The Ukrainian army published footage of attempts to intercept Russian Mi-8 and Mi-35 helicopters with FPV drones; the drone models were not disclosed. According to experts, it is difficult for FPV drones to shoot down a helicopter due to the difference in speeds and powerful air flows from the rotors. In addition, FPV drones have a weak automatic stabilization system; it is not designed for powerful wind currents and cannot stabilize the drone’s flight. It is worth noting that there is a possibility of destroying a helicopter if the drone flies towards the helicopter on a collision course and dives down, or uses remote detonation of ammunition.
Ukraine - Russia Conflict
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A russian soldier apparently tries to disassemble some ammo. Manages to disassemble both the ammo and himself.
russian energy infrastructure blowing up. Hey, russia, remember when you decided to destroy Ukraine's energy infrastructure? How you constantly gloated on TV that the Ukrainians would have no heat, no electricity, no water, nothing anymore? How do you like the turnaround? Difference is, Ukraine can get the supplies to repair; but your stupid pretend country will not.
russian tank or other armored vehicle blowing up is a spectacle I'll never get tired of.
russian energy infrastructure blowing up. Hey, russia, remember when you decided to destroy Ukraine's energy infrastructure? How you constantly gloated on TV that the Ukrainians would have no heat, no electricity, no water, nothing anymore? How do you like the turnaround? Difference is, Ukraine can get the supplies to repair; but your stupid pretend country will not.
russian tank or other armored vehicle blowing up is a spectacle I'll never get tired of.
Hungary says Ukraine halting Lukoil oil transit a threat to long-term supply
Ukraine's decision to halt the transit of oil from Russia's Lukoil threatens the long-term security of supply for Slovakia and Hungary, Hungary's Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told a news briefing on Friday. Slovakia and Hungary said on Wednesday they had stopped receiving oil from Lukoil...
Second army of the world, reduced to riding bikes stolen from the kids they've murdered.
russia continues scrounging for money everywhere they can, raising duties, fees, fines, and anything else they can.
And it looks like their economic situation is not going to improve. Now they can't use dirhams anymore.
And the cracks in the russian "federation" are starting to appear.
russia continues scrounging for money everywhere they can, raising duties, fees, fines, and anything else they can.
And it looks like their economic situation is not going to improve. Now they can't use dirhams anymore.
And the cracks in the russian "federation" are starting to appear.
That has to be the very definition of a pointless bike. Unless you're under 10 years-old or something, you could probably run faster.
Note: Rota Bashkort are a unit of ethnic Bashkirs fighting against the russian forces in Ukraine. One of the many units of non-Ukrainian people who see this conflict as the opportunity to cause the downfall of the hated kremlin regime. There are also Chechens, Georgians, Belarusians, etc.
meduza.io
kremlin is worried about "smo" veterans returning to russia and causing trouble. That's why they try to get them killed as much as possible.
Remember how russia is always accusing others of what it is doing?
russia is trying to be the hegemonic power center dominating all its neighbors. And quite obviously, this concept has failed; because they're stuck in a loop of killing all their men in a pointless fight to conquer unusable ruins while their economy is in freefall.
Also what the heck is happening with the Rostov NPP? After all, they said the problem was fixed. Oh wait, they always lie, don't they?
‘Society isn’t prepared’ The Kremlin fears ‘public discontent’ and a rise in crime as returning soldiers fail to adapt to civilian life — Meduza
The Kremlin’s policy of sending hundreds of thousands of Russian men, including many prisoners, to war with little to no training or equipment has had predictable effects back on the home front: numerous soldiers have committed violent crimes upon returning home, and the country reportedly has a...
Remember how russia is always accusing others of what it is doing?
russia is trying to be the hegemonic power center dominating all its neighbors. And quite obviously, this concept has failed; because they're stuck in a loop of killing all their men in a pointless fight to conquer unusable ruins while their economy is in freefall.
Also what the heck is happening with the Rostov NPP? After all, they said the problem was fixed. Oh wait, they always lie, don't they?
You really have got to be stupid or suicidal to serve in the russian armed forces.
2/ The "Direct action
Z" Telegram channel reports on the plight now facing many ex-DPR/LPR volunteers, including some entire units still fighting on the front, following the decision of the Russian MOD to incorporate the DPR/LPR People's Militias into the Russian Armed Forces.
3/ "Thousands of Russian volunteers who left for the Donbass in 2022 were denounced in the People's Republics as having left their units without permission. Criminal cases are opened against them, they are put on the wanted list.
4/ "The "deserters" have been fighting at the front for years, dying and losing their health, but for the state they are only defendants in criminal cases and prosecutor's inspections."
5/ The channel explains the background: "Even before the People’s Republics joined Russia, volunteers from the “mainland” fought in the ranks of the People’s Militia.
6/ "Their legal status was questionable; often they were not even properly registered in their units and did not receive the necessary allowances. But people came for ideological reasons, so they tolerated such twists and turns of bureaucracy.
7/ On 1 January 2023, the People's Militias became part of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, and Russian volunteers were retroactively registered as ... mobilised. Apparently, everyone who had ever fought in the People's Militias was ‘mobilised’.
8/ "The ‘mobilisation’ was carried out by the army corps of the DNR and LPR People's Militias, which is absurd and illegal in itself, as mobilisation orders are drawn up by military registration and enlistment offices at the place of registration.
