They announced it is being towed after announcing yesterday that it was undamaged. It's hard to know the truth but you can get an idea of things if you put together pieces of information.
When the video came out of one of the drones hitting it portside aft, I knew they were full of shit.
Russian telegram is saying this morning Ivan Khurs was attacked by five instead of three kamikaze boats and that two hit the vessel and that she is severely damaged and at risk of sinking. They go on to further state casualties. 1 officer killed 5 enlisted killed. Two of them… pic.twitter.com/NkWQgFnACk
Intelschizo (@OSINTMISCIF) May 26, 2023
Like everything, information is information and not necessarily true. I'm pretty certain it was hit by at least one drone though.
Ah, the old, "We can't hide the truth anymore, so we will come halfway clean" thing.
I hear that the Gripens will come with loops of ABBA blaring out of speakers when they fly.
That has to be a violation of the Geneva Conventions
Meanwhile on the home front.....
This reminds me of a question I have always had in regards to immigrants. If your home country is bad enough to leave, then why stay loyal to that country? Often more loyal than they are to the US.
Glad to see others contributing. I'm simply throwing down random things that I find interesting or at least informational along with a healthy dose of memes for the few who read this thread.
I haven't been following the war much lately, just got back on to look around twitter this morning.
Seems Russia wasn't honest about the drone attack on their ship. At least one made it through.
"Prigozhin will not withdraw Wagner from Bakhmut" - Chernyak, representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense
"These statements were made by him against the background of the fact that he cannot fulfill his promise to capture Bakhmut before May 9"
— MAKS 22\uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDE6\uD83D\uDD1C (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) May 5, 2023
There's a video going around on twitter with him yelling about ammunition again. Seems to me that it's his private army. Shouldn't he be the one purchasing the ammo for his men?
I took a little time off from following the war. Whats with all the ERA memes lately? What did I miss?
The International Criminal Court issues warrant for Putin.
That is definitely fuel. That looks exactly like it did when the F-14's would dump fuel before landing.
The study most likely didn't survey folks that started off living in a city and then had the means to move to a rural area. I'm sure a lot of folks that were born and raised in a rural area, with a low income probably are anxious and depressed. Just like anyone would be when you're wondering if you can make the rent and buy food.
At the end you can clearly see damage to the prop.
Weird...I moved to a very rural area. I have never been happier, and I really don't worry about much at all.
Now official Russian government Twitter accounts openly threaten Georgia.
Display MoreRussia’s military chiefs go to war … with each other
Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin’s feud with Moscow’s top brass boils over.
https://www.politico.eu/articl…sia-top-brass-boils-over/
An increasingly bitter quarrel between Russia’s top generals and Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the mercenary Wagner Group, looks like it is coming to a head after the paramilitary boss accused the country’s defense ministry of “treason” by intentionally withholding munitions from his fighters in Ukraine.
Prigozhin’s Wagner Group is claiming that its fighters have not been receiving the credit they deserve. He had a furious spat last month with Russia’s generals over who was responsible for seizing Ukraine’s salt-mining town of Soledar — his men or regular Russian troops.
His seeking of the limelight and his constant denouncing of Russia’s top commanders for mismanaging the war has added to the personality politics splintering the Russian war effort — and the top generals appear to have tired of it, fearing Prigozhin is disrupting their efforts to improve battlefield coordination of their forces.
Earlier this month, Russia’s political-military bloggers were instructed by General Valery Gerasimov, the former chief of the General Staff and now Russia’s overall commander in Ukraine, to reduce their coverage of Wagner.
And noticeably in recent days some of the top bloggers, such as Rybar, have appeared to do so.
Prigozhin has also been blocked from recruiting any more fighters from Russian prisons and there has been mounting talk that the Wagner Group in Ukraine will be put under the command of the National Guard and moved away from the defense ministry, essentially a demotion.
Efforts by the top brass to sideline Prigozhin’s Wagner Group appear to be increasing, according to analyst Tatiana Stanovaya, founder of R.Politik. She says Prigozhin has become politically vulnerable, and his star is dimming with the recent reshuffle at the top of Russia’s military. She noted that Gerasimov’s transfer to Ukraine has “drastically reduced Wagner’s autonomy and seriously changed Prigozhin’s relationship with state agencies.”
Seems to me that if you own a PMC, it's on you to provide the ammo for your troops. Not the entity you are contracted to fight for (unless of course it's part of the contract).
Display MoreThis country no longer has the ability to fight what was called a two front war when I was in. In reality, I think we were losing that ability while I was in. Carter ensured we no longer had that ability.
I recently read a good article by a retired Admiral that pointed out the failings of our Just In Time naval logistics systems. The pencil-pushing pointy-headed geeks that instituted JIT fail to realize that peacetime logistics and wartime logistics are completely different. This problem of JIT really applies to all the services. Add to that the extremely long lead times to replace modern weapons and ammunition. Mix in the fact that the estimated usage rate of ammo, like howitzer shells, has been shown by the Ukrainians to be woefully underestimated.
Will our government and military wake up and do something about JIT and increasing war stocks? No. Because that costs money that is better spent on Equity Housing in the US.
In short, our military is in sad shape if we have to fight a major war. That, RR, is not a pro-Russia talking point. That's just the truth.
I vaguely remember from early in my career that they were moving away from the requirement to fight a two front war. At the time the USSR had fallen and China wasn't seen as a serious threat. I think for awhile it was assumed that we would only be involved in skirmishes in 3rd world countries.
You'd think they would put some bars on their windows or something. Important people keep falling out of them.
Remember these statements from last year? How's it going for them?
I have seen a lot of Rashists talking about war on the ground over here. It shows you how little the average person knows about warfare. No country on this planet has the sealift capacity to get troops over here for a surprise invasion. The only reason we were able to be effective in Europe is because we could spend years massing troops and equipment in Europe.
