Wagner Group Russian Mercenaries Hit By Ukraine

[Gromit]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/15/ukraine-claims-it-has-struck-base-used-by-wagner-group-paramilitaries

Good shot.

[jno]

the Russian journo may find himself in future nearer the front line than usual

[FatticusInch]

Intelligence has come a long way.
We were always taught to use very snappy VP(voice procedure) because the Russian DF(direction finding) equipment was superior, or so we were told and any transmission longer than 8 seconds would result in our position receiving the dreaded FOT(feck orf tablet) missile.
The advent of social media and advancements in photojournalism now mean you need your wits about you in every facet of the battlefield.
Massive boost for the Ukrainians.

[Gromit]

Bellingcat are superb at exploiting these errors, and tracking Russians by their media postings.

[Gromit]

// PRO-Russia mercenaries in Ukraine were killed in a rocket strike — after a photo gave away the position of their HQ.

Wagner Group hardmen were wiped out after a Vladimir Putin propagandist posted a picture which included a street name. //

[ichkeria]

It's not the first time these morons (meaning anyone on the russian side) have given themselves away like that.
I like the way report says "The paramilitary group has been linked by western intelligence agencies to the Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is a close associate of Vladimir Putin"
Prigozhin runs it, and it's effectively a wing of the russian military. Prigozhin was actually there a couple of days before, although there's been a picture of him since evidently, surveying the damage.
Meanwhile: another base in Crimea, at Dzhankoy, in the NE, has been blown up: possibly just munitions this time.
More careless smokers :-)

[ichkeria]

Amusingly, re Melitopol, there's actually a station on the railway line from there to Crimea called Partisany ...

[sunny-dave]

Remember this story :

https://www.businessinsider.com/ukrainian-man-tracked-russian-troops-after-airpods-stolen-2022-4?r=US&;IR=T

[Gromit]

Thanks sunny-dave, I hadn’t seen that :-)

[ichkeria]

Base also goes pop in Hvardiske, central Crimea.

The air pods thing was extraordinary

[ichkeria]

Last week there were long queues on the Kerch bridge out of Crimea after the incident at Saki.
Today there are big queues at Simferopol railway station.

[Khandro]

OMG! Russian refugees are fleeing to Europe:

https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-scholz-supports-russian-refugees-coming-to-eu/a-62813801

Will you be taking any in ichi? :0)

[Peter Pedant]

yeah Khandy the last time germany had that many russians was in Apr 1945

[ichkeria]

Scholz is holding out against a visa ban for Russians.
It is something many countries are calling for, and some have already done it.
If there was a way of stopping the holidaymakers but still allow those genuinely fleeing then I would be all in favour.

If those people in Simferopol are heading to Kerch, they will have to go via .. Dzhankoi, where one of the attacks was :-)