[Roosta]

Originally Posted by Guns N' Coffee ↗

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-ne...-tank-engines/

Russian army commander arrested for ‘selling tank engines’

Colonel Alexander Denisov is accused of stealing seven V-92S2 engines and trading them on the black market

A Russian army officer has been arrested for allegedly stealing the engines out of T-90 battle tanks.

The Kommersant newspaper reported that Colonel Alexander Denisov is accused of stealing seven V-92S2 engines worth 20.5 million roubles (around £200,000) between November 2021 and April 2022.

Col Denisov, who is in charge of technical support for tanks in the Southern Military District, was arrested last month near Rostov in southern Russia and was charged with “stealing parts intended to be installed on tanks”.

Corruption plagues Russia, especially in its military, and has been blamed for hindering the Russian army since it launched its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Russian soldiers have been sent into battle with rusty weapons and broken radios. Tanks have regularly run out of fuel and broken down.

Western analysts have estimated that Russia has lost nearly 2,000 tanks in the 14 months of the war and the Foreign Office has said that the Russian army has had to use previously mothballed T-62 tanks, produced before 1975, as battlefield replacements.

Since they entered service in the early 1990s, T-90 tanks have become the backbone of Russia’s armoured divisions. They were designed in the Soviet Union to be simple, light and fast and are now mainly powered by the 12-cylinder V-92S2 engine which is produced at the Chelyabinsk tractor factory, close to the Ural Mountains.

Each engine weighs roughly one tonne and can generate 1,000 horsepower. When it was introduced in 2000, the V-92S2 engine was considered the best and most powerful tank engine in the Russian army.

Prosecutors at the Rostov military garrison court in southern Russia said that Col Denisov had sold the engines on the black market. In 2019, two other Russian army officers were convicted of a similar theft.

Col Denisov has pleaded not guilty.

IMO, there would be huge black market operations going on. Weapons of all kinds would be sold or traded & with unlimited supply, probably no end in sight. Guns, Ammo, Grenades, Rocket & Missile Systems up for grabs & with the latest weapon of choice being the Drone Droppable Munitions & the technology of that would now be in unsafe / terrorist's or crook's hands to reign a new kind of terror worldwide. Kind of nasty to think about but it's a distinct possibility that these factors are now at play. Jihadists with Drones, Ah, No Thanks !

[Roosta]

Originally Posted by WonderMomma ↗

"In the frame, as they claim, is the famous Russian TV propagandist Olena Malysheva. Enjoys life in the United States of America.

According to the Navalny Foundation, Malysheva and her family purchased real estate in the States for $11 million, and this clearly exceeds her financial capabilities.

The fund is convinced that she received this money for supporting the Putin regime."

Take it & deport her.

[WonderMomma]

"In the Bryansk region, the train derailed as a result of undermining the tracks.

On the stretch of Rassukha-Unecha, a train with 60 wagons with oil products and lumber derailed due to an explosion of the rail. 7-8 wagons are currently lying on their sides. A fire started.

The governor of the Bryansk region, Alexander Bogomaz, said that there were no victims or injured. The movement of trains on the site is stopped."

Partisans are said to be responsible for this.

[WonderMomma]

Perhaps it is not talked about because it's not true?

"Russian actress, laureate of the State Prize of Russia, war supporter of war Olga Budina believes "God is running Russia" and that "America and England fought on the side of Germany" in WWII. "

[Guns N' Coffee]

Originally Posted by WonderMomma ↗

Perhaps it is not talked about because it's not true?

"Russian actress, laureate of the State Prize of Russia, war supporter of war Olga Budina believes "God is running Russia" and that "America and England fought on the side of Germany" in WWII. "

Delusional

"laureate of the State Prize of Russia for best work of fiction"

[scorpion9]

Originally Posted by Guns N' Coffee ↗

Delusional

"laureate of the State Prize of Russia for best work of fiction"

Ive watched countless hours of all kinds of documentaries on WW2 and i always wondered how it was possible for decent Germans...a civilized country to turn into an authoritarian hell where people believed obvious and absolute lies. Now, i get to see how it happened. Step by step, Russians fall into ever deeper delusion and start to worship authoritarian dictators more and more.

[WhiskeyOutpost]

Originally Posted by scorpion9 ↗

Ive watched countless hours of all kinds of documentaries on WW2 and i always wondered how it was possible for decent Germans...a civilized country to turn into an authoritarian hell where people believed obvious and absolute lies. Now, i get to see how it happened. Step by step, Russians fall into ever deeper delusion and start to worship authoritarian dictators more and more.

This is why I think people like ljubodrag and others are so interesting. And they are completely oblivious.

As for the idiot with Russian flag hat in the above videos, he claims these are "pointless" Ukrainian actions... how is it that a train loaded with things that enable Russia's war is derailed and deemed "pointless"...this is a standard and effective war tactic to undermine your enemy's logistics.

[WonderMomma]

"Russian Orthodox Mens Choir performed in Sydney Town Hall a few days ago. A group in Z shirts arrived to "support Russia"."

[WhiskeyOutpost]

All these "proud" Russians outside Russia. Gosh why'd you leave if it's so great?

[WonderMomma]

"Mobilization in occupied Mariupol! Recruitment commissions are starting to work in the city

The order of such commissions was signed by the leader of the so-called "DNR" Denis Pushylin. The document has already been posted on the "official" channels of the occupation administration.

"At first, the Russian occupiers brought war to Donetsk, destroyed its towns and villages, killed tens of thousands of civilians, made them hostages of circumstances, and now they want to make reservists out of them to throw at the front as cannon fodder. Russia has already proved to the whole world, that people's lives are worth nothing to her, they are just a resource for waging a bloody and aggressive war. But we believe that soon the Armed Forces will liberate our city from the invaders and Mariupol residents will be safe," - Mayor of Mariupol Vadym Boychenko.

Recruitments of men born 1996-2005 will continue until August in the occupied city."