Ukraine - somebody explain to me

[myboynoah]

When I was in BYU's MBA program, we were put in teams our first year, and these teams were across all classes. We had four people on our team, including one Estonian woman, who, to be frank, was a disaster. She was not smart, she was argumentative, and she was very dismissive of everyone else. Her main strength was that she united the three of us in a tight bond of hatred toward her. This was strengthened when we somehow learned second year that she had received the highest grades of any of the four of us.

So I am afraid I am going to abstain from the Estonian love-fest going on in this thread.

Lithuania is cool, though.

Sounds like one of those Russian-Estonians.

[wuapinmon]

As an example, here's a reported PzH2000 being returned to Ukraine after repair in Lithuania.

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[wuapinmon]

When I was in BYU's MBA program, we were put in teams our first year, and these teams were across all classes. We had four people on our team, including one Estonian woman, who, to be frank, was a disaster. She was not smart, she was argumentative, and she was very dismissive of everyone else. Her main strength was that she united the three of us in a tight bond of hatred toward her. This was strengthened when we somehow learned second year that she had received the highest grades of any of the four of us.

So I am afraid I am going to abstain from the Estonian love-fest going on in this thread.

Lithuania is cool, though.

She was argumentative and dismissive of everyone else? Sounds like CEO material.

[wuapinmon]

This is from the Pro-Russian Telegram channel called Rybar. I find him to not be a vatnik, but an honest person who tries to call the game as he sees it, but still roots for the home team: (translation via Unigram)

Yes, time will tell, but my experience suggests that these personnel probably have nothing to do with the training of Ukrainian tank crews.

Most likely, tanks from the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team of the 1st Infantry Division of the US Army, which recently arrived in Europe under Operation Atlantic Resolve and now, according to tradition, are dispersing to different countries.

Since 2017, the Americans have often used the infrastructure of Novo-Selo to house their rotational units. It's just that over the past couple of years, the United States has not disclosed their locations in as much detail as before. Therefore, it is not always possible to immediately say who went / will go where.

Well, if I were the United States, I would train tank crews in Poland. And so, of course, anything can happen.

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[wuapinmon]

Fascinating footage (warning, shows potential Ukrainian casualties at a distance) of Russian suicide drone use against vehicles. Multiple instances are shown. Rumor is (on Rybar) that some of these are dummies, but I think the ones where you can see personnel fleeing before impact are likely to be real materiel.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFoota...ing_ukrainian/

[wuapinmon]

Here's an interesting video: https://t.me/killpukin/11363

Челябинск, братья отработали и вернулись домой. "Chelyabinsk, the brothers worked and returned home."

If accurate, these destroyed vehicles, since they aren't heaped atop one another, might be going for repair. The mentioned city is here, far from the border to Ukraine: https://goo.gl/maps/zavnBpL7FgP1FR4Q8

But, it appears to be a somewhat important production center for the Russian defense industry's "tractor" sector, which would include tracked vehicles (FYI: this link is dated May 1995).
https://nuke.fas.org/guide/russia/in...s95/c_list.htm

ENTERPRISE NAME: CHELYABINSK PLANT OF TECHNOLOGICAL EQUIPMENT

LAST UPDATE: September 1993

ALTERNATE NAMES: Chelyabinskiy zavod tekhnologicheskoy osnastki; Chelyabinsk Plant of Special Instruments and Technological Equipment

ADDRESS:

454012, Chelyabinsk, Russia

Kopeyskoye Shosse, 12

Chelyabinsk Plant of Technological Equipment

Telephone: (011-7-3512) 53-79-23; Telex: 124360 SHTAMP; Fax: N/A

GENERAL OVERVIEW: The Chelyabinsk Plant of Technological Equipment has been a subordinate branch of the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant Production Association since that association was founded in 1972. The plant supplies the Association's main production facility, the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant, with assemblies, parts, and components. The Tractor Plant makes tractors and agricultural machinery, and was also a major producer of tanks and armored vehicles.

If accurate, then Russia appears to have funds and tech available to reconfigure these vehicles for return to service. This is my own bit of investigating/intelligence, FWIW.

[wuapinmon]

You can buy the right to write whatever you want on Ukrainian shells. I don't know the link, but I've seen scores of these photos, none of them very humorous.

[wuapinmon]

https://www.reddit.com/r/RussiaUkrai..._destroyed_by/

Video of a Russian soldier fleeing from a drone, but turning his ankle and being unable to walk, mostly because he was running over irregular terrain while wearing Chuck Taylors. There is no attack made on him, despite the title.

[Goatnapper'96]

Here's an interesting video: https://t.me/killpukin/11363

Челябинск, братья отработали и вернулись домой. "Chelyabinsk, the brothers worked and returned home."

If accurate, these destroyed vehicles, since they aren't heaped atop one another, might be going for repair. The mentioned city is here, far from the border to Ukraine: https://goo.gl/maps/zavnBpL7FgP1FR4Q8

But, it appears to be a somewhat important production center for the Russian defense industry's "tractor" sector, which would include tracked vehicles (FYI: this link is dated May 1995).
https://nuke.fas.org/guide/russia/in...s95/c_list.htm


If accurate, then Russia appears to have funds and tech available to reconfigure these vehicles for return to service. This is my own bit of investigating/intelligence, FWIW.

I thought I saw them retrofitting T-62's en mass. I think the sanctions are preventing them from being able to retrofit their most modern equipment.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Russians are dumb. This Russian woman in Germany has been posting tik tok videos celebrating the killing of Ukrainian civilians. Turns out she owns a Russian restaurant in Berlin. I saw a link to the Instagram account for her restaurant the other day (can't find it right now). You can imagine how her reviews are going.

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[wuapinmon]

I thought I saw them retrofitting T-62's en mass. I think the sanctions are preventing them from being able to retrofit their most modern equipment.

Per Oryx, they make up an increasing amount of recent losses.
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[myboynoah]

Dang

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[wuapinmon]

I hadn't seen that tweet myboybnah. It's wonderful to see. It also seems that their economy is doing well, because I'm pretty sure that almost every insurance contract in the world has a carve-out for acts of war. That amount of widespread recovery shows that credit is flowing, despite the risks.

[wuapinmon]

Video of Kyivan police trying to shoot down a suicide drone. They were successful, but it crashes very close to them. (no casualties seen in the video)

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[wuapinmon]

Clear footage of an Iranian-made kamikaze drone hitting a building in Kyiv:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFoota...amikaze_drone/