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#87401

The russians found a mine in the river but they never knew it

❗️Mining the Dnipro Riverbed near Kherson with river mines

 

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    For the love of Christ woman,  stop posting the same fucking thing every 20 mins just to make your neurotic self feel better.     Bring something useful to the thread other than your inane babbli

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    I volunteered today. Log/Admin role to replace people for 30-60 days. The operation is in the west, or should the Orcs win will be pulled back behind the NATO wall. Either way the humanitarian effort

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#87402
"Back then, Hitler tried to kill me because I was Jewish, and now Putin is trying to kill me because I am Ukrainian." - In the German Bundestag, on the anniversary of the Holocaust, 90-year-old Roman Schwarzman gave a speech.

 

#87403
Aeronavty drone unit hit very rare targets - two 2S7 Pion self-propelled cannons. There are not many of these cannons left in the Russian army - a year ago, OSINT researcher HighMarsed suggested that the Russians had only 80-100 of them left in active service

 

#87404
Several Russian war correspondents and monitoring channels reported some activity on the Belarusian front this evening—allegedly, Ukraine launched drones towards the Mozyr oil refinery, just 40 km from the Ukrainian border.
Near Pokrovsk, eight highly dangerous "Storm" convicts have deserted from the Russians, taking their weapons with them. The Russians are now warning that these individuals plan to steal a car and head for Selidove.

 

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#87406

The Russian spy ship in Britain’s waters preparing ground for war
A confrontation with Yantar may have looked peaceful but for Royal Navy, the fight is below the surface

Senior Foreign Correspondent
29 January 2025 11:57am GMT


Sailing off the south coast of England, the Russian trawler known as the Yantar carried its usual array of hi-tech equipment.
In photographs released by the Ministry of Defence, a large radar dome can be seen behind two masts bristling with antennae.
Officially, these allow the 108 metre-long craft to monitor ocean currents, befitting a vessel the Kremlin maintains is part of its oceanographic research fleet.


But it was the ship’s more nefarious purposes that prompted a rare display of British naval power on Jan 20, when the Yantar was confronted by a British warship, HMS Somerset, and patrol vessel HMS Tyne.


Humdrum though it may appear, the Yantar is known to carry two submersibles that can dive down up to 6,000 metres, allowing their crew to map, monitor and potentially sever the undersea cables that transmit data around the world.
 

    1Gathering intelligence on US acoustic sensors near Kings Bay Naval Base, Georgia
    2Monitoring communications around the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
    3Recovery or destruction of equipment on board crashed Russian SU-33 and Mig-29 aircraft
    4Assisting Argentina in recovery of missing submarine
    5Attempting to retrieve crashed British F-35
    6Mapping UK undersea cables off the coast of Cornwall and in the Irish sea
    7Investigating sinking of Russian cargo ship Ursa Major and potentially destroying secret equipment
    8A second sortie to UK waters within weeks of being escorted away to the Mediterranean

“Let me be clear, this is a spy ship,” said John Healey, the Defence Secretary, as he revealed the Royal Navy operation last week.
And while the encounter looked peaceful from above, analysts and former navy officers told The Telegraph that Britain is likely to be already engaged in direct conflict with Russia’s “dark fleet”, deep underwater and out of sight.


In the images released by the MoD, a third ship looms over the Yantar, RFA Proteus. The £65 million auxiliary ship, completed in 2019, also possesses submersibles – only these have the kind of claws needed to sever the cables connecting Yantar to its mischief-making deep-sea craft.


“I reckon by now the Yantar will be missing some of its equipment,” said Tom Sharpe, a former Royal Navy submariner. “If it isn’t, it should be.”
The details of underwater battles typically remain shrouded in secrecy for decades, observed only by passing sea life as they take place.
The last British submarine known to have severed a cable was HMS Conqueror in 1982. Fresh from firing the missiles that sank Argentina’s Belgrano in the Falklands War, it cut an acoustic array trailed by a Soviet trawler.
 

