Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread

[MrJokerRager]

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Pro-Russia and pro-Ukraine protests meet in Germany

From the telegrams.

Russian MOD loves their letters of Z and O and V.

Spoiler: ZOV

Partizan1941

Передача собранного военно-гуманитарного груза на подразделения армии Донецкой Народной Республики. Больше видео процесса + подписи, кому что - на канале https://t.me/katya_valya_dnr Текущий сбор для груза на следующую неделю https://t.me/boris_rozhin/46608 Всем читателям, кто помог со сбором...

t.me

First time we have seen female Russian soldats.

Spoiler: Remaining videos.

ZradaXXII

Peaceful Mariupol: Russian humanitarian aid distributed to civilians of the liberated city on daily basis.

t.me

More of footage of BOOBA, I mean Russian military Z women giving out food to kids.

ASB Military News

Slovakia — someone painted Z over Ukrainian flag propaganda put up by the state. The citizen filming says “that’s such a great job. Good one”

t.me

Someone in Slovakia painted Z all over the hohol propaganda billboards.

Russian Head

THE GRANDMA WAS FOUND Great news, The Grandma was found! She lives in Kharkov Region, 12km away from the Russian border. She is ok and doesn't want to evacuate and leave her cats and dogs. Just a good, kind, real human. Now they will be careful explaining to her that she has become the...

t.me

Apparently the babushka was found.

When was the last time you saw Kremlin?
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Someone reposted a cool wallpaper on dvach but in shitty resolution. Found the source, edited out the uncouth part and upscaled a bit.
Kinda feel obliged to repost the source anyway.

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/yJ60N5

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What is it with hohols making the Russkies look badass and kino.

https://twitter.com/terror_alarm/status/1497061930229452823

Azov sisters... There is a traitor among us!
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Anton Herashchenko claims that employ of Azovstal, who he calls "a traitor", has given Russian troops information about tunnels that lead underground the plant and Russians have began to storm the tunnels.
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Here is head honcho of Azov himself confirming that Russian troops had breached into Azovstal.
Place your bets, could they hold on until 9 of May to deny Putin his Epic Victory Royal for Victory Day or would they perish before that?

Why does this sound like the plot to 300.

Could this be the traitor?

The Z drama has found it's way into CSGO, as Nel, a French CSGO "reporter", accused a Russian player, Sh1ro, for making a "Z" in his sticker for the upcoming CSGO major. He quickly went into protected mode, when the CSGO community proceeded to shit on him for that accusation.

The best that I can find is Richard Lewis's take on the accusation, even though RL has had some Lolcow-worthy moments himself:

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The TLDR of this situation was that Sh1ro submitted the sticker design before the Russian offensive on Ukraine began, the squiggle looks like a Z, and Sh1ro himself did not design the autograph, but Gambit's (his team) designer did. Gambit also made a statement, asking for peace. One other note is that Gambit's CSGO team played under the name Players, due to Russian sanctions, and the team was sold to Cloud9.

"Seriouz Bizness" in gaming is very cancerous and already confirms that "E-Sports" are a joke.

Getting mad over a bunch of pixels on a screen lol rather than trying to pwn them.

And finally, a meme dump.

Spoiler: Memes

 

[White_N]

Imagine kvetvching about war crimes. The only people who get punished for war crimes are the losers. Both sides have and will commit atrocities, and only the loser will be punished.

YEEH​

 

[Pentaborane]

Flight update 2022-05-05 18:32 UTC:

This British RC-135W is pretty bold in its flights over the Black Sea. This is from yesterday:

There was a similar flight by the same plane today, but the transponder became disabled while the plane was on station.

NATO E-3 and RC-135W are on station daily over Eastern Poland and Romania. Not worth reporting on its own.

These transport flights were originally reported on Twitter by OSINT accounts. Bulgaria transfers military equipment to UA by "selling" it to the US rather than transferring it directly, as some political or diplomatic ploy.

 

[mindlessobserver]

I do love the irony of some of the memes around this ostensible war between Globohomo and a Revanchist Russia.

