Exactly. Why take the chance kicking them when you can rig a vehicle to sweep them for you? And release the video on April Fool’s Day?
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That would, at least, make sense. Or just a plain target of opportunity. Almost like the Doolittle raid on Tokyo. Sting them enough to make them hold back on sending everything forward.
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Perhaps they are only activated by pressure from above (wheels, feet, trotters) and not from the side.
Note: I’m not a professional weapons anything.
Still – The Disdain Shown. Doffs cap.
ETA Abraham_Limpo explains it better, and quicker.
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…which failed.
(Apologies for it being The Sun, but at least the click goes to Youtube and not to Murdoch-land)
Of course, the whole thing - both videos - could have been a spoof… but the Sun video dates from 31st March (could still have been a spoof - these things take time to set up - but I doubt many Ukrainians have time for that sort of shit right now)
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Too bad it tends to be slow.
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The thing is that knocking out any peg of the network, and cutting a chunk out of the supply, reduces the throughput of the whole.
The depot and any given fuel supply isn’t important. But disrupting the supply line to pretty much any extent expands down the chain.
So the reward end is not one less depot. It’s weeks more fuel issues for the troops actually fighting in Ukraine.
Particularly since this was over near Kharkiv, where the Russians have had more success. And given the huge rail issues in Belarus. Which is fucking supply from that direction.
Russia has not been particularly good at making their logistics network work. So if the Russians didn’t fuck up big again and blow themselves up. Then it just seems like a fairly obvious next step for Ukraine.
A lot of the reporting on this stuff is not connecting A to B. Like the withdraw around Kyiv. For a week or so the Ukrainians had been maneuvering to encircle the main body of troops there, and had already pretty much cut off their supply line.
But news is only discussing the withdrawal in context of peace talks vs resupply for a bigger push. Seems pretty possible they pulled their troops before they could get surrounded.
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I wouldn’t want to kick one, but I think vehicle mines are more robust and require a fair amount of weight to trigger it.You don’t want it going off with a person walking on it, it is a waste of a mine. Obviously what they were doing worked.
Isn’t thyroid cancer pretty survivable? Unless it spreads, of course.
Ah, ok.
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What are the odds Putin has a nuclear reactor under his castle?
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In almost any other context I’d assume that was a euphemism for something rude. In his case, I guess it could be true. 
Given the KGB’s history of poisoning people with weird stuff, one is bound to wonder what noxious substances Putin may have handled in his KGB operational days doing bad things to Russia’s enemies, and whether that has now finally come home to roost.
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You never know what you’ve been exposed to in the spy biz.
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And not only the inefficiency and fuel issues supplying troops in Ukraine. It’ll also provoke Russia to spend more time, money, resources, and personnel protecting its supply chain, even on Russian soil - further reducing the resources that Russia can send to fight on Ukrainian soil.
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Latvian Defense Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Artis Pabriks discusses NATO’s longer term defense strategy amid the ongoing crisis in Ukraine.
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I think that’d mean that they were an old Cold War landmine only meant to deter Ronald Reagan attacks…
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“Jelly Bean Land Mine” is my new band name
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Plus, it was not just a temporary army fuel depot, it looks like a major fuel depot with a heck of a lot of fuel!
An oil depot burns after alleged airstrike in the city of Belgorod, Russia, which Ukraine denies responsibility for
Photo courtesy of The Guardian liveblog, credited to Emercom Of Russia Press Service/EPA
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Clearly, it needs to be a throwback 80s punk band and you guys only do anti-Reagan and anti-Thatcher songs…
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Jellybean Land?
I want to live there. I hear it’s near the Big Rock Candy Mountain.
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