GeorgiAg said:

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Man those Russian executives keep falling off stuff!

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/12/2122531/-Another-Russian-Oil-Executive-Dies-After-Falling-in-the-Ocean

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Possibly the wrong place for this kind of conjecture.
How likely are some of these oligarchs faking their own deaths
I would think these guys had millions of dollars stashed and fake identities already set up
Maybe I have watched too many 007 movies

"Russian troops reported that the armed forces crossed the Osokol River in Borova, 30 km from Izyum and near the border of Kharkiv and Luhansk regions. The Russians are unlikely to be able to recapture the river. They do not receive reinforcements and fighters can take advantage"

— WarMonitor🇺🇦 (@WarMonitor3) September 14, 2022

Pretty thorough day by day summary of Uke counter-offensive HERE

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GeorgiAg said:

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Man those Russian executives keep falling off stuff!

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/12/2122531/-Another-Russian-Oil-Executive-Dies-After-Falling-in-the-Ocean

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Possibly the wrong place for this kind of conjecture.
How likely are some of these oligarchs faking their own deaths
I would think these guys had millions of dollars stashed and fake identities already set up
Maybe I have watched too many 007 movies

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Maybe falling off boat and body not being found. Little harder when you fall out of a building and the street below is littered with evidence.

This is why Ukraine needs a few ACTAMS to wreck havoc deep in the Russian rear.

ISW: RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, SEPTEMBER 13

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The Kremlin has adopted narratives that echo longstanding milblogger demands and complaints, suggesting that Putin seeks to appease and win back the critical milblogger community rather than censor it. Russian milbloggers have long complained about the Russian MoD and the military high command, and now the Kremlin state media is openly expressing dissatisfaction with the progress of the war and the lack of situational awareness of events on the ground. Milbloggers are advertising Telegram channels covering frontline developments 24/7 and urging readers to subscribe if they "believe" in Putin.

Kremlin-controlled and Kremlin-influenced media are now openly calling for an intensive missile campaign against Ukrainian civilian critical infrastructure and transit routes, an idea with broad support among many milbloggers. These new calls are a stark departure from the Kremlin's previous line claiming that Russian forces did not target civilian infrastructure, and this new narrative is earning the Kremlin public support among milbloggers. ****sky's statement at the Duma meeting pointing to the disinterest of most Russian civilians in the war echoes frequent milblogger complaints about the harmful side effects of conducting a limited war.

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Nice overview video of the current situation and how it occurred. REISNER

⚡️Local mass media report that the "mobilized" in the so-called "LPR" who managed to escape from Kharkiv region have returned to the deployment point. However, the Russians decided to send them to the front, a protest began in the city.

👉 Follow @Flash_news_ua pic.twitter.com/2CGo34H2wC

— FLASH (@Flash_news_ua) September 14, 2022

Waffledynamics said:

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⚡️Local mass media report that the "mobilized" in the so-called "LPR" who managed to escape from Kharkiv region have returned to the deployment point. However, the Russians decided to send them to the front, a protest began in the city.

👉 Follow @Flash_news_ua pic.twitter.com/2CGo34H2wC

— FLASH (@Flash_news_ua) September 14, 2022

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Like the end of ww1. Is there a Lenin out there we could introduce to the situation and cause complete internal collapse?

Increased targeting of civilians is the worst thing they can do right now.

How do you increase Ukrainian nationalism, motivate opposition, and increase international support for Ukraine? Target civilians.

MouthBQ98 said:

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It is odd that so much Russian equipment is abandoned in useable, intact condition with apparently little effort to destroy it and deny its use to the enemy.

The Russians must be very poorly trained, in an absolute panic, or perhaps they are hoping if the Ukrainians are made stronger, the war will end more quickly. I think it is most likely the first two. With also maybe the idea that if they slip away with the vehicles still apparently intact, it buys them more time to escape while the Ukrainians must approach with caution until they are sure the vehicles are unmanned.

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I think it has more to do with their structure and culture. They don't do anything unless told. See an opportunity? **** that. If an officer doesn't say go, you don't go. If you're being overrun or told to leave, self preservation says GTFO, but if the officers don't say, "Blow up all of the equipment," they're not going to do it. Destroying perfectly good vehicles is how you get arrested by the FSB for treason, regardless of the fact the Ukrainians are about to capture it.

Alternatively, and I kind of doubt this, maybe they just don't have the materials to destroy their equipment. They're running low on everything, so explosives and munitions may not be in large enough quantities to knock out or destroy everything they're abandoning.

Agthatbuilds said:

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The Main Directorate of Intelligence reports that the military units of the Russian Federation are canceling the dispatch of units to Ukraine due to the mass refusal of personnel to participate in combat operations.

