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Turkey getting good marketing material for their drones.

The generic rage it leaves me with has supplanted caffeine as my morning pick-me-up. But so far r/combatfootage is relatively free of cheerleading for any side and is good at spotting old footage. I guess people that are into war porn have some use.

Remembered this ad from nowhere.

Some sort of ammo dump ?

EU aid including fighter jets - I guess any leftover MiGs Poland or others have.

Humour!

My military victory? Hm ok. My statement was a bit tongue in cheek, too. Although not sure how realistic a no fly zone by NATO is, isn't all that defensive in nature for their members.

Well, mostly just skimming all these "OSINT" people for it. In a more light hearted tone, some amusing media coverage

All I keep seeing are wrecked columns, annihilated groups, Russian forces demoralized, etc., heh. Apparently the An-225 got damaged in the fighting (surprised it was still there given the tension), Ukraine government saying it was destroyed, Antonov says they don't know. Shame

Seems Ukraine's winning handily enough without the need for a no fly zone or more direct NATO support, strange they keep asking for it.

Yes, no pasaran. Just not sure if they have time. Well unless it plans to be mostly foreign SF, hah.

Was wondering what was taking him so long for not mentioning some culture war nonsense. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-establishing-foreign-legion-volunteers-abroad-president-2022-02-27 Seems like too late for this, hopefully no under prepared morons go for it

What, again? I am beginning to doubt this airfield is real.

Yep, On Reddit I did get a kick of r/combatfootage wanting to be pro-Ukraine, when for stuff like Syria/Iraq/Libya it's just war porn to get off on.

I thought they already were there

Shame it came out as fake before Sabaton could compose some cheese-tastic BS song about him.

I thought Ukraine forbade men 18-60 (WTF is with that upper band) from leaving, though debatable who or how anyone is enforcing that.

Canada strikes back - https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-liberals-ask-lcbo-to-ban-sale-of-russian-vodka-1.5795903

Guess he is losing it. Oh ok, took them survival and looking out for yourself as separate as they're redundant otherwise, no big deal. German finance minister said SWIFT removal is still viable, so at least that's there for what it's worth.

The 'looking out for yourself' part.

But aren't the Western powers you're slating doing the same by not cutting them out of SWIFT, etc. ?

People saying it's DCS. Possible. I guess I got the game wrong. Hm....maybe I can make some of this legendary Russian troll money by making Arma 2 propaganda for Putin...

CNN reporting it was a Ukrainian Su-27 shot down by a Russian SAM over Kiev. Yikes, if true. Also is still a Russian jet, but could be a Ukranian tanker. Pretty large explosion, too.

Well, I doubt the Russians are going to give up after one setback. Looks like more cruise strikes on Kiev tonight, Ukraine says they down a Russian bomber. All in all they seem to be doing ok, the way they were talking about them in the media here you'd have thought it was totally hopeless.

Ah, well I guess a relief that the airfield battle's settled. VDV withdrew to the woods, I had read. Strange decision.