Mamoulian War

18 – October 18, 20:30 – I have finished the main storyline of Final Fantasy XV on PS4. It is still mixed bag for me. Chapters 1-9 were pretty bland and boring, due to the mostly empty open world, and everything taking so long. The exceptions was dungeon crawling. On the other hand in chapters 10-14, I had pretty solid fun. Almost 86 hours spent means, that I enjoyed the game enough, to not throw it out of the window, as I was planning to do, after playing the Platinum Demo . Still it seems to me, that this game was failed live service, which did not achieve to hold enough interest for keeping player going back to the game. Having full story put in between movie, anime, DLCs, novels and audio dramas, did not help either. For Royal Edition, which wanted to bring the users back to the game, even the newly added mandatory storyline trophy has been unlocked by less than 6% of the owners. Which probably caused 3 more planned DLCs cancelled.

Looks like alienating long time fans of the series was not the best marketing strategy

We’ll see how this will go through. I have no clue how big support for this resolution is. There are some MPs on Russian paylist, like Uhrik, and there are a lot “business first” MPs as well. Fingers crossed …

Report from the infamous Chornobaivka Airport

Judgment according the MH17 downing in Ukraine few years ago, has been made.

Czechia’s Lower Senate (not sure if correct translation) has voted for recognizing Russia as Terrorist state. Not sure what else needs to be passed, to make it official. Maybe @Chilloutmancould explain? that would be state nr. 5

Some polish news are reporting, that based on pictures, it might be Kh-101 missile as well. The article in the link bellow is also speaking that the other option is UA AD. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/11/16/7376552/

Out of 90 missiles launched yesterday, 70 were shot down though. Still passed enough, to make a lot of damage to civilian infrastructure…

In other news, here is, what Wagnerites are thinking about the missile strikes. TLDR they are useless, as they do not target any military infrastructure They have finally admitted publicly, what I was saying few months ago already

The target was most likely the TPP very close to the borders, and AD was working.

We’ll se, so far the most probable outcome which is currently talked about is invocation of Article 4.

Couldn’t resist

Russian planes did already shoot their missile at Ukrainian targets from Belarus airspace though.

Poland or NATO needs to do something, because Russia already blown up ammo warehouses in Czech Republic and IIRC Bulgaria some time ago. Which is third attack against NATO country in 5-10 years… Else the khuylo will start to escalate it. Let’s hope it will be rational response, which will help Ukraine and does not start WW3…

Putin signed decree allowing foreigners to join Russian Army, today. looks like we’ll see more of this soon

We have Russian lapdogs in our parliament, and the police is still afraid to act against them. The most prominent of them, gets paid by Usmanov, and he even does try to conceal it, which is on the sanction list right from the beginning. But there is some small steps being made already, which could make the situation better in the future… also, over 1 hour long, but videos of this guy are worth every second spent on them…

Ukrainian claims, namely Arestovych that the bridge was blown, due to lucky HIMARS strike at the bridge segments which were already mined by explosives by Russia. And therefore it exploded prematurely, while a lot of Russians and their equipment were still on right bank, forced them to leave more equipment behind as planned, and retreat through Kakhovka dam, which was allegedly blow up later and according to Russian plans. Also the airfield of Chaplynka, near to Crimea, from where were conducted sorties against Ukrainian positions on right bank of Kherson, already got HIMARS treatment. Also first barracks, where were retreating Russian soldiers temporarily stationed on the left bank, were hit by precision strikes, causing two truckloads of cargo 200. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/11/13/7376122/

Russians released the footage of how they blown up segments of Kakhovka Dam. Notice, that there is absolutely no visible damage to the road over the dam, despite months of HIMARS treatment of the near vicinity of the dam. Because contrary to Russian propaganda claims, all of the hits were performed to the bridges over water outlet on the left bank of Dnepr, which can be seen on the Maxar image, which I have linked few posts ago