    1Navigation and tracking other vessels, including Nato ships
    2Deep-sea submersibles, the Rus and the Konsul, can dive to 6000m
    3Poistioning system that allows the Yantar to loiter in the same place for prolonged periods of time
    4Transmitting data to Russian naval command, electronic jamming systems and communication intercepts
    5Helicopters can perform reconnaissance to back-up underwater operations

“Thank goodness it was one of our submarines” to have performed the daring operation, said a jubilant Margaret Thatcher.
Similar efforts are likely under way today, said Dr Sidharth Kaushal of the Royal United Services Institute think tank. “I would be surprised if… efforts to outcompete each other just short of the threat of war by both Russian submariners and Western ones are not occurring.”
The Yantar is an openly provocative target. For almost a decade, the 60-crewed ship has trailed undersea cables around the world, its position revealed through the pings it sends to the Automatic Identification System, a global maritime tracking network.


From Guantanamo Bay to the North Sea, it is suspected of mapping out Nato’s critical underwater infrastructure to prepare for eventual conflict.
The global internet network relies on around 500 undersea cables, with 60 or so running through Britain. The most important of these travel across the Atlantic and carry critical financial data between Wall Street and the City.
In a worst-case scenario, the Yantar could be dropping charges on those cables to be detonated in the event of war, said Mr Sharpe.

Matt Western, the chairman of the Joint Committee on National Security Strategy, told The Telegraph that the consequences of an attack would be “grim”, hitting “communications, essential services relying on the internet, the finance sector, payments systems, supply chains and so on”.
Russia’s dark fleet is already suspected of four sabotage operations in the Baltic since November, severing cables connecting Estonia to Latvia, Sweden to Lithuania and Norway to Finland and Germany.


To knock out the UK’s internet connection, dozens of cables would have to be severed simultaneously. Some analysts speculate that, besides threatening such a strike, the Yantar’s probing missions could serve another purpose.
“I think they probably want to go after critical military cables and discriminate those from the wider network,” Mr Kaushal said. The location and purpose of such cables is classified, but when bad weather severed one off the US coast in 2007, it grounded the army’s Iraqi drone fleet for a week.


HMS Somerset tracked the movements of Russian spy ship Yantar through UK waters
HMS Somerset tracked the movements of the Russian spy ship through UK waters on Jan 20 Credit: Royal Navy
In his statement to Parliament last week, Mr Healey revealed a British submarine had surfaced near the Yantar during a sortie it made into British waters in November.


The nuclear-class Astute submarine could have lurked underneath the Yantar for “days”, Mr Sharpe suggested, potentially getting close enough to take photographs of its hull and “map the underwater fittings”.
In revealing itself to the Russian craft, the submarine provided a clear show of force to the Kremlin, but the breaching carries risks. Moscow will now be able to monitor any sensor data the Yantar collected in the hours before, listening for any tell-tale acoustic signals left by the not-quite silent boat.


In the Russian military, Gugi is the agency responsible for deep-sea espionage, reporting directly to the ministry of defence rather than the navy. Its officers were “very capable”, Mr Sharpe said, informed by decades of experience over the Cold War.
The Soviet Union built up the world’s second-largest fishing fleet in the early 1970s and converted dozens of trawlers into spy ships, taking advantage of their hardiness and large amounts of hangar space.
‘Godforsaken pieces of junk’


When a US navy destroyer approached a Soviet vessel lurking off the coast of Virginia in 1964, the ship’s captain reported that the small craft “spun on a dime”. “They may have looked like godforsaken pieces of junk, but they were manned by talented crew”.
Four years earlier, Harold Macmillan, Britain’s prime minister, warned that the presence of fishing trawlers near a weapons testing range at Aberporth, Wales, was bringing the Soviet Union “perilously close to a showdown with the West”.


