An interesting perspective from a Twitter post-
Russia mobilized 300,000 conscripts for the Battle of #Kherson and then fled Kherson.
That's 300,000 troops who now have to be paid by Russia for a battle they were supposed
to be sent to die in specifically so that Russia didn't have to pay them.
Helping his comrade might have saved his life-
The real reason for Russia publicly admitting these failures (BTW, they are not "Failures"., they are strategic operations.) is damage limitation. They cannot cover up what is happening, its simply impossible, so instead they try to control the narrative. We are only doing this out of regard for our soldiers and people. And of course, it's only temporary. And it's 100% for home consumption, and does not fool anyone in the west, and increasingly, less and less Russians believe it either. Wait until the full impact of the death toll on the Limited Mobilization conscripts are felt.
Yes, you are right about the dragons teeth ect. The digging in and dragons' teeth in defense lines is likewise for home consumption, and maybe to bolster soldiers' moral. " Look, we are preparing defenses that will stop the Ukrainian advance." You will be safer now.
While a lot of the fighting will involve drones, rockets and aircraft, unfortunately the fact is that the there will always be close contact fighting.....for example when Ukrainian forces start to clear out the inhabited areas, citys, towns and villages + forest areas.
And you are right about the Iranian (and other) drones being a hard threat that will have to be countered too.
yes and both Russia and Nato agreed to gaurantee Ukraine if it was attacked by the other side. Obama chickened out histor will not be kind to his legacy
the people in Russian speaking areas are really in fear of the NATO backed Ukranian Nazi's aren't they
Yes, of course they did, but Russian's take a sort of national pride in lying and dishonesty. They have a special word vranyo - for transparent lies that everyone involved know and expect to be lies. And as if that isn't enough to clue you to their weird fetishising of lying, they have maskirovka, which is where you use deceit in a military and propaganda sense to defeat your enemies with your cunning slyness. Shades of Baldrick outwitting everyone with his cunning plans.
Actually, I think those wooden Matryoshka dolls, where what you get isn't what you might expect, are also symptomatic of this Russian preoccupation with making a virtue out of deception.
@[Deleted User] they are obviously satanists.
That's some precision striking. WHY did they hang around, to give aid to comrades. Commendable, but they were clearly being targeted.
Ukraine erects a Kitten Inn at a trench checkpoint. peake morale.
War of the Oligarchs'.
If it did implode what you would see is multiple wars kicking off. The Russian Federation, same as the USSR before it, keeps a lid on a lot of rivalries
The tears of happiness from both sides just glad to see each other and the sense of relief it must bring.
Reminds me when Bucha was liberated an older lady ran into the arms of Ukr soldier and stayed hugging him for what felt like a long 2mins, nice to witness truly happy moments for a change.
Ominous. This guy is usually very reliable.
Super yachts at 50 paces.
you'd also see massive amounts of russian arms and other dangerous material fall into the hands of arms dealers and other groups
Similar to events after the fall of the USSR - if you knew someone at a base theyd sell you it all for some real currency. A collapsed russia with increased poverty and an FSB in disarray would open the doors for many more such "bargains" to be had.
bad for who though?
Ukraine.
The west should have called Putin out, decades ago. They should have seen he was a dangerous beast as he rampaged through Chechnya and Syria, but they were too morally bankrupt to speak out. They were also making money from their gas deals and their bank accounts got fat while the monster in the Kremlin got even fatter. They just didn't care because they were too smug and didn't have the moral fiber to call Putin out. Now Ukraine is paying the price for the west's boundless idiocy. They should have seen this coming. The least they can do now, to absolve their sins, is support Ukraine with ALL the defenses they need.
Bakhmut-
i'm bringing to you great big news, liberation after liberation
An interesting question for me is what do Russian leaning people in the occupied and liberated regions now think of Putin and his regime. It would be hard to believe that everyone has a favourable opinion of him after eight months of bloody war (that he started).
Russians are likely throwing the kitchen sink at Bakhmut now in an attempt to make up for the Kherson withdrawal.
Risky gamble.
Whatever about youZV I would lose an awful lot of sleep as I would be celebrating for weeks to the point of exhaustion - maybe then fall asleep
One of the big benefits of taking back the west side of the Dnipro in Kherson is that it'll free up tens of thousands of troops. The river acts as a perfect defensive barrier meaning that they won't need to keep that many troops to defend it. Instead they can be redeployed to Luhansk, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts.
"The FSB gave a clear signal - they will clean up everyone": how and why Stremousov was eliminated in the Kherson region
The odious traitor of Ukraine, the right-hand man of the Gauleiter of the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region, Kyrylo Stremousov, according to "official" information, died in a road accident. However, the circumstances of the accident were so strange that they almost immediately raised many questions. Now we can say with great probability: Stremousov was killed, and by his own.
That was a traffic accident? For that matter; that was a car?
Another two condition1s should be that (1)The UKr wants all its nuclear mussels back and MUST BE IN WORKING ORDER and (2) that Russia REPATRIATE all those Russians that came to live/were planted in The UKr since 2012 and all those other Russians that hold RU passports only
That applies to both. The Kherson forces won't likely sit around From either side. They'll have minimum forces in defence and the intensity will pick up elsewhere.
Only change for Ukraine is they'll probably strike long range supplies stored futher back now or the Crimea supply routes and Russia will strike Kherson indiscriminately instead of Mykolaiv.
He was called out several times but the fcukin Germans can't help themselves and let the bastard back in with cheap energy deals
There have been a few comments in the thread recently that are critical of the way the US have approached dealing with russia but I'm not convinced the way it was played was not the least bad option. After the 2014 invasion of Crimea there were statements from China pretty much saying it was up to russia to resolve their issues there. The way things have gone recently for the russians makes me think this is not the way putin was hoping his special operation would play out. Just a guess from what I can see from a good distance away but would he have been hoping for a NATO response to his provocation in Ukraine and with boots on the ground from the US and other NATO forces expect support then to be forthcoming from China? Even without direct military involvement or an escalation to nuclear war a supply of weapons from China to russian mobilized troops could have seen a much more complicated, bloody and protracted conflict. Was he hoping to use Ukraine to draw NATO into a scrap that would see them dragged down to russia's level?
They did a General Patton on him-
Patton's chief of staff, Major General Hobart Gay, invited him on a December 9, 1945 pheasant hunting trip near Speyer to lift his spirits. Observing derelict cars along the side of the road, Patton said, "How awful war is. Think of the waste." Moments later the 1938 Cadillac limousine they were riding in collided with an American army truck at low speed.
Patton's views on the Russians-
The difficulty in understanding the Russian is that we do not take cognizance of the fact that he is not a European, but an Asiatic, and therefore thinks deviously. We can no more understand a Russian than a Chinaman or a Japanese, and from what I have seen of them, I have no particular desire to understand them, except to ascertain how much lead or iron it takes to kill them. In addition to his other Asiatic characteristics, the Russian has no regard for human life and is an all out son of bitch, barbarian, and chronic drunk.
George S. Patton - Wikipedia
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