Imagine the wokie outrage if we had spent millions or billions of our own money in order to protect the safety and wellbeing of our citizens and country….modern radar, fighter / fast reconnaissance aircraft.. Jesus there’d be outrage..but you’d have no Russians in or around our airspace..
We have 8 of these…..^^ 320 knots top speed
vs
Hundreds of the above….Mach 2.25 plus a weapon capabilities we can dream about..
Maybe that was helpful... he couldnt equivocate on support for Ukraine given where he was.
I'm not sure if this is real or fake being honest.
But that's one big ass convoy.
Personally I believe there’s been some amount of false hope given to date- Putin hasn’t gone in all guns blazing- he’s tested the waters; they’re choppy; so now he knows and will adjust accordingly - with increasing tough talk by the EU (at long last), I think he’ll seize on this as an excuse to show just how powerful he is- civilian casualties and civil buildings destroyed will definitely become more common and significant over coming days;
Did you hear the "fudge " as he tried to explain how the Ukrainian army were increasing their shelling as they were retreating ... Hhhmm
It should be no surprise there will be a big push before any talks Putin will want to be seen getting the upper hand and he does have the numbers unfortunately to do it . I really hope something can come of the talks because I don't want heavy Ukrainian casualties which will happen if the Russians really go at it .
Captured Russian soldiers claiming they were lied to
AN-225, the one of a kind largest aircraft in the world is believed to have been destroyed in recent days. It was at Antonov airport when the initial Russian airborne assault happened. There is a grainy image on twitter showing what is believed to be the aircraft on fire inside a hangar.
It's not costing close to 15 billion quid of anyone's money a day. That 'report' was very suspect and that figure jumped right out as bogus.
And a convoy that huge along one road tightly packed means Russia is pretty confident they have air superiority and also fear little from ground assault with it. Hell a squadron of WW2 Stuka dive bombers from 80 odd years ago would be having wet dreams if they looked down and saw that and would do serious damage. When they saw similar in the Battle of France they did and armies learned pretty quickly not to travel like that if they didn't have near full air cover.
It's reported by the New York times as well.
Just remember one thing: Putin has managed to engineer the perfect no-win situation. It doesn't matter how many Ukrainian cities he conquers in the short term, this is the biggest strategic miscalculation since WW2 (ironically the last such misadventure largely occurred on the same lands).
This sort of talk is actually terrifying because Putin is the one lunatic crazy enough to actually do it
Folks a question for boards vehicle experts.. many posts mentioning surprise at they're using really old vehicles etc...do you mean ones with no/little electronics?
Sorry Nigel, forgot you were a Boris fan. Didn't he disown you in a very humiliating manner in the end though?
Probably been answered before, and apologies if I'm naive in the point. If they know where the convoy is, why can they just not attack them and destory them in their tracks.
Element of us being swept up in it, backing the Ukraine.
Russia is still a serious threat to them. I think the arms and sheer number of volunteers in the Ukraine will swing it eventually for them but this could easily be a long war with hundreds of thousands dead.
I am so worried for the safety of Zelensky. What a hero!!! I wonder how the other leaders will react if he is harmed, or worse, killed?
Reports that Turkey might close the Black Sea.
If the Ukrainian commanders aren't aware of Putin's tactics, the NATO ones advising them will be. After all, what you're describing wouldn't be incredibly sophisticated. I might do the same in Civilisation.
At this point in the war, it's probably not Kiev which is the most strategically valuable location, but the Ukraine-Poland border where much of Ukraine's support is going to come across. If Russia could control that, it would probably be game over for Ukraine in terms of the conflict proper.
I presume you're thinking nuclear weapons EMP effects?
They don't have the manpower or the weaponry.
Secondly if London's nuked then you'll be guaranteed that Dublin and Shannon will be nuked as well.
Why would they waste a nuke on Shannon? A standard missile would take it out quite easily.
It is hardly free to run a war. The Russians have to pay a lot of money to run their military equipment and military itself. Furthermore, they have to replace all the equipment and infrastructure that is damaged in the war.
The Russians will be lucky if they have 10 quid in their banks tomorrow, never mind enough funds to sustain a military invasion and to feed their people.
The nuclear threats are the last vestiges of a drowning man. Putin knows that he is losing
"May have been on the take" 😂😅🤣.....had a good chuckle at that !!! You can be 100% sure that they are on the take...I remember in Chechnya, I was on the side of the road, and an APC pulled up right beside me. And I said " Hello" in Russian, ( which tested my limit of the language) and he replied, which I took to be a friendly response, so as I was eating, I pulled a few bits and pieces of food out of my bag, with a few bottles of water, and passed them over to him. He vanished inside the APC, and a minute or two later reappeared holding 4 or 5 AK 47 "banana" magazines, which he threw in the door window of the car I was in. It took me a long time to persuade him to take them back!!! Youngsters, poorly fed or looked after, and left to fend for themselves, live off the land, and in danger of losing their lives every second.
After the takeover in Georgia in 2008, the Russians held a postmortem on how it took so long for a supposedly superior force to overcome the Georgian Army. One of the main defects they discovered was their logistics set-up was not up to the task. Too big a range of different machines, not possible to carry a complete range of spares for each and every vehicle. When they broke down they largely stayed broke. "Shrinkage" This applied to everything, what was listed in the inventory bore little or no resemblance to what was physically available. So at a guess, I'd say that little has changed. On the net you can find the Ukrainian army examining captured Russian vehicles...Tanks, APC's etc. and they show what they are like inside.....My God !!! Its a miracle how they were moving at all. For sure, the outsides were the best looking part.
I would think Ukranian air force have been pretty devastated by the Russian air attacks already, they seem to have targeted military facilities.
And yes totally understanding that we gave Ukraine our support - but with 150k Russian troops and tons of highly destructive weapons it will be no walk in the park for Ukraine that’s for sure
As simple as that. Even more admiration for the Ukrainian defence forces for putting it up to them so far so.
I’d say the intel will be fed to the Ukrainians. If they still have drones operating, they may be put to use for this very reason. I find it very weird for a convoy like this to be on the road, especially considering the losses they have taken thus far. This is just asking for trouble. Even the troops surrounding Kyiv, can you imagine the destruction NATO airforces could wreak on these troop concentrations. This battle would be over by morning.
could someone tell me what the 'Z' on the side of the Russian tanks etc is about ? looks crudely painted on in most cases.
Pathetic
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