I do think the Tanks will eventually come in handy when the Ukrainians inevitably move to reclaim Crimea.
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I do think the Tanks will eventually come in handy when the Ukrainians inevitably move to reclaim Crimea.
I have to be honest, I don't necessarily have the knowledge to fully understand the implications of those changes, and how effectively they can actually be implemented, but the part about no longer using enemy trenches is interesting. Booby trapping must be a relatively common tactic from the UA if it is part of a new instrument manual
Booby traps and having them pre-sighted for an artillery counter strike… very crafty by the Ukrainians.
Either Russia bombing themselves or UA has something with 500km range.
It's not surprising they mobilize in rural and ethnic minority areas, where people are too brainwashed or simply drunk to start riots. This way, they also make sure less young educated city people die in ukraine, whom they desperatly need to run the country in a few years.
Those poor people. Imagine being a mechanic out in the furthest reaches of Yakutia and being conscripted to get torn to pieces in the meatgrinder your president caused. What a life.
A real armchair Patton our Elon is. At least his predecessor had the balls to come to a combat zone during peak war.
Yep, he's a fun follow on Twitter.
Seems like Bakhmut won't hold on for much longer. Russians storm the city nonstop from the north, east and south in ww1 style. They don't care about their losses at all. Ukraine needs to get out of there if they want to save those heroic defenders.
Bakhmut sounds like the worst offensive 'win' in modern war - I can't even remember when we first heard about it it was so long ago.
I think the first time I heard about Bakhmut was like...late September or something?
I certainly can't remember such a pathetic win in modern war.
I think the defense of the town started in the summer. That's about 6-8 months of heroic defence against an aggressor who uses his troops in ww1 style. The attack/defence kill ratio is normally around 3:1. It wouldn't surprise me, if Bakhmut is closer to 7-10:1.
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Is there still no end in sight for this war? Are Russia just recruiting more and more troops until they win or what? What's the end game for Putin?
Also, why are these numpties on social media all of a sudden calling Ukraine Nazis and making out that Putin is some sort of hero?
I saw one meme about USA starting wars in the middle east and arming terrorists Vs Putin defeating all those terrorists etc.
I saw one meme about USA starting wars in the middle east and arming terrorists Vs Putin defeating all those terrorists etc.
What has happened with the reported ammo/weapons etc at the salt mines near Soledar?
It was being reported here for a few weeks that there was a vast amount of useable gear down there, then Soledar was finally taken. Since then, the news was expressing the dire need for ammo.
It was being reported here for a few weeks that there was a vast amount of useable gear down there, then Soledar was finally taken. Since then, the news was expressing the dire need for ammo.
Most of them are russian bots and the rest are just trolls and brainwashed idiots.
There isn't. The war will last years, because neither will Ukraine surrender, nor will Putin end this war before reaching his goals. He would not only lose his political power, but probably his life too.
When they'll run out of the mobilized men, they will recruite more. They still have enough brainwashed people in rural areas and some rusty aks to equip them with.
The west needs to be prepared for such a scenario. There isn't a short term solution without giving Putin what he wants. His ideal end game in ukraine is a devided and destroyed country with no chance of turning into a western democracy, while russia holds all the eastern areas with valuable natural ressources.
If you want to join me in clinging on to a bit of hope - It is quite possible Ukraine has spent all winter stockpiling weapons and making plans for a large offensive come spring/summer, while committing the minimal amount they can get away with to hold the lines at Bakhmut, Vuhledar, etc. Ukraine has barely committed any significant force anywhere in the last 5 months. In all the footage I've seen released from both sides, and Russia releases a lot themselves, I don't think I've seen more than two Ukrainian armoured vehicles in the same picture.
They have a lot of new shiny toys coming online in the next few months and just because they have been begging for more of everything, doesn't mean they are massively short of anything. They will do whatever they can to receive as much aid as possible, they have to.
