Yeah? You know who else had a masterful grasp of fast-moving mechanized combined arms tactics to which our only answer was taking massive casualties? That’s right, Nazis!
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Many russian diplomats though Putin was “posturing” to help them achieve the treaties, and some even were genuinely surprised when the war started. Would not be surprised if in a couple years we get some on-the-record comments from those diplomats accusing Putin of deploying them as a smoke cover for this invasion.
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And fake Lithuanian plates?
Meanwhile:
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Article doesn’t say anything about that.
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There’'s a Lithuanian plate in the illustration (BDJ 636, in the middle).
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https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1570417540513558533
The strikes on the dam had caused “extensive flooding” in areas of the city, after the river rose an estimated 2.5 metres, the Institute for the Study of War said. The Russian attack was probably intended to damage Ukrainian pontoon bridges further downstream as part of efforts to disrupt the Kherson counteroffensive, it said.
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The BASF piece is very much worth reading.
Further down the river, Bayer is another big player. And there are more. If push comes to shove, we will see not ripples but quite some waves from the impact.
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https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1570344171361210368
From the Guardian liveblog:
One day ago, with Ukrainian forces quickly closing in, Leonid Pasechnik, the leader of the Russian-backed separatist authority in the Luhansk oblast addressed concerns, insisting repeatedly that “there is no reason to panic”. Today, a bomb set off at administrative offices killed the Moscow-installed prosecutor general, Sergey Gorenko, and his deputy.
“‘There is no reason to panic’, well well…” Serhiy Haidai, the governor of Luhansk oblast, posted on Telegram yesterday. “Luhansk oblast is coming home and it is inevitable!”
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Sisu Pasi? Those are ancient.
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But the Finnish army still uses them, right?
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Prisoners don’t have parents.
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I can’t be the only one who initially assumes that the story is going to be about abandoned Russian military equipment whenever I hear about “donations” to the Ukrainian Army, right?
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