Mamoulian War

Yes of course, this incident is indeed interesting. A little bit more about it directly from Belarusian partisans, where they are trying to explain the different colours. Anyway, as the plane registration number is known, I bet, if someone would really like to know, he can probably check it every day on flight trackers, how long it stays there. I bet we will see few more sat pictures from that airfield in the near future.

Russian “journalists” have found out, that Serbia is delivering rockets for Ukrainian Grad MLRSs. Few thousands of pieces have been moved to Ukraine through Slovakia. https://tiraspol-news.ru/society/2023/02/28/37321.html (Official Transnistria news, if I understand it correctly)

I do not know how it is in Russia, but here, even non-dramatic damage on a plane, can put it out of use for several months

Peskov is whining, that Scholz and Macron are no longer calling Putin Their pettyness can still amaze me sometimes. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/02/28/7391319/ in the meantime Rheinmetall with Estonia are commencing with shipments of automated surveilance stuff to UA. https://www.reuters.com/article/rheinmetall-orders-idUSL8N3582SC EDIT: Saudi Arabia has decided to pick a side, and signed 400M USD help to Ukraine, of which 300M is on oil related products and 100M on humanitarian help.

More info on the “pond” and the alleged UA counteroffensive on the front. @xzar_montyPond here is translated as “rybník” a.k.a. small recreational water area, primary used to grow fishes. I believe, it is the same in Ukrainian, as the direct translation of that water area from ukrainian to english is Northern Pond. And here is the info on the alleged cucumber shaped which DefMon refutes in the above Tweet. So it should be taken with a pretty big grain of salt until anyone confirms it. Due to psyops, both guys can be right. I am more inclined to believe DefMon this time, despite Suchomimus being very trustworthy and accurate so far.

And big action by Belarusian partysans near Minsk. They blown up Russian radar aircraft.. Only 6 (now 5) such planes with modification U are in service in Russian army. Estimated cost 300M USD.

Russia is little bit revamping their army, based on Wagner tactics performed around Bakhmut.

Ehm, it is a recreational pond and has area of 40ha, and it is called Pivnichnyi Pond https://doinvest.dn.gov.ua/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/11-Bakhmut-Zona-vidpochynku-pivnichnyy-new-ENG.pdf And when you are comparing it to Kakhovka Dam, you are just undermining all your, sometimes even ratiounal sounding arguments, as the destruction of Kakhovka Dam, would directly endanger dozens of thousands of people on both sides of Dnepr, compared to the Pivnichnyi Pond endangering dozens of hundred of fishes and in total 5 buildings near Trudova Street. All you need to do is to check the topography in that area, and you could see that the creek flowing out of the pond has pretty wide inindation zone to endanger anyone foolish enough to still live there. here is the depiction of flooded area (the 5 building affected by water, are at the easternmost dark blue point )

These numbers are really staggering and so much in favour for Ukraine, (with the exception of aircrafts). I would love to see similar spreadsheets from Kharkiv and Kherson counter-offensives as well.

Berlin denied today that such offer was ever offered to Kiyv. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/02/26/7391092/

More Tales of Arise, and more surprises and plot twists After the defeat of fourth Renan Lord, Alphen got finaly rid of his mask. And ne strarted to remeber stuff again After that, the party shipwrecked at the last region of Dahna, which name I’ve already forgotten , and they are slowly moving forward toward the capital. The 5th world is the water element world. I started to feel lack of money for the first time in the game, but it is still manageable. I just have to cherry-pick which weapon to craft and which armour to buy. Getting more and more in love with the game, although it is one of the darkest games from Tales of… universe, which I’ve played so far.

Ukrainian Defense Inteligence, has revealed goals for their counteroffensive. Last time, that they revealed goal of Kherson counteroffensive, they liberated Kharkiv, so this will be interesting, what they manage to pull off. During this weekend, the spring rains started in the south, so there will be no action at least for a month. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/02/26/7391041/

Are you seriously comparing the dam in Syria with a pond?

And more “anniversary” gifts to UA have been announced today.

All negotiations starts with few options which goals are “over the top” so they could be “discounted” during the process.

And first Leopard 2s just arrived in Ukraine, just in time for the 1st “anniversary”. https://www.dw.com/en/poland-delivers-first-leopard-tanks-to-ukraine/a-64809432 Edit: and 2 more Billion by USA, mainly focused on UAVs and HIMARS.

Unfortunately, the main goal of this as I see it, is to overshadow the Ukrainian 10 point peace proposal in the eyes of many partially supporting or neutral countries, to start more pressure on UA to negotiate and probably cease some territories. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/12/28/what-is-zelenskyys-10-point-peace-plan

It was statement of a Russian official giving interview to FT. It picked this statement, because it sound ridiculous, but this just shows how some people around Pootin see the difference between the two, and even if they oppose the war, they are still out of touch with reality

Financial Times has published a new article about the beginning of war. And how big blunder it was for Putin. Unfortunately it is behind a paywall, but I have found up some shortened version of the article on Ukrainskaya Pravda. But I do not know, if there is sum of everything, or something is missing. FT link: https://www.ft.com/content/80002564-33e8-48fb-b734-44810afb7a49 UP link: https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/02/23/7390670/ "Stalin was a villain, but a good manager, because he couldn’t be lied to. But nobody can tell Putin the truth," says one. "People who don't trust anyone start trusting a very small number of people who lie to them."

I have arrived in Tales of Arise into Niez - capital of Wind region. And the game gave me another unexpected surprise. I hesitate to write here a little bit more about it, so I would not spoil it for the few people, who are still interested in playing this game, and are avoiding spoilers at all costs, but I am enjoying the game more the more I play it. Also, I have found first Artifact in the game, and Kisara gave me first fishing rod, so I have played little bit with it as well The Hunts for Gigant Zeugles are pretty merciless, and I have burned through most of my consumables, so now, I am trying to save little bit, and avoid them for now. The price of gels in this game is crazy, compared to previous titles, and the money is as hard to earn as in previous Tales of ... games. And I think it was to force some people to buy money DLCs This is my only negative experience with the game. Although, if I would not go against these Hunts, I would not need any extra money for consumables at all, and would be able to sell some of them to earn some extra cash. The sale price of gels is very high as well.

More Tales of Arise. I have restored order in Elde Menancia and two more members joined my team. The mood of the game changed completely after entering the region, but will probably go back into the old ways in the next one. I have to say, I am happy, that I have avoided all of the spoilers last two years, the game surprised me few times, with unexpected plot twists I am enjoying the game and the story much more than Final Fantasy XV.

We'll see, Ukrainian sources are speaking at least about retreat from eastern side of Bakhmutka river since autumn. And the soldier still hold. But I do not believe it is holdable for few more months... Although the spring Rasputica will help more the defenders than attackers...

If you have 1 hour and 10 minutes of time, this is an excellent presentation, which talks about the situation, in which Putin forced Russia, and how it is affecting it now and in the future, even if they would win tomorrow. By Perun.

Well, the difference is, that the people falling asleep at the Biden’s speech, can still accept the invite to a tea party without commiting “self-defenestration” afterwards

Few exclusive photos from Putin’s speech