Mamoulian War

@Darkpriest looks like I was correct about Meloni. The new Italian government is shaking even before it has been established. Berlusconi did an oopsie with couple of Vodka bottles, and Meloni as a reaction, has firmly shown him, where his place is. And hers. She is willing to drop her win in the election, if she will not be able to build a pro EU government. No place for Russian lapdogs there.

It still does not mean, that the right bank will be unaffected. They just have little bit more chance to survive this potential terrorist threat by Russia.

The guys from Codex, and if judged by their incompetence so far, Russian officers as well, do not have a clue, that would be very bad idea, as right bank of Dnepr, especially Kherson city, are on much higher altitude than the left bank. Which would mean, that blowing up that dam, would wreak much much more havoc to the areas, which will be still under the Russian occupation, after they flee perform goodwill gesture from western Kherson Oblast

From what I have understood, not sure if it is correct assumption, is, that it was only piece of S400 in Ukraine outside of Crimea.

I’ve read today few “analysts” predicting, that Surovikin was appointed as a General, so all of the blame for the retreat from Kherson, would be on his shoulders. Which is In line with many “coincidences, that all of the generals in Russia since Yeltsin, who started to became popular had either an “accident”, or have been discredited as a part of anti-coup prevention purge. We probably know in few weeks, if there is some merit to their words, or someone is just talking out of his ass again

From what I understand, both terms are used for the same thing. The difference is only the name in different jurisdictions of different countries.

I do not remember the names, but I remember their voices. So I always find it strange, if the same voice actor is voicing completely different character in completely different game This is for me prevalent especially in Japanese games

Estonia has yesterday recognised Russia as State Sponsor of Terrorism. In May Lithuania recognised it as a first country. And in August Latvia as a second. And allegedly the resolution about Russia as State sponsor of Terrorism is scheduled for a vote in EU parliament in November as well. Allegedly, due to the fact, that I was able to find only Ukrainian and Azerbaijani media reporting on it yet https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/10/17/7372356/

First of many to come?

Iranians providing missiles to Russia just made a pretty big uproar in Israel, and one of their ministers have already spoken up, that Israel should finally get involved in defence of Ukraine. https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-719942

Slovakia - 852 - 1 421 EUR gross salary, net salary after all the deductions is approx 30-40% lower...

108 women prisoners, some of them imprisoned since 2019 in LNR/DNR, have been successfully exchanged during last PoW swap. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/10/17/7372330/

Reading it now again, after you mention it, it really seems that way. my proper wording should have been “there is allegedly one case” hehe anyways, as much as it seems foolish, they downed at least one. And there is definitely one more case from few days/week ago, where they have been able to shoot down another shaheed. (Link to this one case is already lost in time and space). Vatniks can have fun as much as they want, these guys even with such an improvised action shot one of them down, and save some lives. Few streets away in Kyiv, one shaheed killed a pair with unborn baby…

@Malcador here is a video of one successful destruction of drone with small arms from today. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/10/17/7372288/

I did not said, I believe it, just there are reports of it, including video. I didn’t care to click on it, considered it as a clickbait . But drones are much much smaller, than planes, and drones have been before taken down with shotguns, handguns stones and other stuff all around the world. If you see such a drone going your way, and there is a risk of civilian casualties, you will do everything possible to stop it. Especially if you are policeman or soldier and have a weapon at hand…

Well, some people were successful with downing them that way. There is also one case of old guy downing Su bomber, with his old gun during start of the war https://meaww.com/ukrainian-pensioner-shot-down-an-85-million-russian-fighter-jet-just-with-his-rifle

Seems like, that the war will not be very long though

The help, compared to GDP of donor countries.

The BBC article does not mention, that the incident was religiously based (according to Russian and Ukrainian sources, which I read yesterday). It was not protest against mobilisation. Most likely some got drunk to much, started some xenophobic bull****, and someone decided to make a counter argument with their firearms.

Average lifespan of newly mobilized Russians approximately 10 days… https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/10/14/from-mobilization-to-death-in-10-days-russias-draftees-killed-in-ukraine-a79095 edit: aaand Russia started a crackdown on military bloggers, which were “spreading fake news” about Russian army. All of them, criticizing Russian MoD, and reporting on the real situation on battlefield. That’s surely a coincidence

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has adopted a resolution calling the Russian Federation a terrorist regime. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/10/13/7371797/

The same company also released Cayne and Beautiful Desolation. Stasis and Cayne were my first two let's play on my youtube channel Beautiful Desolation is still on my backlog, but from what I've read it's apparently better, and also different, than the first two, which I've enjoyed. So hopefully, internet did not lie to me, before I've purchased it