Kiev Is Burning

[Strannik]

2 hours ago, glenn239 said:

I've seen reports that the Russians find the Rupee of limited use, but I've seen nothing anywhere that suggests anything along the lines as that holding Yuan is not valuable to Russia?

 

Rus/China trade is making new records every quarter. Garbage info brought here by a hopeful Russaphobe

[Strannik]

10 minutes ago, Josh said:

 On that note I’ll just drop this; we are talking past each other.

 

If only we could've connected you two to an electric generator before the start of this conversation 🤣

Edited December 2, 2023 by Strannik

[Roman Alymov]

6 minutes ago, Strannik said:

Rus/China trade is making new records every quarter. Garbage info brought here by a hopeful Russaphobe

  It is not exactly "hopeful Russaphobe" but just lack of understanding of Russia dealing with long-established status of de-facto colony of West: our liberal economists are so used to getting USD/EUR in exchange for natural resoiurces and then stockpiling this pseudo-money in Western institutions (de-facto exchanging natural resources for Western debt, the same as giving away resources for free) - that now they do not know what to do with Rupee. They can't even steal it and use for buying more palaces in London.  The idea of using this Rupee to buy somethig useful for population - from tea to Indian textile to hand tools (significant part of handtools of medium segment are produced in India) is strange for them. Luckily, somebody have finally discovered the idea to buy ships in India - well, that is reasonable (Russian shipyards are overloaded), but still too little.

[crazyinsane105]

 

Modernized AK-12 review. Overall it is a pretty good rifle

[Stuart Galbraith]

14 hours ago, seahawk said:

Russia to add 170.000 troops in response to NATO aggression, Hopefully only a first step and Russia will soon have 2.000.000 soldiers under arms.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/vladimir-putin-to-increase-russian-troop-numbers-by-170-000-in-response-to-expansion-of-nato/ar-AA1kTdGy

Great idea. What are they arming them with, M1891's or PPSH?

[Stuart Galbraith]

14 hours ago, Josh said:

HIMARS was quite decisive. I don’t think it would be over hyped to say it had a strategic level effect - I don’t think either the Kharkiv or Kherson offensives could have occurred without them. I think the USAF would bring a lot more volume and a much deeper reach than a couple dozen artillery systems.

 

Su-57 is currently outnumbered nearly 100:1 by NATO fifth generation aircraft and there is little prospect of that situation improving. If they want to try to fly clear across Poland of Scandinavia, that will save NATO some time and trouble finding them on their side of the border.

 

Ok, when the S70 enters full rate production, you have your long range stealth UAV. I think you’ll be waiting awhile.

 

If the MiGs loiter around running a racetrack like they likely are now, yeah I think they will be fired upon before they know they are even being tracked. If they race in and out again, I expect they can survive a lot longer, but they aren’t going to be providing a persistent CAP or significantly expanding ground based radar coverage.

 

I think NATO airpower can destroy Russian logistics pretty easily. Actually bombing troops probably wouldn’t have to happen on a particularly large scale. The goal isn’t to invade Russia, the goal is to put them on there side of the border and keep them there.

 

Ah, I think this conversation is a big misunderstanding. I am discussing a hypothetical Russia-NATO conflict post Ukraine war involving Russia invading a NATO country. I don’t believe NATO will take any military action against Russia under any other circumstances. That is the only scenario I am discussing; NATO is never going to try to dislodge Russia from Ukraine. On that note I’ll just drop this; we are talking past each other.

 

You werent. I got that was exactly what you meant from your first post. If he didnt get it, its because he is in arch contrarian mode again.

[mkenny]

54 minutes ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Great idea. What are they arming them with, M1891's or PPSH?

No need for fancy high-tech war-winning game-changing western wunder-waffen. Thye can just issue them the same shovels used to destroy the Ukranian  summer  offensive.

[ink]

6 hours ago, crazyinsane105 said:

 

Modernized AK-12 review. Overall it is a pretty good rifle

Was going to say that it's not really a rifle war, this one, but then I remembered all those drone videos of trench warfare Roman keeps posting.

