Russian invasion of Ukraine

Indeed.

A couple, e.g., Panamax cargo ships filled with assault troops, artillery, and anti-air and anti-ship batteries trojan horsing their way into Sevastopol was more what I’d thought, well outside the realm of plausibility for many, many reasons including that Ukraine has limited mercantile ships and no other country would want their flags involved.

But I still think somewhere a Russian commander wants to make sure that minuscule possibility isn’t ignored. Low likelihood, extreme impact.

Trying to capture a port has its problems

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieppe_Raid

Meant the ship would be headed to Sevastopol, not necessarily launching the assault there. Good historical precedent to share. My scenario is a moot point tbh, it’s so unlikely it’s basically fiction.

One thing you may not be aware of is that Russia is quite big

Not sure if that was your intention, but you come off as an absolute cunt with this comment.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/aug/23/russia-ukraine-war-live-updates-drones-downed-moscow

Prigozhin reportedly in private jet crash

Anyone who put a tenner on that happening is up about 13p.

The ultimate defenestration - from an airplane. It's got style.

Videos on Telegram show it falling vertically for nearly a minute from altitude whilst on fire. I'd imagine the person filming only started when they heard a boom.

There's an even longer one where you see what looks like remains of a smoke trail coming from the ground up and an explosion in the sky above the falling debris

Deputy leader of Wagner Dmitry Utkin, the one with the SS tattoos, also on board

If they had unlimited ordnance maybe they could saturate a small corridor and blow up all the mines in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgP_EkuTpeI

MICLIC

I suppose that tactic would also give the game away by showing exactly where Ukraine's troops will be.

You also have to station it adjacent to the field you want to clear, which doesn’t work (for long) when the enemy has air launched missiles and layered artillery zero’d in on them.

I saw the video on the BBC and didn't think it looked like your typical plane crash.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-66599774

It was a special landing operation.

Currently either shot down by a Pantsir launched missile or blown up by a case of wine that was loaded after the plane was checked by sniffer dogs. I love the internet.

Yeah that does not look like a normal plane crash.

Shocked!

Nah, plenty of bullet holes in the wreckage.
(Source: grim video on Telegram so won't link to it here)

Ukrainian military just landed in Crimea apparently... Not sure yet if they want to gain a foothold there or that it was a singular operation and they left again.

Nah, plenty of bullet holes in the wreckage.

Likely shrapnel from a missile blast rather than bullet holes. Similar to MA flight 17.

Apparently destroyed an S400 and left again, how Russia let's that happen I have no idea

I guess that's plenty of time to think through the errors of your ways.

Kremlin says Prigozhin plane crash may have been caused deliberately

Huge if true etc

Wasn't this obvious?

So was @kl sarcasm but....

In matters completely unrelated to
Russia’s failures in Ukraine and on the Moon, Russia’s top space rocket scientist has apparently met an unexpected, readily foreseeable, still tragic end.

Russia’s previously second-best space rocket scientist will undoubtedly now outperform his predecessor because everyone knows that eliminating those who make mistakes is the way to accomplish civilisation-defining technical milestones.