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Russia and its “Special Operation” in Ukraine


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I'm amazed there hasn't been an uprising somewhere. They're surely getting to the stage where they couldn't put it down. 

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47 minutes ago, Genie said:

It’s now reported Ukraine troops are 30km inside of Russia, pretty embarrassing for the military superpower… 

Still no idea what they will do with this land they’ve taken.  Hold it and dig in? Go East to circle around the the main front line in Ukraine? Retreat after they’ve achieved some specific targets?  Then do it again in a different border area?

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40 minutes ago, ender4 said:

Still no idea what they will do with this land they’ve taken.  Hold it and dig in? Go East to circle around the the main front line in Ukraine? Retreat after they’ve achieved some specific targets?  Then do it again in a different border area?

They’re doing this:

 


Attacks in the East have all but halted as Russia is relocating their only capable brigades, who Ukraine have a great chance to pick off in transit. Wonder what the f16s are doing.

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1 hour ago, sidcow said:

I'm amazed there hasn't been an uprising somewhere. They're surely getting to the stage where they couldn't put it down. 

They couldn't stop one but there's no army to have an uprising with. The Chef had the Wagner group under his sole command, he bottled his uprising. There's nobody else to do it and Putin has such control over the gears of power he isn't likely to get assassinated any time ever.  

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Conscripts surrendering en masse in Kursk. 

These are the optics that could tip the scales in Russia. 18 year old kids from families in Moscow and St Petersburg.

If Ukraine were to hold prisoners long before exchanging them, these kids will be it. 100s of families in Putin's back-yard (not Dagestan and Chechnya) protesting for the release of their kids might actually do something.

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As a youngster being a Ukrainian POW is far more preferable to certain death on the battlefield. 

They probably seeked the Ukrainian army out to surrender. 

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Ukraine entrenching in Russian cities. Putin will have to smash his own towns now. It'll be good to see how that goes down in the public.

Over 100.000 Russians displaced internally now. 

A few more of these raids into other regions and it might start to hurt even more. Belgorod, Bryansk?

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15 hours ago, villa89 said:

They couldn't stop one but there's no army to have an uprising with. The Chef had the Wagner group under his sole command, he bottled his uprising. There's nobody else to do it and Putin has such control over the gears of power he isn't likely to get assassinated any time ever.  

Also Russia has extremely tight gun control laws, so you won't get any uprisings from the gen population 

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A whole bunch of Akhmat TikTokers have been captured in Sudzha, including one of Kadyrov's PR men. Haha!

Interestingly also a whole bunch of videos surfacing of many old Russians in Kursk speaking Ukrainian to the Ukrainians when they capture their towns. Putin's justifications only work one way right?

Burning tires inside a cooling tower is one of the dumbest things I've seen so far from Russia. There's nothing flammable inside that tower, it's cement and steel, so they've put something in there and put it on fire to scare the world.

This is how a cooling tower looks at the bottom, totally open, inside there's nothing flammable:

r/mildlyinteresting - Cooling towers at nuclear power plants are open at the bottom

Futuristic view inside of cooling tower of unfinished Chernobyl nuclear  power plant Stock Photo | Adobe Stock

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So, in Kursk it appears there has been damage to a gas metering station, a place through which gas flows to various places in western Europe.

It's mentioned on Quora here

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It seems the gas hasn't been stopped; just damage to admin and measuring equipment buildings.

Wouldn't it be a great shame if the Russians couldn't work out who had received the gas? A bit like you still getting a gas supply at home, but the meter is broken, so they can't bill you. Would be a great shame.

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Let's face it. 

After those videos 2 years ago of those massive military convoys rolling over the border into Ukraine, hands up who saw Ukraine making incursions deep into Russia 2 years later? 

We were mainly worried how many days it would be before they took Kiev. 

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