re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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If people ask now, she's Kazhak.

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Is her name Natalya? Is she number four prostitute in all of Kazakhstan?

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Polina Ivanova @polinaivanovva · 1m Good morning. Belarus state media Belta reporting that a room has been prepared for Russia-Ukraine talks

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It is rap....until I learn Ukranian/Russian. Don't go stepping on my narrative.

ETA: In all seriousness, he doesn't sound half bad.

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Sorry baw, didn't mean to step on anything.

Actually, I was complimenting the Bawkranian.

No offense, but if we're not going to see some tits can we move this thread back to the war?

SAMs just now being brought in?

Seems a bit tardy to bring them in now.

We're in Dallas. fiance has family in Belarus and Kazakhstan. Her best friend and MOH has family in Ukraine. At least two of them have joined the resistance force in the last 2 days.

I think that was to be expected, as well as the SAMs being mobilized. He was testing the waters before doubling-down. I think the next 24-48 hours will be crucial because they have exercised “restraint”, if that make sense.

frick AGAIN

Ragip Soylu@ragipsoylu??Russian Ministry of Defense: Russian forces have taken control of Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine

The NPP personnel continues to work on maintenance of facilities and monitoring of the radioactive situation in the normal mode. The radioactive background is normal.

You’re an OEF Vet like me. The three primary methods the Russians use downrange to set off IED's in Ukraine as follows from my experience:

One is a remote controlled detonation in which the person intending on setting off the IED sits at an observation point some distance away. When the intended target drives or walks over it, he hits a switch that sends a signal to the antenna and sets that IED off. This isn't usually very successful now because, without getting into specifics (OPSEC), the military has a device that is both carried and loaded into vehicles that disrupts and blocks all telecommunication signals in its range, geospatial software is what I used back in 2009 to counter placement of IED’s. No signals get into the bubble unless the signals are encrypted signals from a FOB.

Moreover, another method would be a command wire detonation when observing intel on how foreign fighters are pacing their units. This means Russian forces actually physically run a wire from the IED to their observation point, hook it up to a switch and manually press it when their target drives/walks over it. This was never really successful with us in Afghanistan because we adapted after our first IED det to a specific ground formation. Basically, there are two dismount teams, one on each side of the road in the Kunar Province. They go slightly ahead of the convoy and spread out into a Y shape formation. This way they're out clearing the tree lines or any other area where there might be an OP.

The last method, and the most dangerous, is the good old fashioned pressure plate left by Soviet forces that we encountered in NE Afghanistan and now Ukraine will be no different. Basically what this is is two plates, can be made of everything with a spring connecting them. There's a wire on each plate and they're both connected to the explosives. When someone passes over it or steps on the pressure plate, the two wires on each plate connect and complete the charge setting the IED off. This is the most dangerous because whether or not it goes off completely depends on how good your guys with the metal detectors sweeping from the front or how good your Husky driver is (Again OEF experience, not Ukraine). It is completely subject to human error when conducting route clearance operations.