Russian Invasion of Ukraine

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Boris Nadezdin HQ in Moscow. I was in local HQ in my city today - same thing. 40k signatures out of 100.000 already collected, 5 days to go.

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Signatures for what?
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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55/100 gathered.
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.

Main points of Nadezdin presidential program:
  • Reform of election process
  • Reform of Judicial system
  • Federalisation
  • No conscription
  • Mobilization will be over next day he will be elected, all political prisoners will be free to go(both Navalniy and Strelkov-Girkin)
  • Peace talk with Ukraine
  • Crimea, Kherson, Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye are parts of RF, according to Constitution
 
If there's no more mobilisation, they'll run out of troops real fast and Ukraine can reclaim the territories. And then join NATO and have a demilitarised zone stretching 100 kilometres into Russia.
 
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.
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Ukrainian pravda said that it was Ukrainian operation and S300 were on board. My guess is its friendly fire.
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)

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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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Ukrainian pravda said that it was Ukrainian operation and S300 were on board. My guess is its friendly fire.
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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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.

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EDIT: Russia says that Ukrainian missiles were launched from Lyptsi. That's only 10 km from border and 100 km to the crash site.
Either its destination was to the north, or it turned away to try to avoid the missile. If the missile was launched from a distance of 100 km, it would give the crew around one minute to manoeuvre, provided that they were notified of the launch.
 
Either its destination was to the north, or it turned away to try to avoid the missile. If the missile was launched from a distance of 100 km, it would give the crew around one minute to manoeuvre, provided that they were notified of the launch.
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.
 
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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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.
Which is totally believable; Russia "repatriating" POWs in an aerial coffin with bullseyes on it.
 
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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.


I bet this war will be over by then but they want to spread fear because most likely these maggots are heavily invested in the war industry. If war wasn't profitable it wouldn't even exist let alone on this scale.
 
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And it seems that a thermal power plant in Moscow decided it was enough for the day. Or Ivan has been smoking again.
 
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.
 
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Hungary got strong-armed by the EU into cooperating. This is a compromise but it'll do for now.
 
Orban is a first-class 🤬. Hungary should be suspended from the EU until he's out of office.
 
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.
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.
 
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.

This looks like a boss battle where the opponent has a health bar and you just have to hit it enough times to deplete it.
 
This looks like a boss battle where the opponent has a health bar and you just have to hit it enough times to deplete it.
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.
 
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.
There has to be some sort of brightly colored/glowing spot that conveniently opens up when the tank weapon is cooling down or something. I've fought enough bosses in video games to know this.
 
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