Some Russians in charge of bigger Telegram channels are finally getting out of delusion, and are starting to ask the right questions

Starting Chapter 6 in Final Fantasy XV. Still feeling the same about it, just one small positive thing, the bland battle system (warp-strike button mashing), has became little bit more sustainable, due to catchy battle music

Alleged manual of Russian soldier for the “Great Patriotic War 2.0” in Ukraine. It is as ridiculous, as you would think. “We are fighting Russians brainwashed by Nazis supported by Israel”

You can tell what damage was done previously *sighs*… there are tons of videos and pictures of the dam… feel free to stay delusional further though and another delusion, is the two points at the end of your article… again I recommend you to check how it goes around Bakhmut, Pisky, Avdiivka, how Russian commanders are preserving their troops the simple reason, why Kherson defensive 8:1 number provided by UA MoD, might be little bit plausible, is that RU ended up in shambles and chaos after few months of daily care by Mr. HIMARS (20k+ soldiers under incompetent command is pretty target rich environment), which Russia was not able to counter at all, and they were still doing counterattacks around Snihurivka and Ternovy Pody all the time, until retreat… Also look at some numbers from the liberation of Balaklia, where due to chaos amongst the Russian soldiers and useless commanders, the presented numbers were 5:1 in favour for Ukraine as well. With much much much less HIMARS treatment… The numbers for the whole Kharkiv offensive were not released yet though (AFAIK). EDIT: just do the math. Someone made a statistics, how many HIMARS attacks have been done during that period… I do not remember exact number, but it was more than 300. Let’s split it evenly. 150 strikes against logistic infrastructure and 150 strikes against personnel HQs, with the reports from 20-300 killed personnel. But lets just use number 30, to be very conservative. That means minimum 4500 dead Russians by HIMARS alone, and 0 Ukrainian dead, due to lack of countermeasures, to destroy or even damage soldiers in use of this machinery… then look at artillery. Russia just shoots randomly and hope to hit something, there are videos on Telegram of Russian soldiers blaming their artillery support to shoot the projectiles up to few hundreds meters away from the targets, on the other hand, UA has Excaliburs, and they are using it with great success (again, you can see a lot of footage, with one hit kills of russian machinery), this speaks also in favour of better K:D ratio for Ukrainians. The only time, where the ratio is not in their favour, is their direct counter-offensive, which they dropped to absolute minimum in this region, in favour of the HIMARS pounding… all you need for this conclusion is some common sense, and some elementary school math and here you have some another backing of the common sense, for visually confirmed losses of machinery. During the counteroffensive, the ratio was 3.5:1 in favour for Ukraine *surprised pikachu face (or not)*. As you can see, the UA losses piled up a lot, just after the start of their counteroffensive in the middle of October, when they started to push more in Kherson Oblast, but they are still waaaay under the Russian losses… but yeah sure, do not let the numbers or common sense to disturb your ideology

Dugin is putting the blame for losing Kherson directly on Putin. Hopefully, he does not enjoy drinking tea in the morning

Here you have a Maxar picture of the dam from this morning, and you can easily compare the “damage” done by Ukrainians during last 6 months, and damage to it done by Russia in a single day *hint hint* RU damage to the right and UA damage to the left I have written about the ratio 8:1 as a ratio based on UA sources (mainly their MoD), not my numbers lol… aand You are considering 7 months of systematic destruction of Russian logistic and command centers, which lead to massive casualties amongst RU soldiers and destruction of RU machinery, while saving as much UA soldier lives, which in the end caused the retreat of 20k of Russian soldiers on the other bank in record time and liberation of more than 6000 sq kms, as head bumping against the wall… and you are still trying to accuse someone else of bad application of military theory

Yes. They blew up all critical infrastructure in the city. Kherson is now without power and water. And on Russian telegrams, there are VDV guys complaining, that their last order, they received was to wear civilian clothes, and chose wherever they will go. All that, after the Antonovski Bridge was blown up. on the other hand: