looks like Russia actually has twitter blocked so this may not be true or matter but leaving it anyway

Twitter no longer allows people in Russia to register new accounts🥳❤️💪🏼

— Anastasiia Lapatina (@lapatina_) February 26, 2022

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Intense fighting just outside the Kyiv

Major firefight ongoing north of Kyiv, Russian convoy being shot to pieces, soldier carrying a NLAW anti-tank missile pic.twitter.com/glhmYF3FFL

— ELINT News (@ELINTNews) February 26, 2022

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Straight up BALLS walking and laughing so calm in that situation

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Wow! Just wow! They are just looking for targets with Ruskies armor smoking everywhere.

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Hope it's not media bias but it seems nato and the EU are all in one way or another falling in line with armament support. When will we hear that Russia has been ejected from Swift?

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https://www.foxnews.com/world/europe-close-to-approving-swift-germany-wary

Not yet, but appears to be soon

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RONA Ag said:

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Hope it's not media bias but it seems nato and the EU are all in one way or another falling in line with armament support. When will we hear that Russia has been ejected from Swift?

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https://www.foxnews.com/world/europe-close-to-approving-swift-germany-wary

Not yet, but appears to be soon

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Germany still holding out and continues to be a global embarrassment which seems to be a never-ending theme for that country.

In other news, and considering the context of their current hold out on SWIFT, they have also announced they plan to do nothing about resolving their energy dependence on Russia:

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/russia-ukraine-latest-news-2022-02-26

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Spokesmen for German utilities E.On SE and Energie Baden-Wrttemberg AG, known as EnBW, said their companies also rejected reopening a debate about nuclear power in Germany.

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Something I just noticed, the weather got a lot warmer in Ukraine today? Lots of melted snow and the temps aren't going to be below freezing for sustained periods of time. Could this hinder the progression of the Russians as they try to move in heavier equipment?

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BD88 said:

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❗️The websites of the #Russian government and the State Duma and Kremlin stopped working pic.twitter.com/Mj7OQQ3J6p

— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) February 26, 2022

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Interesting. I hope it was the Ukrainians and not us. Cyber attacks from the west could destabilize things and spread the conflict.

Hmm, if I am China I'd kick around the idea of launching cyber attacks against both the US and Russian Federation. And make it look like it sourced from either side. Evil I know but I half expect China to try something like this.

I hope we are very, very careful on this front and make no mistake this is a major 21st C battle front.

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I've got a buddy who does websites who said he spent the last two days blocking Russian IP addresses because they've been trying to take US and Western European offline since this started. He said both sides are doing the same thing.

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Take it to them…

ANONYMOUS MESSAGES THREATENING TO PLACE BOMBS AT MOSCOW'S TRAIN STATIONS AND AIRPORT HAVE BEEN RECEIVED, CHECKS ARE BEING MADE -RIA

— *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) February 26, 2022

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Attacking Russian moms and Kids is no better than attacking Ukrainian Moms and kids.

Keep the civies out of it.

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Terrorists must be licking their chops at kicking off a world war. Dangerous times we are in.

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RebelE Infantry said:

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The Ukrainian Ministry of Defence is CONFIRMING that the garrison of Snake Island is ALIVE and has surrendered to Russian troops https://t.co/87XRyByCmV pic.twitter.com/AjIYJ37Cz6

— Russians With Attitude (@RWApodcast) February 26, 2022

Oops

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Embarrassing from a propaganda standpoint if true, but can't say I'm disappointed that these men still live.

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If true, this is a key exposure of Ukraine's propaganda machines. Anything that sounds too good to be true and too movie-like probably is.

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Not sure I trust Russians with Attitude here

🇷🇺 Tass reported the numbers of equipment they lost and servicemen who were killed or taken hostage during the invasion in #Ukraine. But then quickly deleted it. According to that information,more than 3,500 soldiers were killed or captured. Russians need to know what's happening pic.twitter.com/dSfq2SnJCR

— Hanna Liubakova (@HannaLiubakova) February 26, 2022

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RebelE Infantry said:

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The Ukrainian Ministry of Defence is CONFIRMING that the garrison of Snake Island is ALIVE and has surrendered to Russian troops https://t.co/87XRyByCmV pic.twitter.com/AjIYJ37Cz6

— Russians With Attitude (@RWApodcast) February 26, 2022

Oops

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Embarrassing from a propaganda standpoint if true, but can't say I'm disappointed that these men still live.

