Russian Invasion of Ukraine 2022

[Husky_Khan]

They are sending to prison russians who name their war in Ukraine war,so it is probably true.

They also fined a Priest for calling the War a War recently. Apparently repeated offenses can result in prison time.

Russian Orthodox Priest Fined For Condemning War In Ukraine

On March 10, a court fined the Rev. Ioann Burdin of the Moscow Patriarchate's Kostroma Diocese one month's average local wages for online remarks and a Sunday sermon in church condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine and stressing the importance of the commandment, “Thou shalt not kill.”

religionunplugged.com

 

[Marduk]

Vitaly Gerasimov: second Russian general killed, Ukraine defence ministry claims

Ukrainian intelligence says major general in Russia’s 41st army died outside Kharkiv along with other senior officers

www.theguardian.com

So apparently this guy, and the MIA Defense Minister Shuigo, were the only people besides Putin with nuclear launch authority in Russia.

Yeah, so right now Putin may have sole launch authority in Russia.

Edit: Nevermind, this guy is a different Gerasimov; the one with nuke launch authority is Valery Gerasimov, who is still MIA like Shuigo.

Yeah, wrong Gerasimov. But i've seen rumors that he's a nephew of the right Gerasimov.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Vitaly Gerasimov: second Russian general killed, Ukraine defence ministry claims

Ukrainian intelligence says major general in Russia’s 41st army died outside Kharkiv along with other senior officers

www.theguardian.com

So apparently this guy, and the MIA Defense Minister Shuigo, were the only people besides Putin with nuclear launch authority in Russia.

Yeah, so right now Putin may have sole launch authority in Russia.

Edit: Nevermind, this guy is a different Gerasimov; the one with nuke launch authority is Valery Gerasimov, who is still MIA like Shuigo.

Yeah ten days ago Caspian Report did a video on the details of potential nuclear weapon use by Russia in this conflict. Literally eight minutes in pointer out those two as being the ones who had to authenticate any launch if Putin orders it and stated they were both Putin appointees and loyalists and even if they didn't cooperate, Putin could just remove them. 🤷‍♀️

 

[Chiron]

Its clearly Russian, because the photo of the badly burning ship looks most like an Alligator class, and Ukraine sold theirs in 2004.
In their video you can also see other landing ships GTFOing from the port that were parked close to the messed up one, so they probably did take some damage. One of them also has a lesser fire onboard.
Seems like yet another step in Ukraine's plan to focus on attacking Russian logistics.

If it was an SRBM, the Ship would have been sunk and there would be a far greater mess than what you see. More likely a low flowing UkAF Fighter flew in with missiles, salvoed off and beat it while a drone or operative lased the missiles in. The other possibility is a UkA raid force consisting of some Smerchs plus escorts, made a penetration and salvoed and then beat it.



Surprised he tried to hide it out in Kherson.



UkA Irpen Counter-Attack is a clear failure even with the flooding of the Irpin river.

Spoiler: Bodies shown, watch with caution

UkA position utterly annihilated. Multiple Javelins captured. Further confirms what I suspected that Javelins are essentially non-factors. Useful in an ambush against those without active/passive defenses up, but not useful in defense against a determined assault as the Russians will be saturating the defenses with WP and other obscurants rendering the guidance system useless.



Comrades, you're stealing al-Nusra Nasheeds now?



Russia continues to step up sorties as more UkA Air Defenses are destroyed. Now up to 300 sorties a day.

And hit the media limit.

 

[Scottty]

Please don't be a tool of Russian imperialism. It's Ukraine, not the Ukraine. Or else Ukrainians can start referring to Russia as the Russia and to Putin as the Putin.

And what would be wrong with that?

 

[Husky_Khan]

And what would be wrong with that?

It's a joke.

(Or at least I took it as one from the @WolfBear ...)

 

[Chiron]

Russian Forces captured more gear around Chernihiv.

Spoiler: Bodies shown, watch with caution

Failed UkA Counter-Attack.



Wow...



The Comrade Fathers came through for Putin with their Fiery Sunday Sermons and now the Russian Stock Market is booming.



Mariupol almost over, Administration building was captured.

Media limit hit and there is still a large amount of Russian Reports to go through.

But its becoming clear UkA is reduced to just counter-attacking on Kyiv Front, it lacks the fuel to do more than that and even the Kyiv Counter-Attacks are failing. Each day the fight lasts, the more they lose negotiating power. They are being ground up faster than the Russians are.

