Ukraine nationalizes the shares of Ukrnafta, Ukrtatnafta, Motor Sich, AvtoKrAZ and Zaporizhtransformator, - The decision was made on November 6, the National Securities and Stock Market Commission reported
The crews must be delighted! A long voyage to Vladivostok is better than a very real prospect of a death in the Black sea from an Ukrainian anti-ship missile.
Comparing GDP to military might means alot in terms of training,logistics and maintenance of the military.
You really think North Korea is on par with countries like South Korea,Japan?
And you think Ukraine was on par with Russia before the invasion?
Waging war costs money,and having a well trained military and logistics to back it up costs even more.
Not many nation in the world can move trained troops and equipment around the globe within 48 hours like NATO countries can.
Because they can afford it.
For scale, that's Dublin city centre to Enniscorthy.
Stalin's maxim also assumed that the quantity did have at least some modicum of quality going for it. It's doubtful that he had top-to-bottom corruption in mind.
HIMARS doesn't care. Dead is dead.
And, I really do wonder about a Christian religious group being such warmongers. Seems kind of contradictory.
Indeed, good riddance, but if I'll say one thing ever so slightly in his favour: unlike most public warmongers, like those clowns on Russian TV every night, he actually went and did what he was urging others to do.
Seems like he was in a combat zone. Good riddance.
Did he die fighting or was he there to give last rites to the dying or what?
Ukrainian forces just 90km from Mariupol now
This works in both directions, If Ukraine controls the two narrow necks of the Crimean isthmus (and their two rail lines) then Russia becomes reliant on the Kerch Bridge to supply Crimea, and last I checked, thats still mooonlighting as the worlds longest pier. That leaves supply from sea, the Black Sea Fleet is being converted into aquarium decorations when they stray too far from home, so that's probably not going to work out too well. This is why the Russians really don't want to lose Kherson, all roads will lead to Crimea then.
It's a matter about who can retain sufficient resources while gaining ground. Russia seems to have problems sourcing artillery, which is fairly mindblowing, but they're holding stocks in reserve for other contingencies. I assume the cannon fodder that are pushed out to die right now are buying time for other conscripts and more capable units to be trained and fitted. Perhaps not.
If Ukraine keeps being supplied with enough accurate long range fires, then Stalins maxim of quantity having a quality of its own is out the window. Along with Russias method of waging war. There's a reason that the Russians blatting the **** out of civilian targets. Thats their only Plan B
OK, but that changes nothing about what was implied.
In modern war, numbers of soldiers don't really matter past a certain point. What matters is leadership, intelligence, combined arms operations, training, equipment, etc.
Ukraine has an annual budget of about $5bn - though until very recently, it was far lower.
Russia has an annual budget of $50bn.
No matter what way you try and paint it, it's an utter humiliation for Russia. If their armed forces were functioning correctly they should have rolled over Ukraine in the first few days.
But they are not. Everything about their armed forces, from the training, to the gear, to the tactical ability, to leadership structure, is rotten.
What's happening in Ukraine would be like the UK fighting the USA to a standstill and pushing them back in a conventional war. It was unthinkable, but it's come to pass.
In a couple of years when you read the latest editions of "The Worlds Worst Military Blunders" Russia's invasion of Ukraine will be in there, standing tall.
Anyone want a used AT4 launcher that took out a Russian tank?
You just have to donate the largest amount - which currently stands at 40,000 hervy, hives, ah, Hryvnia - or €1,098.12.
Some posters here [about 2 or 3] are struggling with the idea that Russia is losing 400-500 soldiers a day. well, how might they react if Russia is losing half of that number due to their own Barrier Units?
It is conceivable that a lot of those young men panic like mad on the front line and run for their lives. They are best advised to surrender to Ukraine troops as otherwise, they will die at the hands of their own deqth squad units.
He was an FSB agent, as well.
I've no idea where to even begin with this. NI exists at Nationalists discretion?? What are you smoking.
Anyway, we'll leave it there, if we're both still alive when a UI happens we can revisit and see who was closer to the mark.
Sure I already am. Myself and all the Putin bots live in a big villa on the south crimean coast
The same Ukraine with the 2nd largest military in Europe by # of soldiers as of 2021 (pre invasion). Poor yes, but with a large military and a ton of ex-soviet stock of tanks, aircraft, AA launchers, etc etc
Comparing GDP and relative poverty are not great metrics for measuring military might - sure Ireland has over double the GDP of Ukraine, and that is before this year and the invasions catastrophic effects on Ukrainian economy. But an invasion of Ireland would be trivial compared to one of Ukraine.
This unscientific article ranks Ukraine as 10th strongest military in Europe area, with Russia ranking (then) as #1. Poorest european nation maybe, weakest european nation - not a hope.
So, if you were a recent Russian settler in Crimea, would you hang around?
Would this be the same fantasy that the world's 2nd military power would be retreating against the poorest European nation, which is also their next door neighbour?
'cause I gotta tell yeah, that shocked the fook outta most people. A nice shock, mind.
They arent exactly making stellar progress toward crimea. They still have to take kherson, after which there will likely be substantial geographical barrier to their advance in the form of the Dnieper river.
Crimea itself has 3 very narrow access points to mainland Ukraine - these would be very difficult to attack also. Ukraine marching into crimea is so far way as to be fantasy
Crimea is on the Ukrainian radar. It's a legitimate target once they get within range. We all saw the images of cars fleeing after the air base explosions. We've seen the damage taken to the Kerch Bridge. If you were a recent Russian settler there, would you hang around?
29 survivors from 500 is more like 16:1 and quite plausible given how Russian "troops" are being sent into the meat grinder.
This is how Russia won a lot of wars not just WW2, Basically get into a slugfest where they're being bet out the gate but the other side realises they can't afford to take anymore punishment and gives up.
And that's the unionist line anyway - Irish unity leads to the bogeyman.
Northern Ireland exits only while enough from the nationalist community support it. Why would they support it - because they are running it, from education, law and civil service. Your lot are still hoping Harland and Wolff comes back to life.
No, the loyalist people have been treated very badly in Northern Ireland - but, they've yet to realise they can't eat flags, nor can their children. There should be no fear for the unionist community - and I would see within not too long a time that the loyalists will be lifted out of their relative poverty. You have nothing to fear, and a lot to gain.
I wonder how many sons his mother had?
Donbas is a nonsense?
Russian orthodox priest, who encouraged Russian women to have more children so they wouldn't feel bad having their sons sent to war, has been killed on the Ukranian front line.
It depends on the type of attack. In a shootout the ratio might be 1:2. But if troops are concentrated in a small area the ratio might well be 50:1 if they were annihilated, with a few lucky ones escaping. The figures have to be adjusted depending on the circumstances of the attack. I have often heard of whole groups of soldiers being wiped out but there's always a few who escape.
Human waves tactics have always been a core military tactic by every Communist country at war.
They are not going to stop now.
Russia is a more open and relaxed country today compared to the Soviet Union but it won't tolerate protests like that building and it's rebuilding the pure totalitarian State that was the Soviet Union at a speed of knots.
I'm not saying whether it's true or false. just that, mad things can happen in warfare when the circumstances align to allow it, so while I wouldn't automatically believe it and in fact would take it with a big spoon of salt, I wouldn't be dismissing it with the kind of certainty you seem to be able to summon. But perhaps you can present your rocket attack data set that has led you to your conslusion?
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