re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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So now we’ve annoyed Moscow.

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You want to break up Russia? And start a regional civil war?

That’s a terrible idea.

9.5 million people died the last time around. This would be worse.

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Switchblade Tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems;

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Have we seen videos of these being used on the battlefield yet, or reports of them being used? I believe the first shipment was supposed to arrive a little over a week ago? Not sure how long it takes the soldiers to learn how to use them though, but I can’t imagine too long.

Im really fascinated, and terrified, by these “loitering munition” drones. The footage these things will produce will be quite something, I imagine.

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His policies were fine, but he's a piece of shite human.

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So now we have an even bigger POS human with horrific policies.

What I heard on the news is that They were received by Ukraine yesterday.

Intercepted Russian Communications show a Russian Army in dissaray. Putin's FSB (ex KGB) to send in Psychologists to try to find out how to change the minds of seperatist region citizenry. (?)

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Russia’s Vladimir Putin is calling up another 134,500 conscripts even as more and more of his own soldiers appear to be turning on him losses in Ukraine. Even as Putin signed the decree on Thursday, Ukraine’s Security Service released an intercepted call said to capture a Russian soldier railing against the incompetence of his own army.

“Our brigade has totally s**t themselves. There are losses, many wounded,” he tells his wife. Asked if the losses are a result of someone screwing up, he offers a blunt response: “The whole army with us is stupid morons. It’s unclear why we are even here.” he says.

Another recording shared by Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister, captures a man identified as a Russian soldier named Maksim asking his mother what is being shown on Russian television, and if there are reports “they’re saying they will change anything. Everything’s bad, almost no one among us is left. They said we will keep going until the very end, until everyone is killed.” he tells his mother.

Asked if his senior officer was still with the unit, he replies: “No, he dumped us yesterday. We’re all dead in the water if he left.”

The new recordings come just hours after Western officials said there was growing evidence of disarray and disillusionment among Russian troops, with Britain’s spy chief citing reports of troops “refusing to carry out orders, sabotaging their own equipment and even accidentally shooting down their own aircraft.”

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The Russian leader has still not made a final decision on what he’s going to do next, and plenty of those close to him are reportedly pressuring him to go full steam ahead with the onslaught against Ukraine.

But the presidential administration is said to be concerned about how “a possible truce with Ukraine will hit Putin’s [approval] ratings.”

“The citizens were riled up by propaganda. Suppose a decision is made to stop at the territory of the Donbas. What about the Nazis then? Are we no longer fighting them? This word has been hammered into people so much that I can’t imagine how one can stop in Donbas without losing approval ratings,” one source told Meduza.

Perhaps as part of a long game, the Kremlin has now reportedly begun implementing plans to send psychologists from the FSB into Kherson, a city in the south of Ukraine where residents continue to resist the Russian forces who took over after the Feb. 24 invasion.

“To implement a scenario for the creation of another pseudo-republic in the territory of the Kherson region, there is work underway by employees of the FSB, 652 groups of information and psychological operations and officers of the 12th Main Directorate of the [Russian] General Staff,” the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in a statement Thursday.

Russian law enforcement officials, prosecutors, and judges are also said to be on their way to occupied territories in Ukraine, with reports of Russian police officers being asked to take “business trips” to parts of the Donbas in Ukraine’s east.

Don't encourage them.

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What do switchblades have to do with Russia losing aircraft? Armor and infantry I can see.

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Specops flying them into captured airfields destroying helos on the ground

It’s not the switchblades. It’s the other part of the delivery. Although there will be aircraft on the ground lost to switchblades.