A proud day for those "brave" Russian policemen in their protective gear.
reports of russian security council meeting friday to declare martial law in russia .. looks like they dont plan to stop any time soon .....
Looks like it's going tits up. And there expecting riots in their streets due to sanctions and pissing money away in a war. I don't see how they can remotely keep this war going financially speaking.
Why the hell his CO let him do that is beyond me. You might as well just paint a large target on the building.
Were they regulars or civilian draftees?
Anyone who thought they were going to stop has obviously just joined the conversation.
Putin has been planning this for years.
Its only the beginning.
I wonder how much he is speculating there. I doubt anyone outside Russia really knows. The natureal concern would be that Putin has placed fanatical loyalists in that chain of command who would be minded like this guy.
Or it's whatever he wants it to mean. The guy has already raised the Russian Nuclear threat level over imposed sanctions and alleged "aggressive statements" by other countries
Putin is also on record threatening a strong reaction to any Western power that tried to stand in his way in Ukraine. In a speech announcing his offensive Thursday, he warned that any attempt to interfere “will lead you to such consequences that you have never faced in your history.”
There is no bargaining with a dictator.
I assume he want to call up massive reserves.
Took the day off from tuning into the war, really starting to melt my head it was.
Unfortunately I see Russia have resorted to their tried and tested tactic of bombing the **** out of every town and city no matter who they hit. God help Ukraine when they use their air force on them.
I thought EU air space was closed to Russian planes, Just spotted a Russian plane flying out of Slovakia for Moscow.
You're probably not familiar with an expression over this side of the world " squeaky bum time" .but I would say its squeaky bum time for you and your comrades right now. When the sanctions, and they are becoming more and more each day, really kick in you won't have a pot to piss in and with your beloved leader hanging from a crane in red square you will know it's only a matter of time before the knock comes to your door.
Let's just say that the number of dead Russian troops is around 5-6000 in less than a week it's going to filter through to the Russian populace. Mama is going to notice that 18yr old Vasily isn't in contact any more and Ivan's mother got a call from him saying he was a prisoner in Ukraine. They are going to put 1&1 together and potentially that's what martial law will be there to cover.
Global Hawk is back transmitting. Focus is on Belarus this time. Monitoring a push over the border?
Ukraine recieving a couple more TB2 drones:
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/defence/latest/ukraine-conflict-turkey-airlifts-additional-tb2-ucavs-to-ukraine
Not going to happen.
All this talk of Russian revolt etc is nonsense.
Just Google Russian football captains response and you will see there will be no revolution against Putin.
The longer Russian people tolerate this, the more certain Russia will never emerge from this and the more damage they do to themselves. They will be North Korea for good. No matter what resources they have, this generation will never forgive them or anyone that does business with Russia. Let that be a lesson.
I'd expect Russian people to stand up and go onto the streets in their masses as they become increasingly desperate and they would want to overturn him as quickly as possible.
Right now, I don't think this will happen until Putin starts dissapearing/killing his own citizens in Moscow/St Petersburg and only then that may be the big wake up call. It's going to start happening. The protest numbers are big but the need to be much bigger.
Arresting old women and children for peaceful protest ??? Only a pathetic, weak and insecure society would tolerate that!!!
That is what Russia is in 2022, pathetic and weak.
From Russia Today Germany
With the direct delivery of weapons to Ukraine, Germany has entered the war against Russia. Germany has therefore unilaterally broken the armistice of 1945
News reviews this evening on the UK channels is fairly negative overall in terms of outcomes to this crisis- not good for Ukraine at all .
The positivity and successes and achievements of the last week are certainly now been eroded.
I pray now that negotiation fuelled by a temporary ceasefire, if that is possible at all, and even that is no way certain,could help move to some sort of temporary abatement - but really even that seems like a massive ask right how.
I'm going to ty to take time out to get back to me wargaming. I have a Quatre Bras 1815 game under way. At least there nobody really dies.
Allowed to fly out but not back in maybe?
As Moltke ( german strategic general) the elder said
“No plan of operations extends with certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy's main strength.”
No matter what Putin an was and how long he was planning it dose not determine the outcome.
I believe this about sums it up. From Twitter.
I could be completely wrong, but Putin seems to want to go out with a bang.
And like Stalin, it doesn't matter how many millions need to die in the meantime.
I'm 100% convinced at this stage that he wants direct war, and wants to go down as a die-hard supporter of Russia.
Stuff like this is probably why Germany were so hesitant in doing anything in the first place
The ship has done a U-turn and now listed as bound for Skagen in Denmark, good riddance.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-40820217.html
That post is one of the most ignorant I have read today (including those of the bots and trolls)
Nice and all as that is but it rarely works.
Russia is flattening most of the major cities now.
Horrible as it is, there will only be one outcome.
Afraid so.
You can take my spot tomorrow. I've been following the thread from the beginning last year but I'll try just stay away tomorrow and be a bit more productive. Clocking off tonight thinking of the poor souls in Mariupol. I don't think I'll manage to not check in here at some stage but will try.
I read in one of the english papers that they estimated this was costing £15bn a day. That's over 1%, maybe even closer to 2% of Russian GDP, per day.
At that rate of financial attrition, major hostilities will need to end soon. No country can sustain that level of expenditure for that long.
That Kabul incident was 3 days after a suicide bomber killed 187 people including 13 US troops near Kabul airport. The terrorists were well-known for operating in crowded civilian areas. The drone strike was a terrible error, made in a very fraught situation. Murder is deliberate killing: the intention in this case was to kill a known terrorist, but he wasn't in the car which was hit.
I'm not trying to excuse or whitewash anything, but how this tragedy has real relevance to the unrelenting mass killing now being perpetrated by Russia is just a monstrous case of whataboutery.
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