B-1 83 said:

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PJYoung said:

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stetson said:

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TRM said:

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BREAKING NEWS

Finland 🇫🇮 announces it will send more military aid to Ukraine:

— 2500 Assault rifles
— 150,000 Cartridges for the rifles
— 1500 Anti-tank weapons
— 70,000 MREs

Foreign Minister @Haavisto confirms.

— Mustafa Kazemi מוסטפא مصطفی (@CombatJourno) February 28, 2022

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Are the Germans still in with just their helmet contribution to the war effort?

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Incredibly they are donating real weapons now.

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People have been clamoring for A-10s, and here's the SU-25………..not quite as good, but they are useless on the ground when there are miles of tanks lined up waiting…. No pilots?

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There will be a pilot in many of them. A lot of eastern euro military pilots becoming "contractors" as we speak in addition to experienced Uke pilots that didn't re-sign finally being paid what it takes for them to re-up. They lost a lot recently because of low pay. Most current pilots are fresh. About to have a lot of hard ass fighter pilots over Ukraine.

ttu_85 said:

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Rossticus said:

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Belarus about to jump in.

"Some units from the most capable units of the Armed Forces of Belarus have begun moving to the state border of Ukraine in the Volyn direction. '' - General Staff of the Armed Force of #Ukraine.

— Mikhail D. (@Eire_QC) February 28, 2022

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Hopefully they get jumped. as soon as they cross the border.

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Guess they no longer care about their own sovereign status anymore. They could lose some of their territory before this thing is through.

I'm seeing muzzle fire in bottom right video. Just FYI.

Rossticus said:

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B-1 83 said:

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PJYoung said:

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stetson said:

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TRM said:

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BREAKING NEWS

Finland 🇫🇮 announces it will send more military aid to Ukraine:

— 2500 Assault rifles
— 150,000 Cartridges for the rifles
— 1500 Anti-tank weapons
— 70,000 MREs

Foreign Minister @Haavisto confirms.

— Mustafa Kazemi מוסטפא مصطفی (@CombatJourno) February 28, 2022

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Are the Germans still in with just their helmet contribution to the war effort?

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Incredibly they are donating real weapons now.

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People have been clamoring for A-10s, and here's the SU-25………..not quite as good, but they are useless on the ground when there are miles of tanks lined up waiting…. No pilots?

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There will be a pilot in many of them. A lot of eastern euro military pilots becoming "contractors" as we speak in addition to experienced Uke pilots that didn't re-sign finally being paid what it takes for them to re-up. They lost a lot recently because of low pay. Most current pilots are fresh. About to have a lot of hard ass fighter pilots over Ukraine.

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Do you have any sourcing on this? That sounds like big news. Based on what I'm reading today, things are getting more and more grim.

https://www.novinite.com/articles/214004/PM%3A+Reports+of+Bulgaria+Giving+Away+its+Fighter+Jets+to+Ukraine+are+Absurd%21

Bulgaria says they are not supplying the planes. Hopefully they are and just causing confusion for the Russians. AND of course he did use the word give.

Hope they hurry before it's too late.

Stupid@17 said:

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Wouldn't entry by Belarus with no stated reason be an automatic recipe for counter attack by the west?

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Belarus is part of the Collective Security Treaty Organization with Russia and several other countries. Kazakhastan, who is also a member, reportedly already told Russia to go pound sand in response for troops for Ukraine.

Who and what organization from the west would attack given that?

SPSAg05 said:

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Are none of these countries adopting the Eurofighter?

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Austria

JobSecurity said:

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Saber rattling? Sub launch?

Russia has now issued a Notice to Airmen NOTAM for the Barents Sea off Teriberka where its Northern Naval fleet is operating. Possible weapons exercise or test 👀

— The Cavell Group (@TCG_CrisisRisks) February 28, 2022

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I'd bet they test a SLBM.

Rapier108 said:

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JobSecurity said:

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Saber rattling? Sub launch?

Russia has now issued a Notice to Airmen NOTAM for the Barents Sea off Teriberka where its Northern Naval fleet is operating. Possible weapons exercise or test 👀

— The Cavell Group (@TCG_CrisisRisks) February 28, 2022

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I'd bet they test a SLBM.

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How far is that from the Finnish port on the sea?

Rapier108 said:

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JobSecurity said:

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Saber rattling? Sub launch?

Russia has now issued a Notice to Airmen NOTAM for the Barents Sea off Teriberka where its Northern Naval fleet is operating. Possible weapons exercise or test 👀

— The Cavell Group (@TCG_CrisisRisks) February 28, 2022

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I'd bet they test a SLBM.

