Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread

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@Fougaro reply bug

Deki accuses Igor Girkin "Strelkov" of being a certified pussy and a traitor. It was due to Strelkov's incompetence that back in 2014 the DPR lost not only vital cities such as Sloviansk, but almost half of its territory leading him to become a disgraced laughingstock. Strelkov's doomposting whenever the Russians take an L is his way of expressing schadenfreude and getting back at the people who bullied him. Strelkov is at this point probably one of Ukraine's main copium dealers as apparently one Ukrainian POW Deki interviewed was convinced in Ukraine's victory after binge watching Strelkov's doomposting videos on YouTube.

Multiple DPR fighters who participated in 2014 confirm this. I've seen quite a few evaluations of him, most of them very succinct but the sentiment is there. Strelkov in his defence claims that there was no real proper support for his troops from Russian side - had to fight with sticks and stones, basically. With the stuff they managed to take from Ukrainians in the first days of war, starting with raiding Ukrainian police force warehouses for weapons. He says that he chose to leave those hard fought territories due his troops getting ground down and no proper reinforcements were coming. But both his troops and he himself are pretty shady so who the hell knows. And btw, Strelkov vehemently claims him and his troops who had that BUK to be innocent of shooting down MH-17. And he couldn't care less about Hague.
He has been in "total mobilization or all is lost" mode since the start of the operation. Peculiar thing is that he hasn't been made to shut up yet for some reason.
https://t.me/s/strelkovii - his telegram.

I'm really surprised that no one seems to know what actual Russian army is doing. Seems like good opsec.

There are rumours on Ukrainian social media how dead Ukrainian soldiers have their organs harvested.

This reminds me that this was supposedly an ongoing thing since 2014. There are stories that have to do with Saakashvili, his wife and people who curated them. Guess who. But I didn't look deep enough into this rabbithole to write anything specific.

And also apologies for the long spergpost.

Pretty cool info that this thread actually needs, so thanks for the effort.

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@Givi I wish this had been translated. Might wanna give auto-translate a try. This has a lot of info from the horse's mouth. Although, he does not go into detail on certain topics for obvious reasons. Actually, don't. Holy shit it's bad with Russian. Checked like two minutes and it translated the opposite of what he was saying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf6K6pjK_Yw

 

[Givi]

@Fougaro reply bug

Multiple DPR fighters who participated in 2014 confirm this. I've seen quite a few evaluations of him, most of them very succinct but the sentiment is there. Strelkov in his defence claims that there was no real proper support for his troops from Russian side - had to fight with sticks and stones, basically. With the stuff they manages to take from Ukrainians in the first days of war, starting with raiding Ukrainian police force warehouses for weapons. H says that he chose to leave those hard fought territories due his troops getting grind down and no proper reinforcements were coming. But both his troops and he himself are pretty shady figures so who the hell knows. And btw, Strelkov vehemently claims to be innocent of shooting down MH-17. And he couldn't care less about Hague.
He has been in "total mobilization or all is lost" mode since the start of the operation. Peculiar thing is that he hasn't been made to shut up yet for some reason.
https://t.me/s/strelkovii - his telegram.

Separatist internal politics and figures 2014-2022 are very interesting and it saddens me that no one in the West is collecting information on this stuff before all these people die off, either by fear of getting suicided by the Russians for trying to expose too much of their involvement, or from being too scared of entering the separatist areas. It's understandable, especially because journalists in Russia-controlled areas have habits of disappearing, but we're losing a LOT of information and context because separatists aren't getting interviewed, they don't write books about their experiences and opinions and we essentially refuse to hear them out even if they wanted to speak, or worse, the language barrier kills any communication.

Strelkov is an interesting figure. I can understand that he'd be bitter. I have no doubt in my mind that he expected stronger support from Russia than what was given to the separatists in 2014 and having to see your men die in a war they're outgunned and outmanned in sucks. It's understandable that he's scared they're going to lose and go back to square one with so many of his people dead. He wants Ukraine completely fucked and wiped off the map, and in that he's very unreasonable. However, he's also a glownigger and we all know how they like to muddy the waters and get people killed, so it's good to always take what these people say with a grain of salt.

 

[Fougaro]

For the Russian speakers here, Deki did a brief interview with Ruslan Ostashko.

 

[JosephStalin]

The UK also signed an agreement with Finland, similar to that signed with Sweden. Nice, but at this time Finland would be able to handle a Russian conventional attack. Again, a prelude to NATO membership.

