Oorlog in Oekraïne #891

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Op dinsdag 24 oktober 2023 17:20 schreef Delenlill het volgende:
https://www.the-express.c(...)citated-heart-attack
Vladimir Putin spotted with ‘scar on his throat’ after reports of being ‘resuscitated’
Vladimir Putin's health is under scrutiny after reports emerged claiming the Russian leader had to undergo intensive care after suffering from a heart attack.

Vladimir Putin spotted with ‘scar on his throat’ after reports of being ‘resuscitated’
Vladimir Putin's health is under scrutiny after reports emerged claiming the Russian leader had to undergo intensive care after suffering from a heart attack.

Vladimir Putin 'Russia Can Make A Contribution To The Peace Process'
Video of Vladimir Putin has been fuelling speculation about his health after eagle-eyed observers noticed a scar on his neck.

The clip began circulating online before reports emerged claiming the Russian leader had suffered a heart attack and had to receive intensive care.

The footage shows Putin speaking at an unspecified public event, a scar clearly marking his neck – with some analysts suggesting it might be the result of "resuscitation" procedures.

A Telegram channel believed to belong to a former Kremlin official claimed Putin's health had sparked huge "alarm" across Moscow.

The insider alleged that the Russian leader was found "lying on the floor, rolling his eyes" after suffering a suspected heart episode.

They went on to claim Putin was then transferred to a special medical facility to undergo intensive care.
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Dat zou dan wel heel snel geheeld zijn als er nu al een litteken te zien was. Al is het natuurlijk maar een heel klein wondje wat achtergelaten wordt.

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Op dinsdag 24 oktober 2023 17:31 schreef Starhopper het volgende:

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De video is blijkbaar uit 2021:

https://tass.ru/obschestvo/11781965

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Op dinsdag 24 oktober 2023 17:35 schreef Delenlill het volgende:

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Aaah ja ik zie het. Dat verklaart dan waarom de litteken al zo geheeld leek. Jammer dan.

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Op dinsdag 24 oktober 2023 17:35 schreef Starhopper het volgende:

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Ja. Het kon zo mooi zijn

Of dit is juist goed nieuws. Dan is er dus geen recente video van hem. Misschien ligt hij nog half dood in het ziekenhuis.

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Russian Oil Magnate Found Dead as Spate of Mysterious Deaths Continues
The head of one of Russia's largest oil companies has died, Russian state media reported on Tuesday, marking the latest in a string of deaths among the country's top oil executives.

Vladimir Nekrasov, the head of the board of directors at Lukoil, died after what initial medical reports suggest was "acute heart failure," state-run news agency Tass reported on Tuesday, citing the company. He spent almost 50 years in the oil and gas industry, Russian media reported.

Newsweek reached out to Lukoil for comment via email.

He is the third of Lukoil's senior executives to die since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine 20 months ago.

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The Ukrainians Blew Up So Many Russian BMD-2 Vehicles That The Kremlin Had To Reactivate Its Unlucky BMD-3s
The Kremlin continues to reach deep into old warehouses, vehicle parks and test sites for armored vehicles—any armored vehicles—to carry its troops into battle in Ukraine.

The latest is the BMD-3: a lightweight, air-droppable infantry fighting vehicle that combines a hull inspired by the older BMD-2 with the turret and 30-millimeter autocannon of the heavier BMP-2 IFV.

A pair of the seven-person BMD-3s appeared in a photo from the Ukraine front line that circulated online this week.

The 1990s-vintage BMD-3 is much newer than the BTR-50 armored personnel carrier that the Kremlin also has returned to service, decades after its retirement, in order to make good some of the losses—more than 5,000 vehicles and counting—its forces have suffered in Russia’s 21-month wider war on Ukraine.

It’s much better-armed than any of the do-it-yourself fighting vehicles the Russians have built on the chassis of old MT-LB armored tractors.

What’s weird about the BMD-3’s appearance in Ukraine isn’t that it’s too old or poorly-armed. What’s weird is that the Russian airborne forces decided years ago that the type wasn’t worth the cost of supporting it. It took the war in Ukraine to change the calculus.

The BMD line of IFVs stretches back to the 1960s. The main design principle is lightness—so that a transport plane can haul, and drop via parachute, one or more of the IFVs.

That lightness—14 tons in the case of the BMD-3—makes for a poorly-protected vehicle, albeit no more poorly-protected than, say, an MT-LB or an American M-113 APC.

The Kremlin’s goal, when it launched development of the BMD-3 back in the 1980s, was to add protection and firepower without sacrificing air-transportability.

The BMD-3 was an unlucky design, however. It entered production in 1990, right before the Soviet Union collapsed. The resulting economic chaos cut short the new BMD’s production run. The airborne forces acquired just 137 BMD-3s and used them for only a few years before putting them in storage.

The type’s improvements simply couldn’t justify the high cost of supporting a small fleet—not when the airborne forces already had thousands of BMD-2s in active service or in storage.

But in the nearly two years of Russia’s wider war on Ukraine, airborne regiments have lost 250 or more BMD-2s: 10 percent of the fleet. Reactivating all 137 BMD-3s nearly would make good losses of the earlier models—and buy time for the Russian defense industry to produce new vehicles.

The big question is what happens next. After the BMD-3s run out, potentially as early as next year if the current loss-rate holds, does the the Kremlin reach even deeper into its stores of old Cold War vehicles?

Does it, for example, reactivate wheeled BTR-40 scout cars from the 1950s?