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Is Ukraine about to have a war?

Old 12th Sep 2022, 12:25
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Interesting how they felt the need to paint the “Z” on what appears to be an Ambulance. Are they anticipating that the UKF would target it? Or, is it because their own forces would target it, regardless of a Red Cross.
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Old 12th Sep 2022, 12:26
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Clever, very clever, instead of the usual Ukrainian colours on armour and vehicles, switch to the white cross, The Russians having V Z O and the like are asking whose unit has the Cross unaware its Ukrainian until too late and the Ukrainians of course know this.

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Old 12th Sep 2022, 12:59
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You're only going to fool them once with this surely? Even the dimwit Russian mil will cotton on to the difference in markings PDQ.
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Old 12th Sep 2022, 13:18
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Kharkiv Oblast, Ukrainian mechanized forces utilizing British-donated FV103 Spartans in the latest offensive.
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It appears the 4 in the back is not a hinderance as they tend to transport their troops on the top of the vehicles, for rapid deployment and safety reasons, so 8ish pax up top and spare gear down below.
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Old 12th Sep 2022, 14:14
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Originally Posted by dead_pan
You're only going to fool them once with this surely? Even the dimwit Russian mil will cotton on to the difference in markings PDQ.
I doubt if the Ukrainians will keep on using the same ruse. They adapt as they go along.
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Su30 remains that went in by the looks of it vertically, note the back end of one of the missiles on a pylon poking out of the ground.

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Old 12th Sep 2022, 14:40
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Originally Posted by rixt
Are there any numbers available of Russian POW taken during the conflict?
PoW is a bit of a misnomer, neither has declared war AFAIK. Combatants?
A further complication is that at least 3 types will be in the bag: Russian military, Ukraian dissidents, mercenaries like Wagner.
Red Cross / Crescent probably reaching for Geneva Convention and checking signatories.
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Old 12th Sep 2022, 14:43
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Caption says Ukrainian forces only just found the site, but it looks like someone has already taken the black boxes from the wingtip jamming pods on that Su-30... would the Russians bother to expend the resources to do that?
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Old 12th Sep 2022, 15:21
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Huge development if true:
Rumoured that they're out of ammo
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Originally Posted by dead_pan
Huge development if true:
https://twitter.com/ChuckPfarrer/sta...DdnqcnSXA&s=19
Rumoured that they're out of ammo
Fix bayonets? or more likely white flags.
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Old 12th Sep 2022, 16:11
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Fix bayonets? or more likely white flags.
Have they got any bayonets to fix
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Graveyard humour…..

LPR volunteer Murz reports the Ukrainian Armed Forces cross Seversky Donets at Bilohorivka and flanked the LPR 2nd Amry Corps still defending Lyman.




Seem to be at least 2, maybe 3, crossings…

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Ukrainian farmers are at it again...


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Old 12th Sep 2022, 17:07
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More Russian war crimes are surfacing as more area gets liberated.



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The Military Command of the Russian Federation suspends sending new, already formed, units to the territory of Ukraine.

The current situation in the military theatre and distrust for top command has forced a large number of volunteers to abandon the prospect of combat service. The situation is influenced by information on the actual number of casualties, excluding losses from private military companies and mobilized from temporarily occupied territories.

The situation is getting worse because of the general attitude to the own wounded. In particular, in Russian hospitals, the diagnoses and nature of combat injuries are deliberately simplified, no time is given for rehabilitation to return soldiers to the combat zone faster.”….
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Old 12th Sep 2022, 18:14
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Aviation content. Game over for a Russian frogfoot pilot.


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Old 12th Sep 2022, 18:17
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Hence the grisly term “Trackjam”.

Originally Posted by uxb99
If you are in a tank and you have enemy in front you run them over.
If in a minefield and you have enemy dead in front you run them over.
Just read some books about tanks in WW2. It's not very pleasant but there you are.

I try to look at war impartially. While such images are disgusting to us in war, they are quite common and not necessarily any indication of brutality.
The vehicle that drove over that body may not even been aware if at night, in battle etc. Of course, propaganda would have us believe otherwise.
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I wonder if he is packing for a swift departure?

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Old 12th Sep 2022, 18:26
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Even announcing Russian troops are negotiating a surrender is clever, Russian troop’s will be wondering if those troop’s to their left or right are surrendering and it can spread like wildfire and start an irreversible cascade.
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