 

[gral]

And what would be wrong with that?

Ukraine('Ukraina') means 'frontier'(same as the 'Krajina' of Yugoslav Wars-era fame). The logic goes, by saying 'the Ukraine', you're not referring to a country but to a geographical region.

While it is so in Russian, 'the Ukraine' doesn't have the same undertone in English at all, IMO.

 

[Bacle]

 

[Vaermina]

Looks like it's confirmed, the Russian's lost at least one ship.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Apparently the Russians have been doing 'nuclear bug out' drills on a fairly consistent basis, no doubt afraid that NATO is going to invade them any moment now.



Potential attempt at misinformation provided by pro-Russian Social Media Accounts.



Another senior officer killed though apparently this was back in the first week of the war. Rest in Peace Lieutenant Colonel Ruslan Gashiyatullin.



Colonel-General Alexander Chayko reportedly visited Russian forces Northwest of Kyiv. Rob Lee theorizing he might be trying to direct things with a more hands on approach...



And for the funny... it looks like Russia recognizes Luhansk and Donetsk as parts of Ukraine. Must've been a breakthrough in negotiations...



Russian Liberators allegedly shelled a Humanitarian Aid Station, killing six and wounding fifteen.

6 killed, 15 wounded as result of Russian army shelling on humanitarian aid delivery point at Nova Poshta post office on Akademika Pavlova Avenue in Kharkiv - Head of regional administration Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast - Ukraine Interactive map - Ukrai

6 killed, 15 wounded as result of Russian army shelling on humanitarian aid delivery point at Nova Poshta post office on Akademika Pavlova Avenue in Kharkiv - Head of regional administration . Live Universal Awareness Map Liveuamap is a leading independent global news and information site...

liveuamap.com

Independent Russian Journalist Oksana Baulina was killed, reportedly by Russian rocket fire, whilst in Kyiv.

Russian journalist Oksana Baulina killed in Kyiv shelling

Russian journalist Oksana Baulina was killed Wednesday in shelling that bombarded a neighborhood in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, the outlet confirmed.

www.foxnews.com

Kateryna Dyachenko, a ten year old with a promising career as a Gymnast, was killed when her home in Mariupol was reportedly destroyed as a result of Russian bombardments.

Budding gymnast, 10, killed as Mariupol becomes 'land of the dead'

A BUDDING Ukrainian gymnast reportedly died killed in a merciless Russian airstrike as Vladimir Putin turns besieged Mariupol into the “land of the dead”. Kateryna Dyachenko, 10, tragic…

www.the-sun.com

 

[Chiron]

Spoiler: Bodies shown, view with caution

Photos coming from center of Mariupol. Russians meant the no quarter part. They are not taking prisoners.

Off to work now.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Spoiler: Bodies shown, view with caution

Photos coming from center of Mariupol. Russians meant the no quarter part. They are not taking prisoners.

Off to work now.

The word choice of this post is eerily ominous. 😨💀

 

[Vaermina]

The word choice of this post is eerily ominous. 😨💀

I don't think he realizes this sort of thing just means Ukraine will fight to the very last city.

 

[planefag]

Sabotage of the ship, somebody getting lucky, or something else at the port like storage tanks blowing up.

It was indeed fuel tanks that helped make it worse. Note the fuel tanks nearby in this RT video. There's a larger tank farm further up the dock. Here is video from the city, perhaps a livestream, that shows the initial explosion at 0:22. Ukraine has consistently used their Tochka-U's against fuel tank farms in occupied areas to deny their enemy the use of in-situ fuel supplies. (I've documented this in my google docs.) They were also definitely being unloaded as those docks were visibly empty in satellite imagery taken yesterday. (They're making regular ferry runs across the Sea of Azov, you see, to bring in supplies.)

If it was an SRBM, the Ship would have been sunk and there would be a far greater mess than what you see. More likely a low flowing UkAF Fighter flew in with missiles, salvoed off and beat it while a drone or operative lased the missiles in. The other possibility is a UkA raid force consisting of some Smerchs plus escorts, made a penetration and salvoed and then beat it.

Tochka's have been fired at this port before and were shot down, Russian media confirmed it. Remember the Tochka-U is an old Soviet era weapon with a poor circular error probable of about 100 meters; it usually uses a submunition payload to compensate. This seems to be a close-up video of the attack and you can clearly see submunitions going off, as well as what is likely the booster section of the missile. This would be effective against the target as 1. there are big fuel tanks nearby that, even if not ignited, will at least leak, 2. the docks will be crammed with vehicles being unloaded, 3. these landing ships achieve maximum capacity by parking vehicles on their exposed top deck, and 4. a good quantity of the cargo is likely to be ammo and munitions.

