Ukraine War. 2022-

Sounds a bit like a Shadowrun plot
However, I am sure that Papperger is NOT a dragon.... yet

 

What incident is shown here?

 

Today in Kremennaya (Кременна). Significantly, through drone-guided arty
I like the subtle irony behind it

 

[ Bakhmut Offensive ] Bigger & more aggressive pincer developing ard Bakhmut City | Updated Analysis - YouTube

Defense Politics Asia

 

From the (USA) War on the Rocks a free podcast (35m):

Link: Unfolding Offensives and Counter-Offensives in Ukraine - War on the Rocks

A curious (USA) NPR report, a multi-edged weapon - Water.
Link: Russia is draining a massive Ukrainian reservoir, endangering a nuclear plant

 

estimated RuAF tank losses

estimated UAF tank losses

 

Today I watched a video of a wounded Russian soldier drown in 2 feet of water. My heart broke for him and the family he left behind as he thrashed around for life - his death throes now providing entertainment for countless anti Russian zealots online.

What a tragedy this whole mess is.

 

I know the video - and far worse.
In fact, the only thing that surpasses the cruelty of such images is the complete lack of empathy in the comments.
Which, by the way, applies to both sides....
It has its advantages to be on the better side of the screen: Most of those who celebrate something like this would
certainly be massively traumatised if they had to experience it in real life.

 

The lack of empathy is disturbing to say the least. And you are quite correct, those who spend their afternoon casually engaged in misery tourism online, would be absolutely traumatised if they had to experience it in reality.

I hope the families of these men are able to find some kind of peace, regardless of which flag they fought under.

 

A former US Army commander in NATO in a TV interview with a Ukrainian station assesses the situation (41m):

Link:

 

Couldn't agree more, when you consider also a lot of the russian troops are forced conscripts who don't want to be there. Although Russia is the aggressor and I'd like to see them pushed back by the UA seeing videos of RA troops being killed by drones dropping bombs in their trenches while their superiors are back in Moscow drinking their vodka is not something I take pleasure in seeing.
The amount of lives lost in this conflict and a country brought to ruin because of a certain person's political ambitions is as you say a tragedy.

 

I heard China is sending 99 Luftballons to the USA.

All the best

Andreas

 

It seems that Russian women cannot fly any better than Russian men:

The Western Military District Financial Department head Marina Yarinka reportedly fell out of a window and died on February 16. A prominent Russian milblogger amplified claims that Yarinka’s mysterious death could be related to an April 2022 report that supposedly alleged that unspecified actors stole 70 percent of the funds allocated for the modernization of air and missile defense near St. Petersburg.
Source: Institute for the Study of War

Note: her surname was actually Yankina, not Yarinka as quoted.

 

Crikey the body language for the enforced audience was interesting and not much of audience chatter for fear of lip readers.
Deluded putin beyond all doubt

Massive casualties on both sides whole families and cities destroyed
No end in sight

 

1. https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-02-17-expert-comment-russian-war-against-ukraine-retrospect-and-prospect By Dr Rob Johnson, an Oxford University academic on secondment to the UK MoD

2. Small, bloody skirmish dissected: May the farce be with you: the assault on Vodyane village »

3. Logistics and I cite the last Tweet: 'The failure of Western Intelligence to pick up the lack of Russian mechanized logistics is a "Worse than Pearl Harbor" class intelligence screw up it will take decades to unscrew.' See: Thread by @TrentTelenko on Thread Reader App

I sent this to an American friend immersed in logistics and they just responded: