Russian Invasion of Ukraine 2022

[Marduk]

And that would be the last time Ukraine tries to make a deal with Russia.

Could be symbolic bullshit Russia wants to check off for propaganda purposes but will exchange them for own POWs regardless. Its not like they care much that Russia will ban them from ever traveling to Russia or something like that. Hardliners in Duma are trying to pass an act that will make releasing them illegal, and if that passes (and in time) then the situation will become more messed up.

 

[ATP]

Could be symbolic bullshit Russia wants to check off for propaganda purposes but will exchange them for own POWs regardless. Its not like they care much that Russia will ban them from ever traveling to Russia or something like that. Hardliners in Duma are trying to pass an act that will make releasing them illegal, and if that passes (and in time) then the situation will become more messed up.

Hardlines in Duma? they do what KGB mafia ruling want.Just like the rest of Duma.
Moscov is not normal state,but coalition of KGB mafias which rule over state,bussines,church,mafia and partially army.
Reason why they are fighting so bad could be that KGB want their army bleed,becouse it is still partially independent.

 

[Marduk]

Hardlines in Duma? they do what KGB mafia ruling want.Just like the rest of Duma.
Moscov is not normal state,but coalition of KGB mafias which rule over state,bussines,church,mafia and partially army.
Reason why they are fighting so bad could be that KGB want their army bleed,becouse it is still partially independent.

The question is, are they acting, to provide cover for Putin to exchange them for his soldiers "conveniently" before the act passes, so that then they can say their supporter sheep that the exchange didn't happen because it would be illegal, or are they just doing a maneuver to really prevent it.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Reportedly Ground Level Footage from The Failed Russian River Crossing.



Red Cross Says They Have Registered Hundreds of Prisoners of War Taken from Azovstal now in Russian Custody



Footage of Jewish Israeli Nazis Training Ukrainian Nazis.



Norwegian Volunteer Serving in Ukraine.



Russian Chief of General Staff Gerasimov Reportedly Had a Phone Call with US Chairman of Joint Chiefs General Milley.

 

[WolfBear]

Interesting article:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/19/russians-criticize-military-war-ukraine/

 

[AnimalNoodles]

Looks like the capture of Popasnya is rapidly becoming a general breakthrough

 

[Husky_Khan]

According to a British MoD Briefing there is new avenues for upward mobility now. They allege there has been a suspension of Lieutenant-General Serhiy Kissel of the 1st Guards Tank Army for failing to capture Kharkiv and Vice Admiral Igor Osipov for losing the Cruiser Moskva.



New York Times did another article documenting the alleged Bucha War Crimes. Behind a Paywall For Me so haven't checked it out yet.



$100 million package of military aid going to Ukraine. This is from a previously approved aid bill.



Another Ka-52 Helicopter Allegedly Shot Down in Action over Ukraine.



The Chechens have Captured an Armored Fighting Vehicle INTACT! What natural born Warriors!



The BMP is from a School Allegedly in Southwestern Ukraine and Brought to the Front

 

[Bacle]

 

[Vaermina]

Today's maps.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Report on Why the Stopping the Russian River Crossing Attempts Was Important Considering the new Focus of Russian Advance is Through Popasna. It'd of presumably been far easier to pincer Ukrainian forces North of Popasna into a Pincer Move.



Estonian donated Alvis MRAPs Arriving in Ukraine. Of British-make based on a South African Design Apparently.



Australia will be sending 14 M113's and 20 more Bushmaster Armored Vehicles to Ukraine.



Report from TASS that the Su-57 is Supposedly Taking Part in the Ukraine Special Military Operation



Reportedly a Russian BTR Struck With a Stugna ATGM While Carrying Troops



A Doctor in Hostomel, one of the suburbs of Kyiv temporarily liberated by Russian Forces, sharing her story in this article from Vanity Fair.

