World War III

[Nickdfresh]

This is a good one. A famous Russian T80 firing from behind a tree line. Unfortunately, the crew didn't even know what hit them.

A little bit of hyperbole here by Wartfog. The T-80 IS NOT Russia's most powerful tank. In fact it was an idiotic misstep where the Soviets were obsessed with copying Western Tech they decided they wanted a nice gas-turbine engine like the one used in the M-1 Abrams series as opposed to the more traditional and sensible turbo-diesel used in every other modern tank. They largely mothballed them and used the design along with the best features of the T-72 series to come up with the T-90, which is Russia's actual most modern tank and until the Ukraine debacle was thought to be a super scary high tech missile shooting down tank based on some bullshit that happened in Syria. Of course, like the Russian military in general this was just a propaganda fraud. Of course there is still the T-14 Armata garage-queen-white-elephant no one wants and they can't afford...

The T-90 here was destroyed by a 50 year old Swedish shoulder fired recoilless rifle (but a really good one)...

[Kristy]

This is a good one. A famous Russian T80 firing from behind a tree line. Unfortunately, the crew didn't even know what hit them.

[Kristy]

It would be wise to invest in the scrap iron business after the war in Ukraine

[Nickdfresh]

From military themed channel Warthog, the above shows the minute a Russian Orc crew was filming on their BMP fighting vehicle as it was hit by a Ukranian ATGM...

It's a catalog of the increasing collapse of the Russian forces in the face of growing Ukrainian offensives around Kharkiv and the Kherson Oblast...

[Nickdfresh]

Or they want you to know. But stunning. The Soviets lost 15,000+ war dead in Afghanistan, widely thought to have been one of the last cogs in the Soviet demise. They have at least 25,000 war dead (using the typical 3 wounded for every 1 killed ratio, but that's if you have decent battlefield medical care) in the Ukraine and upwards of 40K if the Ukrainians are to be believed...

[FORD]

Slotkin is "former" CIA herself, so she probably knows exactly which details NOT to mention to the corporate media whores. Unless she was from that incompetent branch of the company that was loyal to Cheney & the Chimp (as opposed to Langley headquarters) during their PNAC wars.

[Seshmeister]

Should she be telling CNN what she is told in a classified briefing?

[Nickdfresh]

Russia has suffered an estimated 75,000 casualties in Ukraine invasion, U.S. official

Russia has suffered an estimated 75,000 casualties in Ukraine invasion, U.S. officials say
Niamh Cavanagh

Thu, July 28, 2022 at 11:06 AM

LONDON — More than 75,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or injured since the Kremlin launched its brutal war on Ukraine on Feb. 24, according to U.S. intelligence.

Speaking to CNN, Michigan Rep. Elissa Slotkin said the estimate was revealed during a classified briefing with officials from the Biden administration. “We were briefed that over 75,000 Russians have either been killed or wounded [in Ukraine], which is huge. ... Over 80% of their land forces are bogged down, and they’re tired,” she said.

That roughly correlates to the number of casualties estimated by CIA Director William Burns on July 20. “I think the latest estimates from the U.S. intelligence community would be, you know, something in the vicinity of 15,000 killed and maybe three times that wounded, so a quite significant set of losses,” Burns said at the Aspen Security Forum.

He went on to say that Ukrainian soldiers had “suffered as well,” but “probably a little less than” enemy forces. More recently, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s senior adviser said military casualties were between 100 and 200 per day.

Ahead of Russia’s invasion, President Biden said Russia had amassed around 150,000 troops, while British Prime Minister Boris Johnson claimed that 200,000 were stationed on Ukraine’s borders. No figure has been disclosed by Russia’s Defense Ministry.


In a briefing on Monday, the U.K.’s Ministry of Defense said the number of Russian soldiers who had died in the first three months of the invasion in Ukraine were comparable to the Soviet Union’s losses during its decade-long conflict in Afghanistan.

“A combination of poor low-level tactics, limited air cover, a lack of flexibility, and a command approach which is prepared to reinforce failure and repeat mistakes has led to this high casualty rate, which continues to rise in the Donbas offensive,” the department said.

Keeping relatively quiet on the number of casualties its military has suffered, Russia announced on March 25 that it had counted 1,351 deaths. No public statements have been made since.

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[Nickdfresh]

Russia Says It’s Losing Because Ukraine Has Experimental Mutant Troops Created in Secret Biolabs
Allison Quinn
Tue, July 19, 2022 at 6:45 AM

Nearly five months into its senseless war against Ukraine, Russia has concocted a wild new explanation for why the Kremlin’s plans for a quick takeover fell apart so spectacularly—because Ukrainian troops were turned into superhuman killing machines during “secret experiments” in American-run biolabs, of course.

Never mind the myriad reports of Russian troops refusing to fight by the thousands, sabotaging their own shoddy equipment and even deliberately wounding themselves to abandon the war, Russian lawmakers claim the real setback for Moscow was “drugged up” Ukrainian soldiers.

That claim was made Monday by two Russian lawmakers heading up a commission to investigate “biolaboratories” in Ukraine, Kommersant reported.

Konstantin Kosachev, the deputy speaker of Russia’s Federation Council, and Irina Yarovaya, deputy chair of the State Duma, touted what they described as bombshell findings from the “investigation.”