That Russia is able to deploy much the same tactics decades on from the Cold War stems from the protections afforded to civilian vessels under international laws around freedom of navigation. “If you want to protect against it,” you may have to compromise fundamental principles like the ability of civilian ships to sail – and collect intelligence – through international waters, said Katja Bego, a research associate at Chatham House.
That could have knock-on effects on international shipping through the Red Sea or the tense waters in the western Pacific. Russia, which denies any spying, has already threatened to deploy warships to “protect” its civilian fleet.


In part, this is a riposte to the West’s increasing naval muscle. In December, Finnish commandos boarded the Eagle S, the trawler suspected of severing the Estlink 2 power cable in the Gulf of Finland. They found the ship “bristling” with spy equipment that allowed it to monitor Nato ships and aircraft, Lloyds List reported.


Could British commandos be called upon to board the Yantar, if its brazen snooping continues?
“Other countries have boarded and detained vessels suspected of sabotage,” Mr Western said, days after announcing an inquiry into Britain’s undersea defences. “The committee’s inquiry will take a close look at what powers and capabilities the UK has, and how well they are being used.”


Lawyers should already be working on establishing the legal basis for a boarding operation, Mr Sharpe added. There would be little point in the SBS speeding out of Poole only to have to turn back half-way. As ever, the risk of conflict spirals in a direct confrontation. No Royal Navy sailor will forget the fate of commander Lionel Crabb, who was deployed to examine the underwater hull of the Ordzhenikidze, a Soviet cruiser that docked in Portsmouth in 1956. His body, missing its head, was found floating in the waters nearby.

 

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#87407

 

A year ago on Fox News they were repeating Russia's talking points about NATO expansion and Ukrainian corruption, but they aren't doing that anymore thankfully.https://t.co/NpbFxQdItL

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#87408
2 hours ago, Viper said:

 

A year ago on Fox News they were repeating Russia's talking points about NATO expansion and Ukrainian corruption, but they aren't doing that anymore thankfully.https://t.co/NpbFxQdItL

1884845035700764993?t=VTxhgx2FZIFX-g9ed-

 

I mean, I guess this is a step in the right direction, but I wonder if he toned down the pro-Russian rhetoric only because he was interviewing Zelenskyy. Also, "I would like Ukraine to remain a country," is a pretty fucking low bar.

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#87410
On 7/12/2022 at 5:03 PM, BearSchlong said:

1st LT BearSchlong Jr arrived home from Poland today. Shifting good vibes to the men and women of the 101st that relieved the 82nd.

During the Battle of the Bulge, my father and his 9th Armored buddies finally allowed to leave the fortified goose-egg they created at the crossroads town of St. Vith, and were only able to disengage from the German offensive when the 82nd airborne reached them, making a narrow pathway to withdraw without being annihilated on Christmas Eve.

He said “if you ever meet a member of the 82nd airborne, buy them a drink for me.”

Buy your son a drink for my father, and us middlemen will figure logistics out later.

#87411
3 hours ago, Nivek said:
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How/why is this thing not confiscated or sunk? 

Probably because we have 20 doing the same thing. 

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#87412


Kyiv, Ukraine CNN  —

North Korean troops have not been seen on the frontlines in Russia’s Kursk region for several weeks, a Ukrainian military official said Friday, amid reports of mass casualties among Pyongyang’s forces.

“The presence of DPRK troops has not been observed for about three weeks, and they were probably forced to withdraw after suffering heavy losses,” a spokesperson for the Ukrainian military’s Special Operations Forces, Colonel Oleksandr Kindratenko, told CNN.

It follows reports that some North Korean units have been pulled back from the frontlines after significant losses, according to Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak.

About 12,000 North Korean soldiers have been sent to Russia, according to Ukrainian officials and Western intelligence reports, which say around 4,000 those troops have been killed or injured.

North Korean troops have been deployed to Kursk since at least November to repel Ukraine’s incursion in the southern Russian border region.

“We are still in the Kursk region… the Russian forces were not enough to push us out,” Ukrainian President Zelensky said last week at a speech in Davos, Switzerland. Zelensky noted that there were 60,000 Russian troops in Kursk and 12,000 North Koreans.

