08:28
Then on that, Arvid22 a couple of days earlier
09:11
The UN has stated that sexual violence is part of Russia’s military strategy.
One often returns to the thought that if Ukraine had not managed to defend itself, the whole country would have become one big Mariupol.
As a big bonus, the EU would have been completely overwhelmed by Ukrainian refugees and the Russians would have started a renewed refugee crisis with lots of subversive activities to set groups against each other and then in the middle of the freezing cold winter when the EU was at its weakest after many technical failures in the nuclear power plants, Russia would have made its next move, perhaps together with China?
One must thank the Ukrainian infantry that they have already stopped this Putin plan in the fields of Ukraine. A little more support for them saving the free West would not have hurt, the 300 MBTs they are begging for, for example.
09:21
By the way, almost all known Ukrainian brigades are now in combat zones, it is the 45 Air Assault that is furthest down in the south and two mech brigades left but they are probably operational reserve against Belarus.
It is also very interesting that FIRMS, now that it has been cloudless, still does not show red dots like in the spring (when it was also wet). I think one can start to conclude that Russian artillery does not have the same capacity as in the spring.
There seems to be ammunition so counter-battery radar has probably started to take out the gun barrels?
09:27
I thought the Bosporus was closed?
Not for Russian ro-ro ships with weapons, it is not…
https://twitter.com/YorukIsik/status/1581308037385506818?s=20&t=BAQUZNKC2fDxUKeGhTD8jw
08:26
Girkinr at the front. That explains the silence.
https://twitter.com/kyivindependent/status/1581310197511106560?s=46&t=LDOhLpanj3OyiDbqHNBQUw