Comments by "David Elliott" (@davidelliott5843) on "The Telegraph" channel.

  1. Regardless of your political position (pro Biden or pro Trump) I cannot understand why anyone would choose to support the Russian position on this war. How can anyone ignore the endless war crimes, deportations and destruction of heritage by Russia.
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  2. HIMARS and 155 shells are expensive but much stuff US is sending was written down years ago. e.g. they stopped using Stinger missiles 20 years ago. They’ve also bought a fair bit of Soviet/Russian hardware that Ukraine are trained to use but that won’t have cost silly money.
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  3. I heard it’s a problem throughout Russia, not just in prisons. Only exceeded by alcohol dependence.
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  4. Donbas has huge reserves of gas and oil which Putin saw as competition to be kept down. It will be needed by Europe when this war is over. Especially as the Russian lines will have been closed by then.
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  5. Ukraine is making what amount to steerable torpedoes. Initially, they ran on the surface but they’ve got ever more semi-submersible. Something with only a small conning tower/snorkel above the water surface is on its way.
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  6. If Ukraine is probably capable piggybacking a Himars onto a home-grown first stage. However what if that caused NATO to stop future deliveries?
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  7. It’s almost a submersible as-is. But if it could dive under the ship before exploding, we would see small torpedo types of damage.
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  8. Updating old aircraft for a one way flight is a lot different to throwing rusty shells into a gun breech. The aircraft might fail but it’s no big deal. Shells exploding in the gun do more damage than shells delivered by the enemy.
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  9. The various Ukraine channels all have that information.
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  10. The Russians say that 6 Himars were fired at thx barracks but they do not down four. Two Himars could not have totally flattened that building. However it’s emerged that artillery ammunition was stored in the building AND Ukraine thinks at least 600 were killed.
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  11. They’ve now eaten the 10 year rations and the 20 year rations. Killing Prigozhin and his company (that supplied food to Russian MoD) has crimped any chance feeding their army.
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  12. The OP is a Russian troll. But really one of the worst yet.
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  13. Clever drones. They always get shot down in three go five time the number launched and falling debris always sets the planned targets on fire. So very clever.
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  14. Nuclear weapons cannot do anything about a spread out front line. It Putin does use a nuclear weapon, if will be against a Ukraine city or large infrastructure. Kyiv, any other large conurbation and dams are all at risk.
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  15. Himars is the perfect tool for this job. But Ukraine also needs iron curtain style tank traps and barbed wire from Poland to the Sea of Azov with remote warning systems to spot for sneak attacks.
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  16. Three layers of polyethylene sheet will provide MUCH better insulation than just one layer. But they’ll need strong duct tape and enough poly to get the job done.
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  17. It’s highly likely that a few rocket assisted glide bombs have already arrived.
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  18. Well done Telegraph for talking with Ben Hodges. One of the strongest leaders of our time. This recording will be stolen and edited by the bot channels and “sold” as their own work. But they can’t take away the truth of what Ben Hodges says.
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  19. Trolls love to troll.
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  20. Belgorod was hit by 2 large bombs. One is buried 7m into the ground. They were probably fitted with glide kits that fell off after launching. Biggest question is why would the pilot release these things over a Russian city?
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  21. Russian personnel losses are “interesting” to us in The West. However, Russian military just don’t care. These KIA are simply consumables.
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  22. Pooteen is the top of the KGB/FSB pyramid. He is absolutely calling the shots but he cannot do that without full support from the security system beneath him.
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  23. Russian oil and gas is still being pumped under Ukraine. It’s amazing that nothing bad has befallen those pipelines. After all the Nordstream was blown from the inside (only possible from the Russia end). Why not the others?
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  24. Germany has a huge demographic problem. They have far too few people of working age. Offering asylum to escaping Russians makes a lot of sense. HOWEVER Russia has considerable problems with TB and alcoholism does Germany want thousands of people with chronic disease.
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  25. Hopefully they can get another floating bomb under the same spot.
