrainian army

www.armyrecognition.com

 

[buffnut453]

This is a couple of weeks old but I hadn't seen it reported previously. Interesting development re Kazakhstan seizing the Russian-owned Baikonur Cosmodrome. Here are a couple of different articles on the topic:

Kazakhstan Impounds Property Of Russian Cosmodrome Operator In Baikonur

Kazakh authorities have impounded the property of Russia's main operator of spacecraft launching sites in Baikonur (Baiqonyr) in the Central Asian nation's southern region of Qyzylorda.

www.rferl.org

Kazakhstan Seizes Russia's Launch Facility at Baikonur

The government of Kazakhstan has seized Baikonur Cosmodrome and Russian space assets, putting their efforts in space on pause.

www.universetoday.com

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

This is a couple of weeks old but I hadn't seen it reported previously. Interesting development re Kazakhstan seizing the Russian-owned Baikonur Cosmodrome. Here are a couple of different articles on the topic:

Kazakhstan Impounds Property Of Russian Cosmodrome Operator In Baikonur

Kazakh authorities have impounded the property of Russia's main operator of spacecraft launching sites in Baikonur (Baiqonyr) in the Central Asian nation's southern region of Qyzylorda.

www.rferl.org

Kazakhstan Seizes Russia's Launch Facility at Baikonur

The government of Kazakhstan has seized Baikonur Cosmodrome and Russian space assets, putting their efforts in space on pause.

www.universetoday.com

It certainly speaks to the Russian loss of gravitas in Central Asia and other former SSRs. Yet more blowback from Putin's misadventure which Russia will regret for decades to some, as China moves into the power-vacuum this war will inevitably leave. There are other articles discussing how their satellite states are using the Russian distraction in order to drive their own agendas, too. More heat in Ngorno-Karabakh, etc, due to a weakened Russian presence.

 

[Warspite63]

It certainly speaks to the Russian loss of gravitas in Central Asia and other former SSRs. Yet more blowback from Putin's misadventure which Russia will regret for decades to some, as China moves into the power-vacuum this war will inevitably leave. There are other articles discussing how their satellite states are using the Russian distraction in order to drive their own agendas, too. More heat in Ngorno-Karabakh, etc, due to a weakened Russian presence.

Agreed .... that would have been an unthinkable act pre-February, 2022. And, as you pointed out, the ripples Putin has caused will travel for years.

 

[Snowman]

Human-like Prigozhin sends the new message:

Wagner Boss Prigozhin Sends a Very Weird Audio Message to The Daily Beast

ReutersThe Daily Beast has received a bizarre audio recording from none other than Yevgeny Prigozhin, the notorious head of Russia’s Wagner Group.In the audio clip, sent in response to a comment request for a story related to the private mercenary group, Prigozhin makes it quite clear that he...

www.yahoo.com

 

[GrauGeist]

Human-like Prigozhin sends the new message:

Wagner Boss Prigozhin Sends a Very Weird Audio Message to The Daily Beast

ReutersThe Daily Beast has received a bizarre audio recording from none other than Yevgeny Prigozhin, the notorious head of Russia’s Wagner Group.In the audio clip, sent in response to a comment request for a story related to the private mercenary group, Prigozhin makes it quite clear that he...

www.yahoo.com

He is full of bravado only because he thinks that he's a tough guy and untouchable.

First of all, he's not tough, the people he employs are - and the day will come when those employees are no longer protecting him.

Then we'll see just how tough he really is...

 

[buffnut453]

Presumably Erdogan got whatever concessions he was seeking:

Turkey approves Finland Nato membership bid

Turkish MPs vote to admit Finland to the West's defensive alliance, after blocking it for months.

www.bbc.com

 

[SaparotRob]

If only for Finland joining NATO, Putin suffered a big defeat.

 

[RogerdeLluria]

Presumably Erdogan got whatever concessions he was seeking:

Turkey approves Finland Nato membership bid

Turkish MPs vote to admit Finland to the West's defensive alliance, after blocking it for months.

www.bbc.com

Nope, not yet. He will get more in exchange for Sweden.