Russian Invasion of Ukraine 2022

[RenegadeInterrupt]

Russia is intending to flout the UN and the international community and build nuclear weapons in space regardless. This is fucking psychotic.

Russia vetoes UN resolution to ban nuclear weapons in space, instead seeks ban on all celestial weaponry

The U.S. accused Russia of hypocrisy, saying there 'is credible information that Russia is developing a new satellite carrying a nuclear device'

nationalpost.com

 

[Doomsought]

Russia is intending to flout the UN and the international community and build nuclear weapons in space regardless. This is fucking psychotic.

Hypocrisy is basically the entire point of the UN.

 

[paulobrito]

Russia is intending to flout the UN and the international community and build nuclear weapons in space regardless. This is fucking psychotic.

Russia vetoes UN resolution to ban nuclear weapons in space, instead seeks ban on all celestial weaponry

The U.S. accused Russia of hypocrisy, saying there 'is credible information that Russia is developing a new satellite carrying a nuclear device'

nationalpost.com

Translation - the US is nearly ready to place weapons in space, so accuses Russia of doing that, to get an excuse to exit the treaty.
Where I have seen that?

 

[gral]

Russia has started an offensive at Kharkiv Oblast. The Ukrainians are saying they repelled the first attacks. Let's see how it goes.

 

[paulobrito]

Russia has started an offensive at Kharkiv Oblast. The Ukrainians are saying they repelled the first attacks. Let's see how it goes.

Badly for the poor sods on the ground.

 

[Zachowon]

Badly for the poor sods on the ground.

On both sides obviously.

Russia has started an offensive at Kharkiv Oblast. The Ukrainians are saying they repelled the first attacks. Let's see how it goes.

Can I have evidence?

 

[lloyd007]

On both sides obviously.

Can I have evidence?

The only surprise is of course when exactly Russia was going to kick it off. But the reports are coming in.

 

[Zachowon]

Yeah I saw evidence.
Seems to be just probing .work will be fun on monday

 

[Husky_Khan]

Can I have evidence?

Yeah lotta posts about it.

 

[Zachowon]

Yeah lotta posts about it.

I asked because of work things.
Will come in handy monday

 

[Husky_Khan]

Map of alleged Russian advanced in Kharkiv. Small and the front reportedly stabilized. Most curious of all is the apparent lack of mines and fortifications in the area.





Two Ukrainian Helicopters Struck by Russian Tactical Missile strike.



A 10th Anniversary Celebration of the DPR was rudely interrupted by a Ukrainian HIMARS strike.

 

[Marduk]

Russia is reaching IJA level indoctrination insanity.

And we may finally have a somewhat specific time for F-16's for Ukraine:

 

[Buba]

Wow! So many F-16's in one place!
Or is that CGI/photoshop?

 

[lloyd007]

Wow! So many F-16's in one place!
Or is that CGI/photoshop?

My guess is a stock photo since unlike the T14, that many F-16's have definitely been built.

 

[Marduk]

Wow! So many F-16's in one place!
Or is that CGI/photoshop?

Looks like 3 squadrons. About as as a small european air force would have.

 

[PeaceMaker 03]

Russians that moved to Crimea after 2014, are leaving because “it has become a war zone”.

Possible signs Russian forces are going to have to pull back from Crimea do to fuel lol supply issues.

Ukraines attacks of Russian oil infrastructure paying off?
https://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htatrit/202405140618.aspx
Attrition: Russian Crimea Defenses Crumble

 

[Zyobot]

Something surprising from the frontlines:

Shotguns Are Russia’s Last Line Of Defense Against Drones

Shotguns are becoming the preferred last-ditch protection against small drones for both sides. But how effective are they?

www.forbes.com

(Archived version here.)

But yeah, seems the crude solutions are the best and most straightforward sometimes. At the very least, you can bet the cutting-edge stuff will either have too many "moving parts" that overcomplicate what should be a simple task… or will become obsolete practically the next day as the arms race rages on. In which case, back to "ol' reliable" kit we go — which they'll definitely have to keep within arm's reach in a worst-case scenario.

 

[Husky_Khan]

ATACMS Missile Strike on Belbak Airbase in Russian Occupied Crimea apparently caused significant ongoing fires in the area of one of its runways.

 

[lloyd007]

Seems like Ukraine political corruption didn't magically disappear on February 24, 2022 and the millions of dollars given to Kharkhiv's corruptocrats to build defenses instead went to the laundromat, hence why the Russians just walked over the border.

Ukrainian Corruption Center reports northern border defense funds were diverted to fake companies, letting Russians walk right across border in new Kharkiv offensive

It has been reported that the Russian military was able to walk into northern Ukraine due to defense systems missing this past week.

humanevents.com

Of course on the flipside the Kremlin squandered an opportunity to possibly REALLY change the course of the war from slowly taking territory in an enormously costly manner to instead being in field artillery range of Kharkhiv and thus forcing some major issues.

 

[Husky_Khan]

ATACMS Missile Strike on Belbak Airbase in Russian Occupied Crimea apparently caused significant ongoing fires in the area of one of its runways.

Looks like a S-400 Radar is amongst the victims of this latest ATACMS strike on the Belbak Airbase in Crimea.



There's other reports of destroyed jets and the like but no confirmation beyond words of hope or cope yet.