Russia will take years to replace nuclear-capable bomber planes that were hit in Ukrainian drone strikes last weekend, according to Western military aviation experts, straining a modernisation programme that is already delayed.
Satellite photos of airfields in Siberia and Russia’s far north show extensive damage from the attacks, with several aircraft completely burnt out, although there are conflicting versions of the total number destroyed or damaged.
The United States assesses that up to 20 warplanes were hit - around half the number estimated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy - and around 10 were destroyed, two U.S. officials told Reuters.
“Rapist struggles to maintain an erection after victim shoots him in the dick.”
“…according to Western military aviation experts…”
What would you prefer?
Oh no…anyways.
There are 20+ visual confirmations, so 40 might be close to the real number.
Slava Ukraine!
Dear Russia and Putin, I wish to extend a few words of sympathy to you in these trying times:
LOL! Get fucked, you deserve everything you are getting.
Wish we could see the person that downvoted this
Posts are public on Lemmy. I can’t speak to specific instances and apps, but in the basic web interface, “View Votes” can be found under the three dot menu of each post.
I’ve heard about that but I haven’t seen it yet. I just get options for moderation history which is a really cool feature on its own.
I believe they can see it because they’re an admin of their own instance vs a standard user (I also cannot see who voted, and I think the API keeps that data private for everyone except admins)
Totally fine with that
Agreed, there was a massive discussion about it on github where that sort of was the general outcome at the end of the day as well
What’s fun, is that’s not AI. He was singing “where is thumbkin” which then goes down each finger “where is Pointer… where is Tallman….”
I’m the video, that smile comes on as he says “Here is Tallman”, knowing what the gesture was.
I always wondered about that gif. Thanks!
yeah. I saw it the other day when looking for someone dropping a bird with both hands, as a reply to some of this shit. Had to check, because… you know. Mr Rogers would never… (oh he did.)(with a smile!)
here’s the full song, if you were curious about the context.
I’ll be taking that. Thanks.
Oh gee that sure is unfortunate. /S
Wouldn’t it be funny if all these various nations just did a reverse uno and like 20 different nations started invading Russia and slicing it up for territorial gain?
Russia is so weak right now.
My dream is a united EU assault on Moscow to dethrone Putin and the Oligarchs and, hopefully, return the nation to a less corrupt state.
1 million saiga antelopes is already invading russia, to eat thier crops.
I’m in ur base, eating ur crops.
All your crops are belong to us
This is going to happen. The European age verification and messenger surveillance are preparations to control any remaining opposition for that war.
Yawn.
Nuked.
Wouldn’t be funny at all.
It may be the safest bet at dismantling this constant threat for good. Oftentimes the only way the bully learns is when they’re pushed back twice as hard.
Other than that, an Eastern European country really has no business having as much territory in Central and East Asia as Russia does. It’s like if Britain never lost its colonial empire; the whole thing should be torn down so woke shit like the right to self-determination can come to Russia.
russia still has lots of nukes at their disposal which acts as nuclear deterrent and many millions would die trying to slice up russia (getting downvoted because of facts, what a joke some people are)
everyone liked that
May Russia continue to suffer every struggle imaginable
You mean continue as it has been for the last few hundreds of years, got it.
Really, looking at world history I can’t really find a time of which I think: oh, it would’ve been nice to be Russian back then!
Being Russia(n) is just one giant cluster fuck and has been for a very long time. Or maybe not one giant, but several very big ones with small breaks of a few years in between.
So I’m happy I live in NL.
The US says it’s 20, and in their new capacity as an official mouthpiece for the government of Russia, you can be sure that means it’s 40. Maybe more.
At this point they might as well buy them from China.
Although it’s arguable whether it’s worth having strategic bombers anymore. If they only need a platform to launch cruise missiles there are over platforms that can do it.
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