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Can't blame you for that....I know plenty of Slavic women too, but I'm long vaccinated.........🙄

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

But it's not on the news anymore 😂😂😂

I'd be holding my whist a while yet, both until the fog of war & disinformation lifts a bit. And till we see how other Russian forces in the region react, a wounded dog is dangerous and they've still got serious firepower. If the Ukrainians can strangle supplies to the south though, they really strengthen their hand.

Are you a secret Russia supporter to be posting such defeatist ideas?

When the Kherson offensive began there was lots of talk from the Ukrainian Channels that there was a media blackout. People are not to be posting anything online etc.

Now it appears to be a faint to take the north east back. Russia have been absolutely merked. They spent months fighting for that territory and lost it in 3 days.

I fiind this quite interesting. 33 airstrikes in one day. One would have thought that a priority of the Russian AF would have been some form of Suppression of Ukranian air assets.

It's extraordinary that the Ukrainian Airforce ( mainly su-25's) still have some potency this far into the War.

Seems their flankers have been flying sorties too