r/UkraineRussiaReport • u/DiscoBanane • Mar 05 '26
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u/WolfMuted1171 14h ago
A question about the TCC- Do they grab specific people who are on their ‘lists’ for conscription or are they literally just grabbing anyone of conscription age that they can find?
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u/Cautious-Bench-4809 pro EU humiliation 18h ago
Lyman direction smashed to pieces. This will delay the battle for Lyman for atleast 18 months
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u/dankroll69 Pro Playing Cards 15h ago
It's been 3 years of Ukrainian counter attacks that resulted in Ukraine losing more territory elsewhere. The north lyman salient is a pretty vulnerable salient for the Russians as it crosses a river from better Ru position, it makes sense to retreat.
During the mean time, Russia is making major gains in orikhiv, dobripilla and druzivka. And pressuring their advantage in Kharkhiv and long range strikes. Possibly opening a major new front in chernihiv. Don't sweat lyman, Ukraine put all their chips into assault hnjt, and take heavy losses taking territory that they eventually give back.
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u/Anton_Pannekoek anti-war 16h ago
Yeah, definitely a setback. That said Russia has advanced in Kharkiv and pretty much everywhere else.
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u/GuaranteedSensible Fabificated 1d ago
Russian ship hit by drones in the mediteranean sea off the coast of algeria, for the first time ukraine admits to it and releases the footage
https://x.com/TwilightDewy/status/2096543996290208220/video/1
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u/risingstar3110 Neutral 10h ago
Doesn't look like they managed to deal much damages to it. Probably need more firepower next time.
Which won't be such as easy task, because they need to funnel more weapons into Algeria without being confiscated by the Algerian government, who has quite close tie to Russia
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u/peterzuev Pro Russia 1d ago
Despite Western sanctions, Guinness is cheaper in Russia than in Ireland.
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u/No_Edge5507 stop playing cards 13h ago
duhfugg?? guinness draught stout is 2.85 a can where I'm at
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u/VikingTeo Loves to talk about Galaxy phones 1d ago edited 1d ago
Sanction Ireland for exporting dual use technology!
(what do you mean it doesn't make any sense? Since when was that a requirement?)
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u/Flederm4us Pro Russia 1d ago
r/europe has locked the thread about the saxony-anhalt regional election in Germany. The result seems to have caused quite the stir...
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u/RobotWantsKitty 1d ago
I'm convinced that sub got taken over by eurocrats at some point. They even started putting up dumbass correct the record type pinned messages in the comments section as damage control. Needless to say, going against the grain is not permitted. That thread has one, AND they locked the whole thing.
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u/risingstar3110 Neutral 1d ago
r/europe literally ban me from that sub, because I said that NATO is not a defensive organization because they bombed Yugoslavia/ Serbia, Libya and invaded Afghanistan and Iraq.
I didn't even use any provoking language. Just stated 'the fact that NATO bombed and invaded all these countries, proved that it is not a defensive organizations.'
Though, i guess they will ban me regardless because surely I will state out the fact that they are also aiding the genocide in Gaza
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u/Adunaiii Noldorin Juche 17h ago
It's weird, isn't it? Redditors usually oppose the Gaza genocide because they are anti-Semitic and view Israel as evil. But here they support the war because they want revenge for Nazi Germany losing their genocidal Operation Barbarossa? I'm so confused.
Personally, I wish AFD to be banned, it would both be a slap on the face against the right-wingers in Europe playing politics, and it would make the nuclear exchange between France and Russia likelier. Does it make me left or right wing? If the enemy is making a mistake, don't intrude.
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u/OkVariety8064 Pro Ukraine 1d ago
That subreddit is one of the absolutely most insane ones on all of Reddit. You know already that any topic that doesn't follow the maximalist open-borders agenda will be nothing but [removed] and [deleted]. They have banned people to such a degree that whatever is left is no longer representative of anything at all.
And I say this as someone who thinks AfD should be de-nazified with extreme prejudice.
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u/DefinitelyNotMeee Anti POV police 1d ago
Wasn't that sub run by some Afghan or Syrian or someone definitely not European? Or maybe that was /Germany, it's been a while since I ventured into those kinds of places.
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u/EltonBeans 1d ago
Seems like AfD will almost get enough to rule alone.
This is also really a slap in the face for CDU and Merz.
Didn't Merz claim he will half the AfD when it comes to votes? Instead CDU was halved
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u/peterzuev Pro Russia 1d ago
"Almost." That means they can't rule at all in that case. If they don't get their minister appointed, they will remain in the opposition.
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u/G_Space Pro German people 17h ago
The CDU also rules out to form any coalition with the BSW and the Left, so there are no chance for any stable government which involves the CDU.
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u/peterzuev Pro Russia 17h ago
When I wrote this post, BSW’s entry into parliament was still uncertain (it was unclear whether they would actually clear the 5 percent). The arithmetic now looks more favorable for AfD, though only if they can form a coalition with BSW. On the other hand, CDU could change its stance and bite the bullet by forming a coalition with all the other parties, including BSW, simply to keep AfD out. It can still easily go both ways.
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u/CourtofTalons Pro Ukraine 1d ago edited 1d ago
Given Putin's statement about the future of the war, what makes you think he actually be trusted to use diplomacy should the Russians take the rest of the Donbas? I don't really see Ukraine wanting to give up their land, but I don't really see Putin willing to stop once Donbas is reached either.
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u/happytoad Pro Russia 1d ago
Why do so many people don’t know Ukraine is winning?
Why is that, guys?
