What can they do though? They know now they don’t have a modern army. It’s going to take them decades to build an army.
I just don't see how or why they would be sending a transport plane to Odessa of all places. In fact I'd be amazed if transport planes are operating in Ukraine at all since the war began; they're sitting ducks.
The Russian MoDs briefings are utter horseshit anyway:
Missile troops hit 317 military facilities, including: 274 strong points and areas of concentration of enemy manpower, 24 control points and two field fuel storage facilities of Ukrainian troops.
The other day they claimed 800+ military facilities were hit. I mean; do Ukraine even have 800 "military facilities" in the entire country? Or is "military facility" codename for a civilian dwelling? That would make more sense...
Shooting down a Nato aircraft would be considered an act of war ,
Russia really pushing the NATO angle - reads to me this is gonna take a nasty turn
The hellfire missle which has been the primary weapon of the Americans drone can hit take out armour at close to 10km away ,that's a decent standoff range , considering they are currently hitting targets when they are over head with the baktar drones.
And the Globalhawks have being directly over ukraine and Mariupol through the last 50 + days , they are regularly tracked on here
Will henceforth be known as "Vlad the Unlucky" until Vlad the Invader takes on that moniker
Bombing Apartment blocks???? Sure that would have Putins signature all over it...isn't that how he came to power????😅😅😅
Russia has claimed to have shot down a ukrainain transport aircraft heading into Odessa ,and in another report they claimed it was a Nato aircraft delivering weapons
They're not flying Global Hawks over Ukraine; they're flying over the Black Sea and NATO/EU countries alongside Ukraine. Quite a significant distinction.
Aside from which the Global Hawk is a highly advanced surveillance UAV; Predators and Reapers are for delivering munitions alongside more standard surveillance functions.
The Reaper and Predator are not designed to operate in heavily contested airspace and they don't carry standoff munitions. They have to be virtually above a target in order to hit it; I genuinely don't see how they would have any impact against Russia in Ukraine. And that's even if you ignore all the other issues as mentioned previously.
Ukraine needs artillery systems, anti-aircraft systems, armoured vehicles in large quantities and it needed them last week.
That misses the continual and ongoing wars against the independent press, opposition politicians, democracy, and all forms of protest and dissent, and of course, the truth.
I've skimmed the report and the crux of its argument about the 400km maximum range is that:
Since the most potent long-range missile is still not operational, the currently fielded system uses the same long-range semi-active missile as the later versions of the older S-300-system, thus limiting range and performance against all targets but large aircraft at high altitude...
However the 40N6 missile with a range of up to 400km is claimed to have been approved for purchase by Russia from 2018 onwards: https://tass.com/defense/1026630
In any case even if the maximum range was 200km the argument and conclusions are just as valid; but Russia would probably be even less likely to undertake any naval operations along the Ukraine coast south of Odessa.
Yep but that's why their actions don't have to have a point to us. It is 1984 territory. I'm not saying you are wrong, but they have entered a world of lies of propaganda that they really are capable of bonkers actions.
Russian lives are cheap. Russian fuel depots are not. That's why they needed to blow up a fuel depot.
They could sink the remaining Black sea fleet with those
Great thread on the 1853-1856 Crimean war which is relevant to today:-
The lies of the Russians are so laughable it reminds me of this scene in Monty Python...
Sure, but there remains no point to it. Much like I'm pretty sure they didn't severely damage their own rail line in Belgorod either.
The Russian authorities do not give a **** about their people. If they wanted to commit a false flag operation they would bomb an apartment building - something that would actually make the average Russian care.
But to clarify, it's obviously fake news, Gen. Frolov wasn't killed by Ukrainians. The "truth" about his death is quite similar to what happened to the Moskva: His uniform caught fire and some ammunition exploded. After that an ambulance tried to rescue him, but unfortunately the bad weather killed him.
For all we know, the fuel depot was empty \ needed to be replaced... I wouldn't put anything past the Russians.
Another one:-
Fair enough, I hadn't seen that. Last I saw was the cryptic comments about not being responsible for every disaster etc. and comments about reaping what they sow.
I still don't believe them. It continues to make absolutely no sense for Russia to have done it to themselves. They do indeed have a track record on this, but it would involve attacking civilians and riling up the populace. Attacking a fuel depot doesn't do this - all it does is help Ukraine militarily. Why does a Muscovite give a crap about a fuel depot somewhere being hit? No one internationally gives a crap about their claimed provocations or believes them. It would be spectacularly stupid.
Good article detailing the various wars/conflicts Russia has been involved in since the fall of the USSR (11 in 31 years), they are:-
1. Civil War in Georgia or South Ossetian War
2. War in Abkhazia
3. Armed conflict in Transnistria
4. Civil war in Tajikistan
5. First Chechen war
6. Second Chechen war
7. Armed conflict in South Ossetia (Samachablo) and Russian-Georgian war
8. Annexation of Crimea
9. War in Donbas
10. Russian military operation in Syria
11. Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine
https://zaborona.com/interactive/russias-wars-en/#rec431901853
After all a savvy and stable genius like my friend Vladimir isn't going to let his sailors go to the bottom of the Black Sea, contrary to what the fake news media would have you think
"After the stay of the Russian military in Sumy region in the village of Bilka, the remains of chemical weapons were discovered About this, the mayor of Trostyanets Yuri bova said on the air of the Ukrainian radio.
"We found in the village of Bilka the remains of chemical weapons – sarin and other substances. They found ampoules. Now the Security Service of Ukraine is doing this. Perhaps, with this chemical substance, the occupiers wanted to beat either in Kiev, poltava, or other cities," said the mayor of Trostyanets."
I hope they get the OSCE in to verify that.
Highly likely yes , that or sent it insane asylums to prevent them from going public
One theory is that they find the prospect of losing to the vastly inferior Ukrainians absolutely galling and now have to spin it that they are fighting NATO instead. Their arrogance and racism knows no bounds.
The real survivors are probably already serving 15 years hard labour for bringing such shame on themselves and the motherland for allowing the "accident" to happen.
A very sensible essay on the war Russia's War in Ukraine Enters Its Decisive Moment - The Atlantic
Wouldn't be surprised if they were fake ,
Have you noticed that they use particular tight angles to film the so call survivors
Just another threatened country to add to the list:-
Anyone good at counting? I'm guessing about 50 odd saved, assume the rest perished.
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