Russia & Ukraine

You know, with the Wagner crap, today's much more interesting operation got lost in the noise.

Ukrainian intelligence services managed a pretty neat operation. They worked on a Russian MI-8 helicopter pilot for months, convinced him, smuggled his family out of Russia, he crossed the border on a mission that involved carrying a lot of spare parts for Russian fighter-bomber planes and successfully landed deep inside Ukraine.

The other members of the crew didn't know about this, tried to resist and were apparently eliminated by the ground troops. The pilot is safe and videos with him will be released in the next few days.

In other news, a Russian S-400 battery with all its rockets was quite spectacularly (caught on drone video) blown up deep inside Crimea. Cost: $300-600M depending on configuration.
 
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Some journo in Russia (Andrey Zacharov) confirmed that Prigozhin *and* the top commanders of Wagner have left Africa and were flying to Russia today. His words: "It would be a miracle if he was on a different plane."

Wagner is pretty much decapitated. Interesting, in the view of events in Africa...
 
Wagner chief admits to founding Russian troll farm sanctioned for meddling in US elections

“I react with pleasure,” Prigozhin said in the statement. “I’ve never just been the financier of the Internet Research Agency. I invented it, I created it, I managed it for a long time. It was founded to protect the Russian information space from boorish aggressive propaganda of anti-Russian narrative from the West.”

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/14/...zhin-internet-research-agency-intl/index.html
 
virtusa said:
If it has no value anymore as you say, I would just let them bomb the bridge. What happens confirms the big problem Russia will have when the bridge is gone. They even repare it each time.
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money spent, money must defend, that’s the same logic we spent 1 trillion at war in iraq hitting sandbags.

why would putin give anyone a satisfaction? with or without the bridge, ukraine is not getting crimea back. catherine the great won this prize from the turks even before founding of the us, those old europeans have long memories.
 
mervyn said:
money spent, money must defend, that’s the same logic we spent 1 trillion at war in iraq hitting sandbags.

why would putin give anyone a satisfaction? with or without the bridge, ukraine is not getting crimea back. catherine the great won this prize from the turks even before founding of the us, those old europeans have long memories.
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Months ago I wouldn't have believe someone if they told me you were just another vatnik propagandist.

What part of Russia are you from?
 
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