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    Russian special military operation in Ukraine #42

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    Post  nomadski Fri May 05, 2023 11:24 am

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mufPyc1L3hc&pp=ygUSaXQncyBhIGxvdmVseSB3YXIg


    ISOS wrote " When you see how small the territory of ukros in Bakmut is, some 100 fab-500 could decimate their positions there to help Wagner take the city yet russian air force is still not doing its job leading to more deads than needed on both sides. " Agree , how many times was encirclement almost complete , but either commander was replaced or troops withdrawn ?
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    Post  flamming_python Fri May 05, 2023 11:27 am



    If you watch the video closely you can see the small crowd of young locals in Kiev, jubillently cheering on what they assume to be a downing of a Russian drone in the skies over Kiev.

    This the city you want Firebird?
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    Post  JohninMK Fri May 05, 2023 11:35 am

    franco wrote:The Deputy Minister of Defense became the Deputy Commander of PMC "Wagner". General Mikhail Mizintsev joined E. Prigozhin's company
    https://t.me/RVvoenkor/44188

    NOTE: General Mizintsey just left the position as Deputy Minister in charge of MTO (logistics). Prior to that he built and managed the new National Defense Command Center in Moscow.

    Hold on a minute, the RA General in charge of supplying Wagner with ammo is now their Deputy Commander Shocked

    Sometimes reality punctures bullshit Laughing

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    Post  flamming_python Fri May 05, 2023 11:36 am

    Isos wrote:Wagner gas su-24 and su-25 that provide close in support and some times get shot down.  

    Russian air force strikes from out of range witg rockets fired in the air making their su-25 and ka-52 just dumb bm-21 with bad guidance. Now the gliding bombs helps a lot since 2 or 3 months ago but before that it was just dumb rockets fired in a general direction and some kh-29 here and there. Nothing helpfull.

    When you see how small the territory of ukros in Bakmut is, some 100 fab-500 could decimate their positions there to help Wagner take the city yet russian air force is still not doing its job leading to more deads than needed on both sides.

    They were lobbing rockets as they were maintaining low altitude in flight to avoid Ukrainian AD.
    For this same reason you can't effectively use most of the precision guided missiles. Their ranges also depend on the altitude of launch.
    You can sneak up to the enemy with dumb bombs and put them on target relatively accurately, and so they were doing that too

    Now that Ukrainian AD has been reduced, they can afford to take more risks and fly higher, enabling the use of glide bombs and more types of air to ground missiles, but maintaining their distance from the targets

    The next step would be to attain such air suprecmacy, where they will be confident to conduct bombing runs with GLONASS guided munitions from high altitudes, and dumb bombs corrected by targetting computers from medium alttidues. Using Tu-22M3s and Su-24s, Su-34s at max loadouts. Where they will really be able to put a lot of explosives on target and for cheaply. But that will require the remainder of the Ukraine's S-300s and Buks to be taken out first, and anything NATO sends too.


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    Post  DerWolf Fri May 05, 2023 11:36 am

    Wagner says on 10th May will withdraw from Bakhmut.
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    Post  Firebird Fri May 05, 2023 11:38 am

    What a brainless comment.
    Do u work for CNN or similar?
    With Fascists and actual Nazis in charge do u think they are all going to boo the junta's army?

    Look what happened in Odessa, Kharkov, Kherson etc.

    No one is disputing a fair amount of trash needs to be kicked out of Kiev.
    But its trash that recently went there. Last in, first out. Problem solved.

    Are u going to give Chechnya to the Americans? What about Moscow?
    Words fail me.

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    Post  flamming_python Fri May 05, 2023 11:40 am

    Werewolf wrote:Wagner is a PMC and has no access to any aircrafts or tanks. Everything is used and owned by Russian Air Force and Army.

    Hell OMON is better equipped than Wagner.

    What are you on about? PMC = light infantry.

    Wagner has several advantages. It's more flexible compared to the regular military, having less of a hierarchy, and it has units organized and experienced in urban combat

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    Post  Rodion_Romanovic Fri May 05, 2023 11:44 am

    DerWolf wrote:Wagner says on 10th May will withdraw from Bakhmut.
    It is impossible that Russia will leave bakhmut at this point.
    Either it is just psyop, or it is just that wagner will be replaced by someone else (Chechens, other groups, or regular army).

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    Post  Stealthflanker Fri May 05, 2023 11:46 am

    Rodion_Romanovic wrote:
    Either it is just psyop, or it is just that wagner will be replaced by someone else (Chechens, other groups, or regular army).

    regulars most likely.

    Is Wagner the -Only- Russian forces in Bakhmut region ? It's eerily similar to Kadyrov's PR moves that seem to lead media to believe He's the vanguard of the assault.

    For me it's like psy-ops and Wagner will simply move elsewhere.

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    Post  Werewolf Fri May 05, 2023 12:08 pm

    flamming_python wrote:

    Wagner has several advantages. It's more flexible compared to the regular military, having less of a hierarchy, and it has units organized and experienced in urban combat

    Yes, but still no access to aircraft or tanks unless it is given to them by the military. That was the only point I was discussing.