— WarMonitor🇺🇦 (@WarMonitor3) September 14, 2022

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A mass mutiny for a military is essentially a coup.

A lot of the vehicles could be damaged to a point where they needed a lot of repairs by a grenade or RPG, both cheap and normally plentiful. But the Russian soldiers have been rumored to be short of supplies so if I had either and were retreating they are likely saving those for themselves incase they run into any Uke forces.

Prehaps.

Both are plausible, and neither would shock me. However, the Russians have been abandoning vehicles with no attempts to disable or destroy then for awhile. Remember the SAM systems and radar abandoned back in March/April that were just left basically intact in a field because the tires got stuck?

A simple fire is very efficient for destroying equipment but they're not even doing that. It may just be the military culture that equipment failure happens all the time and they just leave it until it gets recovered and repaired, so they may be doing what they are used to when they can't move something, but I suspect they are hoping the vehicles are good decoys and distract the Ukrainians while they escape on foot.

🇷🇺✈️💥🇺🇦This evening,Russian Aerospace Forces demilitarised the Karachunovskaya dam, after which, the water level in the Ingulets River, downstream, began to rise. pic.twitter.com/IxnQMU0Fkz

— AZ 🛰🌏🌍🌎 (@AZmilitary1) September 14, 2022

Russia is blowing dams now to try and escape.

FriscoKid said:

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🇷🇺✈️💥🇺🇦This evening,Russian Aerospace Forces demilitarised the Karachunovskaya dam, after which, the water level in the Ingulets River, downstream, began to rise. pic.twitter.com/IxnQMU0Fkz

— AZ 🛰🌏🌍🌎 (@AZmilitary1) September 14, 2022

Russia is blowing dams now to try and escape.

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That also sounds like it traps Ukrainians on the wrong side of the river, possibly?

Edit: that might be propaganda. A Google search doesn't even pull up that dam at all. Why would they flood themselves?

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Western+Waterfall/@47.8954508,33.2357492,12.25z/data=!4m17!1m9!4m8!1m0!1m6!1m2!1s0x40c52d16cde340c9:0x6d92ffeb773c5f00!2sInhulets+River,+Ukraine!2m2!1d33.2128999!2d47.704887!3m6!1s0x40dad9202d0e422b:0x188c17321af9affb!8m2!3d47.9055683!4d33.2814109!9m1!1b1?hl=en

What we will see is this, UA might be stuck at the Davydiv Brid bridgehead. But it's also possible it will wash away any bridge over the Ingulets river used by the russians. pic.twitter.com/GwsytkQ2a9

— Def Mon (@DefMon3) September 14, 2022

Thank you, that helps make sense. Looking for corroboration.

Edit: Well that sucks.

Video of a damaged dam in Kryvyi Rih, which the Russians hit this afternoon pic.twitter.com/6VOtIUSIYa

— ТРУХА⚡️English (@TpyxaNews) September 14, 2022

Agthatbuilds said:

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that's all great but did you ever liberate your own mama's village pic.twitter.com/wnZK97Mr72

— jabuttee - luxurious memes and takes (@jabuttee) September 13, 2022

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pretty amazing video, you wont see things like that during a war in real life many times. Excellent post

Russia preparing for either defeat or compromise. There is 0 chance this wasn't scripted in some way to pacify the nationalists.

"Are We The Baddies?" moment on Russian TV: one pundit—responding to his genocidal colleagues, who assert that Ukrainian nationality and language do not exist—suddenly realizes he is in the company of actual Nazis and says, "This is clear cut nationalism."https://t.co/9If9zMLrn2 pic.twitter.com/qZUX0etGlL

— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) September 14, 2022

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Teacher returns from the front line to visit his students. pic.twitter.com/kb8QCrlrMU

— Andrew Perpetua (@AndrewPerpetua) September 14, 2022

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Wow, thats pretty touching.. thanks for posting

Waffledynamics said:

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Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko has released a video in which he’s chopping wood and saying:

“We won’t let Europe freeze, we will help our brothers, maybe they will help us someday”.

He then singled out the Polish PM and Poland’s president. pic.twitter.com/WDgbo061OB

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) September 14, 2022

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Lukashenko has to have a butt hole the size of a pin head about right now, if Putin loses and Lukashenko decides he wants to be on NATOs side his own people will skin him alive, he has suppressed his own people for Putin for years.

Water level rising fast in Kryvy Rih, one of Ukraine’s largest cities, after a salvo of Russian cruise missiles breached a reservoir dam, causing a flood. Seven months into the war, long-promised US and German air defenses that could prevent such strikes have yet to arrive.

— Yaroslav Trofimov (@yarotrof) September 14, 2022