***Russian - Ukraine War Tactical and Strategic Updates*** [Warning on OP]

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In reply to MeatDr • 11:35a, 4/29/22
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This is fascinating considering how GOOD the Soviets were at things like maps.

https://www.wired.com/2015/07/secret-cold-war-maps/

They literally had better maps of parts of the US than the US did.
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In reply to Keegan99 • 11:43a, 4/29/22
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Thanks for posting. Very interesting (and scary) read.
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In reply to GAC06 • 11:48a, 4/29/22
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GAC06 said:
Bird Poo said:
MeatDr said:
We know exactly where they are and recording their activity 24-7.


The tweet says the video was provided by the Russian Defense Ministry
He just had a RC-135 Rivet Joint flying right over the middle of the Black Sea. I am sure we have a good idea where they are.
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In reply to Keegan99 • 11:56a, 4/29/22
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As a GEOG major, that was a fascinating article.
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In reply to Red Pear Realty • 11:59a, 4/29/22
Red Pear Realty said:
Rossticus said:


Hell yes.

better to have all 11 Fighting Falcons attack the largest concentration of Russkie Armor in one surprise op

than piecemeal get shot down one by one
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In reply to txags92 • 11:59a, 4/29/22
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txags92 said:
GAC06 said:
Bird Poo said:
MeatDr said:
We know exactly where they are and recording their activity 24-7.


The tweet says the video was provided by the Russian Defense Ministry
He just had a RC-135 Rivet Joint flying right over the middle of the Black Sea. I am sure we have a good idea where they are.


Rivet joint could be great at detecting the launch but likely has no clue where the sub is the rest of the time. The point is that this was filmed and provided by the Russians
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In reply to aggrad02 • 12:07p, 4/29/22
aggrad02 said:
Rossticus said:


It seems like being independent comes with some responsibility. I have a hard time sympathizing with a country that effectively has no self defense. Instead if of whining that they have no army, they need to kick it in gear, draft every male that can fight and start training because Russia is on your doorstep. Then maybe they deserve some help.
The problem of freeloading- because the EU and NATO is there to protect you.

Until they aren't.
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12:12p, 4/29/22
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Really good US DOD briefing thread. Phoenix Ghost drones will be flown in within the next 24 hours. I get the feeling it will be kept pretty secret still what their capabilities are for a long time, though. Still signs that Russia is starting to run low on PGMs, despite still high numbers of missile attacks. The attack on Kiev yesterday likely missed their target when it hit the residential building. Some snippets below.
Unroll: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1520079893945634817.html

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12:23p, 4/29/22
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/29/world/ukraine-russia-war-news

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The city of Severodonetsk was built around the sprawling Azot fertilizer factory. Now the factory that has become home for many of the city's remaining residents who have been forced to hide in bunkers beneath it to escape relentless bombardment by Russian forces.
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Moscow announced the start of the renewed offensive in the eastern Donbas region nearly two weeks ago but has yet to score any major territorial advances.

"We would assess that Russian forces are making slow and uneven and, frankly, we would describe it as incremental progress in the Donbas," a senior U.S. defense official said Thursday, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss operational details.

Russia, following a strategy dating back to Soviet times, is relying on artillery to pound Ukrainian forces all along a 300-mile front. Ukrainian forces are ceding small patches of territory only to then push to take them back, according to military analysts.

On Friday, Russia announced gains in several towns, and the Ukrainians said that they had regained control of a strategically important settlement on the highway that leads from Kharkiv to Belgorod in Russia.

Besides giving the Ukrainians control over a stretch of highway critical to Russia's supply lines, the suburb of Ruska Lozova had been used by Russian forces to fire artillery rounds at civilian buildings in Kharkiv. Residents streaming out of the village on Friday, however, said the Russians were counterattacking and that the village was still being fiercely contested.

It is hard to assess claims by Russia and Ukraine in the Donbas because fighting has limited the ability of journalists to travel across the region. So far, the only major city in the region to be seized by the Russians is Izium, south of Kharkiv, which is now a key logistical anchor for Russian forces trying to push south.

Much of the heaviest fighting in recent days has taken place along the same front line that divided Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed separatists after Moscow orchestrated the region's rebellion against the Ukrainian government in 2014.

That includes Severodonetsk, which fell under Russian occupation in June 2014 and was liberated a month later. It remains under Ukrainian control and the city, built on sandy soil and surrounded by pine forests, has served as the temporary capital of the Luhansk region. (Separatists control the city of Luhansk.)
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In reply to 3rd and 2 • 12:31p, 4/29/22
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3rd and 2 said:
BattleGrackle said:
Interesting If true.


Didn't Hitter do the same thing to the detriment of Germany's war effort?
Maybe the PM gets cozy sitting on the President's throne and mysteriously Putin and his disastrous "Special Operation" get hit by a bus.
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12:33p, 4/29/22
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In reply to Keegan99 • 12:35p, 4/29/22
Keegan99 said:
This is fascinating considering how GOOD the Soviets were at things like maps.

https://www.wired.com/2015/07/secret-cold-war-maps/

They literally had better maps of parts of the US than the US did.
This is a solid evidence of Soivet russian competance how they were once our rival...
Had they maintained that competance/discipline russian war machine today could be have been our equal...