Zelensky also said that one-third of those North Korean troops had been killed.

CNN has previously reported on the brutal and near-suicidal tactics of North Korean soldiers, who in some cases have detonated grenades rather than be captured by Ukrainian forces and have written pledges of allegiance on the battlefield to North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un.

A commander with the 6th Special Operations Forces regiment, who did not want to give his name for security reasons, told CNN that while the North Korean soldiers are “all young, trained, hardy fighters,” they would have not previously faced drones in combat. “They are prepared for the realities of war in 1980 at best,” he said.

Another battalion serviceman told CNN the North Koreans had shown good marksmanship when shooting down drones from about a 100-meter distance, suggesting a high level of training in North Korea.

However, Russia appears to be using the troops as foot soldiers, using them to carry out mass ground assaults despite major losses in Kursk.

Ukraine has recently made advancements in Kursk, according to a battlefield update from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a DC-based think-tank, on January 26. Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry said earlier this week that Russian forces recaptured the Kursk region village of Nikolayevo-Daryino, which lies on the Russia-Ukraine border.
 

Neither Moscow nor Pyongyang have officially acknowledged the presence of North Korean troops in Russia.

Last year, months before the deployment of North Koreans to Russia, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin signed a landmark defense pact and pledged to use all available means to provide immediate military assistance in the event the other is attacked.

The pact is the most significant agreement signed by Russia and North Korea in decades and has been viewed as something of a revival of their 1961 Cold War-era mutual defense pledge.

#87413

https://www.threads.net/@spravdi.gov.ua/post/DFfkj9XtOMn?xmt=AQGzz_nBjLaKVckCiYf-SlHNHSIPCr6WEP0LONdnTZMikg

Russia continues their terrorism on the high seas as Norwegian police seize another ship suspected of sabotaging undersea cables off the coast of Latvia.
Crewed entirely by Russians, the "Silver Dania" was brought into Tromsø Port in Breivika today at 6:40 a.m.

 

 

#87414

31 Jan 2025
Here is the situation on Friday, January 31:

Fighting
Nine people were reportedly killed and 13 others injured including a child when a Russian drone hit a multistorey apartment building in northeastern Ukraine’s Sumy city, the region’s Governor Volodymyr Artyukh said.
An oil refinery in Russia’s southern Volgograd region caught fire after an overnight Ukrainian drone attack, but the blaze has now been put out, according to regional governor Andrei Bocharov. One injured refinery worker was hospitalised, he said.

Kyiv’s military said Moscow launched 81 drones towards Ukraine in an overnight attack with the air force reportedly shooting down 37 drones and 39 failing to reach their targets.
Russia’s Ministry of Defence said air deference units downed 17 Ukrainian drones in four regions over the course of two hours. Eleven of the drones were reportedly destroyed over the Kursk region, while the remaining six were taken down over Russia’s Belgorod and Voronezh regions, as well as Russian-occupied Crimea.

Russia has accused a former British soldier, who was taken prisoner while fighting for Ukraine, of terrorism and mercenary charges. James Anderson could potentially face decades in prison if convicted. United Kingdom Ministry of Foreign Affairs David Lammy said he was aware of the case and the government would do all it could to assist Anderson.
Russian oil and gas
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told state radio that halting Russian gas flows via Ukraine and the resulting rise in costs as users seek alternative supply was unacceptable.

The Reuters news agency reports that Germany is expanding its natural gas import options to replace Russian supplies after Kyiv suspended transit of Russia’s gas through Ukraine.


Politics & diplomacy
Slovakia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it summoned Ukrainian Ambassador Myroslav Kastran to convey a “strong protest” over statements made by Ukrainian officials, including claims that Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was a “mouthpiece” for Russia.

 

In response, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry said it summoned Slovakia’s ambassador to reject accusations of interference in Slovakia’s internal affairs. The ministry, in a statement, also called on Slovakia to return to constructive dialogue.
Sweden’s Defence Minister Pal Jonson announced that the country is planning a $1.2bn aid package for Ukraine. Jonson said that Stockholm was negotiating with Swedish and European sources to supply prioritised artillery and drone equipment.

