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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CSaohU6Qh0
Sports is the one safe place to practice nationalism. In a country under attack it does take some pretty fanatic forms and it is totally understandable. Football is part of Ukrainian identity and they have actually been pretty good at it.
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Today Shoygu and Gerasimov demoted Surovikin
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Long term, the arithmetic of manpower works to Moscow’s advantage as Russia has 3.5 times Ukraine’s population. Even if Russia loses two soldiers for every one Ukrainian service member killed, it still improves its relative strength. So far, Western officials say, Russia’s battlefield fatalities—numbering in several tens of thousands—are comparable to Ukraine’s.
The calculus on ammunition and weaponry is more complicated. Ukraine uses up Western-supplied 155 mm artillery shells at roughly twice the rate that they are being manufactured by the U.S. and allies, military analysts say. At this rate of fire, Kyiv could draw down U.S. and European reserves to critical levels at some point this summer or fall.
By then, Russia—with its single-minded focus on the war—may be able to expand its own ammunition production to keep pace with the tempo of the fighting. The U.S. and allies are also investing in new ammunition production lines, but these are unlikely to make a major difference until next year, creating a potentially dangerous gap between Ukraine’s and Russia’s firepower in the second half of 2023.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-war-long-west-ready-11673571215
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Lots of photos online of wagner troops wearing Ukrainian camo, just assumed its probably better gear than they are issued. Not sure how they avoid friendly fire as Russians seem fairly good at that
Lots of speculation of twitter that there was a major meeting in St Petersburg yesterday between Prigozhin and Putin but the speculation ranges from Wagner are so depleted after Soledar that its going to be absorbed into the regular to military to they have done so well they are going to get extra equipment and support
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RT did once act as a platform for some relevant/credible voices, you could tell immediately because at the start of the show there’d be a disclaimer saying ‘this programme does not represent rt, opinions held are that of program makers alone’ etc. In 2008/9 i was very keen on the kaiser report. then it just went bitcoin crazy.
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I was in an AirBnB flat in Tblisi and RT was one of the few English language offerings on the telly. I had it on in the background listening with what I felt was a critical distance, but like the Daily Mail it has a weird way of getting under you skin after a while. I can easily see how it could become addictive to someone with a sad or dysfunctional life.
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Probably it was a nazi hideout
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1614744727437418497?cxt=HHwWgoC9ncfx3OgsAAAA
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Superb and neutral analysis of the war in Ukraine 2022 and what's to come for 2023:
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Delivering parcels by day and war commentary by night
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This is normal right?
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Probably nothing to do with Ukraine's ability to penetrate Ruzzia, more of an internal issue
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My fav of the day from @DarthPutinKGB
'The purpose of the special military operation is to end the war we started which isn't a war'
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