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Baikul

Snake Island is variously described as being between 35-48 kilometres off the Ukraine coast. https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-and-russia-fight-intense-battles-for-snake-island/a-61800180 https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/13/europe/snake-island-ukraine-strategic-war-cmd-intl/index.html From what I understand ...

Baikul

sajaym wrote:US to offer India $500 mn in military aid to reduce Russia dependence: Report
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-ne ... 17651.html

“As much as $500 million”?

Is that the punchline to a joke?

Baikul

The western media treatment of the surrender at Mariupol (calling it an evacuation etc) was already discussed here. As someone with some media experience, I found this BBC link highly amusing; in particular the the viewer comments which hilariously criticise the BBC’s choice of words to describe wha...

Baikul

Some movement of Russian forces in the North/ how significant remains to be seen. Slow grinding advances seems to sum it up for now. https://mobile.twitter.com/uaweapons/status/1526654429470023688 Quoting from the above, the Russians: have captured Drobysheve (N Lyman) took control of Novozvanivka (...

Baikul

Basically Island England cannot stand a new rising power in Europe and will do anything to take it down. Baikul-ji, are you seriously suggesting that the UK induced Putin to invade Ukraine? Putin decided unilaterally to start this war, not “Sir Humphrey” or the clown in No. 10. As for “rising power...

Baikul

Anyway footage of Mariupol soldiers surrender https://twitter.com/tinso_ww/status/1526623225182134279?s=21&t=OmVqpi96GAAQWQNkE1Fo9w Any information on the Azov commander Denys Prokopenko post that last comment he gave, apparently conceding (or not) surrender? https://news.yahoo.com/azovstal-com...

Baikul

I was trying to compile a list of major weaponry used by Russia in Mariupol. Not the usual stuff, just the main armaments. Below is a tentative list of air strikes: https://www.b92.net/eng/news/world.php?yyyy=2022&mm=04&dd=28&nav_id=113621 Next is a list of ‘burning munitions’ https://ww...

Baikul

Actually AFUs 36th Marine Brigade's surrender was the clincher for me… Yeah that got me going too. I think tactically it was the first serious crack in the defence. Lots of fascinating books will be written on how RA & Ramzan Kadirov's Chechens took Mariupol. Honestly not a fan - I don’t think ...

Baikul

….. UK has been particularly vicious, ….. Indeed. I think that the UK has been instrumental, in fact they’ve taken the lead in Europe, in encouraging Ukraine to fight. One almost wonders what business Europe and Ukraine suddenly are for that fat qunt Johnson, who was key to them pulling out of EU. ...

Baikul

This thread suits me fine. I’ll leave the stentorian announcements to forumers who feel capable of making them. :) Now then, Azovstal. What happened exactly - ie why did the Azov regiment start the surrender process? In retrospect the Russians did very well handling Mariupol these past few weeks. On...

Baikul

new york times & other west media insist on calling the mariupol azovite 'surrender' as evacuation. https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1526336507430182912?s=20&t=WcinGXGYKY7hZneuEdaeSg … Lol, it’s a surrender plain and simple. …. Western spin on this will have us :rotfl: for ages. And that’...

Baikul

Call it what it is - the Azov regiment fought well, when few expected them to. However the Azov regiment is also surrendering, where once they’d handed out stories of immortal last stands, death before dishonour, etc. In fact the defiance that their leaders earlier showed on video seems to imply no ...

Baikul

Cyrano wrote:Factually wrong saar, all of Mariupol except for 11sq km of Azovstal has been under Russian control for weeks now….

I won’t argue on this, because I think we’ll get into semantics.

On topic: if the Russians manage to enforce a cease fire, it’s a tactical win for them.

Baikul

they’ve (Azov) fought really really well. Err... I'm not sure of that. Just a few years back they were football hooligans, rewarded for helping achieve Maidan regime change by legitimising them (ie right to bear arms all the time, use force and kill), given regiment status and then insidiously inte...

Baikul

On topic, as other posters have mentioned on this page, Azovstal is an interesting case. On the one side the Azov regiment (along with other Ukrainian units, IIRC the marines) have defended the place amazingly well, maybe even fanatically. The factory is supposed to be nuclear hardened. I will note ...

Baikul

Ramana ji I’ve been following this thread and the war intensely, and - for what it’s worth (mostly likely little)- brar_w ji has easily been the highest value poster on this thread. Which is saying something because a lot of people (pro and anti) have contributed. His focus on combat tactics (the th...

Baikul

…. More units lost from failed river crossing looks like they were scuttled by retreating Russians to avoid capture. https://twitter.com/blue_sauron/status/1525380771204239361?s=21&t=TOEmbnJVnfkYx_6Hj00GtA Given that river crossings - crossing a body of water even - are a staple of military tac...

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… Ukranian soldier who participated gives a rundown below says there could be as much as 1500 Russian casualties….. https://twitter.com/kms_d4k/status/1524506104192974849?s=21&t=1QdsMYkfUjnmiqgCOOaHTA Who is this guy, Andriy Alexsandr Rambo? :D He certainly thinks very highly of himself. I have...

Baikul

….Close to 40 vehicles where attempting to cross looks like good chunk are taken out. This should show what happens when you prioritize speed to show some captures before victory day. https://twitter.com/Arslon_Xudosi/status/1524397146480549890?s=20&t=ou8y76ZjzKFwuLKhFDqEbQ That’s a significant...

