Russia - threadbanned users in OP

That's pretty pathetic. But wasn't there an issue with the ex-DDR Strela (aka SA-7) missiles which Ukraine requested, that they had been in storage for too long to be usable?

Still looks a bleak enough end to this invasion Ukraine are fighting great but the chances of them pushing Russia back and out seem remote .I tune in each morning hopeing something has stirred against Putin but that seems wishful thinking .

what are the chances of revolt in some of the southern/ South eastern republics. Chechnya, Kazakhstan, Georgia etc. With the main army stretched in Ukraine they may never have a better opportunity to strike a blow. Hard to credit that Russia is able to maintain such a huge landmass with such a decrepit military. There must be areas of Russia that are wide open to invasion at this moment in time.

You can be damn sure that if the Americans are sharing intel, and publicly announcing it, it's no accident. Its deliberate and planned, its meant to have an effect, like a msg to Putin,,,, See Vladimir, what we know? Now guess how we know????

I've watched a few of their videos and the one thing that strikes me is they seem to mostly be done at the gates to some Moscow University or other; and with people who look suspiciously like students.

Out of all the Russian demographics I would fully expect Moscow-based University students to be the most likely to have the least favourable views on the war: not sure it could be considered at all reflective of wider Russia. And even at that there are still quite a few who very pointedly won't speak out about politics whatsoever or who express some kind of support for the "special operation".

I agree it will be very difficult for Russia to really keep control of the entire country its just the loss of life and destrution to the country has me very concerned as to what the outcome will be .

I guess if you think about the US or EU: different parts of these entities can have very different views on the world and how things should be done. Just look at voting and polling in the likes of Texas versus California or Massachusetts. Likewise Ireland versus Italy or Poland etc.

It just so happens that an authoritarian leadership is able to steer the whole in the one direction without having to moderate itself because certain parts of the whole don't agree; whereas the EU has to take a more softly softly approach and the US flip-flops between the Democrats and the Republicans with its core focus on the business of not-quite capitalism.

Presumably airlines and pilots are also routinely changing their regular flight planning to avoid Ukraine wherever practical: I imagine they don't particularly want to be flying through airspace more likely to contain silent drones, cruise missiles, active anti-aircraft radar zones etc.

I think the Russian approach to civil disobedience is just to nip any large gatherings in the bud and disperse them as soon as possible: they don't actually want to have prisons full of people who have to be watched and fed. The leadership and more prominent figures are the ones who get sent to the Siberian gulags.

Has anyone else seen this about the railway being sabotaged in Belarus?

All these ambulances are finished service with NAS

vehicles2016 and over vehicles like these are replaced with newwer ones the issues you are quaoting are due to several issues like staffing and people ringng ambulances like they are taxis NAS has plenty of vehicles just not enough crews

So dont make it into something its ot these vehicles where going to be auctiioned of or scraped and are now been put to use in a war zone to do some good hse and NAS have many flaws but this is not one