I'm not seeing where this is actually a UAV dropping mortar rounds. Everything is implied - nothing is actually shown.Rossticus said:A UAV used by Belarusian volunteers to drop 120mm mortar rounds.https://t.co/x2YxVvUbOm pic.twitter.com/lPJL3wYXo5
— Rob Lee (@RALee85) October 13, 2022
CondensedFogAggie said:
'Entire subjects are being cut' Russia's schools are hemorrhaging teachers as they flee mobilizationQuote:
.... found that Russian teachers, who aren't exempt from the draft, are going into hiding and fleeing the country in droves. Private schools, many of which saw a spike in enrollment this year as families scrambled to avoid the "patriotic" curriculum implemented in public schools this fall, are facing closure. With no other options, students and parents have begun writing directly to politicians, pleading for individual teachers to be made exempt a painful exercise for war opponents, who know that their appeals need to be soaked in praise for Putin and the Motherland to have a chance of being heard.
According to Andrey(a teacher), he's far from the only one getting out of dodge: 80 percent of the teachers at the school where he works intend to leave in the near future, while all of the school's on-staff tutors plan to emigrate (or go into hiding) if they haven't already. As a result, administrators are discussing either relocating the school or closing it altogether.
To make matters worse, he said, more students enrolled in the school than usual this year; with "patriotism lessons" and other political messaging on the rise in public schools, the demand for private ones is up. On the other hand, a lot of students have begun leaving with their parents, many of who are also seeking to evade the draft.
"In many schools, up to 100 - 120 hours of instruction are unfilled each week there's nobody to replace [the teachers who have left]. In some cases, entire subjects are being cut from the schedule. The overall picture is still unclear, but what is clear is that it's not going to be a happy one," said Varlamov.
Russia's mobilization orders don't discriminate based on merit: even some of the country's most "decorated" teachers are being drafted. On September 18, Bashkir language teacher Miras Ishdavletov, who lives in Ufa, won a prize in a nationwide competition for teachers of indigenous languages and literature. A week later, he was named an Honored Teacher of the Republic of Bashkortistan. The following day, he was conscripted.
"We thought maybe it was a mistake, because he doesn't have combat experience," said the teacher's wife, Irina Ishdavletov. "But they took him. Nobody helped us. It upsets me deeply that they treat highly qualified personnel that way. We got married this summer, and we're expecting a baby. I'll be taking maternity leave soon. We both have mortgages, and we took out an auto loan this summer. Now I have to take all this on alone."
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/10/12/entire-subjects-are-being-cut
You kidding me??Smeghead4761 said:I'm not seeing where this is actually a UAV dropping mortar rounds. Everything is implied - nothing is actually shown.Rossticus said:A UAV used by Belarusian volunteers to drop 120mm mortar rounds.https://t.co/x2YxVvUbOm pic.twitter.com/lPJL3wYXo5
— Rob Lee (@RALee85) October 13, 2022
- picture of mortar round, with tape on it. Actually, to me the thing doesn't even look like it's fuzed.
- video of a UAV taking off and flying. I don't see any mortar rounds on the UAV. Maybe they've got an internal bomb bay, but I doubt it.
- aerial view of an explosion. Nothing showing what caused it.
There's nothing showing the mortar round being attached to the UAV, nothing showing a UAV flying while carrying a mortar round, and nothing showing a UAV actually dropping a mortar round.
Straight up propaganda.
74OA said:
Very interesting. Skip Biden and listen to what the professor has to say about the public mood in Russia today.
JUST BACK FROM RUSSIA
There it would have to be the military turning against Putin.10thYrSr said:74OA said:
Very interesting. Skip Biden and listen to what the professor has to say about the public mood in Russia today.
JUST BACK FROM RUSSIA
Interesting listen. She says 20% for Putin 30% against and the remainder just want to be left alone. Sounds like our country.
The issue is that we don't know what that means in terms of this war. Do Russians have the means to challenge the government? Are they just along for the ride come death or victory?
Here, we understand there is a means to challenge our government via the second amendment. In Russia, I have no idea the mechanism that would drive rebellion.
MaroonStain said:FriscoKid said:
What's the problem? I would have assumed speed bumps too.
I've played too much Battlefield to know those were AT mines.
10thYrSr said:74OA said:
Very interesting. Skip Biden and listen to what the professor has to say about the public mood in Russia today.
JUST BACK FROM RUSSIA
Interesting listen. She says 20% for Putin 30% against and the remainder just want to be left alone. Sounds like our country.
The issue is that we don't know what that means in terms of this war. Do Russians have the means to challenge the government? Are they just along for the ride come death or victory?
Here, we understand there is a means to challenge our government via the second amendment. In Russia, I have no idea the mechanism that would drive rebellion.
#UkraineWar: #Russia is now visually confirmed to have lost more than 7000 vehicles and other pieces of heavy equipment since it began its invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
— Oryx (@oryxspioenkop) October 12, 2022
Full list: https://t.co/QR37xcYGbY pic.twitter.com/xurltNPEgz
74OA said:
Very interesting. Skip Biden and listen to what the professor has to say about the public mood in Russia today.
JUST BACK FROM RUSSIA
“Russian soldiers mobilized near Kherson killed the commander who prevented them from surrendering”
— WarMonitor🇺🇦 (@WarMonitor3) October 13, 2022
Agthatbuilds said:
I suppose it depends on the rank and what they mean by "commander."
