Comments by "" (@tomk3732) on "WarLeaks - Military Blog" channel.

  1. Unguided rockets. Not exactly terror weapon for tanks. But at least they are flying and trying to do something.
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  2. Actually they out number Russians and their Donbass allies (also Ukrainians) by about factor of 2.
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  3. That explains why the other side is not shooting back!
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  4. Nope. Total failure. You know that b/c incoming fire was so quick. So target knew its under attack and for sure fired its grenades.
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  5. 0:56 is it part of a turret flying 300m up in the air??? I remember Banderites and their supporters were making fun of Russians when they were attacking and taking heavy losses - who is laughing now, huh???
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  6. And just like that the flag and some of these guys were vaporized. Epic stupid.
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  7. Already encircled. Give it few days, maybe less.
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  8. Well, we know for sure one thing - Bakhmut was liberated by Russian forces and UA took epic level losses. That does not mean UA cannot attack or Russian forces took no losses.
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  9. They took out the transmitter. Next they take out backup systems.
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  10. Wow, notice double cross. How can anyone in Germany support this???!!! The more I see this the more I support Russia.
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  11. Imagine that most of Wagner troops are life soldiers and close combat is what they live for. I do not think it would be brutal to go against these guys - make contact, call artillery and remove contact.
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  12. Looks like DPR militia forces. Notice heavy editing of the video.
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  13. Really, when? I looked at any sign of return fire and saw none. I saw no impacts.
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  14. War crime??? He was avoiding fire, not intentional at all. Civilian was plain stupid to drive around when tanks were exchanging fire.
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  15. To all these saying this is suppressive fire - was the whole tree line loaded with Russians? You suppress known enemy positions. Firing all over the place may be done for a very short time. Reason is you do not have infinite ammo. If you do not know were enemy is and you cannot go through quick and you get fired on you retreat. I.e. stopping and opening fire all over the place shows poor training or luck of any training. If you stop in that field then you will be erased by artillery. Russians are having a turkey shoot. Its like come over and you to can smoke a Bradley.
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  16. The truck video looks very fishy.
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  17. Spot on, but it makes a great video showing Ukraine is "fighting". Also crew of pickup can run away and maybe control this remotely for a bit.
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  18. So far Ukraine managed to get some exposed positions of the Russian forces manned by militia and lost a LOT of equipment and people on the minefields. So far Russia is doing very well and Ukraine rather poorly.
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  19. Incoming fire was quick. Missile for sure missed its target as target was aware of incoming attack.
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  20. One set of laws for US, another for the rest.
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  21. Taken yesterday. There are videos.
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  22. Russian forces are advancing across entire front as well as Bakhmut. Morale in Bakhmut of defeated army is very low. Soon they either run or get surrounded. Or they run out of people - Zielinski does not care about casualties - neither do his backers. They are trying to cope with some videos of shooting up a house - we do not even know if anyone was in the house. Heck we do not even know if BMP was Ukrainian - it does not have any UA symbols.
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  23. Correct, but this is Donbass militia not exactly top of the line troops.
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  24.  @skysk3l3t0n  They outnumber Russians at least 2 to 1 and so far Russians are on the attack. No major counter offensive, just static defense.
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  25. Sure, but so far they are loosing badly the war itself. So how can it be true they captured so much stuff but are loosing the war?
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  26. Yes, 99% certain it was Ukrainian.
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  27. So Russians were spotted and forced to retreat taking no visible casualties. Mortar strikes were post retreat - i.e. nobody on Russian side got hurt. But the position of the MG was spotted and relayed to artillery for elimination. Heavy video editing and probably this is DPR militia not Wagner troops.
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  28. LOL! Especially now when they are in full retreat ;)
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  29. Or they call on the radio for help, which lays artillery fire on both UA vehicles followed by mechanized counter attack. Remember that now Ukraine is the one that has few people in a trench against Russian tanks and IFV - hence why UA forces are retreating and sufferings heavy casualties.
