I love how, as everything else Ukraine has started doing successfully, this too has become the norm and barely makes the news. New 50-wave drone attack a couple nights ago damage more infrastructure in Russia
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1781584838186647556
The best part is that with how much their economy has regressed, they can't even repair most of these facilities. Picrel is from before the war.
Do we have any information on how effective/damaging the refinery strikes were? Last I heard something about a 15% decrease in output.
Russia's been forced to beg for petrol from Bulbastan and Kazakhs to satisfy internal needs, so it does have an effect.
I really hope the muscovite larp of pretending they're the new Rome works out for them just like it did the old Rome: with barbarian "allies" realizing their bosses are too damn weak to stop them from just taking over.
Who do you think will get to become Budget Byzantine?
Why yes. Yes we do actually. They didn't have any lasting effect, but they did raise the oil price for a while. Resulting in even higher oil revenues for Russia
Gotta pump up those numbers
Hm. A 33% restoration rate with that kind of speed would be consistent with cannibalizing some of the struck plants to get the others operational. Have you any news on which ones are still down and their location relative to the restored plants?
>T. not Ukie GRU
>unclassifed transactions
???
Maybe people are buying HIV-riddled blood. Or HIV-riddled child sex slaves. Or HIV-riddled gold.
Russian twinks on onlyfans
>unclassified transactions
Lmao
what game is this model from
Small indie Mafia State ran by the KGB pls understand
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Street Fighter 6
Oh dear, I feel my Male Gaze activating!
26% unclassified transactions.
What's that huge unknown chunk? Is it energy/mining related?
OnlyFans
Russia has lost the war and is absolutely fricked their last hope was unironically and surprisingly quislings in the US republican party in congress that must have taken decades for Russia to get in place and even they failed. Its fricking over for Russia and Putin. Longest three days in history.
When will they stop losing in the wrong direction?
The guy seemed pretty stoked about it lel
Let me guess, AA intercepted them but the debris caused the fires
It is funny how they decide to intercept everything so close to the potential target they are supposed to defend.
just so everyone is aware, it's a really god-awful idea to walk towards industrial fires. it's a much better idea to walk or run away from them, because you never know when it's going to BLEVE and suddenly the fire is much bigger than it was, or the thousand tons of AN is going to explode.
How else do we get to see these entertaining short clips?
I'd worry more about fumes than anything else.
A great rule of thumb is that, if you don't have special training, any fire that isn't like a small wood fire you run the frick away from. Even your average Walmart has high pressure gas containers and helium containers right next to flammable materials, literal firestarters, things with lithium ion batteries, etc. You do not want to stick around to find out if the fire being dealt with is just some furniture or an imminent gas explosion.
No he's right, you should worry about the possibility of it suddenly exploding for no apparent reason. As long as you're not downwind of some seriously toxic shit you should be ok for the short term, but an explosion can happen at any time and throw shrapnel.
>you should worry about the possibility of it suddenly exploding for no apparent reason
This. Depending on what's on fire, it could even explode multiple times as the fire spreads and reaches different explosive things at different times.
dont care, the footage is worth it
Here a small oil tank changes from gentle burning to '3rd degree burns at 200 yards'.
You don't want to be near anything hydrocarbon when it goes up.
I'm a dum-dum civilian, but even in my office job I got mandatory fire extinguisher training where they hammered into us to never ever use water to put out an oil fire because it'll just cause the oil to spread more. Do firefighters not have something better than the water hoses for stuff like this?
Presumable their aim was to cool the tank shell enough that it didn't rupture and spread burning crude everywhere and they misjudged it.
>Do firefighters not have something better than the water hoses for stuff like this?
Yes and no.
Just dumping water into an oil fire has two problems: oil floats, and water hitting something over ~300 Farenheit tends to explode directly into steam. Which splatters burning oil all over the place and creates a nasty fuel-air mixture.
With a Class-B (petrochem) fire that's putting up a huge column of flame, you need to cut off the draft of air feeding it. One of the ways you do that is by having one or more of your hose teams put a fine mist of water into the column. It cools down the fire a bit and kills some of the draft. Meanwhile, other teams come in pushing a raft of what is effectively a very thick soap foam over the surface. It floats on the oil and kills the oxygen feed and lets you cool everything below the flash point, while also slowly emulsifying the oil into a form that can't burn.
