#strizh

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You know when Tumblr user buttercup-barf posts their older notebook doodles, they have only the silliest things in store...

I feel like I may have posted some of these already? Sorry if I have. Tee-hee.

I love her. She's still like anti-stress for my hands. :-]

And the duality of Ronna (happy woman deeply in love and absolutely miserable broken person).

#pizza tower #twinsomnia #peppino spaghetti #strizh/shilo #ronna kuruz #honestly with the context of sock.clip's recent animation where recd (guy who did a vocal cover of some pizza tower songs) voiced boy this- #-is pretty funny in hindsight.

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«I heard the world would turn to hell

Compared to that, I'm doing well.»

#by streej #original art #original character #oc #digital art #illustration #artists on tumblr #art #jason strizh #will wood #detective autistic #my lore #drawing #artwork

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Russian Military Airbases Attacked

Ukraine is believed to have sent three, maybe four, modified Soviet-era Tupolev Tu-141 Strizh (Swift) drones deep into Russian territory on Sunday and Monday, targeting airbases being used to attack Ukrainian cities. Russia said one of drones killed three Russian military personnel at Dyagilevo military base, about 300 miles from the closest Ukrainian-held territory — and only 100 miles from Moscow.

Jet-powered Tu-141 surveillance drones, made in the 1970s and 1980s, have a range of up to 620 miles. The ones used this week were modified by Ukraine, using Ukrainian technology, Politico reports. "The modifications showcase the ability of the Ukrainian defense industry to innovate, even as Russia is forced to buy cheap Iranian drones."

The drone attacks also uncovered embarrassing weaknesses in Moscow's air defense and struck a psychological blow inside Russia, where civilians are already upset over a mass conscription of men to fight in Ukraine. As of this week, former Ukrainian Defense Minister Andriy Zagorodnyuk tells the Times, "the understandings of Russians that they are invincible and cannot be reached in Russia is not going to be there."

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Photographer Yana Strizh

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Yana Strizh.

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Launch of a Ukrainian Túpolev Tu-141 Strizh drone transformed into a "cruise missile" to target Russian assets far from the front

#modern #missile systems #improvised armor #russo-ukrainian war #combat footage

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Video shows the special operations of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine in December 2022.

The Diaghilev and Engels airbases, located 500 km from the Ukrainian border, were attacked using Soviet Tu-141 Strizh UAVs converted into kamikaze UAVs.

At least one Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bomber was significantly damaged then.

TOLD YA:

@front_ukrainian posts this from the UKR Min. of Defense confirming that last year’s attacks on RU's Diaghilev & Engels 2 airbases were hit using ex-Soviet Tu-141 Strizh recon/strike UAVs.

It's assessed as highly unlikely trolls will now DM us with sincere apologies.

[belles-endormies]

Jana Strizh

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A new Russian propaganda show debuted a few days ago on YouTube, which has blocked numerous channels connected to the Russian state, including Russia Today, the “LDNR” People’s Republics, Vladimir Solovyov, and others. Parent company Google started purging this content well before the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine on the grounds that it violates YouTube’s community rules. Now one project is trying to claw back that audience with a program called “Z-Girlfriends,” whose creators say their main goal is to support Russian troops as they fight in Ukraine.

‘Z-Girlfriends’ is modeled on popular lifestyle content, but the first episode demonstrates that its aim is pro-invasion propaganda

The show’s name is clearly borrowed from “Girlfriends,” a Russian-language YouTube show that included more than 40 episodes and wrapped up in 2021. On that earlier program, the hosts discussed “taboo themes related to sex,” attracting millions of views.

The first episode of Z-Girlfriends features three hosts, each with a background in propagandizing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. There’s Anastasia Kashevarova, a former aide for State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, and Ekaterina Agranovich, who worked as a producer on a recently released miniseries called “Mobilization,” which tells the story of a disillusioned man living in Donetsk who leaves for Moscow on the eve of Russia’s full-scale invasion and then returns as a draftee. (The miniseries was filmed entirely in occupied Ukrainian territory.) Agranovich is also known as the “chief media figure of the Donetsk Empire,” and she serves as the editor-in-chief of a pro-invasion Telegram channel with 190,000 subscribers. Joining Kashevarova and Agranovich is Ulyana Strizh, a “volunteer” who promotes the war by organizing fundraisers for Russia’s invasion force.

