re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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In another post he talked about enjoying getting pegged. Doubled down on it if I remember correctly.

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When he was explaining about this girl he claimed to be banging....and how she was off on vacation with her real boyfriend. And he was like: "If that makes me a cuck, then I guess I'm guilty" or something like that. And I was like: "yeah, that absolutely makes you a cuck".

Regarding Ukraine he is def a troll; these other things we are talking about…they were not troll posts.

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Regarding Ukraine he is def a troll; these other things we are talking about…they were not troll posts.

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But every bit of it is about getting attention.

I don’t respond to the trolls in this thread. It isn’t useful. There is a lot of useful and informative discussion, but slapping a troll is a waste of column inches.

Please consider this approach.

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Thread is stickied again?

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Yea I just noticed that, interesting.

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Thread is stickied again?

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never should have been unstickied

ISW Update

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Key Takeaways:

Russian President Vladimir Putin presented the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) as a key guarantor of Russian security and sovereignty following his victory in the Russian presidential election, likely signaling that Russian security services and siloviki will continue to represent his core constituency in his fifth presidential term.

Russia continues efforts to build a coalition to counterbalance the West by pursuing bilateral relationships with Iran, North Korea, and China.

Armenia's Central Bank will reportedly ban the use of Russia’s “Mir” national payment system to prevent Armenia from falling under secondary US sanctions.

Pro-Russian actors in Moldova are continuing efforts to support wider Kremlin hybrid efforts to destabilize Moldova.

Ukraine’s European partners continue efforts to stand up significant initiatives to provide military support to Ukraine.

The Russian military confirmed that Northern Fleet Commander Admiral Alexander Moiseev replaced Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov as acting Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy.

Russian forces recently made a confirmed advance near Avdiivka on March 19.

Russian State Duma Defense Committee Chairman Andrei Kartapolov stated on March 19 that the Russian military will not increase the number of conscripts summoned during the upcoming semi-annual spring conscription cycle in comparison to the previous fall 2023 conscription cycle.

Kremlin officials continue to implicate themselves directly in the illegal removal of Ukrainian children to other Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine and the deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia.

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Probably a Russian asset





Interview with Andrzejczak

British Defence Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE UPDATE
UPDATE ON UKRAINE 20 March 2024

Russian military doctrine places high emphasis on the use of camouflage and deception techniques (often known as maskirovka) to enhance the survivability of Russian forces, as well as conceal their operational intent. The lack of effective employment of maskirovka was one of Russia's key operational failures in the early phases of the invasion of Ukraine.

Russian forces have highly likely been making efforts to increase and improve their employment of maskirovka techniques to mitigate the heavy losses sustained over the past two years in both the Black Sea Fleet and Aerospace Forces

At Russian air bases, maskirovka applications include decoy dummy models of aircraft and tyres on wings of planes. According to reports there are also painted silhouettes of airframes at nine Russian air bases. In the maritime domain, vessels of the Black Sea Fleet have black paint on the bow and stern, likely to make their warships appear smaller and a less appealing target. Silhouettes of vessels have also been painted on the side of quays, probably to confuse Ukrainian uncrewed aerial vehicle operators.

Despite these attempts at concealment, Russian aircraft are still vulnerable to conventional shootdowns while in the air and Russian vessels are still vulnerable whilst on operations in the Black Sea. It is unlikely that the use of maskirovka techniques will lead to any significant reduction in losses.