#87416
Russian commanders have introduced a new training method: using grenades as the ultimate test of endurance. If you don't flinch at the explosion, you're deemed ready to fight for Putin

 

#87417

Nothing new, just Russia bombing Russians

Four bodies have been found under the rubble of the internat in Sudzha, the Ukrainian General Staff gave an update on the situation. Medical aid has been provided to 84 civilians, with four in critical condition. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
Ukraine's General Staff says Russia knew the boarding school in Sudzha was being used exclusively to shelter Russian civilians in preparation for an evacuation and the Russian guided bomb strike was targeted. Number of fatalities in this Russia-on-Russia war crime is unknown yet. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

 

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#87418
In January, UA's Unmanned Systems Forces regiment "Birds of Magyar" crews hit/destroyed 4,387 Russian targets, including 1,298 personnel. Magyar reports that by March, 100 more crews will be trained—meaning even more losses for the Russians. https://t.me/noel_reports/23704
Russia sent 15 soldiers to film a picture report in Novoiehorivka (fake capture claim) It is a hamlet of two bombed out houses in the Luhansk Oblast, 2,350 meters past the known line of conflict. 14 were killed, and the sole survivor was captured by the Ukrainian 3rd Brigade. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

 

#87419
On 1/29/2025 at 9:16 AM, Chopper said:

interesting

❗️🇺🇦Ukrainian SOF ambush 🇷🇺Russian logistics in Kursk region

 


I think those are the fiber optic FPVs. The Russians have been using them similarly, these pop-up ambushes

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#87420
Russians are trapped in Velyka Novosilka, the 110th Mechanized Brigade reports. "Battles continue, but Russian forces are caught in a fire pocket—unable to advance yet forced to reinforce. Our drones track their movements, FPVs & artillery strike their hideouts, burying them alive," they add.
⚡️ 15,000 Russian troops 'neutralized' in Pokrovsk direction in January alone, Syrskyi says. In a post that included a video of combat footage, Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said the area "remains one of the hottest" on the front. https://kyivindependent.com/15-000-russian-troops-neutralized-in-pokrovsk-direction-in-january-alone-syrskyi-says/

 

#87422
37 minutes ago, Parliament said:

Fifteen THOUSAND?  That can’t be right.

 

injured and killed in a month - sounds about right for Russia.

#87424
9 hours ago, Parliament said:

Fifteen THOUSAND?  That can’t be right.

Of course it can be. It’s been Russia’s primary focus for months. They aren’t even dedicating enough troops to take back Kursk because of pokrovsk

 

#87425

 

Russian governor blown up by landmine becomes highest-ranking casualty of Ukraine war

James Kilner

Sun, February 2, 2025 at 11:50 AM MST

3 min read

It is thought Sergey Efremov was promoted to deputy governor as a reward for signing up to fight in Ukraine - X

The deputy governor of a Russian region has been killed fighting in Ukraine, becoming the highest-ranking Russian official to die in the war.

Sergey Efremov, the deputy governor of Russia’s eastern region of Primorsky Krai, was killed returning to Russian lines from a battle with Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region.

Oleg Kozhemyako, the area’s governor, said in an emotional video that his deputy had died a hero, adding: “I know that his friends and comrades will do everything to avenge him.”

The Kremlin has encouraged officials to lead by example and sign up to fight – but most deploy to VIP drone units that stay well behind the front line.

It appears that Efremov, who trained as a soldier and graduated from the prestigious airborne officers’ college in Ryazan, took a different approach.

He set up a volunteer unit called the Tigers in June 2022, when Russia was on the back foot across Ukraine.

He fought with the unit until 2023 when he returned to Primorsky Krai. Apparently motivated by the Ukrainian invasion of Russia’s Kursk region in August 2024, Efremov then rejoined the Tigers.