Speaking of at least one ship is burning nicely. You can hear an awful lot of secondaries going off:

UkA position utterly annihilated. Multiple Javelins captured. Further confirms what I suspected that Javelins are essentially non-factors. Useful in an ambush against those without active/passive defenses up, but not useful in defense against a determined assault as the Russians will be saturating the defenses with WP and other obscurants rendering the guidance system useless.

That's clearly an NLAW tube, visible on the ground around the 2:28 mark. You can tell the difference because the NLAW has these fluted supports running to the wide rings on the end and the Javelin does not.

Also, "obscurants" don't seem to be stopping Ukraine's domestic Stugna-P:









And to round this out, here's a few Ukrainian locals that just jumped into a BTR-82 and drove away with it.

 

[Zachowon]

Saying no quarter is the worst thing they can do
That is how you get a Vietnam but trained and supplied by a competent group and know how to fight

 

[Bacle]

 

[ATP]

Russian Forces captured more gear around Chernihiv.

Spoiler: Bodies shown, watch with caution

Failed UkA Counter-Attack.



Wow...



The Comrade Fathers came through for Putin with their Fiery Sunday Sermons and now the Russian Stock Market is booming.



Mariupol almost over, Administration building was captured.

Media limit hit and there is still a large amount of Russian Reports to go through.

But its becoming clear UkA is reduced to just counter-attacking on Kyiv Front, it lacks the fuel to do more than that and even the Kyiv Counter-Attacks are failing. Each day the fight lasts, the more they lose negotiating power. They are being ground up faster than the Russians are.

So...
1.Russian captured few tanks.
2.Ukrainian counter attack is failing
3.Bad Zelensky is capturing little children,when good Putin only kill them.
4.Market is saved
5.Mariunpol would fall,becouse is not defended by bandits who hide and evil spirits which run.

Kiev must beg for peace.

Let assume,that all it is true.
Ukrainian army is defeated or running,Azow battalion is made of covardly bandits and evil spirits....
THEN WHY YOUR IDOLS STILL DO NOT ADVANCED? AND WHY THEY COULD NOT TAKE CITY DEFENDED BY COWARDLY BANDITS AND SPIRITS WEEKS AGO?

Spoiler: Bodies shown, view with caution

Photos coming from center of Mariupol. Russians meant the no quarter part. They are not taking prisoners.

Off to work now.

Dear Comrade KGB,that mean then they die fighting on mountain of russian corpses.And after the war Each ukrainian city would have monument of Azow heroes - real one,not fakes like Bandera.

Your idol Putin just helped turn ukrainian into one nation,which would hate russian guts forever.

I don't think he realizes this sort of thing just means Ukraine will fight to the very last city.

He realize - but he either is doing what his owners want,or is trolling us.

 

[The Original Sixth]

UkA position utterly annihilated. Multiple Javelins captured. Further confirms what I suspected that Javelins are essentially non-factors. Useful in an ambush against those without active/passive defenses up, but not useful in defense against a determined assault as the Russians will be saturating the defenses with WP and other obscurants rendering the guidance system useless.

I don't think it can be said that Javelins are non-factors. If that were the case, the US and NATO wouldn't be trying to pour as many as possible into Ukraine to bleed out the Russians. They are clearly a tool that allows the Ukrainians to punch above their weight. I wonder (and I say this having no experience in tactics or war), if the Ukrainians are using their own vehicles as bait in addition to ambushes? Luring in green Russian conscripts with an old T-62 and then tagging a T-70 with a javelin may not be all that hard, especially in the heat of battle.

Regardless, javelins appear to be an important factor in this war.

I don't think he realizes this sort of thing just means Ukraine will fight to the very last city.

You sound as if the Russian military has any reluctance to simply bomb a town or city into rubble. Russia will not allow Ukraine to switch sides to the West. If it has to, it will reduce western Ukraine into burning rubble. It has not yet reached the point where resistance is futile, but the momentum of the war is still on Russia's side. It's been few and far between in this war where Ukraine has been able to reverse a loss in land.

 

[sillygoose]

Experiences of a US Afghanistan vet in Ukraine:

Ukraine’s Three-to-One Advantage

It’s not technology or tactics that has given Ukrainian fighters their greatest edge.

www.theatlantic.com