Russian Invasion of Ukraine
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To participate in presidential elections you need to collect 300/100k signatures of different people from, at least, 40 Russian regions. 300k if you independent, 100k if you representing registered party.
55/100 gathered.
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80/100. In fact, 90+, but you can use only 2500 from one region and Moscow/Saint Petersburg already triple that. Also, 40 mils рублей crowdfunded in 22 days, average transaction is ~2000р. According to Katz(he organised dozens municipal level campaigns), its first campaign in Russian history in which people coming to signature collector office , not visa versa.
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A transport airplane crashed in Belgorod region, Russia. No survivors.
"Russian Ministry of Defense says 65 Ukrainian POWs were on board of crashed Il-76, also 6 crew members and 3 attendants."
One video filming the plane crashing shows a puff of smoke in the sky.
"Russian Ministry of Defense says 65 Ukrainian POWs were on board of crashed Il-76, also 6 crew members and 3 attendants."
One video filming the plane crashing shows a puff of smoke in the sky.
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Don't know why the airplane was flying away from the Ukrainian border. The distance to the border is 60 km to the south and 150 km to the west.
Russia says that there was a second airplane with 80 POWs that was turned around and there will be no prisoner exchange.
(EDIT: Never mind, the next day they said that the exchanges will still be happening)
EDIT: Russia says that Ukrainian missiles were launched from Lyptsi. That's only 10 km from border and 100 km to the crash site.
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It is possible that S300 were onboard...Russia is said to be relocating some from the frontlines back up to St. Petersburg after the drone attack there.
Ukraine's tactics of long-range attacks make sense when you consider that they are forcing Russia to spread their defence forces thinner across more territory. The goal is likely to soften the frontline.
More NATO countries getting serious about defense. Norway this time saying they've got a window of up to 3 years to increase defense spending and prepare for possible war with Russia.
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Or they probably unloaded the cargo (S300) and were heading back. The fireball looked really big, like it had full fuel tanks.
There's a video that shows some wreckage. There are two bodies on the ground. It seems that it is the nose of the plane that broke off.
Someone compared the POW list that was shown by Simonyan to the list of POW exchanged on 3rd of January. 17 names are from the old list.
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Ukraine says the downed plane was Russian, they don't know who or how many people were on it, and that the Russian plane's flight plan was not was not sent to Ukraine or approved ahead of time. They do not seem to admit to shooting it down. The Ukrainian plane full of Russian prisoners arrived in Russia safely. Ukraine seems to think that Russia failed to follow normal protocols which resulted in the cargo plane becoming a free target rather than a protected flight.
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A Bradley (apparently two of them but only one shooting) disabling a T-90 with glorious visual effects. God bless depleted uranium.
A close-up of the impacts can be seen at that link. Incredible.
Supposedly, the US doesn't even train Bradley crews to attack tanks with the gun. They're supposed to use TOW missiles. But in this situation, perhaps they were at too close of range to use TOW so the gun was the next best option and it worked perfectly.
The US is about to begin producing a brand new medium tank called the Booker which I'm sure Ukraine and others will be interested in buying in the future. It's almost half the weight of an Abrams, 40 tons, two of them can fit into a C-17 with no modification unlike the Abrams, diesel powered, nearly as maneuverable as a Bradley but packing a 105mm gun.
A close-up of the impacts can be seen at that link. Incredible.
Supposedly, the US doesn't even train Bradley crews to attack tanks with the gun. They're supposed to use TOW missiles. But in this situation, perhaps they were at too close of range to use TOW so the gun was the next best option and it worked perfectly.
The US is about to begin producing a brand new medium tank called the Booker which I'm sure Ukraine and others will be interested in buying in the future. It's almost half the weight of an Abrams, 40 tons, two of them can fit into a C-17 with no modification unlike the Abrams, diesel powered, nearly as maneuverable as a Bradley but packing a 105mm gun.
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They were so close that the gun could probably be aimed at weakspots on the tank like viewports and sensors. With the gun constantly firing, the tank probably couldn't see what was happening and would be suppressed. I'm not sure if that's the entirety of their motivation, but it definitely seems like the impacts on the tank would be very disorienting.
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The M242 doesn't have the ability to penetrate tank armor, unless it's shooting at an area where the armor is very thin. This is why the Bradley carries TOW. The engagement is a good example of what's called a mission kill, destroy the enemy's ability to fight without actually dealing fatal damage.
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