Russia's War Against Ukraine

[GDS_Starfury]

and who doesnt love a day skidding logs in a Canadistanian forest?  :bd:

[Sir Slash]

Wasn't that an Olympic Event this time around? I forget.

[GDS_Starfury]

from the Moscow Times twitter feed:

Some 498 Russian service personnel have been killed in fighting in Ukraine, the country's defense ministry said, in the first official statement of Russian losses since the war began. Another 1,597 have been injured.

For days, Russian officials claimed they had suffered no casualties in the fighting, despite Ukrainian statements that they had killed more than 5,000 Russian fighters.

Russia's defense ministry also said it had killed 2,870 Ukrainians and injured around 3,700. Russia said it had captured 572 Ukrainians as prisoners of war.

[GDS_Starfury]

remind me again what the formula is for russian casualty reporting.
do we multiply by 5 or 10?

[GDS_Starfury]

todays updates Ukrainian numbers:

[GDS_Starfury]

also from what Ive seen the Uk Air Force got back an Su-27 that for some unknown reason landed in Romania

https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/budget-policy-operations/romania-returns-su-27-ukraine-air-force

[MengJiao]

I thought this was interesting, Wargaming.net, the World of Tanks company is originally a Belarus company.

They have fired their Creative Director for his pro-Russian, pro-invasion comments.

Apparently the company has "hundreds" of workers in Ukraine and they have made a large donation to the Ukrainian Red Cross.

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/world-of-tanks-dev-let-go-from-wargaming-after-pro-russia-comments/1100-6501146/

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2022-03-01-wargaming-fires-world-of-tanks-creative-director-following-pro-russia-statements

  There are a lot of Russian games out there (DCS world?  Enlisted?  War Thunder? Mius Front?  Battle of Stalingrad? etc.) that I was already cutting back on so maybe now its time for cutting back even more.

Muis Front is actually Ukrainian  so go buy ALL of that. Dont know about the others.

  That's good.  I'm pretty fond of Mius Front.

[ComradeP]

also from what Ive seen the Uk Air Force got back an Su-27 that for some unknown reason landed in Romania

https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/budget-policy-operations/romania-returns-su-27-ukraine-air-force

I thought crew would normally be interned and equipment confiscated for the duration of hostilities, after arriving in a neutral country.

In the part I can read without a subscription, it's not clear if the pilot deserted or simply couldn't return to his base due to Russian missile/air strikes.

[GDS_Starfury]

missile attacks on airbases the first night seems to be the reason.
it was also escorted, unarmed, back to the border by Mig-21s.  it had landed fully loaded with air to air missiles.

[steve58]

remind me again what the formula is for russian casualty reporting.
do we multiply by 5 or 10?

I've seen several reports that the Russians have/use field crematoriums to hide their actual body counts.

[Gusington]

Field crematoriums? Jesus.

[GDS_Starfury]

Ive seen a photo of one those trucks that got captured.  ???

heres a question for the mods...  theres a lot of graphic footage coming out now after the last few days of arty and missile strikes.
whats the policy of posting those here?

[GDS_Starfury]

Field crematoriums? Jesus.

just google it

[Jarhead0331]

Ive seen a photo of one those trucks that got captured.  ???

heres a question for the mods...  theres a lot of graphic footage coming out now after the last few days of arty and missile strikes.
whats the policy of posting those here?

I don't think it is necessary to post gratuitously violent or graphic imagery. Please use your best judgment, and if you simply can't help yourself, at least post a NSFW warning or hide it behind a spoiler alert...like this...

[spoiler][/spoiler]

[Gusington]

^Hahaha

My imagination is doing a good enough job on field crematoriums, no need for The Google.