But nothing is more ironic then Imperial Russia-chan



A female personification of pre-revolution Russia, drawn by an autistic American, in the style of Japanese animation, posted to a forum most famous for its support of neo-nazis, that has been adopted by Russians to personify their newly found national identity.

It's on so many levels of Irony, I think it might be a Tesseract.

Spoiler

the fact she drinks vodka out of a tea cup kills me

 

[Borscht]

Putin cucked and apologized to the secret world masters. Probably didn't want to alienate them over a trifle.

 

[redicart]

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Attacks on Ukrainian positions on the territory of the Azovstal plant.

Watched this and sarcastically thought the whole time. "Some KillZ, a shovel, a broom not that bad totally clean up good as new."

 

[Getting tard comed]

US intelligence 'has helped Ukraine kill multiple Russian generals'

The US officials said that of the approximately 12 Russian generals killed by Ukrainian forces, 'many' had been targeted with the help of US intelligence, reports the New York Times.

www.dailymail.co.uk

You guys have talked about this? If/When Russia strikes a US target it will be justifiable. The US is an active participant in this war.

 

[Givi]

The Zhaporizhia and Sloviansk offensives seemed to be the big push, because Russia gave up a ton of ground around Kharkiv to make it happen.

That isn't why Russia "gave up" a ton of ground (they didn't give up, they were forced away from it). Russia left that ground because they were unwilling to actually commit the required amount of troops to mount a surefire defense of it, because it would require moving away troops from the direction of Slaviansk and west of Izyum, which is exactly what the UAF wanted them to do . Like I explained the last time, they only defend properly when there's nothing else to retreat back to, and really, if need be they may retreat through the border anyway.

This is what the Russians have been doing since the start, they defend very lightly or not at all because they're constantly at a manpower disadvantage for obvious reasons. Throwing away 1,000 people trying to defend a village or small city is fine for the Ukrainians because they have the manpower to spare, the Russians don't, and therefore prefer to flatten everything that may be a UA manpower agglomeration.

The goal clearly was to surround the dug in UAF forces along the Line of Actual Control with the DPR

Not how you think. The goal seems to be to create separate cauldrons and stop the UAF from retreating from Lysychansk if they want to, hence why the Russians took Yampol first, and not Drobysheve.

But only the push from the North seems to have met any success, capturing Izium. All other offensives have fallen flat

In the push from the South and DPR territory the following settlements were captured;

Novotroitske and Olhynka (Southeast, , small city) as well as everything south of these two up the the territory of the DPR
Everything up to Velyka Novosilka as well as Rivnopil
Everything up the Huliaipole, where heavy fighting rages basically every day
Almost everything up to Orikhiv, where fighting happens occasionally

In the push from the Northeast and towards the South (Rubizhne, Lysychansk, Severodonetsk), from LPR-controlled territory;

Everything in Rubizhne but the Zarya plant
Everything up to Severodonetsk
Kremmina and Zarichne
Yampol
Novotoshkivske and Svetlychne as well as a small part of Nyzhnie

In the East:

Half of Popasna
Some of Mari'inka, battles still happening in the landfill
Troitske
Adviivka defenses outside the city broken through, city now refered to as a cauldron by RU forces

The East is where most of Ukraine's good soldiers and defensive positions are. Some of these cities like Mari'inka and Popasna are half trench and heavily defended as well as reinforced constantly. Progress is slow, but it happens, costly as it is to both sides.

, which has left the forces in Izium in a Salient that could be encircled in turn if they push further south.

Yeah, if the Ukrainians conjure up 10 tank battalions and 100,000 well equipped men, gain air superiority despite having almost no SAMs left in the Donbas, and win artillery superiority at the same time.

Any encirclement of Russian forces is a pipe dream. The Russians are well aware of where the UA is getting their reinforcements and the targeted strikes at railways are aimed at preventing exactly that. Even if a miracle happened and the Russians were actually at risk of an encirclement; they'd just do what they do constantly and retreat to a more defensible position while letting artillery and air power batter the UAF until they're soft again.

