Ukraine - somebody explain to me

[wuapinmon]

Ukrainian civilians attempting to shoot drone suicide drones from their apartment windows.
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[wuapinmon]

https://t.me/sprava_groma/5859

Reportedly video of apartment building that suffered a plane crash. Ukrainian air defense says they shot down either an Su-24 or some kind of training plane, the pilot ejected, and the plane struck this residential building. As you can see, the fire is consuming multiple floors of the structure.

UPDATE: This crash is reportedly in Russia, not Ukraine as first reported: https://liveuamap.com/en/2022/17-oct...eysk-krasnodar

[wuapinmon]

WARNING: SOMEONE LIKELY DIES IN THIS VIDEO!

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarR...rew_came_back/

Absolutely gruesome video of Ukrainians reportedly targeting a Russian crewman of a T-80BV tank. The second grenade likely doesn't elicit a flinch because the first one hit right beside his head as he was descending from the vehicle. I'm reminded of Franz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth when I consider how these drone operators must spend hours each day hunting people at a distance and then go home at night and interact with their wives and children. The psychological costs must be enormous, even with the just cause of this war and defending one's homeland.

[wuapinmon]

Rybar's update for this evening:

[wuapinmon]

His description of the above map, auto-translated using Unigram:

❗️️???????????????? The situation in the Nikolaev-Berislav direction
as of 18.00 October 17, 2022

????In the Posad-Pokrovsky section, artillery crews of the 59th separate motorized infantry brigade are firing indiscriminately at the Ternovy Pod area.

The 3rd battalion of the 28th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was transferred to the Ukrainka region. Previously, the personnel of the unit performed tasks on the Andreevsky sector of the front.

▪️After arriving, the Ukrainian formations equipped a forward command post and replaced the forces of the 59th brigade at the turn of the Stepovaya Dolina - Posad-Pokrovskoye. At the forefront, ATGM and MANPADS crews were installed.

????Six units of military equipment were transferred to the Snigirevsky sector in the vicinity of Kiselevka to reinforce the 105th battalion of the 63rd OMB of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

????On the Andreevsky sector, the Ukrainian command is restoring the combat capability of the units. Over the past 24 hours, 36 units of equipment were transferred to the left bank through the established crossings over the Ingulets, and 30 units were transferred to Bereznegovatoe for restoration.

▪️A reactive battery of the 57th motorized infantry brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is firing at Russian strongholds at the Kostromka-Bruskinskoye-Ischenko line.

????At the Berislav sector, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are evacuating the wounded and the bodies of the dead during the offensive of the 60th Infantry Brigade. The confirmed losses amounted to 70 irretrievable and sanitary people, excluding the missing.

▪️In the area of Novaya Kamenka, the calculation of the "roaming" mortar fires at the positions of the RF Armed Forces in Pyatikhatki. And in Petropavlovka there is a battery of self-propelled guns of the brigade artillery group of the 60th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

A platoon of a battalion of the 60th brigade was transferred from Potemkino to Novaya Kamenka to replenish the 98th battalion, and combined assault groups of the 128th Guards Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were formed in the Gavrilovka area.

[myboynoah]

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.

Good point. wap. I'd thought this level of reconstruction wouldn't happen until the ceasing of hostilities. But maybe folks around Kyiv are/were feeling more secure. But that seems a bit premature as of late.

Sometimes I have a difficult time containing my anger when I see these terrorist tactics by the Russians. That is followed by sadness. Then more anger.

[wuapinmon]

The precision of whatever strikes this T-72 is pretty amazing: https://t.me/supernova_plus/13196

[wuapinmon]

I can't find a reliable source, but the rumor on Telegram this morning (in translated comments, mind you) is that the reported shooting at a conscript training ground in Belgorod, Russia last week was because some ethnic minorities got tired of Russians mocking them and just straight-up killed them, saying that jail was preferable to war.

[wuapinmon]

Good point. wap. I'd thought this level of reconstruction wouldn't happen until the ceasing of hostilities. But maybe folks around Kyiv are/were feeling more secure. But that seems a bit premature as of late.

Sometimes I have a difficult time containing my anger when I see these terrorist tactics by the Russians. That is followed by sadness. Then more anger.

Speak of the devil!

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[wuapinmon]

Russian anti-drone sniper getting bombed by a drone: (people are wounded in the video off camera and walk away limping)
https://t.me/supernova_plus/13216

[wuapinmon]

EDIT: Fixed country mistake:

Unsurprisingly, Ukraine breaks diplomatic ties with Iran over supplying them with suicide drones. Ukraine claims to shoot down roughly 70% of these "mopeds" as they derisively call them.

https://censor.net/en/news/3374601/u...th_iran_kuleba

[wuapinmon]

Amazingly clear video that claims to show the destruction of a Russian Kalibr cruise missile in the air. https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFoota...les_shot_down/

[wuapinmon]

And, BOOM! goes the dynamite. (no humans seen in video)
https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFoota...ing_a_russian/

[Clark Addison]

Unsurprisingly, Ukraine breaks diplomatic ties with Russia over supplying them with suicide drones. Ukraine claims to shoot down roughly 70% of these "mopeds" as they derisively call them.

https://censor.net/en/news/3374601/u...th_iran_kuleba

tbh it's kinda weird that it was the drones that were the final straw

[BigFatMeanie]

tbh it's kinda weird that it was the drones that were the final straw

I think Wuap meant to say Ukraine breaks off ties with Iran.