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As we near a third week of fighting, the incredible seems to have happened. David has hit back at Goliath and the giant has a sore head, for a number of reasons. It is often said that “amateurs talk tactics and professionals talk logistics”.
“We are working with pitch-up attacks from a distance from where the enemy can’t get us with their air defence system,” said the commander, who spoke anonymously for security reasons. Make no mistake, war is hell, and there should not be any glorification to soldiers and civilians dying on both sides of any conflict. Many of the Russian soldiers are young conscripts who are poorly trained pawns in a deadly game played by powerful, rich men with no feelings for the suffering they are creating. Thirdly, the viral nature of these resistance efforts coupled with the government’s call for volunteer fighters, has arguably accelerated an influx of foreign fighters arriving in Ukraine. Social media is playing a key role in the Ukrainian government’s recruitment efforts for its newly-established International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine. Out of the reportedly tens of thousands of foreigner nationals or Ukrainians living abroad now joining the fight, many are also sharing real-time tips via social media on what to bring and the best routes to travel to Ukraine.
As of July 2020, 28.5 million of Russia’s 144 million people used TikTok, according to internal data seen by WIRED. (Data for Ukraine was not available.) “Out of all the social media, TikTok is the one that is most visual[ly engaging],” says Agnes Venema, a national security and intelligence academic at the University of Malta. TikTok’s rise is—and always has been—a result of how easy it is to use.
Shot at by a Taliban sniper, Lt Evison was attacked in the entrance to Compound One on the morning of 9 May. Bleeding profusely, his men tried to give him medical attention, but his shoulder injury was so severe a medical evacuation (Medevac) or “9-liner” was required to take him by helicopter to Camp Bastion for emergency treatment. If you were Russia, and you were about to do something stupid, would you chat on the phone with your enemies loads or think 'ooo there's a bit of chaos going on in London, thats not a bad moment to dump a load of shit'. The Ukr soldier scrambling to reload his machine gun whilst the Ru truck tries to run the gap. It is hard to imagine how the soldiers live through this when they could easily have been a year ago sitting behind a desk at work.
Two have been injured in the Russian capital while one has been reported dead in Kyiv following daylight attacks in the Ukrainian capital on Monday. The Russian President labelled the drone volley a “terrorist attack” and claimed it was in response to what he described as an attack on a Ukrainian command centre in recent days but provided no evidence. The attack, which lightly damaged three apartment buildings, angered Russia‘s hawks who criticised President Vladimir Putin and the military brass for failing to protect the heart of Kremlin power more than 310 miles from the front line. Deputy Ukrainian defence minister Hanna Maliar dismissed the listings as a failed attempt to demoralise pro-Kyiv forces.
A granular perspective – a realistic one – would show us frantic men fighting for their lives as their tanks were consumed by flames, or the twisted, screaming features of the soldier as he fled. They have no emotional resonance unless you contemplate the implications. I am not saying that the perpetrators of war crimes do not deserve the very harshest of punishments, or that all sins are equally bad. But when we see a Russian soldier being killed, we know nothing about that specific man or his circumstances. When we cheer as a British missile destroys a Russian tank, we prefer not to think about what is actually happening in that moment.
"The Ukrainian defence still holds the western districts of the town but has been subjected to particularly intense Russian artillery fire over the previous 48 hours," the MoD said. Pictures of Mr Stoltenberg apparently paying tribute to fallen Ukrainian soldiers in Kyiv's St Michael's Square were published by local media. Fighting has raged in and around Bakhmut in Donetsk region for months, with Ukrainian forces holding out.
It is certainly the case the war has produced more media in a little over a month than most conflicts have in years, all of which we have been able to follow on social media. We have even seen snatches of violence, such as a haunting scene, which I cannot get out of my head, in which an old man is caught in the street, amid pure chaos and confusion, before a shell explodes and the camera jolts to black. Filmed by a Ukrainian army drone, it was said to portray a Russian infantryman running in panic back to his unit’s position, inadvertently revealing that position to the Ukrainians and enabling them to destroy it with a direct hit. The combat footage was originally posted on pro-Russian Telegram channels with the video later geolocated and verified for authenticity by western news outlets. Fighting in Ukraine has intensified as Vladimir Putin's increasingly desperate military looks to crush the fighting spirit of the Ukrainian defenders in the strategically important Donbas region. Incredible combat footage has been released from the Ukrainian side showing desperate up-close fighting as Ukraine's troops look to hold the line against the massive Russian onslaught.
PlayStation has shared that the game will not have a single player campaign mode and will instead be player vs player focused. The video showed off a heap of monsters coming to the game, for the first Dragon’s Dogma game in over a decade. The round-up has made it easier for Xbox fans to see what they can expect from Wednesday’s (May 25) PlayStation announcement.