When the Russian soldier placed the bag over Olena’s head and started to tape it around her neck, her training as a doctor told her she only had 40 seconds before she would start to lose consciousness as asphyxiation set in. All she could think to do was start counting the seconds. Her son, sitting next to her, whispered that he was running out of air. She counted to 10. Her husband, Oleh, was locked in a nearby walk-in refrigerator, bleeding from multiple gunshot wounds. She counted to 15.

Russian soldiers had snatched the family that morning as they went block to block through Hostomel, a suburb of Kyiv, 24 days after the war began. “For me, I thought, This is the end,” Olena said. When her count reached 20, a soldier started cutting tiny slits in the bag, and she was able to regain her breath. But that was just the beginning. What followed were nearly two days of detention and interrogations, separated from her family. Olena would only be released so she could return to her home and keep treating patients.

While Russia occupied this city for 35 days, on its failed warpath to Kyiv, Olena ran a one-woman clinic treating all manner of her war-wounded neighbors—gunshots and shrapnel wounds, contusions and concussions from explosions, and sick children—under constant gunfire and shelling. That morning of March 20 would prove a horrific turning point for Olena and her family. It would be weeks before she would see her husband again, as he was taken first to a filtration camp in Belarus and then held in a Russian prison for weeks before being freed during a prisoner exchange. Her son, last seen in the filtration camp, is still missing.

Her Husband was Shot Multiple Times and then Taken to Russia as a Prisoner Despite Being a Civilian for "Suspicions of Being a Traitor" or some shit.

The next day the separations began—Oleh was called to join 13 other men on a large Ilyushin-76 transport plane; Dima was not. He had a brief chance to say goodbye—worried about Dima’s state of mind, he checked to make sure his son remembered his name, address, and phone number—and asked some of the other prisoners to look out for him.

Oleh was blindfolded and bound on his flight, kicked and beaten by Russian soldiers. It was only days later, when he happened upon a library book in his cell, that he realized they had been brought to a prison in the Russian city of Kursk.

Oleh spent the next four weeks there, never going outside. Prisoners were treated awfully. The beatings were so severe that one prisoner later died in the cell. Oleh’s bullet wounds soon grew infected, his leg ballooning to three times its normal size and his temperature reaching nearly 106. Oleh took to urinating on his wounds in the hopes of sterilizing them. When he could no longer stand up at the morning check-ins, they finally took him to receive some treatment, including multiple shots of antibiotics.

He was summoned twice for questioning by Russia’s Federal Security Service and Investigative Committee. They asked if he was a member of far-right Ukrainian organizations, if he was a Nazi, if he knew details of Ukraine’s air defense systems, and if he was in contact with Ukrainian intelligence and the military. Eventually, they realized he was old and not in contact, and mostly left him alone, focusing their ire instead on the Ukrainian soldiers detained alongside him. “They were very cruel to them,” said Oleh.

Her twenty two year old son, also a civilian, is still missing after being taken prisoner by the Russians.

It has now been four weeks since Oleh was freed, and there is still no information on Dima’s whereabouts. Olena worries that her son, a handsome champion wrestler who in February graduated from the National University of Food Technologies with a degree in bioengineering, will be a target for his captors to “break,” as she described it. He was already suffering from PTSD when he was taken hostage. “I need to save him somehow,” she told me.

“We Will Never Be the Same”: Bullets and Blindfolds in a Ukrainian City Under Siege

When the Russian army occupied Hostomel for 35 days, it visited unspeakable horror on the town and its residents. Then it came for its only doctor, and tore her family apart.

www.vanityfair.com

 

[ShadowArxxy]

Could be symbolic bullshit Russia wants to check off for propaganda purposes but will exchange them for own POWs regardless. Its not like they care much that Russia will ban them from ever traveling to Russia or something like that. Hardliners in Duma are trying to pass an act that will make releasing them illegal, and if that passes (and in time) then the situation will become more messed up.

