Nothing Seems To Be Working Out For Putin

[Khandro]

Another bad hair day for Vlad?
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1804115/Humiliation-Putin-Russia-Luna-25-moon-crash

[Old_Geezer]

I'd rather he failed politically & militarily than scientifically.

[Rosetta]

Good. If it had succeeded he would use it as more propaganda for the Russian people to swallow the lies that Putin's regime is great

[ichkeria]

It was great news. Despite early pioneering successes Russia’s Luna has a chequered history at best.
After the terrorist attack on Chernihiv. A tonic.
By the way as I posted earlier it see the Kerch bridge attack last October was actually a lorry bomb - 20 tons of hexane smuggled on an unsuspecting HGV.
Across the front meanwhile several assessments are that Russia’s forces are close to collapse in some areas. The cluster munitions are having a devastating effect and it seems Ukraine now can outgun the enemy’s artillery

[Khandro]

ichi ; If all that wasn't enough, it looks like the F-16s are on the way.

In fact i read elsewhere that Ukranian pilots are already being trained at an 'undisclosed location';
https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-august-20/live-66580082

[ichkeria]

They’d been waiting for US approval to send them. Which was taking a disgracefully long time.
There have been rumours for ages that pilots were training in the US.
There’s a lot we don’t get told, and rightly so. The Italian military expert Thomas Theiner claims that Ukraine is receiving a lot of weaponry from Asian countries whose identities he cannot disclose. Which is fascinating