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  30. Actually no, it is very hard to return fire unless they are complete idiots or you have top of the line troops vs. idiots. Best way is to take cover / retreat out of kill zone and then re-engage. Which is what probably did happen seconds later, i.e. once tanks fired on the AT team and dismounts figured out where enemy is, they could counter fire. Most of the time in ambush (unless its brain dead Taliban or similar) you don't know where exactly the enemy is, so you better off moving back & out of kill zone. You don't engage what you cannot see.
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  31. Except Russia has still the same power & is not Assad.
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  32. Tactical cool troops meet real soldiers in a forest. Only place where Ukraine can attack. And been doing this for months now.
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  33. LOL!
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  34. UA troops reached Osirsk river after apparent Russian withdrawal from the entire area which was completed unknown amount of time ago.
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  35.  @tenbelow9617  LOL, and how do you know exactly what Putin wants or wanted? Donbass check. Bridge to Crimea check. They only need bridge to Moldova, in the works, give it few days.
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  36. Russia already using them + some more in testing. The ones in testing are autonomous.
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  37. Notice how inaccurate UA artillery fire is!
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  38. Ukrainians? Yeah - captured on a street and forced into combat. Meat grinder in Bakhmut.
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  39. They are probably all over 40. Average Russian Ukrainian lives just over 60 so they are kind of old.
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  40. Russia moving forward - today in 8 places - Ukraine as usual zero. Russia is doing far and wide better than Ukraine in the summer. Russia looks to remove all UA advances in Robotino area from the summer in the next month. Ukraine does not have enough troops to defend whole front - if Russians fail in one place, they move forward in another. Ukraine is now desperate to get more meat to the front line - despite it being 100% obvious they lost the war.
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  41.  @tobiasberlin759  Yep "Tobias"
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  42. Nope. They lost more and more and more equipment in the exact same way.
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  43. LOL!
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  44. Neither side switched yet as there is no winter yet. Russia is moving slowly as its still total wet season. Ground needs to freeze, then white stuff comes out.
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  45. Oh this is going to be bloody. I hope they kill all Azov troops then - if its Donbass vs. Azov I am on Donbass side 100%. Heck, even if it was Devil vs. Azov, I am with the guy from Hell.
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  46. It does not - but looks tacti - cool on video.
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  47. I will like to see that laughter when Ivan says hello in Berlin.
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  48. You can still see Ukrainian flag on the video. So as per video still not fully taken. But maybe at time of your posting already taken. Interesting that whomever holds the city its still glory to Ukraine - as both sides are... Ukraine.
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  49. Many died when running back to their starting positions under artillery fire. Also these whose vehicles were smashed by artillery did not do too well.
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  50. Well, this could be propaganda video and they fired on enemy tank. Later they edited it differently. Of course wasting ammo is NOT normal. Imagine they fired it and REAL target showed up - now what?! What would be next, dropping rifle b/c its too heavy?
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  51. There is a video of Russin tank taking two hits from stugna and driving off. Check it out.
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  52. Wow, watching real life Nazi - what has the world come to! And the west supporting these!
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  53.  random_european  LOL, the opposite ;)
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  54.  @trentbyington5957  Too bad its penetration is crap through in direct mode. It would need to hit a tank in the rear to have a chance. Its not really a good weapon as it is made out to be. Remember top attack mode has been around for 30 years.
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  55.  @andrew8168  sadly both sides fight for freedom. From each other.
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  56.  @Dethmeister  99% fight for Russia. 1% for Ukraine. Maybe less than 1%.
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  57. BMP has 30mm main gun - so has advantage in fire power. And BMP-3 has also 100mm gun... huge advantage in fire power. When it comes to fire power Russians have huge advantage.
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  58. They are Nazi. Come on.
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  59. Its 6th day, is it not? These are Azov troops - they will fight very hard - these are the best troops Ukraine has. They are the Nazi Putin has been talking about. They are fighting against Donbass - so the people of the city are trying to get rid of Azov. I know complicated, both sides fight for freedom. In here Kiev Ukrainians are the occupier, in Kiev its Russians...
