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What were they actually firing at here? Looked like a concerted effort against the sidewalk…
International Russia/Ukraine Megathread V11
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What were they actually firing at here? Looked like a concerted effort against the sidewalk…
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Then a Northumberland couple opened up their village home to a Ukrainian mother and her two daughters last year, they were responding to the plight of refugees escaping the Russian invasion. Having been told no more than that this was a musical family, Sheilagh Matheson and Chris Roberts offered two bedrooms and a honky-tonk piano.
Soon they found themselves arranging the loan of a Steinway upright after discovering that these children had an extraordinary musical talent – one that made passersby stop to listen at an open window.
Both girls have now received scholarships to two of the UK’s foremost music schools, less than a year after fleeing their home near Kyiv to start new lives in Corbridge, not far from Newcastle.
Khrystyna Mykhailichenko, 17, has been awarded a full bursary for four years to study piano at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Her 12-year-old sister, Sasha, a violinist, has a scholarship to become a weekly boarder at the Yehudi Menuhin School near Leatherhead in Surrey.
Homes for Ukraine scheme.
Matheson, a semi-retired broadcast journalist, lives with her husband, a national director of the Skills Funding Agency, in an end-of-terrace five-bedroomed house.
She told the Observer that they themselves are not musical, but that the Ukrainians’ music-making in their home has been “absolutely unbelievable”: “You run out of superlatives. When the windows are open, you see people walking by and they just stand there.”
Joking that their honky-tonk piano is worthy of “a smoke-filled room with men drinking pints and singing Roll Out the Barrel”, Matheson said: “All we knew before they arrived was that they were a musical family. A few days before, I was sent a film of Khrystyna playing Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No 1 [aged just 14]. I thought, ‘ah, right, we’re in a different league here’.
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Then a Northumberland couple opened up their village home to a Ukrainian mother and her two daughters last year, they were responding to the plight of refugees escaping the Russian invasion. Having been told no more than that this was a musical family, Sheilagh Matheson and Chris Roberts offered two bedrooms and a honky-tonk piano.
Soon they found themselves arranging the loan of a Steinway upright after discovering that these children had an extraordinary musical talent – one that made passersby stop to listen at an open window.
Both girls have now received scholarships to two of the UK’s foremost music schools, less than a year after fleeing their home near Kyiv to start new lives in Corbridge, not far from Newcastle.
Khrystyna Mykhailichenko, 17, has been awarded a full bursary for four years to study piano at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Her 12-year-old sister, Sasha, a violinist, has a scholarship to become a weekly boarder at the Yehudi Menuhin School near Leatherhead in Surrey.
Homes for Ukraine scheme.
Matheson, a semi-retired broadcast journalist, lives with her husband, a national director of the Skills Funding Agency, in an end-of-terrace five-bedroomed house.
She told the Observer that they themselves are not musical, but that the Ukrainians’ music-making in their home has been “absolutely unbelievable”: “You run out of superlatives. When the windows are open, you see people walking by and they just stand there.”
Joking that their honky-tonk piano is worthy of “a smoke-filled room with men drinking pints and singing Roll Out the Barrel”, Matheson said: “All we knew before they arrived was that they were a musical family. A few days before, I was sent a film of Khrystyna playing Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No 1 [aged just 14]. I thought, ‘ah, right, we’re in a different league here’.
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There’s two parts to Wagner. They have their professional Soldiers that they protect and use wisely. Then they have the prisoners and fresh recruits that they use to tire Ukrainians. It’s a decent tactic I guess if you don’t believe those men can be trained and trusted to be real Soldiers? Wild to see it again in the modern day.
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Oh man that’s a natural disaster
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Wagner actually trains its recruits and has better gear, they even opened 6 new training facilities in russia this month i saw on tele.its one reason all volunteers go to wagner and not official rus army.
Above does not consern prisoners though they will be gone in summer since last recruitment was in february
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Putin Fires 'Butcher of Mariupol' Russian General, Mikhail Mizintsev
"The Russian commander known as "the Butcher of Mariupol" has been removed from his position, according to a Russian war correspondent.
Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev has garnered a reputation for ruthless brutality in Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. He is particularly associated with the bombardment of the southern port city of Mariupol, which Moscow claimed in May 2022.
