Russian invasion of Ukraine

The guy's got more balls than the whole of Russia.

He’s off to America tomorrow.

All goes according to plan: https://wartranslated.com/russian-volunteer-murz-on-why-russia-is-not-ready-to-defend-ukrainian-winter-offensive/

The wurst day of his life.

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Looks like Russia is considering repairing nordstream 1 at a cost of 500m

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/26/world/europe/nordstream-pipeline-explosion-russia.html

Another window incident too - one of his travelling party also died a couple of days prior, although no mercenary glazing fixtures were thought to be involved

Definitely nothing unusual in two people dying from falling down. Not if they are Russian at least.
Banks are freezing deposits and atm cards amid rumours Putin will convert deposits into government bonds.

I was thinking recently, maybe dying from drinking too much or falling through windows actually is pretty common cause of death in Russia, it just gets too much of a media attention in times like these.

Seems to be extremely common. Especially amongst Putin’s rivals/critics.

I don’t know about the Russian infantry but UAF releasing videos of suicide drones flown through the entrance of a dugout and chasing a BMP down the road trying to fly through the open back doors puts the shits up me.

My take is there are currently massive machinations and manoeuvres in the Russian Federation right now to take power which is why there are so many assassinations / accidents. Much is probably resulting from Putins paranoa, but there also seems to be people openly criticizing and positioning such as the Wagner PMC boss Prigozhin and also the Chechnyan Kadyrov, who are lining themselves up to replace Putin.

This also seems to be the reason for the reluctance of the US to give Ukraine all the long range weapons such as ATACMS, which would quickly turn the war, as they are terrified of Russia collapsing, and being taken over by 20 regional warlords all with ballistic nuclear weapons.

Who was it that described Russia as tyranny moderated by assassination?

Same. Used to work in a robotics/drone lab and a guy joined who constantly warned a few years back about all the mad different ways we'd see them used in warfare and terrorism soon. Hasn't made it any easier seeing it become reality.

So close to going differently in the opening days
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/28/the-battle-for-kyiv-revisited-the-litany-of-mistakes-that-cost-russia-a-quick-win

Great summary. Remember the 70 km length convoy heading towards Kyiv?
When I saw it, I almost shit my pants. I was so scared.

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Anti-drone/loitering munition wire mesh tents being built over artillery pieces. Crazy how quickly adaptations are taking place.

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Ukrainians shooting down a russian rocket. https://t.me/uniannet/84863

I had a Russian Advent Calender this Christmas. The trouble was, every time I opened a window, an Oligarch fell out.

Major General Budanov head of intelligence doing interview with the Beeb with map of Moscow on his big screen is flames emoji

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Xmas lights on a HIMARS is ballsy
https://twitter.com/Euan_MacDonald/status/1609678603456839686?t=Hn-02uH637vDJbzrfK8ZZw&s=19

I’m sure the US is thrilled with that..

Its a shame it has a Nazi problem.

Remember BBC did a programme when England football captain Sol Campbell told fans not to go to Ukraine unless they wanted to return back in a coffin.

I see that this is your first post on LFGSS, maybe that says something!

Where are you from?
How did you get here?

It’s a shame it has a Nazi problem.

Your problem is with your perception that the broadcaster hates them?
Just trying to work out what you mean here

Now do explain that 'Nazi problem'and its connection to football hooligans there and do look at the same issue all over Europe, England included.....or are you just trolling USSR propaganda....

Random fash-gammon popcorn aside.
A good friend, writer and all around awesome person was just gifted a Ukrainian LGBT+ services patch.
So fucking cool and another excellent fuck you to Putin. Apparently there’s plenty of service personnel who’ve had it tattooed as well.

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