Clumsy Sergei! He should lay off vodka when handling warheads!
ETA - oh look! Firework display!
According to the BBC it was a temporary storage site.
More temporary than was planned.
This happened in Cincinnati, Ohio by the way.
I’m surprised that the Russian players didn’t complain about the suggestive combination of blue above yellow in the Western & Southern Open logo.
And now apparently it was sabotage…
"A string of blasts last week destroyed Russian warplanes at a Black Sea base on the Crimean coast.
Ukraine has never publicly admitted that attack - but presidential office adviser Mykhailo Podolyak described the latest incident as “demilitarisation in action”, indicating that the explosions were not accidental."
Really hoping that the locals in Crimea are emboldened by Ukraine’s progress in the south, and are choosing this time to push back against the occupiers.
Don’t know how credible is this affirmation, but if it is, that would be a boon for the OSINT community (assuming they share).
The only military vehicle in the pictures they’ve published has a Ukrainian registration plate, so I’m not convinced that they’ve hacked cameras in Russian-occupied territory (where Internet connections, if they still work, now route through Russia).
If this isn’t a false flag operation itself, Russian hackers will be interested in hacking their network of hacked cameras to monitor the movements of Ukrainian forces.
ETA: All the civilian registration plates in the photos they have published are from Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (prefix AE), not occupied but on the southern front. Nikopol, which the Russians are shelling from the nuclear plant in Enerhodar, is in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. Dnipro and Kryvyi Rih would be obvious logistical hubs for the Ukrainian army.
Meanwhile:
“It took me weeks to understand there was no war on Russian territory at all, and that we had just attacked Ukraine,” he said.
Note last paragraph:
Vladimir Putin is offering Russian mothers cash and an honorary title as his country faces a dwindling population.
The Russian leader will revive the “Mother Heroine” award that was first established under Soviet leader Josef Stalin in 1944, which was given to more than 400,000 women before being scrapped after the fall of the USSR in 1991.
Under the decree issued on Monday, a one-off payment of one million rubles ($16,400) will be “awarded to a mother who is a citizen of the Russian Federation, who has given birth to and brought up ten or more children who are citizens of the Russian Federation.”
The prize is awarded on the condition that the other nine children are still alive. However, exceptions will be made for mothers whose children died or went missing “in defense of the Fatherland” or in the performance of “military service or civil duty.”
Putin’s version of…
D’oh!
They really do seem to screw up the most basic things.
Of course I also recall US special forces self-doxxing because they geo-tagged their workouts on Strava while deployed in Syria
Plenty of derp to go around I guess.
