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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.
Posted on 3/17/26 at 3:12 am to Coeur du Tigre
Posted on 3/17/26 at 3:12 am to Coeur du Tigre
Ok, I'll ask the question on everyone's mind - Why would the Russian government do something like this that is so harmful to their own forces?
Yeah, Putin's in his bunker now. He doesn't care about the Russian forces in Ukraine anymore. He's concentrating full time on the Russian forces in Moscow...
Yeah, Putin's in his bunker now. He doesn't care about the Russian forces in Ukraine anymore. He's concentrating full time on the Russian forces in Moscow...
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Posted on 3/17/26 at 4:21 am to Coeur du Tigre
The full thread containing all the Kafkaesque orders and punishments concerning the use of Telegram.
Short term, this means we will see less posted videos of exploding Russian infrastructure as this is now illegal and the police are actively hunting for violators. So the well-loved Bavovnas© of the Week may be limited to Ukrainian monitoring drone feeds. Maybe we can put together a Top 100 Hits video to fill the void.
Like this one -
Or this one -
Oh hell, so many.. one more -
And my favorite -
Short term, this means we will see less posted videos of exploding Russian infrastructure as this is now illegal and the police are actively hunting for violators. So the well-loved Bavovnas© of the Week may be limited to Ukrainian monitoring drone feeds. Maybe we can put together a Top 100 Hits video to fill the void.
Like this one -
Or this one -
Oh hell, so many.. one more -
And my favorite -
Posted on 3/17/26 at 4:27 am to Coeur du Tigre
What about Morse code? Oh, wait... you need connecting wires for that.
Ok, pigeons it is.
Ok, pigeons it is.
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Posted on 3/17/26 at 7:18 am to Lee B
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So why not just let the sanctions stay, and hurt Iran's benefactor?
How much of an impact do you think Russia's support is actually having on Iran like now? Seems to be close to zero at this point
Posted on 3/17/26 at 8:35 am to VolSquatch
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Seems to be close to zero at this point
In Principle... what support Russia has provided could actually work against Iran... through misinformation and/or us somehow tracking where the info is going and providing targets
Posted on 3/17/26 at 10:00 am to klrstix
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If tweet fails to load, click here. For all practical purposed Russia has been driven out of the Dnipetrovsk this week, Ukraine continues to advance in the Zap oblast, concerns about the military leading a coup against him, and now may have launched another invasion into Russia. I have not been able to verify this yet. However, if true then Putin's week just went from bad to worse.
Posted on 3/17/26 at 10:14 am to WeeWee
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For all practical purposed Russia has been driven out of the Dnipetrovsk this week, Ukraine continues to advance in the Zap oblast, concerns about the military leading a coup against him, and now may have launched another invasion into Russia. I have not been able to verify this yet. However, if true then Putin's week just went from bad to worse.
I’m waiting for Nate’s update to confirm.
Posted on 3/17/26 at 1:22 pm to doubleb
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I’m waiting for Nate’s update to confirm.
Was Nate KIA?
Posted on 3/17/26 at 5:01 pm to WeeWee
It's hard to know what's really going on over there but the sunshine pumping from the Russian side does indeed seem to be at an all-time low.
Posted on 3/17/26 at 8:01 pm to Coeur du Tigre
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The Kremlin is a huge iconic symbol of the Russian government. It's targeting and destruction will be a giant eye-opener for all Russians and bring home the fact that the war is lost and Putin has to go.
I think Ukraine would be committing national suicide if it blew up the kremlin with a missile
Posted on 3/17/26 at 8:45 pm to ned nederlander
You think Russia would nuke Ukraine as a result of a Kremlin hit?
Posted on 3/18/26 at 1:29 am to ned nederlander
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I think Ukraine would be committing national suicide if it blew up the kremlin with a missile
What's Putin going to do? Invade Ukraine? Attack Ukrainian civilian targets with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles every night for years?
As far as nuclear weapons, no. Putin is a psychopath but he's not stupid. The Poles have made it abundantly clear - radiation in Ukraine is radiation in Poland. And that's an act of war.
But if recent history is a guide, that won't have to happen. The far greater threat to Putin would be the internal reaction within Russia. There would be a revolt against this within the Russian command structure, security agencies and population in general.
If Putin uses a nuke, the opposing factions within the Russian security services would declare open season on him. These factions are almost there right now. A nuke would end all of Putin's remaining support and the residual leadership would immediately stop the fighting in hopes of a fast ceasefire.
Finally, Putin's location and movements would be reported to Ukrainian and Western security services as well as home-grown kill teams. Remember Hostomel? Those people are still in place. This is the main reason there is no Internet in Moscow and St. Petersburg now.
At that point it would simply be a race to the airport. If he's lucky.