Having to dedicate so many troops to laying siege to it is seriously hampering the southern offensive

Again, most BTGs, and the better battalions in general, have already been taken out of Mariupol.

This is probably why they are pounding the shit out of Azovstahl now

If you don't keep the pressure up, it isn't a siege. You don't need a reason to drop bombs on your enemy when you have plenty of them lying around and they can't go anywhere.

 

[White_N]

Putin cucked and apologized to the secret world masters. Probably didn't want to alienate them over a trifle.

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The office of the Israeli Prime Minister announced Putin's apology for Lavrov's words about Hitler and Jews.

At the same time, the Kremlin's message, published after the telephone conversation between the two leaders, does not mention either an apology or the incident itself. It is alleged that Putin congratulated Bennett on Israel's Independence Day, and also discussed the upcoming Victory Day with the Israeli Prime Minister and asked him to convey wishes of health and well-being to veterans living in Israel.

What? Who's a Jewing Jew here?

 

[Übertroon]

I do love the irony of some of the memes around this ostensible war between Globohomo and a Revanchist Russia.

But nothing is more ironic then Imperial Russia-chan

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A female personification of pre-revolution Russia, drawn by an autistic American, in the style of Japanese animation, posted to a forum most famous for its support of neo-nazis, that has been adopted by Russians to personify their newly found national identity.

It's on so many levels of Irony, I think it might be a Tesseract.

Spoiler

the fact she drinks vodka out of a tea cup kills me

 

[Sexual Chocolate]

If/When Russia strikes a US target it will be justifiable.

If Russians are dumb enough to go for the bait, again, they're too dumb to win the war that will follow.

 

[Gay_nig_from_outer_space]

mr. hands is this

Enumclaw horse sex case - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

tl;dr a bunch of faggots in seattle go to a farm to get themselves fucked by a horse and film it, one of them later dies to internal injuries. it was one of the notorious early internet shock videos.
apparently bestiality was legal in seattle at the time, but after this case they passed laws to outlaw it again.

What the fuck is wrong with these people, even reading the wikipedia page makes me want to hurl.

 

[UVB-76]

It started when the Wall fell and the USA promised that NATO would not expand.

Gorbachev himself has clarified that the agreement was about not deploying foreign NATO troops or build new military structures in the former GDR territory after German reunification.
The "promise not to expand" is a made up narrative.

if nukes are so fast, why does NATO have to keep expanding

It doesn't have to. What I find interesting is that the Putin apologist crowd doesn't recognize the agency of Eastern countries seeking security. Those dumb Slavs don't actually know what they want, it's HATO manipulation.

 

[AGPinochet]

Why do Western faggots assume getting rid of Putin means they'd like his successor

To Western Liberals, Vladimir Putin is the embodiment of Satan on earth. In their minds He is responsible for all the bad things they don't like. Their candidates losing elections, right wing social and political trends, social media arguments and everything else. Their hatred for him does not allow them to think about what happens when he is gone.

 

[Uncle Buck]

It doesn't have to.

Of course it does; who else is the predominately US-based defense industry supposed to sell weapons to? Oh, there's lots of conflict in the world you say? How many of those conflicts are driven primarily by US meddling? I wonder, is there even a conflict occurring anywhere on this planet they don't have a hand in?

What I find interesting is that the Putin apologist crowd...

Please see someone about your Putin Derangement Syndrome.

...doesn't recognize the agency of Eastern countries seeking security.

You mean like the security the people of the DPR and LPR, not to mention Crimea, want from being incinerated because they don't want to speak "Ukrainian", or perhaps the agency they seek to not be forced - at the barrel of an economic gun - to choose good relations with Russia or degenerate freak Europe [not that Ukrainians actually had anything preventing them from having closer ties with anyone until the western-backed coup of 2014 (the second in a decade)]?

I only ask because you're pretty selective about whose security/agency is supposed to matter and when.

