Official page of the Ukraine ministry of defence. From what I can make out. What's the issue?
Took a look at The Shed (Chelsea FC forum). Huge support for Abrahmovich there.
They seem to be in a state of delusion over the Russia connection.
Theoretically, gloves off they could drop thermobaric weapons all over cities, annihilate them. That requires Russians to know they will be killing thousands of men, women, children.
However if people and forces are prepped and have enough underground facilities, we've seen that they can survive the most insane onslaughts. In Japan, tiny islands were battered fors hours by immense naval gunfire, so that not a tree was left standing. Yet when the Americans went ashore there were thousands of enemy troops.
Depends on a lot of factors. The Russians could have "won" in the first 2 days of the conflict if they hit with enough surprise and shock. They hit hard but the Ukrainians survived that critical first 24/48 hours, thanks to good resistance, good organisation and a strong leader, weak Russian frontline units and not to mention critical international support which was moral boosting.
Why should Ukraine have to compromise anything? Russia will probably win the initial conflict eventually, but at the same time the sanctions will grow and grow and grind the Russian economy to dust. How will the tyrant fund his war machine then and hold onto Ukraine?
This morning, a poster asked how to "ignore" a poster whose profile is private. Go to :-
and manually type in the name. I've had to use it 5/6 times today.
Thank you!
A Russian BMP in Bucha telling civilians to remain calm is blown up by a Ukrainian territorial defense member with an RPG
Define really wanted. I mean they can obviously nuke Ukraine to end resistance pretty quick (obviously this has other wider side effects but ignoring them). The there is a sliding scale of war crimes Russia has the weaponry to commit which would varying levels of international outcry. They could reduce the numbers of armed forces elsewhere which again could have side effects.
Certainly what Russia can politically throw into the arena is as much a war factor as geography or anything else. Russia knew how much it was willing to commit at the start before the invasion so from that angle I would say the Ukraine is holding out.
Chelsea won't be banned nor should they be.
The glaring hypocrisy if the premier league did that would melt lead.
The Premier League have a fitness to own a club policy which they roundly ignore, far more recently too. Maybe going forward they may apply it.
To be completely fair to them, he has owned Chelsea for the best part of 20 years.
Back then the Putin was getting the full royal treatment in London.
I never seen sportwashing in action so much, but then again Chelsea have had issues regarding racism so probably wasn't too hard to buy them over to hail Comrade Putin.
I cried hard when I listened to those text messages. Hard hitting. Poor mother, waiting for a son that will never come home to Russia
many of these weapons being handed out to civilians and imported into Ukraine from the EU will eventually fall into the wrong hands and end up back in central Europe and some will land on our shores in the wrong hands, god help us
not ideal but much better at present than letting a bully dictator tyrant who is threatening to nuke the west win ... everything relative
Lots of people are saying Putin has gone mad, he is a lunatic.
They seem to be forgetting he has been as good as a dictator for a number of years and he is just resorting to some stereotypical dictator traits at this stage.
He has had no problem blatantly assassinating dissidents even in the UK, he had no compunction about assassinating opposition on the streets of Moscow or poisoning political opponents.
He hasn't feared the rest of the world for quite a while.
He made a calculated gamble in this invasion in that firstly the Ukrainian military and the Ukrainian population would crumble, that the actor Zelenskyy would do an Afghan fleeing the country and that the international community would do nothing bar light up a few building in Ukrainian flag.
A lot of dictators are gamblers, it is often how they get to power in the first place. It can also be their downfall.
Another trait is that they surround themselves with yes men who dare not question them, they start believing their own propaganda, that they know better than anyone else.
He probably believed the Russian Army would roll over them in hours and he definitely underestimated the international community.
He got the Eastern European determination totally wrong.
He probably thought this was his Sudetenland or even better his Anschluss where the Ukrainian masses would end up welcoming him.
Instead it looks more like his Stalingrad where he either prevails or perishes.
And in typical dictatorish fashion Putin can't be seen to be backing down and losing face is the worst possible scenario for him.
And yes to be a successful dictator (i.e. you get power and hold on to it for some time) you have to be a tad unhinged anyway, at least some sort of sociopath with narcissistic paranoid tendencies.
As for the article about how Irish aircraft leasing companies are going all out to recover their aircraft, all I will say is good luck with that.
Any pilots or techs I know of would not be volunteering to go into Russia at this stage trying to take anything out for a company based in EU with no doubt US connections of some sort.
Are you joking?
How can Ukraine totally defeat Russia and win back every piece of territory? Kiev is surrounded.
Before 1914 almost every European war ended in a compromise settlement.
Hitler shot himself because the Allies were closing in on Berlin for a total victory, controlling every part of Germany. Are Ukrainian forces about to take St. Petersburg and Moscow?
Its day one of the sanctions. Is Russian society expected to collapse instantaneously?
I don't mind entertaining optimistic scenarios but help me out here.
In the live broadcast of CNN Turkey, the images created and shared in 2021 by 3D artist 'Borisao Blois' were given as live images from Kiev
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Well being a 'cornered animal' is ultimately a state of mind. I was just saying the West should be exploring this angle regardless. If that article was true he's been wanting out for a while but can't see a way of guaranteeing his safety in the process.
Missed the actual question in Necro's post.
I assume Russia will offer some concession for the ending of sanctions. If they take Kiev they will have bargaining power will they not?
Yep I've used the function for the first time today to remove the whatabouttery from the bots. It was effecting my blood pressure. I've been a member since this site started and have never used it before.
They really upset me today too. I couldn't believe what I was reading on a day when seeing pictures of horror from Kharkiv.
It will rain tomorrow, or it will stay dry all day
Russian UN ambassador just said Ukraine started the shelling and killing.
Can easily see how the Russian nation is brainwashed.
Some people actually thrive on playing the 'contrarian' role. They live off getting those reactions. Physically placing them on ignore or scrolling past their nonsense deprives them of the oxygen they crave.
I'm in no way condoning Putin's actions in Ukraine but is it true that there was acts of genocide against ethnic Russians living in Ukraine by Ukraine armed militia before the war broke out?
Exactly. He has probably been told for years, the military is in great nick, the could invade anything. The Ukrainians yurn to be Russian again, they sing songs of your name in private gatherings.
He is actively trying to take Kharkiv. It won't fall without it being flattened. Surely he knows this by now. Surely somebody in the military has said change the plan. Just surround it, focus on the Luhansk and Donbass. Nothing makes sense on it.
According to Russia, yes.
So no, in actual truth-land.
I know its look a bit like saying two things at once, but the point is that the current war cannot last. Putin cannot take those Ukrainian cities without massive casualties, and his popularity in Russia cannot survive that, so he will end it quickly or it will be a wider conflict.
And now it looks like he will have to physically occupy the cities if he wants to claim control them. Barraging them with Grads was the easy part. Now watch the Russian soldier death toll rise.
Why an I still seeing 1980s style Russian “fashion” ads?!
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