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Ukraine war latest: Russians 'kicking people out of homes' near frontline as Kremlin 'prepares to attack'

Unimaginable. Imagine this happening to any of us, in our homes :(

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Declining empires which blamed or were resentful of Western powers. Whipped up by nationalist leaders.

Russian point of view of the Ukrainian drone tactics against them

Nice to see, particularly as in the past week I have contributed to Ukraine's offensive and observational drone efforts.

The fact corruption is so deeply rooted across their society shows why they are still a long way from getting into the EU.

But at least, unlike the Russians, they seem to making a bit of a genuine effort, finally

Chuck being called out in the comments that Ukraine are not getting the laser guided version. He seems to get called out quite often.

Let just hope these are enroute already and not just going into production. Haven't seen much in the way of the number produced.

The Lazer designation can be done from the ground, special forces have been doing it for years,

You don't need an expensive high tech drone to do it ,in this day and age you could probably rig a commercial available drone to carry a Lazer designator

I was wondering why some users were saying Russia was winning. I guess that 0.1% with a gulp of copium = winning?

I know all that, but you need a clear line of sight, and that is often hard to come by on the ground. If special forces can get close enough to be designating or lofting a commercial drone with a laser pointer stuck to the camera gimbal, the drone could as easily be rigged with an explosive charge.

It's all theoretically do-able but highly unlikely to be actually done and not something that can be done quickly or routinely. For that, you need a drone with a far greater operational range than commercial ones over which you can get video feed and be able to control it. Commercial drones are good for around 15km, not 150.

The direct link

"The Wagner way of war is to send a first wave of attackers that mainly comprises raw recruits straight out of Russian prisons. They know little of military tactics and are poorly equipped. Most just hope that if they survive their six-month contract they can go home rather than back to a cell

“They make the group – let’s say from 10 soldiers – reach 30 meters, then they start digging in to keep the position,” Andriy says of Wagner."

Another group follows, he says, to claim another 30 meters. “That’s how, step by step, (Wagner) is trying to move forward, while they lose a lot of people in the meantime.”

Only when the first wave is exhausted or cut down do Wagner send in more experienced combatants, often from the flanks, in an effort to overrun Ukrainian positions.

Andriy says facing the assault was a frightening and surreal experience.

“Our machine gunner was almost getting crazy, because he was shooting at them. And he said, I know I shot him, but he doesn’t fall. And then after some time, when he maybe bleeds out, so he just falls down.”

Andriy compares the battle to a scene out of a zombie movie. “They’re climbing above the corpse of their friends, stepping on them,” he says.

“It looks like it’s very, very likely that they are getting some drugs before attack,” he says, a claim that CNN has not been able independently to verify.

Even after the first waves were eliminated, the attack continued as the Ukrainian defenders say they ran out of bullets and found themselves surrounded.

“The problem was that they went around us. And that’s how they surrounded us. They came from the other side. We didn’t expect them to come from there.

“We were shooting until the last bullet, so we threw all the grenades we had and left only me and a few guys. We were helpless in that situation.”

They were lucky. Held off until the last moment, the Ukrainian fighters say, Wagner withdrew at the end of the day.

Andriy’s account of Wagner’s approach matches that of a Ukrainian intelligence report obtained by CNN last week.

According to that report, if Wagner forces succeed in taking a position, artillery support allows them to dig foxholes and consolidate their gains. According to Ukrainian intercepts, coordination between Wagner and the Russian military is often lacking.

Sports administration is one of the most corrupt and amoral of human activities. Saw something a few days ago where Pam Shriver was saying something about tennis and female players getting to the court via their coaches beds, or something like that. Found it

In Australia it's also swimming coaches. Then there have recently been the female gymnasts relating about their male coaches when the were children/teens. All these sporting organisations know about and tollerate it, probably because they were part of it. Female ice skaters too - France and Canada recently I believe.

It's probably actually on the required curriculum in Orcistan. Putin even got envious of those Orc sports coaches and got in on the game himself with the very flexible Alina Kabaeva.

'Sport!'

If someone told you this time last year that Russia would be using prisoners in human wave attacks on Ukraine you would have asked them what century they were from, and where were their meds. Yet here we are.