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This is now the active "shit (might be) is definitely happening in Ukraine" thread.

News links, thanks to BerettaGuy:


Please @ me with additional stuff to be added here. I don't currently have time to properly curate this thread otherwise.

New news link c/o berettaguy:

Ukrainian Pravda
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/

Stop fake, anti - disinformation site:
https://www.stopfake.org/en/main/

Meanwhile, the very important flight RSD008 is flying from Moscow to New York pic.twitter.com/ok2UIqooLj

— ???????English (@TpyxaNews) September 20, 2022

Wonder if they will time threatening noises at the UN shortly after nasty noises on TV?

There is information that rallies have begun in Chechnya. People are protesting that Chechens are forced to fight for Russia against Ukraine pic.twitter.com/CaHNDlqpP9

— ???????English (@TpyxaNews) September 20, 2022

Think about how many cases of 7.62x54 and 5.45x39 are sitting in our houses in the US and how many are in Africa and other hotbeds
in the world. They have sold off a bunch of stuff since the collapse of the CCCP

I'm standing by to see RU human wave attacks armed with newly made PPSh subguns, riding on the backs of newly made T34/72 tanks with no radio, NV, thermal. And new missiles using vacuum tubes.

I think a lot of Russians grew up hearing about the Great Patriotic War and may get nostalgic. But I think most patriotic Russians are already in Ukraine (many burried).

Lol, not him. The guy kinda laying in the middle of the rubble. Look at his knees and ankles.

But how does a zerg rush save him?

Lets be realistic here.

How is their long range precision munitions situation looking?   They've been firing alot of shitty 1960s crap with accuracy measured in minute of village, lately.   What happened to all the Kalibers and Iskanders?

How does their air defense situation look?   Last I saw, they were gutting air defense from St. Petersburg to Syria to send it down to Ukraine.  With no sign that they have any real answer to the loss other than to hope the US stops supplying Ukraine with HARMs or runs out before they run out of radars.

They're going to equip these conscript hordes with T55s and T62s and do the whole "quantity has a quality all its own!" thing?  Ok.   How does that prevent Ukraine from hitting their command posts, muster points, ammo dumps, and train stations like they've been doing?

What's their countermeasure for HIMARS and other "long" (medium) range strikes that have put the Russians in this position in the first place?  

What's their plan for gaining air superiority?  Bear in mind, we're almost 7 months into this thing and Russia still hasn't gained air superiority.  They're still losing aircraft when they put it in a position remotely able to get shot down.   How is the "zerg rush" of conscripts with AKs and 60 year old tanks going to fix that?

Again... where's the artillery?   If they have scads of artillery tubes and ammo just lying around, why are they allowing their troops around Kherson to get pounded by Ukrainian artillery with little or no counter fire?

Perhaps most importantly, what's the west doing during this buildup to a "zerg rush"?   Do we imagine that these Russian conscripts can be mobilized and thrown into the fight without the US or Europe noticing or doing anything about it?  

What's Russia's plan to interdict the supplies and weapons coming across the Polish border?  Sit in the corner and fume impotently some more?   Maybe they can throw some long range precision missiles that way that they totally have tons of and aren't in any way running low on with little ability to replace them any time soon.

A "zerg rush" sounds like a great way to get a SHITLOAD of Russians killed for little or no purpose.   Thinking about it realistically and comparing it to the actual specific problems Russia faces in this war, I don't see how it will deliver them a win.

In this intercepted call, the Russian soldier in Kherson Oblast tells about a breakthrough and the order to stand the ground to the end. He mentions Bruskynske which may indicate the call is somewhat old. pic.twitter.com/CElOg7p7Pt

Dmitri  (@wartranslated) September 20, 2022

So technically, since they cant leave Russia, it will be illegal to enter Ukraine?

Problem solved?

I think a pertinent question to ask would be, "How much of their vaunted stockpiles of artillery rounds was made in this century?"

