That tells you the Russian administration does not have a plan B and it is digging in for at least another 2 years fighting
What the Russian administration has planned to do and what their forces are actually capable of doing are rather divergent.
I am aware of that Bass, but a squad having 1 bolt action would not be awful. A squad carrying nothing but bolt actions would suicidal.
And it would appear from photos of some of the DPR and LPR units that the former is the case.
Idiotic comment. He said Reuters, not RT. And he's right, CNN is a trashy channel,not as bad as Fox, but not much better, maybe Sky News level.
Given all the petty squabbling going on in this thread I'm guessing that it's a, relatively, slow news day over in Ukraine.
Might as well send train loads of cats - mrrow.
Sky News reporting of the war is probably up there with the best of any organisation on the planet. If not the best.
Unfortunately with Putin heading for a bunker(?) and the speed of withdrawl plus not sending anyone to the conflict causes one apalling possibility to immediately spring to mind.
I'd be far happier if they were sending reinforcements
No I am arguing with puppets whose paid job is to peddle Russian propaganda, spread disinformation and dismiss any news not approved by ministry of truth.
CNN might have a partisan slant when it comes to US politics but unlike Russian media they have top notch journalists and fact checking.
Russia has no free media left and any journalists were murdered or are in prison, leaving the likes of that circus we see daily that makes (gaasp) Fox News sound sane
I agree. The initial plan was seize the South and East of Ukrainain territory and leave the rest of Ukraine as a rump state. Officially, they scaled that ambition back to "guaranteeing the independence" of the Luhansk and Donetsk people's republics. The Russians need to hold Kherson Oblast to secure a water supply to Crimea which has been turning into a desert since the Ukrainians cut off the canal in 2014. Unlike Kharkiv Oblast, they are not running from there, despite the pressure they are under trying to hold the other side of the Dnipro river. Ukranians have taken a lot of casualties trying to seize that area. The Russians have to hold Kherson at all costs in order to secure Crimea long term.
Watch them try to dismiss the Financial Times now
You could paralyze China by just making a Covid outbreak happen in multiple cities simultaneously. The resultant lockdowns...
I agree. The initial plan was seize the South and East of Ukrainain territory and leave the rest of Ukraine as a rump state
No it wasn't, the initial plan was a total annexation of Ukraine in what they thought would be days.
They misjudged evidenced quite early on by the fact their "elite soldiers" couldn't take an airfield outside of the capital.
It will go down as one of the greatest miscalculations in history.
Russian field hospital near Izyum (presumably overrun at this point). Check out the images in the link, translation not required.
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Why are you bringing up Russian TV again? The guy you're arguing with said he trusts Reuters over CNN and you reply by saying CNN is better than Russia Today. No one's disputing that, so your argument just makes no sense unless you're deliberately trolling.
Do we think Ukraine or the USA has paid shills to push a pro-western agenda?
A counter to the Putin-bots?
The thing about Fox News and CNN is that they have News divisions and they have Opinion divisions. The clearly partisan shows that get clipped and past around on social media are almost always from the latter (The likes of Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Don Lemon etc).
The Fox News news division is, apparently, respected but I don't think they do much beyond domestic coverage. CNN on the other hand do have a fairly well respected international news division.
I think a common misperception is that people see how partisan the Opinion shows are on those networks and automatically assume that their News coverages must be similarly unbalanced.
The same Sky News that said Putin has blood cancer and is about to die back in spring?
It's the one card he has left to play besides full mobilisation but i remain hopeful all orders to that degree will be ignored and the botox dwarf ends up on the end of rope.
Thank you. This should have been said about 3 months ago it's an absolute plague on the debate based purely on personal disagreement.
Absolutely, it's a major fcukup driven by hubris of Putin and the siloviki. They expected to topple the government in Kiev, insert a puppet government, then federate Ukraine and amalgamate the majority Russian speaking areas into a separate country where they would not get much partisan resistance, the northern part would be left as a rump state run by Ukranians sympathetic to Moscow and policed by themselves, since this would be impossible to police using the Russian army without significant casualties like what happened at the end of WWII.
A good post thanks for that.
I'll admit i don't have neither Fox or CNN on my TV so all i'm really basing my reality on is what i may come across on Youtube or live streams at times of major news events etc... and they seem to be all US based. CNN or Fox for me are much of a muchness in terms of being left or right wing and i hate the fact there is no grey areas in their reporting. Because of that i can't take anything CNN reports about the war at face value much like i would ignore anything Fox would report also.
I like Reuters in particular because it doesn't do opinions, it leaves people to make up their own minds and just reports the facts. They've been excellent these last few years in wading through BS. They actually have journalists not stage setters. Anyway i digress as im way off subject here. Apologies.
Poor sod, got ripped by shrapnel, no hospital. Presumaly he had signed the contract with the Russian military, so he is fair game, the shoe was on the other foot in the months before that.
No Sky News didn't say that, they reported on people claiming it.
Their reporting on the war, particularly their front line journalists has been excellent.
There are rumours of a power struggle within the Chinese politburo on the back of those lock downs. President Xi seems to be another dictator with his own hubris and paranoia.
This is brilliant. Wish it was real.
“Rats jumping ship. Starring Solovyev.”
His wife's delusional optimism is not helping him either, "They'll bring more ammo", They won't. If he can't reach their new defensive lines further south (and it sounds like he's in no shape to) then he's done.
They reported baseless rumours.
As for their war reporting itself, I'll have take your word for it. I just found it such a cesspit of a news station down the years (Kay Burley and all those awful people, and a very sensationalist, tabloidy approach) that I've long stayed away from it
Unlike those dead children this **** still has, or had, options.
There you go
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