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This is one bizarre spectacle that I have (unfortunately) seen before. Kadyrov loves challenging people (especially fat out-of-shape russian officials) to random, on-the-spot push-up contests in front of the media so he can showcase what a Rambo he is. Problem is, he does push-ups like he is humping a goat and ends up making a fool of himself in front of the whole world while his posse of Tik Tok lackeys laugh and hoot and tell him how awesome he is. Don.
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A well travelled old fella I used to work with reckoned a kibbutz was true communism.
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Or a dik measuring contest over who believes their sky fairy the most
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If you like matriarchy and Xena type women.
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Never been to one. Gave it a like though for the Xena type women 
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NO REP!
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These dumb war bloggers don’t learn and I hope they never do. While they rant in the one paragraph about “sober assessments” and “we must all start telling the truth” they immediately follow that by underestimating their enemy by giving them no agency whatsoever and spouting “it was a NATO plan/it was all concocted by the British” bullshit. They are so blinded by their own propaganda they are incapable of doing what they are exhorting others to. (I suppose we all are to one extent or another, but these guys take the cake.)
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Russian headphones built for big heads, like the ones on planes . Forced to wear them that way if you forget the padding on top of the head to keep them in place.
If the newly blessed Russian fire engines are successful in putting out a serious long burning fire, maybe we could get these miracle working priests to bless Essendon before they run out on Saturday.
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Ukraine Reports Intense Fighting Near Pokrovsk As Russian Forces Press For Breakthrough
Last updated (GMT/UTC): August 21, 2024 22:21 GMT
Ukraine’s military said its forces came under repeated attack on August 21 around the town of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region, where Russian forces are pressing for a breakthrough.
In a statement, the General Staff of the Ukrainian military said there were 46 Russian attacks in the Pokrovsk area over the course of day. Of these, 44 were repelled and two were ongoing into the evening hours local time.
It also said 238 Russian troops were killed or wounded in the same area on August 21. It did not disclose Ukrainian losses, and it was not possible to verify the number of Russian soldiers killed.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine’s military was responding to the Russian push by strengthening its forces around Pokrovsk, one of the hottest areas of the front.
The Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine has ordered a forced evacuation of children with their parents or legal representatives from certain districts of the Donetsk region, including Pokrovsk.
There were dozens of other clashes across the front line on August 21. Most of them were repelled, according to the General Staff, but some continued into the late evening hours.
The governor of the Bryansk region of Russia, Aleksandr Bogomaz, said Russian forces prevented an attempted incursion into the region by Ukrainian troops. Bogomaz said the attempted breakthrough occurred in the Klimovo district of the region, which borders the Chernihiv region of Ukraine.
“The enemy has been hit by fire. Currently, the situation at the site of the clash has stabilized,” Bogomaz said on Telegram.
Ukraine said separately that it had destroyed a Russian pontoon bridges with U.S.-made weapons in Russia’s Kursk region. A video posted by Ukrainian special forces showed strikes on several pontoon crossings after Russia reported that Ukraine has destroyed at least three bridges over the Seym River.
“Where do Russian pontoon bridges ‘disappear’ in the Kursk region? Operators…accurately destroy them,” Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces said on Telegram.
Claims of battlefield success could not be independently verified.
The Kremlin believes the fighting to repel Ukraine’s incursion into the Kursk region will last for months and is trying to prepare the public for this “new normal,” sources close to the Russian presidential administration and the government have **told **the Meduza and Verstka news websites.
The reports came as Russia is battling to repel the two-week-old Ukrainian incursion into its region bordering Ukraine, where Kyiv’s forces say they control more than 1,260 square kilometers and 92 settlements.
The news outlets said the Ukrainian incursion “shocked” Russian elites, but now that the initial shock has passed, “they’ve gotten used to it.”
‘New Reality’
At the same time, the Kremlin is using its propaganda machine to try and prepare Russians for life in the conditions of a “new reality” and “new normality,” said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
“The Kremlin proposes convincing Russians that an enemy that breaks through to Russian territory will face ‘inevitable defeat,’ but ‘the return of territories will take time and Russians need to wait,’” one of the sources said.
Russian elites are expecting the resignations of those responsible for the Ukrainian breakthrough, a source told Meduza.
Ukraine’s leadership has repeatedly clarified that its bold move into Kursk is meant to establish a buffer zone inside Russia meant to protect Ukrainian civilians from cross-border Russian shelling.
The American Institute for the Study of War said Ukrainian forces continued to advance along the entire front line in Kursk.
Earlier on August 21, Ukrainian naval forces struck a Russian S-300 antiaircraft complex in Russia’s Rostov region, Ukraine’s General Staff reported, while Russia said it was subjected to one of the most intense waves of Ukrainian drone strikes that ever targeted the capital, Moscow.
Ukraine’s General Staff **said **the strike against the S-300 missile complex near the settlement of Novoshakhtinsk in the Rostov region was carried out by naval force units and the consequences of the strike are still being evaluated.
“Russian invaders also use S-300 missiles to attack peaceful Ukrainian cities, destroying residential buildings and terrorizing the civilian population,” the General Staff said.
