One of Putin's unofficial residences has burned down. The dacha in Altai is purported sit on top of a large bunker complex that Dobbie the house elf's evil twin used as a bolt-hole in the early stages of the war
It would be purely symbolic - there won't be enough military gear/personnel to make a strike worthwhile - for last year's parade they mustered a single T34 and a handful of Urals. This year maybe it'll be a sled towed by a pair of bolonka.
Reports suggesting that while docked at Sevastopol, the 111 year old ship Kommuna intercepted a Neptune missile. Laid down in 1912 and launched in 1913, it is (potentially was?) a submarine service and salvage ship in service with the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet, and the world's oldest active...
How much of an obstacle do the Senate represent in this - is passing this into actual material aid likely to meet further opposition?
And is it too late to add an amendment that sees MTG pay a visit to the front line?
Or clamp down on gatherings/postpone the presidential elections indefinitely.
Options seem to be
A) repeat of 1999 where the FSB blew up apartment buildings in a false flag operation
to either
i)blame it on Ukraine as an excuse to go harder, step up conscription, use more devastating weoponry...
Great news if they have taken another out of the fight, but it should be pointed out that a) this is not a new tactic and b) these Ropucha class vessels are large ships capable of (and have been used extensively for) shifting multiple fighting vehicles and hundreds of troops and/or cargo, and...
If* that interview above is genuine, the bloke is significantly braver than the cohort of able-bodied male Russians who scarpered when rumours there'd be a draft gained pace and have been conspicuous by their silence since - which would suggest the prevailing attitude in Russia is not so much...
Early reports coming out that the Freedom For Russia Legion have launched another incursion into Belgorod region around Terebreno and Starosel'e
Also that a transport aircraft allegedly carrying Wagner ops has crashed on landing in Mali
Same as it can always end. By declaring 'denazification' complete, repatriating all displaced persons and pulling his troops out of all occupied territory