Russian invasion of Ukraine

That Ukraine Counter Offensive?
This is all they have to do.

This guy
circulated the above link.

Action all along the front and in Belgorod. Layers of deception and potential deception.

No major use of western armour reported yet.

"Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm"

(c) Depeche Mode pic.twitter.com/0Ul78wSv9q

— Oleksii Reznikov (@oleksiireznikov) June 4, 2023

Love the F-16’s ind the end.
God I hope pilots have been trained secretly and then the west can announce F-16 deliveries with immediate transfers on the same day that the offensive starts.

An interesting aspect of this war is how the West has had to abridge and condense its training regimes. Taking a foreign tank crew and making them combat ready on a completely different platform in just a few months is remarkable. It makes for a much more agile force, and a more credible generalised defence. If they can do that with f-16s, that will be truly amazing.

A deep fake of Putin just appeared on Russian TV announcing a general mobilisation, whilst Prizhogin was parading a Russian officer (as if a POW) who had ordered an attack on Wagner PMC units whilst pissed.

Everything continues to go according to plan.

links?

Found some writing on it. Swedish news says a number of radio stations were hacked and this message were broadcasted with "a fake but convincing putin voice"

It was on TV too, with a deepfake video of Putin declaring martial law in Crimea.

https://twitter.com/HTracker10/status/1665721101563969537/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1665721101563969537&currentTweetUser=HTracker10

A Russian conscript in the Belgorod region pulls no punches in his condemnation of the military command.

https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1665796654295908353#m

I'd treat videos like that with caution. A while ago there were several videos circulating showing Russian soldiers clustered in groups and loudly denouncing their officers for the lack of equipment etc. Soon after it was revealed that they were orchestrated by Wagner in order to gain an edge in the competition for new recruits.

The blowing of the dam seems like a strategic move to permanently retain the lands already won and force any counter offensive further north and to stretch the supply lines.

Pretty fucked up though

Further grounds to charge Ruzzians with war crimes. Doesn’t get much more indiscriminate than unleashing a force of nature.

Will never happen though will it?

All the incentive in the world for it to happen. Won’t happen if Russia wins, if Ukraine surrenders, or if they agree to peace terms that prevent it.

UN is a joke, blyat.

https://twitter.com/UN/status/1665932022160965632

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The dam attack is terrifying, the body of water it was holding back is huge god knows what damage will be caused downstream. This video gives an handle on the scale:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-65816109

And a new horror from one of the BBC’s updates: the possibility of displaced landmines (eg butterfly mines) due to flooding.

Ukrainian source, so some bias possible. Still astounding levels of havoc.

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https://twitter.com/BruckenRuski/status/1666091889584660484

Here’s a bit of good news about water flow and remaining structure.

He has a point about it being completely uncontrollable if they had blown up the earth dam right next to the concrete.

That seems to be encouraging but a shame they have given the Russians all the info they need to do the job properly!!

https://twitter.com/NewVoiceUkraine/status/1666320405584392194

Ruscists may view the destruction of the dam as a triumph yet most of the flooding is on the Russian occupied south bank. Meanwhile in Putin's beloved Crimea the drinking water is now polluted and according to William Spaniel's analysis the catastrophic drop in the water level of the Kakhovka reservoir will inevitably cause the North Crimean Canal (vital to the irrigation of Crimean crops) to dry out.
https://youtu.be/04sg2uHQK7w

This should make you think why on earth Russia is blamed for it.

The Ruzzian leadership have a history of being unswayed by concerns for innocent life. If blowing the dam is calculated to help them more than hinder them in their objectives, you can bet they’ll do it.

Flooding the area makes an attack by Ukraine more complicated, and it might even scrap an attack plan altogether. It denies attacking forces stable ground, slows them down, destroys infrastructure, creates health and security risks for attackers, and creates groups of displaced and needy people that Ukraine will need to divert resources to help (unlike the Russian authorities that are reported to be doing very little at all).

There’s absolutely tons of reasons why Ruzzia would do it. There’s far fewer reasons why Ukraine would. Ruzzia was in control of the dam, and they’ve given no evidence of a Ukrainian attack or infiltration. It’s possible it was either of them or neither of them, but right now it’s walking and quacking like a duck.

^^This

They had over a year to plan and prepare for the destruction of the dam.