TheOldGuy @TheOldGuy@qoto.org
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian fascist invaders.
I am a 73 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2993. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
Zelensky:
I came to "Okhmatdyt" to see the children who are being treated after injuries, to hear about their hobbies and about themselves. And, in particular, to meet with Maryna Ponomareva from the Kherson region.
Earlier, I recorded a birthday video for the girl, in which I promised to meet her in person. Now Marina is undergoing rehabilitation. She became the first child with a war injury to receive prosthetics in our country. A strong girl.
I am proud of all our people who are helping Ukrainian men and women to overcome the consequences of Russian strikes and rebuild their lives.
Every day we fight for Ukrainian children to live in a peaceful, independent Ukraine, to feel happy, for all their wishes to be fulfilled, and for their dreams to come true.
I find this amusing. Inappropriate for on air
https://t.me/United24media/16129
Kamala broke the old record
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/score-one-for-vp-kamala-harris-2/53477/
Gay Palestinian man beheaded
https://t.me/visegrad24official/2430
Breaking News concerning Hamas
Ruzzians: “We were driving from Bakhmut, a tank was hit right in front of us! Is that engine lying there? There’s something else hanging on the branches... The crew is completely fucked! Guys, that’s it, let’s go back!”
And this is how the consequences of the mega-powerful explosion of the enemy T-72B3 tank along with its crew look from the perspective of Russian military personnel, who were saved from a similar fate in just a few minutes. Enemy armored vehicles worth $3.5 million were literally smeared on the road thanks to the Wild Hornets drone in the skillful hands of the pilots of the ACHILLES attack company of the 92nd Brigade in cooperation with aerial reconnaissance of the 80th Brigade in the Bakhmut direction.
https://t.me/WarriorsUkrainian/16078
St Nicolas arrived by car
In Ukraine, St Nicolas comes on December 6. Totally separate from Christmas.
https://t.me/WarriorsUkrainian/16079
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The drones, combined with special forces raids on Snake Island and Crimea, as well as the sinking of the Moskva by navy missiles, have forced the Russians on to the back foot.
They have had to shift from offensive patrols in the Black Sea to defensive missions.
Russia’s superior naval force, which once threatened an amphibious landing at Odesa, can no longer enforce its blockade and has even had to retreat to the Kremlin-controlled coastline. Moscow’s helicopters and fast patrol boats have had to be used to defend occupied ports, where the Black Sea fleet has installed numerous layers of defence against the drones.
That has allowed Ukraine to carve out an international trade route that hugs the coasts of Romania and Bulgaria, both Nato allies, through the Bosphorus, breaking President Putin’s stranglehold on the country’s economy.
Bridget Brink, the United States’ ambassador to Kyiv, said on Monday that since the Kremlin had pulled out of the Black Sea grain deal over the summer, Ukraine’s “humanitarian corridor” had allowed the passage of more than 200 ships and seven million tons of grain, metals and other goods.
The commander said: “The Russians began to behave much more cautiously at sea. We can just take a look at their movement changes. They began to spend most of their time closer to the Crimean coast, making runs between Sevastopol, Feodosia, Kerch, Novorossiysk. They can no longer afford to travel along this route as freely as they felt before we started our work.”
To his left are the slender grey frames of the Magura V5 unmanned surface vessels, each fitted with two cameras, infrared optics, a satellite receiver and a 300hp engine that drives the craft through waves at 45 nautical mph. In its kayak-like bow sits a 250kg warhead.
To the commander’s right are the bulkier black hulls of the next generation of drones, packing heavier warheads that can send mines into the path of unsuspecting vessels before returning to base intact. Although his sea drones are assembled entirely in Ukraine, it is clear they have benefited from western technology.
A Starlink-style satellite receiver is positioned on the back, relaying the feed from its two cameras to a military intelligence unit that has close bonds with both British and US intelligence.
A 300hp engine propels it at up to 45mph as it attacks, with a cruise speed of 25mph giving it a range of about 250 miles.
