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Russia Helps the Independence Republics - and what's it mean for Ukraine ?

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  Eduard Basurin, who represents the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, says assault troops are being helped by Russian aircraft and artillery. There you go. Russia says it must be ok to send aircraft and artillery- as it has already stated it has done so.   

Little humour amidst tragedy

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 Oh well, the pic was titled damaged bridge . I thought the description was admirable .....

Moskva and Neptune Missiles

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 Don't know about you but I was wondering about this ship sinking and how it happened ...  The hard info [below] can be found by search .  Anyhow, it's a lorry launched [air] system developed from a Russian design and designed to knock out ships up to 5000 tonnes . Moskva was 15,000, but got hit twice.  The ship was designed to protect other vessels from incoming missiles . It looks like it might have been targeted to allow for future hits maybe ?  The strategy was to hassle the defences with drones , and then launch whilst distracted , and was rather successful ,, hitting a loaded missile tube [ apparently ] thereby multiplying its destructive power . This and other aspects of Ukraine defence certainly look and feel like intelligent warfare, by far better than in 2014 , when Russia first attacked . One tidbit I recall reading was a few weeks  before the start of the war and stated that Ukraine defences were much better now than in 2014, [they said] primari...