Ukraine
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@taniwharugby said in Ukraine:
so is Finland and NATO basically waving a red flag at Russia?
Sweden also
It's bloody interesting. Wonder if they feel like with Russia so immersed in Ukraine there will never be a better time?
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Massive own goal from Vlad the Bad. Finland have been wary of offending Russia and Sweden have been neutral since the Napoleanic Wars - when they lost Finland to Russia.
Finns have a modern, well equipped army and can mobilise hundreds of thousands trained in arctic warfare.
Meanwhile Putin's Ukraine misadventure has him cast as the big bad wolf faced with the brick house. All huff. No puff.
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I have to say it must be awful being a Russian Tank Crew member in Ukraine, you can literally be hit by invisible enemies from the sky and hidden in trees and buildings. I can see why morale might be low, no fucken way I would be volunteering for that shit.
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@antipodean Jesus Christ that host is a scary bitch, she truly believes the West wants to destroy Russia and they started the special operation. That old Colonel can't be alone in his thoughts, he has figured it out so there must be plenty of others. I wonder if the Russian soldiers themselves know what is going on and you wonder how their morale/professionalism is going.
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@chimoaus I think some of their new US artillery got in on the party. A big concentration of Russians waiting by the riverside? Let's give some of the new systems a hoon aye!
I mentioned it earlier in the thread but the way they are calling in strikes via Skylink and using drones is super effective. As they get more advanced gear they'll be able to ramp things up further. Pushing the Russians back to the border, even just a small part, must have been a massive morale boost.
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@Rapido Any idea how they destroyed all those tanks? Was it all via drones/artillery. That is some fucken accurate targeting. Or was it people on the ground? Just seems a very effective operation whatever they did.
A Ukrainian combat engineer was boasting on twitter a few days ago about how he masterminded it.
Dont know if he is legit.
Seems there is no such things as "loose lips, sink ships" anymore.
But was an interesting read. Basically pre-scouted the likely position, and then called in artillery strike on that pre-planned position based on sound of the assembly/engineer boat.
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@Rapido Any idea how they destroyed all those tanks? Was it all via drones/artillery. That is some fucken accurate targeting. Or was it people on the ground? Just seems a very effective operation whatever they did.
A Ukrainian combat engineer was boasting on twitter a few days ago about how he masterminded it.
Dont know if he is legit.
Seems there is no such things as "loose lips, sink ships" anymore.
But was an interesting read.
Evidently while most of the vehicles in the picture are Russian there are also some Ukrainian BMP-1s which were destroyed when the Russians made the initial assault/crossing.
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