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Only reason that Shoigu is still alive is that Putin needs a scapegoat to put and trial and have shot.

Beautiful, one day hopefully Mauripol..

Kherson, eternally Russian. *

*Terms and conditions apply. Eternity only applies to dates between September 30th, 2022 and November 11th, 2022. Kherson is regulated by Ukraine.

With Iran, if there ever was a genuine case for regime change, this would be it. Hopefully the protests currently ongoing will be successful in overthrowing the Mullahs and the Ayatollah,

I'd say the Western media are anxious to get TV crews into Kherson as quickly as possible. We'll probably start seeing reports from inside the city as soon as this weekend.

Wonderful.

You will never defeat a people who refuse to be defeated.

Lots more to be done of course, but the snowball effect of damage and demoralisation in Russian military could see a very rapid Ukrainian advance into the remainder of their occupied territory now.

As the maxim says, 'amateurs think tactics, while professionals think logistics', and Russia doesn't have any. NATO estimates 100,000 of their best troops are dead or wounded for the long term. Between that and the lack of fuel, food, winter kit and ammunition to supply the C-class divisions which remain in theatre, what hope can Russia now have. Except perhaps for a few brave (or selfish) souls in Moscow to stage a coup and stop the killing as a first step.

Very true. It's not really what you'd call a "society" or a "community" at all. Nobody seems to give a damn about anyone else in the country (very un-European in many ways).

Thats a nice thought, that the Ayatollah will not be able to count on Putin for assistance. Which means also that other states with similar tyrants in charge, will be unable to avail of Mr. Putin's "Special Talents and Skill's" This could mean many changes for the better worldwide. I wonder how long he can remain in Syria in support of Assad? The outcome of the war in Ukraine will reverberate worldwide. Re Iran, I lived there for a while a few years ago. Lovely Country, and lovely friendly cultural people, and mad to throw of the yoke of rabid Islam. I think (and hope) that this time the revolution will succeed, they certainly deserve their freedom from the Mullahs.

In Russia you can have a finite eternity, square circles, true lies, non-real realities - anything you like...

Dugin putting himself forward for a car accident or falling out of a open window....

Very interested to see how Putin's next public appearance goes, in times of crisis before he has been known to dither a bit, so could be a whole before we see him. Will he hide or will he use this now to silence some of the more prominent dissenters like the above.

Would have been easy to blow it up. The Russians are done as an army.

I think they had to retreat from Kherson because it was too difficult to supply weaponry. The Kerch bridge is barely functional right now, otherwise they have to transport weapons all the way across the south of Ukraine, with most railway routes being within target.

There were satellite pics floating around during the week of Russians digging trenches in Crimea (can't seem to find them). They are expecting company down there for the winter.

Everyone that was charged to defend Odessa, Mykolaiv, Kryvyi Rih, is now available for the East of the country. As are lot of Russians too, but the Russians will also have to defend their new front across the River from Kherson. The Ukrainians won't need to bother, as they know the Russians won't cross back over (and can't cross because they blew the bridges).

When the Russians said they were retreating to save soldiers lives, there may have been truth in that. Not from a humanitarian perspective but from a numbers perspective. They couldn't have afforded a mass capture or surrender. Maybe there was inklings of a potential mass surrender, which is why they granted the retreat.

They key for Ukraine now is to drive south to Melitopol and split the front into 2. Isolating the Crimea/Kherson front