I put the skeptical/look into it emoji
Drone vs drone warfare. The future is now. (Ukrainian drone reportedly won.) https://t.co/MTDZeoC9r0
— Nolan Peterson (@nolanwpeterson) October 13, 2022
Agthatbuilds said:Drone vs drone warfare. The future is now. (Ukrainian drone reportedly won.) https://t.co/MTDZeoC9r0
— Nolan Peterson (@nolanwpeterson) October 13, 2022
In the East, the Ukrainians have gained a lot of ground -- the blue area is quite large -- but the great significance of this is that they are now in position to cut key Russian lines of communications, or already have done so. The Russians have a hard time moving anything except by rail, so if you take out their rail lines, they become an immobile, ill supplied target. They have also stopped the Russians short of the area where Ukraine's large (and up to now, untapped) shale gas fields are located, which was a prime target for Putin.japantiger said:Rossticus said:Here are today's control-of-terrain maps for #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine from @TheStudyofWar and @criticalthreats
— ISW (@TheStudyofWar) October 12, 2022
Click here to see our interactive map, updated daily: https://t.co/tXBbur1lgd pic.twitter.com/MI98l2OKox
How has this map changed in the last 4 months? A quick glance looks like it's looked for several months.
Agthatbuilds said:“Russian soldiers mobilized near Kherson killed the commander who prevented them from surrendering”
— WarMonitor🇺🇦 (@WarMonitor3) October 13, 2022
BREAKING: Israel is providing Ukraine with basic intelligence about the Iranian drones used by Russia. A private Israeli firm is also providing Ukraine with satellite imagery of Russian troop positions, senior Israeli official - NYT
— Faytuks News Δ (@Faytuks) October 13, 2022
whats Puttie gonna do about this? F with the Israelis? I doubt itGarryowenAg said:BREAKING: Israel is providing Ukraine with basic intelligence about the Iranian drones used by Russia. A private Israeli firm is also providing Ukraine with satellite imagery of Russian troop positions, senior Israeli official - NYT
— Faytuks News Δ (@Faytuks) October 13, 2022
Here is the full reply from the UK Defence Secretary, speaking as he entered @NATO HQ for a defence ministerial:
— Deborah Haynes (@haynesdeborah) October 13, 2022
"There isn’t a risk because unlike Russia, who has already isolated itself and we saw that yesterday at the United Nations vote, they need a supply chain.
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"We have the ability to refurbish or indeed manufacture a new supply chain which is what we are doing right now. The UK-Danish joint-led international fund is all about placing orders in a manufacturing space to make sure we can go on in '23, '24 and keep going on."
— Deborah Haynes (@haynesdeborah) October 13, 2022
4/4
This will strengthen intra-NATO air defence capabilities and further restrict Russia's willingness to test Article 5
— Samuel Ramani (@SamRamani2) October 13, 2022
Finland spoke about an intra-European air defence network yesterday but admitted it would play a minimal role in it
fullback44 said:whats Puttie gonna do about this? F with the Israelis? I doubt itGarryowenAg said:BREAKING: Israel is providing Ukraine with basic intelligence about the Iranian drones used by Russia. A private Israeli firm is also providing Ukraine with satellite imagery of Russian troop positions, senior Israeli official - NYT
— Faytuks News Δ (@Faytuks) October 13, 2022
Poland handed over 150 Starlink terminals to Ukraine, — the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine.
— ТРУХА⚡️English (@TpyxaNews) October 13, 2022
Starlink terminals were installed, in particular, in Izyum, Balakliya, Kupyansk and nine more liberated cities of Kharkiv region. pic.twitter.com/iiqZHW3fqa
Russian proxy in Kherson Vladimir Saldo urges residents to evacuate to Russian soil
— Samuel Ramani (@SamRamani2) October 13, 2022
A sign of a major Ukrainian breakthrough in Kherson
NEW: The goals of the "special military operation" in Ukraine are unchanged, but they can be achieved through negotiations, Kremlin says - Izvestiya
— Faytuks News Δ (@Faytuks) October 13, 2022
For those who still wonder how Europe could possibly find itself in its current position, allow me to offer an example.
— Patrick Fox (@RealCynicalFox) October 13, 2022
This is what passes for statesmanship from the President of France. https://t.co/weIRysjUkR
“Our (nuclear deterrence) doctrine rests on the fundamental interests of the nation...they are defined clearly and wouldn’t be directly affected at all if, for example, there was a ballistic nuclear attack in Ukraine, in the region."
— Patrick Fox (@RealCynicalFox) October 13, 2022
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After coming under criticism for his remarks, this (IMO) is his attempt to defend that comment. Which has me wondering why FR bothered to rejoin NATO in the first place if it really believes nuclear weapons use in Europe by Russia doesn't impact its interests.
— Patrick Fox (@RealCynicalFox) October 13, 2022
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Point 1, Get the hell out.Rossticus said:NEW: The goals of the "special military operation" in Ukraine are unchanged, but they can be achieved through negotiations, Kremlin says - Izvestiya
— Faytuks News Δ (@Faytuks) October 13, 2022
The Russian ammunition warehouse located in the school was captured by Ukrainian troops in the Kherson region pic.twitter.com/QlMB5kXOBO
— Paul Jawin (@PaulJawin) October 13, 2022
Talk about a FAAFO moment? Israel has exactly 0 ***** to give if someone comes knocking.fullback44 said:whats Puttie gonna do about this? F with the Israelis? I doubt itGarryowenAg said:BREAKING: Israel is providing Ukraine with basic intelligence about the Iranian drones used by Russia. A private Israeli firm is also providing Ukraine with satellite imagery of Russian troop positions, senior Israeli official - NYT
— Faytuks News Δ (@Faytuks) October 13, 2022