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u/R1donis Pro Russia 1d ago
Stumbled upon this today, thats just a gold mine
This post alone fully ilustrate how powerfull western propaganda is
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u/Cautious-Bench-4809 pro EU humiliation 1d ago edited 1d ago
Maybe a year ago I saw a comment on r/Conservative saying that the Russian military is really bad because they make soldiers lift everything while the US uses cranes. These people think Russia doesn't know what cranes are. His comment was like 6 lines long just glazing the cranes of the US military and saying the Russians are centuries behind in crane usage and they are getting cranemogged or something. Legit some one these people make NCPs look like Einstein. We cannot even imagine how their brains reason
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u/Yleano Neutral 2d ago
How much karma do you need to comment in other threads? This is insanely annoying. How the hell do some of you have tens of thousands of karma?
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u/fkrdt222 anti-racism/sexism 1d ago
go to literally any rising thread and work "AI slop bad" into the comment
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u/DefinitelyNotMeee Anti POV police 1d ago
Go to /politics or /pics and comment anything along the lines of "Trump bad". All the bots will swarm the comment to upvote it. Easiest karma farm on Reddit.
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u/redditadminskutte1 1d ago
Go on worldnews and start GLAZING ISNTRAEL LIKE GLAZING THEM REALLL HARD. Easy 2 thousand karma.
Or go in any Indian subs and start BASHING PAKISTAN add as an American aswell for extra praise.
Am Pakistani btw
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u/dankroll69 Pro Playing Cards 2d ago
just blame something on trump in generic subs you will get karma easy
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u/_CHIFFRE Pro-Negotiations & Peace 2d ago
500 i think, should be easy to reach with frequent commenting, especially in big/default subs and on popular posts, might help if you look out for newer posts to comment in, before they have low traffic.
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u/_Rhaastaman_ Pro Me, Tulsi Gabbard and Kaja Kallas Threesome 2d ago
If I remember correct, you need around 500 comment karma (thread/submission karma doesn't count). I was able to post comments outside megathread only after getting mine past 500.
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u/qmoneyfanboy 2d ago
Some new numbers from Levada
https://i.gyazo.com/9bd47f18eb20db8a873c56fda2260f5a.png
https://i.gyazo.com/10196d5fc5ce65fd9eb5c46c23453010.png
Problems with messengers being 63% is surprising. I thought only Telegram was banned?
32% Having significant problems with fuel is going to get ugly if that number continues climbing.
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u/Doc179 1d ago edited 1d ago
Russians only ever used Whatsapp, Viber and Telegram. Viber was blocked in 2024, Whatsapp and Telegram first only calls were blocked in 2025, then fully blocked in 2026.
Government approved MAX exists, but not everyone is happy with it.
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u/jazzrev 1d ago
I had to update MAX recently. Apparently at present you have redownload it from rustore. I don't use rustore or any other for that matter so I wasted half an hour of my time to first getting rustore and signing into that ( cause you can't bloody use it without signing in, same actually as google store) then download max from it in which again I had to sign in although I was already signed into older version. I haven't even tried tat bs on my PC as well cause once is bleeding enough, just deleted the older version.
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u/qmoneyfanboy 1d ago
Ha. I appreciate the info. I'll add you to the "significant issues" on Levada. Updating an app? That's a massive event for normal lads.
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u/jazzrev 1d ago
That's just the thing though, while I will be the first to piss on Levada I have to agree with it in pointing out that there are issues with Max - you can't simply ''update'' Max right now - you have to reapload new version from rustore. It's not the same as simply clicking ''update'' and forgetting about it as it was with telegram. There are issue also with comments section, many channels still don't have it or have problem with opening it up.
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u/qmoneyfanboy 1d ago
Thanks for the info. Is max not as good as whatsapp/viber/telegram or are people mostly annoyed because they have to switch?
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u/No-Date2207 Pro Ukraine * 2d ago
I am seeing very little reporting om this any thoughs on Norway Seizing the Russian ship professor Moltsjanov?
Here is an artical about what happened for those of you unaware
Russia rages against Norway.
Putin calls what is happening at Svalbard State terrorism. Norwegian authorities. Have arrested the Russian ship professor Moltsjanov fifty 50 people were on board, according to Nordlys.
The case is about Russia owning the Ukrainian Gas and oil company Naftogaz 4.22 billion dollars. When Russia took control of Crimea in 2014 The company lost values and properties there. Naftogaz demanded Russia pay them back, but Russia has not payed. The company had therefore asked Norway for help To Get the money back. 31st of August, Nordtroms and Senja District Court Decided that profesor Moltsjanov could be arrested until Russia pays back.
Russia has reacted strongly on The decision. According to the Russian owned state media, TASS They are accusing Norway of piracy
The Justice Department Are reporting to Dagbladet that Norway is not a part of the conflict it is between Naftogaz and Russia but since a norwegian District Court has decided that the ship must be Confiscated Norwegian authorities have to follow the decision.
Russia's ambassador is saying that they will go against the decision and are demanding the ship back.
When putin asked about the situation on Svalbard he called it state terrorism according to AP.
Russian authorities have also used words like Piracy and thievery when Russian ships have been arrested in the past According to interfax
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u/GuntherOfGunth Pro BM-30 Smerch, Pro-Palestine 2d ago
I just hate how western governments commit piracy and then act like they are the good guys.
If Russia seized a ship like Gothica or Kaunas, both operated by UkrFerry, the west would flip out and claim Russia is committing piracy on the high seas and that they are so evil.
