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Old 16th Oct 2023, 10:04
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Russia planned to release Radiation from the plant in Zaporizhia

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Civilian shipping wars, I somehow doubt the Ukrainian ship reversed into the Russian one!










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Old 16th Oct 2023, 10:31
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Bd news if you can only trust Russian army rations filled with dog food and water…..

In Mariupol (occupied by russia), partisans poisoned the occupiers: 26 occupiers are eliminated and 15 are in intensive care….
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Wow, the forces involved in that are pretty substantial. That turret came down out of L.E.O., needs to be checked for bits of starlink satellites... Kessler n' all.

To shred the hull like that, either they used weak glue, or there was an headache level bang inside. Can't imagine that the Russians are stupid enough to continue to place their crew in an explosive cauldron with a tag, "light taper here". The Autoloader has killed more Russians than Stalin, well, metaphorically anyway. Rough back of envelope is that's in the area of 50kg of bang going up at once. their HEAT has about 1.6kg of explosives, the frag rounds 3-3.4kg, so that is about half of their lot cooking off at once. A sober "No Smoking" advertisement.

That is one de-nazified RU tank
Could that be one of the "suicide" tanks that the russians stuffed with explosives to try to blow up Ukrainian positions?
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Not bad for a weeks work.

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Another of Russia's target dates.

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Avdiivka, another attack

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A Russian wounded committing suicide, watch at your own discretion BEWARE

aerial shots of troops getting killed, again at your own discretion

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Russian drone spotted and their encampment taken out.


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Originally Posted by Saab Dastard
Could that be one of the "suicide" tanks that the russians stuffed with explosives to try to blow up Ukrainian positions?
Think the only one seen was a T54/55 and this one was a T 80, so very unlikely use for it.
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which year?


Russia has to sort out their building maintenance plans. Everything they touch looks like a war zzone, seriously.
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Ukraine just struck Berdyansk again for dunno how many times now. But big strike lotsa ammo cooking off.

Fighter bomber claims its was multiple atacms strikes (follow twitter chain for video of cook offs)

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Guess it could have been GLSDB as well
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Guess it could have been GLSDB as well
More likely I think, both because of the timing ( recent Saab/Boeing announcement re delivery) and type of target (dispersed aircraft )
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Now confirmed, NASA's FIRMS detected a number of fires at Berdyansk airport at around 0300 local time.

The airport, heavily used by Russian rotary wing assets, was burning.



Of note, all three of those returns were collected on the same pass by VIIRS NOAA-20 at a FRP of 2.32-2.49. In other words, whatever was burning was burning brightly.


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Wooow, that'll put a dent in their operations if correct.

Official: Ukrainian SOF hit Russian airfields in temporarily occupied Berdyansk and Luhansk.

As a result of the "DRAGONFLY" operation in Berdyansk and Luhansk, the following were destroyed:

nine helicopters of various modifications;
special equipment that was located at airfields;
air defense launcher;
ammunition warehouse;
airfield runways were damaged;
The ammunition depot in Berdyansk detonated before 4 am.
The detonation in Luhansk lasted until 11 am.
Losses in the enemy's manpower amount to dozens of dead and wounded.
Bodies are still being pulled from the rubble.
https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/1714226570410234239

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When I get my moped out on the road, i'm gonna ride..ride... ride.. or maybe not.

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Russia's barriers they have placed across the harbour entrance at Sevastopol to defend the port.





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Russia ramping up defence forces for Crimea?

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A good read:

Frontline report: Ukrainians use bad weather to advantage in attacks near Verbove, Zaporizhzhia Oblast

Despite rainy conditions, Ukraine struck Russian strongpoints around Verbove, combining artillery, rockets, airstrikes, and made ground advance, using Leopard tanks.
On 16 October, there were a lot of updates from the Tokmak direction, Zaporizhzhia Oblast
The most intense clashes took place around Verbove.
As you remember, previously, we saw a video showing how Ukrainian armoured fighting vehicles were entering the settlement, indicating that Ukrainians had a foothold in the northern part of the village.

The goal was to conduct a pincer movement onto the remnants of the Russian second defence line and then develop their offensive further.........
https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/10/...last/?swcfpc=1
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