A bleak analysis from US intelligence
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/10/putin-nuclear-weapons-us-intelligence-avril-haines?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
I thought everyone had left there - strong words
Couldnt NATO maul Belarus for that tho, I mean they aren't a nuclear threat.
We should buy some off the Russians and give it to the Ukrainians just for irony sake
While it's good for Kharkiv to have the pressure on the city reduced this doesn't mean the other Russian fronts are crumbling we we speak. It's also looking very likely that Russia has "done a Kyiv" around Kharkiv and retreated across the border; in many cases it looks like Ukraine were able to take areas without significant fighting.
The Russian focus still remains the Donbass where they're making slow but incremental gains; but thankfully they've been stalled in Kherson and most of Zaporizhzhia for the past week or more.
Any chance of a link for that?
Ukraine facing fuel shortages
Interesting if that is filmed on the front lines because it shows no sign of them using any of the digital upgrades; they're only using the optical sights. Which would mean it very unlikely they're able to use any of the advanced fuses or guided shell types; and also that overall accuracy and efficiency would be reduced compared to the potential of the system.
Although it makes sense if they wanted to get them onto the front lines quickly but hopefully some units are getting the extra training and advanced digital kit.
If it was as simple as that, every conscript in the Russian army would be back home, and so would a lot of the regular soldiers too. When it gets to the stage that the Kadrovski's are killing their own soldiers who refuse to fight, and even regular officers are doing the same ( according to some tapped phone calls ) What would happen when they arrive back home???
They couldn't make it any easier to shoot them except to paint bullseyes on themselves
Feigned retreat by Ukrainians and Russian advances married with guided munitions.
Meanwhile some news which should have Putin kicking his bin around his office
Crimea is 600km south, Ukraine is on a larger scale than our little island.
As unpleasant as that footage is. The fact that Russian soldiers like these are dead in a field in Ukraine is not really surprising.
What is upsetting is the footage of the ordinary people of Ukraine, men, women and children ruthlessly killed by the same invading Russian forces. Of the senseless waste of life. Not life lost because of two armys chose to face each other on a battlefield. But rather men sent by a lunatic to invade another country on the pretext its people are Nazis / that NATO planned to invade Russia / That Russia was threatened. And as a result 10s of 1000s dead. Lives lost for no other reasons than the ravings of a madman.
Last year this photo below showed an old lady called Olha in Ukraine planting potatoes in her garden, as her dog Vadik keeps her company
This year a photo of the same garden, the house destroyed where Olha and her husband Oleksandr dead as a result of air strikes by Russians on the village. Vadik stands alone in the garden. There will be no potatoes grown there this year
This made me laugh
Winning territory at that kind of rate can't be much good to Russia, especially if they stand to lose some of it in a later counterattack. This type of grind is not what Putin envisaged. Ukraine, on the other hand, have been practicing this kind of warfare for the last 8 years or so, and now they have a glut of western weaponry coming in to boost their effectiveness even more.
Russian lives are not worth what they used to be. 66 euro for a life. Good man yourself.
Looks like S-125 Neva/Pechora that shot down a F117 in Serbia
Russians torture people in the Kherson region and show video on social media.
Ukraine's air defense forces shot down five enemy targets in one day, the Ukrinform agency reported.
What is on the picture?
The Russians blowing 4 different bridges in the last few days suggested they weren't thinking of digging in further. The Donets river will form their next defensive line.
You can't imagine because your dead.
On the flip side. Perhaps at this point given the fullest of availabile information I'd expect my relatives to make me pack it in.
It continues to be an option for all and any of these 25 year olds.
Hard not to get serious infections when you have little food and water, can't wash and are trapped underground with a bunch of other people in the same condition. Hopefully you have clean dressings.
the Battle for Kharkiv has been won
It's like something from a post apocalyptic movie
AZOV in Mariupol. It's awful that they can't get humanitarian aid. Imagine losing leg or hand in such conditions.
Lots of reports about UA forces making significant progress in the North East which is great news.
But I'd be very wary about the South and centre. Russia is gaining, albeit at a crawl, territory. And what they are gaining, is coming at a huge cost. But I've also no doubt, any time the Ukrainians hold the line or make a tactical retreat, they are taking losses too.
As an aside
Imagine dying in a field. Never getting to say goodbye to your loved ones. Dying under the age 25 having never lived life to the fullest. And your remaining loved ones get to see your lifeless body with an EDM soundtrack.
(NSFW)
Give it a break banana. No one is biting.
We have definelty seen evidence of Ukraine continuing the push around Kharkiv Oblast. The issue comes down to the continued stranglehold that Russia is placing on Severodonetsk and the very 'mixed' picture down south where the frontline is very fluid.
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