Will Putin Invade Ukraine?

[Hydra009]

Ukraine received first batch of Israeli radars

These radars are capable of detecting incoming missiles even when subject to enemy electronic warfare.

Ukraine received the first 3 out of 16.  These radars require the Israeli military's approval, so the fact that the Israeli military is willing to go on record providing such aid is no small thing, though the actual funds used to supply these radars came from a Lithuanian fundraiser.

[Shiranu]

The thought of more and more Israeli tech making it's way to Ukraine makes me feel warm and giddy inside.

Good history of Israeli tech wiping the floor with goat fuckers and Soviet hand-me-downs  - and to get to be used to protect one of the Jewish heartlands against a several century anti-Semite state?

Karma for the vatniks.

[ferdmonger]

Incredible bravery and sacrifice.

Not to be confused with Donald Trump, who said we need to do away with rules and laws found in the constitution so that he could remain president. 

[Hydra009]

Russia can promise them the moon because they're highly unlikely to pay out.  The house always wins, so to say.

[Hydra009]

Problem: not enough water
Solution: bomb the canal
Russian problem-solving strategies never cease to amaze.

[Hydra009]

Ukraine reports regained territory near Bahkmut, heavy Russian losses, some Russian forces tried to flee

The Ukrainians have a rather impressive short video about it, but it's pretty graphic, so I'll summarize a sanitized version.  Russian vehicles took heavy damage from incoming artillery, Russian troops ran away from counterattacking Ukrainian forces, advancing Ukrainian tanks/APCs/infantry storm some trenches VERY successfully (a tank with a Ukranian flag digitally added over it drove over a foxhole with a digitally added Russian flag and the Russian flag abruptly vanishes...)

The video often cuts to Wagner head and Putin cook Prigozhin complain about the loss of 500 Wagnerites (over the course of how many days remains unclear, but Ukraine confirms the number of losses) and he also complains about the loss of 3km2 of territory

The final few seconds shows Russian POWs being loaded into the back of a Ukrainian transport with a Ukrainian soldier saying something in Ukrainian.  Knowing the Ukrainian sense of humor, I imagine he asked the Russian POW how his victory day is going.  :P

[Hydra009]

[Hydra009]

Ukraine: our counteroffensive plans have yet to be finalized, so anyone telling you what they are is lying

[Hydra009]

Smart Russian surrenders to drone and lives (footage from May 9th)

[Hydra009]

French Parliament designates Wagner as a terrorist group

Wagner's response was to calmly and dispassionately...nah, I'm just kidding.  They issued terroristic threats toward Macron.

In another example of impotent rage, Muscovia raged at Poland for considering changing the name of their exclave of Kalingrad back to Królewiec (the polish translation of Königsberg, its name prior to WWII and subsequent Soviet takeover).  Muscovia, a nation that has been trying to capture a town for the past 9 months, getting tens of thousands of its troops killed pointlessly, said the name change "bordered on madness".

[Hydra009]

[Unbeliever]

Isn't Konigsberg the place that has the seven bridges? 🤔

[Hydra009]

Isn't Konigsberg the place that has the seven bridges? 🤔

The seven bridges thing is a hypothetical, but yes.

[Hydra009]

Ukraine receives long-range cruise missiles from the UK

This is huge because it gives Ukraine the ability to strike much deeper into Russian lines to destroy known targets that were otherwise untouchable.

If hypothetically, a Ukrainian advance bisected Russian-occupied territory, a certain bridge would be the only land resupply, and if a long range missile were to hit that bridge...

[Hydra009]

The Russians certainly have a thing for cope cages: