Russian special military operation in Ukraine #13

Regular wrote:

Kamaz Viking (Based on kamaz 4911 if I am correct) doesn't look Russian? For me it looks like a Kamaz straight away

it was used for half a decade. Russian SF does have foreign armored trucks, but that's clearly Russian. There are so many versions of this, mostly difference in armoured capsule as I think every single capsule is different... Some of them had ramps for UGVs as seen in their terrorist elimination videos in Chechnya.

Kamaz-4911 was the first thing that came to my mind given the overall layout & look, but i had not seen such front "grill" styling on the cabin before. Also, most vehicles i know of based on 4911 have the KAMAZ logo on the front quite clear, which i could not see. But now that you mention that video of the counter terror operation i started to remember again. I do recall now a presentation of like 10 years ago, probably together with the Falcatus, that probably also featured this vehicle.

Thanks for clearing things up.

mnztr wrote:
Would it not make more sense for the subs to just transit the Bosphorus submerged? How would Turkey know? and if they did, what would they do about it? In any case they have enough Kaliber capable ships in the black sea as well as cruise missile capable bombers.

For what it's worth I think it is illegal for a sub to transit the Bosphorus submerged.

flamming_python wrote:Of course it does, it's a sabotage attack against Russian R&D capacities

Penetration of American intelligence in Russia seems to be scarily deep.

GunshipDemocracy wrote:

"We tell US representatives directly that the US-NATO transports with weapons passing through Ukrainian territory, the Russian Armed Forces have the right to consider as legitimate military targets," he said at a round table organized by the Diplomatic Academy of the department on the topic "Crisis in Russian-American relations."

https://ria.ru/20220421/nato-1784783247.html

Guys,  time to "talk the talk, walk the walk”

flamming_python wrote:

Of course it does, it's a sabotage attack against Russian R&D capacities

Parliament Building in Kiev next?

They´re bombing the shit out of weapons transports. What the guy was talking about are real NATO trucks, not some civilian transports, coming to Bandera country to haul weapons around. They will be targets, too.

Russia is big country, but wasn't there another fire, this time in Kinishma earlier today? I don't think it's a sabotage, but if there will a third one then I will suspect Ukrainians with matchsticks.

caveat emptor wrote:

JohninMK wrote:

caveat emptor wrote:In Tver, building of Central Research Institute of the Aerospace Defense Troops has burned down completely.

Its in Russia.

Yes, i know it is in Russia. Tver is relatively close to Moscow. I just pointed that there was maybe a foul play.

Yesterday a bag of rice fell on its side in a depot in Khabarovsk. Must be sabotage by NATO agents!!!!!

That building was a 100 years old. Now they will build a new one with better fire protection and new electric system. And hopefully they will prohibit smoking inside the new facility.

TV tower in Mariupol

Kherson

Look what he´s blessing there!

Chechens are done with Mariupol.

What a surprise!

Isos wrote:Levi

@Levi_godman

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The leaders of all member countries are invited to the G20 summit, including the President of Russia - Indonesia, which chairs the G20 Based Indonesia Anglo-Saxons crying like little b*tches right now

Got to love good old-fashioned non-aligned states like Indonesia

So being comfortable helps Russia? Well so be it.

Hole wrote:Yesterday a bag of rice fell on its side in a depot in Khabarovsk. Must be sabotage by NATO agents!!!!!  

That building was a 100 years old. Now they will build a new one with better fire protection and new electric system. And hopefully they will prohibit smoking inside the new facility.

Too true. Don't ever blame something for ill will that could be explained by incomptence.

As a person who works in a field of technical security systems in Russia let me tell you - said building might have not had nor water fire supression system, nor even functioning fire alarm.
Thats government properties for you.

flamming_python wrote:Of course it does, it's a sabotage attack against Russian R&D capacities

If Ukrainians were able to burn down this research center it means that Russia didn't deserve to have that research center in the first place

Levi
@Levi_godman
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Apr 20
Turkish Foreign Minister Cavusoglu said that among the NATO countries there are forces that are interested in continuing the situation in Ukraine and "weakening Russia"

Friendly fire



Levi
@Levi_godman
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China says demand for Russian goods in China is growing sharply, China is ready to guarantee uninterrupted supplies of Russian products to its market in priority mode

The Chinese ambassador also announced: "I would like to note that the embassy is ready to provide all kinds of assistance to Russian entrepreneurs, our partners - in establishing contacts and cooperation with Chinese businesses/entrepreneurs as well as with Chinese regions and with any interested organizations,"

China knows one simple truth: We are all at all times only nine meals away from becoming animals

Don't get in that situation

PapaDragon wrote:

flamming_python wrote:Of course it does, it's a sabotage attack against Russian R&D capacities

If Ukrainians were able to burn down this research center it means that Russia didn't deserve to have that research center in the first place

Looks like the center was on it's last legs, nothing like modern ones build last 10-15 years. Nice building tho, too bad the surrounding rehabilitation center was affected too. Looks like a domestic fire so far.

Regular wrote:Russia is big country, but wasn't there another fire, this time in Kinishma earlier today? I don't think it's a sabotage, but if there will a third one then I will suspect Ukrainians with matchsticks.

