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Should only get cheaper as routes are stabilized and agreements solidified.
Band together and depose your leadership. You've done it in the past. >

This is how Ukraine did it. They bled and died and fought at Euromaiden, to kick Yanukovych out. Now they're still fighting. 
Only Russians can save Russia. Overthrow Putin. >

Yanukovych's grip on power was not a fraction of Putin's though, he's got a hundreds thousand strong private security army and twenty years of build-up against any kind of uprising. It would take a miracle. >

From 24.02.2022 to 04.01.2023 (Day 315) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):
108910 (+720) Personnel
3038 (+2) Tanks
6106 (+6) Armored Personnel Vehicles
2039 (+6) Artillery Systems
424 (+0) MLRS
215 (+1) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems
283 (+0) Aircraft
270 (+0) Helicopters
1842 (+3) UAV operational-tactical level
723 (+0) Missiles
16 (+0) Warships / Boats
4745 (+10) Other vehicles
181 (+0) Special Equipment >

The personnel losses are very constant between 700 and 800 this week, even though we know there have been massive casualty accidents in the beginning of this week. It seems to me the official statistics delay and smooth out the numbers to not give away operational information. >


More than a million Russians have called, texted or visited the website of a Ukrainian hotline that allows them to surrender, with many seeking a way to avoid going to war, since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, according to the hotline.

Jesus. I'd bet the FSB would just love to have that list.  Not sure they have enough room in the Gulags. The ones who went through with it and surrendered are going to be the lucky ones. Maybe they can claim asylum. >

When the cold snap begins this weekend the mobiks cannot remain outside or in unheated housing without succumbing to hypotermia very fast.
My chairforce general assessment of the situation is that RU will not be able to scatter all of their mobiks into many heated spaces over a large area but will continue to house them tightly packed in a small area especially during the night.
We will find out soon enough if I was correct. >

Do Ukraine have heat detecting abilities? holy shit if they do... >

They have drones with infra-red cameras I think >

Their domestic tanks have thermals >

Explosions in Sevastopol

On Wednesday, January 4, explosions rang out in the temporarily occupied Sevastopol in Crimea, according to local media.
Local residents heard powerful explosions in different areas of the city. In particular, in the area of ​​Fruktovoy and Soldatsky.
The explosions in Sevastopol were also confirmed by Petro Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol. According to him, anti-aircraft fire in the occupied city went off at least twice.



Earlier: Simferopol residents posted on social networks about the sounds of explosions near the Belbek airport, and assume that the sounds of explosions were related to the operation of Russian air defense systems. The representatives of the occupation "authority" did not comment on this information.


Other reported Crimean places that claimed attacks:
Jankoy (aka Dzhankoi), in northwest Crimea, anti-aircraft was working, as seen in posted video
Fruktovoy (near the Belbek airfield), one mass explosion, “thundering so loud that windows shook”
And a third location—“area of ​​the air base of the settlement of Gvardeyskoye”—although Fakty reports it as being Soldatsky >

Wow.  I remember people on here claiming that Ukraine wouldn't even try to retake Crimea.  It looks inevitable now.
Lol @ putin. >

Makiivka locals tell TSN the “hundreds” estimate is correct.


"People in the city say that at least 300 soldiers were killed. This can be confirmed by the fact that the explosion was very powerful. The city shuddered at that moment. My house too, although it is located some 15 kilometers from the school where the explosion took place. After this explosion we see that Russians are housed in the cultural centers of the city's residential areas, the number of roadblocks has increased," one of the residents of the occupied Makiivka shared his observations.

A military expert, a native of Makiivka, Roman Svitan, reported approximately this number of dead in a comment for TSN.

"A battalion drove there, and it consisted of 500-600 people with equipment, about 300-400 died," Roman Svitan told us. “A denser front, but this battalion had no strategic importance for the front. Most likely, they were planned to be sent to the second front line. This incident, this attack showed magic—they only arrived in Makiivka about a week ago. What will change after that? They will be placed in in the houses of the private sector, in the houses of Makiivka residents."

Another military expert, Oleksandr Kovalenko, says that similar strikes on objects with occupiers are carried out regularly and will continue.

"This strike is a unique case," says Kovalenko. "In fact, a battalion tactical group was destroyed in a matter of minutes. The last time such a strike was inflicted on the occupiers was when they forced their way into Siversky Donets. Such strikes will continue. It is difficult to understand the logic of the Russian the command that deployed such a concentration of personnel, ammunition, equipment. The deployment of personnel in Makiivka is a consequence of the fiasco of the offensive operation in the direction of Avdiivka and Bakhmut. They are concentrating their forces to continue offensive actions." >

Some Russian vocabulary for y’all in here.
The right term for situations like this is “pizdets.” >

The truck being carried only has 8, according to posts in that thread the S-400 should have 10.