Rat u Ukrajini

Ferenc Puskás wrote:Izgleda da će naredna 2 tjedna biti ključni.

MOSCOW, February 16. /TASS/. It is highly probable that Kiev will embark on a combat operation in Donbass, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday.

Yikes. Head of Zelensky’s Servant of the People party in parliament claims Western media “hysteria is now costing the country $2-3 billion every month,” calls CNN, Bloomberg, WSJ coverage “worse than Skabeeva and Solovyov, top Russian state propagandists. https://t.co/VjXrQLf55U pic.twitter.com/zH5bdrWM3e

— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) February 16, 2022

Reuters set up a livestream of Kyiv's Maidan Nezalezhnosti ahead of invasion/unity day. A drone just flew across livestream with a sign saying "Garage for sale."

Phone number is of Russian embassy

@begemotus_ pic.twitter.com/AFZldLNs5u

— Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) February 16, 2022

Operation RYAN (or RYaN, and sometimes written as VRYAN,[1] Russian: РЯН, IPA: [rʲæn]) was a Cold War military intelligence program run by the Soviet Union during the early 1980s when they believed the United States was planning for an imminent first strike attack. The name is an acronym for Raketno-Yadernoe Napadenie (Russian: Ракетно-ядерное нападение, "Nuclear Missile Attack"). The purpose of the operation was to collect intelligence on potential contingency plans of the Reagan administration to launch a nuclear first strike against the Soviet Union.[2][3][4] The program was initiated in May 1981 by Yuri Andropov, then chairman of the KGB.

... to organize a continual watch to be kept for indications of a decision being taken to use nuclear weapons against the USSR or immediate preparations being made for a nuclear missile attack." An attachment listed seven "immediate" and thirteen "prospective" tasks for the agents to complete and report. These included: the collection of data on potential places of evacuation and shelter, an appraisal of the level of blood held in blood banks, observation of places where nuclear decisions were made and where nuclear weapons were stored, observation of key nuclear decision makers, observation of lines of communication, reconnaissance of the heads of churches and banks, and surveillance of security services and military installations.

The latest Ukrainian intelligence report compiled on Wednesday shows no evidence of Russia pulling back its forces from near Ukraine's borders, Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov tells us. Russia still has a combined force of about 140,000 nosing on Ukraine's borders.

— MatthiasWilliams (@matthi_williams) February 16, 2022

Cousin Billy wrote:

16 February 2022. Meanwhile in Ukraine@mfa_russia pic.twitter.com/59xuQjqSjQ

— Russia in RSA :flag_ru: (@EmbassyofRussia) February 16, 2022

ćaća wrote:

Cousin Billy wrote:

16 February 2022. Meanwhile in Ukraine@mfa_russia pic.twitter.com/59xuQjqSjQ

— Russia in RSA :flag_ru: (@EmbassyofRussia) February 16, 2022

Ne znam da li imaju nekakvu obuku za troll i shitposting?

kapetanm wrote:Kako ono bese mi imamo neki sporazum s Natoom  ako upucuju dodatne trupe mogu i preko Srbijice a mi smo to duzni trpeti?

kapetanm wrote:Kako ono bese mi imamo neki sporazum s Natoom  ako upucuju dodatne trupe mogu i preko Srbijice a mi smo to duzni trpeti?

Milica Jovanović@PlaceSoft

New satellite imagery: closer look at the pontoon bridge built on the Pripyat river in Belarus, close to the Ukrainian border. #Russia #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/HV98PdzecN

— Ahmet Mut (@mutahmett) February 16, 2022

GSUmbert
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So #Ukraine wasn’t exactly Desert Storm this morning, but of the interesting stuff that did happen though..
Yesterday Russian/Belarusian forces commenced and completed construction of a pontoon bridge in #Belarus some 4 miles from the border with Ukraine. 1/ 
It’s basically in the middle of nowhere and without an obvious purpose, but if you look at the surroundings it makes an interesting suggestion. The pontoon bridge is 10.5 miles north (as the crow flies) of Pripyat/Chernobyl, and spans the same Pripyat River which 2/ 
flows through both before connecting to the Dnieper River, which is the major river that runs through #Kiev. 3/ 
The only bridges to the south in Ukraine which span the Pripyat River are the two in Pripyat/Chernobyl, and there’s no other bridges which span the Pripyat/Dnieper rivers between there and Kiev until you reach Kiev itself. 4/ 
In Belarus, there’s not a bridge which spans the Pripyat River until 40 miles north (as the crow flies) 5/ 
If an invasion plan calls for a complete surrounding of Kiev, which would necessitate putting troops west of the Dnieper which runs through Kiev, then the two bridges at Pripyat/Chernobyl are strategic crossings to be secured. 6/ 
For the same reason, Ukraine would want to blow the bridges if they can’t defend them to deny Russia those crossings. 7/ 
In the event that Russia fails to secure those bridges, the new prepositioned pontoon bridge offers a backup ready-to-go crossing point just 4 miles from the border — it’s less than ideal but it makes sense as a backup. 8/ 
So I guess the plan includes surround Kiev at the outset as part of a major coordinated advance from all fronts 9/ 
Also.. 10/ 
The other interesting thing that happened was last night — a VIP extraction at the Polish-Ukrainian border (11:20pm local time). An American medivac Blackhawk helicopter flew to and landed on a road at the Polish-Ukrainian border (on the Polish side) just feet from the border 11/ 
The border crossing point is that which you hit if you head straight west out of #Lviv, which is where the US has relocated its embassy from Kiev. 12/ 
Diplomatic staff had been relocated earlier, but the day prior the US had went further to relocate its intelligence officers to Lviv as well. During the extraction, a dark-colored SUV pulled up to the border in Ukraine feet from the helicopter and two individuals 13/ 
(one seemingly male, and carrying a large object, and the other female) exited the SUV, walked to, and boarded the helicopter. Both were walking without medical assistance and apparently healthy, making a true medical evacuation less likely. 14/ 
Once the helicopter took off, road traffic on the spot was resumed. The Blackhawk made a stop at a Polish hospital about 50 miles west before continuing a further 30 miles northwest to an airfield in #Mielec which the US military is operating out of as a temporary base. 15/ 
Despite the use of a medivac Blackhawk and the stop at the hospital (as well as because of those factors) I think it’s more likely it was an intelligence-related VIP extraction of some sort 16/ 

Russian forces massed along Ukraine's borders have increased by approximately 7,000 troops in recent days, a senior admin official said Wednesday. The increase renders Russia's assertion of withdrawal "false," the official said. https://t.co/aTppWR87WS

— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) February 17, 2022