According to Euromaidan, three of the cruise missile ships have been damaged, and several ships have likely sunk.  Big if true, though of course these are preliminary reports awaiting official confirmation.

If the Black Sea fleet has been hit as hard as early reports say, their ability to bombard civilian targets will severely diminish and any remaining boats will be even more vulnerable (the flagship Moskva provided air defense, but it was sunk, so they've been hugging Sevastopol, relying on its air defense, which is smart but also makes their location incredibly predictable).  All Ukraine has to do is to continue to advance towards Crimea and deploy anti-ship missiles closer and closer to the coast, and remaining Black Sea ships have no choice but to back off.  That or hit them over and over with drones until they're too diminished to function.  Either way, the writing is on the wall.

In Russia, at a military training ground, a 22-year-old truck driver runs over a group of conscripts, killing two

I guess they really do think this is GTA.

Quote from: Hydra009 on October 29, 2022, 02:46:53 PMIn Russia, at a military training ground, a 22-year-old truck driver runs over a group of conscripts, killing two

I guess they really do think this is GTA.

They'll still keep him. The front is worse than a gulag.

At this point, they might as well say "I'm rubber, you're glue" to incoming missiles.  It'd work about as well.

New explosions at Sevastopol.  Don't know if it's another attack or something damaged exploding.  Fingers crossed!

The first guy was right about the dangers of using SIM cards.  Can't be too careful.  Why, the enemy could be listening in to every call you make...

In the second one, I loved it when the mother said that she won't tell anyone.  Your secret is safe, LOL.

"It was a good 24 hours": Ukrainian Armed Forces kill almost 1,000 Russian occupiers in one day

And that's not even including whatever happened with the ships near Sevastopol.

Ukraine's out there stacking Russian bodies like cordwood.  Any Russians there who value their lives need to get out and fast.

Russian strategy: if we send enough men, eventually the ukrainians will become depressed and demoralized from continually slaughtering all these unfairly unprepared people.
Once their will is broken, we'll win for sure!

One old fool like Putler or tRump commands "jump" and millions just do what he says. And the imaginary old fool in the clouds always approves.

Quote from: Mr.Obvious on October 30, 2022, 04:23:46 PMRussian strategy: if we send enough men, eventually the ukrainians will become depressed and demoralized from continually slaughtering all these unfairly unprepared people.
Once their will is broken, we'll win for sure!

When all you have is a hammer...

They've tried to sow terror as much as humanly possible and have been pretty inventive in some areas - strapping ground-based AA to ships, jury-rigging AA to use as artillery, etc.

They've also tried to artificially create both an energy crisis and famine to strong-arm the international community, as well as meddling in elections, making dire threats, and playing a hell of a game of "I'm not touching you!" via Belarus.

It's just that all the terrorism and brinksmanship in the world can't compensate for bad fundamentals - the inability to fight a modern war against a powerful opponent.

During the retreat, Russian forces left behind a machine gun built in 1910

Literally world war one equipment.

This is why I never brought nothing for show and tell.

Quote from: the_antithesis on October 30, 2022, 08:25:05 PMThis is why I never brought nothing for show and tell.

If you "never brought nothing" then you always brought something?

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