Should have stayed home.
Inappropriate? Since when does Trump give a shit about that?
The real reason Trump won’t visit Ukraine is because he doesn’t have the cojones. He’s too afraid to visit a war zone.
Despite the Russian losses, they will continue to send tanks and armored vehicles and troops to be mowed down until the slowly start creeping forward.
Russia lost an insane number of vehicles west of Tonenke but still manages to push forward.
Gonna need a tow truck to rescue that tow truck.
Meanwhile, over in the Orsk/Orenburg flood zone …
The plant that makes Russian BMPs has been flooded near Kurgan. This plant produces about 18 of these a month.
The territory of Kurganmashzavod manufacturing company is the most interesting in this situation because it is the only Russian manufacturer of new infantry (all BMP-3 and BMP-4 fighting vehicles are manufactured there) and airborne fighting vehicles.
On the map of flooding forecasts, its area is within the 12-meter mark. All hopes of the city authorities are on favorable natural circumstances. The peak of the water rise is expected by April 14.
There is a report that the flooding in the Orenburg area has affected Russia’s ICBM silos there. Russia has Avangard hypersonic ICBMs in silos based there.
The losses are lopsided once again.
The cope cage didn’t help.
Another deep strike by Ukraine. Tambov is about 420 km southeast of Moscow.
Cheap way to disrupt Russian logistics.
I look forward to seeing it run over a mine.
France steps up with 78 Caesars. Hopefully with a shitload of ammo too.
It’s long since past time for Mike Johnson to pull his head out of Trump’s ass and put the Ukraine aid bill on the floor for a vote — and time for European and other countries to get over their reluctance to part with their Patriot systems and send them to Ukraine.
Running out of air defense missiles makes it easier for Russia to do this:
Keep the pressure up.
Any “peace” plan that includes freezing the lines is a non-starter.
This is the story of a Russian ex-con who joined the army as a way of clearing his record and his reputation. Instead he was tortured and murdered by his comrades.
Court documents don’t mention Barilenko’s role, but Sazhin and Semenikhin’s actions are described in detail. Late at night on November 29, the men went into the bunker where Ilya was sleeping, threw him off his bed, and started beating him with “a wooden stool with a log tied to it.” “They came to kill him while he was sleeping,” Svetlana says. “He didn’t even have a chance to say anything.”
Ilya never got back up. “It wasn’t two or three men who killed him, it was six,” Svetlana claims, though only Sazhin and Semenizhin are being charged in the criminal case over Ilya’s death. “He had no chance of surviving,” Svetlana tells Bereg. “The main strikes were to his head. They hit him with a stool and an axe: blunt, chopping blows. Sazhin and Semenizhin started it, with the others circling around them, joining in and filming them. They also jumped on his head. They jumped all over him.”
By dawn, Ilya’s ribs were “literally shattered,” Svetlana says. When one of the fragments pierced his left lung, causing him to wheeze, the soldiers simply covered him with a towel. They continued drinking in the trench until it was time for roll-call; according to one witness, Semenikhin and Sazhin “poured vodka on Ilya’s head and mocked him.”
At around 2:00 p.m., “when Ilya stopped wheezing,” the soldiers “pronounced him dead,” Svetlana says. According to forensic examiners, Ilya Bakharev died from traumatic shock, a brain hemorrhage, and fractures of the ribs, hyoid bone, and larynx.
In the nearly 14 hours that Ilya was tortured, only one person tried to stand up for him: a soldier with the call sign “Gucci.” As punishment, Semenikhin and Sazhin beat him and forced him to dig Ilya’s grave.
There is a lot of death and destruction in today’s roundup but there is also beauty to be found.