Reports of Ukraine with a significant breakthrough in Zaporizhzia. So far nothing has been confirmed on the Ukrainian side due to OPSEC but even Russia propaganda reports of Ukrainian losses are geolocated much further south than the main front lines.
Celebrating on December 25th was already becoming more common in Ukraine. Too bad, I always enjoyed having two Christmas's in our household growing up to satisfy my Ukrainian grandmother.
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Mine Kafon? Not as useful post war, but maybe useful as an inexpensive distraction that can take out the occasional mine or run over the occasional infantry unit like a heavy ads tumble weed?
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What is wrong with today's generation? If a bomb dropped in downtown Calgary the last thing I'd be doing is walking into the street with my camera ready to film.
What if the next bomb comes above your own head?!
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What is wrong with today's generation? If a bomb dropped in downtown Calgary the last thing I'd be doing is walking into the street with my camera ready to film.
What if the next bomb comes above your own head?!
It's not just a bomb...it's a drone. That could strike gain at any time. Or if it was a one time use drone, odds are they would send more than one.
This is also Russia, where the average male has about a 15ish year lower life expectancy than other similarly developed countries, for the single reason that they don't care too much about their own lives and will often drink themselves to death.
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What is wrong with today's generation? If a bomb dropped in downtown Calgary the last thing I'd be doing is walking into the street with my camera ready to film.
What if the next bomb comes above your own head?!
But if you don't record the bomb to show to your social media followers, did the bombing ever actually happen?
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Scary times. It looks like downtown and so these are people like you and me, with families, maybe kids, or a baby less than a year old. War needs to end.
Scary times. It looks like downtown and so these are people like you and me, with families, maybe kids, or a baby less than a year old. War needs to end.
True, but those buildings and that part of the city were not the intended targets. Russia said that one drone was shot down, and another 2 were brought down there after they were jammed electronically. It's likely the intended target had higher strategic value than downtown Moscow. Ukraine wouldn't waste drones attacking civilian office buildings in downtown Moscow.
Hopefully it does scare people in Moscow though and they start demanding an end to the war.
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I would guess they weren't as worried about the value of the target so much as forcing Russia to redeploy its anti drone capabilities away from the front and making Putin look weak to his people
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Scary times. It looks like downtown and so these are people like you and me, with families, maybe kids, or a baby less than a year old. War needs to end.
As opposed to Kiev? Not gonna muster sympathy here.
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Scary times. It looks like downtown and so these are people like you and me, with families, maybe kids, or a baby less than a year old. War needs to end.
Agreed. Russia needs to go the #### home, stay the #### home and then this nonsensical war they started can end.
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Wagner forces massing in Belarus along the Poland border. US publicly states that NATO will consider any attack made by Wagner forces to be an attack by the Russian Federation.
Some interesting developments in Poland. Belarus was confirmed to have sent 2 helicopters in Poland air space, which was at first denied by Poland but has since been confirmed after eyewitness video was shown. Wagner troops are also amassing along the Polish border as well, seemingly to cause sabotage and mayhem around the board. The US just mentioned that any Wagner attack on Poland will be seen as a Russian attack on NATO.
Israel earlier this week defied Russia's grain blockade and a ship ran through along with a few other ships, aided with support from a US P8 Poseidon in the air for security.
Things are heating up drastically, all it really takes is a trigger happy Russian to escalate.
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Some interesting developments in Poland. Belarus was confirmed to have sent 2 helicopters in Poland air space, which was at first denied by Poland but has since been confirmed after eyewitness video was shown. Wagner troops are also amassing along the Polish border as well, seemingly to cause sabotage and mayhem around the board. The US just mentioned that any Wagner attack on Poland will be seen as a Russian attack on NATO.
Israel earlier this week defied Russia's grain blockade and a ship ran through along with a few other ships, aided with support from a US P8 Poseidon in the air for security.
Things are heating up drastically, all it really takes is a trigger happy Russian to escalate.
Yeah, I think it's potentially a very serious issue.
Another thing to keep in mind is that Belarus has still been using migrants to try and destabilize Poland. This year alone, there have been over 16,000 attempted crossings from Belarus to Poland that have been aided and facilitated by the Belarusian government. Most of them get stopped and returned, but quite a few still make it though. There is a large fence now, but apparently there are ways to get around it. There is a fear that Wagner is disguising militants as migrants and trying to sneak them across into Poland to conduct sabotage and terror attacks.
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