Russia-Ukraine War - News and Developments

[F-22Raptor]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1510650033586249733

Couldn’t agree more, current Russian government and society need to be completely overhauled along the line of Japan post WW2.

 

[thetutle]

On personal note, how you like the new starstreak system delivered to Ukraine? It appears to be extremly effective in destroying russian tanks and helicopters. The constant flow of advanced weapons forced Putin to retreat. He hopes he can hold Donbas but NATO now ships in heavy weapons to allow Ukraine cleansing that area too.

Yes, they seem very effective indeed.

 

[thetutle]

Do you think in future conflicts that the west fights...Will Russia supply critical equipment such as anti tank and anti aircraft missiles?

No I dont think so. Because its stuff is pretty crap and because russia is sacred of most of the people USA fights. Like the Taliban. or Iran.

 

[Wood]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1510650033586249733

Couldn’t agree more, current Russian government and society need to be completely overhauled along the line of Japan post WW2.

Yes, total humiliating defeat is necessary to break the ethno national pride. But Russia has the biggest nuclear stockpile. So Putin may start dropping nukes in the battlefield to prevent a defeat in Ukraine

 

[khansaheeb]

The effects of the Russian-launched TOS1-A on Ukrainian soldiers. Looks like the effects of Russian forces' missile rain of Azov Neo Nazis and their complicit Ukrainian nationalists are beginning to show.

Spoiler: Graphic

https://twitter.com/x/status/1510741337867534340

Russia’s TOS-1 Heavy Flamethrower Lobs Brutal Thermobaric Rockets At Close Range

Yesterday’s war news brought with it unconfirmed reports that Russia has deployed TOS-1 Heavy Flamethrower launchers to Ukraine. Mounted atop T-72 tanks, the launchers can unleash rockets with lung-searing thermobaric warheads from two miles away to just a quarter-mile down the street.

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YEKATERINBURG, RUSSIA - APRIL 11, 2018: A TOS-1A heavy flamethrower (front) moves along a street ... [+]
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Yesterday’s war news brought with it unconfirmed reports that Russia has deployed TOS-1 Heavy Flamethrower launchers to Ukraine. Mounted atop T-72 tanks, the launchers can unleash rockets with lung-searing thermobaric warheads from two miles away to just a quarter-mile down the street.

A senior U.S. defense official reportedly affirmed that Russia has sent TOS-1s (nicknamed the “Buratino” after a long-nosed Tolstoy character) into Ukraine on Tuesday following a claim from Ukrainian ambassador to the U.S., Oksana Markarova, that Russian forces have used a “vacuum bomb” in Ukraine.
Russia is believed to have used thermobaric rockets in Chechnya in 2000, and more recently in Syria, while some analysts assert Russian-supported separatists in the Donbas region have used them in the past few years.
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Older thermobaric munitions employ a solid or liquid explosive container and two separate explosive charges. When such a weapon is dropped or launched, the first charge detonates to disperse a fine cloud of particles of the solid or liquid. The second charge ignites the dispersed material and oxygen in the air.
All thermobaric explosives differ from normal ones in that the blast wave is generated by burning material — typically powdered aluminum — in the expanding outer edge of a fireball, producing a blast wave of much greater duration that generates a much larger negative phase — a reversal which sucks air back towards the point of explosion as the fireball cools — hence their description as a “vacuum bomb.” Beyond blast effects, thermobaric devices can cause severe internal organ damage and asphyxiation.
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MOSCOW, RUSSIA - JUNE 18, 2020: A serviceman stands on a TOS-1A Buratino multiple rocket launcher in ... [+]
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The TOS-1 fires 220 mm rockets with two types of warheads: incendiary and thermobaric. According to data from Military-Today, the website of defense author Andrius Genys, the launcher system has 30 tubes (24 for an updated TOS-1A variant) and the ability to launch a single rocket or a pair of rockets within half-a-second. Full salvo duration is 7.5 to 15 seconds and covers an area of 650 by 1,300 feet. Later versions of the launcher increased rocket range to over 3.5 miles and can be fitted to 6X6 military trucks.