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If true, this is a key exposure of Ukraine's propaganda machines. Anything that sounds too good to be true and too movie-like probably is.

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Not sure I trust Russians with Attitude here

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Fair enough, but they are directly quoting official Ukrainian government statement.

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BD88 said:

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❗️The websites of the #Russian government and the State Duma and Kremlin stopped working pic.twitter.com/Mj7OQQ3J6p

— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) February 26, 2022

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Interesting. I hope it was the Ukrainians and not us. Cyber attacks from the west could destabilize things and spread the conflict.

Hmm, if I am China I'd kick around the idea of launching cyber attacks against both the US and Russian Federation. And make it look like it sourced from either side. Evil I know but I half expect China to try something like this.

I hope we are very, very careful on this front and make no mistake this is a major 21st C battle front.

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I've got a buddy who does websites who said he spent the last two days blocking Russian IP addresses because they've been trying to take US and Western European offline since this started. He said both sides are doing the same thing.

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Spoofing IP addresses is kinda easy these days. Unfortunately. A real cyber attack goes way beyond this my friend.

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The Ukrainian Ministry of Defence is CONFIRMING that the garrison of Snake Island is ALIVE and has surrendered to Russian troops https://t.co/87XRyByCmV pic.twitter.com/AjIYJ37Cz6

— Russians With Attitude (@RWApodcast) February 26, 2022

Oops

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Embarrassing from a propaganda standpoint if true, but can't say I'm disappointed that these men still live.

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If true, this is a key exposure of Ukraine's propaganda machines. Anything that sounds too good to be true and too movie-like probably is.

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Not sure I trust Russians with Attitude here

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Fair enough, but they are directly quoting official Ukrainian government statement.

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It's a screenshot, however, that they could have manufactured themselves. They didn't actually provide a link or anything to the original post so questionable.

the translation is incorrect, theyre saying theres HOPE that theyre alive and that theyre VERIFYING it as of now, but nothing is certain yet

— Volodymyr🇺🇦 (@dolboebxd) February 26, 2022

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How are the Ukes dealing with the heavy armor? Because I figired they would be able to roll through every major city by now and this obviously hasn't happened.

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One answer NLAW, Javelins, Stingers, and other similar donated weapons..,

Think about what Russia is doing, they are attaching using the major highways … all Ukraine has to do is know the major highways the Russians are coming from, line up 20 or 30 Ukrainian soldiers with NLAWs and Javelins and that line of equipment can be shut down, that heavy armor equipment is getting blown to pieces, once they stop them in the front of the convoy, then they ambush the other vehicles, it seems this is what they are doing everywhere.. the west needs to keep supplying the NLAWs and Javelin type units and Ukraine may be able to cause a lot of serious issues for Russia

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One of the things about this conflict is that every single nation is watching and taking notes. It's not every day we get to see frontline Russian armies fighting and I promise we are absorbing every byte of data we can from this.

It has long been said that main battle tanks will eventually go the way of the battleship. Not sure if that is true any time soon but once again the effectiveness of man portable anti armor weapons is really showing right now in the neverending arrow vs chest plate battle. Armor will catch up again I am sure but seeing a LOT of catastrophic kills on Russian armor. Tanks and AFVs just ripped open. (Also why I won't discount the casualty numbers out of hand)

The resource exchange is heinous though. A $20K rocket vs a several million dollar T80 and the trained professionals manning it who likely never saw their death coming.

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Russian tanks do not have internally separate ammunition storage, so any penetrative hit has a reasonably good chance of detonating internal ammunition.

Modern Western tanks are considerably less vulnerable to this with separated storage in the turret bustle and blow out panels, but they are clearly more vulnerable from a top down attack also unless re-armored for it.

