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And a 20 or 30 klm buffer zone established on the Russian side.
If they're in and around Donetsk airport then they're starting to capture areas that have been held since 2014. Incredible! Today has been amazing.
Dont be silly ...... Russia does have nukes, Which they will use once they get attacked/invaded.
2000 sq km retaken in under 3 days .
At this point how long would you guess it would take them to get to Moscow.
I'm standing by my claim of Crimea early new year
LOL...Sorry, I don't have words ( printable ones anyway ) to describe it. TBH, whenever I came across the word, I kind of skipped over it. If that makes sense??? And even if I could, I would not allow you to repeat it. not even to your ex-Czech Girlfriend, never mind the present Girlfriend.🤐
This YouTube account does pro-Kremlin map analysis. Just posting today's video. I haven't bothered watching it. Just enjoying reading the comments (The comments on the account are typically from Westerners who support Russia - they are not happy)
Things are developing very quickly. We will be looking at a very different picture come morning.
If reports are true, the 3 Ukrainian battle-groups are taking the Russians by complete surprise.
Zelensky
If you think Russia cares about the animals they have in Ukraine then you are sorely mistaken.
Read this about 4 hours ago, he analysed the Ukrainian army as been organised into 3 groups and predicted a 3rd attack within days. I dismissed it, it appears I may have been wrong to do so.
https://twitter.com/secretsqrl123/status/1568440394123288578
Could we pause for a moment to offer sincere thoughts & prayers to Sabina Higgins in these obviously trying times.
The current one is Czech too!!!! 🙄 What can I say, I'm a sucker for Slavic looks!
Can't blame you for that....I know plenty of Slavic women too, but I'm long vaccinated.........🙄
Lots of high quality copium on offer there. The fcukup with not taking Kyiv was bad, but they convinced themselves it was a tactical ruse, they can't use that here.
You love to see it. It's only a pity that the Ukrainian forces and Ukrainian people had to endure such a brutal period of attrition warfare before these current advances could take place. Praying that any and all Russian retreats hasten and that they're chased all the way out of Ukraine and that Vladimir Putin has a freak shaving accident.
So are these 3 battle groups the 'new model army' that was trained and equipped by NATO?
And as you say - these have surprised Russia.
I'm pleasantly surprised by the Ukrainian success but not even close to being shocked. I (and others) did say some time ago the it was a possibility given the poor morale, uninspired leadership, badly maintained equipment, tactical incompetence and lack of supplies being suffered by Russian forces. An army in that state is already half beaten and never mind how the numbers stack up. It takes a very special commander to be able to get the best out of demoralised troops and turn them around such as Napoleon and the Army of Italy in 1796, or Zhukov/Chuikov at Stalingrad in 1942. The Russians don't seem to have anyone capable of that, or maybe they did but were killed going too far forward to sort out the mess.
Also, and I don't mean this in a polyanna sense, I was a bit surprised at that Washington post article, not so much to hear that the Ukrainians were having a tough time, but to read about them talking so freely about how terrible it was...almost as if it was part of a Ukrainian maskirovka to "big up" the Russian performance and perhaps encourage them to strip units from other sectors in order to quickly finish off the Ukrainians near Kherson. All that said, war is an even "funnier" and older game than football, and as chess players say, there still plenty of play left in the position and the fat lady probably hasn't even left her dressing room yet. Do I win an award for most mixed metaphors in a single sentence?
Hopefully we will get more definite news from Kherson soon. If the Russians there really are showing some backbone combined with some tactical and operational nous, it's a little worrying.
What's the secret?
Last time we spent a week in Prague I nearly came back with concussion due to slaps to the head ,you don't look at me like that ,
My punishment for putting a ring on a redheads finger
Highly likely.
Also they are receiving real time nato and American intelligence,
Remember all those nights tracking forte 11 and other intelligence aircraft over Ukraine and the black sea.
We know now what they were doing
They might get the type of education Wellington (then still Gen Wellesley) received during the hopless Walcheren campaign in 1809.
"I learned what not to do, and that is always something".
Can't believe the amount of people who are still spouting the treat them with respect, or they're from impoverished areas shite.
This is the equivalent of a knacker with a drug habit breaking into your house, raping your wife, killing one of your kids and he's coming at you with a knife, yet you are expected to negotiate with him and treat him well because he's from an underprivileged background.
Fcuk off, bullet to the head is all he'd get or beat to death with the heaviest implement to hand.
Maybe if they surrender en masse you treat them well until you've investigated all their actions. Anyone running away gets a HIMARS up the ass.
Disinformation campaign you say...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/10/ukraines-publicised-southern-offensive-was-disinformation-campaign
Not sure of who said it but a former NATO general months ago said August was going to the 'month of reckoning' for this conflict.
His analysis was that with the NATO training of new recruits and the influx of modern NATO weapons during the summer that the Ukrainian army would be kicking the Russian army 'in the feels' by the end of August. This was back in June when the Russian army was shelling the sh1t out of Severodonetsk and most western analysts feared that Ukraine was going suffer death by a thousand cuts shells.
But the Ukrainians must have been reading their Sun Tzu
“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win”
1st they made a big fuss about re-taking Kherson, goading the Russians to flood this area with reinforcements.
2nd they blew the bridges trapping the Russian defenders and their reinforcements in the Kherson Oblast.
3rd they unleash holy hell on the now poorly defended eastern front, while half the Russian army is trapped in Kherson holding their член
More military hardware being donated to Ukraine
This has to be more than just out of position troops. It's clear they just ran. Probably following the local commander out.
At least with Irish women you can see it coming. With the Czechs you need to watch the mushrooms you are been served!
My God Christmas has come early for the Ukrainians.
The last few pages on this thread have been epic read and hot damn I'm enjoying the Orcs getting destroyed and one can only imagine how embarrassed Putin is feeling and surely he must be hanging on by a thread at this point
Do you remember people saying it was getting very slow in here and moving off the front page no one cares stuff like that. 😁
But it's not on the news anymore 😂😂😂
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