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  60. ​ @christopherzertuche1904 yeah but that will be mostly job of Russians as most mines will be on their side. At least they know where they placed them and can move them to the new border.
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  61. Yes, this is first indication this may be a real footage - there was also impact in front about 6m at 0.57. Other than that no other indications the were in actual fight with anyone. at 1:44 it was a tree trunk impact. Very small.
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  62. Well, what is left of it after the war.
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  63.  @nickmaclachlan5178  Before Russians were doing massive gains and loosing some weapons - now they are mostly blocking Ukrainians and advancing slowly. Taking out a tank now is almost impossible. Russians are still taking major land in the south and in the east aiming at destroying Donbass defenses of Ukraine and thus making it crystal clear to anyone Ukraine lost the war. Kiev may not even by an actual target.
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  64. They already linked - they went around it. The Donbass republics are attacking Kiev regime troops from the east while Russians from the west.
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  65. They do not have air power. They also do not have air defenses. They also do not have artillery that can match the Russians. Nor do they have enough armor.
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  66.  @linming5610  200k is the size of the standing army. I would say at least 150k was positioned on the eastern side. Plus 100k national guard.
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  67. ​ @pInGu-kl2ff  lol 😅😅😅😅
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  68. According to Russian video crew all burned to bits. Seen Russian drones drop thermal grenades through open hatches. Some others Russians did a video and pictures standing next to them!
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  69. Could be. They are biting Himars to fire so tornado and smash a high value target. We do not see whole video. It is strange grad is in prepared position like this.
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  70. There are dozens such symbols. Support for Ukraine is suport for the Nazi. Red and black is the flag of the Nazi. You see it all over UA videos. Lots of laws in Ukraine taken straight from 1940s. What do you need, them build concentration camps? I am sure you would deny even if they did and gave gas shower to 1000s.
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  71. Russia is simply too powerful for Ukraine to win with, even with 200B+ in aid so far.
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  72. And its great to see! The world should know more who Azov is and what danger to the world they are!
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  73. Its Donbass - they been firing artillery into residential areas now for 8 years.
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  74. They felt like a group of militia men - sort of like national guard. They have basic know how needed not to shoot themselves but not much more.
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  75. Orcs are removing Bandera infestation with heavy fire support around Bakhmut area. Word is between 400-800 Bandera casualties a day!
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  76.  @eddie5z518  These are not conscripts these are Donbass militia troops - they are fighting for their homes and family, no one is forcing them.
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  77. Its these pesky Donbass Ukrainians - Kiev ones are more westernized ;)
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  78. They have a LOT of such capability - its part of Soviet / Russian doctrine. Tons of small systems such as RPG-29.
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  79. And Russians are just sitting there still, not even moving ;)
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  80. LOL no. Its one of the cheapest.
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  81. Ukraine shows rather poor concepts with 6x AK. Look how unstable this thing is! The whole mounting system and aiming etc is way to light. Short burst make it move more than 10 degrees in any direction.
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  82. Nah, it is difficult to have 7:1 ratio - Ukies are not that stupid. Avoid fair fight, send 1000s of artillery shells, follow with elite troops like Wagner in first wave and than with mobiks in 2nd. Rinse and repeat.
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  83. We are seeing now Russian shaping operations for their counter offensive aimed at liberating important city of Krasny Liman. It is unknown if Russia has 100k troops ready or it's far less. Ukraine lines are pushed back by shaping operations alone so I think it's far less and is not the main offensive. I.e. UA is getting ready to explain major failure.
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  84. The column was there b/c they were crossing the mine field. They don't have enough air defenses. Even if Geopard was there it would most likely be killed off. They were stationary as they had nowhere to go - these that tried to run got blown up on mines. A lot was abandomed by troops that simply run for their lives.
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  85. Yet when you look closely there were no Russians there. None.