In a situation with ordnance or other potential explosives involved (E.G., a half-full storage tank of random unfriendly hydrocarbons) it's absolutely critical to keep it cool while you work, so you put teams on it nailing it with the coldest water you can get, and damn the oil slick. This gets really, really exciting when you have something that can cause a Class D (metal) fire, because those can burn hot enough to flash water into hydrogen and oxygen. I've watched a burning fighter jet sink at least a hundred feet underwater, still blazing away merrily. That shit is terrifying.
Also one of the things they don't really tell you about firefighting is that the hoses aren't usually used by spraying water on the flame. You use them to break up the fuel at the base, smother it, and cool it back down below the flash point. Anyone aiming high on a conventional class-A (paper, wood, anything that doesn't need special treatment) fire is soaking areas that haven't caught fire yet or tamping down some of the smoke with a mist.
I hope I can remember this if it ever happens to me. I'm definitely the kind of idiot who would be like "run into the fire to drag someone out" cause it's been embedded into my subconscious by movies
A block of flats burned down a few years back in my town, with one woman dying and a man (her neighbour) injured attempting to find her / save her.
Later an investigation found out that the woman who died was the arsonist. Apparently she was pissed off at her neighbour for being loud when he comes back from parties, so one night when he was out she broke into his place, doused everything in petrol, then set it on fire... which immediately knocked her out and / or cut off her escape route.
A while later the target of her neighbourly rage is coming back from a party, singing and drunk as a skunk, and suddenly he sees a crowd of evacuated neighbours outside and their block of flats in the process of burning down. His nice lady neighbour is unaccounted for, so he attempts to rush in and find her, but just gets some light burns for his trouble as others stop him. He's the sole injured person while his neighbour burns to death.
>normalgays think everyone loves them
>when they're actually the worst possible neighbors
Yeah that sounds about right
>successfully burned down his place AND injured him as a bonus
she won
when you have a nice day trying to ruin other's lives, you win
thx for the wise words trudeau.
>Woohoohooo
>This is not fricking fun by the way
>AWESOME
don't play with my heart Ivan is is fun or is it not
I will love to see them try. Hitler was surprised by Calais, but Putin can not make a move without it being known months in advance. Priceless.
I look forward to the destroyed armored columns littered with mobik corpses and body parts
>attack after the aid package and czech shells arriving
Genius
>then everyone see who freezings
uhh, Russians?
How the frick does this even happen
the recent floods?
no, this was before that, in the winter a bunch of heating pipes broke and some places got flooded by hot water and subsequently froze in the cold temperatures
many many districts in moscow and other big cities were left without heating and power for weeks.
the lingering moisture inside the walls and hard to reach cracks and crevices is going to cause widespread health problems from mold exposure as temperatures warm up, not great to induce a public health catastrophe in a society with dogshit public health services when they are already running low on labor. just going to restrict the labor pool even further and put even more pressure to fold more women into the war industry work force which of course runs counter to the state programs trying to encourage women to stay at home and have kids to offset the disastrous demographic situation of the country
There were pipes breaking after they couldn't keep the generators running on Putin's command.
They told the population what you just said.google gasoline shortages middle of summer last year.
The Russians ran out of gasoline last August. Had to limit it's usage including internally. They didn't have enough for the war and heating for generators mostly water.
They claimed it was break downs. A couple thousand Russians froze to death.
Um….
>2021
multipolar world things, you wouldn't understand.
Note the CRT TV - great for playing classic vidya and not available in the decadent West.
ehhhhh. things like this were happening pre war. Not indicative its because of the border dispute
froozy
Far as i'm aware one of the shiping missions for that included dedicating 80k men to taking severdonetsk (that rather small settlement opposite Lyman surrounded by open fields) so far attempts to get closer to the village have largely failed though
>he thinks that russians can take over the capital of ukrainian football hooligans and the ukrainian mafia
It would unironically be easier to take kyiv than kharkiv
>and the ukrainian mafia
that was donetsk though
>implying it was not the ukrainian mob that stopped the russian frickery in kharkiv in 2014
looks fine to me
just a big gas flare is all *~~
I've seen bullshit like this even before the war, who are you trying to fool?
>military spending feeds into wider growth
boy, i sure do wonder where we've seen that happen before, y'know, military industry eating an entire country alive.
might've been in a similar geographical area somewhere in the last century.
anyway, you can tell how shills jump on this one instantly when you mention it, they're very worried about their economic situation, contrary to popular belief, economies are not magic and you don't get to magically keep your economy healthy while sending hundreds of thousands to their deaths, getting one of your bigger sources of income set on fire and also getting largely strangled out of the international market and having to smuggle what you can inside at elevated prices.
you don't get to magically no u against that, as much as you might want to.
something that people also fail to mention is that a majority of that 144 million population isn't really providing anything to the economy nor are they making new babies because they're already too old.
only a very very specific part of that 144 million is getting sent to their deaths, and those are the ones that have jobs and are in the age range to make children, it really elevates the economic impact.