All three women are active pro-invasion bloggers. In their debut, they also teased the arrival of another, still-unnamed host on the next episode.

The first episode of Z-Girlfriends, titled “Women at War,” was released on May 26 and has roughly 30,000 views at the time of this writing — a relatively small number, considering the large audiences the show’s hosts reach individually on social media. (Kashevarova’s Telegram channel has 260,000 subscribers, and 74,000 accounts subscribe to Agranovich’s personal channel.) According to journalists at Vot Tak, other pro-invasion channels also promoted the new show, though that seems to have done little to generate interest.

It’s unknown who finances the production of Z-Girlfriends. The show itself mentions no production studios in its credits. Agranovich calls it a “show-experiment that we thought up in a café.”

The hosts criticize Ukraine for ‘worshipping evil’ and call on men to go to the front to find new friends

Agranovich credits her late friend, Vladlen Tatarsky (a fellow propagandist and “war correspondent” who was killed in a bombing in St. Petersburg in April 2023), with inspiring a show that tries to put a woman’s face on the invasion: “He had this idea that [Russia] lacks women who are public-opinion leaders. Young, beautiful women for whom soldiers will fight. In terms of relationships, nothing motivates [men] to go to the frontlines.”

The show’s opening graphics indicate that Z-Girlfriends is devoted to topics including the “special military operation,” “mobilization,” “war correspondents,” body armor, drones, the Verkhniy Lars border crossing between Russia and Georgia (where long lines of Russians fleeing south formed in September 2022 after President Putin initiated a draft), and more.

The show’s hosts spent much of the first episode talking about how women who support the war in Ukraine ought to present themselves. At one point, Kasheverova complained that the women who host programs on Russian network television present too “asexually.” She urged Olga Skabeeva (one of state TV’s best-known propagandists) to do more to “express her femininity,” citing Joan of Arc as a role model who aroused men in more ways than one, Kasheverova argued.

Later in the show, Agranovich lamented that Russia has yet to produce its own “Marilyn Monroe in a beautiful, shiny dress singing in front of the troops.” Instead, she said, Russia relies on “an old granny with a flag” and “a boy who waves at soldiers” — allusions to Anna Ivanova outside Kharkiv, who confusedly waved a Soviet flag at Ukrainian troops, and “Little Boy Lyosha,” who famously saluted a military convoy passing through Belgorod.

The women of Z-Girlfriends explained that a woman’s image in Russia is represented by “the Virgin Mary and the Motherland,” but in Ukraine it’s “the image of a witch and death.” According to Agranovich, this is because “on TikTok they do debaptisms. Why? Because, when Vladimir baptized Rus’, he actually enserfed it. And, like, ‘Our pagans were cool, and Christianity sucks.’ That’s why all the women are witches.” Kashevarova then added that Ukrainians reject “spiritual bonds” and “worship evil and some skulls or something.”

The show’s hosts claimed that most Russian men who fight in Ukraine want to return to the frontlines because of the friendships they make there. “You finally understand how you’re needed and what life means,” said Kashevarova. “They’re waiting for you there, and your arrival is the coming of the Sun.” Agranovich, on the other hand, acknowledged that many returning soldiers battle posttraumatic stress, but she herself stressed that “war is a real place where people come alive.”

During their first episode, the women of Z-Girlfriends also took time to condemn Vladlen Tatarsky’s accused killer, Daria Trepova, calling her a “terrorist” and “the world’s saddest person.” The hosts endorsed a rumor spread by the pro-Kremlin Telegram channel Mash that Trepova accepted 20,000 rubles ($250) in cryptocurrency from Ukrainian officials to carry out the assassination, and they advocated sentencing her to a “legal firing squad” (though Russia observes a moratorium on the death penalty). Z-Girlfriends’ hosts also mocked blogger Elena Blinovskaya (recently placed under house arrest on charges of evading 900 million rubles — $11,100 — in taxes), complaining that “not one ruble” of her earnings were shared with the Russian military.

