Ukrainian Defensive War against the Russian Invasion - Mark IV: The Partitioning of Discussion

[Ghostse]

Speaking of drunk Russian mechanics,
The fact that a dozen young and able Russians are not only avoiding the draft but are able to obtain an MI-2 helicopter engine to fuck about with *and spare parts for it* is increasingly amusing.
I assume this is Russian soft power in action.

tl;dr: MI-2 was made in Poland and main production has stopped but parts are still being produced. Its a very old copter, performance for military duties is not much above "better than nothing".
Additionally, helicopter engines are considered no longer airworthy long before they are actually in operable. Almost any (non-military) ground vehicle that uses a turbine engine uses a de-certified helicopter engine because to get them back into service is stupidly labor intensive (read: expensive) process. IIRC the difference between a helicopter and a jet engine is that the compactness of the engine means good fucking luck getting it apart and then back together.

Also, when checking to make sure I had my helicopter species correct, I see the Norks are the largest current operator.So that's probably where the engine came from and parts were likely gotten from poland because I believe Russia has retired all their attack variants so the MI-2 is mostly used for medical transport inside russia so probably not on the restricted list.

Drunken Russian AA trying to BLYAT their own helizizters.

Anything in the air that evades is a Ukrainian drone. Anything that doesn't evade is a well-programed Ukrainian drone.

 

[Type 10 MBT]

I don't think he's stress eating, I think he's just gotten older and between Typical Russian Lifestyle, Typical Muslim Lifestyle, and Typical Former Soviet Satellite Dictator Lifestyle (which is what he effectively is) its caught up with him. See: ever hispanic girl once they hit 30.

Normally I would agree but my only hangup is how fast it happened. Pictures of him right before and 3 months after the start of the war he looked massively different. It could be age but the change was like seeing someone that was clean disappear and show back up gaunt from 3 straight months of Meth. Then again, it could also just be he went to town on food while popping uppers and hitting an age wall.

 

[Ghostse]

Normally I would agree but my only hangup is how fast it happened. Pictures of him right before and 3 months after the start of the war he looked massively different. It could be age but the change was like seeing someone that was clean disappear and show back up gaunt from 3 straight months of Meth. Then again, it could also just be he went to town on food while popping uppers and hitting an age wall.

I would say Age wall and travel. He's probably flying out to Moscow, having lavish dinners, schedule's all fucked up due to flights so meal times are all hours and being an Important Guy can get whatever tasty food brought to him at any time. Add to that a slowing metabolism and he packs on the pounds.

I guess I wouldn't say stress/stress eating isn't a factor, but I don't think that's the main cause. Look at later-stage Ghadaffi.

 

[Fuck It We'll Do It Live]

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[Gambina Enthusiast]

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[Something Awful]

Zelensky says more Chinese fighting on the Russian side identified.

"Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday that Ukrainian intelligence had identified 155 Chinese citizens fighting alongside Russian forces, a day after Ukraine said two Chinese nationals were captured in the country."

“We are collecting information and we believe that there are more, many more,” Zelensky said Wednesday, before claiming that Beijing was aware of Russians placing recruitment videos on Chinese social networks.


Beijing says Zelensky should stop with his "irresponsible remarks".


The Guardian says: "Numerous recruitment clips are easily found on Chinese social media. All of them emphasise the pay on offer, ranging from 60,000 to 200,000 RMB (£6,000 to £21,000) as a sign-on bonus and monthly salaries of about 18,000 RMB (£1,900)."

One of the ads allegedly circulating in China:

Ты же мужик, kitajec! Стань подсолнухом! А че, слабо?!

 

[Ghostse]

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Look NAFO Tranny, all that graph shows is that 1) Russia is only sending cold war surplus to Ukraine because otherwise it wouldn't be fair for the NATO cold war surplus. This is Russia baiting NATO in terminally weakening themselves as Russia creates a cauldroooooooooooooon with ancient vehicles they would have scrapped - this was always the plan from the Kiev feint till now. and 2) All current production Russian IFV like the completely battlefield ready BMP-T are simply invulnerable to Ukraine's gay NATO weapons.

Also the globohomo jew cucks at Warspotting are just being Hohol-fluffing faggots becasue they refuse to classify the Desert Oasis 500 golf cart or the 50cc BMXtreme dirt bike as IFVs despite these being in production and the bulk of Russia's assault vehicles.

 

[No. 7 cat]

U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff has told President Donald Trump that giving Moscow "ownership" of four occupied Ukrainian regions would be the fastest way to achieve a ceasefire, Reuters reported on April 11, citing two unnamed U.S. officials and five other undisclosed sources.

According to Reuters, Witkoff conveyed this proposal to U.S. President Donald Trump after meeting with Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev in Washington in early April.

