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Used to live there Rawr........and whatever you do, don't delay, or God Forbid actually cause any big black 4 x 4's travelling 2 or more vehicles to stop, and the occupants to get out to you.......

@Yurt2 "The truth is out there" - so is Putin.

Where does it mention in that article that the Kherson offensive has killed 4,000 Ukrainians?

Attacking generally takes more casualties than defending. The terrain in Kherson is flat and open and the Russians had mapped out the areas in advance and successfully range in artillery strikes to devastating effect. (3 minutes in to the video below to get an idea). I have read other reports indicating the hospitals are full.

That is Ukrainian propaganda to demoralise the enemy for the last two weeks. By in large the Russians are holding in Kherson, the Russian command does not have a choice, they need that canal from the Dnipro to Crimea. By the way, cutting off water to civilians is a war crime. The Ukrainians cut the water supply to Crimea since 2014.

So team russia has nothing

Depends who went on to win the war.

And where in you're previous article is the 4000 dead Ukrainian troops? Is that the propaganda number?

Ukraine's Kharkiv offensive certainly did not take more casualties than the Russians.

On the Kherson front, that's more akin to a siege not a direct offensive. There's no major urgency as the Russians cannot effectively resupply, cannot charge forward and cannot flank. Grind them down so they surrender or swim!

"Ukrainian aviation conducted 12 air strikes at gatherings of Russian military. Ukrainian air defence shot down 3 Su-25 and a Su-24M, - General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine says in the morning report"

But , but, but the Russians ..

Nahh nevermind

Was listening to an episode of BBC's Ukrainecast (think it was https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0cy4b04).

Afair a person interviewed on this suggested this sort of thing may be happening more frequently due to pressures on these large Russian businesses, especially ones that were Western facing who are now cut off from that market through sanctions & the ongoing EU-Russia economic/energy warfare.

As the squeeze comes on them there may be reversion to the viciousness that was present in the Yeltsin/early Putin "Mafia" era where these companies would struggle with each other and tactics like hits on rival executives/managers were not out of bounds.

Of course some of them may even be suicides (imagine it is quite stressful watching your whole company business model & possibly large amounts of personal wealth going up in smoke for good, thanks to Putin's invasion).

As a so-called anti-war advocate, you're doing a pretty bad job understanding your subject matter. Do some research on Russian AF limitations and tactics.

A few points that you're conviently forgetting, or possibly are unaware of:

1. Russia have never had control of the skies, from day one.

2. Russia has NO AWACS in the Theatre. The two IL-76's that they had planned to use are still sitting on the tarmac in Belarus because they are afraid to use them in Ukrainian airspace due to Ukranian air defences. Russia, therefore, has no top-down realtime data on air movements.

3. NATO have 11 AWACS/SIGNIT/JSTARS aircraft operating around Ukraine, with a reach that stretches well into Russian territory. Every Russian flight is tracked and that information fed back to Ukraine. Russian jets can only either fly Nap-of-the-earth ( where they succumb to MANPADS) or too high, where they give the game away. That video of the 2 x SU-25's following the road with the GoPro's strapped on is a promo video.

4. Russian aircraft should be pounding the Ukranian offensive right now, with their hundreds of aircraft, but they're not. Why, because they are unable. Russian AF doctrine prevents it from providing Close Air Support to troops in a rapidly changing environment. This is where NATO excels, by the way. US air assets can conduct multi-role, multi-targeted strategic missions with a multitude of platforms all linked together with a secure data link. The Russians cannot do such a thing. That's why you only ever see Russian jets fly in pairs or, at a push, 3 jets while conducting operations. They simply do not have the training.

5. As long as Ukranian troops KEEP MOVING, the Russian Airforce cannot touch them. Russian pilots are basically airborne artillery. Commanders on the ground pass on co-ordinates ( often old) to the pilots, and the pilots come along and bomb those co-ordinates. Doesn't work if your enemy keeps moving. SU-25 pilots do not have the independent hunting capabilities that A-10 pilots have. They're ( quite happily) restricted to just one mission at a time.

6. Thank the Germans. Many of the Russian aircraft casualties of the last few days have been due to the German Gepard anti-aircraft guns.

You see, I know you've read all of the above already, but choose to ignore it because the VIDEO YOU POSTED CAME FROM THE FORBES ARTICLE FROM WHICH I'M QUOTING!! lol.

Anti-war?

Anti-facts, more like it.

But keep going, it's good craic reading it.

Some Aviation Sleuthing...

1. First commercial flight out of Ukraine since last April! Flight occured last Tuesday, out of Lviv. You can see it appear just as it crosses the border, as they switch on their transponder.

Polish Air assets are conducting a lot of mapping and surveying right up to the border all along its approaches. Preparing for something, maybe? Who knows.

Private company Draken Europe are currently training AWACS personnel aboard a Dassault 50 South of Moldova. Where better to train.

...and an EP-3 Orion is back on station.

In fact, there are a lot of air assets operational at the moment.