Rostov regional Governor Vasily Golubev separately said a Ukrainian missile had been shot down in the region, without giving details.
Meanwhile, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said Ukrainian drones targeted the Russian capital in one of the largest such attacks, adding that air defenses shot down 10 of the drones.
“This is one of the largest attempts to attack Moscow with drones of all time,” Sobyanin wrote, adding no casualties or material damage were reported.
Russia’s Defense Ministry separately said its air defense systems shot down 45 Ukrainian drones.
“Eleven drones were destroyed over the Moscow region, 23 over the Bryansk region, six over the Belgorod region, three over the Kaluga region, and two over the Kursk region,” it said.
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Actually more like the women on Wonder Womans home island. i only visited one, never got to stay.
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I went to Lesbos once.
It wasn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
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So a Gal Godat led Amazon Kibbutz then. Makes sense.
Where exactly is this Kibbutz? And do they take gentiles?
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Ukraine war latest: Ukraine destroys 3, damages around 5 Russian aircraft in recent attack, source says
by The Kyiv Independent news deskAugust 21, 2024 11:51 PM7 min read
Key developments on Aug. 21:
- Ukraine destroys 3, damages around 5 Russian aircraft in recent attack, source says
- Russia has dropped 27 guided bombs on Kursk Oblast, Ukraine’s military claims
- Russia plans to respond to Ukraine’s Kursk Oblast incursion, military intelligence says
- Kremlin trying to convince the public that Ukrainian troops on Russian soil is ‘new normal,’ Meduza reports
- Both Ukraine and Russia unable to launch major offensives, Pentagon report says
Ukraine’s attack on the Savasleyka airbase in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod Oblast on Aug. 16 destroyed three Russian planes and damaged around five others, a military intelligence source told the Kyiv Independent on Aug. 21.
Russian warplanes based at the Savasleyka airfield include MiG-31K aircraft, a carrier of Kinzhalballistic missiles that Russia uses to attack Ukraine.
According to the source, the kamikaze drones operated by Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR) destroyed a Russian MiG-31K/I and two Il-76 aircraft and damaged about five aircraft, possibly including one more MiG-31K/I.
The previous strike on the Savasleyka airbase, carried out by HUR on Aug. 13, hit a Russian fuel and lubricants warehouse and damaged a MiG-31K/I plane, the source told the Kyiv Independent.
Explosions were also reported at the Borisoglebsk and Baltimore airbases in Voronezh Oblast overnight on Aug. 14. Ukraine’s General Staff confirmed the attack, saying that Su-34 fighter-bombers, Su-35 fighters, and other aircraft were based on the three said airfields.
Eleven MIG-31K/I aircraft, an Il-76, five Mi-8 and Mi-24 helicopters were stationed at the Savasleyka at the time of the strike, the source said, citing the agency’s satellite images.
The Kyiv Independent could not verify these claims.
Ukraine has carried out a number of strikes against airbases in an effort to weaken the more powerful Russian Air Force. An attack against an airbase in Lipetsk Oblast on Aug. 9 destroyed more than 700 bombs, a Ukrainian intelligence source told the Kyiv Independent.
Russia has dropped 27 guided bombs on Kursk Oblast, Ukraine's military claims
Russian aircraft have dropped 27 guided aerial bombs on settlements in embattled Kursk Oblast, Ukraine’s General Staff said in its latest update on Aug. 21.
Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi, said that Kyiv had advanced between 28-35 kilometers (18-21 miles) into Russia’s Kursk Oblast as the unprecedented incursion entered its third week. According to Syrskyi, Ukraine has captured 1,263 square kilometers (488 square miles) of Russian territory and 93 settlements.
Russian forces have conducted at least 17 airstrikes against Kursk Oblast, using guided aerial bombs, Ukraine’s military said on Aug. 21.
According to President Volodymyr Zelensky, Moscow launched a total of 750 guided aerial bombs on Ukrainian cities and villages last week.
Guided aerial bombs, while having a shorter range than missiles, are cheaper to produce and are launched from aircraft within Russian territory or Russian-occupied territories, beyond the reach of Ukrainian air defense.
Russia also continues shelling border settlements in Ukraine’s Sumy Oblast, which borders Russia’s Kursk Oblast, including the villages of Porozok and Poznia. Ukrainian authorities are planning to evacuate a total of 45,000 residents from the region amid intensified Russian attacks.
Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk published a video on Aug. 21 purporting to show Ukrainian pilots’ attacks on Russian troops who are “actively occupying civilian facilities” in Kursk Oblast.
“We see everything, we know everything. Our precision bombs will get you everywhere,” Oleshchuk said.
Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said on Aug. 14 that Ukraine’s military is creating a “security zone” on Russian territory to protect Ukrainian border areas. Vereshchuk said that Ukraine would be conducting humanitarian operations in the area, including creating safe corridors for civilians to evacuate — both toward Ukraine and to other parts of Russia.
International humanitarian organizations will also be allowed to enter the area to support the civilian population and monitor the situation, she added.
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There’s no point sharing a Kibbutz with Gal Godat if they remove your gentiles.
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