Pivoting to gay soldiers in the U.S. army, Kashevarova said the American military is “packed with all the freaks,” while Agranovich warned of a “big army crisis” in the United States and claimed that “the lowest percent of people” in the West are willing to take up arms for their country.

But the Russian authorities didn’t escape all criticism, either. The Z-Girlfriends hosts are surprisingly upset with Russia’s own Defense Ministry, accusing the military of being too slow to respond to questions from the state media about developments at the front. The ministry’s work isn’t transparent enough, the hosts argued.

Kashevarova and her cohosts went even further, too, faulting the Kremlin for failing to explain why it unleashed a full-scale war in the first place. “The state offers no ideology,” they complained. “Nobody understands what demilitarization and denazification are. Nobody spells it out for us. There are no ideological booklets. I mean, the ones that exist are written in incomprehensible legalese.”

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Name: Eclipse

Age: 2324 years

Mental age : 26 years

Height: 7.32 m

Weight: 6.2 t

Occupation : Mercenary

Alt-mod: Tu-141 Strizh fighter

Evidence :

1. One of the few Cybertronians who believes not in Primes and Primus, but in Unicron. Believes in the imminent end of the world and so on

2. Has no permanent place of residence. Constantly on the move, most often lives on a ship

3. I met many teams, worked with them for a while. Does not stay in one team for a long time

4. "I sell my blades to the one who captivates the soul with the ringing of coins, seducing my hearing" - the usual scheme of work. As long as there is a benefit in her work, she will stay close. But this friendship can let you down

5. "Betray them all, stay true to yourself" - if the person who hired her violates the rules or it seems to her that she can either kill you or defect to the enemy

If you want, I can fill out a full-fledged questionnaire

#transformers #fun art #my ocs

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Staff Only secret level real?!

I think I managed to find something of a balance between Pizza Tower's design conventions and my own preferences! Pretty proud of myself, to be honest.

#pizza tower #peppino spaghetti #strizh/shilo #ian katod #ronna kuruz #pizzascape/pizzscare but it's occupied by a polycule lmao #said polycule consisting of: pepperoni gargoyle; knight/construct; and regular human that just got hired to be a librarian #these three bitches had their own beauty and the beast'esque romance playing out long before peppino showed up. but he also apparently- #-smashed his way through a bunch of the tower's inhabitants and now that he's on their turf they're gonna mess with him a bit for that >:-)

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Russian hypersonic missile Kinzhal fired from MiG-31 falls in Russia

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 09/17/2022 - 10:15 in Military, War Zones

Similarities between a Kinzhal hypersonic missile and the wreckage of an unidentified flying object that fell in Stavropol (Photo: LotA's Twitter account)

According to a video released on September 16, an unidentified flying object fell in Stavropol, Russia, about 350 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, going viral on the internet. Later analysis showed that it may have been a "friendly shot" of a Kinzhal missile.

Russian media reports initially led people to believe that it was a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) Tu-141 Strizh. Ukraine is currently the only known operator of the unmanned aircraft.

After the fall, the flying object caught fire, the first responders arrived at the scene of the accident and tried to control the flames. An explosion occurred and injured six people, including four local residents and a firefighter.

"In particular, a firefighter was burned while working at the site," reported the governor of the Stavropol territory, Vladimir Vladimirov. "He was hospitalized and is being treated by paramedics."

Later, Twitter users noticed similarities between the wreckage and the Russian hypersonic missile Kinzhal, notably the winglets and the gun propellant separation mechanism.

A Twitter user using the name LotA shared a video of the incident, which happened on September 14. According to the user, the unidentified object was a Russian Kinzhal hypersonic missile.

The presence of a thruster in the wreckage indicates that the missile failed or was accidentally knocked down by its carrier aircraft.