The news came as Witkoff met Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg to discuss a possible path toward a settlement in Ukraine.

According to Reuters's sources, Trump administration officials are increasingly divided on how to break the deadlock in Russia's war against Ukraine, with Witkoff and U.S. Special Envoy Keith Kellogg disagreeing on the best course forward.

In a March interview with American far-right political commentator Tucker Carlson, Witkoff openly parroted Russian propaganda regarding Ukraine's occupied territories.

Witkoff claimed that the majority of people in Ukraine's Russian-occupied territories had participated in referendums and "indicated that they want to be under Russian rule."

He referred to the Russian sham vote on the annexation of Ukraine's Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson oblasts held in September 2022.

The hastily organized "referendums" were held at gunpoint in the Russian-controlled parts of the regions, with widespread voter intimidation and soldiers going door to door with ballot boxes.

The so-called "referendums" contradicted international, Ukrainian and even Russian law and were recognized only by two countries — Russia and North Korea, both of which have little knowledge of free elections.

Moscow illegally declared the annexation of Crimea in 2014, as well as the partially occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson oblasts eight years later.

The Trump administration has already signaled it expects Kyiv to make territorial concessions as part of a possible peace deal, calling a return to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders "unrealistic."

Photo: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Kyiv Independent on Instagram

I hope sincerely that this is untrue. Basically surrender another country to yet another country that has waged hybrid warfare against the US and allies. It's plausible given what Witkoff has said and done. Honestly, I'd slightly expect him to propose that the US surrenders Alaska to Putin. Obviously that's a bit unlikely. The thing here is to give everything Putin wants in hope of a temporary ceasefire that'll plausibly last Trump's 2nd term. General Kellogg wasn't such an abject cretinous surrender monkey, so Russia rejected him and the relevant US Administration bitch provided Russia a truly servile envoy, a Jewish property developer, some crony and donor on the make.

 

[WhiteNight]

Witless Witkoff.

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Okay that's not worthy of a whole post. But I don't understand how this senior diplomat could be so incompetent. It's not an arcane secret that the annexation referendums were a complete farce; Russia barely even pretended otherwise. E.g., Zap "voted" for Russia when its largest and capital city wasn't even included in the vote.

In his interview with Tucker, Witkoff couldn't even name the regions in question he'd just talked to Putin about. He sputtered and stumbled.

It's also not esoteric knowledge that if Ukraine were to give up the regions, that would not end the war. Putin outright said it was only a condition for peace talks. Russia's negotiation tactic has always been to take any concessions, then demand more at gunpoint. Putin's openly stated plan is for Ukraine to cease to exist.

 

[Fatsuit Shinji]

Didn't Trump had stated unless the country is a nuclear power, it ain't a real country?

 

[Overpriced Gaming Chair]

Didn't Trump had stated unless the country is a nuclear power, it ain't a real country?

Zelenskyy: We need NATO or nukes … and we want NATO​

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[Fatsuit Shinji]

Zelenskyy: We need NATO or nukes … and we want NATO​

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IF the euros will start letting their balls drop and man the fuck up to accept Ukraine into NATO with or without the U.S. and other dissenting members approval.

 

[Something Awful]

IF the euros will start letting their balls drop and man the fuck up to accept Ukraine into NATO with or without the U.S. and other dissenting members approval.
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How do you imagine that happening? How would Ukraine be accepted into Nato if some members (especially the U.S.) don't agree to defend it? What would be the point, even if such a thing were possible? Countries are free to form their own military alliances with Ukraine without including every Nato state.

In somewhat related news, The Telegraph reports Britain is considering deploying troops in Ukraine for a period of five years once some kind of peace plan is effected.

 

[-Jack-]

So what's going on with the ceasefire news? To me, just feels like the US is giving Russia time to capture as much land as possible.

 

[‘84 Fuckerbird Trans Man]

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So what's going on with the ceasefire news? To me, just feels like the US is giving Russia time to capture as much land as possible.

Nothing.

It’s been a whole month since the US proposed an unconditional ceasefire, Ukraine - after some back and forth - accepted, and Russia did not.

The delusional putler MAGA stooges will still claim Ukraine “stands in the way of peace”, or whatever the mantra was.

President Zelenskyy confirmed the first combat loss of F-16 (Twitter). Pilot is KIA.

Today, Captain Pavlo Ivanov was tragically killed during an F-16 combat mission. The guy was only 26. My condolences to his family and to all of Pavlo’s brothers-in-arms. Military officials provided the necessary reports on this combat situation. We are establishing all the circumstances. Ukrainian F-16s, Mirages, and MiGs, all our combat aviation heroically carry out missions, defending our state and supporting ground operations. The Air Force is also engaged in defending Ukraine from Russian missiles and drones. We are proud of our warriors. Our response will be strong and precise. Glory to Ukraine!

