To think Trump and all these so called "conservatives" literally years ago were looking to Russia as a bastion of example, a country to emulate and aspire to become more like :lol

These people are fucking idiots.

Kerch Bridge, built by Russia in 2018 after occupying Crimea, has been severely damaged. Not sure how much of it was destroyed, but if they were successful this will make it pretty impossible for Russia to defend Crimea once Ukraine moves in.


It was seen as a weak point for as long as Russia had been holding the territory, but now it looks like they hit it. You can watch the beginning of this video to learn about its strategic importance


From BBC

What a wonderful belated birthday gift for that war criming piece of shit.

Update on the bridge: The road can still be crossed, but the train track is likely ruined

If you watch videos of the explosion, they timed it to occur when a train was passing by with fuel containers. Have to assume that was done intentionally

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Femoz_GWQAE0YyX.jpg

They should come back and blow up a couple more sections

whatever long range missiles they used must've being hard to come-by


unlike other army's that would do a show of power & completely do it enough to clear 2x over.

It wasn't a missile, it was a bomb planted on a truck that was going back to Russia.

AFAIK Ukraine hasn't even accepted responsibility for it yet, it's possible that this was a civilian attack. Unlikely, but possible!

Russia is bombing the shit out of civilians throughout the country again, more than ever since Feb. I guess this is in retaliation

Love these updates

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgsyJKgXoAAn4O4.jpg

^ are these intelligence updates trustworthy? It sounds like what Russians would do ... but it also sounds like fuel for propaganda war.

Oh it's totally propaganda. I take it as entertainment more than anything, and it kind of boosts morale about the invasion. It's nice to see when actual bad guys are doing so poorly.

They have to be based somewhat on fact though - the way things have been going have pretty much directly confirmed it little by little.

They also post maps of the contested areas which is interesting to see... Here's the latest one

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgtlY8BXEAA6mWa.jpg

And here's one from April

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FPLGsd2WYAU1SJd.jpg

Russia has retreated from Kherson

Yes, the city that Putin claimed was now a part of Russia and would be "Russian forever" in September. In fact they still say that.

You can see it in the southwest portion on the map above

So far Russia has lost around 80,000 soldiers

Shit just got real. :heckno:

https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news...b625b08f4b4b7f

Two Polish people are killed after Russian missiles hit a farm in Poland.

Of course, NATO is having an emergency meeting now in response to this situation.

-from the article:

From CNN's Tim Lister and Antonia Mortensen

Two missiles or rockets are reported to have hit a farm in Poland, near the border with Ukraine. Two people are reported killed.

Polish media showed an image of a deep impact and upturned farm vehicle at the site, near the town of Przewodow.

It's unclear where the projectiles came from.

However, the missiles or rockets landed at roughly the same time as a Russian missile attack on western Ukraine.

A government spokesperson said that Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has convened the Committee of the Council of Ministers for National Security and Defense Affairs.

Was just gonna post something along the same lines myself. But yeah, shxt just got real... FailFish

That's just 10km from my mom's home town. Jesus.

fuck this guy. he needs to go.

all our advance technologies and nobody can space laser this fucker out of existence?

Well, now Russia has officially attacked a NATO nation it seems.

for two polish civilians, do you think Nato will react?

Yeah the world's not going to end over this. Sorry guys.

The US accidentally bombed the Chinese embassy in Serbia back in '99 and got away with it by saying "Muh Bad"

No, but it quite literally is the exact scenario they said would provoke a reaction. This only emboldens Russia.

I don't see Article 5 and full scale war. But intentional or not, this will still be a test of NATO. Perhaps extending air defense perimeter beyond Poland's borders like 50km into Ukraine or something.

It really depends on where NATO stands.

If there is a hawkish majority among NATO, all they really need is a legitimate excuse to start attacking Russia, and this missile attack on Poland totally meets that requirement.

If the pacifist faction is stronger in NATO, they will likely just issue a stern warning / ultimatum sort of thing as the immediate response. Following that, they will find ways to crank down the noose even more to strangle Russia to economic and financial death.

This is the question, I honestly don't think so since its only two civilians (I feel bad saying that) but if NATO has been leaning towards intervening this would be the time to do it. We won't know until the full on attack is made on Russia which would be the largest we have ever seen.