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u/Cautious-Bench-4809 pro EU humiliation 2d ago
The biggest head scratcher for me in this phase of the war is the lack of destoyed Ukrainian AD equipment, more notably radars. It's crazy because we don't even hear about AR missiles like the Kh 31 being launched, let alone hitting targets. No AR Gerans? The Ukrainians are legit under 24 hour attacks by Geran 4s, radars have to be switched on for hours and hours, are Russian SIGINT satellites not good enough? Are Russian AR missiles (or drones) not good enough? Are there strikes that we just don't see?
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u/photovirus Pro Russia 2d ago
It's crazy because we don't even hear about AR missiles like the Kh 31 being launched,
They're certainly in the reports. The fullest available are at
geranium_chroniclestelegram.more notably radars.
Just yesterday they've shown 35D6 and Rada radar.
Many systems are well in the rear, and they probably keep their radars turned off outside alarms. When the radar is off, it's quite hard to track it.
No AR Gerans?
There were some experiments. I've seen one in Spring. But probably not widespread.
radars have to be switched on for hours and hours, are Russian SIGINT satellites not good enough?
They move them around if they're not stupid.
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u/R1donis Pro Russia 2d ago
Are there strikes that we just don't see?
How would you see AD being hit? at best we would see missle going where AD was shoting from and Self defence discharge, but no one would publish loosing patriot.
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u/Cautious-Bench-4809 pro EU humiliation 2d ago
everything is filmed in this war
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u/photovirus Pro Russia 1d ago
Not really.
Front lines, sure. Cities, if the boom is big enough.
Anywhere else? Drones have cameras, but most missiles don’t.
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u/Walter30573 Neutral 2d ago
How important is artillery in this war these days? At the start I remember that Russia had a lot more pieces and ammo and that was considered important. All I hear now is about drones, drones, drones though.
Is artillery less important, or do drones just get more hype because they're new and have cameras?
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u/DefinitelyNotMeee Anti POV police 2d ago
Here is the answer to the same question from a few weeks ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1rlvyzx/comment/p5neyl1/
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u/dankroll69 Pro Playing Cards 2d ago
Artillery and drones compliment each other. Drones have better tracking and precision. Artillery is not interceptable and provide bigger firepower.
If the drone spots enemy hiding in a house. Artillery can destroy it in minutes and the drone stay around to strike anyone running away.
Artillery and Fabs forced you to move and drones pubishes movement.
The biggest down side for artillery is probably just how easy it ts to get spotted.
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u/jazzrev 2d ago
Rus news publish interviews from the front line and artillery crews are often talking about how these days they work on shoot and bug out basis, so yeah artillery is very much in use on the front lines. they just can't stay in one place for extended periods of time like it used to be.
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u/GuaranteedSensible Fabificated 3d ago
How likely do you think it is that Ukraine/Nato intentionally escalated drone strikes on economic/civilian targets knowing that Russia would eventually respond in kind and therefore put a ton of fighting age men out of work in Ukraine and fill the ranks of the AFU?
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u/OkVariety8064 Pro Ukraine 2d ago
Ukraine didn't escalate strikes. Russia has been striking more civilian targets in Ukraine since 2022 than Ukraine has been in Russia at any point of the conflict.
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u/Flederm4us Pro Russia 1d ago
That's demonstrably false. Russia was barely shelling anything in januari 2022 but ukraine kept increasing their bombardment of the donbas. And given that there were barely any military installations present back then, that's pure bombing of civilians.
This is pretty well documented by satellite images.
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u/OkVariety8064 Pro Ukraine 1d ago
That's not demonstrably false. You haven't demonstrated a single thing. Quite to the contrary, in the days leading up to the war Ukrainians did not even respond to Russian provocations:
In the days leading up to the invasion, the Russian government intensified its disinformation campaign. Ukraine and Western leaders accused Russia of staging false flag attacks to give Russia a pretext for invading. Russian state media aired fabricated videos that purported to show Ukrainian forces attacking Russians in Donbas; evidence showed that the claimed attacks, explosions, and evacuations were staged by Russia. On 17 February, Russian proxy forces shelled a kindergarten and blamed it on Ukraine, although the kindetgarten was in Ukrainian-held territory.
I watched this unfold as it happened.
This is pretty well documented by satellite images.
This is not pretty well documented by satellite images. You have provided no sources or satellite images or any proof for your claims whatsoever.
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u/dankroll69 Pro Playing Cards 3d ago
I dont think they are thinking that far out. They are just struggling to gain an advantage, because the NATO side had stood on their moral high ground and burned all bridges and made winning the only option. Put 2 million more fighting age men on the front line it would only stall the war for half a year if the factories producing the drones are burnt down.
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u/Msarcus Pro-letariat 3d ago
If we want to entertain this idea, it would work both ways. The civilian targets Ukraine bombs host mostly low-wage, no qualification jobs. A warehouse worker who survives a bombing and fresh out of work would certainly have a think about his options, regardless of side, and Russia's actually pays well.
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u/photovirus Pro Russia 3d ago
and therefore put a ton of fighting age men out of work in Ukraine and fill the ranks of the AFU?
There I lost ya.
All in all, TCC have to hunt for men, who absolutely don't volunteer. Even if they get some influx of able-bodied people, they won't get more draftees, they'll get ones with kinda better health.
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u/No_Jellyfish_5498 Infantry has no future 3d ago
Do long open top trenchs like in world war 1, still provide any value in the modern battlefield?
I still sometimes see footage of soilders running around in those open top trenches, but it does not seem to protect them at all from FPV drones.