They just need to drive a wedge down past Melitopal toward the south coast (much easier said than done ofc). If they can do that, they can completely cut off supplies to Crimea and all Russian forces to the west. Hit the bridge, bomb the port at Sevastopol, Russian Navy will be scared to come anywhere near Neptune range.
If they can do that, then its job done. Big IF, but that's my wishful thought of the day.
What's the end game for Putin? Who gives a shit.
Sounds like you might be reading a load of old rubbish potentially. Either way, I shouldn't think anyone here would know.
It might well be a lot of rubbish, but it's the line that the BBC, Sky or DW News were following. I don't do twitter so avoid that nonsense, but do catch up with Radio Free Europe on youtube occasionally and the odd clip here and there.
This plan has 2 big problems. First it's pretty obvious and that means the russians are prepared for it.
And the second one is how many of their new shiny toys Ukraine wants to commit, because there are actually not that many coming. It's clear that Ukraine will counter attack at some point, because it's as you said. They didn't do anything offensive in the last months. But if we know this, then the russian generals know this too of course. They worked for the last months on their defenses. Every part of the front line is massively barricaded with many layers of defensive lines against infantry and armor. Satallite photos show them pretty clearly, they even dug them in Crimea. And you can expect other weapons against armor waiting for that attack.
It seems like the russians learned from their mistakes in Kharkiv and Cherson and dug themselves in this time. It will be extremly hard to push through those layers especially without air support by the looks of it and then the question is, if it wouldn't be smarter to keep the new armor as a constant threat rather than risking it all in one offensive. Europe is still very slow in their support and I can't imagine that Ukraine will get a 2nd big armor delivery this year. Europe's industry isn't on war production yet. It's a tough choice to use those ~30-50 Leopards and a few hundred IFVs in a difficult attack and what would be even worse than just losing western armor is to give russia propaganda material for the next months. Putin is only waiting for destroyed western armor photos/videos to flood russian media and show off russian strength over western military.
What gives hope is, that Nato advises Ukraine and I'm pretty sure they work together on a plan of attack the russians won't expect. The same as last year, when everyone was expecting a Cherson offensive and Ukraine just rolled over the Kharkiv region instead. I expect something similar. While everyone is expecting the obvious wedge to Melitopol because the Donbass is too well defended and the Dnipro river is blocking Cherson, it will be something completely different like crossing the Dnipro with pontoon bridges nobody saw coming. But no matter what, it will be far more difficult than last year I expect.
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China’s blacklisted Spacety allegedly shared satellite images with Russia’s Wagner group-U.S. official.
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa...ssias-wagner-group-u-s-official-idUKL1N3581PC
I think they have been attacking it for ages. But it looks like they started really going at it (more human waves + better equipment) around at the end of the November. UA's manpower loss started going really high since December for that place.
I am hoping anyway that UAF is holding on as long as possible because they have massive advantages of doing it.
Yeh, agree on all points. I only hope that with all their planning and advice and resource from all over the right places, they somehow figure out a way to do it.
You would think that would be the case with the way and how long UAF is holding on there. I doubt that the ratio would be anywhere close to that though. But destroying most of Wagner group at one place would be efficient even though UAF themselves has lost a lot of men for that.
Its the least the Ukrainians can do to return the favor. If it helps destabilize Putin a bit then all the better.
The guy ringing me up at the grocery store yesterday was Mexican but was a dead ringer for Solovyev. I was expecting the below, but ended up with a friendly Solovyev with a Mexican accent. This thread is beginning to live in my head
This thread is a pretty good place to keep up with the topic. We have primarily pro-Ukrainian news, but then again, there's little to no truthful information coming out of Russia theses days.
Russia's oil and gas revenues fell nearly 40% in Jan, IEA says.
https://www.reuters.com/article/iea...-fell-nearly-40-in-jan-iea-says-idUSL4N3582TJ
A misleading headline given that the article claims the "nearly 40%" reduction is over the span of a year, not in one month