In August last year Britain donated six unmanned undersea autonomous mine-hunting vehicles to Ukraine — advanced technology that may yet be replicated in submerged attack drones.
Ukraine’s success at sea was noted by the British foreign secretary, on a trip to Odesa last month. “It is so important what the Ukrainian navy has accomplished — pushing back the Russians, opening these new sea lanes,” he said. “I am proud that Britain is playing its part.”
Commander 13 wholeheartedly agrees. “My dream is to sink even more Russian ships, much larger ones,” he said. “So many that they shouldn’t be able to sail at all. Do we have the capability to wipe out the entire Black Sea fleet? Yes. And we’re working on that.”
The commander’s campaign began in May, when the Russian reconnaissance ship Ivan Khurs was forced to limp back to port from the Bosphorus after being struck by mysterious explosions.
In July, and again in September, the state-of-the-art Russian patrol ship Sergey Kotov suffered the same fate.
The second time it was damaged, drones hit the ship by accident when they manoeuvred to avoid pursuit by enemy aircraft.
He said all these attacks were the work of the GUR team of remote operators. “These weapons are extremely effective,” the commander said. “If we just imagine roughly what it costs to build ships like the Kotov and to train the crews — it takes years to build and crew ships like that. Even if we count all the drones used in an attack on one, they are thousands of times cheaper.”
The drone operators are changing naval warfare by exposing the vulnerability of enemy vessels to cheap, rapidly produced suicide drones. “We are writing history,” he said.
“And our western partners are very interested in these tools.”
Other units, including those from Ukraine’s state security service, the SBU, have used Sea Baby drones to attack the Kerch bridge, the frigate Admiral Makarov, a Sig oil tanker and the Olenegorskiy Gornyak, a Ropucha-class landing ship. These weapons carry a larger 450kg warhead.
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Ukraine drone commander: ‘My dream is to wipe out Russia’s entire fleet’ - The Times
Man known as callsign 13 says he will not rest until the Black Sea is free again
At a secret base on the Dnipro river, Ukraine’s new fleet of sea drones flanks both sides of a dockside warehouse packed with enough explosives to destroy Russia’s entire Black Sea navy.
Ukraine’s military intelligence service, GUR, has disclosed three types of drones to The Times.
The fleet’s commander, callsign 13, said he had been blasting holes in some of Russia’s most advanced warships, sinking his latest two targets off Chornomorske, Crimea, on November 10.
He told how the drones crept into port at dawn, avoiding anti-submarine nets to find the right angle of attack.
The Russians saw them and fired machineguns at the low, narrow silhouettes. But the spray of bullets missed their targets when the drones accelerated.
More Russian gunners opened up with heavy calibre weapons but two of the drones struck a Shark and a Serna-class landing craft while a third exploded into the dock. The ships sank, taking an armoured personnel carrier with them to the bottom of the Black Sea.
“They knew we were coming,” the GUR commander said. “But they couldn’t do anything about it. The joy was incredible. It was my life’s goal to sink a Russian ship and we sank two of them at once. And as far as I know, no one had ever done this before anywhere. Now we have a new goal — to sink something bigger.”
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"Alive is good enough. In the evening, 15 "Grads" struck." Hero of Ukraine from the 93rd brigade - Hromadske
"For me, the Heroes of Ukraine have always been scientists, cosmonauts, great athletes, historians or designers. And here I am – a schlep from the Dnipro, thank you very much," says Illia with the call sign "Boston", to whom the president presented the star of the Hero of Ukraine in Bakhmut in 2022.
Before the war, Illia worked as a bank manager, and with the beginning of the war in eastern Ukraine, he went to fight. Currently, "Boston" serves as an anti-tanker in the 93rd "Kholodny Yar" brigade, which defends the Bakhmut direction.
Russians have been charged with torturing an American
The answer to the Polish blockadehttps://t.me/liveukraine_media/16055
The man and the rifle
https://t.me/liveukraine_media/16057
John Kirby tells the truth
https://t.me/NewsWorld_23/2840
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian fascist invaders.
I am a 73 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2993. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
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