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That seems like the correct assessment. They had pretty hard weather up there recently which led to some exercise being canceled.

Today's Sentinel-2 pass also shows that most of the larger Northern Fleet warships than remains in the North are alongside.

The weather was very bad over the weekend, and local media has reported that planned exercise activity was canceled because of this. pic.twitter.com/SEtuzBEepp

— The Lookout (@The_Lookout_N) February 28, 2022

There is also a NOTAM issued for the Alakurtti area, indicating upcoming activity from the 80th MRB. pic.twitter.com/5SuD5oMRxg

— The Lookout (@The_Lookout_N) February 28, 2022

aggiehawg said:

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How far is that from the Finnish port on the sea?

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I believe uncomfortably close.

Waffledynamics said:

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Rossticus said:

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B-1 83 said:

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PJYoung said:

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stetson said:

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TRM said:

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BREAKING NEWS

Finland 🇫🇮 announces it will send more military aid to Ukraine:

— 2500 Assault rifles
— 150,000 Cartridges for the rifles
— 1500 Anti-tank weapons
— 70,000 MREs

Foreign Minister @Haavisto confirms.

— Mustafa Kazemi מוסטפא مصطفی (@CombatJourno) February 28, 2022

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Are the Germans still in with just their helmet contribution to the war effort?

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Incredibly they are donating real weapons now.

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People have been clamoring for A-10s, and here's the SU-25………..not quite as good, but they are useless on the ground when there are miles of tanks lined up waiting…. No pilots?

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There will be a pilot in many of them. A lot of eastern euro military pilots becoming "contractors" as we speak in addition to experienced Uke pilots that didn't re-sign finally being paid what it takes for them to re-up. They lost a lot recently because of low pay. Most current pilots are fresh. About to have a lot of hard ass fighter pilots over Ukraine.

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Do you have any sourcing on this? That sounds like big news. Based on what I'm reading today, things are getting more and more grim.

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Nobody is going to broadcast it but I've heard from people over there who'd know. Not going to go into any more detail. Pics of plenty of non-pilots who're going in and joining up already circulating. Gives you a little faith in humanity.

jabberwalkie09 said:

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Rapier108 said:

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JobSecurity said:

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Saber rattling? Sub launch?

Russia has now issued a Notice to Airmen NOTAM for the Barents Sea off Teriberka where its Northern Naval fleet is operating. Possible weapons exercise or test 👀

— The Cavell Group (@TCG_CrisisRisks) February 28, 2022

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I'd bet they test a SLBM.

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That seems like the correct assessment. They had pretty hard weather up there recently which led to some exercise being canceled.

Today's Sentinel-2 pass also shows that most of the larger Northern Fleet warships than remains in the North are alongside.

The weather was very bad over the weekend, and local media has reported that planned exercise activity was canceled because of this. pic.twitter.com/SEtuzBEepp

— The Lookout (@The_Lookout_N) February 28, 2022

There is also a NOTAM issued for the Alakurtti area, indicating upcoming activity from the 80th MRB. pic.twitter.com/5SuD5oMRxg

— The Lookout (@The_Lookout_N) February 28, 2022

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Is the USS Chicago out there waiting?

Rapier108 said:

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JobSecurity said:

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Saber rattling? Sub launch?

Russia has now issued a Notice to Airmen NOTAM for the Barents Sea off Teriberka where its Northern Naval fleet is operating. Possible weapons exercise or test 👀

— The Cavell Group (@TCG_CrisisRisks) February 28, 2022

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I'd bet they test a SLBM.

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Dumb idea IMO. We accept that they have the capability, so a successful launch doesn't move the needle much. Something goes wrong, and they publicly cast doubt on their deterrence capability.

Russian separatist area in Moldova.

Ukraine closes all border checkpoints with #Transnistria .https://t.co/T97Cr9fWsO

— The Intel Crab (@IntelCrab) February 28, 2022

This cannot be real.

Robk said:

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Bulgaria will give Ukraine 14 Su-25 & 16 MiG-29 fighter jets, Poland will give it 28 MiG-29s & Slovakia will give it 12 MiG-29s. More importantly--given Russian missile strikes on military airbases--they can fly missions over Ukraine from Poland https://t.co/MKQZ4lAFUe

— Alec Luhn (@ASLuhn) February 28, 2022

Assuming true, then flying out Poland would seem like a pretty big thing.

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WOW!!! That is huge. Gonna be some dogfights that happen over a line on some map somewhere.

