Three planes gunned down at once. This is very likely the result of moving a Patriot battery closer to the front lines. Ukraine did this earlier near Kherson. It is quite effective and shows that Ukraine very much needs more Patriot batteries.
Moving the missiles close to the front line obviously is risky, but in addition to sending three planes and their crews to a fiery end, it forces other planes to move further to the rear to stay out of range.
This is an interesting theory about how Alexei Navalny was killed. It sounds plausible to me. The Kremlin crowd is in love with the idea of poisoning people. They must fancy themselves Catherine De Medici.
According to two high-ranking Sota sources in the Investigative Committee, confirming each other's reports, the main "lobbyist" for Navalny's murder was the head of the IC, Alexander Bastrykin, who had a personal dislike for the politician ever since Navalny's 2012 investigation of him. Later, Bastrykin repeatedly confirmed his attitude toward Navalny with poems that he published on the Internet under a pseudonym.
After Navalny's arrest, the sources claim, Bastrykin sought Putin's permission to kill Navalny in the colony, eventually securing the support of the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Arkady Gostev. The latter, according to the sources, agreed with Bastrykin in particular because of Navalny's numerous posts published during his imprisonment. A criminal case was opened against Navalny's lawyers for the same reason.
As a result, in August 2023, Vladimir Putin gave permission for the slow poisoning of Alexey Navalny as a "gift" for Bastrykin's 70th birthday. According to the original plan, the politician was expected to die of cardiovascular problems before the end of 2023, but he died on February 16.
According to the source in the entourage of the deceased politician, he transmitted messages from the colony that he believed he was being poisoned.
According to a biochemist interviewed by Sota, if the information about the blood clot that caused Navalny's death is correct, it could have been any coagulant substance, which, given the lack of water in the colony and the torture regime, would inevitably lead to blood clotting and, as a consequence, death.
I thought that “sudden death syndrome” in Russia meant you accidentally fell from a 12th story window and rapidly decelerated when striking the concrete.
The Russians need to get their lies straight.
Body? What body?
Nothing surprising about this.
I agree.
Alexey Navalny was murdered in cold blood, and the culprit is a disgusting scum named Vladimir Putin, who only knows how to steal, kill and wage war. Alexei, unbroken, will go down in history, and Putin will burn in hell for all his heinous crimes.
This is awesome, but would be even more awesome would be loudspeakers blaring out “Feelings” and “Macarena” over and over and over.
This is a first-person account of the killing fields at Avdiivka and how the Russians just kept sending human waves.
The human cost of Russia's Avdiivka sector endeavor likely cost them 100k WIA&KIA easily. Day after day for 2 or 3 weeks they continously attempted to run armor at fortified lines. In our sector, after they ran out of BMPs & BTRs they used troop transport trucks (Kamaz type) to try and get infantry as close as possible. These vehicles more often than not were hit by fpv or drones waited for dismount and hit infantry with droppers. We made it a point to try and hit every enemy soldier still alive. If they crawled into a bunker, thermobaric. If they were crawling in an open field, grenade drop.
Mid to end Nov though, something changed. No longer were the Russians attempting 50+ men assaults. They'd move in groups of 8-12 men. If 2 or 3 made it, they'd hide amongst the rubble. The next group would move 5-15 minutes behind the first and they'd do the same. Once the survivors regrouped and had 20 or so men spread in 2 or more positions, they'd then push forward while a new rear element pushed up from behind and they'd mass creeping fires and drones while doing so. Only stopping once the RU infantry were within 25-50m of our positions.
They adapted their tactics to run as a mass of smaller human waves with less armor and more foot infantry to knock out a few meters of the killing fields or Grey area at a time. They didn't try to dig in. They just hid wherever they could.
One position we consistently fought over ended up with dead soldiers stacked around it (obj kyiv). There was well over 100 Russians strewn about infront and inside of it. Our fallen (KIA) Ukrainians around 10 or so that were taken in the 3 weeks of holding it, we had organized to the rear area of the fighting line, in hopes of getting their remains out, some we were able to, others we weren’t. We did take dozens upon dozens of wounded trying to hold obj k and took a lot of wounded and killed trying to retrieve remains of fallen and wounded soldiers from positions (I'd say 20-35% of all our wounded in the sector was trying to get remains or wounded out). You'd spend more time trying to organize where to throw the dead or move the dead out of firing lines than attempting to rebuild the positions daily.
This is excellent news from the Czech government.
A kamikaze drone triggers a rapid disassembly of this Russian tank. I’ve seen some suggestions that this was a wooden decoy but it looks too detailed to me.
The withdrawal from Avdiivka seems to be complete.
A bevy of bavovna.
These are verified deaths of officer through obituaries, photos of memorials, etc., so it is likely the actual number is higher.
Maybe instead of shooting trees and trying to look tough he should have just stayed home.
This guy looks like an extra from the Doctor Zhivago movie set.
Trump supporters are said to be motivated at least partly by the feeling that cultural elites look down on them. Yet Russians openly mock them as stupid rubes on TV and MAGA World doesn’t beat an eyelash.
The Hague will be a very busy place.
The evolution of drones continues.
Britain is working with countries including the US to provide Ukraine with thousands of new artificial intelligence-enabled drones that could simultaneously strike Russian targets, people familiar with the matter said.
Western military planners developing the technology believe it could allow Ukraine to capture certain Russian positions with unmanned vehicles, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive issues.
They said the drones could be sent to Ukraine within months, but warned that the timeline could shift.
This shit needs to stop.
Oh look! A Republican senator mocking Tucker Carlson.
The Joffrey Baratheon of Chechnya.
Careful Eddie. You can arrested for saying that.
Dayum!
I like Ukraine more and more every day.
A beautiful reminder that Crimea does not belong to Russia.
The juxtaposition is rather striking.
Even close to the front people find ways to cope.
There are 12 Ukrainians living in this basement. There is electricity, mostly from 1 to 4 hours a day. They heat their homes with a wood stove. When asked why they do not leave, they answer: we are at home, and we are patriots, we are on our Ukrainian land, our native walls are here.Toretsk is a city in the Bakhmut district of Donetsk region of Ukraine.
Young girl in a bomb shelter wonders why the people who launch rockets don’t just play with their own children instead.
Good question.
It would be even better without the added orchestration.