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  86. If Germany could figure out a basic version in WWII, maybe Ukraine can, maybe. Agree its not simple.
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  87. Was this the idiots near melitpol? They were creamed. Waste of life.
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  88. Even with more NLAWs they were close and Russian tanks immediately mopped the flow with them. Anything else was taken out by dismounted infantry.
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  89.  @1974greymalkin  lol, they are no KIA, they just jumped out of the tank ;) Max wounded. good training, stay down.
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  90.  @richardstephens5570  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDq9S9wbD14
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  91. Maybe good for training. Its better then nothing. Ammo will be a bigger problem, they are for sure running low on 7.62 x 54R
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  92. B/c drivers are Nazi?
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  93. They do not have any and if this was real Russians would send a squad to pin them and mop with their artillery.
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  94. Where Ukrainians come to die!
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  95.  @CouchCommander5000  what choice people have? Politicians send them to die. How do people in Ukraine tolerate Zieliński? And his billionaire backer?
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  96.  @ChrisG1392  This is why you have conscription - it is a bit... forced. In Ukraine they basically grab you from say a night club. There are check points outside of a city so you do not run away to grandma. Once you are captured what choice do you have? Surrender to the enemy??? Run away is AWOL - big problems - but that is mostly the option you have. There is very little you can do - most countries outside of Ukraine are pro Kiev. Essentially its fight for survival - killing your own is not really an option as certainly you would be executed in some woods for it if they catch you. Joining the enemy? Also not really an option.
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  97.  @ChrisG1392  But what about nasty Ukrainians that are just there to kill civilians? They just want to kill and are motivated by pure hatred. There are now whole brigades of these dudes.
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  98. This is same explanation we may give for swastika. I mean it is all over Asia. No connection with Nazism at all. Ukrainians are now faithful Buddhists. Lol. If course this is Nazi. Same as Nazi flags and other Nazi stuff.
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  99. Which is... kind of strange. I am Polish, I don't like Nazi, so I guess I root for non Kiev Ukrainians.
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  100. ​ @zeNoldor what foreign land. They are liberating Donbass from Kiev regime. They are not invaders, they are liberators.
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  101.  @morganchatsworthiii9178  no Russian markings - they would be needed so no friendly fire thus Ukrainian.
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  102.  @prind142  I doubt there is any tank. I saw only 2 possible return fire impacts in the whole video. I am suspicious of any "infantry" plus they are firing in multiple directions.
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  103.  @Ghost0r0r  Yes, I saw that but it could be from one of their own --- better is 1:44 tree impact.
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  104.  @prodvoid8023  This is meaningless as one way to stop exercises was to shoot some live rounds over troops. Impacts only.
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  105.  @ingvarvolkov5309  They are clearly Donbass militia. Half of pp here claim that they are Ukrainians just misunderstood, half they are Russians, and then there is Kiev shelling them & Russia supporting them.
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  106.  @ingvarvolkov5309  Well, then let them live on their own land and not occupy it. Either that or you should have fulfilled Minsk agreements.
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  107.  @ingvarvolkov5309  LOL you followed Minsk? Wait, do you have two official languages in Ukraine now & equal treatment? Did you grant autonomy to two republics? LOL!
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  108.  @ingvarvolkov5309  and hence if you don't follow agreements you get a war. You signed stuff. You should respect that. Change your constitution to match what you signed. Look at Canada. We resolved our issue with Quebec. They blown up 600 bombs. We granted them autonomy, modified constitution, given full language rights. No more bombs. Peace.
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  109.  @ingvarvolkov5309  And this is why Russians are knocking your teeth out. Should have implemented Minsk. Now enjoy freedom bombs.
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  110. Supposedly.
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  111. There were no Russians there - just some DPR screen forces. IF indeed they went in 50km and if Russia wants to keep the region they just need to cut them off.
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  112. Its not like they have camera at the ready all the time.
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  113. These tanks were before claimed to be Russian.