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/sweden-finland/2022/05/11/id/1069479/?ns_mail_uid=32ade90a-5dd3-4a6e-937d-3f54e121bd1a&ns_mail_job=DM329617_05112022&s=acs&dkt_nbr=0105049cuer7

https://archive.ph/Nik9f

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

RINO rat Crenshaw admitting real intentions behind US 40 billion aid package:

 

[Givi]

RINO rat Crenshaw admitting real intentions behind US 40 billion aid package:

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This logic is so retarded. The Russian military doesn't make vehicles out of unobtainium (in fact, they're cheaper and worse than NATO stuff so they're easier to replace). Uralvagonzavod alone can make 300 T-72s in a busy year of no war. Even if all of Russia's 2000 or so T-72s they have active (8,000 in storage, lol) were destroyed, they could make that shit back or upgrade another 2,000 in 7 years. Russian manpower costs are lower, they already produce most of the shit that goes into tanks, optics, APS and all that good shit, and in their own country (and China sure as shit isn't going to refuse to sell them the raw materials and odds and ends they don't have).

I won't even mention simple artillery pieces like the D-20, D-30 and stuff like Gvozdikas or GRADs. Those things can probably be pumped out in the range of 400+ per year if Russia needs shit to swing their dicks around with in retarded parades and to sell off to African dictators.

In terms of human cost? Let's be real here, this isn't going to cripple the Russian Army even if all 200,000 men died. Russia is a poor country run by a strongman dictator, and poor countries run by strongmen dictators will never have any lack of people who join the military so they can get OK pay, food and bedding, and maybe even get out of whatever shithole in Siberia they live in. If they fix the problems they have with recreational ass raping of recruits eventually, it'll get even easier to find new soldiers. Plus, wars have the unintended benefit of weeding out the incompetent and corrupt, either because that stuff comes to light or because they get themselves killed doing stupid shit.

These fantasies of Russia being forever crippled literally depend on Russia losing the war, which is already a long shot, and then doing nothing for 50 years.

Anyway, after this war, the smartest thing to do would probably be to invest in the T-14 platform and finally get it going, but it would require substantial money and fighting corruption in Russia which is unlikely to happen unless Putin suddenly gets interested in it, pulls a Stalin and starts purging people for the 100th time in Russian history so the fucking thing can get actual production runs. Or maybe they'll finally realize the T-90 is trash and the T-72 is outdated and move their ass.


P.S: What do these tards even think is so hard to build for the Russians? IFVs and APCs are literally just aluminum, steel and optional Kontakt-5 ERA and they have some of the biggest arms and military vehicle factories in the world. They produce their own trucks. It's not exactly space age shit that the vatniks couldn't possibly hope to build in large numbers.

 

[Ponzo]

RINO rat Crenshaw admitting real intentions behind US 40 billion aid package:

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[Givi]

Well I didn't want to spam the thread, but I was finding it fairly suspicious that the Russian MoD did not do a day briefing in their usual hours (or at all as of now), because whenever this happened, it meant a large offensive was happening from either side and the Ukrainians gave us confirmation.

There are likely also Russian forces fighting near Severodonetsk. In the south of the country, the activity is high.

Mari'inka is seeing renewed assaults
Novomikhailivka & surroundings being attacked
Novobakhmutivka and surroundings being attacked

 

[Su-27 Flanker-B]

So... now that that's over, what's happening? I glance through this and see rumblings of a Ukrainian counter attack, but (x) to doubt. Also, I'm aware America has joined the war via this lend lease. Based on WW2 America will drop the facade and fight with their own troops out in the open in 8-12 months. Also, Russia has lost another important ship? Any thing I missed?

Ukrainain counter-attack is VERY doubtful. Most gains they can make is when russians retreat from their positions.
Wont sperg about USA joining, it's even more doubtful than the counterattack.
The only ship rumored (and immediately accepted as truth) by ukrainians was a russian frigate, which was just two days later confirmed to be safely moored in Sevastopol.

Well I didn't want to spam the thread, but I was finding it fairly suspicious that the Russian MoD did not do a day briefing in their usual hours (or at all as of now), because whenever this happened, it meant a large offensive was happening from either side and the Ukrainians gave us confirmation.

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There are likely also Russian forces fighting near Severodonetsk. In the south of the country, the activity is high.

Mari'inka is seeing renewed assaults
Novomikhailivka & surroundings being attacked
Novobakhmutivka and surroundings being attacked

I still don't understand why ukrainians abandoned Popasna.

 

[Wy4M]

I still don't understand why ukrainians abandoned Popasna.

