YazataSep 22, 2022 11:37 PM (This post was last modified: Sep 22, 2022 11:43 PM by Yazata.)
Very little change on the ground today. The biggest news seems to be the successful completion of a prisoner exchange with Russia. Ukraine got back more than 200 defenders from Azovstal in Mariupol, 108 of which were members of the Azov Regiment. These include both the Commander and Deputy Commander of the Azov Regiment. The Chief of Police of Mariupol who became one of the leaders of the dogged defense in the tunnels under the steel plant was also recovered, as was Kateryna Polishchuk, an army medic in the tunnels who became famous in Ukraine for her singing in there. Hence her affectionate nickname "Ptashka" ('bird' in Ukrainian)
What about those first 300,000 new Russian soldiers that end up on the front line…could they be ‘undesirables’, people they don’t want for reasons we can guess at? Let Ukraine do the dirty work. Poots taking advantage of a situation to ‘cleanse’ the state.
(Sep 23, 2022 12:24 AM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: What about those first 300,000 new Russian soldiers that end up on the front line…could they be ‘undesirables’, people they don’t want for reasons we can guess at? Let Ukraine do the dirty work. Poots taking advantage of a situation to ‘cleanse’ the state.
Wagner group is recruiting suicide soldiers from russian prisons
the conscription will probably try to fill roles like tank driving because soo many of their tank drivers have been wiped out.
they will be wanting to get conscripts who have experience driving tanks and operating artillery and just follow orders
i expect russia will step up its attack on civilian targets soon
I suspect most Russians heading towards the front aren’t expecting a rough go. If they aren’t getting the same news we’re getting then a trip to the Border might be like troops being told they’d be walking across no-man’s-land at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Cannon fodder for sure if that’s the case.
YazataSep 23, 2022 03:42 AM (This post was last modified: Sep 23, 2022 03:44 AM by Yazata.)
We've got our eyes on you!
USAF RQ-4B Global Hawk supposedly flying out of CTA Catania airport in Italy, which is doubtful because CTA is a civilian airport. I believe this long range reconaissance drone actually flies from Sigonella, a NATO base near Catania. It apparently flew over the Balkans and has been flying a racetrack pattern south of the Russian Black Sea fleet base at Sevastopol.
YazataSep 23, 2022 09:54 PM (This post was last modified: Sep 23, 2022 10:17 PM by Yazata.)
Ukranian Marine Mykhailo Dianov after his release from Russian captivity. He looks seriously starved. I don't know what's up with that, since other captives look well fed. (Hunger strike? Pain prevented him from eating?) Dianov was seriously wounded in the defense of Azovstal, and probably didn't receive adaquate medical attention. He's finally in a Ukrainian hospital, but from the looks of it his right arm might be permanently crippled.
Doctors who looked at the photos say they see massive muscle atrophy, along with what might be a badly broken and frozen elbow. They suspect his shoulder might be frozen too. He might regain some use of the arm, but it will require a lot of surgery and years of physical therapy.
(Sep 23, 2022 09:54 PM)Yazata Wrote: Ukranian Marine Mykhailo Dianov after his release from Russian captivity. He looks seriously starved. I don't know what's up with that, since other captives look well fed. (Hunger strike? Pain prevented him from eating?) Dianov was seriously wounded in the defense of Azovstal, and probably didn't receive adaquate medical attention. He's finally in a Ukrainian hospital, but from the looks of it his right arm might be permanently crippled.
Doctors who looked at the photos say they see massive muscle atrophy, along with what might be a badly broken and frozen elbow. They suspect his shoulder might be frozen too. He might regain some use of the arm, but it will require a lot of surgery and years of physical therapy.
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