Robk said:

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Bulgaria will give Ukraine 14 Su-25 & 16 MiG-29 fighter jets, Poland will give it 28 MiG-29s & Slovakia will give it 12 MiG-29s. More importantly--given Russian missile strikes on military airbases--they can fly missions over Ukraine from Poland https://t.co/MKQZ4lAFUe

— Alec Luhn (@ASLuhn) February 28, 2022

Assuming true, then flying out Poland would seem like a pretty big thing.

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We are definitely in major "gray area" with this revelation...

Is an attack using non-Ukrainian jets, piloted by Ukrainians, but originated their sorties out of a NATO air base considered an attack by NATO?

In other words, the only thing not NATO in the Polish scenario is (at least me believe it to be) that the pilots would be Ukes...

Dorm 15 said:

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This cannot be real.

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I agree, I am guessing some bad translation. BUT if true .........

Robk said:

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Bulgaria will give Ukraine 14 Su-25 & 16 MiG-29 fighter jets, Poland will give it 28 MiG-29s & Slovakia will give it 12 MiG-29s. More importantly--given Russian missile strikes on military airbases--they can fly missions over Ukraine from Poland https://t.co/MKQZ4lAFUe

— Alec Luhn (@ASLuhn) February 28, 2022

Assuming true, then flying out Poland would seem like a pretty big thing.

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They're pulling back on that.

Bulgaria not planning to send jets to Ukraine after all: https://t.co/WlGhARqCBv

— Michael Birnbaum (@michaelbirnbaum) February 28, 2022

Robk said:

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Bulgaria will give Ukraine 14 Su-25 & 16 MiG-29 fighter jets, Poland will give it 28 MiG-29s & Slovakia will give it 12 MiG-29s. More importantly--given Russian missile strikes on military airbases--they can fly missions over Ukraine from Poland https://t.co/MKQZ4lAFUe

— Alec Luhn (@ASLuhn) February 28, 2022

Assuming true, then flying out Poland would seem like a pretty big thing.

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Really big if true (flying out of Poland)...and maybe not in a good way. Putin could interpret that any number of ways. Even with Ukrainians flying the planes - how can you not say Poland isn't directly helping Ukraine and in essence declaring war on Russia? Will all of the ground support be Ukrainian as well? An unstable Putin can use this as a pretext for nearly any response. And if he doesn't respond to this specifically he risks opening the door for more escalation of help like this...and at some point he WILL then have to respond.

JobSecurity said:

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Get to it

Foreigners willing to join 🇺🇦Ukraine’s International Legion now require no visa or something.
Zelensky has signed a decree.
You guys know what to do. pic.twitter.com/PMJyqlC2nK

— Illia Ponomarenko (@IAPonomarenko) February 28, 2022

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Good way to get you or other folks killed if you've never been in combat. Great for combat vets who want to help. Terrible if you're a JAG. If NATO/US gets pulled in and you can get real training reps, that's the best way.

I do believe that the refugee situation is 100% applicable to this thread.

Anyone who has never watched Bald and Bankrupt you are missing out. He is IMHO the greatest travel vlogger alive and has done probably a hundred or so videos in Russia/Ukraine/Moldova/Belarus in the last five or so years. I highly suggest pouring a drink and watching him. You will be tired at work the next day.

This is a video of him leaving Kyiv on Feb 25.




Edit-He also has a video from the border the day before the invasion.

javajaws said:

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Robk said:

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Bulgaria will give Ukraine 14 Su-25 & 16 MiG-29 fighter jets, Poland will give it 28 MiG-29s & Slovakia will give it 12 MiG-29s. More importantly--given Russian missile strikes on military airbases--they can fly missions over Ukraine from Poland https://t.co/MKQZ4lAFUe

— Alec Luhn (@ASLuhn) February 28, 2022

Assuming true, then flying out Poland would seem like a pretty big thing.

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Really big if true (flying out of Poland)...and maybe not in a good way. Putin could interpret that any number of ways. Even with Ukrainians flying the planes - how can you not say Poland isn't directly helping Ukraine and in essence declaring war on Russia? Will all of the ground support be Ukrainian as well? An unstable Putin can use this as a pretext for nearly any response. And if he doesn't respond to this specifically he risks opening the door for more escalation of help like this...and at some point he WILL then have to respond.

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Kind of turn about for MiG alley in Korea and other instances where Russian pilots were actually manning the aircraft.

Are we not at the point where we are playing a game of semantics at this point?

Words matter...

Intentions matter...

But actions also matter...

The only thing NATO hasn't done to this point is commit a single NATO soldier to cross over the Ukrainian border...

But NATO sure as hell is giving them everything else the Ukes need to wage war against Russia...

This whole thing is one big catch-22 **** sammich...