Mamoulian War

And speaking of Eastern front, it looks like, Ukrainian defenders around Bakhmut, and hopefully around Lysychansk and Avdiivka as well, will have less busy week or two. This happened today south of Popasna and east of Bakhmut on the soil of LNR near town Hannivka. Looks like Russian army had a pretty big warehouse there...

According to Ukrainian sources, including GRU, the Ukrainian soldiers did get retreat order few days before the capture of Hirske and Zolote, southeast of Lysychansk-Sievierodonetsk agglomeration. It is announced officially by Ukrainian government more than two weeks. And then the soldiers started controlled retreat from all of of the areas. The current number of soldiers is allegedly about 10% out of the number, which they had there in middle of may. Which is 500-2500 soldiers. No one knows the exact number, but if we go by the example how they handled Zolote/Hirske retreat (Only few dozens of their soldiers out of 3000-4000 were not able to evacuate), then the number should be in the lower interval. We have to keep in mind, that retreating from Lysychansk is much more dangerous, than was the retreat from Zolote/Hirske.

After 6 year break, I have decided to continue in my Atelier Rorona 3rd playthrough. What an easy going and relaxing game for the crazy heat wave at my homecity

Well, I do not like the artstyle as well, but that does not mean, I start wishing Russian Invasion into Gilbert's household... IMHO, the presented art seems to me very ugly, comparably only to the Escape from MI, which was 3D, and I did not liked it as well... If that means, that I am a retro fascist, I should go and ask someone to create a new coat of arms for me...

The continuation of the report about one of the most elite Russian VDV (paratrooper) regiment from Kostroma, which I linked in April, after their failed assault on Kyiv. After operational pause in Belgorod, they were sent to Izyum. It definitely looks like, that the common Russians (at least in the towns where are the soldiers garrisoned) are slowly getting, what they were forced into...

Speaking of Russian officers corruption, here is one more example...

That Russian spin in the article... Unless the task assigned to Russian soldiers stationed there would be to die while losing few hundreds of millions of USD worth of Pantsirs and other AA defense systems

I do not use Steam at all, with the exception of ACC, so you know how often is Steam running big sales? Need to buy one more copy of AC and ACC, but with my wheel in RMA I will probably not need it sooner than in SEP/OCT/NOV

Atelier Ryza 2 on PS4. I finally found a physical copy online with not ridiculous price tag

Only because they make everyone fall asleep after first hour

A small glimpse on a few facts about how the current invasion started and how the Russian propaganda is strong and skews even the minds of the people who doublecheck all the stuff and are wathing closely on the relations between Russia and Ukraine for a long time, like myself... Even I was fooled with some of their justifications of invading, because "Ukraine is attacking civilians in Donbas". I was under the impression, that due to the clashes, a lot of Russian and Ukrainian civilians die each year... The official OHCHR report gives data, that in last three years on both sides died 27, 16 and 25 civilians respectively, and this is what Russia has been calling a genocide... And now compare it to officially 4600+ killed civilians during the last 4 months of the invasion... The number is factually much higher, because Russia does not allow any official UN representatives to document the civilian casualties in Russian occupied territories. here are two latest pre-war reports: https://ukraine.un.org/index.php/en/149895-32nd-report-ohchr-human-rights-situation-ukraine-covers-period-1-february-31-july-2021-it https://ukraine.un.org/index.php/en/176043-report-human-rights-situation-ukraine-1-august-2021-31-january-2022 And here is the YT video about it, if you do not feel like reading it in the middle of summer...

Well, a lot of people with a little bit more knowledge on Russia/Ukraine relations said that in a lot of different places, including myself, because no rational person would ever do this kind of action against country of 50 million with battle hardened army, with many allies, and would consider it as an easy and profitable task... Even the most powerful/rich oligarch in Russia Deripaska has released the statement few days ago at one of the schools, that destroying Ukraine is completely stupid idea, which would not bring anything to Russia, and that Russian has lost in 4 months every economic progress, which they achieved after the break-up of USSR... https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/tycoon-deripaska-casts-doubt-russia-quest-victory-ukraine-2022-06-28/ Everyone sane in Russia except the ideological leaders and people deeply lost into their propaganda are seeing this from the beginning, and even before beginning of the war, that this conquest will bring Russia absolutely nothing...

