International Russia/Ukraine Megathread V12

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If you can drop grenades from small drones why not drop AT mines with hand grenade fuze from large drones?


Hand grenade fuze is different.

While for example the same cheapest and simplest disk type mines might have different detonators , some from these might be triggered when human will step on device.

For distance minelying in dumbass ( Donbas ) mainly are used Grad 122 mm MRLS and Uragan 220 mm MRLS systems.
These does have multiple variants with warheads, some specially designed to dispress anti perssonel and anti tank mines.
So called " new " miracle weapon Zemledelya is just 50 barrels 122 mm Grad launcher.
Grad launcher might have different configurations from 1 barrel till 40 or 50.
Most common is 40 barrels version for 122 mm GRAD MRLS.
 
Elements of the 76th Guards Air Assault Division have been redeployed from north to south around Robotyne. Sure taking Ukrainian gains around the area seriously.
Huge defensive line after that. If they can clear that. The russians are in huge trouble.
 
Hand grenade fuze is different.

While for example the same cheapest and simplest disk type mines might have different detonators , some from these might be triggered when human will step on device.

For distance minelying in dumbass ( Donbas ) mainly are used Grad 122 mm MRLS and Uragan 220 mm MRLS systems.
These does have multiple variants with warheads, some specially designed to dispress anti perssonel and anti tank mines.
So called " new " miracle weapon Zemledelya is just 50 barrels 122 mm Grad launcher.
Grad launcher might have different configurations from 1 barrel till 40 or 50.
Most common is 40 barrels version for 122 mm GRAD MRLS.

As you can see the main fuze well is empty but there is a hole presumably drilled or punched to the size that is fitted with a hand grenade fuze, UZRG by the looks of it.

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As you can see the main fuze well is empty but there is a hole presumably drilled or punched to the size that is fitted with a hand grenade fuze, UZRG by the looks of it.

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Yeah, in theory anti tank mine might be detonated by hand grenade fuse however their dimensions are different than these used for disk type anti tank mine.
BTW hand grenades too are used for mining as some kind of IEDs....F-1 is very popular for such purpose.
 
There for example one from most common USSR era anti tank mines are TM-62 series mines.​
 
ukraine is mourning one of its most widely known fighter pilots after a mid-air collision in Zhytomyr Oblast. Major Andrii Pilshchykov, better known by his callsign “Juice”, was one of three pilots killed in the crash involving two L-39 jet trainer aircraft.


Juice served as something akin to the informal 'voice' of the Ukrainian Air Force at times, providing numerous first-hand accounts of Ukraine’s air war to The War Zone and other media outlets, sometimes from the cockpit of his MiG-29 Fulcrum as he sat alert on the ground. These included detailed perspectives, from the first desperate hours over Kyiv to fighting the scourge of Iranian-made drones heading for Ukrainian cities.




https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ukraines-outspoken-mig-29-pilot-juice-killed-during-mission
 
Ukraine also had lost one colonel. This gentleman most likely had big chances to avoid to see frontlines because he was former politician and reserve officer. He died.

While Ukraine really is awful hole like Russia. Another colonel had used government's funds and .....conscripted soldiers to build for him and his friends villas!
Criminal case at least is scheduled for trial while bitch is ....on bail out money.
Where Zelensky and Rada ( parliament ) are watching?
BTW EU does have cool mortgage registers, easy to access and Zelensky already is forced to answer a lot cos
....why Ukrainian bireucrats and politicians does have money to purchase mortgage in EU during war time.
Nice and cool criminal courts are in long waiting list and sorry, at least France does have nukes.
 
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Strelkov who was an open enemy to Prigozhin and a strong crtic of Putin as well has softened his rhetoric towards Putin once he imprisoned him. I guess he now sees at least prison is better than being killed.

Comment of Strelkov I.I. on the death of Prigozhin (the text was transmitted through the lawyer Korolyov):
I believe that the likely involvement of the president is minuscule, approximately at the level of the likelihood of a man-made disaster. The likelihood of a terrorist act by Ukraine or the West is even less likely. Here we can talk about the "cleansing of key witnesses", about which there was not a sound in the media. It is also possible, but unlikely, personal revenge on the part of high-ranking military officers. I cannot say that I am upset, since Prigozhin was not only my enemy personally, but also, by and large, the enemy of Russia. And his danger was still very high. At the same time, what happened cannot cause any positive reaction in me, as it is yet another evidence of the further deepening of unrest in Russia. Prigozhin should have been tried, not eliminated, now he will not be able to testify. The dashing 90s are returning, and this is very dangerous and fraught.
 
