"The 1980's are calling to ask for their foreign policy back."

Part of Belgorod goes "blewey!"

https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1580962379956748289?s=20&t=Ho0F2cc1S61uvqfHI-VyIQ

Neil deGrasse Tyson obnoxiously argues that nukes ain't no thing because the bombs Russia is likely to use would be hydro fusion and won't result in radioactive fallout







Edit: Found a better clip.

At least 11 killed, 15 wounded in attack at Russia military training ground

That last guy is Lithuania’s Minister for Foreign Affairs.

YouTube channel for a Yale course on Ukraine, talking about the invasion and the history of the country. It's 11 hours worth of videos so far, BTW.

Mark Hamill raising money for Ukrainian drones: https://twitter.com/MarkHamill/status/1581384533387005952?s=20&t=xnHKzGWasYd7QEbA0G6Icw

A pair of Russian missiles disintegrating shortly after launch.

https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1581422476654886914?s=20&t=GAjJtFAwDVDtkcRJOIeang

Reminds me a bit of GW 1.0 where the SCUDs Saddam fired all fell apart or wildly missed their targets. (I know the Patriot system got credit for taking them out, but after the war the military admitted that they couldn't confirm any hits, so it's more likely that Saddam's stuff was shite.)

A summary of why Tajiks shot Russians near Belgorod yesterday (30+ people died)
1) Russian lieutenant-colonel Lapin said on the parade-ground that war is sacred
2) Tajiks said that sacred war is muslims vs infidels only
3) Lapin said that Allah is a coward
4) ...(Lapin died too)

https://twitter.com/auto_glam/status/1581662721879461889?s=46&t=sZJWd5k0EMQZ4RmGBCVX0Q

CW: bodies

❗️ Photos of the consequences of the massacre at the training ground in the Belgorod region have appeared

The day before, on October 15, three mobilized natives of Tajikistan shot Russians at a training ground in the Belgorod region. More than 20 dead conscripts /1

https://twitter.com/anno1540/status/1581605853173776385?s=46&t=sZJWd5k0EMQZ4RmGBCVX0Q

Is there a term for someone who was previously unaware of how their words and actions affect others becoming aware?

Kazakhs (and Russians) in Russia attacked a mobik who said something bad about Kazakhs. This appears to be happening somewhere in Volgograd Oblast. The ethnic Kazakhs here are likely to have Russian citizenship and are part of the mobilisation efforts.


https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1581611523138408449?s=46&t=sZJWd5k0EMQZ4RmGBCVX0Q


Seems like whatever the term is the Russian military could stand to be a little bit more of that…

So this is public now:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna52456

Dane ‘Ole Bird’ Partridge was one of my buddy’s soldiers and the first KIA under him. My buddy is okay physically (some shrapnel had to be removed from his arm) and his whole team has rotated back to rest/refit. Dane will have a full honors funeral at the Mormon Temple of Kyiv Weds.

Already in bad shape, the war in Ukraine is hurting Russia's space program.

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1581721575597883392?s=20&t=HProx2sLnfHEMxye1X52bA

Russia seems to be using kamikaze drones (Shahed-136s) in overnight attacks. Which they would have bought from Iran, except Iran says they absolutely didn't sell them any ohnonono.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-62225830

Ukraine is asking people not to post images of downed drones as it helps Russian intel determine how effective the attacks were.

Belarus looks to be getting involved.

https://twitter.com/intelcrab/status/1581676679365550084?s=46&t=rzb_AZT0uUcYUid9B-tc_Q

Read this earlier. Another possibility:

https://twitter.com/tadeuszgiczan/status/1582044513274822656?s=46&t=W0xPJatRlK_hEPmF_o0rXQ

Another Russian officer has died under mysterious circumstances.

https://twitter.com/chuckpfarrer/status/1582139126228271104?s=46&t=iVMl0EI5NA_JHbxZYCzSog

Russian soldiers are less than thrilled with the gear they've been given.

https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1581999294437298178?s=20&t=DrnWW2bp8s4eX4RPvsKtRA

Russian fighter plane crashes into a building in a Russian city.

https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1582034445841813507?s=20&t=yABd-w_ebFny6QwU4834AA

The most bugfuck thing you'll see about Russia, ever.

https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1582279794242486277?s=20&t=XUVWB4BLGuNGraG_iwJSjQ

Note that this was originally posted by the Russian official featured in the clip. This is as insane as if Trump had tweeted out the pee tape a few days before the 2020 election.

But, on the plus side, free vegetables!!

Russian tanker decides running is better than riding in a flaming vehicle.

https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1582838109338996736?s=20&t=HUTjH5CK_DRyOAr05AXkaw

British reporter interviews residents of the recently liberated city of Mykhailivka about the referendum Russia held there a few days before the city was retaken by Ukrainian military forces.

https://twitter.com/paraicobrien/status/1582983583731703809?s=20&t=LTqFbY1MV1BTy6UUAP2Cdg

A common Twitter exchange:

Tankie: Stop arming Ukraine!

Reasonable person: What exactly do you suggest instead?

Tankie: Pressure Ukraine to implement the Minsk accords!

So what are the Minsk accords, and why is the tankie line on Minsk ridiculous?

A thread.


https://twitter.com/neil_abrams/status/1583459564950724608?s=46&t=BKY9toaRKN2BxfWgTVSBDg

Ukrainian drone gives a present to a camouflaged Russian tank.

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1583472053293699072?s=20&t=5RUTKJXzT1311En8_MdnFQ

I have to wonder if a shotgun wouldn't be an extremely valuable weapon if one were a Russian soldier. That bomb had about a 3 second drop, so the thing's less than about 200 feet above the tank.

Mark Hamill has sent 500 drones to Ukraine in the past month.

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/3697568-mark-hamill-sent-500-drones-to-ukraine-in-past-month/

Yet more confirmation thousands of Ukrainian children have been stolen and sent to Russia to be adopted.

This story is horrific. Ukrainian kids being taken often against their will to Russia and then placed with new Russian families and then used as tools of propaganda on Russian tv Completely sick
https://twitter.com/jrpsaki/status/1583821217995190273

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/22/world/europe/ukraine-children-russia-adoptions.html

Terrible and utterly exploitative. Keep an eye on the US evangelicals too, they're up to the same shit.

Remember at the start of the war how the Ukrainians were raiding museums for antique weapons? Now, it's Russia's turn: https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1584203002935549953?s=20&t=S2bDoBzbcl5GAEhqypnpkQ

I wouldn't want to be on the crew that fired that thing (assuming it can actually make it anywhere remotely close to the front). Oh, and you absolutely want your sound on when you view that clip. About the only thing that could be funnier is if it was audio of a couple of drunk Russians talking about how they were going to die because of that thing before they ever made it to the front.

These T-34 tanks appear to be in better shape, though.

https://twitter.com/moose_shaggy/status/1584211004376113152?s=20&t=S2bDoBzbcl5GAEhqypnpkQ

The tweet is misleading. The image is from 2019 when Laos returned a bunch of T-34s to Russia because they were getting T-72s as replacements. The turrets still have Laotian roundels on them.

But...I wouldn't be shocked to see a burning T-34 at some point in Ukraine, either.