Russia - threadbanned users in OP

I can only say " God help them" the day they divert from the official line....redundancy will be the least pf their worries....😂

The comments about expansion of the Russian empire is complete grandstanding rhetoric from the Russian establishment to whip up support from the domestic audience. We all know Russia have little to no capability to have a go at places like Finland and Sweden and if they ever tried, their soldiers bodies would be stacked high and wide. 3 and a half months into what was supposed to be a two week operation and they're nowhere near their goal of conquering Ukraine. There's no doubt that there is significant grumbling in the West about the wider austerity this war is generating, but there's no worry about direct military subjugation by Russia. Not a hope of it, in fact. All Putin has is the button and I don't even know if he's tall enough to reach it.

Russian artillery as far as I'm aware will be outranged by western artillery systems. Where Russia has the edge is the sheer quantity of them, plus air and missile forces.

Slava Ukraine is all well and good but right now they are been pounded by long range artillery.

Until Ukraine get these weapons they are doomed.

Chemo is like that. There is a lull in the middle that can last from 3 months to a year and a half depending on the cancer and the person. Hopefully in Putin case it's 3-6 months

Hopefully the stress reduces his time on this earth.

Unfortunately

Why is everyone thinking Putin looked in the best of health in that video he did - he barely moved, his right hand is still immobile, even looked quite slovenly

It was quite evidently a puff piece to try to make him look with it but came across as not bar his mind is still there and I don't think anyone was ever questioning that

With all the people Covid killed its a disaster that it didn't take this cnut. There could at least have been one upside.

I said back on the first week of the war that the west need to support Ukraine properly and put this lad back in his box or he would be emboldened and take the fight elsewhere. Cue all the hand wringing about nukes and other waffle. But the fact is, the longer this is left continue the closer we come to a head to head conflict of nuclear armed states and then we do have an issue.

It's been 4months now. No excuses left. Send your best equipment and grind these fcukers into the ukranian dirt with a show of force that let's them know, never to raise their murdering, thieving, raping, paedophilic heads again.

The latest info

Kadiivka (Stakhanov): destroyed base of operations for 🇷🇺 Wagner group and Rosgvrdia [link]

Kherson Oblast: Bombing of 🇷🇺 positions, 2 generals killed – one military, one FSB, organizing referendum. Bombing of 3 🇷🇺 ammo/fuel warehouses, detonations for several hours. Chkalove: Confirmed kill of Arabic (possibly 🇸🇾Syrian) mercenaries fighting for 🇷🇺, over 200 killed [link] Partisans destroyed UAZ vehicle with 🇷🇺 colonel and 3 solders. BM-21 Grad “broke down”, before reaching attack position

Sievierodonetsk: 🇷🇺 has reinforced only artillery, trying to focus on capturing Siversk, to block Lysychansk, as well as get to Sloviansk. In many places situation is changing fast, often recaptures, but small distances. Recon unit of 🇷🇺 Akhmat regiment destroyed completely. Most 🇺🇦 attacks with 155mm artillery, need twice as much, to be really effective. Due to artillery working well, no significant 🇷🇺 movements. There is a lot of conflicting information, any news about recapture shouldn’t be celebrated, because situation is changing a lot. Tactical progress should be evaluated with minimum period of 2-3 days, Operational progress within 20-30 days

🇺🇦 is losing 100 solders every day, this has been constant since beginning of war. 🇷🇺 losses were 1000s/day in first 20-30 days, right now in order of 200-300/day. Today was exceptionally good 🇺🇦 artillery work, about 600 killed 🇷🇺. Losses are expected to continue 1:3 to 1:6 in favor of 🇺🇦, but it’s still large losses

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Unfortunately the losses are not going to favour Ukraine. An advisor to Zelensky said Ukraine is having 200 dead and 800 injured soldiers a day, 1k out of commission. 30k a month.

Russia is not losing 100k to 180k a month.

There are questions at the moment about even that loss for the Russians as they are pounding areas from far.

Clare Daly and Mick Wallace are a complete irrelevance to this whole mess at the end of the day. A couple of wingnuts in the EP. There's no reason to rush to hear their opinion of Putin's words when you could be asking what Marine Le Pen and her ilk think because it's her and her kind who are knocking on the door of political power in Europe.

Why bother with them, Putin has Scholz, he had Merkel in his pocket.

Quite a few countries and leaders in positions of power.

He isn't too concerned if Le Pen makes it in 10 years or not.

They need long range artillery like what Russia are pounding them with.

And proper air defence missiles.

Goals have been defined – to win 🇷🇺 army within 🇺🇦 territory. The military assistance received is weird, does not match goals. Why it comes in such small amounts? 6000 anti-tank missiles are great, but they can’t do anything against long-range missiles. If 🇺🇦 had 3x as much artillery as now (which is not unrealistic to supply), 🇺🇦 would solve all 🇷🇺 attacks. All targets are known.

From above link.