9/ "In some cases, people were registered as contract soldiers, but without signing a contract with the RF Ministry of Defense and taking an oath."
10/ As a result, the channel says, "people who had been fighting for a long time in other units, who had gone home after serious injuries or at the end of their service, suddenly found out that the investigative bodies of the People's Republics had opened …
11/ … criminal cases against them for leaving their unit without permission. A soldier without an eye, with one hand that doesn’t work, a soldier with shrapnel in his head – all of them have complaints from the authorities.
12/ "A soldier who has served the specified period of time, resigned from his unit and is already in civilian life is still registered as mobilised in full contradiction with the current legislation.
13/ "Those who are unable to mount a competent defence soon receive suspended sentences and end up as stormtroopers – along with other shtrafniks [punished soldiers]. Some manage to organise a legal defence and the cases against them are closed for lack of evidence of a crime."
14/ Direct actionZ notes that many of the accused volunteers are still serving in the Russian armed forces or the Redut mercenary force, despite simultaneously facing prosecution for desertion from the same.
15/ "We also know about an entire unit that, together with its commander, was registered as deserters. Meanwhile, the unit is successfully fighting, holding its part of the front near Chasiv Yar".
16/ The channel describes the situation as "a monstrous absurdity and arbitrariness, the only purpose of which is to create the appearance of legal grounds for the indefinite retention of volunteers who originally went for a limited period of service."
17/ It calls on "Russian society: humanitarian workers, military officers, public opinion leaders to speak out publicly about Problem-500 and, together with us, try to influence the situation in order to close this issue immediately for all the People’s Militia volunteers." /end
This is another proof that the so-called Donbas separatists were russian agents. This whole twitter thread is about russians who came to fight in the LPR/DPR forces before 2022.
Note: "monstrous absurdity and arbitrariness, the only purpose of which is to create the appearance of legal grounds" is the kremlin's entire modus operandi.
2/ The "Direct action
Z" Telegram channel reports on the plight now facing many ex-DPR/LPR volunteers, including some entire units still fighting on the front, following the decision of the Russian MOD to incorporate the DPR/LPR People's Militias into the Russian Armed Forces.3/ "Thousands of Russian volunteers who left for the Donbass in 2022 were denounced in the People's Republics as having left their units without permission. Criminal cases are opened against them, they are put on the wanted list.
4/ "The "deserters" have been fighting at the front for years, dying and losing their health, but for the state they are only defendants in criminal cases and prosecutor's inspections."
5/ The channel explains the background: "Even before the People’s Republics joined Russia, volunteers from the “mainland” fought in the ranks of the People’s Militia.
6/ "Their legal status was questionable; often they were not even properly registered in their units and did not receive the necessary allowances. But people came for ideological reasons, so they tolerated such twists and turns of bureaucracy.
7/ On 1 January 2023, the People's Militias became part of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, and Russian volunteers were retroactively registered as ... mobilised. Apparently, everyone who had ever fought in the People's Militias was ‘mobilised’.
8/ "The ‘mobilisation’ was carried out by the army corps of the DNR and LPR People's Militias, which is absurd and illegal in itself, as mobilisation orders are drawn up by military registration and enlistment offices at the place of registration.
9/ "In some cases, people were registered as contract soldiers, but without signing a contract with the RF Ministry of Defense and taking an oath."
10/ As a result, the channel says, "people who had been fighting for a long time in other units, who had gone home after serious injuries or at the end of their service, suddenly found out that the investigative bodies of the People's Republics had opened …
11/ … criminal cases against them for leaving their unit without permission. A soldier without an eye, with one hand that doesn’t work, a soldier with shrapnel in his head – all of them have complaints from the authorities.
12/ "A soldier who has served the specified period of time, resigned from his unit and is already in civilian life is still registered as mobilised in full contradiction with the current legislation.
13/ "Those who are unable to mount a competent defence soon receive suspended sentences and end up as stormtroopers – along with other shtrafniks [punished soldiers]. Some manage to organise a legal defence and the cases against them are closed for lack of evidence of a crime."
14/ Direct action
Z notes that many of the accused volunteers are still serving in the Russian armed forces or the Redut mercenary force, despite simultaneously facing prosecution for desertion from the same.15/ "We also know about an entire unit that, together with its commander, was registered as deserters. Meanwhile, the unit is successfully fighting, holding its part of the front near Chasiv Yar".
16/ The channel describes the situation as "a monstrous absurdity and arbitrariness, the only purpose of which is to create the appearance of legal grounds for the indefinite retention of volunteers who originally went for a limited period of service."
17/ It calls on "Russian society: humanitarian workers, military officers, public opinion leaders to speak out publicly about Problem-500 and, together with us, try to influence the situation in order to close this issue immediately for all the People’s Militia volunteers." /end
This is another proof that the so-called Donbas separatists were russian agents. This whole twitter thread is about russians who came to fight in the LPR/DPR forces before 2022.
Note: "monstrous absurdity and arbitrariness, the only purpose of which is to create the appearance of legal grounds" is the kremlin's entire modus operandi.
UK Government and defence industry stepping up support for Ukraine
Defence Secretary John Healey met UK defence industry leaders to discuss support for Ukraine