If the hohols planned it, they'd be caught with a petrol can... and forget to bring the matches.

zorobabel wrote:Clean up and body removal at the Theatre in Mariupol: https://t.me/boris_rozhin/44100

Russia is really going to have to mobilize for this level of clean up and reconstruction.

That is what POWs are there for...

All in all, Yuri Podolyaka states that the main strikes of the Russian army in the entire area of ​​combat operations have not yet begun, although the current strikes on Banderistan's positions are very strong.



* There are no attacks on populated places in the Russian Federation.

Kharkov region; Artillery duels continue in the area around Kharkov. The Russian army inflicted a strong artillery strike in the direction around the town of Zolochevo, where an attack was carried out on 5 positions in which AFUs were concentrated. There are currently no changes in the area around the cities of Chuguyev and Zmiyevo, but Russian artillery strikes are constant. Russian artillery is also operating from the direction of Izyum, and strikes in this area are the strongest so far. The Russian army carried out strikes in that zone on a front about 50 kilometers wide and 10 to 15 kilometers deep. However, all this is only the introductory stage of the fighting.

Donbass; Fierce fighting is going on around Popasnaya. The army of the Russian Federation and the army of the DPR are trying to make further progress, which is going a little slower because the Ukrainians sent additional units from Rubezhnoye (from which they withdrew). Rocket, artillery and air strikes of the Russian Federation were carried out in this area throughout the day, so that the AFU is slowly losing one combat fortification at a time. Occupying this area opens access to the complete blockade of the AFU near Lisichansk and advancing towards Slavyansk and Kramatorsk.

Mariupol; a large number of units of the Russian Federation and the DPR army were withdrawn from this place and transferred to other combat zones. This does not mean that the actions on the Azovstal factory will be stopped and further bombing of this factory can be expected. It is assumed that Putin ordered not to storm Azovstal because many foreign military specialists are in the underground corridors of that factory, which would be valuable "exchange material", but not with Ukraine but with the West. The factory is completely surrounded by the Russian army and army of DPR and there is no way out of it.

Zaporozhye region; units of the Russian army are penetrating deeper and deeper and the fighting is getting closer and closer on the border with the Dnepropetrovsk region. In the past three days, progress of 25 kilometers has been made in some directions. The Russian military is trying to block AFU units near Gulaypole and is trying to cut off supplies to those units from the north. Gradually and slowly, the Russian army is advancing near Velikaya Novoselka. Fortified checkpoints, remaining ammunition depots, etc. are being destroyed.

NIKOLAEV AND ODESSA; The mayor of Nikolaev no longer talks about "the expulsion of the occupiers from Kherson", but Nikolaev fears and asks how to save that city from the Russian army. The Ukrainian regime expects an attack by the Russian army in the direction of Nikolaev and in the direction of Odessa after Easter, with the goal of separating that city from the rest of Ukraine.

This is the really big news of the day, the Russians are finally moving to, so to speak, cut NATO off at the pass.

What few in NATO, or the West come to that, consider is how this 'gear' they are donating is going to get to where it is needed, 700 increasingly hostile miles away. That is the same distance backwards as to the French border!

Imagine you are I/C logistics in moving 18 towed howitzers and 2000 tons of ammo, how could you do it with the events below, plus what has already happened and no doubt more, plus the diesel shortage?

Gleb Bazov
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#UKRAINE—#LOGISTICS
1—Railroad bridge across the #Dnepr river in the #Zaporozhye region has been critically damaged,
2—Railroad in the #Novomoskovsk region has been critically damaged,
by #Russia|n missile strikes, as admitted (latter) by head of the #Dnepropetrovsk region.

If true & accurate, the railroad transport that was the key (and possibly only) means of reliably delivering heavy military vehicles into the eastern theatre of the conflict (to #Donbass) has now been suspended indefinitely, as #DonbassCauldron heats up.

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#LVOV⁠—#Rybar Report:
1⁠—Every night, 23:00 to 5:00, ring road around Lvov is full of convoys of military equipment supplied by #Ukraine's Western partners.
2⁠—IFVs & lighter arms brought in across border.
3⁠—From there, on MAZ, KRAZ & ZIL-131, transported to central regions.

Levi
@Levi_godman
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“We have three missile strikes on the railway infrastructure in the Novomoskovsk region. The railway track and the contact network were badly damaged. It is not yet clear whether we will be able to resume traffic,” said Reznichenko, head of the Dnepropetrovsk OVA.

The Russian army finally began to destroy the railway infrastructure. 3 missile strikes on Dnepropetrovsk region, targets are destroyed Also today was struck the railway bridge in Zaporozhye

Kupyansk

Drobyshevo was hit

Sujoy wrote:

flamming_python wrote:Of course it does, it's a sabotage attack against Russian R&D capacities

Penetration of American intelligence in Russia seems to be scarily deep.

This is likely either a home-grown case or a Ukrainian infiltrator who was there in advance

Of course American intel can provide advice on what facilities are more critical, satellite images, etc... but there's a limit to it