That's assuming that older material even works. I give that about a 5% chance.

https://www.newsweek.com/putin-ukraine-war-conflict-nato-referendums-donbas-1744586

Putin 'Going All In' to Turn Ukraine War Into Conflict With NATO, Ally Says

Vladimir Putin is going "all in" to turn the Ukraine war into a conflict with NATO, an ally of the Russian president said ahead of referendums later this month on joining Russia in four occupied regions.
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Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of RT, the state-controlled Russian media organization, made the remarks on her Facebook page. Meanwhile, two breakaway regions of Ukraine's eastern Donbas region—the Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics (DPR and LPR)—have announced plans to hold referendums on joining Russia.
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Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, said Tuesday on his Telegram channel that the results of the referendums will be irreversible.

"It is important that after amendments to the Constitution of our state, not a single future leader of Russia, not a single official will be able to reverse these decisions," Medvedev said.

The red and white cloth mark russian or LPR soldiers I believe

Zerg rushes need muster points, and muster points are (apparently) yummy targets.

I seem to recall multiple news stories about Russia forming combat units out of their training cadres.  

So who is going to train up all these little zerglings?

Are they going to pull combat vets off the line out of Kherson?  

Logistics... how is a Zerg rush going to fix the lack of last mile logistics that has hampered them from DAY 1 of this conflict?     If anything, a massive influx of conscripts will make their truck (and fork truck and fucking wooden pallet!) shortage even worse.

Last gasp effort to save credibility.

I can't see that the legs are tied together. Might be inadequate field tourniquets applied before his battle buddy took a round to the melon, and he blacked out and bled out.

Its the zap brannigan maneuver.   Send in wave after wave of their own men to soak up munitions until the Kill-bots, uh, I mean HIMARs reach their preset kill limits.

The "zerg rush"/total war thing has got to be a bluff meant to sway western opinion to opposing continued aid to Ukraine.   They simply cannot be this stupid.

If Putin wants to go all-in, he should launch some cruise missiles at Poland.  Poland would have Kalingrad wrapped up by Friday.

Interesting footage of a Russian tank in Kherson Oblast struck by what seems to be a Ukrainian DM22 PARM HEAT off-route mine.#Russia #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/oVOlNiFDAz

— BlueSauron\uD83D\uDC41? (@Blue_Sauron) September 20, 2022

*Konigsberg

Poland would come up with a more Polish name - wanting nothing to do with either German or Russian prior tenancy there.

This is an interesting video from a few days ago, interviewing territorial militia (I don't think they even qualify as TDF), in which they complain (a little bit, and with plenty of justification) about how little they are paid by the state, and how upset they were with police and government forces who fled the city in the early days of the Russian invasion...only for them to return and be granted medals and much higher salaries than the "average Joes" who stayed behind.

Some of these average Joes broke into state armories and took weapons in order to fight the Russians, and now some are facing criminal prosecution for stealing state property!!

Government is apparently the same everywhere: "Follow the laws we set for you, even while we sometimes ignore them, and don't make us look bad"!



These guys are from Sumy. That area has gotten quieter now, but you guys remember in Feb and March when the "Sumy Axis" was the hot news item, right?

What if this referendum talk is strictly for the domestic audience? "We promised them we would kick out the Ukrainian nazi's so they can have a referendum. We did both, now we can go home to celebrate our victory".

I doubt it but fingers are crossed.

I don't see how that would have a snowball's chance in hell of working in Russia's favor unless they want a couple of hundred thousand Russian corpses fertilizing the Ukrainian countryside.  Reference Japanese banzai attacks against US forces in the South Pacific.

Yeah I'm just kidding, just anything but Kaliningrad.

You saved me a lot of writing, but some people won't be convinced by anything.

Russia has proven to be a hollow shell of itself - most of the money has been stolen and used to purchase yachts and foreign property (bolt-holes and mistress nests) in foreign countries. Just like in the USSR days, the entire system is built on stealing and lying to your superiors, all while you secretly find a way to LEAVE, either temporarily or permanently.

Meanwhile Ukraine gets stronger by the day. The only way the West and Ukraine can lose is if we are stupid enough to believe their propaganda, or be cowed by their threats.

They can argue with the Lithuanians about what to call it when they’re celebrating at the Lithuanian border with their new neighbors.

This seems really short sighted of Putin.
I mean, we have all heard the calls the soldiers make to their wives.
They are some cold bitches, they might make good soldiers.

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