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  114.  @jazack7441  How do you know they did not do that??? I have no idea who spreads the BS of heavy Russian losses - you can go to BBC and they run mediazona and count every bloody grave in Russia. This was very popular in the beginning but now its not as there are so few graves while Ukrainian cemeteries are so full. So BBC quietly stopped reporting on their own project after 3 months or so.... BUT it is still run - so you can see Russian Federation losses delayed by about 2 weeks and super accurate. As for UA losses they are massive - you can also google that - simply look for "Russian artillery advantage" as most losses are caused by artillery. Right now Ukraine is badly loosing the war - if they try some counter offensive it will speed up the end so I hope they go for it - the bigger the better.
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  115. Maybe, lots of these fell in the hands of Ukrainians (Donbass).
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  116. Why? We do not see BMP - 1/2/3 doing much better or worse - lots and lots have been taken out by a mine. Heck wheeled BTR as well.
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  117.  @trentbyington5957  Most modern tanks if not hit in a weak zone from the front will easily survive this. I.e. T-72BM3 or especially something like T-90M. Heck T-90M has a chance from the side as well, maybe even T-72BM3. T-90M has read ammo storage - so I would not be shocked if rear of the turret shot was also a fail. Essentially for T-90M you have very little options with direct mode. I.e. its a cheap guided RPG now, nothing more. In fact I would rather have some older AT weapons in direct mode then Javelin. A lot of older weapons, even from 70s perform better in direct mode. Javelin in direct mode would maybe penetrate T-72A from the front into say turret cheek. Maybe.
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  118. Its Azov aka Nazi - they will not surrender. Its going to be very bloody.
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  119.  @QRWASUPER  Yes, freedom for Donbass!
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  120.  Helen R  Well, great, you can see the freedom in action - the Azov Nazi are being removed from the city by its population. Are you happy? Why do you support Azov? Do you even know local politics? Why you do not respect will of the people? Or is it ... some people, but not others? Is it skin color based? Or language based? Or maybe how they eyes are? Shouldn't all people be free?
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  121. @MarmitePopsicle But that is the thinking in Kiev, is it not? They are no longer Ukrainians - they are Russians - is it not the way of Kiev?
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  122.  @Grek1574  Yes, they just took Krasna Hora yesterday after encircling Ukies there.
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  123.  @PSL416  Well, Ukraine claims are Vladivostok so I think Russian claims are far and wide more reliable.
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  124.  @HyzersGR  Mobiks are on Ukies side - 5 brigades of mobiks. Getting creamed now as they replaced more elite troops. Soon they get encircled or Ukies will rotate again as these 5 brigades loose 100s of men per day. So yeah, Ukies have been throwing 1000s of poorly equipped and poorly trained mobiks just so with rivers of blood they can hold to the city. For what exactly? Pathetic.
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  125. Yes, they once again prevented UA from capture of Kleshivka. Chechens are the sword of Russia. They been used like this for over 200 years.
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  126. Look ma, Ukrainians run out of APCs and IFV and now use old trucks ;)
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  127. Ukraine fights to be member of NATO so US can threaten Russia. Russia fights to stop NATO so no one can be a threat.
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  128. I would not say so - roughly the same. No difference. Either one would have a blown track and either would save the crew.
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  129.  @bdinaz  This highly depends on which BMP. The original was certainly not great. The BMP 1M is better. I assume BMP 2 is similar to 1M. Not sure about 3, but I would hope even better.
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  130. They do not have any.
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  131. Nah, probably there was no tank and if there was it would be moved. Heck, there was maybe no Russians there.
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  132.  @justjules2029  Maybe, but in this small instance there is glory to the people of the city fighting Kiev sponsored Nazi militia. Maybe 99% of what Putin does is not nice, or evil, but its not the case here - as far as reports go.
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  133.  @peterd3419  They killed at least the driver, most likely everyone. 100s of videos and even movies made about it. They did treat Iraqis like dirt or less.
