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  if this is the case, then the war is lost for Russia. they can't do offensive operations without artillery, they can't defend properly without artillery.
context: Traitors hang >
  
  General Staff:
  Precision strike kills 50 Russians, Chaplinka, Kherson >
  
  This feels like a Ukrainian shaping campaign before they make a push. >
  
  The US/NATO seem to be loading Ukraine up with weapons for something. We aren't giving them 50,000 grads or JDAMS for no particular reason. Either someone thinks they need them for defense against a Russian offense or there is a big Ukrainian offense coming up. >
  
  why not both? 
  Prepping in case of a Belarus Bum Rush, but also enough to ensure that Svatoe is liberated by NYE. >
  
  The drone wars are upon us >
  
  General Tony >
  
  Hello there >
  
  The head of the factory that built the submarines of the Black Sea Fleet "died suddenly"?
  Methinks that the submarines in question are having some sort of logistical/maintenance issue relating to their construction... >
  
  Fell out the window of their latest submarine, obviously. >
  
  Thank you!  ❤️🌻🇺🇦 >
  
  This is a bit off topic, but does anybody know why Ukrainian place names have apostrophes in them all the time? >
  
  Apostrophe separating the consonant and vowel indicates that the consonant is not "softened" by the vowel as it normally would be, as well as forces a separation of two sounds. Ukrainian ' is equivalent to "ъ" - "hard sign" used in russian. >
  
  That's interesting, because Russian typically has it the opposite way. >
  
  One thing to take away from this war, Russia never stands a chance at success if they have to fake all favorable data. Signs are showing their industrial sector is falling. >
  
  As usual, this is without Mariupol. >
  
  And many other places occupied by Russia. >
  
  What do u suppose are the actual civilian casualtie numbers? >
  
  I believe estimates are like 100k dead for Mariupol alone >
  
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  Were the bots pushing some sort of agenda or just reposting high karma comments? >
  
  Good reporting from the BBC >
  
  Some day I hope there’s something like an anthology of Zelensky’s quotes and speeches gathered in a single volume. >
  
  "You're lucky you didn't cut your eye. Those icicles have been known to kill people!" >
  
  Any idea if that’s the same 200 MM or new money? >
  
  
  Catherine the Great
  
  I really do hope they go through with that petition on replacing it with a statue of Billy Herrington. >
  
  Let them fight (each other). >
  
  The head of the State Border Service, Sergei Deineko, said that at the moment, Russia has assembled 10,200 troops in Belarus, and that that number is not enough to attack Ukraine.
  
  "The group that the armed forces of the Russian Federation (in Belarus) has is about 10,200 military personnel; so it cannot complete the task of re-offensive on the territory of our state."
  
  According to the chief border guard, the situation in Belarus is monitored every day—by intelligence, the State Border Guard Service, and operational-search units. They are also assisted by "unspoken assistants." All of them report that the enemy has no "real opportunities" for an offensive. >
  
  My guess is you'd need closer to 100,000 to be a serious threat. 
  That number is calculated by approximately doubling the original assault, adding in extra for the lost equipment, and then more for the lack of element of surprise. 
  Even then, I still predict failure, it would just be something that Ukraine would have to seriously appreciate >
  
  We would quickly return to 2000-3000dead Russians a day >
  
  Previous post
  Day 307-308 of my updates from Kharkiv.
  Yesterday it was a mostly quiet day, there was just one country-wide air raid alert that turned out to be uneventful in the end. They were trying to scare us by flying their bombers along our borders as usual, but they used their MiG-31K again, which is basically a sure sign that they are just trying to intimidate us, as they pretty much never use their Kinzhal missiles, they are mostly for show.
  Today was a different story, as the day started with a missile strike here in Kharkiv, which was pretty unexpected. At 9:02pm an air raid alert starts and about 5 seconds later we hear an explosion. We are pretty far from the place that was hit, so the sound of explosion had to travel for about 30-40 seconds to reach us, which means the explosion actually happened before the alert and it was triggered late.
  There were 2 explosions total, both sounded pretty loud for us despite happening about 13-16km away from us. We don’t know what was hit yet, it doesn’t seem like they hit our energy infrastructure this time, as no blackouts were reported anywhere. Our metro was stopped momentarily, but it started working again just 5 minutes later, so it was probably turned off intentionally. We do know that at least one civilian was injured, but nothing else is known right now, hopefully there aren’t more casualties. >
  
  Glad to see you’re (relatively) ok.