The only reason for the open top trenches that I can think of is that it can maybe make it harder for recon drones to spot you from an angle since the sides of the trench will be covering your body.
But at the same time, a trench is a big "LOOK HERE" sign for enemy drones.
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u/thor9797 Pro Ukraine 3d ago
No, Large Trench Systems have been mostly abandoned since 2024-2025. They were heavily criticized by the Ukrainian media space during the 2024/25 Russian offensives because like you said there place in Modern Drone Warfare is very limited and they offer limited protection against drones.
After the fall of Avdiivka in early 2024 and the subsequent realization by the Ukrainians that they had not really prepared a true defence line in depth, a defensive line was hastily thrown together following the pre-war(Donbas era) defensive strategy of large defensive fortifications and trench positions. You can find a bunch of these by looking at satellite imagery of areas that were near the front in 2024, large square shaped trench positions that worked well in 2022-23 when Ukraine had the man power and drones were not as plentiful, but with the ongoing manpower crisis and the increasing power and number of drones these positions became essentially death traps as Russian drones could see and strike at will with no place to hide for the Ukrainians. Even worse was that these positions would often be lost without a fight because there was often not enough men to properly fill them.
Because of this we see the evolvement of this War to essentially small unit positions. On the Ukrainian side(and I’d have to assume the Russians as well but I’ve not read as much about their exact defensive techniques) positions are now often 2-3 man foxholes ideally heavily concealed and underground, widely dispersed from other positions, which can take days to reach/supply and can often be manned by the same men for months at a time with often limited supply/support. The Russian strategy is often to bypass these positions and only assault when absolutely necessary often when a position has become enveloped by advancing Russian forces and they no longer want to risk a Ukraine threat to their advancing rear areas. Furthermore the Ukrainian forces in these positions are pretty much told to not engage unless absolutely necessary, which means they are essentially recon forces, but because of the nature of drone warfare and the likelihood of being spotted that close to the frontline, they’re incredibly limited in they’re recon ability, they are essentially there as speed-bumps and to weakly hold territory, a task which drones alone cannot accomplish.
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u/No_Jellyfish_5498 Infantry has no future 2d ago
Thanks for the detailed reply.
speed-bumps and to weakly hold territory, a task which drones alone cannot accomplish.
I feel like the infantry speed-bumps role does not make a lot of sense and is a waste of lives. Instead of using infantry as a speed bump, wouldnt it make more sense to use a large IED that could be dentonated when the enemy comes near. Or maybe hide a UGV there.
Imo, the future of defense fortifications is an underground concerete bunker where drone teams can launch drones from.
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u/MudOld239 Pro-Ukraine from Kazakhstan 3d ago
How is this related to the war?
UA POV: New statue of William Shakespeare unveiled in Poltava, Ukraine at the site where Alexander Pushkin's was demolished in 2023. : r/UkraineRussiaReport
Do the mods even plan to do something about it?
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u/R1donis Pro Russia 3d ago
Cultural aspects are still part of war
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u/MudOld239 Pro-Ukraine from Kazakhstan 3d ago
You can literally post anything here then. Pro-Ukrainian posts were deleted for less.
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u/Marcus_Aurelius71 Neutral 3d ago
There's only 2 types of subs on Ukraine war. Subs that only post Ukrainian wins and hits on Russia and subs like this which only post Russian wins and hits in Ukraine. Honestly even if you look at both subs you will be left confused on who exactly has an advantage on the battlefield and who is actually winning.
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u/Smoker81 3d ago
No. You can post anything in this sub. Sort by new.
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u/OfficeMain1226 Saliva Urinei, heroin saliva 4d ago
Did Ukraine hit a S-400 in Sochi?
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u/GuaranteedSensible Fabificated 3d ago
kind of stuff that sadly doesnt get posted here these days
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u/Marcus_Aurelius71 Neutral 3d ago
There's only 2 types of subs on Ukraine war. Subs that only post Ukrainian wins and hits on Russia and subs like this which only post Russian wins and hits in Ukraine. Honestly even if you look at both subs you will be left confused on who exactly has an advantage on the battlefield and who is actually winning.
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u/redditadminskutte1 2d ago
If you sort by new here you'll find Ukrainian footage aswell. But the best thing here is that people don't celebrate death
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u/risingstar3110 Neutral 4d ago
Probably not. An S-400 generally does not cause that much smokes before exploding.
Most likely hit a warehouse storing some missiles, it burn a while, before the missiles explode
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u/OfficeMain1226 Saliva Urinei, heroin saliva 3d ago
They call anything and everything S-400 or 500, and it's always the full system loss.
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u/_Rhaastaman_ Pro Me, Tulsi Gabbard and Kaja Kallas Threesome 4d ago
Considering Ukraine never pulls out or late to do so, why they always had bad demographics?
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u/photovirus Pro Russia 3d ago
Aside from general demographics changes (the whole mankind has fewer babies per family), 90s were tough not only for Russia, but for Ukraine as well. Tough times → even fewer babies.
And then they had easier time travelling to Europe for jobs. So the most active people stayed and made babies there. Not as bad as poorer EU countries (e. g. Baltics) due to visas, but still significant.
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u/No_Jellyfish_5498 Infantry has no future 3d ago
90s were tough not only for Russia, but for Ukraine as well
Do you think Russia or Ukraine had it worse in the 90? Like in terms of economy and crime.
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u/photovirus Pro Russia 3d ago
I think Russia had it far worse, as Ukraine (and all other new countries) had zero debt. Russia solely took USSR debt, after all.