Thank goodness for years of neglect/ thefts/brain drain to west and continous kleptocracy within putin sphere that lead to slow degneration of mighty russian military complex...
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In reply to MeatDr • 12:37p, 4/29/22
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Shouldn't have let them back in
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In reply to MeatDr • 12:39p, 4/29/22
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What is a USSR Victory flag?
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In reply to aggiehawg • 12:42p, 4/29/22
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Banner_(Soviet_Union)
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In reply to MeatDr • 12:44p, 4/29/22
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So far, we have seen Russian tanks flying not only their tri-bar flag, we have seen many of them flying the Hammer and Sickle flag of the Soviets and even one Confederate battle flag. Now we have their astronauts flying a completely political Communist propaganda flag on the ISS. Can we say that we have seen the re-birth of imperialistic Communism on the Eur-Asian continent yet?
You do not have a soul. You are a soul that has a body.

We sing Hallelujah! The Lamb has overcome!
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In reply to MeatDr • 12:45p, 4/29/22
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MeatDr said:
Isn't that amazing they just happened to have one on board for such an occasion.
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12:50p, 4/29/22
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12:50p, 4/29/22
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The flag stunt certainly needs to be viewed in the context of the ongoing invasion, but it also is quite likely this space walk was the closest planned leading up to May 9th where the flag is heavily featured.
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1:04p, 4/29/22
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May 9th parade plans versus recent years:


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1:05p, 4/29/22
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And May 9th flyover plans comparison.


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1:12p, 4/29/22
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The National Guard unit doing this training had pulled out of Ukraine just 8 days before the invasion. I can just imagine how great it was for both groups to see each other again after what the Ukrainians have been through these past couple months.

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In reply to Rossticus • 1:41p, 4/29/22
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Rossticus said:
40 nations are a collective modern Nazi regime. Russia is righteous. Yeeeeesh. The collective delusion is strong with them.



But, if they don't spread the narrative, they are in the gulag and forever the enemy of the state and could be killed.
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1:44p, 4/29/22
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Russian MOD video of Russian attack helo lofting rockets then getting the hell out of dodge. More of this wildly inaccurate method of rocket employment that basically degrades their attack helos to expensive rocket artillery, to avoid getting close enough to Ukrainian positions to get shot down.
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In reply to WesMaroon&White • 1:49p, 4/29/22
These guys are true believers. They're not just doing it for the paycheck. They've been up to their eyeballs for a long time.
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1:52p, 4/29/22
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In reply to Rossticus • 1:52p, 4/29/22
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Rossticus said:
These guys are true believers. They're not just doing it for the paycheck. They've been up to their eyeballs for a long time.


This. That's why they're in those positions.
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2:04p, 4/29/22
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Internal Russian conflict.
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In reply to WesMaroon&White • 2:06p, 4/29/22
Greedy losers. Goes to show what an undisciplined isht show the Russian army is.
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2:08p, 4/29/22
Russia still trying to nuclear threat their way out of this.

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2:09p, 4/29/22
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Beware of what you wear.
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In reply to WesMaroon&White • 2:10p, 4/29/22
A crime of fashion.
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2:10p, 4/29/22
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2:12p, 4/29/22
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/29/world/ukraine-russia-war-news

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Russia appears to be "several days behind" schedule in its offensive on the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine due to stiff Ukrainian resistance and continuing supply line problems, a senior Pentagon official said Friday.

In this latest phase of the nine-week war, Russia is attacking the region on three fronts: from Izium in the north; from eastern Donbas, where Russia-backed separatists have been fighting since 2014, and from the besieged port city of Mariupol in the south, the official said.

But Russian forces have made only incremental progress, at best, and are nowhere near their goal of encircling tens of thousands of Ukrainian troops in a pincer movement, according to the senior Pentagon official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence assessments.
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Moscow now has 92 battalion groups fighting in eastern and southern Ukraine up from 85 a week ago, but still well below the 125 it used in the first phase of the war, the Pentagon official said. Each battalion group has about 700 to 1,000 troops.

Many of Russia's battalions suffered heavy casualties and equipment losses in the early fighting and were withdrawn to Russian territory. Efforts to reinforce and resupply the battered battalions were hurried, and as a result, many of the units rushed back into the fight are likely not at full strength, the Pentagon official said.

In another sign of Moscow's sense of urgency, several of the dozen battalion groups that had been fighting in Mariupol have been redeployed to the larger fight unfolding to the northeast in Donbas, the official said.

Russia also is intensifying its air and artillery attacks on targets it believes can sustain Ukraine's war effort, including power plants that generate electricity for the trains carrying weapons and troops to the front, the Pentagon official added.
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2:15p, 4/29/22
Nice precision strike.

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