Reading some people's views here, Bakhmut was supposed to fall imminently!
Must be about 4 months of the russians throwing more and more into the meat grinder.
What money?
Do you think it was was oneway artillery traffic in donbass from 2014 to 2022 ? . One side had the best of Russian guns and counter- battery radar , took a lot of man-power ,training and money from Moscow ,to set up that sort of artillery.they didn't do that for nothing..
Hmmm, so you’ve no family or relatives in Ukraine, so basically you have no skin in the game. Your saying you would think this and that and do this and that. The truth is unless you experience such loss personally (and i hope you never do) you don’t know how you would react. But if Ukraine does as you want to appear to do yourself, they will lose support in the West, and possibly strain NATO solidarity, which would be undesirable.
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Tea rooms, maybe???
Looking at the Bakhmut frontline map and Russia made progress over the last month to the east and south. And by progress, I mean they lost thousands of soldiers to push to the edge of the city and took a village south of it.
Either way they've made ground and the fear I keep hearing is they'll surround Bakhmut and force a retreat. But if if they make further gains to the South they'll run into another city of similar size called kostjantynivka and a few other settlements along the road from here to Bakhmut.
I'm guessing the Ukrainians will try and hold a new frontline here while holding the two cities. If they're struggling to take just Bakhmut now I don't think it will get any easier for them trying to attack multiple. Maybe they'll decide against it and just throw everything at Bakhmut again.
German Chancellor: Russia will not win its war on Ukraine
Biden: We are determined, with France, to confront the Russian war in Ukraine
Biden: Washington and Paris are facing the Russian threat to Europe
I thought it would be circa 80bn instead of €8bn. According to the book byCatherine Belton -Putin’s People- there was a constant stream of ‘black cash’ being salted away in various Swiss banksZ
Viktor yanukovic former president of Ukraine aka Putin puppet had hundreds of millions in swiss banks accounts , billons stashed elsewhere belongings to Ukraine ,
Strange he mentioned only the US and France...does he not know about all the other Country's involved?
macron is in town
Maybe don't write off Bakhmut just yet:
Meanwhile in Zaporizhzhia.
Another retreat!!!
Bakhmut holds ..
No, I didn't think it was one way. However, certainly prior to the invasion the incident escalation seemed have been predominantly centered in the Russian backed Donbas region, at least that's what the OSCE shows. Maybe Russia was bombing the separatists or they were bombing themselves.
Bakhmut is a kill zone, not sure why it’s taking Russia so long to realise that.
Ritter discussing the situation with judge Napolitano. Disagree with several points Ritter makes but by and large strategic military assessment seems reasonable enough to me. He doesn't seem to like Ukraine very much so have to take some things with a pinch of salt.
Very different to the opinion expressed here. While shocking I find it more logical than a lot of western commentary, i.e. Putin dying, Russia running out of ammunition, Russia blew up their own pipelines, etc.
Are you still spouting nonsense that nobody is actually taking seriously
13,000 Ukrainian soldiers KIA ...
This might upset some
To be honest I thought it would be higher than that but not as high as 100k.
I skipped through the video. One angry judge (not sure if real) and one spoofer who was obviously out of his depth at times. Then he tries to claim that Poland will invade West Ukraine. More chance of my great grand mother rising from the dead.
So far all your posts have been countered and exposed as nonsense with practically no response from you. As a result you’re flip flopping like a fish out of water. It’s not working. While you attempt to throw **** af the fan and it’s blowing back at you.
If today's reports of Russia retreating from certain towns in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts are true, why is that happening? Is it too costly for them to defend them and do they believe they can deny them to Ukraine via artillery even if they're not manned. It seems strange to be giving them up without a fight and exacting a high toll from Ukraine for them.
I think it's down to the fact that they know metiplol is at risk of being cut off and taken by the Ukrainans,if metiplol can be cut off like Kherson denying the Russians there supplies and reenforcements ,the land bridge to Crimea is completely cut off ,and puts the the Russians in an even worse position,and allows Ukraine to bring more artillery to the fore and potentially being able to target vital infrastructure in Crimea ,
They will keep falling back until they can find something to defend that would be difficult to attack, but we had predictions of Kherson being the bloodiest battle since WW2 and all we got a was another retreat
the front-line is too long and unmanageable for a SMO, they need to retreat to more manageable frontiers, possibly just the Donbas and Crimea
Because they've lost so much trying to take it. It's centre of media attention for a month now and if Ukraine holds it and they stop attacking it's a major victory and morale booster for Ukraine. It would signal Russia no longer have the capability to hold it.
Obviously it's not smart but Russia has decided it must take ukraine or at least everything East of the Dnipro. The only smart choice is leaving Ukraine and cutting their losses but for someone like Putin that could be the end.
The only place I could see Russia holding onto in Ukraine with relative success is Crimea but if Ukraine retook all of Kherson oblast right across to Mariupol I'm not so sure they would even hold Crimea considering all supply routes would be under fire.
Anyway back to reality I think Putin will throw another couple of hundred thousand Russians at the frontlines over the next year just to keep the line roughly where it is and I expect further Ukrainian counter attacks pushing them back ever closer to the 2014 lines.
More intrigue-
The front line is too long for a war. I’m sure that’s what you meant.
We might have found where those missing generals ended up? 🤭
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