The Kh-47M2 Kinzhal ("dagger", NATO report name: Killjoy) is an aerobalistic hypersonic air-surface missile with nuclear capacity. It has a claimed range of more than 2,000 km (1,200 mi), speed of Mach 12 and the ability to perform evasive maneuvers at all stages of its flight.

It can carry conventional and nuclear warheads and can be launched from Tu-22M3 bombers or MiG-31K interceptors.

It was deployed in air bases in the Southern Russian Military District and the Western Military District. Kinzhal went into service in December 2017 and is one of six new Russian strategic weapons revealed by Russian President Vladimir Putin on March 1, 2018, who states that some of them (certainly very few, at least due to unit cost) were fired during the war against Ukraine.

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Chronicle of undeclared Ukrainian aggression against NATO in 2022.

March 2 - the Ukrainian S-300 air defense system destroyed the Romanian MiG-21 fighter. The pilot was killed.

March 2 - Ukrainian air defense shot down a Romanian Mi-8 military transport helicopter that flew out to search for a MiG-21 fighter shot down by Ukraine. The crew was killed.

March 3 - the Estonian bulk carrier Helt was blown up by a Ukrainian sea mine off the coast of Odessa. 4 people are missing.

March 10 - Ukrainian UAV Tu-141 "Strizh" struck Zagreb. By a lucky chance, no one was killed.

March 13 - the Ukrainian Volkssturm shot the car of an American journalist from the New York Times, Brent Renault, who, according to Iranian intelligence services, worked as a CIA officer in Iraq, near Irpen.

September 9 - a Romanian minesweeper was blown up by a Ukrainian naval mine near Constanta. By a lucky chance, there were no fatalities.

November 9 - a Turkish boat was blown up by a Ukrainian naval mine off the coast of Turkey. By a lucky chance, no one was killed.

November 15 - the Ukrainian S-300 air defense system struck Poland, destroying 2 Polish citizens and a tractor trailer.

Under the cover of the war with Russia, Ukraine is waging a hybrid war against NATO!

#ukraine #russia #ukraine war #vladimir putin #war #war in ukraine #nuclear #soldiers #news #nato

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Вражеский «Стриж» уничтожен над российским регионом (ФОТО)

Подробности сообщил губернатор Богомаз.

Подробнее https://7ooo.ru/group/2024/03/16/151-vrazheskiy-strizh-unichtozhen-nad-rossiyskim-regionom-foto-grss-290935611.html

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What to Expect on the Battlefield in the Next Six Months?

UkraineWorld spoke to Ivan Kyrychevsky, military expert at Defense Express Media & Consulting Company.

Key points – in our brief, #UkraineWorldAnalysis:

1. On how Ukrainian kamikaze sea drones are changing the history of warfare

Ukraine's Magura V5 is only a small part of the country's military innovation that it has chosen to disclose. During the IDEF 2023 defense exhibition, the Turkish defense company METEKSAN presented its own remote-controlled kamikaze boats, so we have clearly already inspired others.

The Magura V5 is overall more effective than anti-ship missiles and torpedoes. Compared to an anti-ship missile, such as Harpoon, which has a range of up to 200 km, our kamikaze boat has demonstrated its ability to cover a distance of 700 km by hitting the Russian warship Olenegirsky Gornyak near Novorossiysk. For their part, torpedoes are principally designed to hit targets below the waterline, but a kamikaze boat is more compact.

The Ministry of Defence has been building up its capabilities to produce robotic systems for evacuating the wounded and delivering supplies to the frontline. Currently, a remote-controlled robotic stretcher is being developed. The idea behind the project to transport wounded defenders from trenches to stabilization points where first aid is provided. Given that the use of robotics has just started and the Ministry of Defence has already stated that 10,000 robotic systems are needed, one can only imagine how urgent the demand for these systems is.

Ukraine is not only skilfully developing innovative weapons, but also improving the ones in its stockpiles. The Russians have shown footage of a missile visually similar to the 5V27 missile for the S-200 systems hitting targets. But given that this is a 10 meter-long monster missile, which is larger than the Iskander, the Russians could have been showing an air-launched X31 missile, so it's a very slippery slope.