“He honoured and courageously fulfilled combat missions there, glorifying the marine infantry, glorifying the Tigers and Primorsky Krai,” said Mr Kozhemyako.

Photographs on the Telegram social messaging app showed 51-year-old Efremov to be a thick-set, jowly man.

He was reportedly travelling in a car blown up by a landmine. Another Russian army officer was also killed.

Denis Pushilin – head of the occupied Donetsk, which Putin annexed in 2022 – knew Efremov and called his death an “irreparable loss”.

“He always showed a keen interest in the topic of the socio-economic development of the Donetsk People’s Republic and strengthening the ties of our region with Primorsk,” he said.

Sergei Markov, a former Kremlin speechwriter and now a high-profile pro-war activist, also described Efremov as a hero who showed the world that Russian officials were willing to risk their lives for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

“They say that the Russian elite are almost entirely secret traitors and are just waiting to surrender to the West? This is not true. There are more and more patriots in the Russian elite,” he said.

Efremov, who reportedly had four children, had been the deputy mayor of the town of Ussuriysk, which has a population of around 150,000 and lies 60 miles north of Vladivostok, when he set up the Tigers.

Mr Kozhemyako made him his deputy governor of the wider region in February 2024, possibly in reward for volunteering to fight.

Efremov was also made a Hero of Primorsk, a Hero of the Donetsk People’s Republic and a Knight of the Order of Courage.

This is in line with orders from the Kremlin, which has told its regions to promote “war heroes” returning from Ukraine into high political office.

The Kremlin has made a major show of encouraging officials to sign up to fight in Ukraine as part of a wider recruitment drive, needed to plug major gaps in its army which is losing as many as 2,000 men a day from front-line duty.

Before Efremov’s death, the highest-ranked Russians to die in Ukraine were several regional MPs.

#87426

Perspective- the Russian total population for WWI was 160M. They had 2M KIA in WWI (WWII was worse).  The casualties from Ukraine are horrific to a modern, free country, but don’t expect it to drive change in Russia. 

#87428
5 hours ago, Bevo said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Russian governor blown up by landmine becomes highest-ranking casualty of Ukraine war

 

James Kilner

 

Sun, February 2, 2025 at 11:50 AM MST

 

3 min read

 

 

 

It is thought Sergey Efremov was promoted to deputy governor as a reward for signing up to fight in Ukraine - X

 

The deputy governor of a Russian region has been killed fighting in Ukraine, becoming the highest-ranking Russian official to die in the war.

 

Sergey Efremov, the deputy governor of Russia’s eastern region of Primorsky Krai, was killed returning to Russian lines from a battle with Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region.

 

Oleg Kozhemyako, the area’s governor, said in an emotional video that his deputy had died a hero, adding: “I know that his friends and comrades will do everything to avenge him.”

 

The Kremlin has encouraged officials to lead by example and sign up to fight – but most deploy to VIP drone units that stay well behind the front line.

 

It appears that Efremov, who trained as a soldier and graduated from the prestigious airborne officers’ college in Ryazan, took a different approach.

 

He set up a volunteer unit called the Tigers in June 2022, when Russia was on the back foot across Ukraine.

 

He fought with the unit until 2023 when he returned to Primorsky Krai. Apparently motivated by the Ukrainian invasion of Russia’s Kursk region in August 2024, Efremov then rejoined the Tigers.

 

“He honoured and courageously fulfilled combat missions there, glorifying the marine infantry, glorifying the Tigers and Primorsky Krai,” said Mr Kozhemyako.

 

Photographs on the Telegram social messaging app showed 51-year-old Efremov to be a thick-set, jowly man.

 

He was reportedly travelling in a car blown up by a landmine. Another Russian army officer was also killed.

 

Denis Pushilin – head of the occupied Donetsk, which Putin annexed in 2022 – knew Efremov and called his death an “irreparable loss”.

 

“He always showed a keen interest in the topic of the socio-economic development of the Donetsk People’s Republic and strengthening the ties of our region with Primorsk,” he said.