 

[male pattern malding]

What I find interesting is that the anti-Russia Ukroswine apologist WWIII simp contingent keeps pushing a variation on the theme of how Russia shouldn't have cared about NATO expansion because of how fast nukes can move; conveniently they ignore the counter-argument to that, simply that if nukes are so fast, why does NATO have to keep expanding up to the point that Russia is entirely surrounded by them?

"Defensive alliance"? No, frens...

Why is it so difficult to believe that countries might want to join an alliance for some protection against a more powerful neighbour who has invaded/conquered them in the past, without necessarily harboring such insane genocidal hatred that they'd be willing to risk their own nuclear annihiliation to wipe out said neighbour?

I mean fuck, I'm not claiming we love Russians here - there's certainly some prejudice, but it's mostly mild. At the very worst it's "we should send all these local vatniks back to Russia" (and that's a fringe extremist position, not something promoted by any mainstream political party). There's absolutely nobody clamoring to go die in some trench halfway to the Urals just for the joy of killing Russians.

 

[mindlessobserver]

US intelligence 'has helped Ukraine kill multiple Russian generals'

The US officials said that of the approximately 12 Russian generals killed by Ukrainian forces, 'many' had been targeted with the help of US intelligence, reports the New York Times.

www.dailymail.co.uk

You guys have talked about this? If/When Russia strikes a US target it will be justifiable. The US is an active participant in this war.

You are acting like this is something new. It's not. Russia and the USA have fought each other by proxy for decades. Ever since the Korean War. Russia helped kill Americans in Korea. America helped kill Russians in Hungary. Russia helped kill Americans I'm Vietnam, America helped kill Russians in Afghanistan, Russia helped kill Americans in Iraq, America helped kill Russian's in Syria, and now America is helping kill Russians in Ukraine.

The entire point of these proxy fights is so Russia and America do NOT go at it directly. Because if they did the consequences would be catastrophic.

So Russia won't do shit. And if they did do shit, well, let's hope an economy the size of a single US State has spent enough money maintaining its strategic nuclear arsenal for the last 3 decades.

 

[UVB-76]

Of course it does; who else is the predominately US-based defense industry supposed to sell weapons to?

They'd sell more weapons if there was more war. They're effectively denying themselves sales by creating a larger pool of countries that won't expend their stock.
NATO also has multiple countries making money off the defense business like France, Sweden, Germany, Britain, etc.

Please see someone about your Putin Derangement Syndrome.

I was just mimicking your post, the only derangement here is coming from you if you can't recognize a joke.

You mean like the security the people of the DPR and LPR, not to mention Crimea

They'd be secure if Russia didn't want to start the war.

because they don't want to speak "Ukrainian"

There wasn't a language divide until Russia decided to sperg out. Even Zelensky was a Russian speaker.

I only ask because you're pretty selective about whose security/agency is supposed to matter and when.

That's funny coming from you. All pro-Russian sentiment is true and honest and organic, all pro-West sentiment is due to astroturfing.

 

[mindlessobserver]

That's funny coming from you. All pro-Russian sentiment is true and honest and organic, all pro-West sentiment is due to astroturfing.

This is what kills me. There really is such a thing as overdosing on red pills, and it's assuming Putin and Xi Xinping are somehow a better alternative for running the world over the idiots we have now.

The West has its problems, but at least we aren't Russia or China tier when it comes economic and political corruption. Just because I find my domestic rulers irritating does not mean I should throw myself on the mercies of the yellow menace or the Steppe horde.

 

[Borscht]

There wasn't a language divide until Russia decided to sperg out. Even Zelensky was a Russian speaker.

Damn right there was.

Behold Irina Farion, a Karen, a government lawmaker, a Bandera fan and an all-around absolute cunt visiting a kindergarten where she tells Russian-speaking five year olds their names suck and they need to pack up their bags and go to Muscovia unless they want to speak Ukrainean and be called nice and proper Ukrainean names.

As early as 2010 by the way, long before the entire Crimea kerfuffle.

While this example is the most egregious, it is far from being the only one.