[Gavin-Phillips]

It might not be "new news" but this appeared on my Youtube feed this morning; newly formed Russian 104th Airborne Division has been deployed into frontline Ukraine.  Obviously there is the issue of training being mentioned and how effective this new formation might be when they see actual combat.  I personally will be intrigued in what equipment they will end up using as perhaps the BMD-series has had its day with the VDV now having organic tank support?  So they'll probably be replaced with BMP's instead.

Deep Weapons channel; newly formed 104th Airborne

I've also heard a Ukrainian claim of a world-beating sniper engagement at 3.2km using some kind of hybrid 12.7mm round inserted into a 14.5mm casing?  Regardless of what kind of rifle was used, that's some extreme distance whichever way you look at it.

Edited December 3, 2023 by Gavin-Phillips
Adding a bit of detail and spelling!

[Roman Alymov]

Field mouse problem (result of combination of harvest left on fields, soft previous winter and expected cold winter this year) is not only causing additional hardship on soldiers in trenches (both sides), but even on armor

https://t.me/c/1771711124/2066

[Roman Alymov]

Pro-Rus video of two Chineese Desertcross 1000-3 ATVs destroyed by IEDs dropped from converted agricultural drones, somewhere near Krynki. Probably first video of this vehicles lost

https://t.me/c/1771711124/2072

[Roman Alymov]

Compilation of pro-Ukr videos of the same M109 SPG before and after Lancet strike, including inside view https://t.me/milinfolive/111902

[Roman Alymov]

Not about current events, but about rutes of them - from historial A.Dukov

"At the first All-Union Agricultural Exhibition in 1939, there were pavilions of all the Union republics, except one. Guess which one?

Yes, that's right. The RSFSR was not awarded a pavilion, instead the pavilions of the macro-regions within the RSFSR were made + separately the pavilions of the Tatar and Bashkir ASSR, which a few years earlier had sought the status of union republics. A kind of consolation prize.

At the second VSHV (1949-1954), the pavilion of the RSFSR appeared, but the largest pavilion was not the pavilion of the RSFSR, but the pavilion of the Ukrainian SSR, launched in 1954. By the way, it was placed exactly opposite the main building, making the second architectural dominant of the exhibition. The answer to the question of which republic is the main one in the Union, thus, was given quite clearly.

I have already written why this is so. (https://t.me/historiographe/7991)"

"They ask why all the second secretaries in the Communist Party of Ukraine were their own, (https://t.me/historiographe/7989 ) and not representatives of the Center.

This is also why the second secretaries of the Communist Party of Ukraine (the only ones from all the Republican parties) were members of the Central Committee of the CPSU.

The same reason why the Communist Party of Ukraine (the only one of all the Republican parties) had its own Politburo.

The Communist Party of Ukraine was the first among the republican parties (since there is no party in the RSFSR), the most powerful, numerous and aware of its corporate interests,

Accordingly, the Center should be considered first of all with her. And this is also why there is such a significant presence of people from the Communist Party of Ukraine in the party <leadership>.

The CPU has the best lobbying opportunities.

The remaining 14 Republican parties have weaker lobbying opportunities, but good ones.

The "capital" regional committees of the RSFSR - Moscow and Leningrad - have lobbying opportunities as republics, and more than many.

The rest of the regional committees of the RSFSR have a residual principle, but the regional committees of the A(utonomous)SSR have a little more than the regional committees of simple regions (thanks to representation in the Council of Nationalities).

That's was the system."

"Why was it possible to transfer Crimea from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian SSR, but not to transfer the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region from the Azerbaijani SSR to the Armenian SSR?

Because the issue of the transfer of Crimea was decided between the Politburo and the leadership of the Communist Party of Ukraine, and the issue of the NKAO was decided between the Politburo, the leadership of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan and the leadership of the Communist Party of Armenia. And therefore, the leadership of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan, with its objections, invariably blocked the transfer of its territories to its neighbor, and there was no one to block the transfer of Crimea - the Communist Party of the RSFSR did not existed.

And here we should think about the fact that in 1990, the Gorbachev-Lukyanov plan for the dismemberment of the RSFSR appeared by raising the status of ethnoautonomies to union ones, and then, despite the efforts of the Center, the Communist Party of the RSFSR was created."