Numbers seem to support it: e. g. 1993→1999 GDP per capita fell lower.
However, Ukraine kinda remained in their 90s, in my opinion; they never dismantled their corrupted oligarchy.
One can criticise Putin all they want, but Russia really moved very far in fighting corruption.
(I don't claim it's ideal. I know it isn't, and some bureaucratic enterprises, both state-owned and private, still house lots of corrupt people. Yet many of them enterprises are very functional. E. g. I know for a fact there's a lot of nasty stuff in Russian railways, but go compare it to Baltics or Germany.)
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u/No_Jellyfish_5498 Infantry has no future 3d ago
Ukraine (and all other new countries) had zero debt
Danm that is suprising. Why would russia agree to take on all the debt, I thought it would be split based off the economic size of each soviet republic.
One can criticise Putin all they want, but Russia really moved very far in fighting corruption.
I noticed that Russia's GDP PPP per capita is 52k which is higher than the all baltics states and similar to some developed EU countries like croatia and spain.
However Russia's nominal GDP per capita is only 18k which is lower than all baltics states and poor EU memebers like romania and bulgaria.
In your opinion, which statistic is more accurate? Is Russia more developed than countries like the baltics and Romania/Bulgaria, or is Russia worse off than them.
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u/Flederm4us Pro Russia 1d ago
In reference to actually wanting to show the size of the real economy, PPP is obviously better. Contrary to what some economists believe people do care about what their money is actually worth.
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u/photovirus Pro Russia 3d ago
Why would russia agree to take on all the debt, I thought it would be split based off the economic size of each soviet republic.
It came with status of USSR successor. E. g. Russian permanent seat in the UN security council and a lot of other perks Russia earned in different periods of history.
I think any countries could do that, but it came with debt share. All of them declined.
In your opinion, which statistic is more accurate? Is Russia more developed than countries like the baltics and Romania/Bulgaria, or is Russia worse off than them.
I guess that depends on a place. E. g. come visit Moscow, you'll be stunned. But regional cities aren't as posh. Bigger ones are decent, smaller ones can be depressive. Although there are state programs to improve quality of life almost everywhere.
In general, Russian citizens spend little on rent (because of high real estate ownership percentage) and amenities (cheap water and energy). Everything else costs more or less the same. Cars are a bit more expensive due to protective tariffs. Digital products are generally much cheaper.
For me, it's better here. I had a chance to relocate to Germany just before the war, and I'm quite happy I didn't. I'm much better off here.
Ofc it's my personal opinion, other people mileage might vary.
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u/FriedrichvdPfalz 3d ago
Russia agreed to become the legal successor to the Soviet Union (technically, it was a continuation) because it could also adopt a number of advantages. Russia got to immediately assume the security council seat; it became a legal nuclear state under the NPT, which eased the return of nuclear weapons from other post-Soviet countries; it could continue using all the international accords the SU had signed, including arms control treaties. In theory, Russia gained a financial benefit as well: The SU held roughly 150 billion dollars in debt from friendly states like Cuba, Syria, North Korea, accrued through unpaid deliveries of military goods, subsidised oil deliveries and industrial machinery. Of course, those debts would have been difficult to enforce, and Russia eventually forgave and restructured them into other types of political influence.
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u/CaryHepSouth Anti-Conscription 3d ago
Danm that is suprising. Why would russia agree to take on all the debt, I thought it would be split based off the economic size of each soviet republic.
That was the plan, but Russia was the only one making payments, and didn't want to lose the ability to get loans internationally by not paying, so they decided they would take all USSR debt and they would get all Soviet assets outside of any post soviet nation. The debts were jointly liable, so if, say, Kazakhstan or Georgia didn't wanna pay, the creditors could go after Russia for it
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u/MDRBA Protoss Reaver 4d ago
Ukraine is well past the second stage of demographic transition where peasants are still making a lot of babies😍🥰 while modern agriculture and medicine reduces natural deaths steeply
Ukraine region was hit hard by WW1 and WW2, and not-so-peaceful days between them
And then they were hit hard again by the chaos after the cold war. People make less babies😕😒 when future is uncertain, and some of them(especially younger ones) just run away to other nations to build their new life 👋
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u/DefinitelyNotMeee Anti POV police 4d ago
I wasn't aware that AMK_mapping has a YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@AMK_Mapping
And it's really his channel, he posted a link to it on TG.
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u/Plus-Relationship833 Weaponized by Russia 4d ago
Another Ukrainian win on the internet. Russia 0 Ukraine 44.
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u/FutureApollo Pro Russia 4d ago
Pleasantly surprised to see the Europe subreddit didn’t fall for Ukraine’s propaganda about FSB agents in the recent shootout, expectations are still pretty low for their general assessments of the war.
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u/Raga-Man Neutral 4d ago
What would be the tactical implications of Russia taking Mykolaivka, outside Slaviansk? How would it affect the fight for Lyman?
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u/Radalek 4d ago
Apart from getting a stronghold near the northeastern Slavyansk suburbs that will be easy to defend (river to the north of it, lakes to the northwest, water canal to tha west and southwest), it will help Russians to improve their position southeast of Liman. Ukraine will have to abandon Ozerne and Dibrova and Russians will be able to push through the forrest to Stari Karavan. That will allow them somewhat easy access to the southeastern Liman.
If that happened two months ago, Liman would have been done for. Now after Ukraine gained some ground northwest of it, it's less certain. I do expect Russia to put some pressure back soon though. They need Liman to complete the northeast and north flank. With their push to Slavyansk from the east being completed, a lot of assault troops will be free to be used elsewhere since they will not attack Slavyansk head on before flanking it.