Posted on 3/18/26 at 1:34 am to Coeur du Tigre
TACO's desperate enough but Putin won't allow it.
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If tweet fails to load, click here.Posted on 3/18/26 at 1:42 am to Coeur du Tigre
This is the strategy in the long range drone war - use undetectible drones to take out air defense systems and follow that with the missiles to targets.
Right now, Ukraine has the drones for such a mass wave attack, but not the missiles. Yet. They have the long range missiles designed, tested and produced. All they need now are the numbers.
Right now, Ukraine has the drones for such a mass wave attack, but not the missiles. Yet. They have the long range missiles designed, tested and produced. All they need now are the numbers.
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If tweet fails to load, click here.Posted on 3/18/26 at 1:53 am to Coeur du Tigre
Posted on 3/18/26 at 7:43 am to Coeur du Tigre
Ukrainian SOF strike secret Russian Rubikon base in Donetsk
Overnight on March 18, the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (SOF) conducted a series of Middle Strike operations against enemy targets in the temporarily occupied Donetsk region, including a secret base of the Russian unmanned systems center Rubikon.
According to Ukrinform, the SOF command reported this on Telegram and released corresponding footage.
“In Donetsk, long-range SOF drones struck the base of the secret Russian unmanned systems center Rubikon as well as the control element for this unit. Additionally, the coordination center for enemy drone units in the occupied city was destroyed,” the statement said.
In the temporarily occupied village of Vilne, warehouses storing ammunition, equipment, and materiel, as well as the site for accumulation and distribution of munitions, were hit.
“SOF units carry out Middle Strike operations against enemy targets in occupied Ukrainian territory. Resistance Movement underground operatives contributed to the success of this series of strikes,” the SOF noted.
Ukrinform
Overnight on March 18, the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (SOF) conducted a series of Middle Strike operations against enemy targets in the temporarily occupied Donetsk region, including a secret base of the Russian unmanned systems center Rubikon.
According to Ukrinform, the SOF command reported this on Telegram and released corresponding footage.
“In Donetsk, long-range SOF drones struck the base of the secret Russian unmanned systems center Rubikon as well as the control element for this unit. Additionally, the coordination center for enemy drone units in the occupied city was destroyed,” the statement said.
In the temporarily occupied village of Vilne, warehouses storing ammunition, equipment, and materiel, as well as the site for accumulation and distribution of munitions, were hit.
“SOF units carry out Middle Strike operations against enemy targets in occupied Ukrainian territory. Resistance Movement underground operatives contributed to the success of this series of strikes,” the SOF noted.
Ukrinform
Posted on 3/18/26 at 9:20 am to Coeur du Tigre
Kind of self defeating in that they are reliant on the Strait being open and the US isn't UNLESS they buy Russian
Posted on 3/18/26 at 10:38 am to cypher
Posted on 3/18/26 at 1:51 pm to cypher
Again, that overwhelming manpower advantage of the Russians...
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Swarmer, whose software has been used by the Ukrainian military since 2024, jumped 520 per cent on its first day of trading on Nasdaq on Tuesday...
Swarmer says its AI solutions allow a single operator to control up to 690 drones at once. “Ukraine needs hundreds of thousands of drones in the air, they don’t have hundreds of thousands of pilots”
Posted on 3/18/26 at 2:24 pm to Coeur du Tigre
Meanwhile, on the media control front, if your control systems are based on filters...
Sooo... If WhatsApp suddenly pops up online again throughout Moscow, will the Bolshoi ballerinas be too far behind?
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Telegram fights back in Russia: "Telegram proxies are currently launching a counter-attack against Roskomnadzor’s (RKN) censorship infrastructure, flooding its filters with junk data and overloading them to a critical state. As a result, not only is Telegram suffering, but so is a host of other services—including those the authorities had intended to leave alone.
Consequently, service disruptions are being observed nationwide, even affecting platforms that were never targeted for blocking—such as websites on RKN’s "whitelist," certain government services, and occasionally even VKontakte.
An interesting side effect has emerged: in several regions, WhatsApp (specifically voice and video calls) has suddenly sprung back to life. [Note: WhatsApp messages are automatically encripted.] This occurred because the TSPU (Technical Means of Countering Threats) system temporarily "eased up" on certain filters in an attempt to cope—however imperfectly—with the massive primary load generated by Telegram.
This is currently one of the most widely discussed instances of "technical trolling" directed at RKN in recent years.
I have a feeling that Durov’s team is going to make life very difficult for RKN in the future—especially when comparing the skill levels and salaries of Durov’s programmers against those of RKN’s mediocre coders, who are scraping by on peanuts. (After all, the truly talented programmers have either emigrated or are working for private companies.)
Sooo... If WhatsApp suddenly pops up online again throughout Moscow, will the Bolshoi ballerinas be too far behind?
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