Ukraine - somebody explain to me

[wuapinmon]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/05/iran-says-it-supplied-drones-to-russia-before-ukraine-war-began

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https://t.me/aleksandr_skif/2472

Telegram channel claiming to be that of Pro-Russian Vostok battalion commander Aleksandr Khodakovsky. That post, translated, says:

(My emphasis and colorization)

After the Mariupol operation, we considered that we suffered most of the losses from friendly fire. Someone even called the figure - sixty percent. This is an ordinary phenomenon, but its spread depends, of course, on the competence of commanders - especially artillerymen.

We are completing the task, when suddenly mines began to fall on our heads from the rear. Who? Where? Raise the copter, find a mortar battery, rush there...
- Who are these guys!?
- The Ministry of Battalion of such and such a regiment from Russia.
- Why are you hitting on us?
- We are not for you - for a point on the map. We've been assigned a task, and we're doing it.
- So no one corrects you, you shoot at the map the old fashioned way ...
- Well, so...

[Bo Diddley]

Haha. I think something is lost in translation here.

Why are you hitting on us?

[Copelius]

I don't know much about the current Russian artillery order of battle (my time as an artillery S2 was over 20 years ago), but that battalion commander needs to check his own people, who are likely giving the points on the map to the artillery guns. Bad data from the forward troops leads to bad targeting by the guns.

[wuapinmon]

This is the kind of thing that demonstrates their will to fight.

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[wuapinmon]

I don't know much about the Russian artillery order of battle, but that battalion commander needs to check his own people, who are likely giving the points on the map to the artillery guns. Bad data from the forward troops leads to bad targeting by the guns.

I don't know the intimate details of how command works, but lots of people have noted the dearth of non-commissioned officers in the Russia Army, and how troops are unable to make decisions in the field because their officers are usually not with them, but give them a command and either go elsewhere or go in a command vehicle or Lt. Dyke it back to HQ.

Haha. I think something is lost in translation here.

Well, there are more than a few drone videos of Russian soldiers copulating with one another or with livestock, so maybe both?

[wuapinmon]

Russia is really trying to hit infrastructure hard tonight. Look at all of those Air Raid warnings and Air Defense blue icons. Let's hope that the air defense works with absolute efficiency. Their electrical grid is hurting. Their rail system has also been targeted lately, prompting Zelensky to praise the railroad workers in one of his nightly addresses.

Air raids Ukraine 11-5-22.JPG

[wuapinmon]

Is my curating still interesting to everyone? I sometimes wonder if I post too often, or if what's interesting to me is interesting in general. Give me some feedback, if yall would.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Is my curating still interesting to everyone? I sometimes wonder if I post too often, or if what's interesting to me is interesting in general. Give me some feedback, if yall would.

yes! keep it up.

[wuapinmon]

(Sort of NSFW due to a disguised sex toy) Ukrainian channels are having a field day with this Russian going around with a bow and arrow: https://t.me/operativnoZSU/53950

The "anal plug" fox tail is making the rounds.

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[Bo Diddley]

Is my curating still interesting to everyone? I sometimes wonder if I post too often, or if what's interesting to me is interesting in general. Give me some feedback, if yall would.

I like it, but then I've been devouring info from the war from the beginning. Don't feel obligated though if it's cumbersome. I feel a little lazy leeching off you. I do skip anything with gore, and probably most with active violence.

[wuapinmon]

I like it, but then I've been devouring info from the war from the beginning. Don't feel obligated though if it's cumbersome. I feel a little lazy leeching off you. I do skip anything with gore, and probably most with active violence.

I've been devouring stuff since late January. As I'm "retired" now, I've got time, and my back's as crooked as Mitch McConnell, so the sedentary life suits me, and I'm fascinated with the inspiring leadership of Zelensky in the face of naked aggression and genocide.

I am starting physical therapy on Friday, so we'll see how it goes. I want to get back in the pool after a five-year absence. For the physicians and bodily-injury attorneys, here's what I'm facing. back pain physical therapy.JPG

[wuapinmon]

Does anyone know what this dish is called? It looks like some kind of split barley, maybe. I'd like to try and make it for my Ukrainian student and his family:

https://t.me/operativnoZSU/53970