Mizintsev was appointed deputy defense minister for logistics in late September 2022, state media reported. The "butcher will build a new slaughterhouse," Ukraine's defense ministry tweeted as the news broke.
He has now been "fired" from his position, according to a Telegram post from Alexander Sladkov, a correspondent for the state-run newspaper Izvestia.
"Mikhail Mizintsev has had an interesting fate this year," Sladkov wrote on Thursday, describing the commander as a "friend."
He added that Mizintsev had "had no direct relation to the storming of the city" of Mariupol."
Putin Fires 'Butcher of Mariupol' Russian General, Mikhail Mizintsev (msn.com)
Imagine being the guy that get's that job? Putin demands results but yet only way to do it is tell your guys to charge forward to certain death and when they do have nothing to show but massive deaths and armor losses.
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Almost sounds like propaganda since they have manpower shortage at the front as well as ammo and supply issues. This could also be for the other "PMC" that have been sprouting up, didnt Shoigu start one up and Kadyrov was talking about one too. this is a terrible idea for Russia in general as you have different groups with different interests and not all on the same page.
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Still lack fire support drones dropping bomblets and they still do not have smallish few kg demolition charges for destroying covered firing positions that as shown are almost immune to fragmentation grenades that contain barely 50g of explosive filler. Something al Dawla pioneered in many of its urban combat operations. All you need is a plastic can, grenade fuze, det cord and explosive filling.
You should join Wager because you looks that are 5 th russian column guy in Finland dreaming to meet huilo tanks with flowers and congratulate russian empire....internal enemy for Finaland .....
Before war in Ukraine wagner was secretive and they were able to recruit guys in secretive mode .
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To pick up guys with military or polics etc exp under belt and test them + to test them after training camp.
Usually they were guys with exp and financial problems + in good shape.
Yeah, IMHO you should be in Bakhmut as part of russian world empire.
This is truth that wagner is supplied very well ....
While standards for hiring they had lowered xxx folds vs stuff before war in Ukraine and now are using even prisoners.
Nazi Utkin is cool boss.
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Its called satchel charge in english i think and people been yelling about it online for a while
Was used to blow up firing positions in trenches during WW2
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satchel_charge
Could also improvise one by taping multiple grenades together imo
Considering it was wagners own channel i doubt they would run ads for other pmcs lol
Might be recruiting tactic since they likely will be empty after bahkmut
Probe groups tactique.
One wariant: to send 4-6 guys to walk further.
If they will get on mines or Ukr will blast them with few mortars shellsx then in a bit other direction will be sent next probe goup etc.
If firing positions will be spotted enough, then they will be fired with mortars and artillery and MRLS...
If no cycle again will be repeated.
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Wagner isn't sole power to fight for Bakhmut, during long months they are backuped by regular russian military with intelligencw and jammers, pelengators and drone operations etc like stuff plus for Balkhmut are during months fighting pro special tasks ops forces of Russian Fedederation, russian pro marines and pro paratroopers....
Also looks that huilo will use rosgvardia ( pro putin oriented national guard well movated volunteers ) and more units from LPR and DPR to press Bakhmut area further.
One wariant: to send 4-6 guys to walk further.
If they will get on mines or Ukr will blast them with few mortars shellsx then in a bit other direction will be sent next probe goup etc.
If firing positions will be spotted enough, then they will be fired with mortars and artillery and MRLS...
If no cycle again will be repeated.
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Wagner isn't sole power to fight for Bakhmut, during long months they are backuped by regular russian military with intelligencw and jammers, pelengators and drone operations etc like stuff plus for Balkhmut are during months fighting pro special tasks ops forces of Russian Fedederation, russian pro marines and pro paratroopers....
Also looks that huilo will use rosgvardia ( pro putin oriented national guard well movated volunteers ) and more units from LPR and DPR to press Bakhmut area further.
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More on the Sevastopol strike. Looks like the entire depot is ablaze.
You can't sell oil if it burns.
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Pres. Putin will make Russia a pariah for decades after this and that's my low estimate.
Ukraine has hacker squads too.
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that was a bad angle the drone hit on the Gepard. most situations, it will get destroyed/badly damaged.
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