Disappeared or surrendered I wonder?

“We cannot afford to leave Ukraine alone….. all of Ukraine up to the Carpathians is ours in principle”…

Migrants, agents or saboteurs?

Or draft dodgers?

That's a very good deal. A real bargain. You'll never get an IFV in perfect service condition for that money elsewhere.

I worked in the backside of China for a few years...a 5 story 'drop' was nothing new...

Hurry: Closing Down Sale, only a few items left.
When they're gone, they're gone.

Put me down for a bulldozer with just one mg. please.

Feature of many a mediaeval castle but we have outgrown that.

A Russian Telegram channel is saying that a large UAV struck Russia's Shaykovka air base in Kaluga (more than 200km from border) home to the 52nd Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment equipped with Tu-22M3 bombers.

Ukrainian sources are claiming that two Tu-22M3 bombers were destroyed. The Governor of Kaluga claims that no bombers were damaged.

IT BEGINS: A growing number of Russian military veterans have come to the conslusion that Putin’s war in Ukraine is winnable. As UKR’s counter-offensive continues, these voices are becoming more numerous.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/...ine-war-a78876

If true, and not a dropped dogend, that is not a good move. Keep the strikes within the legal Ukr boundaries and wear the white hat.

Dammed if one doesn't I suspect. I don't disagree with your argument.

If aircraft from the base have been lobbing cruise missiles into Ukraine I’d have thought they have made themselves a legitimate target.

Coincidental or deliberate?

I deliberate Biden or the DoD should speak to SpaceX…

NEW: Ukraine troops reported outages of Starlink devices on frontline, hindering efforts to liberate territory from Russian forces, Ukrainian officials & soldiers told us.

Ukraine is reporting Starlink outages as they advance, hindering troop communications, various people are having a pop online at Musk, but it appears that the Starlink was deliberately limited in its coverage to prevent Russia being able to utilise it in their captured regions and Ukraine is out running the coverage and not keeping Musks operation updated to allow more areas to be brought on line as they recapture more territory..
It might be one of the reasons they have short pauses, that and resupplying the frontline.

Read his reply,I think it was a typo originally..

And the Moscow Times link

The helmet from the most modern Russian set "Vatnik"... sorry, "Ratnik", turned out to be a simple old soviet steel helmet.

How many trained senior officers do the6 have left?

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1...635101696.html

Several Russian commanders have been discharged due to failures at the frontlines:
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The commander of the 1st Guards Tank Army, Lt. General Kysel was removed from the position for the failure to capture Kharkiv;

.Thecommander of the Black Sea Fleet, Igor Osipov, was removed due to Moskva cruiser sinking;
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TheRussian General Staff commander Valery Gerasimov, likely still in his position but unclear if allowed to manage forces, intellgence says no, this is due to unprecedented losses in personnel and vehicles;

The commander of the 6th Combined Arms Army of the Western Military District, Lt. General Vladislav Ershov, for the same reasons - losses, and failure to capture Kharkiv;

The commander of the 22nd Army Corps of the Fleet located in Crimea, Arkadiy Marzoyev, was removed. This is the corps formed after 2015, currently fighting in Kherson;
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The commander of the 103rd Separate Brigade Colonel Ponomaryov;
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General Ershov was not only discharged but ordered to house arrest due to huge losses of personnel. The total losses of the 6th Combined Arms Army are over 2,000 people, 180 of them were conscripts.

The commander of the 58th Combined Arms Army, Lt. General Zus’ko, the same army that was taking Tskhinval in 2008.
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Over 150 other officers were arrested or discharged.
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Put under house arrest is the head of the 5th service, Col. General Sergey Beseda, from FSB. Beseda was moved to prison. This is related to the large-scale theft of funds dedicated to secret services in Ukraine and improper reports of the political situation in Ukraine.

The 'Havila Subsea' vessel investigating the Norwegian gas pipeline 'Europipe' for possible explosives has stopped completely. Expert says that it 'may' have made a discovery.

Equinor declines to comment.

NO FLY LIST: The US Department of Defense has added China’s DJI Technology, manufacturer of the widely used DJI/Mavic/Pro drones, to its tech blacklist.

The prohibition was included in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on 5 OCT.