The Crazy SOB Actually Did it!

[Allhallowsday]

the source for this is a facebook post. casting doubt because I'm pretty sure russians would understand about Chernobyl/ radiation

Perhaps these BOYS had no idea that they were near Chernobyl.  Perhaps they were afraid to disobey orders.  Perhaps it was just stupid army intelligence (dig trenches).  Duh. 
People no longer need the TV news to know what's happening in the world, but they do need discernment. 
I do believe RC is correct that BED PAN er, POO TIN does not care who dies.   

[RCMerchant]

the source for this is a facebook post. casting doubt because I'm pretty sure russians would understand about Chernobyl/ radiation

They took the city a month ago, genius.

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/25/1083210202/russia-chernobyl-ukraine

[lester1/2jr]

Russia have , for strategic purposes, pulled out of chernobyl, so the obvious conspiracy theory is they are leaving because they have developed cancer. Why would they dig trenches if there were no pp?

[RCMerchant]

^ They pulled out of Chernobyl, Wile E., because nothings  there.

[Leah]

Supposedly they pulled out after getting some nuclear material to make a dirty bomb.

[Newt]

Some brilliance from Twitter:

Andrej
@AndrejNkv
I am the very model of a Russian Major General
My standing in the battlefield is growing quite untenable
My forces, though equipped and given orders unequivocal
Did not expect the fight to be remotely this reciprocal

I used to have a tank brigade but now I have lost several
My fresh assaults are faltering with battleplans extemporal
I can't recover vehicles but farmers in a tractor can
It's all becoming rather reminiscent of Afghanistan

My ordnance is the best but only half my missiles make it there
I would have thought by now that we would be controllers of the air
But at the rate the snipers work my time here is ephemeral
I am the very model of a Russian Major General

[Rev. Powell]

The only non-paywall article I can find about Russian soldiers suffering radiation sickness after digging trenches in Chernobyl is skeptical.

https://www.newsweek.com/chernobyl-russia-troops-ukraine-yemelianenko-nuclear-1693714

I'm a complete layman, but this doesn't match my understanding of radiation in Chernobyl, either. You're exposed to high levels of background radiation and you develop cancer years later, you don't get sick immediately.

In good news, it looks like Putin appears to have temporarily abandoned his plans to take Kyiv. My uneducated guess is he'll focus on securing the East and some land connection to Crimea and then declare victory to save face. But capturing Mariupol will be brutal. 10,000 civilian deaths and the city mostly reduced to rubble isn't impossible to imagine.

[Trevor]

Some brilliance from Twitter:

Andrej
@AndrejNkv
I am the very model of a Russian Major General
My standing in the battlefield is growing quite untenable
My forces, though equipped and given orders unequivocal
Did not expect the fight to be remotely this reciprocal

I used to have a tank brigade but now I have lost several
My fresh assaults are faltering with battleplans extemporal
I can't recover vehicles but farmers in a tractor can
It's all becoming rather reminiscent of Afghanistan

My ordnance is the best but only half my missiles make it there
I would have thought by now that we would be controllers of the air
But at the rate the snipers work my time here is ephemeral
I am the very model of a Russian Major General

Wow: such true words from a soldier on the front line instead of a General sending brave soldiers ahead of himself.

I am on Twitter as well: @ZombieT14.

[Leah]

The only non-paywall article I can find about Russian soldiers suffering radiation sickness after digging trenches in Chernobyl is skeptical.

https://www.newsweek.com/chernobyl-russia-troops-ukraine-yemelianenko-nuclear-1693714

I'm a complete layman, but this doesn't match my understanding of radiation in Chernobyl, either. You're exposed to high levels of background radiation and you develop cancer years later, you don't get sick immediately.

In good news, it looks like Putin appears to have temporarily abandoned his plans to take Kyiv. My uneducated guess is he'll focus on securing the East and some land connection to Crimea and then declare victory to save face. But capturing Mariupol will be brutal. 10,000 civilian deaths and the city mostly reduced to rubble isn't impossible to imagine.

Orphan sources can speed up radiation sickness, see Goiâna Incident, Tammiku Caesium incident,  Lia Radiological Accident, so it is possible that the troops did get nuclear material and were transporting it without it being covered/sealed.

[Rev. Powell]

Nata posts more pictures of the streets of Kiev, and it looks like more people are out and about. Before the streets were always totally deserted. There is a lot of graffiti, I don't know if it was there before but I'm guessing since she took pictures of it it's new, probably anti-Russian stuff. The mood seems optimistic.



Meanwhile fighting continues on the outskirts of town. "The risk of dying (in Kyiv) is pretty high, and that's why my advice to anyone who wants to come back is: Please, take a little bit more time," Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said, issuing a warning to residents who have fled the capital. (https://news.yahoo.com/kyiv-mayor-says-big-battles-122029214.html)

[lester1/2jr]

misfit - Russia has tons of conventional weapons. They have no reason to make or use a dirty bomb

[Rev. Powell]

Nata still doing well. Posted pictures of the Bucha massacres. Too grotesque for me to repost, nothing you can't find with a Google search.

I am a little worried about my Russian friend because he posted saying that Russia was responsible for the killings in Bucha. This is illegal under Putin's regime. He had been careful not to call it a war previously (which is also illegal).

This guy posted a YouTube video from inside Kiev.

https://youtu.be/DqIF2U4g7H8

Special operation is hell.

[Alex]

Rather surprised by this, but our generally useless leader actually visited Ukraine in person. It would give me some respect for him if he hadn't done so much other stupid s**t.

Anyway:

https://twitter.com/defencehq

[lester1/2jr]

this is the unit that did the Bucha massacre

the guy second from the left looks kind of like Putin even though they are more overtly Asian in appearance


the Commander of the unit

[Alex]

Rev, how is your friend doing now? Hoping things have calmed down in Kyiv with the Russian withdrawal and redeployment.

Sadly (but not unexpectedly), I've been told that for reasons directly connected to my job I can't host a Ukrainian refugee, but we are still doing what we can to help out, sending over medical supplies and whatnot.