Mamoulian War

Hmm Russian MoD has distanced itself from the report about General Vasilyev, and says, it was fake again sorry for the white outline, but I am unable to do anything with it on my iPad Western and Ukrainian outlets circulated a report, likely false, of a Russian general allegedly threatening to destroy Europe’s largest nuclear facility, the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), if Russia could not hold the plant. Multiple news outlets shared a screenshot from the Russian social networking site Vkontakte that claimed to cite the Russian head of the Zaporizhia occupation garrison, Major General Valery Vasilev, stating that Russia had mined the Zaporizhzhia NPP and that the plant would be “either Russian land or a scorched desert.” The screenshot appeared to be a news report posted in a Vkontakte group run by Russian outlet Lenta Novosti Zaporizhia. The outlet itself claimed that the screenshot was from a faked group and denied writing the report. The Russian Ministry of Defense condemned the report and screenshot as a “fake” and claimed that Vasilev was in Uzbekistan at the time he was purported to have made the statement to forces at Zaporizhzhia. Regardless of the origin (or existence) of the original post, the reporting is unreliable. It is indirect and does not claim to cite an official statement or a statement made on any official Russian news or government website.

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Well, if we take into the account a device made in Ukraine, then the most plausible option would be a big box of Ukrainian Vodka set at the right spot. The drunk Russian Soldiers then took care of the rest Edit: on more serious note, some theorycrafting after this message already appeared which are pointing to Neptune being the culprit.

One more video of Kaboom, and it is ****ing HUUUUGE… And this is the official version by Russian MoD. https://t.me/bbbreaking/132365 Russian ministry of defence says explosions of several aerial bombs as result of accident caused the fire and further explosions at airbase in Novofedorivka. No damage to aircraft It’s either one of the rare occassioń that Russia does not lie, or they just do not want to admit, that their S400s all accross Crimea sucks walrus balls… I leave up to you, version you’ll consider to be more plausible

Yup, it was definitelly mistranslation. The article in Ukrainian Language is talking about “енергоблоків”, wich means indeed when translated literally into english “Energy Blocks”. The same article written in English is talking about “reactors”.

I think, that was mistranslation in that tweet. The article in Ukrainian Pravda is talking about mined reactors. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/08/8/7362321/

Speaking little bit about humanitarian laws, here is an example of Russian take on it, By General Major Vasilyev from their Outpost in Zaporozhia Nuclear Power Plant.: "This will either be Russian land, or scorched earth," he said. He also told his soldiers that no matter how difficult orders they could receive, they had to execute them "with honour," calling them "liberators." And another report about how the AI was doing it research in Ukraine's occupied territories and filtration camps:

The director of the Ukrainian Amnesty resigned in protest against this report. At the same time, she accuses the management of publishing incomplete evidence, and that they excluded her colleagues from the investigation.

Looks like the perpetrators of Bucha atrocities have found their judgment…

AFAIK GOG blocked both Belarus and Russia

I’ll tried it, and for some reason, It did not worked for me. Maybe issue with forum software as Gorth said

More about the Olenivka penal colony available at various sources. (sorry for the colour, but I am unable to remove it from the copypasta of the source material) “Open-source intelligence (OSINT) analyst Oliver Alexander published an examination of satellite imagery from July 27 showing open graves at the Olenivka prison, noting that July 29 satellite imagery appears to show that the same graves have been covered. Investigative journalism group Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins stated that lower resolution satellite imagery indicates ground disturbances after July 18 and prior to July 21, suggesting that the Russians may have planned the incident in advance.” https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-july-31

US has assessed HIMARS were not used in Olenivka prison. Full article on it published by Politico. They were used against military echelon moving to Kherson though. 40 wagons full of ammunition, military vehicles and military personnel were hit.

After almost 11 years, I decided to visit Atelier Totori again on my PS3, and start my second second playthrough of the game. I wanted to finish everything, what the game has to offer and achieve all prerequisites for the True Ending. I was able to get all the missing playthrough trophies, but unfortunately, I must have missed some character event, and as a result I was awarded with Rorona's Who's the Teacher? ending instead. It was a lot of busywork, especially getting 500,000 money, but thankfully, it is transferred together with the equipment to New Game+, so all subsequent playthroughs will be more easygoing . I am little bit sad, due to the time spent on planning of all of the in-game events during last two weeks, which I spent with the game, but well, at least I was able to finish all tasks in my Adventurer's License and defeat all of the super-bosses Hopefully next time, I will have more luck

Very interesting piece by Timothy Snyder on what comes next for Russia. https://snyder.substack.com/p/putins-rule-is-weakening?r=f9j4c&s=r

Odesa regional administration: "attack in Sevastopol" is provocation and manipulation by Russia. https://t.me/UkraineNow/15784 Google translation: The "attack" in Sevastopol is an open provocation of Russia A number of Russian media reported on Ukraine's alleged attack on the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol. These are lies and manipulations of the enemy. "The liberation of our Crimea from the occupiers will take place differently and much more effectively," - Odesa OVA

You are correct, I t looks like I have mistranslated few of the sources I read and watched about that incident. They were indeed speaking about HIMARS and GRADs, but they were more or less trying to rule both of them out... my bad, so sorry for providing incorrect info I have seen some of the pictures yesterday from the site, and the most plausible outcome is, that it was an explosion inside of the building. The remnants of the building are pretty much ruling out any kind of explosion from the "sky". Some of the evidence seemed like, that some of the POWs were dead before the explosion and a some soldiers were definitely burned, which also shows the evidence of the unlikeliness of use of HIMARS or GRAD. Most of the sources are also coming to the same conclusion as you. Cover up of mistreatment of POWs. There is also one theory, that the owner of Wagner did order this, due to the "mismanagement" of funds, paid out by Kremlin to cover the expenses with POWs...

Two days ago, This Russian Soldier (Vitaliy Valerievich Aroshanov) has released a video, how he tortured, castrated and then killed a Ukrainina POW. Yesterday, Russia attacked a public bus stop in Mykolaiv with a rocket. Not linking here, due to clearly violating the board rules, but if someone would really like to see the proof, you can find in somewhere in the thread about that **** above. Yesterday also Russia put all imprisoned Ukrainian POWs from Maripoľ in a single building in occupied Olenivka, and launched MLRS Grad into it. Resulting in 50 dead POW and 130 wounded. And you are wondering, why some people might think, that it is acceptable to celebrate every Russian and collaborator demise in this war

University of Yale has published a study about how Russia is obfuscating their economy performance under sanctions, and gives an insight about the real impact. 118 pages long. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4167193 very short summary can be found here: This content cannot be displayed until agreeing to our use of Social Media cookies. Learn more. Manage cookies

Meanwhile in Russia You know, that your army is in deep ****, when some units give you an opportunity to become lieutenant in 4 months

The only people I hear screaming, are the trolls like you when they are reading all day long, how many orcs were put to sleep again and again after HIMARS o’clock Especially when their group travelled more than 6000 kms to reap what they saw

Thank you. It worked

And what about BG1 Quayle? Few of my friends are asking too

Hmm, was it so short that it’s already over? I can’t see it mentioned anywhere.

Of course it never was, it was just a Russian scapegoat to move the blame from themselves. As always...