Mamoulian War

I am curious how much of the original will be censored to not offend Twitch in today's day and age 😄

Oh and another interesting news from yesterday. Defense Politics Asia has reported, that UA army captured Snihurivka in Kherson Oblast. As of this morning, UA side did not confirm this, but that could be contributed to still ongoing embargo on Kherson Front reports. If this report by DPA is indeed correct, that would be very interesting news as well, probably one of the most interesting from whole battlefield in last few days maybe weeks. Snihurivka was also captured by Russians on April 3rd, and since then, they turned it into most fortified city in Kherson oblast, as it is very important logistic node for RU GLOCs inside Kherson Oblast and for possible future RU offensive against Mykolaiv and Dnipropetrovsk Oblasts. This would also mean that the first line of Russian defense line on Southern Front was breach at another, this time very significant place.

Though your statement is in complete contrast over what the leaders said during the last weeks NATO talks in Madrid 🤷‍♂️ Also if you are used to linking some of, let me say interesting" ZH articles, allow me to make a counter with this video analysis, which is talking about how the West is going to "weaponize" recession against Russia, so if that analysis is plausible, then the most powerful Western countries have already prepared countermeasures for the economic hardship which will hit our economies in the next few months, because it will definitely ruin Russia, which is the end goal. I bet China is already celebrating to get their hand on cheap Siberia assets, and probably preparing grab for Manchuria, which they lost to Russia after the Boxer Rebellion 🤷‍♂️

The interesting thing is, That I have not seen a report of Iskander missile being fired in more than a month... Anyway a little bit of info which hit me during last few days about Lysychansk situation. Both RU and UA sources claimed, that a month ago, there was 15000+ UA soldiers. Short while before retreating from Severodonetsk, Hirske and Zolote, UA units got the order for controlled retreat from area. From Zolote, they retreated swiftly and with almost no issues. Unfortunately for them, a pocket of soldiers who covered they retreat, was created in Hirske, which lead to big number of PoW, after it's capture (I have not find how big the number was). The interesting thing is, that it looks like, that UA started with retreat of heavy machinery, which is pretty well documented by both UA and RU sources. There were some casualties of the machinery. UA sources says that it was not very significant, RU sources says that more than 700 pieces of heavy machinerey were captured or destroyed. The thing is, not a single photo of caputred or destroyed machines have been released so far to back up these RU claims, which I find it strange, because as soon as first soldier arrived in center of Lysychansk, there was constant flood of photos released. Therefore, my conslusion is, that the UA reports are more plausible. So after a month of controlled retreat from the last places of Luhansk Oblast, the city of Lysychansk has fallen, with sources from UA claiming, that around 500 soldiers were unable to escape, and RU claiming that more than 2000 are still trapped there. Another interesting thing is, that after the fall of Lysychansk, there are now almost no PoW reported by RU sources. It is statistically impossible to have almost no PoWs from the pool of 2000 soldiers trapped, therefore I am again more inclined to believe to reports from UA side. So my conclusion from the whole Luhansk cauldron is, that despite the Russia celebrating the victory in whole Luhansk Oblast already, it came at an ridiculous cost on their side, while UA was able to retreat at least 10000 soldiers alive (even the number around 12000 is still pretty plausible) out of the cauldron with almost intact heavy machinery... That is indeed a prime example of Pyrrhic victory for Russia, as there are educated guesses that RU had in this fight approx 5 times as much casualties than UA. My guess pulled out of my ass according to info, which I got from various sources is that UA could have approx 2k casualties, which would mean minimum of 10k casualties on RU side (during last month of this siege, the number of confirmed RU losses in senior officer ranks has increased by around 200, possibly even more). The other interesting thing is, that UA is now in the east using pretty much the same tactic, as RU used to defeat Napoleon. Exhaust as much of enemy forces in fortified strongholds, then run away safely and repeat. Also speaking of RU "victory in Luhansk, UA aremy still holds ground in Bilohorivka, the infamous village, where the UA army destroyed whole RU BTG, during river crossing, and yesterday, 4 more RU army ammunition warehouses have been blown up deep in the occupied LNR/DNR territory 🤷‍♂️

Then Zelenskyi is in luck, because 800 US companies are prepared to manufacture for Ukraine.

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And that is exactly the reason, why is Ubisoft together with Activision/Blizzard and EA on my never-to-purchase list across all of the platforms, with very occasional exception at GOG, if the game is older than 10 years and on discount under 5 EUR.

After 6 years and 11 months, I've decided to get back to my unfinished 3rd playthrough of Atelier Rorona on PS3. The goal for this playthrough was Pie Master ending, while getting Rorona's Alchemy level to 50. Both goals were achieved successfully, although after three days of playing, I have remembered why I have abandoned the run all these years ago . Getting this ending was almost as much busywork as getting the Astrid Ending, which little bit spoiled my fun during last two days of playing. It took me 62 hours this time. Thankfully all other endings are much easier to achieve, so I hope, I will be able to get back to another playthrough after much shorter break .

EDIT: wrong thread lol...

Village of Ivanivka in northern Kherson oblast, which was occupied for a very long time (probably since march) was liberated by Ukrainian army. As Malcador said, there is not much info getting out of Ukraine about the fights in Kherson, because GRU has made informational embargo on the counteroffensive and every single Ukrainian milbolgger, that I am aware of is adhering it. Also, Ukraine scored today another pretty big hit in Melitopol, allegedly by HIMARS (as the city is in the middle of occupied Zaporozhia Oblast). They obliterated the local airfield and destroyed a lot of Russian equipment. Also there are reports (which I was not able to confirm yet), that this attack was conducted simultaneously with partisan attacks targeting military infrastructure inside the city. https://t.me/hromadske_ua/23069 "Non-existent" Ukrainian Airforce also performed a lot of sorties all over the 4 occupied southern Oblasts against Russian military targets. No pictures yet, and no reports of downed UA jets from Russian milbloggers, so it looks like they might have been successful as well. Also according to NASA FIRMS surveillance systems, there were a lot of heat anomalies detected deep in Russian Occupied territory around Izyum, near the cities crucial for Russian GLOCs between Belgorod and the frontlines. Also allegedly by HIMARS. EDIT: Ivanivka was occupied by Russia since 3rd of April. That would mean, the first line of Russian defense in the northern Kherson Oblast has been breached yesterday.

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