NoelVilla Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 Moving the battlefield. It is genius in the short-term. How it plays out in the long-term is unknown of course. Hope there is another move that will surprise everybody. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnkarl Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 3 minutes ago, NoelVilla said: Moving the battlefield. It is genius in the short-term. How it plays out in the long-term is unknown of course. Hope there is another move that will surprise everybody. Kerch bridge? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelVilla Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 2 minutes ago, magnkarl said: Kerch bridge? Yep. But that will not surprise us so much now you said it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnkarl Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 (edited) 4 minutes ago, NoelVilla said: Yep. But that will not surprise us so much now you said it. Sorry, I meant this bridge, the Kurch bridge.. Edited August 14 by magnkarl 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumstopdogs Posted August 15 Share Posted August 15 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp9rygl5k4jo Quote A Russian court has sentenced amateur ballerina Ksenia Karelina to 12 years in jail for treason for donating $51 (£39) to a charity supporting Ukraine. Karelina, who has American and Russian citizenship, pleaded guilty last week after a trial held behind closed doors. She had been living in Los Angeles and became a US citizen in 2021. She was arrested during a family visit last January in Yekaterinburg, about 1,600km (1,000 miles) east of Moscow. Prosecutors had sought a 15-year jail term. The court in Yekaterinburg found her guilty of high treason and sentenced her to imprisonment in a general regime penal colony. Karelina had been accused by Russia's FSB security service of raising money for a Ukrainian organisation providing arms to the Ukrainian military. Russian human rights activists said while living in the US she had made a single transfer of $51.80 on the first day of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 22 February 2022. The FSB is thought to have discovered the transaction on her phone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted August 15 VT Supporter Share Posted August 15 What is an Amateur Ballerina? Surely you are a professional Ballerina or just a normal person who likes to dance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted August 15 Share Posted August 15 7 minutes ago, sidcow said: What is an Amateur Ballerina? Surely you are a professional Ballerina or just a normal person who likes to dance? She dances in non-league ballets. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted August 15 Share Posted August 15 20 hours ago, magnkarl said: Sorry, I meant this bridge, the Kurch bridge.. I like how basically the only landmark of note in that area is an alcohol shop! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted August 15 Moderator Share Posted August 15 BBC reporting that Challenger 2's from UK have been used in Ukraine's Russia Incursion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted August 15 VT Supporter Share Posted August 15 5 minutes ago, bickster said: BBC reporting that Challenger 2's from UK have been used in Ukraine's Russia Incursion Within 2.5 years of Boris Johnson saying that the days of tank battles is past, there are British tanks rolling across Russian soil. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted August 15 Share Posted August 15 21 minutes ago, bickster said: BBC reporting that Challenger 2's from UK have been used in Ukraine's Russia Incursion and more importantly the UK has formally given its blessing to use them in Russia. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 15 Share Posted August 15 I really like this guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted August 15 Share Posted August 15 Ukraine certainly know how to troll Quote Ukraine has set up a military administrative office in Russia's Kursk region, where its surprise incursion into Russian territory continues, according to its top military commander. Gen Oleksandr Syrsky said the office would "maintain law and order" and "meet the immediate needs" of the population in the area. In a video posted on social media, Gen Syrsky is seen telling a meeting chaired by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that the office has been created "on the territories controlled by Ukraine". Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov has said Moscow will send reinforcements to "safeguard" the population in the region. link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Nor-Cal Villan Posted August 15 Share Posted August 15 8 hours ago, Genie said: She dances in non-league ballets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinker Posted August 16 VT Supporter Share Posted August 16 10 hours ago, Genie said: Ukraine certainly know how to troll link Should run some local elections as well.......the Ukraine seem to be goading Russia into a large counterattack, maybe there's another big play from the Ukrainian's once Russia fully commits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avfc1982am Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 1 hour ago, tinker said: Should run some local elections as well.......the Ukraine seem to be goading Russia into a large counterattack, maybe there's another big play from the Ukrainian's once Russia fully commits. I think they genuinely want Russia to start attacking Russian land. That would seriously send shockwaves through the civilian population. Evacuating areas is one thing, getting your homes and infrastructure blown to shit and having nothing to return to is another. I'm sure Sudzha is also a major gas hub to the West. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 1 hour ago, avfc1982am said: I think they genuinely want Russia to start attacking Russian land. That would seriously send shockwaves through the civilian population. Evacuating areas is one thing, getting your homes and infrastructure blown to shit and having nothing to return to is another. I'm sure Sudzha is also a major gas hub to the West. Yeah, could be a few awkward phone calls made if Russia bomb the crap out of Sudzha and cut off Hungary’s gas supplies right before winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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magnkarl Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 (edited) 4 hours ago, trekka said: Haha, so true. Most people don't know this, but it was often Ukrainian, Estonian, Belarussian and Baltic brigades that took the brunt of almost everything outside of Russia in WW2 for the Soviets. Ukrainians also liberated large chunks of in example Norway. The way Russia is digging trenches 45kms from where Ukraine is at in Kursk does seem a bit defeatist, it makes the job for Ukraine to create a true buffer zone (a true Stalinist term) within Russia both up in Bryansk and down in Belgorod as the trenches at the border can easily be overrun from the back in Kursk now. Putin gets his buffer zone, just in his own territory. Edited August 16 by magnkarl 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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