Russian invasion of Ukraine

[Eebo]

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Wagner owned SU-24....shot down over Bakhmut.

Slava Ukraini.

Can't quite get my head around the idea of a private army, particularly on the Wagner scale. How on earth is a "Private Military Company" financed that it can own aircraft and fund 50,000 - 100,000 (or however many troops they have) with better equipment than the army of the nation it represents?

Do the Russian government just pay them via a contract? Is it like privatisation over here where we flog off the railways and water companies, or like the Covid procurement where the government give their mates fat contracts to siphon off public money?

 

[aguero93:20]

I blame the Welsh.

It's cattle the Argies have, not sheep.

 

[SPIDERBOY]

Can't quite get my head around the idea of a private army, particularly on the Wagner scale. How on earth is a "Private Military Company" financed that it can own aircraft and fund 50,000 - 100,000 (or however many troops they have) with better equipment than the army of the nation it represents?

Do the Russian government just pay them via a contract? Is it like privatisation over here where we flog off the railways and water companies, or like the Covid procurement where the government give their mates fat contracts to siphon off public money?

Patriot PMC are also there.
Its owned by Shoigu.

Slava Ukraini.

 

[RadcliffeRick]

It's cattle the Argies have, not sheep.

The Welsh are adoptable..

 

[Tuearts right boot]

Can't quite get my head around the idea of a private army, particularly on the Wagner scale. How on earth is a "Private Military Company" financed that it can own aircraft and fund 50,000 - 100,000 (or however many troops they have) with better equipment than the army of the nation it represents?

Do the Russian government just pay them via a contract? Is it like privatisation over here where we flog off the railways and water companies, or like the Covid procurement where the government give their mates fat contracts to siphon off public money?

Would you trust the russian government to pay you, you'd just fall out of a 6th floor window on receipt of invoice.

 

[Tuearts right boot]

The Welsh are adoptable..

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Is that adaptable or adoptable

 

[cleavers]

A worrying development for anyone from the west still living in russia.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Evening Update:

Ukraine update: The obscure, unheralded weapon that won the Battle of Vuhledar

It just can’t be overstated just what a disaster Vuhledar has been for Russia’s war effort in Ukraine.

m.dailykos.com

 

[SPIDERBOY]

More demented as each day passes.

Slava Ukraini.

Kadyrov said he could "take Kyiv" if Putin ordered it and showed a gun "for Zelensky" "We have a living force that can reach Kyiv and take Kyiv. If there is an order from the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, we are ready to go to America, we will leave Moldova far behind. We have all the necessary forces, means, and equipment to implement the order," he said. The head of Chechnya also spoke about a "trophy pistol" that he allegedly holds especially for the President of Ukraine, so that he could shoot himself like Hitler. Kadyrov said he allegedly always keeps it loaded.

 

[SPIDERBOY]

Russian base destroyed at Tokmak.

Slava Ukraini.