Ukraine takes out Black Sea Admiral

Admiral Sokolov, and 33 other Russian Naval officers, brown bread in precision missile strike. 

Putin dug in as predicted but short of conscripting half the country it’s quite possible we will see a real realignment in that region, which in turn will bolster the EU. Then the doomsters on here will look even more fvkcign stupid than they do now when Britain isn’t at the table.

This is quite an achievement for Storm Shadow again. Will be interesting to see the final tally for these stealthy boys when the dust settles. 

Can't wait for Barry's schill-shit-take. 

Precision? They made a terrible mess. Not like Minsk. That place is so tidy.  

The Russian command really are dopey fvckers aren't they? That is practically Darwin award territory. They know full well Ukraine has these weapons and yet they all get together in a room in an ordinary office building on Ukrainian occupied territory for a chin wag?  I mean long may it continue but seriously what the feck is wrong with these people?

I think the intel behind that hit was just as impressive.  Someone knew there would be a management meeting taking place at that location at that time, and got that info to the Ukrainians in time for the missile strike to be arranged.  The FSB will probably be working on the assumption that Ukrainian espionage was responsible, but there are all sorts of other possibilities - Ukrainian (or NATO) hacking, or even a naval officer just making an unguarded comment to the wrong person.  "Loose lips sink ships."  

It would be really interesting to know how many Ukrainian operatives are in Crimea right now.  They've claimed that the hits on the S-400 missile sites were in part due to Ukrainian special forces taking out the radars with drones (leaving the missiles blind and able to be taken out by Neptunes).  Not sure we ought to believe every single thing we're told here, but interesting nevertheless.  

Remember it's occupied territory so rather than trained Ukrainian operatives it may just be really peed off Ukrainians smuggling information out.

I think the intel behind that hit was just as impressive. 

Ukrainians are claiming it was info from a Russian who was pissed off at not getting paid.

Which I'm sure isn't quite accurate but it's a fun pysops story to plant.

Ukrainians are claiming it was info from a Russian who was pissed off at not getting paid.

Heh, top bantz from the UKR ladz there

The Russians have published a video which in the dead Admiral appears to participate in a conference call with Shoigu earlier today.

However, the dead Admiral doesn't exactly appear to be in a vivacious mood in the clip that I have seen (setting aside whether the conference was actually today or not, or whether earlier footage of the dead Admiral was edited in after the event).