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1/ Russian warbloggers are advocating various ways of taking revenge on Ukraine, but Komsomolskaya Pravda journalist and propagandist Dmitry Steshin has proposed an option which even the warbloggers aren't sure about: nuking Chornobyl. ⬇️ Image
2/ Responding to another channel's complaint that the West isn't taking Russia's nuclear threats seriously, Steshin suggests:
3/ "Why not use tactical nuclear weapons in the 30-kilometer Chernobyl "exclusion zone" to demonstrate Russian restraint? Seriously, use it as much as you want!"
4/ 'Dirty Harry. Igor Gomelsky' retorts that this is the level of understanding that you get when "you studied the history of the Chernobyl disaster from the film by Dani Kozlovsky. Dear Mother!" (The 2021 movie Chernobyl: Abyss is a 'patriotic' take on the disaster.)
5/ 'Voyenkor Astrakhan' bluntly remarks: "the authors of posts about how it would be good to fire nuclear weapons are consistently inadequate: first they overslept in the Civil Defence school, then they overslept in military training, then they took a nap...
6/ ...at work/in the military department and, without waking up, got to the point of being able to write posts.
7/ "The proposals to fire nuclear weapons at Ukrainian nuclear power plants are especially good, considering that the territory of the Russian Federation and Belarus falls within the contamination zone." /end

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1/ Foreign-made components in Russian Kilo-class submarines in the Black Sea Fleet have reportedly been systematically stripped out and replaced with Russian or Chinese components. However, this is said to have resulted in corruption and significant problems with reliability. ⬇️ Image
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1/ The Russian Air Force's inability to protect its aircraft against Ukrainian drones is symptomatic of its neglected status within the Russian armed forces, according to a prominent milblogger linked to the air force. He says it is afflicted by "desperation and poverty". ⬇️ Image
2/ The Fighterbomber Telegram channel, which is believed to be run by a former Russian Air Force captain, comments that "the [Aerospace Forces] Commander-in-Chief could not do anything in the current situation" because of a chronic lack of resources.
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3/ "Our subscriber saw full-scale exhibits and heard a speech by the authors of the development at the Army-2023 exhibition – an unmanned aerial system for electronic suppression of FPV drones.
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