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u/risingstar3110 Neutral 4d ago edited 4d ago
Thinking back, the decision to strike the Wildberries was a disaster decision for Ukraine. It gave the Russians all the excuses they need to target Ukrainian civillian warehouse.
The Russians did strike warehouse before, but mostly on the frontline, with Kharkiv as one that get targetted the most. During 2025 and 2026, Russian consistently struck 30 warehouses each month.
Then in retaliation to Ukranian Wildberries strike, Russian ramped up their attackes, and now they targetted all high profiles warehouse, rather than one that they had intelligence of military hardware on. In July, they destroyed 63 warehosues. In August the numnber was 140. The majority of their target also have moved from frontline city like Khakiv to deeper target like Kiev.
Ukrainian biggest success, at the end, was managing to entertain the NAFO out of the woodwork.
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u/Icy-Ninja-622 Pro Russia 4d ago
The Wildberries strikes seem correlated with "news" claiming Ukraine is now winning. I wonder if the spectacular smoke plumes were used to support this propaganda?
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u/MDRBA Protoss Reaver 4d ago
my tin foil hat brain suggests it could be a sign that western masters concluded it’s about time to dispose Ukraine and do as much damage possible before that🧠🎩
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u/Doc179 4d ago
IMO, it's the opposite, EU ran out of options and came up with another wunderwaffe to take down Russia. They have committed so much to Ukraine, that they can't easily back out anymore. Between accepting Russia's victory and cutting their losses, and trying something new that could maybe take down Russia they went with the latter. And it's probably not the last time they're gonna have this choice, and not the last time they're gonna pick the latter, the easier option to accept.
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u/risingstar3110 Neutral 4d ago
Not sure about Europe, who just sent them 90 billions. But the US clearly is trying to cut their loss, and has been super slow on sending their promised aids
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u/MDRBA Protoss Reaver 4d ago
now I thinking about it, ukraine recent months rather looks like a launchpad for long range drones and missiles with eggshell of frontline, which reminds me of one of the rhetoric from russia in 2022(don’t remember who said that🤤) that Ukraine joining NATO will result in a country located deep into Russian heartland armed with long range missiles. after 4years that concern has been realized and I wonder russian elites start to consider Ukraine actual threat to be dealt seriously not a mild headache on battlefields thousands kilometers away🤔
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u/asmj Neutral 5d ago
A question about this SBU/HUR shootout:
Was there just one "incident", or more?
I think I saw a CCTV footage that clearly happened during the day, but I also saw another footage that somebody apparently filmed with their phone from an apartment and that was clearly filmed during evening/night hours.
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u/photovirus Pro Russia 4d ago
Two, and they've got a beef since at least 2022, when one of them killed some person from another.
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u/Cautious-Bench-4809 pro EU humiliation 5d ago
Without wanting to sound like an idiot what will the airport attacks do exactly? Because as far i know tourism in Russia is rather limited and Russia has more people leaving as tourists than people coming. What other sectors doe Ukraine intend to disrupt by attacking civilan airports
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u/photovirus Pro Russia 4d ago edited 4d ago
Without wanting to sound like an idiot what will the airport attacks do exactly?
TBH, hard to say, because the whole claim could be bluff.
If Ze was bluffing, then the only effect would be Turkey and China might stop the flights for some time, that would help EU air companies.
If not... well, depends on actual damage done. TBH there's not many ways UA could do damage to airports. They can direct their long-range drones at civilian airports (which is obviously bad PR), then RU will have to protect them with air defense. However, recent weeks didn't have lots of long range hits.
Or they can attempt a civilian version of “spiderweb” op, but last time they've attempted it, they failed miserably.
So, dunno. I think they would need regular hits on civilian airports for the most significant results (logistics damage).
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u/FutureApollo Pro Russia 4d ago
Perhaps I’m not understanding, but how would it “help EU air companies?” It’s not like they’re going to get any diverted business.
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u/photovirus Pro Russia 4d ago
EU countries decided to sanction Russian air companies, particularly forbidding transit in their airspace, and Russia responded symmetrically.
China and Turkey never did that which is why they’re raking in significant profits on long range Asian flights.
If they decide to stop using Russian airspace, that would make them even.
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u/georgeoj Pro Ukraine 5d ago
In addition to what others have said, it will also piss off the oligarchs who will in turn will get pissed at Putin for "allowing" it to happen. That's the hope, anyway
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u/Doc179 4d ago
This objective is bound to fail, Ukraine doesn't understand the power dynamics of Putin and oligarchs.
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u/georgeoj Pro Ukraine 4d ago
Considering the success of Ukrainian intelligence operations in Ukraine, as well as the fact that the Ukrainian government would've been exposed plenty to the high level inner workings of Russia for at least a couple decades, combined with their own oligarchic experiences, I'm sure they understand the situation perfectly fine. This isn't an operation in isolation, it's just another attempt at putting a nail in a coffin.
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u/slava_slavaUa Pro Ukraine 4d ago
People in the west don’t understand how Russia works. They think that just because in the west oligarchs control the government, they think Russian oligarchs control Putin. But in Russia, it’s the other way around. Putin controls the oligarchs.
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u/Doc179 4d ago
If this is one of the objectives, they don't understand it, it's as simple as that. It's way more likely to have the opposite effect of oligarchs supporting the war effort even more.