The Z niggers will now be beating themselves in the chest and worship the debris of Viper like remains of a deity.

Mongoloid niggers will milk the shootdown from every angle and recycle the footage to claim more F-16 defeats like they did with the Leopard 2, Bradley, and all the other Western designs that are so obviously inferior that destroying one is more important than all the Soviet crap they've lost.

"Fighterbomber" will smile until the next "eternal flight", which hopefully won't take long.

 

[National Defense Advocate]

You can really only brag about Kills when your own deaths aren't in the sextuple digits.

 

[No. 7 cat]

Preston Stewart: The Baltic version of the Maginot Line is being built

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Presumably there won't be a Baltic equivalent of the Ardennes left unfortified because surely no one would go that way. Fortification with the usual drones, mines and artillery have proven to be an effective way of arresting advances in this war, so war is not fought in the ruins of cities. Given that the Trump Administration has decided half assed efforts and attempts at shady deals towards a temp ceasefire are better than helping an ally defend itself, this is how it will be. Ukraine has ensured that at the present rate it would take Russia a 100 years to attain its partial goal of half Ukraine. Still an abundance of caution is the best given the uncertainty of US support nowadays.

 

[Jewthulhu]

Down But Not Out: The Russian Economy Under Western Sanctions​

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Long article, and a lot of economic autism. Here's what I took away from it:

While Western sanctions have been effective in hurting aspects of the Russian economy, the Russian economy has seen significant growth since the start of the invasion. Paradoxically, the weak sanctions after the 2014 annexation of Crimea have both helped and hurt Russia in this regard. On the one hand, a reduction of western capital flowing into Russia allowed Russia to prepare and "shore up" against further sanctions. I particularly like this analogy the author used:

...similar to weak antibiotics, which over time allow for the growth of more resilient bacteria, the limited sanctions aided Russia in preparing for the larger confrontation of 2022.

On the other hand, the weak sanctions let Russia's political class, particularly Putin, become complacent. There was a lack of full preparation against the stricter sanctions that would come following the full-scale invasion, leading to a drop in oil revenue and the massive fluctuations in the value of the ruble that we've seen. While some Russian technocrats and economic advisors warned of the impact of further sanctions, those in power, likely drinking their own kool-aid, believed that the sanctions would either be weak, or at least worth the gains provided by Ukraine.

Russia has been able to use the sanctions to its own benefit in a way, rapidly taking steps to seize foreign assets left in Russia, forcing internal investment and consumption, and strengthening the regime through wealth redistribution. However, the sanctions have still stunted Russia's economic power, which is why they're pressing so hard to have them lifted in the peace negotiations with Trump.

 

[BradeRunna]

I just heard an F-16 was shot down by an S-400.

 

[Fuck It We'll Do It Live]

Ukraine's European partners announced new military aid during the Ukraine Defense Contact Group (the Ramstein format) meeting on April 11. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius announced on April 11 that Germany will provide Ukraine with four IRIS-T air defense systems, 33 missiles for the systems, 120 man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS), 25 Marder infantry fighting vehicles, 15 Leopard tanks, 14 artillery systems, and 130,000 155mm artillery shells.[1] Pistorius stated that Germany recently provided 30 Patriot missiles to Ukraine as well. The German Ministry of Defense (MoD) announced on April 11 that Germany and the United Kingdom (UK) are establishing an electronic warfare (EW) coalition for Ukraine.[2] The UK MoD announced a military aid package worth 450 million pounds (about $588 million) drones, radars, and anti-tank mines.[3] Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur stated that Estonia will deliver 10,000 155mm artillery shells and 750,000 rations packages to Ukraine; Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans stated that the Netherland will provide 150 million euros (about $170 million) to strengthen Ukraine's air defenses; and Lithuanian Defense Minister Dovilė Šakalienė announced that Lithuania will allocate 20 million euros (about $22 million) to Ukraine for the purchase of ammunition.[4]

Ukraine’s European partners announced additional military aid packages within the context of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group (the Ramstein format) meeting on April 11. Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov announced on April 11 that Norway will provide 100 million euros (roughly $113 million) of financing for the United Kingdom’s (UK) 450-million-pound (roughly $588 million) drone and repair aid package to Ukraine.[21] The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) announced on April 3 that it will provide Ukraine with an additional military aid package worth 6.7 billion Danish kroner (over $1 billion) between 2025 and 2027.[22] The Danish aid package will provide Ukraine with air defense, artillery systems, and ammunition, support the drone and information technology (IT) coalitions, and support the development of a financial framework for Ukraine’s Air Force.[23] Norwegian Defense Minister Tore Sandvik stated that Norway will allocate an additional 10 billion Norwegian kroner (roughly $938 million) for joint Norwegian-Baltic training and provisioning of a new Ukrainian brigade.[24]