The Confederate Congress once passed a resolution declaring that all captured "negro or muttalo" Union soldiers should be tried and executed for "inciting servile insurrection". In response, the United States declared that regardless of any pretense of trial carried out by the Confederacy, *all* Union soldiers were under the protection of law and that Confederate POWs would be executed for any Union prisoner of war executed by the Confederacy. Likewise, Confederate prisoners would be placed at hard labor for any Union prisoner enslaved.

Ukraine should do the same. Treating prisoners of war in bad faith is something that any civilized nation *must* take a hard line on.


Edit: The Confederacy did not rescind the policy, but in practice mostly backed down and left the treatment of black POWs to individual commanders. While the traitors' behavior towards these soldiers did remain consistently inhumane and dishonorable, they never had the guts to follow through on mass executions.

 

[strunkenwhite]

Ukraine should do the same. Treating prisoners of war in bad faith is something that any civilized nation *must* take a hard line on.

I suspect that Russia's intentions are more of a funhouse mirror version where Russia wants its war criminals to be considered equivalent to Ukrainians convicted of being Nazis or whatever.

 

[Marduk]

The Confederate Congress once passed a resolution declaring that all captured "negro or muttalo" Union soldiers should be tried and executed for "inciting servile insurrection". In response, the United States declared that regardless of any pretense of trial carried out by the Confederacy, *all* Union soldiers were under the protection of law and that Confederate POWs would be executed for any Union prisoner of war executed by the Confederacy. Likewise, Confederate prisoners would be placed at hard labor for any Union prisoner enslaved.

Ukraine should do the same. Treating prisoners of war in bad faith is something that any civilized nation *must* take a hard line on.


Edit: The Confederacy did not rescind the policy, but in practice mostly backed down and left the treatment of black POWs to individual commanders. While the traitors' behavior towards these soldiers did remain consistently inhumane and dishonorable, they never had the guts to follow through on mass executions.

This may well end up how things go, but i think your counter plan would be a tactical error, considering the very different political situation of Ukraine and Russia.
Considering most of the news we have seen, we can safely say that Russia, unlike Confederacy, does not care much for the well being of its own soldiers. Its not even new, it goes back to WW2, when liberated POWs were often sent to gulags or penal battalions, and surrender was openly criminalized.
So for one the threat of execution would mostly serve to help Russia save on Chechen barrier troops if anything.
Secondly, many of Ukraine's allies are soft hearted humanitarians and would struggle to deal with that, especially after Russian propaganda catches up on exploiting this.
Neither of these problems can be easily removed.

I think the more realistic countermove would be to capitalize on the western ally control of certain international institutions and using that to deliver a blow where it hurts, as in Russian mythology about their WW2 history. Namely, as a mere warning, equate the status of Russian armed forces members in 2022 in international law with that of Waffen SS after WW2. So, goodbye to any vacations in western aligned countries ever, if they want to avoid the humiliation of slow investigations and interrogations about whether they were aiding and abetting war crimes in Ukraine. Not avoidable for the POWs though. Above all, Russian media and politicians would be stuck with the ungrateful task of having to explain to their sheep why most of the world is treating their heroes like the Nazis themselves.
As a side benefit it might get some extra intel through offering crown witness like status to soldiers who provide intel on said war crimes and other Russian state secrets for asylum in the west.
That would hit Russia where it hurts, its current main narrative of national pride, their prized and carefully managed "muh war against fascism" story.
And that would be just a warning...

So what's the main threat?
A declaration of total propaganda offensive against Russian sensibilities, namely western countries and institutions going full ham on equating the Soviet Union with the Third Reich, and communism with nazism, like by some accounts should have been done all along.
That would be harder to get westerners themselves to get onboard with than the warning, but still easier than to get them to stomach retaliatory executions of war prisoners.

