Russia - threadbanned users in OP

cnocbui

Prigozhin made a fatal mistake: Russia gave the go-ahead to liquidate "Wagner"

After Yevhen Prigozhin, the founder of the "Wagner" PMC, who positions the "musicians" as "saviors of a special military operation", organized a crusade against the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, "Wagner" was harshly pointed to his place.

Moreover, they pointed out that the mercenaries who broke away now have almost no chance of survival - they were actually thrown to the slaughter in Ukraine. At best, the fate of Strelkov awaits "Putin's cook" himself, at worst (for him) - the fate of the leaders eliminated in Donbas.

The irony of fate: yesterday you were a hunter, and today you are a chased animal.

I did think that Wagner being assigned the job of taking Bakhmut was an exercise to diminish them through heavy losses due to worries about Prigozhin's power in terms of regime change.

macraignil

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120274142#Comment_120274142

Hi Mudspud. Back with more lies and another new account?

https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1628316779691794437?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1628316779691794437%7Ctwgr%5E14c7e86290a497aeb67ca6490fe2f5b7678e85d6%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.redditmedia.com%2Fmediaembed%2F118tbmp%3Fresponsive%3Dtrueis_nightmode%3Dfalse

technocrat

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120274184#Comment_120274184

Says the latest Putin arsewipe to come on here.

Funny you have no problem supporting a murderous bunch of paedophiles that goes by the name of the Russian army!

timmyntc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120271293#Comment_120271293

The USSR built its infrastructure to withstand attack from the west - bridges were made to only carry weight of lighter T-series tanks in formation rather than heavier NATO alternatives, layout of towns and residential 'commieblocks' were such that they offered the best defensive position.

Railway had redundant connections in the network, and energy infrastructure is much more decentralised than the more cost efficient stuff in the west. And mines and industrial tunnels and bunkers etc were all designed to fit many military vehicles too.

The Russians are finding out that the USSRs paranoid designs actually worked in many cases, much to their dismay. The industrial factory AZOCM (Artemovsk non-ferrous metal processing plant) is a large industrial site in the centre of the city with many tunnels and bunkers like Azovstal, and as Wagners close in we will likely see another siege at that point.

Slava_Ukraine

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120274390#Comment_120274390

Please just ignore and report. His posts will be deleted anyway so you are just wasting your time replying to the half-wit

timmyntc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120271806#Comment_120271806

The Moldovan government are facing strong protests amid the sharp increase in cost of living and energy prices (partially russias fault) - but there is no evidence that Russians are making a move on it (how could they?)

Even US and EU intelligence sources cannot back up any threats to Moldova at this time, the Moldovan government are on borrowed time and are using the russian boogeymen as a scapegoat this time.

vatnikbanderite

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120274337#Comment_120274337

Where did I say corruption?

There were (are?) plenty of schemes to access an EU passport (and in many countries worldwide for that matter) in return for business investment, settlement status, spouse/childbirth etc....

The point if you need it spelling out is, Russian leaders will gladly let normal Russian's die for their cause but won't allow their own family members get caught up in it.... a lot of which live elsewhere outside their beloved mother Russia (because Russia is that good, they need to leave it)

ejmaztec

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120274431#Comment_120274431

Oh no, not "the feeble minded ignoramus" again. Your English vocabulary must be extremely limited if that's all that you can come up with on each post.

As for the laughably unbelievable nonsense propaganda in the quoted post, one would have to be a "feeble minded ignoramus" to believe any of it. It reeks of desperation. I look forward to being entertained by your next contribution. 🤣

vatnikbanderite

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120274478#Comment_120274478

There were NOTAM's in place at their test ranges, and nothing was publically said afterward, so most likely true

paul71

3 hours before he forgets his latest password.

cnocbui

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120274002#Comment_120274002

GLSDB has a small warhead - 114Kg of explosives - hence the small and relatively cheap. It's not going to do worthwhile damage to the bridge. The truck bomb that did do some damage to the bridge used 22,770 Kg - 22 pallets - of explosives, so about 200 GLSDBs, so at a cost of 40,000 each, that's $8m worth.

That bridge needs a big bomb to even dent it.

vatnikbanderite

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120274501#Comment_120274501

No, can be open to corruption, as with anything.

No not cool with corruption, I'd happily like to see them deported to the frontlines

Ce he sin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120274431#Comment_120274431

I find the latest manifestation of Putinbot quite amusing at times but these "transplant specialists" are really something!

As if people go around taking organs from the already dead rather than those on life support.

Danzy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120274519#Comment_120274519

How did the bomb in the truck get on to the bridge.

Was it a suicide bomber or put in a lorry and some Red Army man told drive or thinking he had some other cargo.

Doesn't really matter I suppose.

Wibbs

Says this: The feeble minded ignoramus parrots the propaganda.

Follows with this: Are you aware the vast majority of "western medics" embedded with the Ukrainian forces are transplant specialist, there to harvest the organs of the dead.

