Russia - threadbanned users in OP

I say it would be refused but you just don't know. I think his bluff won't be called tho if he uses 1 and threatens to use more. Let's hope he doesnt.

If I’m not mistaken, a few videos now have shown convoy vehicles are being towed by a leading vehicle. If that is the case they must have serious supply shortages.

At the same time though, they are very much putting this on Putin’s shoulders. They seem to be making his position extremely unpopular and vulnerable and now that Germany has joined in, they must think he is getting near the brink. Once he is gone and hostilities in Ukraine are over there will be a rapid effort to ‘normalise relations with Russia’.

Again, fog of war. You're probably not going to get anything that could be classified as 'official' as the conflict continues. That will be tallied in the more sober days once this has ended.

It's really weird to be watching this in 2022. Here we have an invasion; a war between two European countries that is not totally one-sided, and you can flip between channels that are sympathetic to one side or the other. And it's unfolding in the full glare of social media. A million electronic eyes recording every aspect.

I hate to say it, but I have to admit it, it's riveting. I don't think I've watched anything else on TV since last Tuesday.

But they do, they really do. 18-19 year old's. conscripted into an army that has a high rate of suicide as a direct result of "Hazing" carried out by not only the NCO's, but by any soldier with a higher rank than them. Then they find themselves in Ukraine, grist to Putin's mill. Green as green can be. But for the Russian professional soldiers, or Chechen's, they have earned ( indeed deserve) the bullet, and without even the courtesy of a call home.

I hate trying to deal with people like that. They just have one mantra and think it makes them smart so they stick to it.

Whereas,in reality, everybody knows that Russia invaded Ukraine because of Hillary's email servers

This early in the conflict there is no way you're going to get accurate details. Ukraine will have had a high number of casualties but for morale reasons they aren't going to admit it.

The Russians lie at every opportunity so scratch getting it from them.

The Ukrainians numbers for Russian dead are exaggerated but maybe only by 50%. Just going by the number of destroyed Russian vehicle convoys if they had troops in them there definitely were heavy casualties, couple that with 3 troop transports being shot down at least 300 troops gone if they hadn't been dropped from the planes.

The Ukrainians are definitely bleeding the Russians and causing a considerable weakening of the Russian military machine.

I reckon this has shown NATO as little more than a potential big bullies club.

If Ukraine were to bring any military action across the border into Russia during the curent conflict, Russia's mates in NATO may view that as an invasion. Yet Russia can quite happily invade Ukraine and NATO members don't do a thing.