Nah now you see it ... gone haha...

President Putin convenes a conference with influential Russian socmed Voenkors & military bloggers in the Kremlin to discuss current issues pertaining to the SMO.

also in the same tweet:
so his military command and FSB information is not too reliable?
it is weird that he has to also want to listen to military bloggers.

new russian style suppression

i think one can safely assume that putin doesn't like what is happening on the battlefield right now or that things aren't going so well.

Putin also not very big fans of his Generals it seems

Also it feels so strange seeing Putin in a meeting with a packed roomful of people

The fact that body stinks means it has been some time (likely days) since it ended... Ukraine didn't even try to recover the leopard 2 A6.... They only have 20 for the counter attack.

Shows that's that area completely fail for Ukraine....

Looks like Russian Aerospace Forces is sending more of their attack helicopters to the combat zone to blunt Ukraine's offensive

Hoo boy

Probably want to hear opinions from a different POV. Many of these Voenkors are war correspondents who report from the front so they have first hand experience of what's happening.

For a sense of scale on how the current Ukrainian offensive is developing, we need to look a the region they are trying to capture and where they are currently now

Here comes the Russian misinformation campaign.

Within 20 minutes of their June 5 advance south of Velyka Novosilka, in the southeast Donetsk region, mortars exploded all around them, soldiers said. A 30-year-old soldier known as Lumberjack saw two of the men in his vehicle bleeding heavily; one lost an arm as he cried out for his family. Lumberjack crawled into a crater, but the shrapnel from a mortar went through the soil and pierced his shoulder.

“We were left there in the field, without tanks or heavy armor,” said Lumberjack, who spoke to The Washington Post on the condition that he be identified only by his call sign because he was not authorized to discuss the battle. “We were shelled with mortars from three sides. We couldn’t do anything.”

There were fewer than 50 men in the unit, he said, and 30 did not return — they were killed, wounded or captured by the enemy. Five of the unit’s armored vehicles were destroyed within the first hour.

Their accounts offered one of the first real glimpses into the brutal fighting on a new front this month, far removed from the antiseptic claims of advances and retreats by officials on both sides of the conflict. And the battalion’s heavy losses foreshadow the terrible cost that Ukraine’s leaders are prepared to pay — and believe they must pay — to oust the Russian invaders and reclaim their lost territory.


'The terrible price Ukraine's leaders are prepared to pay'? Is it now?



This post has been edited by MilitaryMadness: Jun 14 2023, 06:42 PM

Ka-52 Alligator on ground support duty

This post has been edited by MilitaryMadness: Jun 14 2023, 09:46 PM

look like the russian chopper pilots change their tactic by lobbing the rockets, usually fly high and dive to fire

Russian attack helicopters very busy nowadays

Ukrainian T-72 tries to push a Maxxpro MRAP to safety, when the tank is suddenly hit by a lancet the tank pancakes the MRAP in panic instead

On 0:28 can see 2 soldiers from the MRAP running for their lives barely before the tank completely pancakes the MRAP

link to rueters article but it doesn't really say much.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia...age-2023-06-14/

This post has been edited by chaosneo: Jun 15 2023, 08:31 AM

when you are actually one nation fighting against NATO + some other countries in shadow, you expect to win easily?

Ka-52 Alligators on the hunt