I heard from a few online they said the reason why Russia keeps pulling out 19040's and early 50's tanks is due to concern over the possible need of newer hardware if a full blown war breaks out. Russia has a massive number of tanks the issue is if a full blown war with NATO where to happen Russia would have a difficult time protecting the vast area of Russia.

I thought they hiding behind nukes, no?

Also Rus are mad enough to build alpha omega nuke ready to obliterate entire earth screwing it up for everybody if mother rus was threatened.
 
Sounds like they want to spend some time in prison....and then go 'volunteer' to go fight in Ukraine later...


Russian neo-Nazi group refuses to fight in Ukraine, accusing Kremlin of abandoning its leader

https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-neo-nazi-group-refuses-132100259.html

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Russian neo-Nazi group refuses to fight in Ukraine, accusing Kremlin of abandoning its leader
James Kilner
Sat, August 26, 2023 at 6:21 AM PDT

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Russian neo-Nazi paramilitary group Rusich refuses to fight in Ukraine in protest at Kremlin's lack of help in freeing its leader who has been arrested in Finland on war crimes charges
A Russian neo-Nazi paramilitary group that supported the Wagner mercenary rebellion has announced it will no longer fight in Ukraine, accusing the Kremlin of abandoning its leader.

The group, called Rusich, said that its leader Yan Petrovsky was arrested last month when he tried to pass through Helsinki airport and that Russian diplomats have ignored his pleas for help.

“Since July 20, Yan Petrovsky has not been visited by either the Russian consul or a lawyer. The Slav is threatened with extradition to Ukraine either directly or through a third country in a fictitious criminal case,” it said, using Petrokvsky’s military call sign.

“Rusich stops performing any combat missions,” it said on its Telegram channel. “If a country cannot protect its citizens, then why should citizens defend the country?”

Petrovsky has been accused of war crimes and Ukrainian officials want to put him on trial.

Rusich was set up in 2014 and is open about its pro-Nazi views. Even alongside Wagner, it was known for its brutality.

In April Rusich posted a video on its Telegram channel of a Ukrainian prisoner being beheaded with a knife. Its leaders have also filmed themselves killing puppies.

Rusich has criticised the Russian ministry of defence’s handling of its invasion of Ukraine and, although it wasn’t directly involved, it supported Wagner’s rebellion in June that was called off 120 miles from Moscow.

After the death of Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin this week in a plane crash widely blamed on Vladimir Putin, Rusich said: “Let this be a lesson to you all. You always have to go all the way.”

Since the Wagner rebellion, the Kremlin appears to have begun a crackdown on Russian mercenary and paramilitary groups.

Wagner’s camp in Belarus is being dismantled and its former fighters are being made to pledge their allegiance to Putin.

Rusich also said that two Ukrainian intelligence officers had already interrogated Petrovsky in Finland.

“It remains incomprehensible (actually understandable) why our diplomatic wing in Finland is engaged in sabotage, turning a blind eye to the detention and interrogation of citizens by intelligence officers of the country that we are actually fighting a war against,” it said.
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The end of the video you can hear Russian drones fill the sky. That must be nerve wreaking for soldiers. US best start going hard on Taiwanese companies who continue to provide key components to Chinese an Russian companies who build drones. Time to give Taiwan a talk.

 
Strelkov who was an open enemy to Prigozhin and a strong crtic of Putin as well has softened his rhetoric towards Putin once he imprisoned him. I guess he now sees at least prison is better than being killed.

Comment of Strelkov I.I. on the death of Prigozhin (the text was transmitted through the lawyer Korolyov):
I believe that the likely involvement of the president is minuscule, approximately at the level of the likelihood of a man-made disaster. The likelihood of a terrorist act by Ukraine or the West is even less likely. Here we can talk about the "cleansing of key witnesses", about which there was not a sound in the media. It is also possible, but unlikely, personal revenge on the part of high-ranking military officers. I cannot say that I am upset, since Prigozhin was not only my enemy personally, but also, by and large, the enemy of Russia. And his danger was still very high. At the same time, what happened cannot cause any positive reaction in me, as it is yet another evidence of the further deepening of unrest in Russia. Prigozhin should have been tried, not eliminated, now he will not be able to testify. The dashing 90s are returning, and this is very dangerous and fraught.

So nobody did it?
 
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