And of course the usual hordes of Poles dead*, yet at the same time posied to invade and annex western Ukraine. The Russian Mir within and without seem obessed by this point. Well they don't exactly like the Poles, because unlike Napoleon and a certain Austrian corporal they actually invaded and took Russia, for a while at least. That's the problem with invasions against locals that don't want you. They rarely last for long. Tinpot dictators and the politics and cultures they inspire throughout history have constantly forgotten this point as they try to make another "Rome" in their image, while forgetting that the reason the latter won and lasted so long was because for the most part they offered a better bet than what had been there before and even though they were so "right wing" purple haired people would have a fit, they were also quite "liberal" in the sense that they didn't really care what you got up to so long as you weren't playing silly buggers against Rome and paid tribute and taxes.

Note too how putin's rambling speech hit the points of your MAGA/conspiracy/right wing/conservative types in the West. The gay nazi gender bender trannies are after your kids type angle. IMHO they've been cleverly massaging those groups for years, just like they did with peace groups and Left wing outfits during the Cold War. The number of the latter that vanished near overnight when the USSR fell was "interesting". Their backing essentially dried up. These days social media and echo chambers makes this task all the more easy, especially and ironically in freer societies where disagreement is a given. It would be much harder for a Western interest to do this somewhere like Russia or China as disagreement against the official narrative has been rendered verboten, even unthinkable. Great if one agrees with their narratives, not so great, even decidely unhealthy if one doesn't.

*with hands cut off no less. That's a new one on me. I wonder will I hear same from the same sources I know. To be forgotten next week, replaced by masses of Black American mercenaries(remember those? Pepperidge Farm remembers)

Gatling

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120274401#Comment_120274401

Bunker busters and thermobarics put an end to that fairy quick

jmreire

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120273921#Comment_120273921

That's all it ever was, to take control of Ukraine and its resources. Every thing else they claimed was just lying propaganda, all their "Red Lines"....NATO encroachment, Protecting Russian citizens in Dunbas, " De-Nazifying" Ukraine. Reversing the 2014 illegal Coup. ETC. LIes and more Lies from that factory of lies, the Kremlin, with the biggest liar and thief of them all Vladimir Putin.

Wolf359f

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120274519#Comment_120274519

Similar warhead to the current missiles Ukraine uses in their himars. They were able to badly damage the bridge in Kherson.

It could be enough to cause damage that makes it too risky for heavy goods to travel over it or cause it continuously to need repairs. Not to mention the tail tracks that just need to be weakened to cause damage.

That's assuming they have GLSDG's already. Nothing official as of yet. However it would have been extremely rude of Biden to visit Kyiv without a gift 🤣

technocrat

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120274431#Comment_120274431

Someone call a nurse for this thicko..

20Wheel

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41076611.html

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https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120274519#Comment_120274519

The Small diameter bomb 2 can penetrate more than 6 feet of reinforced concrete and have a programmable fuse so it can detonate just after it penetrates and make a big hole in a bridge,and it doesnt take more than one to make any bridge useless.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120274979#Comment_120274979

Good to see. Expect Richard Boyd Barrett, Mick Wallace, Clare Daly etc to start screaming about our neutrality being 'undermined' in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.......

josip

The Kerch bridge will only be in range of the GLSDB after Ukraine makes it to the coast. So the bridge won't figure in their current planning.

cnocbui

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120274987#Comment_120274987

Would you have a link for that, I'm coming up dry? The SDB II appears to be called storm breaker and it's air launched and has an even smaller 53Kg warhead and seems mainly intended to hit moving vehicles.

Wolf359f

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120275157#Comment_120275157

Hard to imagine it would have enough inertia after gliding for so long to penetrate 6 foot of concrete. I'm literally picturing it gliding slowly to the ground in order to get the max range out of it. Steeper attack angle, the shorter the range etc...

Brussels Sprout

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120274082#Comment_120274082

Nothing says serious organisation like a gmail email account with a random number in it.

Brussels Sprout

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120274519#Comment_120274519

Not to mention that even with the extended range of GLSDB, the Kerch bridge still isn't in range:

The only ammo that'll reach that bridge is an ATACMS

Danzy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120274082#Comment_120274082

The left are getting antsy, Russia is stalled, unless there is a significant change.

The next big offensive could be its last.

A ceasefire and talks will allow further bedding down by Russia.

Furze99

So what's going to go down in the next few days?

Some sort of big military statement from the Russians?

Or will they let the anniversary of their foolishness slip by quietly so as not to draw domestic criticism?

ronivek

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120275329#Comment_120275329

I'm not sure if they actually have the capability to make any kind of "big military statement"; unless they decide to employ chemical or nuclear weapons. Consensus seems to be that they have already more or less exhausted their mobilised troops and that the rumoured "big offensive" is actually already underway.

If I had to guess: we'll see one of the largest missile and drone attacks of the war on or about the 24th. Possibly they'll select some prominent civilian targets that will generate more gnashing of Western teeth but not enough to prompt long range weapon or fighter deliveries. Otherwise it'll be more of the same grinding attrition style advances to secure the Donbas.