Much, much worse - Russia was already facing a demographic apocalypse, like most other countries, but even worse because they're a weeping anal fissure that only the poorest Uzbek peasant wants to immigrate to.
They've since decided to compound their vanishing population and fatally small working man population by sending their breeding and fighting age men to die by the hundreds of thousands.
At this point we've got to be somewhere at 500k dead and 1,000,000 total casualties.
Even worse, their warfighting ability is critically degrading with every month of the war that passes, which means the casualties only go up, and there's nothing that can be done about it.
We are literally watching the Country/Racial version of 'suicide by cop.'
*the RATE of casualties, I mean.
They've gone from hundreds of thousands of shells being lobbed at Sieverdonetsk and masssed armored pushes, to golf carts and human meat waves.
We're going to see the daily death toll continue to rise ever higher, especially as the last of Ruskie arty and armor dwindle, and US supplies start coming back in.
this is the part that i dont get about their confidence.
they've watched specifically their capabilities being reduced to pushing for small villages a few hundred meters at at a time, and this ever accelerates their loss rates.
anyone else would've realised that squeezing harder at this point is only going to bruise your hand, but at this point i think they'll keep trying to go on flesh alone even if they have no mechanisation left at all. it's complete insanity.
I don't know if this is the scrumpy talking, but the national character of Russia seems to be like a crack addict whose too messed up to sell themselves and has just started to go cold turkey.
Literally anything is better than where they are right now, so they are going to clutch onto the smallest of ups and ride it as long as they can, because they cannot possibly end up in a worse place and if they fall, then it's not a long way down for them.
>expand much more rapidly
>more military spending
1940s Germany called, they want their economy back. Germany also got short term economic growth when they spent 75% of their GDP on military. It didn’t lead to anything because it’s just temporary. If you want economic growth, it has to be consistent with a diverse economy rather than short term growth.
this is also partly what caused the USSR to collapse. they just kept spending more and more of their GDP on their military until there wasn't anything else left anymore.
Something thirdies never seem to grasp is that America with it's absurd military budget that's literally larger than some countries GDP is that it's still only a small amount of the total US Government's budget and can only remain at such high levels because it's being held up by an economy that utterly dwarfs pretty much every single other one in the world.
And shortly we will be spending more on interest on our national fricking debt than the military.
just cut social security
that's the funny thing, they don't have to.
If they start cutting those pensions then the true shitstorm sta- actually no. None of them would do shit. They are all cowards.
i mean i wouldn't want to be the person responsible for stopping terror attacks once a few million lead exposed boomers lose their pensions.
What is there even left to cut? You talk as it russian babuskas have a great life
>You talk as it russian babuskas have a great life
life of russian woman improves a lot after husband dies
>Social Security taking up 1.3 trillion dollars in outlays
everyday, i curse FDR's name
>everyday, i curse FDR's name
>he says, while living off his social security checks
>>he says, while living off his social security checks
how old do you think the average anon here is?
average? 40ish
Can someone who has it saved please update the bingo card?
That'll help us work out what the effects of this strike might be.
It still bewilders me that anyone actually thought people would freeze to death in Europe during the 2022-2023 winter. Actual logical thinking is not something that all people have.
>they only pay American car-payment tier price
You stupid fricking gorilla.
The IMF has no means to audit the Russian economy, so their projections are based on Rosstat projections. As the name implies, Rosstat is the Russian's state official statistics office.
>Europe will freeze over any second now
Guess that the old as frick boat getting hit must have caused vatnigs to bring back this old classic.
Wait another boat got hit?
ye some old ass trash heap
Oh, that's a shame, That ship was around before WWI only to get wasted on this idiocy.
I mean, from their perspective, what other cope do they have? Imagine having to do damage control for that fricking dystopia. What do you even say at this point?
>includes false narrative about Russian growth to contrast with Europe
>"Russia doesn't matter"
Oh really?
Except Germany hasn't inititated draconian economy saving governmental control, price rigging/fixing and selling their only commodity at bargain bin prices (only to then run out of said commodity and have to beg other states for said commodity). Russia itself has stated the sanctions nearly destroyed the country and it took a lot of effort to avoid that. If I have $100,000 and I lose $99,000 and only have $1000 left, I have lost a lot of money, 99% of it in fact. If I then get $1000 more, I have $2000. It isn't as much as before, but I have double the money I had before. I can now tell people my wealth has doubled/gone up 100%! See how IMF (predicting, based on stats Russia tells them) is bullshit?
