That's terrifically good news. Thanks.
Putin not the bully boy he once was.
Emperor has no clothes?
The real heavy weapons are about to come into Ukraine now. Reapers, drones, long range precision missiles, anti shipping, anti aircraft, etc.
It's been an unfair fight up to now and even then the Russians were pushed back from where they were.
The Russians calling for sanctions to be lifted in exchange for passage of grain. Means the sanctions are having effect.
Reports of Russian confusion in the south too and fall backs. To me the Russians are scared now and you can see even the rhetoric now of them afraid of the Eastern States coming back to Ukraine. Same with Crimea. They're trying to play the innocent card on this and make it look like they weren't taken by the Russians in the first place.
It's turning to the Ukrainian side again and the Russian opposition know it imo.
Am I the only one that thinks Russia is slowly winning this war? They are about to take Severodonetsk.
Bit of reality in map form.
russia couldn't take Kyiv.
Couldn't take Kharkiv.
Couldn't get near Odesa.
Couldn't take Mykoliav.
Failed many encirclement attempts.
Spectacularly failed crossing a river.
Ukraine is a large nation with much space to trade for time.
Keep those Western weapons flowing in, faster would be better.
US looking to sell hellfire missile armed drones to Ukraine, not yet a done deal.
More Russian justice. Complete dogs. Only difference now is the world is watching.
Because almost every one of your posts in this thread (that I've read) is some tiresome contrarian point against Zelensky, or Ukraine, or the West. Systematically.
People are being blown to bits, yet these always happen to be your "concerns"? Right.
Ukraine has fired the ombudsman for a number of reasons. Mutually exclusive to that, there is a significant number of accounts of sexual violence in Ukraine perpetrated by the Russian military, currently under investigation by domestic and multiple international bodies. Likewise there's a large number of accounts of looting and theft by Russian military forces, many accounts of torture, many accounts of murders. All the evidence in the public domain we have so far points to a very ill-disciplined army systematically committing crimes and atrocities in the country they are invading. A vast number of cases of which many are being referred to the International Criminal Court.
Please tell me us aren't sinking to the depths of suddenly deciding all those individual accounts must "not be true" because someone was fired, or even hinting in that direction..
He doesn't follow the news reporters out in Ukraine.
BBC CNN. French, German reporters all out there.
Follows the Rashists though. The sun shines out of their you know what.
Propaganda in war you say, who'd have thought it. I'm more interested in Ukraine getting 40 MLRS instead of 4, not one bit bothered about what's said. There are no prizes for taking part in this war, only winning it.
Why interpret what I said as pro Russia?
I want the truth as everyone should, we're all paying enough for this conflict as it is.
Lies from Ukraine about Russia are just as bad as lies from Russia about Ukraine. Only generally Russia's propaganda isn't aired here but all the Ukrainian shqt is, the more hysterical the better seems to be the approach.
Just because an official was fired doesn't mean Russian soldiers aren't committing sexual violence. There are a vast amount of reports and multiple international bodies are investigating it.
You know you can join the Russian military and get paid to attack Ukraine instead of indirectly doing it in every post you make in this thread..
Yep. They've proven themselves time and time again to be great liers. So unless they give concrete proof of anything why would anyone trust it?
Germany to deliver 4 MLRS systems to Ukraine by the end of this month, 10% of their own in service MLRS systems.
To illustrate the self inflicted reputation damage, most comments I've read while welcoming the news have qualified that welcome with some version of "I'll believe it when I see it".
This the same Ukraine that publicly fired her for allegedly doing just that...
How much faith would you have in it being true? Ukraine have showed pretty well that they're not afraid of making up stories like that
Their keeping it in country now it seems
Seems like we've been fed a lot of made up stories...
Biden confirms Ukraine to get HIMARS system, bye-bye russian artillery
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/31/biden-ukraine-rockets-russia-00036225
One must assume all of these now been blown to smithereens by the Ukranian forces?
MLRS systems
https://twitter.com/noclador/status/1531067601006301184?s=20&t=UZVPHf-6AkZanpfNJ3dCQQ
I don't believe so, the UK's Harpoons are all ship based. Denmark OTOH still had some coastal defense versions of the system which suit Ukraine as they're truck mounted.
I thought the UK had already sent some harpoons ,
The Ukr Neptune anti ship missile was still in development when russia invaded. The missiles that sank the moskva were possibly the only ones they had. If Ukr had a larger arsenal of anti ship missiles we'd have seen their use earlier in the war, and more of them.
Don't the Ukrainians already have long range anti-ship missiles ? (Not saying more isn't better ) so is it a game changer ?
Sending anything against the Kerch bridge won't be simple , there's 3 or 4 overlapping s400 systems protecting it , + whatever shorter range systems are protecting the s400s, the ukrainians don't have any access to the sea of azov so not easy to get to it anyway ... And it's a big lump of concrete ( well many big lumps ) ,so it's going to need many big bangs to do much to it ..
How-ever there are only 2 or 3 bridges between Crimea and Ukraine, and they're a lot closer to Ukrainian military..
Soon more of the russian black sea fleet will be promoted to submarine status
https://twitter.com/MrKovalenko/status/1530663675899662336?s=20&t=iwi8zGIk0xjL8gTpuW7aPw
Ukr land forces seem to be about 180 miles from the bridge. Not sure whether they have or want to risk the aircraft to do that job. Which leaves ballistic missiles which I haven't heard much of lately from the Ukr side. Unless I'm missing something which I probably am.....
If the US supply the best MLRS with the right missiles for it it could reach the bridge but would it be enough I don't know, but methinks they won't.
If they get the heavy duty long range mlrs systems that are been promised its a possibility, noting would boil Putins piss more then hockeying his prized bridge
Bomb the Kerch bridge. Job done.
I think Ukr will cede some territory in Donbas, trade space for time. Would be great to push the russians out of Kherson, threaten the land bridge to Crimea.
https://twitter.com/WarintheFuture/status/1530354603748823040?s=20&t=kfg8LTbuBHUaHzLeDcO79w
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