 

Sergei Markov, a former Kremlin speechwriter and now a high-profile pro-war activist, also described Efremov as a hero who showed the world that Russian officials were willing to risk their lives for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

 

“They say that the Russian elite are almost entirely secret traitors and are just waiting to surrender to the West? This is not true. There are more and more patriots in the Russian elite,” he said.

 

Efremov, who reportedly had four children, had been the deputy mayor of the town of Ussuriysk, which has a population of around 150,000 and lies 60 miles north of Vladivostok, when he set up the Tigers.

 

Mr Kozhemyako made him his deputy governor of the wider region in February 2024, possibly in reward for volunteering to fight.

 

Efremov was also made a Hero of Primorsk, a Hero of the Donetsk People’s Republic and a Knight of the Order of Courage.

 

This is in line with orders from the Kremlin, which has told its regions to promote “war heroes” returning from Ukraine into high political office.

 

The Kremlin has made a major show of encouraging officials to sign up to fight in Ukraine as part of a wider recruitment drive, needed to plug major gaps in its army which is losing as many as 2,000 men a day from front-line duty.

 

Before Efremov’s death, the highest-ranked Russians to die in Ukraine were several regional MPs.

 

Thick-set, jowly man... 

CDN media

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#87429
❗️Russian media report that Armen Sarkisyan died in hospital after being injured by an explosion in an apartment building in Moscow. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
#87430
The aftermath of Ukrainian debris. At least 11 fire spots at the Volgograd refinery and 1 fire at the Astrakhan gas processing plant, according to NASA FIRMS fire monitoring.
Another week begins with fire for Russia’s oil industry, as overnight, drones strike the Astrakhan gas plant and the Lukoil refinery in Volgograd. The refinery has already been hit before. Multiple explosions are heard at the sites. The fire rages.

 

#87431
1 hour ago, Schulz2.0 said:
❗️Russian media report that Armen Sarkisyan died in hospital after being injured by an explosion in an apartment building in Moscow. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

7th floor Sark

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#87432
56 minutes ago, Orange&White said:

7th floor Sark

Finally scored from the red zone.

#87433
8 hours ago, b_p said:

Thick-set, jowly man... 

CDN media

So this guy "graduated from the prestigious airborne officers’ college"?

We can be sure of one thing, he did not die running away...or running toward the enemy.

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#87434
1 hour ago, ABSR said:

So this guy "graduated from the prestigious airborne officers’ college"?

We can be sure of one thing, he did not die running away...or running toward the enemy.

I didn't see how long ago he graduated from there.

Long enough to forget nutrition discipline, that's for sure.

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#87437
"This was part of Zelenskyy's victory plan." - the OP said, responding to Trump on rare earths. Ukraine has key resources, including rare earth elements, and must prevent them from falling into Russia’s hands. Zelenskyy proposed securing them and using them with key partners.

 

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#87438
11 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:
"This was part of Zelenskyy's victory plan." - the OP said, responding to Trump on rare earths. Ukraine has key resources, including rare earth elements, and must prevent them from falling into Russia’s hands. Zelenskyy proposed securing them and using them with key partners.

 

Bullseye.

You must always tailor your message/sales pitch to your audience.

A pitch to the current US regime that is based on "grab resources and profit" is a sales pitch that sticks the landing.  Keep it up.

#87439
1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

Bullseye.

You must always tailor your message/sales pitch to your audience.

A pitch to the current US regime that is based on "grab resources and profit" is a sales pitch that sticks the landing.  Keep it up.

100%.  Love this.

Somewhere upthread I pointed out that if you can convince tfg there's something in it for him, then there's a chance.

Yea me!

#87440
2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Bullseye.

You must always tailor your message/sales pitch to your audience.

A pitch to the current US regime that is based on "grab resources and profit" is a sales pitch that sticks the landing.  Keep it up.

Oughta throw in a waterfront property big enough for a golf resort.