>literally goes "no, u" against that
Not sure if this is just an industrial accident or sabotage, but the ELMASH plant responsible for making electric motors, electric generators, transformers, fans, hydraulic and pneumatic power equipment, electrical distribution and control equipment has just caught fire.
Source: https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1782310771550020084
I CAN NOT UNDERSTAND WHY RUSSIANS ARE NOT FRICKING BOMB POLAND AND BALTICS ALREADY!? WHAT THE FRICK ARE THEY WAITING FOR!!?
Because they don't want their capital city turned into a smoking crater probably.
hahah.. go on, i dare you motherfricker!
>meanwhile in reality
I wonder how pathetic this year's "victory" parade will be like
It'll have a few captured Western vehicles obviously. Because one leopard is a great victory, whereas Tanks (2922, of which destroyed: 1952, damaged: 156, abandoned: 300, captured: 514) is just a number
The ukies are doing a fine job with this stuff. They keep switching target types to force russian AA to move around and to spread thin. They just hit a big transformer some days ago. Maybe a new round of refinery strikes soon?
>The ukies are doing a fine job with this stuff.
what job? offensive on Vladivostok?
>force russian AA to move around
for what? it can't hit shit anyway
Xaxa! Decadent wectoid, is only spring cleaning! Fire clear out rats and drunkards more effective than go through with broom. Now ELMASH work at twice efficiently!
This is why the board is getting raided today by the way.
one of the reasons, main reason should be American aid
These inside Russian drone attacks aren’t not conducted by the UA but by the GRU. The drones themselves are GRU gear, the operation, command, control, etc are all GRU. Those cross-border raids are also GRU with their own troops, training, equipment, vehicles, etc. It’s basically like having to separate defense organizations in the same country. Since learning about how extensive the GRU’s militarization had become I bet you the REAL reason for Zaluzhny’s split with Zelensky was GRU taking over major military operations. No one is firing a famous well-liked general in the middle of a difficult, defensive war with the country at stake over a disagreement over mobilization, there had to be a real reason, and it could be that he was fighting tooth and nail resisting the GRU’s entry into military operations. Rationally speaking, these kinds of drone attacks would be air force operations but for some reason the intelligence agency is doing it? That’s well beyond just black ops and assassin types and full-on military.
>Those cross-border raids are also GRU
They're dissatisfied local Russians, actually
>for some reason the intelligence agency is doing it?
Sabotage operations at first by secret service, then it kept getting bigger until they have their own missiles, tanks and country. Just like the KGB.
Unfortunately their effectiveness can't be denied. It makes sense to have the spies run the operation because they need to smuggle men and gear into Russia (or else procure it from within). The question will be, can they be declawed after the war?
Also, the raiders are recruited and organized by GRU, but they are actually Russians. Like a reverse of DPR/LPR.
GRU is the military's intelligence service you dumb jit. I bet you don't even know the DIA exists.
Hell, I just love it when the government spends millions of dollars to destroy yet another rust shit on the other side of the globe when we have the cartels and the Ukrainian mafia literally running rampant....
It's true. Every damaged object costs us more than it costs them.
>2022-10-06 timestamp for a post from yesterday
If you're so afraid of being found out that you have to randomize filenames, maybe it would be a better alternative just not to spam the same images?
spam it more please butthurt homosexual
Why are you samegayging and seething here in particular?
Was this
really bad for Russia?
I'm going to check this out now because of this.
So, officially, it just makes what was mentioned earlier, but unless the Russian's were planning on bringing out a brand-new line of eco-friendly electric BMP-1's, which is a possibility since you are the same one who shat up the BMP thread; I can't see why this would make you so mad?
Except you do have a stake in it. Same reason why the Bongs in the 19th century helped nearly every South American colony gain independence. Because the world is interconnected. This isn't 2000BC where something happening in Europe doesn't affect what happens in South America. Also, imagine using a filename randomiser addon because you spam shit.
The only thing damaged here are your fricking brains
The chud is 100% right in that picture,if we remove the israelites all his problems go away.
Why would you be against it?Are you a israelite?
>blaming all your problems on an ethnoreligious group
Literally, actually factually NGMI as a man
>JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS
Welp, we've broken another /misc/ bot it seems.