Baikul

The Snake Island attack via TB-2, and Ukrainian AF's fast jets (which we were told they don't have) appears to have also taken out an Mi-8 using a TB2. Looks like a coordinated attack with unmanned and manned based on good intel. Video below. https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1523193649151897601 T...

Baikul

https://www.jpost.com/international/article-706036 If this is true, it will be another data point we need to consider for our war fighting capabilities. All our Talwar class ships have a direct lineage to Admiral Makarov's Admiral Grigorovich-class. It would be interesting indeed. At this moment th...

Baikul

No. There is a bye-election in Asansol, Bengal and later on, Himachal and Gujarat are on the horizon. Besides we have not truly understood the impact of these 5 state elections yet. There’s also the chief minister Dhami’s bye election in Uttarakhand, dates were announced today. https://theprint.in/...

Baikul

Im the dim could be wajib -Ul- cutlet!

https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/sout ... 69341.html

That’s the thing about blaspheme laws, people forget the “me” in blaspheme.

Ie, in the end it comes for thee and it comes for me.

Baikul

US has a nasty habit of deposing legitimate governments around the world and then wondering when things don't go according to their "plan". Having said that, I think Putin and Russia have revealed their weakness here. If the US could depose a government in Ukraine without outright violenc...

Baikul

… 3 Chinese nationals among 4 killed in Karachi University ‘suicide attack’ KARACHI: At least four people were killed including three Chinese nationals …… the foreign teachers, onboard a van, were heading towards the department when the explosion occurred…… TLDR: Today, Chinese teachers on their wa...

Baikul

I did not even know that Indians were going to TSP for education and that those degree's were accepted in India. What saar, have you not attended the morning program at the Sialkot High Institute of Technology, followed by classes at the Peshawar Institute of Social Studies? Personally I’m very dis...

Baikul

My Russian friends are indeed suffering, a lot of commodity that they were used to is missing from the shelves. They don't like Putin but feel that the Ukraine war was necessary. Ukrainian friends are suffering too and unlike the opinion in this forum, Zelensky is very popular with the ukrainian co...

Baikul

…. Not sure why pedophiles are being "nuanced" here. I phrased that poorly, admittedly. I meant to say that there are nuances between what he was imprisoned for, and what he is saying in this video on the efficacy of the javelin. These are two separate things, and he presents an interesti...

Baikul

I am curious what evidence you want of Indians being harassed: you yourself admit that Indians were harassed in the initial phase of the war in your post. There are testimonies and videos of this. After that there are no more Indians left in Ukraine to harass. The opportunity of harassment has come...

Baikul

What growing evidence? Beating up citizens happened in the first phase of the war. It was blood boiling stuff, there were some videos, but has anything new been released since then? I don;t think there has been evidence of systematic long term abuse of Indians. Happy to be proved wrong. As for use ...

Baikul

I'm ashamed that despite all the growing evidence showing how nasty the Ukrainians actually, including beating our citizens and using them as human shields, most Indians are still buying the western media narrative about this war. What growing evidence? Beating up citizens happened in the first pha...

Baikul

Zelensky with cocaine powder on his desk. In a conference call with Elon Musk. https://rumble.com/v121oty-zelensky-with-a-large-pile-of-cocaine-on-his-desk.html It's crazy that he is being controlled by CIA/MI6 to be the figure head of this war. Don't want to speculate on authenticity of the video,...

Baikul

As PakGov searches for legitimacy, ImDim searches for power and Pakfauj searches for its reputation/manhood, I feel the narrative will shift, as it always does in such times, to India, through which all three parties will try and magically discover what they look for. Since the ability or scope to d...

Baikul

Twitter (haraam sources, look it up) was abuzz with reports of Pakistani airforce striking "along Afghanistan-Pakistan border", namely the provinces of Khost ,Paktia and Kunar. By striking "along" the border, it remains to be seen whether PAF attacking inside Afghanistan, own-goa...

Baikul

IndraD wrote:https://www.rt.com/russia/553830-kiev-strike-possible/ Russia warns Ukraine it might strike Kiev
…...

And so it has

https://twitter.com/conflicts/status/15 ... xs4a0I5I88

In fact there are air raids reported across Ukraine

Baikul

I’m surprised there isn’t more reaction to this decision in India. Unless I’ve missed it. Why should an Indian company owned by an Indian citizen pull out of Russia, jeopardising its medium to long term future in that nation? Just because a minority shareholder’s husband has political problems in a...

Baikul

Infosys moving out of Russia. https://www.news18.com/news/tech/infosys-is-shutting-down-russia-operations-and-the-reason-is-related-to-uks-rishi-sunak-4935014.html I’m surprised there isn’t more reaction to this decision in India. Unless I’ve missed it. Why should an Indian company owned by an Indi...

Baikul

While A_Gupta ji had a point, Cyrano ji’s gracious response was what makes such threads on BR worth reading and coming back to. We are all learning and we all make mistakes. That mistake by Cyrano ji doesn’t take away his contributions on this thread (IMO), but his humility in response underscores t...

Baikul

There’s now a theatre commander (entire Ukraine campaign) for the Russian Army. Gen. Alexander Dvornikov, erstwhile commander of Russia’s Southern Military District. What this means is that Putin has given overal charge to a military commander, as compared to the earlier theme of separate Russian ar...

Baikul

Since BR unilaterally and without warning decide to rape my eyes this Sunday afternoon, allow me return the compliment.

Just putting it out there one of the Bakistani constitutional provisions under debate (and which has Ms jalebi in a twist) is …Article 69.

You’re most welcome

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