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  26. There’s an FPV video of a drone being threaded between trees and shrubs to find a trench entrance. There’s the usual picture cut before it actually hits but it’s likely to have caused serious carnage.
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  27. HIMARS has a longer range than Russian artillery which must be used to take out weapons stores, transport hubs and of course guns and dumb rocket launchers.
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  28. Ukraine needs considerably more than we are sending. Their summer offensive failed because NATO FAILED to arm them appropriately. We are failing to adequately ramp up military production but we also forget that keeping kit for a rainy day is pointless when there’s a thunderstorm outside.
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  29. Petrol and diesel will get hammered. That affects us all especially the now considerable home delivery industry. Watch the big grocery retailers pull the plug.
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  30. Russia could drop a nuke from aircraft or use air-launch missiles. When they do use them, immediately take out every missile launch truck they have and every air base within range of Ukraine.
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  31. Pilot was just as much a regime member as the passengers.
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  32. Learning to blow a whistle and point with a sword (sorry) stick can’t be that hard.
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  33. Russia seriously diluted their military efficiency by pouring in untrained conscripts. Ukraine can’t assume any will run away until they get up and go.
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  34. It was this Russian tactic that led to gunship helicopters and A-10 aircraft.
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  35. People f to on Far Eastern Russia feel they are effectively a colony of Moscow. I feel it’s unlikely that other regions feel any different. They are all used by Moscow
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  36. There is underwater drone footage of the Nordstream pipe ends. The metal is folded out and concrete casing lying around in curved lumps. This looks like an “event” from within. Something impossible from outside the pipe.
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  37. Russia started this war in 2014 as a means of salami-slicing Ukraine. The so-called Donbas separation was taken straight from the Soviet playbook.
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  38. “2911 tanks have been destroyed” does that mean tanks lost to Russia or are the ones Russia “donated” to Ukraine on top of that nearly 3000 wrecks?
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  39. At about 42:00 Dr Sasha talks about Russian nukes hitting Ukraine cities. I fear that Kherson is in the cross-hairs. Ukraine will retake the city and Putin will nuke it to take out Ukraine soldiers and destroy war crimes evidence.
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  40. Listening to different ideas opens eyes.
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  41. Meanwhile, many more with exposure, hypothermia and disease caused by awful living conditions are not classed as war casualties.
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  42. Russian troops rape, torture kill loot and destroy everything in sight. Mass graves are found everywhere they’ve been. Yet we now have this huge fuss about Ukraine soldiers being caught out by Russian nutter with a gun.
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  43. He is also a genuine human being. Someone anyone can talk to. That’s incredibly important at the highest levels of command.
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  44. LIDAR has existed for decades. It uses lasers to scan an area with computers to remove overlying vegetation from the image. It would be perfect for finding Russian trenches and equipment under tree cover.
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  45. Russian generals send untrained unarmed troops against machine guns and tanks against pre-arranged artillery targeting. Ukraine sends a few troops to do the dangerous job of flushing out where the Russian guns are and how heavily defended their lines are. Nothing will happen until they expose a gap.
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  46. As Russia has moved more guns into Belgorod, Ukrain😅e should be hitting back with counter battery artillery. The M777 and mobile artillery are longer range and more accurate. A great way to strut Russian kit.
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  47. The most effective weapon against sea drones and small boats is the machine gun. Add some radar/lidar targeting and sea surface drones won’t get close. The German Gepard AA gun (set to shoot downward) is a good model.
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  48. I’ve had a lot of time for Steve Turley but that changed with this war. In common with many (let’s say) not “Democrat” Americans he just refuses to see what Putin is doing. Ukraine is not perfect (what is?) but this war looks exactly like yet another Russian colonial war. Many in the West seem happy to let it happen.
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  49. Not madness but certainly it’s dangerously mistaken.
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  50. A small power station turbine makes 100 megawatts continuously. A 1.5 megawatt hour battery is huge. But in power grid terms it’s trivial. That turbine makes that in about 1.5 minutes.
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