Russia Ukraine Update Thread - part 2

a reply to: Kenzo

I have sent you a PM.

a reply to: Kenzo

The similarities are so numerous as to be curiously weird.

Cheers

a reply to: xpert11

Roger, reply send

The Russian neo-nazi group telegram channel we talked here earlyer seems to have been now removed , because the content was so brutal / terrorism related.


#Apple asked #Telegram to remove a bunch of Russian terrorist, disinformation & propaganda accounts or risk being booted off of the App Store. Telegram complied

This is amazing even with Russian standart if this is true :


Just needs a bit of elbow grease!


#Primorye: #Mobilized conscripts report they were handed half-rotten Kalashnikov assault rifles. They are, to put it mildly, shocked.

originally posted by: Kenzo

This is amazing even with Russian standart if this is true :

Is it bad of me, that the moment i saw that rifle I laughed, while also frowning and grinning all at once...

God, I guess that answers the question about what is ruZZia gonna equip all these troops with... if those are the guns WTF is the ammo like?

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Anyone who is familiar with AK’s knows you can drag one through the mud and dirt all day long and it will still fire off rounds down range. As long as the bolt can move to the rear it will work, although ugly as it is. Try that with an M-4/16

originally posted by: BigfootNZ

originally posted by: Kenzo

This is amazing even with Russian standart if this is true :

Is it bad of me, that the moment i saw that rifle I laughed, while also frowning and grinning all at once...

God, I guess that answers the question about what is ruZZia gonna equip all these troops with... if those are the guns WTF is the ammo like?

That's what gets me too. I know that a lot of people have been bemoaning the fact that the Russian Army has literally billions of rounds in storage, along with millions of shells, but a) if it's not stored properly then you're going to get a hell of a lot of mis-fires due to rust and b) artillery shells have to be tested every few decades to make sure that the explosive/propellant hasn't degraded and therefore isn't likely to explode in the barrel.
They're giving out a lot of old equipment and ammunition to men who haven't picked up a rifle in a decade or more, give them little if any re-training and then throwing them into action, if they can even get them there (and feed them along the way). They're literal cannon fodder. This is madness.

a reply to: Kenzo

They're AK's, they'll probably still work lol.

originally posted by: 38181
a reply to: Kenzo

Anyone who is familiar with AK’s knows you can drag one through the mud and dirt all day long and it will still fire off rounds down range. As long as the bolt can move to the rear it will work, although ugly as it is. Try that with an M-4/16

That may be... but the moral damage to a soldier being handed one of those as your expected to go fight in a war. If they werent already reluctant, seeing that would knock the feet from under you completely.

An utter confidence killer.

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I never even see AK`s that i remember...

If those rusty guns still work i am impressed But it would have been easy task to store those in proper way, without getting rust , so i am not impressed how their way of doing things .

This might be because corruption, someone from RF selled the newer AK`s to some third World conflict..

Another...this one shows rust in AK`s magazine. If the rust is also inside magazine it might jam ?

Another video of the issuance of weapons for the "second army of the world"

originally posted by: BigfootNZ

originally posted by: 38181
a reply to: Kenzo

Anyone who is familiar with AK’s knows you can drag one through the mud and dirt all day long and it will still fire off rounds down range. As long as the bolt can move to the rear it will work, although ugly as it is. Try that with an M-4/16

That may be... but the moral damage to a soldier being handed one of those as your expected to go fight in a war. If they werent already reluctant, seeing that would knock the feet from under you completely.



An utter confidence killer.

Or maybe a motivator to kill their opponents and get their good weapons?

Rusty AK`s

Igor Girkin twitter

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And ammo . I never seen these rusty AK`s in midle east or other places .

a reply to: Kenzo

Mostly surface rust on the top guard and magazine, those things always rust fast even with oil.must be pretty humid there. The receiver portion doesn’t look too bad and I’m sure the inside is oiled up, I was hoping to see him pull the bolt back, that would be a sure sign if it was junk or not.

a reply to: 38181

Yeeh , ok find this video, look`s like those really work even with rust or no oil lol

Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of propaganda Russia Today is not happy how the mobilization has been done.


Russian propagandist Simonyan in hysterics: they are trying to mobilize everyone without busting

You can read directly from her telegram also ( google translate on )


@margaritasimonyan Telegram channel


She is editor in chief of state run media, so this put this all to another level of dissatisfaction ,

Putin has this week doubled the amount of prison time a soldier can expect to serve from 5 years to 10 should they refuse to fight, desert, disobey orders or surrender to Ukraine , previously 5 years now doubled to 10.

Russian troops who refuse to fight, desert, disobey orders or surrender to Ukraine could now face up to 10 years in prison.

The new law was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, local media reports.

It was approved earlier in the week by the Houses of Parliament.

Previously, deserting troops had faced five years in prison.

However, there have been widespread reports of Russian soldiers in Ukraine refusing to fight - or fleeing the country to avoid being called up.
news.sky.com...