This is first time since 1917

The best answer to these "rumours" is this video.

You should no longer wonder, who is gonna pay for it. Common Russian people are already paying for it: https://hnonline-sk.translate.goog/svet/96026989-ani-pocas-druhej-svetovej-vojny-sa-ludia-nepytali-na-vyplatu-odkazal-sef-strajkujucim-v-rusku?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

I played a little bit of Assetto Corsa again, and who would have guessed it, today, third Sunday in a row, the wheel stopped to work again Fanatec issued me an RMA, so I will be sending it to Germany tomorrow.

BG1 Enhanced Edition with the Siege of Dragonspear DLC/expansion.

Here you have an analysis about the situation with DNR/LNR forces. (They are not mercenaries) Few days ago also the leader of LNR has released the statement, that half of their pre-war army is gone.

I just do not understand what is happening anymore. I have just for the sake of it, turned on my wheel again... And it worked... OMGWTFLOL... So I have just used the oportunity, and driven 4 short races to finish the GT4 part of Career Championship in Mercedes SLS AMG GT3 in Assetto Corsa. I bet, it will not work again tomorrow...

In the Kharkiv region Ukrainian offensive is now concentrated around Balaklia, and because Kharkiv is practically impossible to conquer, they left only minimum troops guarding it, just to be able to maintain stalemate. And around Kherson and in Zaporizhia Oblast, the attack made there are primarily to lure out some Russian troops out of Luhansk Cauldron. When you compare how the map looked like after Russia left Kyiv two months ago, the Russia made only minimal gains. Ukraine took some land and is now concentrated on stalemate, until more of the stuff from land-lease arrives, while doing as much damage to Russian troops as possible. And yes a lot of Ukrainian troops die as well, but still less than in Russian army. And then, there is as much sabotage as possible at Russian and occupied soil to hinder their GLOCs as much as possible.

Well, there have been a lot of attacks on Russian and occupied soil in last few days. 7 ammunition warehouses blown up in DNR, something has expolded in Simferopol in Crimea, 2 occupied Russian gas/oil rigs blown up in Black Sea, one big warehouse and command center near Kharkiv, and a lot of kabooms around Belgorod.

Well, even the operation in the east is not much more successful, than the operation around the Kyiv. The "funny" thing is, that the Russia is doing the same mistakes as Germans in WW2 while storming the Ukraine. They are able to seize only small villages, from which Ukrainian army retreats, with the exception of Izyum (oh the irony) and Mariupoľ. The current invasion in Luhansk is going so bad, that it initiated another Purge at the Army leadership. Also in the east, the military units of the Russian army has been so decimated, that the leading force of the attack is now Wagner and Rosgvardia. The conventional Russian military units are just to decimated, including their officer ranks, that they are no longer feasible to execute the required offensive tasks in required power. Also, there are more and more ads around Russia for recruitment of officers, due to them being utterly decimated... 750+ are confirmed by their family members and city officials at their home cities... The theoretical number must be even more terrifying for the functioning of the Russian army. Also there are reports, that new reservists are deployed to the front just after a few days of training... Which says pretty much a lot about how bad the operation is going for Russia despite gaining ground in some small villages on flat land, which is impossible to defend by UA... https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-june-21

And you are again forgetting, that here are a lot of people who lived in Soviet Occupied territories for more than a decade, who experienced more than a ****load of these so called "terrible crimes against the west" perpetrated by Soviets/Russians first hand... especially people like bugarup, who lives in Baltics...

With the confirmed report that the largest tank producing/repairing facility in Russia/World had to be shut down due to lack of western components to produce more, I'd guess few years if not a decade, if the sanctions status quo remains the same as now. Because even Chinese IT companies are leaving Russian market, and are not willing to risk the fallout of circumventing the sanctions.

Oh and I have just found out the info about current state of vehicle losses for Russia in 4 months. I Putin still issues a threats all around the world, especially to Kazakhstan, who laughed to Putin's face in St. Petersburgh when talked about Luhansk and Donetsk recognition.