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Hoho counteroffensive not going well...

The breach could result in devastating flooding, potentially killing thousands of civilians as well as disrupting the cooling systems for the nearby Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. The Kakhovskaya hydroelectric dam in Russia’s Kherson Region, located on the Dnepr River upstream from the city of Kherson, suffered significant damage on Tuesday morning, according to a local official and several videos shared on social media. The upper part of the key infrastructure was “destroyed as a result of a strike,” the mayor of Novaya Kakhovka, Vladimir Leontyev, confirmed to RIA Novosti. While several of the dam’s floodgates were damaged and unleashed an...

Real/actual wonder weapons....Ukraine needs to surrender....

Great "Counteroffensive" seems to have run into a brick wall of sorts

Nazi nature of the ukie cross-border raids

Russia continues to pummel Ukrainian positions throughout the country and Ukraine continues to insist that it is shooting down Russian missiles and that the Russian attacks are inconsequential. Well, as Chris Berman of ESPN was fond of saying, “let’s go to the video tape.” The following video provides clear evidence that Ukraine’s air defense system is not working (you can see the launches from Patriot or IRIS batteries) and that Russia is blasting the Ukrainian air defense system into smithereens. Focus on the lower left hand quadrant of the video. Ukraine launched a few missiles and they disappeared into the...

Russia continues to pummel Ukrainian positions throughout the country and Ukraine continues to insist that it is shooting down Russian missiles and that the Russian attacks are inconsequential. Well, as Chris Berman of ESPN was fond of saying, “let’s go to the video tape.” The following video provides clear evidence that Ukraine’s air defense system is not working (you can see the launches from Patriot or IRIS batteries) and that Russia is blasting the Ukrainian air defense system into smithereens. Focus on the lower left hand quadrant of the video (at link).Ukraine launched a few missiles and they disappeared into...

Garland Nixon: Neocon scheme for world dominion falls with Bakhmut

Prigozhin: Russian forces have fully established control over Artemovsk MOSCOW, May 20-RIA Novosti. Russian forces have fully established control over Artemovsk, said the founder of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, his statement was published by the entrepreneur's press service in the Telegram channel. "On the afternoon of May 20, Artemovsk, the last section of the so-called Samolet high-rise building, was completely taken," Prigozhin said. According to him, from May 25, Wagner will begin withdrawing its units for rest and retraining. The fighters of the group will also create "the necessary lines of defense." Control over the city will transferred to...

Mostly just open steppe between Russian forces and the Dnieper...

Garland Nixon has gotten to be one of my favorite commentatorsNixon notes that you don't change a working plan and certainly there is no basis for expecting Russians to do that. I.e. don't expect Russians to do anything other than what they are doing. We're being bled white and they could keep it up for ten or twelve years.

Candidate for smallest nuclear weapon, around 20 tons of TNT. Again I am not able to believe that the recent explosion at Khmelnitsky when the Kinzhal hit the arms depot was conventional. One youtube wonk notes that seismograph data indicates that the Khmelnitsky explosion was around three times that, about 60 tons. Two possibilities:The DU tank gun ammo being stored at the depot found some way to explode in a nuclear fashion.NATO fops and/or neocon wankers were actually storing some of those micro nukes at the site and three of them blew off.

Ukies holding onto a microscopic area of Bakhmut by their fingernails... Bakhmut was the lynchpin of the entire ukie defensive system in Donbass. When it falls, their butts have basically been kicked out of the main area of the place that Russians are interested in and mainly just open steppe between Russians and the Dnieper, as in, no place to run, no place to hide...

The real version of the story As the article notes and as others have noted, hohos are using robots to try to extinguish fires and clean up the mess at these kinzhal vs patriot sites since no humans are volunteering to go near the places ("...I got enough health problems without glowing in the dark...").....

Small nuclear explosion, major radioactive poisoning event The only military use for DU is defeating tank armor. That begs a question, what was the point? I haven't read anything about tank battles in country 404 so far, Russians are basically using tanks for mobile medium range artillery. And there is still the possibility of parts of Poland and Germany being poisoned. And, whatever your opinion of hohos might be, the British should know better than to be participating in anything like this.

Country 404 (the former 'ukraine') is a state sponsor of terrorism

Gigantic explosion in Khmelnitskiy may have been semi-nuclear Russians seem to have detonated a major nato/hoho stockpile of DU ammo for the tank guns of the UK Challengers... The prevailing winds in the area are such that there is a real possibility that hohos and brits might have succeeded in poisoning Poland and Germany. Russians were just trying to protect themselves and could in no wise be blamed for any such consequences.

I am fascinated by the misinformation and deception being spread via social media channels about famed-Russian Chef, Evgeny Prigozhin, and his mythical military prowess. The latest example of this comes courtesy of Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post:Wagner chief offered to give Russian troop locations to Ukraine, leak saysTHE DISCORD LEAKS | Yevgeniy Prigozhin said he would tell Ukraine’s military where to attack Russian troops if they pulled their own forces back from the beleaguered city of Bakhmut, where Wagner mercenaries were taking heavy lossesIf there was ever any doubt that the so-called “Discord Leaks”, allegedly the handiwork of a lowly U.S....

The West’s proxy war against Russia in the Ukraine has led to progressively more deadly weapons systems and ammunition to be delivered to Zelensky’s Nazi regime.Possibly, the most controversial of these deliveries are the deadly radioactive shells for Challenger 2 tanks that the British government has given Ukraine.Robert F. Kennedy Jr commented on Instagram:“In another reckless escalation, Britain has confirmed delivery of depleted uranium munitions to Ukraine. DU munitions should be banned. They partially vaporize on impact, poisoning the environment with uranium dust that causes cancer and horrific birth defects.”On Saturday, during a massive air and missile raid on Ukraine,...

They started shelling at sunrise. In the dawn haze, under the cover of their own artillery, small groups of Ukrainian soldiers advanced toward a Russian position on the outskirts of the embattled city of Bakhmut. Drone footage had identified an avenue of attack on Russian lines on the outskirts of the besieged city. Intelligence suggested the Russians were so focused on the intense street battles playing out inside they were not expecting an assault in this direction, according to two battalion commanders in Ukraine’s Third Assault Brigade who help plan and execute the operation and spoke by telephone. For nine...