Well that is sus as fuck then.Issue is Rybar is claiming to get his infomation from insiders in the Ukie General Staffso according to Rybar themselves this isn't infomation from Russia, but infomation
from their assfrom some high ranking Ukie officer.
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It's generally a good idea to not believe anything for which the source is just "some dude said so". I don't even watch POW or refugee interviews, or those intercepted calls Ukrainians publish anymore, it's nothing but noise. If it can be independently verified, then use the verification, if it can't, it's worthless.Issue is Rybar is claiming to get his infomation from insiders in the Ukie General Stafffrom their assfrom some high ranking Ukie officer.
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Yeah, because they've totally been embarrassed by the other gorillion videos and didn't just ignore them and post their own propaganda.
If they can strike the island at will without losing equipment, why aren't they doing it now when the Russians are back to garrisoning it?
Jesus. What happened to Occam's razor?
The man died in a fucking anti-submarine helicopter. There's no reason for him to be in a Mi-14 unless he's attacking something near the sea. In fact, there's no reason for him to be out and about for any reason other than "something needs to be coordinated and coordinated well". The man's the deputy commander for Navy aviation, not some random pilot, he's not going to be flying bombing missions in the Donbas using an anti-submarine helicopter.
It doesn't fit the death of Igor Bedzai at all, even assuming everything else was correct.
Everyone lies. It's a war. The Ukrainian MoD has posted video game footage three times. The Russians still claim Bucha is a western gayop. But when bodies show up on the island and one of the best and most senior pilots Ukraine has dies right on the day of a claimed attack, there's no other way about it.
This is like if I tried claiming the crossing at Bilohorivka is fake and gay because trying to cross a pontoon bridge with 70 vehicles, possibly more than once, is fucking retarded. Yes, it is. Mistakes get made in war. The entire point of this supposed attack would be to deny the Russians additional SAM coverage over the Black Sea which would be quite useful for the Ukrainians, as well as lower Russian morale just in time for May 9. Do I think it's retarded? Yes. Is there some logic to it, even if stupid? Also yes.
The buildings aren't exactly irreplaceable. No buildings? Too bad, tents exist for a reason. Lose an Osa? Oh no. Russia only has 400 we know of. Totally not worth the 4 jets, dozen helicopters, attack craft and special forces (claimed).
No, the Russians still hold firm on the other side of the Seversky Donets and around Lyptsy and Kozacha Lopan. Any Ukrainian battery there right now is also in range of those two, and moving up 20km wouldn't exactly put them out of it.
They'd rather not leave, but they'd also rather not lose their limited amount men in retarded defenses that are never going to work. They can come back later and retake those villages after Donbas if it goes well, but if they try to spread themselves thin and fail at taking the Donbas, the war's over. Kharkiv likely isn't even in the top 10 priorities for the Russian forces right now.
Obviously, but it's not because of losses, it's because almost everyone else in the Russian forces is busy with more important shit. Again, the Ukrainians have to cross a river or attack far more well-defended areas if they want to seriously bother the Russian positions in and near Izyum, and river crossings suck ass. Both sides have failed hard at these constantly in this war. Not to mention that in and near Izyum, the Ukrainians likely lose some of their SAM capabilities and are more exposed to Russian aviation.
Was attached to 1st Armored DIVARTY for 2 years. Fun time. Artillerymen are great guys.
Yeah, it's just one more thing that reeks about the Russian version. They censor faces, they show no injuries, they show no evidence of combat at all actually, and one of the bodies they show have a suspicious belt that they then clumsily memory hole. Why is the video black and white again? It takes additional effort to not film in colour nowadays.
The nearest village is 50 kilometers away. The thing itself is only 600m in area, 17 ha. A jet or helicopter getting shot down and enough of landing in it to be recognizable instead of the entire sea surrounding it would be incredibly lucky, to say the least. It is entirely possible that simply nothing fell inside it.
Other than the fact that there's obviously dead people on the island. And no, you don't have any proof of them being props, and there's no reason to assume they are.
They captured loads of them in active warzones and immediately began using them, they didn't ship them to the Russian Navy so they could do epic gayops with them.
