It’s good to see these damn things going up in a big bavovna.
That’s a hell of a cook off.
I have seen two interpretations of what is going on in Krynky. The first says that because Russia has gotten armor into Krynky, even though it was destroyed, it’s just a matter of time before Ukraine has to withdraw.
The other says that Russia has suspended offensive operations in Krynky because of massive losses.
I guess we’ll see.
More from Krynky, which is becoming an armored vehicle graveyard. Note at the end how the drone goes for the soldier, who is apparently carrying ammo, instead of the vehicle.
They say they want their leadership to pay attention to them. Maybe Putin will put them up in one of his palaces.
"It's the fourth day without heating. Everyone who could, has already self-evacuated..." - residents of Elektrostal near Moscow showed how their house looks like.
"The entrance is frozen completely. All the radiators destroyed. It's 5 degrees Celsius in our apartments. Those who stayed are surviving as best they can - with gas, all kinds of heating devices," a resident of the house said in the video.
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Residents of Voskresensk near Moscow recorded a video message to Putin complaining about the lack of heating.
"It feels like they want to wipe our Voskresensk off the map. Like they want to destroy us!" - residents of Voskresensk say, noting that the administration knows about everything, but does not act.
"We are freezing. It's 11-12 degrees in our apartments. Currently, it is 6 degrees Celsius in my room. Tell me, how is it possible to survive at this temperature? No words! I mean, we do not live, but exist. And so we ask the leadership to pay attention to us. Voskresensk administration knows all our problems, as they said: "We are aware, we have everything under control." But what's the point? Nothing changes! ...
No progress. Everything is getting worse and worse. Reconstruction of the boiler house is postponed from year to year. All the boilers have exhausted their resource. They have turned to dust. ... Our residents are left alone with their problems. We have no one to rely on," - residents of the city said in their appeal.
Don’t worry. Only three more months till spring.
Speaking of shitty conditions.
2/ A report by Radio Free Europe highlights the experiences of mobilised Russians fighting in Ukraine through the accounts of two families, one from north-west Russia and the other from the Sverdlovsk region in the Urals at the far eastern edge of Europe.
3/ Tatyana is the wife of a contract soldier named Sergei, who went to war voluntarily last July. She says that most Russian soldiers are, like her husband, simply looking to earn money to support their families and pay off their mortgages.
4/ "No one is fighting for the Motherland now," she says. "No matter who you ask, everyone goes there to improve the well-being of their family." Sergei is earning 200,000 rubles ($2,210) a month, three times his former civilian salary.
They go there to improve the well-being of their families — at the expense of Ukrainian families.
5/ However, much of the initial recruitment bonus was used up buying personal equipment at inflated prices. The soldiers also have to deal with endemic theft of their personal effects by their fellow soldiers, as Tatyana explains.
6/ "One guy had his warm tactical gloves stolen while he was on parade. Another guy's rucksack went missing with a new warm suit while he was on a mission. He came back from combat alive, but the rucksack was gone. He asked where it was, and they told him it had been burnt.
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9/ When the men got to the front line they lacked even shovels. "They just dropped them off in an empty field and let them do what they wanted. So my husband slept in a body bag.
10/ "He got into a sleeping bag that he brought from home, climbed into the body bag, zipped himself up, put a tube in his mouth and stuck it out through the slit so that he could breathe.
11/ "They don't get anything out there. No gloves, no warm underwear, no ammunition. They didn't even give them shovels. But they did give them body bags."
Considering how many Russian soldiers feel about their commanders, Col. Ospanov might have succeeded in lifting their morale.
Being popular and influential in the Russian military can get you killed. But at least he didn’t step on a mine.
After Prigozhin's mutiny and his confrontation with Shoigu and Gerasimov, Teplinsky was put under surveillance because of his ambiguous behavior. He could not be removed immediately like Surovikin because he was popular with the troops. So they decided to get rid of him gradually, first of all by destroying his image and support from the army, especially in the Air Forces.
Some sources claim that, for this purpose, a special group was created from among the officers of information counteraction of the Russian Armed Forces. They established a network of channels and groups on social media that create and distribute materials aimed at discrediting Teplinsky.
Teplinsky was also assigned to one of the potentially most difficult areas of the war. At the end of October, he became the head of the Dnepr group of troops, whose area of responsibility includes the occupied Kherson region and part of Zaporizhzhia.
Teplinsky has great ambitions, and he is unsuccessfully trying to eliminate our Ukrainian stronghold at any cost. That is why the Russians are suffering huge losses in equipment and personnel, especially in airborne units. Of course, this hurts Teplinsky's reputation, as previously it was believed that he valued the lives of Russian soldiers above all else.
Also, the Russian web pages discuss the subject of the general having two families. In addition, mental health issues are often mentioned, which allegedly also raises questions.
By the way, today he turned 55 years old. And there are no official congratulations, which may also indicate disgrace.
Damn. What a shame.
Electronic warfare units taken out by drones.
Robotics — the future of warfare.
Oryol (Orel) is north of Belgorod and Kursk.
He fucked around. He found out.
More fallout from the scandalous Almost Naked Party in Moscow in which members of the elite showed (in addition to various body parts) that they no longer live in the country they thought they did.
The rapper Vacio got 15 days in the slammer — and then the real punishment came. He was summoned to the military recruitment office. Off to Avdiivka with him!
In the tweet below it refers to “one sock.” He wasn’t wearing it on either of his feet.
WARNING: the video shows his near naked performance.
Orban’s blackmail is getting ridiculous. Boot his ass out of the EU already.
Russians keep finding a myriad of ways around sanctions.
They threw out eggs!!! Those are worth more than gold in many parts of Russia.
LOL
I was standing on the sidewalk in Toronto and watched a policeman drive up to me.
"You should get this car out of here, sir," the policeman said to me.
"Why? She doesn't seem to bother anyone," I said.
The policeman got off the motorcycle, silently took out the receipts, wrote out a $300 fine on one receipt and, looking into my eyes, shoved it under the windshield wiper.
"Scoundrel," I said. The policeman tore off another $300 receipt and silently shoved it under the windshield wiper. I called him a fascist. He repeated the operation with the receipt. This went on for about 15 minutes, until he ran out of receipts. He got on a motorcycle and drove away. He didn't give a fuck. I shrugged my shoulders and went on my way. I didn't give a shit either. It wasn't my car, but some Russian's.
Winston the Cat recaps the Top 10 Russian naval disasters of the Ukraine war.
Kombat Kitty finds a high perch from which to observe emery movements.
I can only imagine how cold that water was.