In control of what, they are losing aircraft week in and week out ,
And with more advanced Air defense systems coming online in Ukraine Russia is losing the ability to launch anything but very limited runs to launch unguided rockets
Looks like they have gone into panic mode
Interestingly we saw much more of that in the early days and see much fewer splatted Sukhois on the ground of late. What this tells me is not that the Russian airforce has learned and is in control, but much more that they don't dare send their aircraft next nor near Ukrainian held territory because the risks are too high.
Lots of reports that Russias first line of defence has been breeched at Kherson, Ukrainians advancing.
The counteroffensive begins. God speed Ukraine
This is actually one of their main narratives, that Ukraine is the "anti-Russia" and poses a huge "threat" to them. "We had to invade them before they invaded us" and all this nonsense.
If you want to have a good laugh
alternative reality stronk
Becoming?
Another bit on Filatyev
They captured and destroyed 200 HiMars MLRS .
Zero evidence of either,
But we have seen the wreckage of a percentage of the russian airforce scattered actually across Ukraine
the incredible bottomless airforce!
Looks like Ukraine has started the offense to retake Kherson, after spending the last few weeks targeting Russian logistics and supplies while cutting off routes so Kherson can't be re-enforced,
Someone suggested a fee pages ago that the conflict was at a standstill with neither side having the ability to push forward,
I don't agree,I think what we have been withnessing over the last few months is the Ukrainans backed by Nato intelligence and assistance preparing the path for their offensives going forward,
The G-7 Non-Proliferation Commission: Ukraine's right to produce energy from the Zaporizhzhya plant
Ukraine has a nuclear right, Russia is now becoming the number one rogue state
The Russians are full of sh1t. If they said it was Monday today i'd check the calendar
Why doesn't Putin just die?, is written all over that depressed man's face.
Kherson: Breaking News 24/7 on Twitter: "🚨The Armed Forces of #Ukraine broke through the first line of defense of the Russians near Kherson after an intense battle in the last few hours. - Telegram" / Twitter
Another one? Didn’t he already have one in April or so?
Oh boy, that poor man’s health doesn’t seem to be up to the job at all……….. :D
Unless you have more recent information, sfa appears to have changed in the last week?
Kherson map 6 hours ago
Kherson map August 22
Kharkiv map 6 hours ago
Kharkiv map August 22
Mostly my own tracking on the LiveUA map. I tend to follow up on it most days.
The lines had been mostly static for ages, but now there has been a bit of movement in Russia's favor. Very small gains overall it doesn't look like it has bought them any tactical advantage, but still you want those lines going back the other way towards Kherson.
Looks like Shoigu is about to get a heart attack
As a few people have said already here, Russia is all gob...mostly.
The bigger the mouth and it's rhetoric the more likely it's all guff and nothing else.
It should be noted that the aircraft was even visible on FlightRadar24, hardly a stealth mission.
Despite the above, it happened anyway.
Any sources for this claim? Nothing on twitter, bbc, Reddit etc
Hmm, not looking positive on the various fronts this morning. Russians have pushed a good bit north on the Kherson front, and pushed a new front down from the international border towards Kharkiv. All still within turf they had taken previously and failed to hold, but still a bit disheartening.
With any luck it's just a brief surge in Russian activity in response to the Crimea attacks, and that Ukrainians can push back once they've used up their energy on this.
A lot of Ukraine's make-up is still defined by 19th century nationalism, largely because they have nothing else. The perceived ethnic conflict is exaggerated and there are many Russians in Kyiv and western Ukraine who happily co-exist with everyone else. Had Putin not seen it to his advantage to stoke the gripes of a very belligerent pro-Russian but tiny group they'd still be gathering on some street somewhere waving flags and imagining they are part of a Greater Russia.
In 30 years the country has not moved on very much and is still the definition of an old style Communist bloc country. While one may see the vestiges of Western life the mentality is fairly unchanged and locked into the central power of the State, who you know and everyone getting their own little deal on the side.
But if they don't go to Russia they are Ukrainians and must live accordingly. They can't stay in Ukraine and insist on being Russian. If Russia really cared about them they would give them the opportunity to move to Russia but the reality is Russia does not care about them. They are useful idiots and have been used to start this war.
Sorry but that's mostly irrelevant to small Irish businesses and the general public, except in a very general sense. You watch this space, we'll see an amount of closures here in due course. It's inevitable as the public have less disposable income and are wary of further increases etc. For the greater stability of Europe it's a price to pay but make no mistake, a price will be paid in many different ways.
Don’t worry the Russians are already busy sending people from these areas to far flung back arse of Siberia at best and concentration camps at worst
You're missing the point. It's about different ethnic identities and ethnic conflict and coexistence in the long term. I've met Ukrainian refugees here in the EU who blame Ukraine at least as much as Russia for this war and told me they can't stand Western Ukrainians. Yes, we can view them as morons but it's still how they think. The legacy of all this will have to be handled by whoever governs these countries in future, Ukraine can't just tell them all to move to Russia any more than a United Ireland could tell all unionists to go away.
Fire in Russia
Cannon fodder.
earlier in thread someone was boasting and using Wikipedia for claims of Russia having a “2 million stronk army” well more than half of these are civilian staff
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