Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread

How well is the war this going for Russia?

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Large swaths of Russia, including cities like Belgorod and Rostov are in range of Ukrainian artillery. You have to imagine that after what happened in Mariople and Kharkiv there are alot of itchy trigger fingers.

Those M777 batteries being supplied to Ukraine can kill alot of Russians in Belgorod right now. Clearly someone has been breathing down the front line commanders necks to not do so.
 
Large swaths of Russia, including cities like Belgorod and Rostov are in range of Ukrainian artillery. You have to imagine that after what happened in Mariople and Kharkiv there are alot of itchy trigger fingers.

Those M777 batteries being supplied to Ukraine can kill alot of Russians in Belgorod right now. Clearly someone has been breathing down the front line commanders necks to not do so.
>Large swaths.
>One percent of the country.

I think you overestimate how far M777 can hit because Rostov-on-Don is over 150 kilometers from the front lines and their range of fire is reported to be up to 45 kilometers. Even Belgorod is at best 30 kilometers away from the nearest front line or border line and it would be real big brain move to tow long range artillery here just to hit some civilian targets.
I would like to remind you that Russia can burn any Ukrainian city to the ground, if it wants to, and giving pretext for them to do so is not such a good move as you think it is. Bombing civilian targets is also not a part of Good Guys(TM) grindset, so Ukraine never (officially) will allow such a thing to happen.
 
>Large swaths.
>One percent of the country.

I think you overestimate how far M777 can hit because Rostov-on-Don is over 150 kilometers from the front lines and their range of fire is reported to be up to 45 kilometers. Even Belgorod is at best 30 kilometers away from the nearest front line or border line and it would be real big brain move to tow long range artillery here just to hit some civilian targets.
I would like to remind you that Russia can burn any Ukrainian city to the ground, if it wants to, and giving pretext for them to do so is not such a good move as you think it is. Bombing civilian targets is also not a part of Good Guys(TM) grindset, so Ukraine never (officially) will allow such a thing to happen.

MLRS with an hit rate greater than 40% are on the way, baby!

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>Large swaths.
>One percent of the country.

I think you overestimate how far M777 can hit because Rostov-on-Don is over 150 kilometers from the front lines and their range of fire is reported to be up to 45 kilometers. Even Belgorod is at best 30 kilometers away from the nearest front line or border line and it would be real big brain move to tow long range artillery here just to hit some civilian targets.
I would like to remind you that Russia can burn any Ukrainian city to the ground, if it wants to, and giving pretext for them to do so is not such a good move as you think it is. Bombing civilian targets is also not a part of Good Guys(TM) grindset, so Ukraine never (officially) will allow such a thing to happen.
The Excalibur guided projectiles have a range of 40km, and from videos of M777 we saw they dont have the guidance thingy on them, so they can't really shoot that far. Highest range is about 30km. Ukrainians would need to enter russian territory in order to hit Belgorod, nevermind which system they would want to use.
 
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Finnish mommy is looking great
 
The territorial defense of Zaporozhye uses a Maxim machine gun mounted on a Soviet LuAZ-969 car.

"Tachanka" is still in the game!

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Highly mobile elite units of the airborne assault troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine


China supports Russian special operation in Ukraine.


Blagoveshchensk, filmed on the embankment. From it, we have a view of Heihe, a Chinese city. Although they wrote it with an error, it's still nice.

 
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interesting tidbit of lore. Specifically on Zelensky's press secretary and main propagandist, Arestovich.

On March 31, 2004, members of the "Brotherhood" poured glue and water over George Soros , shouting: "Soros, get out of Ukraine, you won't succeed" ( Ukrainian: Сорос, геть з України, у тебе нічого не вийде) [11] . They later tried to throw eggs at his car. In response to this situation, George Soros gave the following assessment: "I'm surprised that 1 + 1 gives air to a person who controls a group of hooligans" - referring to the head of the "Brotherhood" Dmitry Korchinsky (host of the Prote program [12] .

On September 23, 2004, representatives of "Bratstvo (brotherhood)" broke into the building of the Central Election Commission demanding the opening of polling stations in Transnistria . As a result of a collision with the CEC guards, one of the guards received a head injury, some windows were left without glass [15] [16] . The next day, Yuri Karmazin assessed this event as an order from the authorities to destabilize the situation in the country [17] .

"Aleksey Arestovich [6] [7] became deputy chairman of the party ."​

 
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2005: (citing the original caption)
1. Director of the Press service of the "Eurasian movement" Valeriy Korovin
2. Deputy chairman of the party "Brotherhood" Aleksey Arestovich
3. Leader of the party "Brotherhood", Dmitry Korchinskiy
4. leader of the International "Eurasian movement" Alexandr Dugin
 
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2005: (citing the original caption)
1. Director of the Press service of the "Eurasian movement" Valeriy Korovin
2. Deputy chairman of the party "Brotherhood" Aleksey Arestovich
3. Leader of the party "Brotherhood", Dmitry Korchinskiy
4. leader of the International "Eurasian movement" Alexandr Dugin
Can you please explain more context?
 
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I dont know if its taken out, you can still hear it firing after taking the shot.
I only ever heard them firing on videogames so I couldn't tell that was what they sounded like. I just assumed a machine gun was being fired at the smoke in the hopes of catching people bailing out.
 
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English-speaking troops take out what seems to be a BTR-80 with a NLAW.
I dont know if its taken out, you can still hear it firing after taking the shot. Its definitely disabled for now.
Larger fragment with footage after the impact. I don't know what is really going on, but it seems that IFV was not destroyed. Probably lost some wheels, though.
 
Larger fragment with footage after the impact. I don't know what is really going on, but it seems that IFV was not destroyed. Probably lost some wheels, though.
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*APC. It drove off after getting a direct hit from an NLAW. I thought those were supposed to be a god punishment against tanks. Sorry, but I have to use this emote.

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