Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Why assume they are Google images?

There's plenty of commerical satellites providing the paying public with daily images of Ukraine. The OSINT community are a little more advanced than the Russians with their 1960's maps of Ukraine!

All the images are from March 2020. My point was, regardless of age, to look around the substantial dock facilities where the Black Sea is based.

The information on the Kilo is correct as of yesterday.

It's incredible the amount of times folks do not read posts correctly, yourself excluded.

Any update on these nuclear sea mines you were harping on about ??

Russias Patsy in Africa is starting to rumble... corruption and theft are rampant in Sudan judging by this CNN investigation. Wanger and Russia are not going to last long here. More sanctions against Russian Gold could be in the pipeline.

Russian puppets around the world will be looking on with increasing nervousness.

Re the Dolphin pins... so thats what happened to Fungie. Dingle will not be pleased!

PS note... is that a Confederate flag I see on the sub?

My eyes are tired from the weekend so apologies in advance.

Rare immune disorders don't need hazmat suits, the clue it's in the name, autoimmune, that means there is no infection. But I suppose it became standard procedure when a russian dissident falls ill, and that's for good reasons.

Russia is bluffing about its nuclear attack. They would only launch nuclear weapons if they thought that Russia itself was in danger of collapse.

Besides they would use chemical and biological weapons first and they have not done that yet either.

Soviet APC was seized by Ukrainian military at Izyum direction

the little victories

Very hard to know how all this ends. The West encouraged Putin by not intervening when Crimea was annexed back in 2014. Lack of finance and parts may stall the Russian war machine eventually but even then will Ukraine ever truly regain control of its complete territory. Such an ending would be humiliating for Putin. It would probably take the West bombing Russia to end the war in a blunt fashion or the world if Moscow used its nuclear arsenal.

I have to admit, I feared the worse for Ukraine when we seen the Russian convoys approaching Kiev at the start, and I also feared that much of the Ukranian army would be annexed, captured or killed east of Kiev.

The Ukranians have really suprised me on how much of a defense they have put up against the Russian invaders.

When you see Russian trolls and the like celebrating small gains in the east and their proclamations that Russia are winning because they have taken 20% of Ukrainian territory, then you know the Russians truly are struggling.

It is hard to see how this all ends, I would like to see the Russians fully expelled from Ukraine, but I really cant see this happening in the short term at all, I think this may drag out for a long time yet.

Russian propaganda seems to becoming increasingly desperate. The fact that a HIMARS system weighs 16 tons appears to have escaped them :

Well there is a way out for Russia but it's much more likely that the minimum gain in Ukraine has not yet been achieved nor is Putin capable of admitting failure. They have secured a warm water port already and have shown the world how badly trained and equipped their army is. The larger issue for Russia is internal and how Putin sells a deal with Zelensky/Ukraine considering the level of propaganda/narrative on Nazis and "Banderas".

The other problem is Russia's international commitments aren't worth the paper they are written on. Ukraine might agree to cede Crimea but any deal will be extremely difficult to sell for one side and nobody will trust Putin. Russia massively overplayed their hand.