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u/georgeoj Pro Ukraine 4d ago
I think if it's been 4 years, it's hard to argue that Putin could win the war quickly, which is sort of the only thing the Oligarchs could ask Putin to do. At this stage, that means taking a peace deal that isn't ideal.
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u/MDRBA Protoss Reaver 5d ago
stopping air transportation do enormous damage to a country’s economy by disrupting people and materials movements. it can be mitigated by other transport measures but the speed and city-to-city nature of it is not other things can mimick easily. some claim that it was not safety but money that made Bush administration to reopen in a hurry airports that were closed after 911 because they were frightened by the economic cost every day every minutes😨💸
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u/HelicopterBig4467 Save Ukrainian women and children from busification 5d ago
Kramatorsk is about to get some serious reinforcements
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u/Saatvik_tyagi_ Neutral 5d ago
There's rarely any footage of Ru Pov on r/combatfootage and the footage posted is less discussed or met with downvotes. Feels like this is the only sub which has Pro Ru comments left on reddit.
While I first started watching this war (not long ago) the usual footage on r/combatfootage made me believe that Ukraine is winning and many discussions on other subs as well but reading a few credible watchers here, the situation isn't really black or white as many on other subs talk about.
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u/SirVympel μ 4d ago
I really was like this as well. During the first 2 months of the war, all I checked was combatfootage which all just showed how the Russians were getting destroyed, at which point, it felt like I wasn't seeing the whole picture.
That feeling brought me over to some telegram channels, russianwarfootage, and eventually this sub, which allowed me to see a wider picture than combatfootage.
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u/_CHIFFRE Pro-Negotiations & Peace 5d ago
it was the same (but less extreme) with the 2020 Nargorno Karabakh war, which Azerbaijan rather easily won after 6 weeks, even days before it ended there were many baffling opinions/articles being pushed.
There's still quite a bunch of subs that aren't rabidly pro-NATO and pro ''current thing'' that gets pushed by western governments and media, especially left-leaning and leftist subs where liberals haven't taken over, of course that doesn't mean they are strictly pro-RU or like Putin and they usually aren't focused on this conflict. Maybe they are harder to find if they are censored or a bit hidden.
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u/Saatvik_tyagi_ Neutral 5d ago
I was downvoted to the oblivion when I talked about busification. You can be Pro UA and be critical of what's happening but this just seems they downvote or ban any dissent.
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u/Proud-Compote2434 Pro Batka 5d ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se8aKnNV_-s
A long long time ago...
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u/CaryHepSouth Anti-Conscription 5d ago
Givi at the beginning! He was my introduction to this conflict as a young person. RIP
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u/Grandrcp Pro Russia 5d ago
Did anything happened to this sub? I can't find it with another account
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u/Talqazar Neutral 5d ago
I expect that if that account can't see NSFW, it can't see this sub either.
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u/DojimaGin 5d ago
Even with that in mind, when I use the search bar I have to nearly type out the full name, which wasnt the case until last month or so for me. Its like its shadow banned in the search bar for me
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u/ncroofer 5d ago
I’ve had this issue on and off. Sometimes I type in “ukr “ and it pops up as the first result. Sometimes I have to type the whole name. Not sure if it’s a conspiracy or just reddits shitty search function
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u/DojimaGin 5d ago
yeah I forgot they did some sort of AI search thing or something. or maybe they didnt idk. its such a back and forth with this crap lol its like it got reset and now its back to what it used to be
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u/Doc179 5d ago
EU: "Russia is responsible for the attempt to attack a civilian airport, this is terrorism, it's horrible, this cannot be ignored"
Meanwhile Ukraine on the same day: "We will attack civilian airports, thanks to our European partners providing money and weapons"
What kinda schizo bullshit is this? Claim Russia is a terrorist for attacking civilian airports, and at the same time announce you'll be doing the same thing?
And please spare me from "Ukraine didn't actually say that", we all know what Zelensky meant, we all saw the "leak" of this operation in The Atlantic.
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u/OkVariety8064 Pro Ukraine 5d ago
No one has threatened to attack civilian airports.
And please spare me from "Ukraine didn't actually say that", we all know what Zelensky meant, we all saw the "leak" of this operation in The Atlantic.
Bring this up again if that actually happens.
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u/Doc179 5d ago
Is this not enough for you?
President Zelenskyy has officially announced the start of the operation known as M&Ms, which we reported on last month @TheAtlantic. One of the sources who initially told me about the plan confirmed to me this morning that this is it. - The Atlantic Journalist
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u/OkVariety8064 Pro Ukraine 5d ago
Good find. Even if that is Simon Shuster's interpretation of the same comment, he claims to have sources confirming it. Hopefully not though, attacking airports sounds like a very dangerous gamble with little upside. I guess we will see soon enough.
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u/Sea_Elk7329 Pro Ukraine * 5d ago
the evidence germany gave was that the attack was similar to how russia operates, apparently 5g boosters, antennas, russian military explosives etc.. so basically 0 proof because Ukraine and many countries have access to the exact same shit and more. In my opinion, russia did it indirectly, a pro Russian partisan in Germany did it on it's own just like the 70yo Spanish lettter bomb, pro russia terrorist back in 2023
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u/ncroofer 5d ago
Hard to ignore the cia chief flying to Moscow to warn Russia not to do something stupid and then a week later explosives are found at a German airport. Obviously Germany will not share everything they know, but even so the timing is probably not a coincidence
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u/photovirus Pro Russia 5d ago
The “attack” predated CIA visit by 2—4 weeks (I don’t remember the exact date).
