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I haven't heard anything like that from him for 15 years.
With new assignment we definitely hear something about non-existing Ukrainian nation. There is no such thing like former nazi.
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it's also used to refer to a bundle of wood in england.
Thanks, now I get it. Now... what's the Russian F-word that Rogozin was apparently using? гомик? педик? these are pejorative rather than grossly offensive. пидорас is probably the best translation, but it is more of a slur than a contentful word. I am genuinely puzzled.
N-word as well. Ordinary Russians will fight tooth and nail for their right to use this word.
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They are enough to f*ck up Russian logistics behind the lines. Without a massive supply of shells from the rear to the guns themselves, the Russian artillery is incapable of executing their beloved "bomb everything into pieces" WWI-style doctrine. And the Ukrainians have destroyed an untold number of Russian ammo dumps in the last weeks. Some of the explosions have been truly spectacular. This isn't something you can…
The thing that the west is unwilling to do is give the Ukrainians cruise missiles. The Russians have lots and lots of these in the form of Kalibr and Iskander missiles that they launch from ships and mobile launchers and it seems to be making all the difference.
Do they still have them or have they used most of them up?
IIRC, for all the attention they get, the US has surprisingly few cruise missiles and would use up its stockpiles pretty quickly in a war like that in Ukraine.
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What do you mean specifically?
Here's a recent episode (he was banned from Twitter for that): "Dmitry Rogozin (Director General of Russia’s Roskosmos State Space Agency, former Deputy Prime Minister) – comments on his Twitter feed and Telegram channel (June 13, 2022) “In general, what has grown up in the place of Ukraine is an existential threat to the Russian people, Russian history, Russian language and Russian civilization. If we do not put an…
Luckily I decided to look into it a bit.
It turned out that Shahnazarov was saying the reverse -- some evil forces decided to eradicate Russians (and that's why Putin fights the war) and 'they' won't have mercy even for the anti-war activists -- hence 'concentration camps, reeducation and sterilization' for pro-Western Russians too.
Here is the full video from which parts were cut and rearranged -- https://t.me/kolezev/11213 .
The article itself is written by an American and helpfully translated into Ukrainian to let Ukrainians know what Russians think of them.
Rogozin's quote seems real though -- the link leads to what looks like his Telegram channel :-(
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There really will be nothing left of Donbwabwe and Luganda once the Russian army is done with them: no buildings/infrastructure (blown up by enemy artillery, or possibly own artillery if there is ever a counteroffensive), but certainly no capable men (all forcefully drafted into the army and then killed or maimed in combat). The worst part is that both sides have the resources and will to continue fighting for quite…
Prediction: HIMARS 300 km. Destroys the Russian dependency on railroads and with that, Russian military logistics capacity. Eg. Crimea: https://warsawinstitute.org/train-crimea-russia-condemned-op... https://newsbeezer.com/vietnameng/russia-deploys-smoke-scree... Their priority is also their weakness. Just look at the slow Russian advance without railroads in eg. Kyiv in the beginning of the war. They were stalled fo…
That's a bit too wonder-weapony for me to think that it will actually happen that way.
That Crimean bridge seems like it could be destroyed effectively, but it's out of range. With the Donbas, I wonder if any damage could be repaired relatively quickly, since it would obviously be a priority.
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The thing that the west is unwilling to do is give the Ukrainians cruise missiles. The Russians have lots and lots of these in the form of Kalibr and Iskander missiles that they launch from ships and mobile launchers and it seems to be making all the difference.
> The Russians have lots and lots of these in the form of Kalibar and Islander missiles that they launch from ships and mobile launchers and it seems to be making all the difference. Do they still have them or have they used most of them up? IIRC, for all the attention they get, the US has surprisingly few cruise missiles and would use up its stockpiles pretty quickly in a war like that in Ukraine.
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> If Russia is pushed back into its borders, it will take a couple of years to ramp up weapons production and will retry Or the current regime will collapse. That often happens with large scale defeats, especially without a democratic outlet for internal change within the system.
I saw very few regime collapses unless an army steps into the capital. That's not going to happen to Russia (Mutual Assured Destruction.) The worst it will happen to Putin is that he'll be locked in into Russia and have to kill more and more Russian people.
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The thing that the west is unwilling to do is give the Ukrainians cruise missiles. The Russians have lots and lots of these in the form of Kalibr and Iskander missiles that they launch from ships and mobile launchers and it seems to be making all the difference.
Well west is unwilling to supply modern tanks so Cruise missles look to be def. of the table. Ukraine is even short on basic armored personnel carriers and even regular consumer trucks widely used by military (mostly supplied by volunteers).
In the case of this war at this very moment, it is long range high precision artillery. HIMARS eats rockets like crazy, it needs to be supplied constantly.
Once those supply chains are fully built and safe, they can talk about adding tanks to the mix.
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> The Russians have lots and lots of these in the form of Kalibar and Islander missiles that they launch from ships and mobile launchers and it seems to be making all the difference. Do they still have them or have they used most of them up? IIRC, for all the attention they get, the US has surprisingly few cruise missiles and would use up its stockpiles pretty quickly in a war like that in Ukraine.
Russia is no where near running out of missiles. they still have a ridiculous amount of them.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/russia-now-firing-s-30...