Russian invasion of Ukraine

I’d not be surprised if washing machine are booby trapped for the Russian.

The futility of war (link is safe)
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1589303357134770176

Unless that's a sort of memorial? I think I saw something similar from the Ukranian side, and in that case I got the impression it was a temporary place to mourn, not the actual grave sites.

So looks like official withdrawal of the west bank of the Dnipro announced

Seems like a pretty big L for Russia. Wonder what's next?

Two good threads on how being a reluctant conscript goes
https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1591010350471995393

Dropped a section of the Antonovsky bridge on the way out
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1591006050626330625

Shows how surreal war it, an area that has been under relentless strikes and still an old civilian just out for a walk with his bike to get his groceries

I am reading in forrin news that defence analysts have worked the numbers, how many soldiers it would have been possible to get across the Dniepr in time, and assume a number of Russian troops are left in Kherson with no realistic escape route. Assuming they are the least experienced, least valuable troops this could turn pretty grim. I really hope they do the sensible thing and surrender en masse.

EDIT: Suggestions on Twitter that there are 18 000 troops left behind. This is insane.

This shows they dropped even more spans of the bridge than in that video
https://twitter.com/WarMonitor3/status/1590990811822686208

Think the working hypothesis has been that they have withdrawing the professional army for weeks already but had been backfilling them with conscripts, a bunch of them probably left on the wrong side to find their own way or surrender. Videos on twitter of soldiers walking over the pontoon bridge yesterday and vehicles driving over the bridge but both now destroyed, so anyone else is left to swim or find a boat

This was stragglers apparently yesterday
https://twitter.com/ian_matveev/status/1590990707103252481

Seems those were false rumours and that Kherson is pretty much empty of Russian soldiers.

Yeh there were a bunch of posts last night claiming 20k russians trapped the wrong side of the river and people getting excited

Guessing Dugin should now avoid going near windows

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1591181876815106048

Perpetuating the lie that Kherson is a Russian city.
Russian idea? You mean Russian dictatorship and rule over free people? No…Russians can FOAD

an old civilian just out for a walk with his bike

Teenslain lives!

I guess we both read this as an attack on Putin. But is there a chance that with all Russian Idea stuff Dugin is airing the possibility of making Shoigu be the scapegoat?

Think the Kremlin came out yesterday saying the repositioning of forces was a failure of Shoigu, the whole broadcast announcement of the withdrawl is assumed to make Shoigu and Surovikin the scapegoats. I think Dugin is attacking Putin and I imagine having your daughter blown up, potentially by Putin makes you feel being more vocal is worth the gamble

The Wagner scum need to be eradicated just like ISIS. There should be no place for sledge hammer murderers on this earth. The thing that worries me is that it is basically global mercenary corporatism at this point. US opened to the door to using all kinds of "security consultants" giving Blackwater contracts in their bs war in Iraq.

Seen on Twitter that "Putin has gone into hiding" etc. Anyone else seen rumours about this? Is it just that, or is it confirmed? Can it be the beginning of the end?

The sad thing is that Putler may have actually been a balancing force in ruzzian politics. There are far more evil movements in Ruzzia and that issue needs to be solved before we can expect to have lasting peace.

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1591472331368861697?s=20&t=ZutFGja6pDd5H3nGibNJqA

We will we will nuke you.

Does seem to be increasing chatter about talks with repeated reports the US and Nato countries are leaning on Ukraine to come to the table although Biden reiterated it is up to Ukraine to decide Ukraine's path

That looks super staged. Buildings looks like props, same font on all signs, we only see the front of the crowd, no pans or overhead shots.

US opened to the door to using all kinds of "security consultants" giving Blackwater contracts in their bs war in Iraq.

Kind of naive to think its something that only started happening in Iraq in ~2003

There have been large scale private armies of mercenaries since the 13th century.

This.
There's a complete lack of litter or any sort of detritus on this 'street'.