Testing of Ukrainian POWs’ blood, they claimed, uncovered “a range of diseases” that suggest they were secretly experimented on “for military purposes.”

“And we see: the cruelty and barbarity with which the military personnel of Ukraine behave, the crimes that they commit against the civilian population, those monstrous crimes that they commit against prisoners of war, confirm that this system for the control and creation of a cruel murder machine was implemented under the management of the United States,” Yarovaya was quoted telling reporters.

Watch: Russia fires rockets at Ukraine mall with over 1,000 inside


“And those performance enhancing drugs that they are still given in order to completely neutralize the last traces of human consciousness and turn them into the most cruel and deadly monsters also confirm this,” she claimed.

Bizarrely, she also claimed that the presence of Hepatitis A antibodies in Ukrainian prisoners’ blood was proof of an American biolabs conspiracy, since a former health minister for Ukraine was a dual Ukrainian-American citizen who had worked to acquire drugs for the treatment of hepatitis in the country.

“It is quite possible that this was about testing these drugs on military personnel,” Yarovaya said.

The claims appeared to be a new take on the biolabs conspiracy theory that Russia’s Defense Ministry has routinely rolled out to try and justify the war.

While the conspiracy theory dates all the way back to the Soviet Union, it has been amplified more frequently by Kremlin figures after the Feb. 24 invasion, as Moscow’s initial claim that it invaded Ukraine in order to “de-Nazify” a country led by a Jewish president failed to gain much traction beyond its own domestic propaganda.

The latest iteration appears to be aimed at explaining away Russia’s military setbacks by way of mutant Ukrainian troops.

DAILEY BEAST

[Nickdfresh]

Ukraine strikes significantly reducing Russia's offensive potential, Kyiv says


Max Hunder and Tom Balmforth
Fri, July 15, 2022 at 2:43 PM
By Max Hunder and Tom Balmforth

KYIV (Reuters) - Ukrainian rocket strikes have destroyed more than 30 Russian military logistics centres in recent weeks and significantly reduced Russia's attacking potential, Ukraine's defence ministry spokesperson said on Friday.

The official, Oleksandr Motuzianyk, singled out the role played by U.S.-produced HIMARS rocket systems, one of several types of long-range weapon supplied by the West to help Ukraine fight back against Russia.

"In the last weeks, over 30 of the enemy's military logistical facilities have been destroyed, as a result of which the attacking potential of Russian forces has been significantly reduced," Motuzianyk said on national television.

Motuzianyk told Reuters in separate comments that the 30 targets were destroyed by multiple launch rocket systems, including HIMARS.

If confirmed, the comments would suggest that Western weapons are having an impact on the battlefield and could indicate a shift in the war's dynamic after nearly five months.

Russia, which invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, has captured a chunk of territory in southern Ukraine and used its artillery supremacy in the east to make gradual territorial gains, eventually capturing Luhansk region.

A top Ukrainian general said on Thursday that Russia had not taken a "single metre" of land in the last week and that Ukrainian strikes were disrupting Russian supply lines, forcing Moscow to keep its ammunition further back from the front line. Reuters was not able to immediately confirm battlefield reports.

HIMARS have a longer range and are more precise than Ukraine's Soviet-era artillery, allowing Ukrainian forces to hit Russian targets that were previously unreachable.

On Friday, Ukraine's defence minister said Kyiv had taken receipt of a first consignment of M270 multiple rocket launch systems, without specifying which country provided them.

Russia on Thursday criticised the United States and Britain for helping train Ukraine's armed forces, calling it part of NATO's "hybrid warfare" against Moscow. It said Washington was providing Ukraine with instructors to help use HIMARS.

Kyiv said this week that its forces carried out strikes on Russian military infrastructure in a city that lies deep in Russian-occupied territory in southern Ukraine.

Motuzianyk also said that only 30% of Russian strikes were hitting military targets, with the rest landing on civilian sites. That assertion could not be verified by Reuters. Russia denies deliberately targeting civilians in what it calls a "special military operation" in Ukraine.

(Reporting by Max Hunder; Writing by Tom Balmforth; Editing by Rosalba O'Brien) https://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-strik...184305089.html

[Nickdfresh]

Glory to the HIMARS!!!

[Nickdfresh]

How the Ukraine can win:

https://news.yahoo.com/5-paths-victory-ukraine-war-204700328.html

[Nickdfresh]

A decent overview of Russia's main issues and Putin's stupidity...

[Nickdfresh]

"Move or we're going to fucking die!"

[MrMeanstreet]

None of this happened, or would be happening, under Trumps watch.

It's amazing how little time it took the DemonRATS and Bidet, to destroy the American economy, and world peace.

But, weak minded little DemonRAT apologists like Nickdfreshoutofbraincells, keep making excuses and fawning over this horrific and corrupt regime. Good thing Nickd is a fag, and doesn't have kids and Grandkids that will have to suffer long and hard for what this moron voted for.

Well how about this, he didn't attack when Obama was in office for 8 years. So scump is only half as good as Obama
and as far as the economy tanking could it be because of all the tariffs scump imposed?

I bet you are a closet Hagar luver