[Roman Alymov]

"Archive footage (https://t.me/zogrussia1 ) dated March 21 of this year, which were filmed on the northern flank of Bakhmut, during the ongoing "Bakhmut meat grinder" at that time.

In the first video, a column of the Armed Forces of Ukraine consisting of one tank and three jeeps is moving towards the positions of the Wagner PMCs. After making only one shot, the Ukrainian tank immediately receives a return shot from the RPG-30 "Hook" and flashes like candle.

In the second video, MTLB speed up to the Wagner positions and takes away WIAs from the position. The AFU tank is still burning in the background.

Video number three shows the same road along which the AFU launched another attack on the PMCs positions, but the artillery of the "Orchestra" thwarted the attempt."

https://t.me/c/1771711124/2074

[crazyinsane105]

7 hours ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Great idea. What are they arming them with, M1891's or PPSH?

They have plenty of AKs..I don’t think arming them is the issue. 
 

Issue is that Russian Armed Forces is simply too damn small to be able to effectively fight in Ukraine. This recent increase is literally a drop in the bucket in terms of what Russia actually needs

[BansheeOne]

On 11/23/2023 at 1:05 PM, mandeb48 said:

M2 for Kubinka :

https://t.me/lost_armour/1862

I remain dubious based just upon the usual "sneak into no-ones land and pose with an abandoned AFV" pictures, but Oryx agrees it was captured; of course they have been accused of low standards of proof for losses themselves. Anyway, if correct that would make the third high-profile Western vehicle captured by Russia after one each AMX-10 RC and CV9040.

[Dark_Falcon]

3 hours ago, Roman Alymov said:

Field mouse problem (result of combination of harvest left on fields, soft previous winter and expected cold winter this year) is not only causing additional hardship on soldiers in trenches (both sides), but even on armor

https://t.me/c/1771711124/2066

Larger cat deployments are needed.

[Dark_Falcon]

Perun's video this week covers a topic we've all been talking about here.  All opinions welcome but please remember his views are not necessarily my own.

 

 

[Roman Alymov]

12 minutes ago, Dark_Falcon said:

Larger cat deployments are needed.

Cats can't help - they are physically unable to eat (or even just catch) such number of mice

 

 

[Dark_Falcon]

27 minutes ago, Roman Alymov said:

Cats can't help - they are physically unable to eat (or even just catch) such number of mice

 

 

Then mobilize the Duma and the Rada; weasels are better able to chase mice into their holes.

[RETAC21]

32 minutes ago, Roman Alymov said:

Cats can't help - they are physically unable to eat (or even just catch) such number of mice

 

 

mice are scared away by the smell of cat piss, rather than the cat hunting them

[TonyE]

1 hour ago, Roman Alymov said:

Cats can't help - they are physically unable to eat (or even just catch) such number of mice

 

 

Damn, snakes aswell?😮

[crazyinsane105]

17 minutes ago, TonyE said:

Damn, snakes aswell?😮

Given that this is an infestation due to crops not being harvested on time, a few snakes won’t do much to change the tide…

[TonyE]

13 hours ago, BansheeOne said:

I remain dubious based just upon the usual "sneak into no-ones land and pose with an abandoned AFV" pictures, but Oryx agrees it was captured; of course they have been accused of low standards of proof for losses themselves. Anyway, if correct that would make the third high-profile Western vehicle captured by Russia after one each AMX-10 RC and CV9040.

Oryx and standards is.......well.......😉

There was a new picture of the same vehicle being towed which propably confirms it:

[Stuart Galbraith]

16 hours ago, crazyinsane105 said:

They have plenty of AKs..I don’t think arming them is the issue. 
 

Issue is that Russian Armed Forces is simply too damn small to be able to effectively fight in Ukraine. This recent increase is literally a drop in the bucket in terms of what Russia actually needs

Alright, lets look at it another way. What use is yet more light infantry, without more supporting arms? Very little. They cant advance, and are still soft and squidgy when it comes to cluster rounds.

If they had any smarts, they would employ the extra guys on logistic work, and impress civilian lorries. But of course, they wont. Because that would mean its going to start impacting the rest of the country, which endangers the regime. But some poor working class plebs dying in trenches? Ah, who really gaf?