Deputy Commander of the Navy Aviation . Not just an officer. He wasn't some schmuck pilot, he was one of Ukraine's best pilots and one of the few who were in Crimea and didn't surrender or immediately run. You don't send your deputy commander to do bombing runs in the Donbas. He was likely there to coordinate the attack.
The Russians didn't claim to shoot down any helicopters on May 7-10 anywhere other than Snake Island. What part of Mi-14 anti submarine helicopter do you not understand? You don't use a helicopter with torpedos to attack ground targets for fuck's sake. He was somewhere near the sea. The only attack we heard of near the sea was in Snake Island. He died before May 8. Snake Island attack began in May 7 and ended in May 8.
Everything did happen the way it seems it did. You just have to actually think about what happened beyond the surface level of "Snake Island got bombed".
The Russian claim was that they intentionally left it lightly garrisoned as bait and after the Ukrainian landing happened, all their helicopters and landing boats were sunk. Is this true? What do I know? But the truth is that they're currently in control of it, and they managed to beat back a Ukrainian counteroffensive, so the island was certainly not left completely defenseless.
Being a sailor's fuckboy doesn't count as service.
The Russians don't report every single helicopter shot down, do they? Or is there some kind of list of claimed targets by date? If not, what's the point of claiming no other was shot down?
One pilot, one commanding officer, by your count.
So why was it involved in an air raid and follow up invasion then?
The Russian MoD gives out two briefings every day detailing what they shot down (or at least what they think they did or want to claim they did).
Getting confirmation of a dead pilot is rare enough, two on the same day or two days means something went very, very wrong.
Ukraine doesn't run many helicopter sorties. They don't run many jet sorties either, but much less helicopter ones.
Ilchuk was a pilot, helicopter one since the 10th Naval Aviation doesn't have any jets.
The captured weapons immediately get re-used, they don't get sent back to units that are unlikely to ever see combat that necessitates use of a Javelin, likely Navy Special Forces is what I assume the Russians were using during the fighting in Snake Island, since Fedorov Alexey Nikolaevich was a frogman and is confirmed KIA two days after he was injured due to a Bayraktar strike on his Raptor.
It wasn't involved in an air raid. The bombing run videos were the work of jets. The Mi-14 is for sea operations. It's equipped with torpedos and depth charges.
Who knows? But he was there, and he died. My personal theory is that the Ukrainians actually fell for the bait and thought the Russians were so out of SAM capabilities in the Black Sea that attempting the attack wasn't retarded, and the island was mostly safe. But no one can be sure.
Why would they? They don't have any armor airdrop capabilities and again, it's a tiny island. It would be incredibly lucky if any of the jets, helicopters or UAVs landed anywhere near the island, let alone on it.
Only three guys were recorded, we can't expect every single casualty to get recorded in a war.
Some were reportedly sunk, some ran away after the Russians started attacking. The Ukrainians weren't using any large landing barges, they were using Centaur class fast assault craft, the thing is probably invisible because it sunk deeper than the presumably moored Russian boat did. We aren't seeing the 3 or so Russian craft that we have visual confirmation got destroyed either, for example.
People have been saying that for 100 years. People also forget the US is the only nation on earth to actually pull the trigger on nuking an enemy.
This is in inaccurate depiction of what happened. We killed afghanis for two decades until the taliban was hiding in pakistan and we killed the fucker thst started this mess. After that, we got tired of killing them and left. We lost less than 2500 soldiers in those two decades. (The ending withdrawal was unacceptable though, and pure stupidity.)
Russias Flagship has always been the Admiral Kuznetsov, the Moskva was the lead ship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, old AF and designated to be scrapped in the 90s but reinstated and kept for sentimental value.
They already do have israelis fighting for them
It's all over for the Russoids. They pissed off the chosen.
Lets attack the home of Russian Baltic Fleet that is chock full of tactical nuclear weapons.
That would assume polish army is capable of offensive operations in scale bigger than two, maybe three battalions.
Implying they don't harass Kaliningrad already with "Kosovo je Al-Bani" song