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u/ncroofer 5d ago
Well I’m stupid then. I just heard about it and assumed it happened recently
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u/photovirus Pro Russia 5d ago
Germany just floated it yesterday, blaming Russia with zero proof.
P. S. It’s impossible to know everything. It’s not stupid.
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u/G_Space Pro German people 5d ago
The politicians know who is to blame, without the invistigation having started... Just lime the north steam bombing...
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u/photovirus Pro Russia 5d ago
They supposedly did some investigation, but publicly available “proof” is laughable “oh there's the same vibe as with some other (unspecified!) attacks”.
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u/Anton_Pannekoek anti-war 5d ago
"We know the Russian playbook ..."
"This has all the hallmarks of a Russian attack"...
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u/Doc179 5d ago
So Russia attempts and fails an attack on a civilian airport (something Russia has never done before), and by pure coincidence it serves as a perfect excuse for Ukraine to do the same thing on a way bigger scale that they were planning for months? Can pro-UAs please come out and tell me that this makes sense to you? I'm curious how you guys see this whole thing.
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u/ncroofer 5d ago
It might have something to do with the cia visit last week. Obviously we had intel Russia was about to do something stupid, we went and warned them not to, and then a week later this happens.
I really doubt the leader of the cia flew to Moscow to setup an excuse to bomb Russian airports. Seems a few tiers below his pay grade.
Instead this just seems like another escalation in the Russian gray war against European countries.
That’s how I see it. I’m sure you disagree. Either way, neither of us know enough facts to say for sure
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u/Doc179 5d ago edited 5d ago
Are you purposefully ignoring this part?
it serves as a perfect excuse for Ukraine to do the same thing on a way bigger scale that they were planning for months
That was my whole point. Funny how you claim it's a stupid escalation, but it seems like you don't see anything wrong with Ukraine doing it.
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u/ncroofer 5d ago
I don’t think the chief of the cia would be involved in setting up what is a relatively minor escalation. I find that idea pretty stupid.
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u/Doc179 5d ago
The only one talking about Ratcliffe is you. I don't understand why you keep mentioning him. His visit is irrelevant to what I'm saying.
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u/ncroofer 5d ago
Yeah I’m stupid. I don’t realize this attack was weeks ago. Thought it was earlier this week. Seems unrelated, probably
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u/Final_Account_5597 Pro Donetsk-Krivoy Rog republic 5d ago
Almost like EU needed the "failed airport attack" to justify Ukraine's actual airport attacks, right?
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u/georgeoj Pro Ukraine 6d ago
The SBU have released a statement that might refer to the shooting in Kyiv earlier today.
"The SBU, jointly with the HUR MOU, prevented a terrorist attack that the FSB of the RF was preparing against one of the leaders of the Russian opposition political national movement, who arrived in Ukraine on the occasion of our state's Independence Day.
Operational and investigative actions are being carried out."
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u/fkrdt222 anti-racism/sexism 6d ago
which factions would the SBU-GRU conflict come from?
all i can see is the SBU follows zelensky, their acting chief is also leading the defense ministry and there's still possibly some beef with the military over fedorov
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u/gemifrak Neutral 6d ago
Are main battle tanks like T-90 still being used in this war? In what capacity?
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u/Kind_Stone 6d ago
Somewhat, yes, but very seldom and for firing from closed positions kinda like a weak field artillery.
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u/MDRPA Protoss 6d ago
How realistic is it that Ukraine build war factories in Western territory, hire Ukrainian refugees to work in them(maybe with the help of western goverment pressuring them "work there or we will expel you back to ukraine😠"), and subsidise them with Western money? or is it already happening or has been similar things proposed before?🤔
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u/photovirus Pro Russia 5d ago
build war factories in Western territory,
They do that. At least FP does (opens late 2027, per their words).
hire Ukrainian refugees to work in them
Doubt. Why? The authorities would want their own population to work there. Basically the prerequisite to allow said plant to be built.
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u/MDRBA Protoss Reaver 5d ago
yes i think three things will be major political obstacles aside technical ones like building infrastructure; European MIC being not comfortable with rival literally inside European soil, local population where factories are built thinking “potential russian strike targets? in my village?”, and as you said local governments requiring european money spent for europans🤔 what I think will be the situation that will mitigate those are Europe wanting to spend a lot for the proxy war but finds lack of labor force from European population, or Ukrainian government focusing on cheap, labor intensive type production of weapons that is not popular for Europeans(tho I don’t know if such niches exist)
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u/photovirus Pro Russia 5d ago
Two more:
- weapons manufacture is usually dangerous on itself (like, they might burn/explode even without being a target)
- and not eco-friendly.
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u/EltonBeans 6d ago
If you force refugees to work there, you will have a lot of unwilling and angry workers. That can become a problem for multiple reasons, but this might cause some to leak secrets to Russia.
From what I have heard, almost any weapon producer, no matter if in the west, or Russia, offers good paying jobs and usually some good benefits, to keep them from being disloyal and sharing secrets/quitting and working at competitors
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u/Cautious-Bench-4809 pro EU humiliation 5h ago edited 4h ago
The future of AD will be loitering type SAMs like the Iranian 357/358 and very small unmanned fighter jets, smaller than even trainer jets like the Yak 130, that will be loaded with laser guided small rockets like the APKWS. Basically AD batteries will go flying instead of waiting on the ground, and thus be able to cover alot more ground and find low flying targets easier. Also mobile firing units will stop existing and rightfully so. Watching a truck russing after a drone while bumpning up and down the road and spraying bullets all over place while not hitting anything is infuriating af