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    Post  Hole Fri May 05, 2023 12:55 pm

    Hold on a minute, the RA General in charge of supplying Wagner with ammo is now their Deputy Commander Shocked

    Sometimes reality punctures bullshit Laughing
    Dude on Twitter compared it to Wrestling.

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    Post  JohninMK Fri May 05, 2023 1:31 pm

    Yup. a fake it seems

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    Post  Podlodka77 Fri May 05, 2023 1:38 pm

    To Arrow...

    I am also convinced that it is a fake...
    No "Iskander" was shot down, so it's a waste of time to even write about this.

    And yes, just take it easy gentlemen and have some patience.
    Russians are at war with the land army they have at least, while the West has reduced all its power to a very vulnerable aviation.

    Tactical nuclear strikes, which some mention here, will certainly not be carried out on the territory of Ukroshitstan.
    This will be done throughout the European territory.
    The Russians said a long time ago that they would attack the "decision-making centers". THAT'S EXACTLY BEING POSTPONED.
    Now I am already 51% convinced that a direct conflict with the NATO pact is imminent.

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    Post  Arkanghelsk Fri May 05, 2023 1:45 pm


    Prigozhin's Unprecedented Meltdown


    "These guys here are the Wagner PMC, who died today, the blood is still fresh. Get them all on camera (to the cameraman). And now listen to me fucking bitch - it's someone's fathers and someone's sons and those ... who don't give us ammunition... will eat their fucking guts in hell, motherfuckers. We have a 70% ammunition shortage. Shoigu, Gerasimov, where the **** is the ammunition? Look at them, bitches... You bitches are sitting in expensive clubs, your kids are getting off on life and making videos on youtube. You think you're the masters of this life and that you have the right to control THEIR lives. Do you think that if you have shell warehouses, you have the right to do so? There are elementary calculations, if you gave normative number of ammunition they (points to the dead) would be five times less. They came here as volunteers and are dying for you to live in your redwood offices. Keep that in mind."

    WTF

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    Post  Arkanghelsk Fri May 05, 2023 1:54 pm

    Prigozhin has asked to be replaced by the Russian army

    Noone can tell if this is theater or not, this have never been done. And to level insults of that kind to Gerasimov and Shoigu is beyond theatrical I've never seen anything like it

    If the army does come, noone knows wtf will happen

    Maybe they will give Bakhmut away like Kherson and Kharkov?

    Or will they dig in?

    **** knows

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    Post  flamming_python Fri May 05, 2023 2:20 pm

    I think he's pulling your leg Arkhangelsk

    But you do you
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    Post  DerWolf Fri May 05, 2023 2:29 pm

    When ukr counter offensive is around the corner, it is the worst time this internal conflict could happen.
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    Post  lyle6 Fri May 05, 2023 2:31 pm

    He's giving the game away. You don't use elite assault troops to defend your gains, you use regulars backed by copious armor, artillery and airpower. This is just a regular rotation to enable Wagner to rest and refit for the next urban conglomeration but Progozhin's acting like a teenage girl over it for some reason.

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    Post  Firebird Fri May 05, 2023 2:55 pm

    If its Maskirovka, let the Bandera-filth die.
    If its Prig getting too big for his boots then he can **** off.

    I know which one to believe but I won't say here.

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    Post  limb Fri May 05, 2023 3:50 pm

    If its the army there will be "difficult decisions" at worst and lugansk tier advances at best, fightimg fir 2-3 more years against the last few blocks of artemovsk

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    Post  GunshipDemocracy Fri May 05, 2023 3:55 pm

    flamming_python wrote:\
    If you watch the video closely you can see the small crowd of young locals in Kiev, jubillently cheering on what they assume to be a downing of a Russian drone in the skies over Kiev.

    This the city you want Firebird?

    Soviets/GDR nicely reeducated nazis Russia can do it too




    DerWolf wrote:When ukr counter offensive is around the corner, it is the worst time this internal conflict could happen.


    the question is a conflict or the fog of war to provoke nazis ?


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    Post  JohninMK Fri May 05, 2023 4:05 pm

    GEROMAN -- time will tell - 👀 --
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    In total, according to him, temporary relocation of residents from 18 settlements will be organized:


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    Post  JohninMK Fri May 05, 2023 4:08 pm

    A (locally launched?) drone attack on a civilian plane at a civilian airport is an interesting poke at the bear. Could be non Russians on board, if so they should publish a passenger nationality list.

    If correct, it will be interesting to see Russia's response.

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    Post  Mir Fri May 05, 2023 4:35 pm

    JohninMK wrote:A (locally launched?) drone attack on a civilian plane at a civilian airport is an interesting poke at the bear. Could be non Russians on board, if so they should publish a passenger nationality list.

    If correct, it will be interesting to see Russia's response.

    404 is now a terrorist organization - it is no longer a sovereign state. It deserves to be wiped off the map. It was inevitable in any case.

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