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The thermobaric rockets that the Buratino fires are not precision weapons. They are designed for close-in engagements of the kind the Russian Army is likely to undertake in the days ahead, namely in urban firefights. In the apartment complexes, subway and government buildings of Kyiv they can be brutally effective, shielding Russian forces from the risky task of door-to-door combat and terrorizing the civilian populace in the process.
Their very introduction to the theater may be to make up for a deficit in Russian smart weapon stockpiles and training, according to some analysts. As the Center for Arms Control notes, there is a legal argument that thermobaric weapons may be prohibited under the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. However, they are not explicitly listed. Since the U.S. also keeps them in its inventory, the center asserts that “it is unlikely that they will be explicitly listed or that there will be a treaty banning their use.”
The attention on and possible use of thermobaric weapons (introduced in the 1960s) is a reminder that even limited war quickly degenerates into a low technology, personal and vicious fight when the combatants are determined or desperate. The mere presence of the Buratino is enough to demonstrate the levels of determination and desperation in Ukraine now.

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[CAPRICORN-88]

You are the one who is trolling. Maybe ppl should start to saying chinese were not *** fucked by japan during second world war and china man killed Chinese them self.


He is fucking troll. Winnie the poh will be very proud.

Stop trolling.

Japan which was herself a victim of the US hegemony when US Commodore Mathew Perry forcifully sail into the Bay of Tokyo back in 1853.
Later Japan in humiliation returned, became the Asian monster herself and annexed first the Kingdom of Ryuku then later attack Qing China unprovoked and forced a vain and weak Empress Dowager who hate war to sign unequal treaty e.g. Sekimonseki Treaty where Taiwan was ceased forcifully to her, etc.
She then attacked Korea and eliminate the entire lineage of Korean royal heritage by kidnapping the surviving Princess to Japan. She died in captivity.

Of course trolls like you lacking in the knowledge of real Asian history will conveniently disregard the facts that a defeated Japan had to hand over Taiwan and all the SCS islanda back to The rightful owner CHiNA backed in 1945 with the assistance of the USN then.

Best you asked your granny if she is still living and you are a Chinese.
Otherwise of barking incessantly whixh to us is all noise.

In other words just another trolling busybody and interloper in disbelief.

 

[The SC]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1510724273530408968

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1509870116728627205

https://twitter.com/x/status/1510708381119565828

 

[jhungary]

@mmr quit arguing with the infirm and the insane lol

When he said US is a Hegemony back in 1853, you should know this is a hint you should not further with this......

LOL

 

[Hassan Al-Somal]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1510740608377315334

 

[CAPRICORN-88]

The last resort of all Putler trolls. When nothing helps...Libya! Iraq! Hyrule! Mushroom Kingdom.

You are indeed a racist based on your post.

Your motivation is driven by your hatred towards another race. I have not met another person who claimed to be a a Greek and like you.

So stop the nonsense, defending yourself by simply saying that the Russian, German and Greek belongs to a race.
DNA proved that they are NOT.
German are German.
Russia are more Slavic e.g. Danish or Norwegian.
Greek were just settlers residing to the South of Russia more analogous to Gypsy in that sense.

Ukrainian and Russian are much more closer in that sense.

We see what happens when Russians take ukrainian citizens, they murder evryone. Better fight and they do that very sucessful.

Commonsense tells us if that was the original Russian objective and agenda, Ukraine will be still a part of Russia today after the breakup of Soviet Union.

So stop your nonsense.

 

[Wood]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1510698438102597641

 

[Hassan Al-Somal]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1510663770535870464

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[Hassan Al-Somal]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1510679502631817219

 

[F-22Raptor]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1510601269559406595

https://twitter.com/x/status/1510602038706675719

https://twitter.com/x/status/1510604769135628290

https://twitter.com/x/status/1510606487642640387

Russian barbarians

 

[Oldman1]

Ukraine has taken the best of Russia's blow's and they are still standing. Can Russia take Ukraines blows? Especially with NATO and EU support of weapons and intelligence information? Russia's hasty withdrawal from the north and redeployment of their forces to the south suggests they are massively worried about the Ukrainian counter-attack and they run the risk of now losing Crimea and the Donbas regions if they don't reinforce those regions.

All of Ukraines actions have been tactical and centred around "holding the line". This war is now changing to the next stage of the war.

The west is now going to provide Tanks and more offensive weapons not because Russia has destroyed Ukraines - but because more Ukrainian men and women have now been trained and are now coming online and combined with offensive equipment like tanks and artillery, they can now take the fight to the Russian's directly rather than defending which has been what Ukraine has been doing since the start of this war.

You may now even see those Mig29s turn up as the direction of war has changed and they represent more value now than at the beginning as Russia is running out of precision/smart weapons.

With the Ukrainians sending reinforcements from North to east, south and south east they definitely need to really get into the offensive quickly before the Russians adapt and take hold in the southern region.