Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Putin is pathetic ... it is very clear we have a very very mentally ill man here who needs to be removed from office immediately and given the medical help he needs ... sadly there seem to be guys around him who are taking advantage of his illness .... it must be awful for intelligent Russians to see their leader degenerate into this state of mind and no one is able to remove him from office and give him the medical help he needs ...

It is 100% clear Putin is not what he was ... but everyone in the regime is ignoring this ... to take over at the right moment to be the 'saviour' I suppose ... what we are seeing is the pathetic fall of a man who once was a stable statesman ... but why has Putin descended into this state of depression and mental illness? And is he self medicating on crystal meth and cocaine?? It is very dangerous to have a man who needs medical help left in charge ... and it is pathetic the others are using it to their supposed advantage ...

The people posting from these accounts already do.

The only help needed with Putin is help to remove him from the living as soon as possible!

But what about he nuking some parts of the rest of Ukr

Turkey don't exactly tick all the boxes, Hungary either.

Would be interesting if they got to Kremmina. Retreat by land would be pretty much impossible if Ukraine get there first. Would also set up a new frontline on that river there. Lysychansk would be up for grabs again, giving them the high ground over Sieveirdonetsk.

My guess / hope is that the heavy fighting last night was out of desperation. The Russians there maybe realised that they needed to bug out from Lyman but never got the direction to do it. Now they are probably scared and maybe even heedlessly firing at anything that approaches. They’ll eventually run out of ammo, where they’ll have the option of surrender or being shot in a break-out attempt.

If the Russians weren’t as feckless as they clearly are, they might have withdrawn earlier, or failing that try an airlift to get as many guys out as possible. A counter attack to relieve Lyman is of course possible, but it doesn’t feel that they’re capable of that.

Aviation update:

No major or unusual activities to report, and two items of interest.

Looking at the overall top-down, one thing that is apparent is the large number of Strategic Airlift aircraft, from various countries, moving troops and equipment around or repositioning their assets. C-17 and C-130J ( newest varients)are all busy this morning. There's even a Moroccan C-130E smoking along over the Med. Now that's an old bird.

The second thing is the aircraft highlighted in the bottom picture. It's a Boeing P-8 Submarine hunter. Took off from the Middle East earlier. Im watching to see where it will end up.

Will it end up off our South West Coast?

I'll keep you guys posted. I've one ear on Shannon Control on LiveAtc. If you draw an extended line from its current bearing, all the way out towards Ireland, the line intersects the area of ocean containing the Data cables. I'm not saying for definite that that's where the P8 is headed, but if I'm right, you heard it here 1st!

It seems various reports coming out of Lyman Ukrainian forces saying that they have never seen so many dead or nearly dead orcs,in most cases they aren't offering any medical assistance due to lack of first aid supplies, there seems to be issues with ammo supplies for the Ukrainans moving forward, they seem to be operating in 20 man teams rather in combined large forces

No doubt Putnut gave the order to fight to the death. Lyman may become a mini Stalingrad.

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Technically true yes.

And of course, the main motivation for those two bombs was to avoid the enormous loss of life to American soldiers, had they decided on a land invasion of Japan. Which is similar rationale many have suggested Putin could use, if deciding to employ these weapons in Ukraine.

Proponents of those bombings, suggest that it might have also saved Japanese lives too, because it brought the war to a quick end. But try telling this to the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Try telling it to anyone who has to endure such horrors! It just won't wash.

What America did to Japan with those bombs, was a horrific act of cruelty. A war crime of monumental proportions. And if Putin decides on the same path, it should be viewed in the same manner. These weapons should be in a museum, so future generations can learn from our mistakes as a species.

They have no place on a battlefield in conventional warfare. They are a cruel indiscriminate weapon of terror.

The hypocrisy is thick - he could as well be talking about Russia in most of this-

Konstantin Kisin on Twitter: "I wish every single person in the West would listen to Putin's speech. Obviously, that won't happen so let me summarise as a professional translator for 10+ years. He states, as he has done from the outset, what his intentions and complaints are in the plainest terms possible.🧵" / Twitter

Was it not reported that the Duma brought in new legislation with prison penalty for surrendering? 10 year I think the term is.

Great way to treat your troops - die or face jail/ concentration camp.

Putin really missed the boat didn’t he. He belongs in a different time. His hate for the West along with the platform he has is scary. Imo a lot of how this plays out relies on how India and China react over time. Currently they seem happy to sit on the fence, see who wins and then align themselves that way.