Orban reportedly supports Sweden joining NATO

I'm waiting for the catch...

Ukrainian drones hit  oil refinery near Tuapse in Russia (small city east of Crimea, along the Black Sea)

In a pickle: Girkin sentenced to four years in prison

Igor Girkin played a pivotal role in the initial 2014 invasion as well as the destruction of a Dutch civilian passanger jet with Russian AA. 

He has since been busy throwing his support behind a nationalist faction seeking to intensify the war and was somewhat critical of Putin, which landed him in jail after Putin became conspicuously thin-skinned following the failed Wagner coup.

30 tanks in one day!  WOW!

59 artillery, too!

These loss figures are way too high to just be one day's tally.  There has to be a typo or glitch or something, because I've been watching it day in and day out and these figures are near double what's to be expected on a busy day.

I eagerly await an official UA write-up about this.

Turkey fully ratifies Sweden's admission to NATO

It's about time! 🫡

I think I figured out why the recent Russian losses are so high:

HIMARS o'clock on a Russian training camp

QuoteKyiv's forces attacked a Russian military training ground in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region on Wednesday, striking a group of drone pilots using a U.S.-made High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), according to local reports.

In a post on Telegram, Russian military blogger Vladimir Romanov said some drone operators said they could have been struck near the city of Ilovaisk because the head of the Sudoplatov (or "Judgment Day") group carelessly gave out coordinates on its positions to "strangers" via a bot on "where to come for training."

LMAO they actually gave out their base location to an unknown party via what I'm assuming was a text message.  "Hello, is this the Kremlin?  I'm the queen of Engdland and I need $$$ for a plane ticket back to Englind to take back my thrown and slap Liz Trust.  Please wire me 100 000 rubles via my paypal link" IDIOTS!

More discrepancies in the Il-76 plane crash mystery

The latest is that only 5 bodies made it to the morgue, despite Russia saying that dozens were killed.  This isn't a t-90, so we shouldn't expect the bodies to have been atomized.  Very strange that so few bodies were recovered.

QuoteAndriy Yusov, a spokesperson for Ukraine's Defense Intelligence (DI), told CNN the number of bodies brought to the morgue matched the number of crew members on the plane. "No other bodies were detected," he said.

Moscow claimed all 74 people on board – comprising six crew members, three military escorts and 65 Ukrainian servicemen – were killed in the crash.

Russia refuses an international investigation into the crash

If everything is as they say, wouldn't they welcome the opportunity to vindicate themselves and show Ukraine to be in the wrong?

Quote from: Hydra009 on January 26, 2024, 11:00:59 AMRussia refuses an international investigation into the crash

If everything is as they say, wouldn't they welcome the opportunity to vindicate themselves and show Ukraine to be in the wrong?

Pretty much like Donald. Deny and delay everything in order to keep putting off proving your innocense.

Hope you made backups:  Ukrainian hackers wipe out 2 petabytes of data from Russian research facility (2 petabytes is roughly equivalent to 22,000 4k movies, so around 5 years of watching movies nonstop)

The servers belong to a state research center which uses "space satellite data and ground sources like radars and stations to provide information and accurate predictions about weather, climate, natural disasters, extreme phenomena, and volcanic monitoring.

The agency is affiliated with Roscosmos, Russia's space agency, and it supports sectors such as the military, civil aviation, agriculture, and maritime."

Hungarian official says he hasn't seen any evidence of North Korea supplying Russia with munitions

North Korea has been accused of covertly arming Russia since late 2022 and in late 2023 definitely sent over 1000 containers full of suspected munitions via rail to Russia on a route that puts it suspiciously close to Ukraine's borders.



But let's give the benefit of the doubt and assume that the governments of South Korea, the US, and various european countries are all somehow mistaken about the contents.

The Ukrainians have taken photos of the shells themselves as well as their production dates (the photographed one was from the 2000s, so relatively recent)