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  134.  @mhazg6621  So what, they can be easily spoofed with smoke discharge. If infantry knew I bet the tank knew and immediately released grenades. Russian losses in tanks are much smaller then Ukraine's and literally 100s of thousands of missiles, including 1000s of Javelins did not do much.
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  135. This shows how poorly trained Ukrainians are and what insane losses they are taking.
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  136. Hats off to Ukrainian propaganda machine for gaining legendary status.
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  137. More crazy is that Russia has not crushed them yet. Mostly due to very heavy western support.
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  138. So are they long time dead or what?
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  139. Russians spotted them over 5km from their forward positions. They immediately engaged. They had one mine clearing vehicle - at least. As they were in the open multiple things started to engage them. As forward elements were on fire the rest started to run. Some were taken out by mines, some by artillery some by missiles.
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  140. Russia. They are in full control of the conflict.
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  141. Orc run from the house and told that stupid Ukies are out of ammo & easy kill now.
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  142. Well, Ukrainians on both sides are poorly armed.
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  143. Yeah suspicious. I never seen anything like this on video.
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  144. Cope.
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  145. Russia is fighting a winning war. They use as said artillery, drones etc. To bleed UA. The main question is when will UA surrender. I believe by Spring 2024 war will be done. So far it looks that way.
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  146. I saw a video of Russians attacking ONE Ukrainian in a trench with IFV and a squad. ONE. Similar tactics but they used 30mm to suppress the guy.
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  147.  @xzenderx  good thing you do not and your side does not have any. But the other side is well. Supplied and ready to finish off all Nazi. Every. One. Of. Them.
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  148. Wagner boss is on quick link to a suicide. I doubt he is strong enough to topple the government. This could however, be used by Ukraine to make some advances that will be costly for Russia.
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  149. This would be "fun" at night.
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  150. Give it few more days and city will be in non Kiev Ukrainian hands. Then new units can be raised from among its citizens to fight for Donbass. I am shocked that so few pp know that both sides fight for freedom... from each other. On video we can see Ukrainian (Kiev) checkpoint under very heavy fire from Ukrainian (Donbass) forces.
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  151. Maybe... b/c there was no return fire! Or return fire was into the air above them to simulate a fight!
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  152. Notice rear tanks engage and destroy Ukrainian light infantry. Both sides suffer losses, but Ukrainian side suffers 3x as much, at least.
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  153. Once they taken the "trench like" structure pre sighted Russian artillery given them some taste of defeat. Ukraine failed to take anything around Bakhmut. They are running around the gray zone.
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  154. It's UA tank and they are Nazi.
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  155.  @cheebacheeo5876  I said at least one made it alive.
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  156.  @chaosXP3RT  And pigs fly ;)
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  157.  @samuelweir5985  Sure, and what are your basis for a hit? No video of a hit! Most missiles fail to hit or fail to destroy the target. So odds are failure:95% Hit and destroy 5%. And I am being generous.
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  158.  @MrReaxxionAction  LOL, if that was true they would have had incoming fire before the shot ;)
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  159.  @kenh6096  In this case actually its Donbass vs. Nazi. The people of the city vs. Kiev supported Nazi Azov units. So, do you support people that want to be free or you support a regime?
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  160. Russians need to call urgent air support to clear these Ukrainian forces for the road.
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  161. Lol, same as swastika is a symbol of luck. Come on. This and dozens of others are clearly Nazi.
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  162. What are these idiots firing at and wasting ammo? Oh wait, friendly fire ;) These guys are worse then not have any "soldiers".
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  163. We see similar action by the Russian side so it's not like squads have great AT ability on both sides. You simply do not have lots of weapons. Maybe they had say two RPGs and used both of them. They run out. So they retreated. Better be alive then dead. The next day they come back. In Zaporozia most of front line fight is like this. Main defensive line is behind such exposed frontal positions.
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  164. But none were killed as per video. None seem to be visibly wounded as well.
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  165.  @lee.as.in.l.e.e.7394  Nah, they were happy in other videos to just mask the dead. There is nothing to prevent showing wounded soldiers on YT. Finally why would they show no troops when mortars hit - clearly they hit... no one.