 

[Bacle]

Russia to consider allowing people over 40 to join military as losses mount

In a seemingly desperate attempt to reinforce the country's depleted armed forces, Russian lawmakers will consider a bill to allow Russians over 40 and foreigners over 30 to join the military.

www.washingtonexaminer.com

Can someone confirm this; are the Russian's really so stupid they are using ammonium nitrate in their sand bags?

 

[Husky_Khan]

Reportedly a Russian Position Struck by Ukrainian Fire with Multiple Vehicles Struck.



If you Thought Your Morning Commute Was Bad...



Czech Supplied 152mm Dana SPG's in Action in Ukraine.



Rest in Peace Spetsnaz Lieutenant-Colonel Albert Karimov. He was apparently a veteran of the Syrian and Caucasus Conflicts.



And my highlight of the day...



Apparently the United States is Shipping Iranian Weapons to Ukraine. They were likely supplied to the Houthis By Iran, Seized Perhaps In Transit, then the Americans Shipped it to Ukraine.

 

[bintananth]

Russia to consider allowing people over 40 to join military as losses mount

In a seemingly desperate attempt to reinforce the country's depleted armed forces, Russian lawmakers will consider a bill to allow Russians over 40 and foreigners over 30 to join the military.

www.washingtonexaminer.com

Can someone confirm this; are the Russian's really so stupid they are using ammonium nitrate in their sand bags?

Can't confirm but I wouldn't put it past them because ... infantry privates.

On top of its use as a fertilizer and in explosives ammonium nitrate is also an oxidizer which can be used in a solid rocket motor with powdered aluminimum and a plastic binder if you aren't *cough*trying and failing*cough* to use it as a monopropellant.

 

[AnimalNoodles]

Russia to consider allowing people over 40 to join military as losses mount

In a seemingly desperate attempt to reinforce the country's depleted armed forces, Russian lawmakers will consider a bill to allow Russians over 40 and foreigners over 30 to join the military.

www.washingtonexaminer.com

Can someone confirm this; are the Russian's really so stupid they are using ammonium nitrate in their sand bags?

i doubt it. Look at the ground. They likely emptied the bags and used em as sand bags.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Nathan Ruser on Claims of Capturing Villages versus Reaching Them.



Alleged video of a Kherson Woman Talking About How the Russians Helped DeNazify Her and Her Apologizing to the Russians.



Polish Lightweight Mortars Seen in Use by Ukrainian Forces.



Another Ukrainian Stugna Strike Reportedly Takes Out an APC With Troops Riding On It.



Russian BRDM Chased by ATGM.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Russia's First Documented Loss of a 2S4 Tyulpan 240 mm self-propelled heavy mortar in Rubizhne. As widely reported on social media, Russian News covered the redeployment of several of these units from Mariupol to the Donbass recently. Apparently this one only lasted a day or so after being redeployed.



AP News Has a Feature on a Ukrainian Medic in Mariupol who Strapped a Camera to Her Head to Record the Events that Occurred While She Worked. She's currently a prisoner of the Russian Liberators.



Unboxing Video of a Captured or Abandoned Russian T-72A Tank



A Twitter Thread Discussing the Potential Thousands of Tanks Russia may have in Reserve as Replacements.



Furthermore a YouTube Video by Covert Cabal On the Same Subject of Speculation Russians Armored Reserves and How Intact that Force Might Be.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Ukrainian MiG-29 jets Apparently Still In Operation.



Ukrainian Scout Sniper Team Apparently Evading Drone Spotted Russian Artillery Fire. Allegedly They do this for about two hours.



Ukrainian Soldier Posing with a Presumably Captured Sa-25 MANPAD, apparently one of Russia's latest designs.



UK Based Charity Delivering Sux Ambulances Loaded with Humanitarian Supplies From the United Kingdom all the way to the Ukrainian border.



Trent Telenko did a thread contrasting Russian, Ukrainian and American Artillery Practices in the 21st Century including how fast the Ukrainians are in targeting their fires while Russia and America are far slower apparently.