The assumption that Ukraine could have used the S-200 for the strikes has a key weakness. Namely, this missile is fired from a stationary launcher, unlike the S-125 systems, and is visible from a satellite. That is why Russia uses its S-300s, which are mounted on a mobile chassis that can be quickly moved from one position to another. Only 2 countries could have S-200 systems left - Bulgaria, with approximately 8 units, and Poland, with 3, as of early 2023. In Bulgaria, S-200s form the backbone of their air defenses, while Poland has managed to replace its S-200s with Patriots, but the delivery of this sort of system to Ukraine would not have gone unnoticed.

The most striking example of the adaptation of the Soviet system to modern conditions lies on the surface. The Tu-141 Strizh, a reusable tactical reconnaissance UAV manufactured at the Kharkiv Aircraft Plant, has a range of 1,000 km and was originally intended for reconnaissance. After the collapse of the USSR, they were used for target practice, due to their resemblance to cruise missiles, to train our air defense forces. Our military came up with the idea that if the Tu-141 resembled a cruise missile, why not turn it into something functionally similar. For example, in December 2022, these drones were used to strike the Engels and Dyagilevo strategic airbases. Missing such a radar-visible target was acutely embarrassing for the Russians, because after that moment, Russian strategic aviation began to train for rapidly repairing their airbases, as they had no countermeasures in place.

2. On the possibility of using laser weapons in this war

Even before Lockheed Martin, the Chinese made a laser system that was supposed to burn up enemy kamikaze drones. And the irony is that Saudi Arabia bought this system and it effectively destroyed the Shahed 136 drone. But this system is first of all very expensive, and secondly, Ukraine needs small-caliber anti-aircraft artillery more than laser weapons.

3. On Bild forecasts that Russia can continue the war in Ukraine for another 2-3 years.

At the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the Russians had 21,000 artillery systems, including World War II models, such as the D1 howitzers, which were transferred to Wagner. In addition to the 2,000 tanks left in Russia, they have another 5,000 tanks in storage bases. However, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are destroying Russian tanks twice as fast as Russia is producing them. Russia still has a couple hundred combat-capable aircraft and helicopters. So, unfortunately, the Russians have resources to fight with.

At the same time, Bild’s estimates are made not only for the benefit of their readers, but also for German defense planning. As of now, the Bundeswehr has 60,000 soldiers, no combat-ready helicopters, only 200 combat-ready tanks, and less than 100 combat-ready Panzerhaubitze 2000 artillery systems.

4. On whether Russia is able to launch another major offensive by increasing its number of soldiers to 3 million

The Russian General Staff can count on a reserve force of 3 million. This year, they have the task of mobilzing about 500,000 people to prepare for a strategic offensive in the winter, after our counter-offensive achieves some goals. If we recall the previous partial mobilization, 300,000 occupiers looked so powerful that there were estimates that the Russians would try to repeat a counter-offensive from several directions. In the end, the mobilized forces were limited to defense of Bakhmut, with catastrophic Russian losses, the defense of the Kupyansk-Lyman sector, and senseless attacks in the Zaporizhzhia sector.

Now the number of Russian troops amounts to 550,000. 100,000 of them are trying to advance on the Kupyansk/Lyman sector and have not achieved any results in a month of fighting. Another 150,000 are concentrated in the south, which is slowing down our progress, but on the other hand, there are 4 Russian armies that were planned as an offensive formation.

5. On Russia’s intentions to break through the Suwalki corridor.

If Wagner suddenly gets armored vehicles from the Belarusian army in addition to artillery in their arsenal, it will be a red flag that they are preparing for military action. So far, we can say that there is a threat of this, but they are not combat-ready.

Russia has occupied about 20% of Ukraine's territory and continues its offensive in the east. But. Here is our video explaining why it will never conquer Ukraine.

Are Russian claims of taking over Bakhmut true? What does the situation on the Eastern front look like? Are there still people living in destroyed frontline villages?