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  166.  @larsrons7937  but video claim is not confirmed by vide itself. Cleary no one is seen when mortars hit. Nobody.
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  167.  @larsrons7937  But between 1:15 and 1:20 there is EDIT CUT. At 1:32 we have edit cut again. I.e. The event from 1:32 probably is before mortar strike. If this was "real" video they would have one continuous video or at least video from the blast - zoom in to show casualties, no? - it would take same amount of time, no? but they do not. Thus I claim no casualties. The unit withdrawn. Also your claim they were pinned by MG fire - they were behind concrete blocks - why they did not move out and others did? "Between these three parts it is technically possible that the soldiers hiding suddenly rose up despite of the machinegun fire, ran away to be out range of the explosions just about to happen, then ran back and threw themselves on the ground in awkward positions pretending to be dead. Technically. But not likely in no way realistic." "then ran back and threw themselves on the ground in awkward positions pretending to be dead. " - that was BEFORE mortars stroke or could be another unit or something entirely different - even friendly troops pretending to be dead. Also note difference in video quality between different pieces - could be even different drone. A "real" video would have one continuous roll show Russians, zoom out (or not) have a mortar blast and show after effects. Why would anyone edit 10 seconds? You are way, way, way too trustworthy.
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  168.  @larsrons7937  No they are not. Watch the video again. Its heavily edited, and do not assume each edit is in sequence. As I already replied to someone else, in normal video you would see such things in one 10s clip "soldiers on the ground, mortar strike, dead or wounded" as one take. But here you do not see. Ask yourself why anyone would do multiple cuts in 10s or less of video ;) View it this way "clip one shows some Russian troops contacting enemy HM position & moving back". clip 2 at some other time shows mortars striking roughly same area - could be after or before clip 1. Clip 3 shows some killed or wounded troops - could be before or after 1 /2.
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  169.  @spaceman9599  Well, we have video evidence of a lot of losses so its hard to ignore the fact that Russia does not own Bradly or 113 vehicles ;)
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  170.  @kisuke47  Not as far as we know - if they did we would have a video about it.
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  171. Nah, even if tank fire did not take them out mobile infantry did.
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  172.  @HomieusErectus  what do you suggest they do? APC could be next. They dismount and drop. Later with support fire they mop up Ukrainian unit. Ukrainians paid a lot of blood for that tank.
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  173.  @houstontexas9463  Nah, at that range I highly doubt to many went out alive. It was probably national guard / local militia. Tanks opened return fire with main guns and coaxial MGs. At that range they easily blocked escape route. Even if some managed to survive that Russians could simply drive around the other side ;) Main thing they did is a) destroy a tank b) slow Russian advance At a cost of a small armed unit. In case you don't see it, just imagine a square with roads all around. one side of the square is the road. All Russians need to do is drive around the back of the square to block any escape. If it was so easy to ambush troops and "run away" in this fashion US would have lost war in Iraq long time ago.
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  174. It looks like its DPR militia. Not wagner.
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  175. You do not see any return fire so I doubt Taliban were anywhere close. Feels like a lot of this is training.
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  176. Well, depends on how you look at them. Technically they are indeed, as per west, Ukrainians. Just not aligned with Kiev regime.
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  177. Probably grandpa left it for them from his days in the SS ;)
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  178. And this is why Russia is winning the war --- they have more equipment. They can attack Ukrainian defenses with these and mop defenders.
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  179. So these are the guys that are getting their asses kicked by the Russians!
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  180. Imagine that Russians already retaken most of these positions - once Bakhmut was taken there was no need for UA to hold them.
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  181.  @notmytiming  but, but they are winning. So maybe you should sit down and wait for the defeat of Ukraine? And defeat of entire west.
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  182. They have been using these for over a year now. No effect.
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  183. The latest estimates are around 4-5 dead Ukrainians for each Russian - there is no hurry on Russian side. This is standard ratio from the start of the war.