According to tomahawk and a bunch of other pro-Ukrainians the city is destroyed and doesn't have any strategic value anymore:

And then there are others:

"This city occupies high ground overlooking larger cities."
It's the highest point in the whole fucking region!
From that high ground you have a view distance of 20 miles/32 km and then pro-Ukraine accounts dare to say it doesn't have any strategic
value. Well, I guess we'll find out in the next coming days and the next coming artillery barrages.

https://twitter.com/Meeksisglen/status/1523648161754931200

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Edit: Elon Musk please halp:

https://twitter.com/pravda_eng/status/1524626056724025344

 

[MindYourSeabiscuits]

I'm a few days late on this but I saw how Lindsay Graham was saying that Russia deserves the label of a state that sponsors terrorism. America is such a joke, I've never heard of any terrorist event that has been linked to the Russian government, not one. Such a fake and gay country.

 

[Smity Werbenjagermanjensen]

Thought just occurred to me. Since Coach Red Pill went to Kharkiv because he was convinced that Russia would take it fairly quickly, what do you think his thoughts are now that Russia has pulled troops away from Kharkiv and it's front will in all likelihood end up like the Northern front in a few days?

 

[Su-27 Flanker-B]

I'm a few days late on this but I saw how Lindsay Graham was saying that Russia deserves the label of a state that sponsors terrorism. America is such a joke, I've never heard of any terrorist event that has been linked to the Russian government, not one. Such a fake and gay country.

You assume they need any proof for anything?

 

[Wy4M]

KEK. True if big

https://twitter.com/SNMilitary/status/1524650397889093634

https://archive.ph/kC4Gs

 

[IKOL]

I was promised rampaging niggos at the start of this war. Where the fuck are they?

They have been asked to think of their own country's securyty, in polite manner. Well at least I believe this way yet might be wrong, who knows...

Imagine what happened if England sold "Tinned Irishman with potatoes" or Spain made "Basque with nautral juices".

I mean, commiefornians wouldn't mind to eat "spicy Texan buttcheecks with bread loath".

corruption and decadence inside america doesn't change any of this.

Oh, on a contrary, it surely will. Fish rots from the head.

having a couple tranny nigger staff officers don't magically negate the fact that american operational assets on/under the oceans outnumber, outgun and out-tech any potential competitor force to a ridiculous degree.

Overwhelming force numbers and tech upremacy means fuck all when you have incompetent faggots and delusional psychopaths in charge. Current Russia-UkraineNATO\USA proxy conflict just proves that, both sides have proven themselves to make incompetent, retarded decisions and keep doing so.

This reads like a transcript of a call of duty campaign

Because it is.

New images of a Russian on his way to the front

Spoiler

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This war needs battle cats

Awwwwww
I don't like loyal Orders (except Salamanders, they are at least bond to their culture and families they ascended to Space Boiz from) but this is just so adorable.

Ukraine. Odessa. A policeman forces a veteran to leave the city square "Tell me what I fought for?"-asked the veteran

poor granpa fought for nazis to win in his country anyway. Shame.

 

[White_N]

"CNN showed a video of the murder of two civilians by the occupiers on the outskirts of Kiev, from whom the Russians first asked for cigarettes and then shot in the back."

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What the fuck is this story? It doesn't make any sense

Ukrainian media man Yuriy Butusov posted a video with American M777 howitzers

Tik-tok troops "To Belgorod"

 

[CometBop]

Overwhelming force numbers and tech upremacy means fuck all when you have incompetent faggots and delusional psychopaths in charge. Current Russia-UkraineNATO\USA proxy conflict just proves that, both sides have proven themselves to make incompetent, retarded decisions and keep doing so.

are we still at the stage where we believe that manly military ads are an accurate representation of military fighting ability?

 

[Feline Supremacist]

KEK. True if big

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https://twitter.com/SNMilitary/status/1524650397889093634

https://archive.ph/kC4Gs

Negervolk belong with other negervolk.

"CNN showed a video of the murder of two civilians by the occupiers on the outskirts of Kiev, from whom the Russians first asked for cigarettes and then shot in the back."

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What the fuck is this story? It doesn't make any sense
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I see the PR firms have learned and improved on the "Soldiers threw babbys on the floor and stole the incubators" atrocity propaganda. Who and how was this verified during an ongoing war?

 

[CometBop]

"CNN showed a video of the murder of two civilians by the occupiers on the outskirts of Kiev, from whom the Russians first asked for cigarettes and then shot in the back."

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What the fuck is this story? It doesn't make any sense

what part of it doesnt make sense? looks like another very obvious russian war crime

 

[CometBop]

Negervolk belong with other negervolk.

I see the PR firms have learned and improved on the "Soldiers threw babbys on the floor and stole the incubators" atrocity propaganda. Who and how was this verified during an ongoing war?

>caught on camera shooting some guys in the back
>guys this is just too unbelievable, no one is truly this evil to do this right in front of me on camera!