It's an absolute toilet. We'd a few naive posters on here yesterday falling for fake Twitter rubbish and posting it. Standards have to be higher.
It's absolutely disgraceful. The worst thing is her funeral isn't for another 8 days so we've over a week of this left.
It looks like the Russians are in full on panic mode and retreating at a rapid pace. Let's hope Putrid doesn't do something silly and put the world on the edge of war.
It is entirely conceivable Francie. There are 150,000 Russias in Ukraine and perhaps as many again conscripted LPR and DPR. I do not know how many men Russia committed to defend an entire front and I admit that but you pretending you do know is laughable. 10k is very possible, 20k, and 30k are also possible. What is true is they are there but their quality is abysmal.
The big question is whether their logistics system will support that. Granted, they're retaking Ukrainian territory so they'll likely have to worry less about partisan / SOF raids on their supply lines, but they'll still need to be able to keep rations, fuel and ammunition flowing to the advancing units, cycle out exhausted/depleted units for fresh ones and make sure that their equipment stays in good working order. The Ukrainian army has generally proven itself to be pretty competent in that regard so far but eventually, they will need to slow down to resupply and regroup.
A Russian telegram is now claiming that Russian forces have left Svatove, too
Where to next for the Ukrainians? They need to keep the momentum going until they meet some resistance.
I'm still worried the Russians have some counterattack planned or the Ukrainians will overextend themselves but it is definitely looking a lot more positive if they have indeed captured Izyum. I hope the the Ukrainians can eventually liberate the territory in the south of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts as well (places like Melitopol and Berdyansk). I'm guessing that even in the best case scenario for Ukraine that might take into next year though.
It is annoying that a real hard news event that will determine future European geopolitics is happening and being ignored alright.
Will they just start levelling the towns they left with long range artillery?
Do they have much left?
It's bizarre, almost like the media was more interested in Ukraine when it was all bad news than when there are significant positives to report.
I wonder if this is a way for a base camp to be established rapidly for relief columns from Russia?
That Twitter woman is a moron. Navalny worse than Putin, no such thing as opposition in Russia, the war is an expression of Russia's collective consciousness? Funnily enough a lot of hardcore Putin supporters would probably love these statements.
I think that’s the optics Russia want, that’s what they have left to them, optics.
Or they want the area clear of civilians before they drop the big one on the Ukrainian troops?
Great to see mass movement of people back to Russia....instead of millions of Ukrainian Refugee's heading for safety.
Izyum confirmed liberated
I thought that it looked very risky..
The joke now is that the largest military aid to Ukraine now comes from … Russia 😂
Oh in all the excitement, Russia captures a hill elsewhere
I cannot see Ukraine ( and others ) either forgiving or more important, forgetting what Russia has done to them for generations at least, regardless of what the US thinks. And I would not blame them. Russia has removed itself so far outside the pale, restoring to the fold will take multiple years. 50 years down the road, it will still be remembered, and unforgiven, it will be a dark stain on Russian history.
And Boeing sikorsky have two helicopters in the American future lift helicopter program using similar set ups, the Raider and Defiant with the addition of a pusher prop
What's this about?
I think that originally came from naval helicopters such as the Ka-25 Hormone. The counter-rotating rotor design simply uses less hangar space, which is a major consideration on a warship. The image below, which shows a more modern Kamov Ka-27 Helix on the flight deck of the guided missile destroyer Vice Admiral Kulakov, demonstrates this advantage. I took that image back in 2012, when the Vice Admiral Kulakov made a courtesy visit in Cobh.
When the request for designs for what would later become the Ka-50 & Ka-52 went out in the late 1980s, the Kamov design bureau simply built their helicopter around the coaxial rotor system that they'd had literally decades of experience with at that point. Furthermore, the design had proven itself in a number of naval and utility helicopters already, often in harsh conditions.
The rotors are suppose to blow off during ejection on the Alligator, even if ejection worked and you were'nt chopped up into sushi, I'm not sure that being exploded out of a cockpit at MACH silly when you're only at treetop level is much of a help
thats the sort of stuff they can rekit. artillery, AA, signals and radar units are the stuff that they won't be able replace easily and if the roads are clogged by all of their units hightailing it at the same time in a panic rather than orderly withdrawals theres a real possibility the Ukranians will inheirit some handy kit as happened on the Kyiv retreat
Hopefully, thats the case and the Russians get twatted by Ukranian artillery the whole way out
What kind of deal? Unless you are saying that the Russians will be pushed back into Russia within the month? (inc Crimea) now that would be some result all right, but these are the only circumstances I can see Ukraine agreeing with.
The use of two counter-rotating sets of rotors instead of a tail rotor seems to be a Russian thing only. I wonder how much more/less safe and efficient it really is.
Yes, he does. What's your point exactly?
Sigh. Putin kills children.
More gas money wasted
It's not orderly at all. Anything that isn't readily available to be driven away will be abandoned.
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