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  184.  @maxk4471  No. Kherson is important as it keeps Odessa in firing range. Clearly Kharkiv was too big to deal with and only troops that keep UA out of range of Brdansk are there. I expect that Russia moved all troops out beyond Osirk river. We see whatever that is the case in the next few days, but so far seems that only screening force is left in the area. What propaganda?
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  185. Umm, these are Donbas republic troops not Russian forces.
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  186. Nazi were defeated before and will be defeated again.
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  187. They are in the forest, tanks could not do much her anyways. Russians need to call in artillery against this light infantry, cut off with fast mobile armor & destroy. This process will take time. There are lots of platoons like this to eliminate. Russians don't have enough forces in the north to do this, in the south they are doing great and finally eastern offensive started to get traction. War may still last another week or two - are at least till it will be clear Ukraine lost - once army of Donbass is trashed.
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  188.  @HyzersGR  LOL, most of attack is lead by Wagner there are no mobiks there. Paratroopers are helping. Ukies take epic losses and there are videos of them refusing to fight - not sure how authentic but certainly morale is low & losses are not sustainable for Ukraine. Only idiot would hold to a city where they are getting clapped so bad.
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  189. It is strange BMP did not return fire - probably did not see where it was coming from and retreated. Front and turret of BMP are actually not that bad at all - especially engine deck on BMP-1 / BMP-2.
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  190.  @prind142  Tell it to people on WWII ;))) Who is an idiot now huh? Tell it to Iraqis - they were on the defense in last war with US - me feels they took much heavier losses.
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  191.  @Pyriphlegeton  Oh, if that is true why we see 100s of monuments to Bandera? Why we see Nazi salutes, why we see Nazi flags in Kiev - next to the president of Ukraine? Totally not Nazi. Yeah right. Support for Nazi before the war was 60-70% in west Ukraine.
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  192. Russian claim all were captured alive. No heroics. We see who is right, but given Ukrainian performance in Ukraine mainland it feels they all did indeed surrender, signed a letter they will not fight against Russia ever again and were let go.
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  193.  @aardvarkbiscuit2677  Power of propaganda! Remember its huge. Most pp don't know much about this war. They think its some freely elected president fighting evil dictator. Its like Afghanistan, where they also had "freely" elected president but no one voted for him ;) And Taliban removed him in just 3 weeks. Except here there is plenty more of propaganda to defend Zielinski - logic is not with him. But remember, after its all over he will live somewhere in New York or Florida.
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  194. If there were Russians in the house. Looks like both sides suffered no losses and UA lost a lot of ammo. Correct action by Russian command would be to counter the UA squads now that they are low on ammo and mop them up. Counter them by pinning them & mop with artillery.
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  195. This is plain stupid of Ukrainians to just drive their cars while tanks are on the roads and engaging the enemy. This can happen what just did or they can be hit by cross fire.
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  196. This proves once and for all US is not ready for the enemy's massive drone use. At least not when ECM fails.
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  197.  @desmond-hawkins  They have a top attack mine PTKM-1R. The top attack ammunition was developed in the 80s or maybe before that. It has drawbacks & if it was so great it would be more widely adapted. In its direct attack the Javelin / Nlaw missiles are much weaker than comparable weapons that are just direct attack. I.e. its a tradeoff. Spike is the most advanced missile & it does not use the top attack mode of Javelin / Nlaw.
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  198.  @Patron-mx4iv  Price is of an issue here - Kornet is relatively cheap compared to Spike or Javelin. Like way cheaper.
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  199.  @Nikolas37  Correct, Ukraine has lots and lots of spare gun meat - maybe they should just send them unarmed? I mean Russian artillery will kill them if armed and if unarmed - but if unarmed they can scream it was a war crime?
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  200.  @linkharden7756  They are fighting for their home! Why you are glad - what if someone attacks you in your home? These were (or are) Donbass militia troops. Probably can see their home from the trench line.
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