Next generation armor will probably account for that threat somehow, possibly by being smaller and highly automated, as it still has value on the battlefield due to mobility and firepower.

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The contest between tank armor and anti-tank weapons has been going on for over a century. The US M-1 tank is the most capable and survivable tank in the world because the US Army has regularly updated it to counter anti-tank weapons. In addition to constant modernization, the best protection any tank has is to be properly employed as part of a combined arms team in which armor, artillery and infantry all work in mutual support. Good descriptions of the M-1's latest modernization:

M-1A2SEPv3
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Western countries came to an agreement to disconnect Russia from the SWIFT payment system and began preparations for the implementation of this sanction - @DmytroKuleba 🙏🚀💥💥💥

— Iuliia Mendel (@IuliiaMendel) February 26, 2022

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I had not heard or seen were the U.S. agreed?

So the Ruskies are playing meme and propaganda games but their soldiers are out of fuel, out of food and no idea where they are not the state of the war?

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Something I just noticed, the weather got a lot warmer in Ukraine today? Lots of melted snow and the temps aren't going to be below freezing for sustained periods of time. Could this hinder the progression of the Russians as they try to move in heavier equipment?

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I would assume so. Pretty sure they waited til the ground froze to make the initial push.

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Western countries came to an agreement to disconnect Russia from the SWIFT payment system and began preparations for the implementation of this sanction - @DmytroKuleba 🙏🚀💥💥💥

— Iuliia Mendel (@IuliiaMendel) February 26, 2022

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I had not heard or seen were the U.S. agreed?

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Not sure they need us for this decision? Half the traffic happens in Europe. We are a minority user.

ERA is not that often put on the tops of armored vehicles as most direct fire AT weapons hit the sides and front.

Tanks are there to first defeat other armored vehicles that are threats, then defeat infantry with machine guns and superior mobility that infantry can't counter…with the exception of these newer western AT weapons. If your forces expect to mostly encounter enemy tanks as a threat, then you use your best to defeat theirs. Russia probably did that, but these AT missiles are just very effective.

Visual on SWIFT traffic:

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/russia-ukraine-latest-news-2022-02-26/card/how-the-swift-global-payment-network-works-a-visual-tLkUPOaYRLWrOzRZLoP9

Are the armored vehicles shown in the CNN report different than what we have seen destroyed in videos from the battles? Also, that NLAW looks a LOT different from the LAW we played with in the 60s!

If this thread from Former Chief of Defence of Estonia and EU Parliamentarian is accurate...

THREAD 1/7 Intel from a Ukrainian officer about a meeting in Putin’s lair in Urals. Oligarchs convened there so no one would flee. Putin is furious, he thought that the whole war would be easy and everything would be done in 1-4 days. @EPPGroup @general_ben @edwardlucas @politico pic.twitter.com/8AoelUDWM9

— Riho Terras (@RihoTerras) February 26, 2022

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If this thread from Former Chief of Defence of Estonia and EU Parliamentarian is accurate...

THREAD 1/7 Intel from a Ukrainian officer about a meeting in Putin’s lair in Urals. Oligarchs convened there so no one would flee. Putin is furious, he thought that the whole war would be easy and everything would be done in 1-4 days. @EPPGroup @general_ben @edwardlucas @politico pic.twitter.com/8AoelUDWM9

— Riho Terras (@RihoTerras) February 26, 2022

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Just came to post this from that thread

4/7 If Ukraine manages to hold the Russians off for 10 days, then the Russians will have to enter negotiations. Because they have no money, weapons, or resources. Nevertheless, they are indifferent about the sanctions.

— Riho Terras (@RihoTerras) February 26, 2022

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I'm no adept student of the matter, but I never figured Putin too be an inept tactician.

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He was KGB not military and who knows how he surrounded himself with his current military leaders.

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I also think Putin legitimately believes the former USSR states want to "get the gang back together" in the same way he does, and he didn't expect the entire populace of Ukraine to unite and fight back like this. My guess is nobody else in the room had the balls to tell him he was wrong either.

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I think this is a very good point.