<cough> Transnistria <cough>
All going according to plan, yea right.
If normal is having your country blown to bits, infrastructure wiped out, innocent people killed....then yea I guess life is normal in Ukraine.
Yep that's entirely possible; but in that case I would expect to see extra BTGs brought into Ukraine instead.
I mean I'm just some idiot on the internet but I don't see how they can take any further objectives as things stand; they would have to abandon some fronts and focus on as little as a single axis of attack to try and build some kind of momentum. Or bring in significant numbers of conscripts from Donbass or elsewhere and throw caution to the wind with their aircraft.
He only had one order ‘Get Brexit done’
Russian Navy aircraft from Cherepovets Airport towards Crimea?
I'm inclined to agree. Witness the observations of this entirely random Irishman. (Preview not working, but it's entitled "Be careful drawing conclusions from the Ukraine videos" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9pVEP0AzZ4
That said, they are a lot closer to mopping up the Russian nazis than most people thought they would be capable of, and I wouldn't write them off.
I would remind you of the fate of RFA Sir Galahad, another landing ship. One wonders if this Russian one was still laden.
And what did a Senate Republican investigation conclude about that particular internet rumour mill nugget?
On the basis that every single thing the Kremlin says is a lie, this makes Johnson a fully paid up member of the KGB
@magicbastarder
Stupid boards when can we get a delete post button
Would it possible to keep such a shock and awe response below the nuclear level though? Even if NATO was frantically informing Russian military leadeership via back channels that it had no intention of launching the nukes? If Putin took the message that the objective of this onslaught was regime change in Moscow, even if that wasn't actually the intention, wouldn't there be a very strong chance that he would press the red button?
Maybe. That’s the danger of dealing with paranoid psychopath with nuclear weapons. But doing nothing, as I’ve increasing been hearing military and defence experts say, is absolutely not an option in that scenario.
So that means hes one of their best assets.
If everything the Kremlin says is a lie, someone should ask them if it's true Putin used to star in gay porn films to make ends meet after losing his job in the KGB.
@Manic Moran I would remind you of the fate of RFA Sir Galahad, another landing ship. One wonders if this Russian one was still laden...
Naval experts have suggested that a fire broke out on board with ship which caused munitions cooked off and spread fire to other vessels,she was definitely "laden"
I'm not sure the west threatening to starve Russian babies to death is a great look on those inevitable propaganda posters....
They wouldn't be starving Russian children ,
Little or no mention of the Ukrainian children and babies starving ...
Oh joe think of the poor starving Russian children
This is typical of how the Russian media are reporting the war. It's nearly impossible for the Russian public to get any sort of handle on how the war is progressing. According to their press and TV, there are no Russian casualties, no Ukrainian civilian deaths, everything is going smoothly and the Russian troops are bringing humanitarian aid - it seems even worse than Nazi propaganda in WW2, who at least admitted there was a full scale war on and their own troops were taking casualties.
But how much? There have been ammunition explosions on ships before, and there usually isn't much left of the ship three seconds later. If it was at the end of the unloading cycle, then not much was lost.
Indeed, it's worth noting that such ammunition explosions during cargo handling tend to happen by worker error, not enemy action. Witness the Halifax and Port Chicago explosions, for example, and those were wartime incidents. RFA Bedenham managed to blow up in Gibraltar in the early 1950s during peacetime operation. Not to say that the Ukrainians didn't actually hit the ship, but self-inflicted wounds when handling munitions is not impossible.
The good kind though.
They really are approaching this like they can't be hurt.
The sanctions don't include food, and yet people are on here saying western companies shouldn't sell baby formula to Russia
Whatever about Nestle's sh1tty practises promoting unsuitable formula too heavily despite the fact that it caused many babies to die from contaminated water, all that is beside the fact that withdrawing supplies of baby formula, due to public pressure, is not going to help end the war, and is only going to harm newborn babies, and give Putin a propaganda victory
Nobody had threatened to starve Russian babies to death. The baby food thing is a complete and utter red herring. First off, sanctions or calls for boycotts aren't targeting essential food and medicine.
Secondly even if baby food was included in any of this, processed baby food is as essential as microwavable dinners or those Rustlers hamburgers that come pre-assembled in a packet. Weaned babies are perfectly capable, and nutritionally much better off, eating real, proper food - prepared by boiling, mashing or pureeing for their lack of teeth. Younger babies are obviously much better off breast-fed.
The weakened Ruble is a much bigger blocker to Russians buying relatively expensive imported baby food than any sanctions or boycotts.
It seemed to have some ammunition still on board at least; the last shipment seemed to contain a number of BMPs rather than purely crates and crates of ordinance.
There is a clip which appears to show an initial explosion in the absence of any fire; but it wasn’t a large explosion. Personally my money is on a TB-2 strike or some sort of accidental discharge or failure of some kind.
I do feel sorry for the people of Russia who are being impacted by the abhorrent actions of Putin and the Russian government.
You'd need to be some sort of heartless bastard to not.
But but but.
The Tory government have done probably more than any other European power to cater for Russia money swimming into their country. They have taken donations directly into the party proper and to individual party politicians. Hell they have put a Russian millionaire with direct KGB links into their house of Lords.
Anyone who thinks the Tory party are not up to their absolute ears on slush money sourced from across Russia needs their reading and reason capabilities assessed.
None of the provisions of equipment or cash from the same government absolves them of the truth or history over the last decade or more in London.
White washing it wont work horse.
Well the people of Russia know what to do then if they want the live they became accustomed to back.
My heart bleeds .. .. ..
Im hearing on the wires the Snake Island soldiers were exchanged for Russian POW's those snaky feckers will live to fight another day on Snake Island
It's also important to note then that there's a significant portion of the population support Putin and action against Ukraine. That is part of the problem.
there is also a portion of most countries that sympathizes with Putin trying to restore the empire to its former glory, they tend to be current or former communists
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