#87441

This is good and bad, because if you throw up a map of rare earth minerals, you now have a defacto set of new boundaries for the Ukraine. 
 

Back to the carrot and the stick approach to all of these negotiations.  I don’t necessarily like the approach because it now implies that the aid we now gives comes at a “price”, but it also now provides a legitimate impetuous for the US to provide assistance that make sure that the mineral rights they get are now being protected. Also it puts added pressure on Russia to be careful of over running locations now in which the US has territorial mineral rights to.

The real question will be what aid does this buy and what, if any, conditions that aid comes with? Any new redlines in their use? Any old redlines removed?

The devil is in the details.

#87442
6 minutes ago, Laxtonto said:

This is good and bad, because if you throw up a map of rare earth minerals, you now have a defacto set of new boundaries for the Ukraine. 
 

Back to the carrot and the stick approach to all of these negotiations.  I don’t necessarily like the approach because it now implies that the aid we now gives comes at a “price”, but it also now provides a legitimate impetuous for the US to provide assistance that make sure that the mineral rights they get are now being protected. Also it puts added pressure on Russia to be careful of over running locations now in which the US has territorial mineral rights to.

The real question will be what aid does this buy and what, if any, conditions that aid comes with? Any new redlines in their use? Any old redlines removed?

The devil is in the details.

Of course this isn't how we'd like for aid to be distributed.

But if you haven't noticed, the rules of the game have changed.  Zelensky understands who he is dealing with.  I

#87443
57 minutes ago, Laxtonto said:

This is good and bad, because if you throw up a map of rare earth minerals, you now have a defacto set of new boundaries for the Ukraine. 
 

Back to the carrot and the stick approach to all of these negotiations.  I don’t necessarily like the approach because it now implies that the aid we now gives comes at a “price”, but it also now provides a legitimate impetuous for the US to provide assistance that make sure that the mineral rights they get are now being protected. Also it puts added pressure on Russia to be careful of over running locations now in which the US has territorial mineral rights to.

The real question will be what aid does this buy and what, if any, conditions that aid comes with? Any new redlines in their use? Any old redlines removed?

The devil is in the details.

You're assuming that orange howler monkey knows how to read a map. 

#87444
4 hours ago, Armybrat said:

Oughta throw in a waterfront property big enough for a golf resort.

the whole Crimea. Trump golf with a view of the Kerch bridge. A palace larger than Putins. Give Baron a barony.

#87445
27 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

the whole Crimea. Trump golf with a view of the Kerch bridge. A palace larger than Putins. Give Baron a barony.

You laugh -- every one of those should be on the table and offered.  Use your potential partner's foibles to your advantage.

#87446
28 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

You laugh -- every one of those should be on the table and offered.  Use your potential partner's foibles to your advantage.

I was being serious. You might be a lawyer, but, well you know what I do. carrot, sticks, dynamite, whatever it takes.

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#87447
An interesting development. I wonder if Trump told Elon that the plan has changed now that America is next of kin to mine all Ukraine’s precious bodily fluids, I mean metals. https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/05/russia-s-pro-invasion-bloggers-report-mass-disruption-to-starlink-satellite-terminals-in-occupied-ukraine

 

First footage of Ukrainian Su-27 from the 39th Tactical Aviation Brigade using U.S. 1000-lb (~460 kg) Mark 83 bombs with JDAM-ER kit. Previously, only 500-lb (~230 kg) Mark 82 bombs were supplied to Ukraine.

 

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🤖🇺🇦 Ukraine will deploy full-fledged robotic units as part of the Armed Forces brigades on the front line. ❗️Ground drones are able to: - implement offensive and defensive operations; - provide logistical support to units; - evacuate the wounded; - mine and demine territories.

Interesting

📉👀 The Russians have been decreasing the number of assault operations for the 7th day in a row, – DeepState with reference to the statistics of the General Staff. ❗️Thus, 80 attacks were recorded yesterday, while at the peak in December their number reached 292 per day.

 

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