We used to buy styrofoam helmets for use in parades, ceremonies or for display. Wearing a heavy Kevlar PASGT helmet for hours during a parade or whatever sucks.
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Good.
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The bit about doctrines lines up with this account on Twitter going over a Reddit AMA by a Finnish reservist in Ukraine, back in May.
He also notes that the neo-colonialist “War on Terror” has taught many Americans and NATO allies some bad habits. “Americans and other NATO volunteers don’t really know how to fight in a war where they don’t have complete air superiority.”
“Especially at the beginning of the war [foreign volunteers from U.S. and NATO countries] were plentiful, but most left after the first missile and air strikes. A Finnish soldier expects that the enemy has air superiority, and we are trained accordingly.”
ETA: Just saw this.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/body-zambian-student-killed-ukraine-205702233.html
Zambia demanded an urgent explanation from Moscow last month over the death of Lemekhani Nathan Nyirenda in September while fighting on the Russian side in Ukraine, where he ended up after his spell in prison.
The 23-year-old had been studying nuclear engineering at Moscow Engineering Physics Institute but was handed a nine-and-a-half year jail term in April 2020 over a drugs offence.
Two weeks after Zambia’s demand for information, Russia’s Wagner paramilitary group admitted it had recruited him for Moscow’s “special operation” in Ukraine, adding he had voluntarily joined up before dying “a hero”.
Russian law allows for a prisoner to be pardoned specifically for a “special military operation”, Zambian Foreign Minister Stanley Kakubo said earlier this month.
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“First, the Kh-55 missile is launched; we react to it,” General Skibitsky said, speaking in a lengthy interview at military intelligence headquarters in Kyiv last week, before the latest missile strikes across the country. “It’s like a false target.”
After the Ukrainian air defenses are engaged, he said, Russian bombers launch the more modern missiles, with destructive warheads.
“According to our calculations, they have missiles for another three to five waves of attacks,” he said. “This is if there are 80 to 90 rockets in one wave.”
Last Monday, Russia fired more than 70 missiles at Ukraine after Ukraine struck two military installations deep inside Russia.
While Russia’s stockpiles of its most modern, precision missiles are widely believed to be running low, General Skibitsky said that Russian arms factories had been able to build 240 precision Kh-101 cruise missiles and about 120 of the sea-based Kalibr cruise missiles since the start of the war, which works out to about 40 new missiles per month. Those numbers could not be independently confirmed.
Yurii Ihnat, the spokesman of the Ukrainian Air Force, said that after the latest assault, investigators found many fragments that indicated the precision cruise missiles used in the attack had been made in recent weeks.
“Russia is using newly manufactured missiles,” he told Ukrainian radio on Thursday.
As the Russians seek to bolster their arsenal, Ukrainian officials say they are getting better at shooting down many types of missiles and drones fired their way.
Over the course of November, Brig. Gen. Oleksiy Hromov, a deputy chief on the Ukrainian General Staff, said that Ukrainian air defenses shot down 72 percent of the 239 Russian cruise missiles and 80 percent of the 80 Iranian-made Shahed-136 drones. They claim to have shot down 60 of the 70 missiles on Monday, or 85 percent.
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Short thread:
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Via CNN:
Moscow-appointed Kherson governor involved in car explosion, Russian state media reports
Vitaly Bulyuk, the Russian-appointed first deputy governor of Kherson region, has been involved in a car incident, Russian state media TASS and the occupied regions’ official Telegram channel reported.
There are conflicting reports about the condition of Bulyuk.
TASS is reporting, citing the head of the regional Ministry of Health Vadim Ilmiev, that Bulyuk has been injured in a “car explosion."
Ilmiev is quoted as saying, “he is wounded, his condition is stable, of moderate severity. He is in one of the medical institutions of the region.”
However, the occupied Kherson region’s Telegram channel is reporting that Bulyuk “was not hurt” and “miraculously Vitaly Viktorivich was not injured. His life is not in danger at the moment”.
The Telegram channel did report a few more details of the incident, saying it took place in the city of Skadovsk and that “one civilian was killed.”
It was not immediately clear who the fatality was.
One does not simply become involved with a car explosion.
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The answer is quite simple: the man is a coward, afraid of the consequences of his self-inflicted catastrophe.
I do not lightly wish death on anyone, but…
May he die like Stalin did, alone, his own doctors afraid to help him.
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Yeah, I’m expecting the winter to do terrible things to the Russian forces in the field.
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HIMARS traffic jam:
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