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Old 26th March 2024 | 10:59
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Why stop? crawling fwd at a snails pace would soon shift them, they need to fit a snow plough to the front... or simply arrest them.

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Old 26th March 2024 | 11:59
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The AFU hit the ship "Konstantin Olshansky" with "Neptune" subsonic cruise missiles. Damage to the vessel is being specified.


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Old 26th March 2024 | 12:15
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You don't see this often. Elimination of enemy UAV pilots along with their position and equipment.

They are so relaxed that they don’t wear body armor or helmets. They think they are safe if they work from the basement.

A Ukrainian kamikaze drone with a landmine weighing 2 kg flew straight into the basement and detonated. It is impossible to survive after this.

📹 The Strike Drones Company of the 47th Separate Mechanized Brigade "Magura"
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Russia's ambassador to Poland refused to go to the Polish Foreign Ministry, where he was invited about the missile that violated Polish airspace

"Warsaw has not provided an evidentiary basis," - Sergei Andreev said.

Polish Foreign Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said in response that further steps would be taken in this regard in the near future.

The minister called the Russian ambassador's decision erroneous: "This is an expression of contempt and we cannot remain indifferent to it," he said.
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Old 26th March 2024 | 12:48
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Simply deport him, end off.
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Old 26th March 2024 | 12:51
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Poland doesn't need anyone else's permission to defend their own airspace.
I suspect that their engagement geometry may have risked the engagement / impact / intercept happening outside of their airspace and thus into Russian airspace...so they chose not to shoot.
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Iranian officers in Ukraine's temporarily occupied territories killed
Good news.
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Old 26th March 2024 | 13:59
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Poland doesn't need anyone else's permission to defend their own airspace.
I suspect that their engagement geometry may have risked the engagement / impact / intercept happening outside of their airspace and thus into Russian airspace...so they chose not to shoot.
Good news.
In line with what I was thinking. Countries are sovereign in their own actions and are certainly not constrained by any NATO doctrine as that vlogger claimed.
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Old 26th March 2024 | 14:40
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Originally Posted by NutLoose
Iranian officers in Ukraine's temporarily occupied territories killed



https://twitter.com/TreasChest/statu...06254830633422
No real proof of that though!
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Old 26th March 2024 | 15:15
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Originally Posted by NutLoose
Why stop? crawling fwd at a snails pace would soon shift them, they need to fit a snow plough to the front... or simply arrest them.



https://twitter.com/visegrad24/statu...57034763186332
Perhaps they'd like to enlist as Orcs to help their leader.
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Old 26th March 2024 | 16:09
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Originally Posted by Lonewolf_50
I suspect that their engagement geometry may have risked the engagement / impact / intercept happening outside of their airspace and thus into Russian airspace...so they chose not to shoot.
Closest Russian airspace to where this incident occurred is nearly 400km. I doubt that this would have been a factor in their decision making
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Old 26th March 2024 | 17:46
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Closest Russian airspace to where this incident occurred is nearly 400km. I doubt that this would have been a factor in their decision making
OK.
What I looked at on the map with the story I saw of the event, it appeared to be an "at the edge of the border airspace" ... but if that impression was wrongly interpreted by me, thanks for the correction.
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Old 26th March 2024 | 17:55
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Of course Belorussian airspace is much closer and I doubt if they would dare say anything if a missile routed via their airspace in an effort to outflank the defences on its way to a target in western Ukraine.
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Originally Posted by Lonewolf_50
OK.
What I looked at on the map with the story I saw of the event, it appeared to be an "at the edge of the border airspace" ... but if that impression was wrongly interpreted by me, thanks for the correction.
Border airspace is correct, Lonewolf - but it's the Polish-Ukrainian border!

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Old 26th March 2024 | 18:08
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At least they will provide an early warning system....
Unless someone flashes a cheap laser pointer at them
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Old 26th March 2024 | 18:08
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At least they will provide an early warning system....
Precisely, it will allow them to monitor the likes of illegal aliens attempting to cross the border and target Polish forces to the areas where they have been seen. Thus preventing them being pushed through by Belarus.
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Old 26th March 2024 | 18:15
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Originally Posted by Recc
Closest Russian airspace to where this incident occurred is nearly 400km. I doubt that this would have been a factor in their decision making
Another possibility is you do not want it falling on a Polish built up area, better to let it pass than cause injuries on the ground.
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Old 26th March 2024 | 18:32
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Originally Posted by Lonewolf_50
OK.
What I looked at on the map with the story I saw of the event, it appeared to be an "at the edge of the border airspace" ... but if that impression was wrongly interpreted by me, thanks for the correction.
That was not a map in the cartographic sense if the word. Try this instead:

Extract from Soviet military mapping showing Oserdòw/Осердув and the Polish Ukrainian border.
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Old 26th March 2024 | 18:47
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Originally Posted by Lonewolf_50
Poland doesn't need anyone else's permission to defend their own airspace.
I suspect that their engagement geometry may have risked the engagement / impact / intercept happening outside of their airspace and thus into Russian airspace...so they chose not to shoot.
...or that the debris would fall over Poland and causing potential hazard to local infrastructure and population.
On the side note, very tasteless animation and post, IMHO, considering that in November 2022 Ukrainian missile fired into Poland killed two people, innocent husbands and fathers of their families. To this day Ukrainian side refused to take any responsibility, participate in the investigation or offer some compensation to the families of the victims.
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Old 27th March 2024 | 02:47
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Well, if you put it like that..

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