Russia - threadbanned users in OP

ah, u poor ruSSian lover. so sad. well, at least u got thanked by othe sick unbanned pupies here.

Watching the 1420 channel on YouTube, it strikes me that the main reason so many Russians are alcoholics is because they know they are living in an absolute kip of a country. It's not for cultural or genetic reasons or anything else - it's because it's an utter kip, depressing, oppressive and dictatorial.....what else would they be doing but drinking themselves into oblivion.

General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine estimates number of Russian soldier's fatalities at 90090

I believe November has been the highest month of losses for Russia... So far!

They wouldn't be able to train and arm a fraction of that 5 million. They're spoofing.

Russian Nuclear Energy Corporation: A protection zone should be established around the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant as soon as possible

What you say is very true. It's what happens when a gangster takes over a Country, and sucks the very life blood out if it, which is what Putin has done. One of the reasons that Putin is kidnapping thousands of Ukrainian Children is to prop up Russia's falling birthrate, which has worsened since he came to power. So, you have an increasing death rate, (massively helped by alcohol consumption) coupled with a falling birth rate (helped by very high abortion rate, for every 1'000 births, there are 500 Abortions.) In their own way, these are all symptoms of a population railing against a Country ruled by criminals. And now, with an estimated 700'000 Russians having left to avoid conscription, plus the 300'000 newly minted conscripts thrown into the front lines, thats presently another 1000'000 out of circulation in the Russian population, and for most, maybe permanently. (Not counting the current figure of 85'000 dead)

The twitter video in the article includes an impressive drone recording of a failed assault of Russian troops on a dug-in set of Ukrainian soldiers. The Russians imho did not appear to be poorly equipped and seemed to have some discipline in the ranks, including the idea to retreat when they realized they couldn't do what they wanted to based on terrain/cover/etc.

Fascinating video.

I also saw reports of volunteers in Kyiv working in special kitchens preparing freshly cooked food for the front line soldiers. I doubt you'd see anything like that in Moscow somehow.

Russias antique restorers are unlikely to be able to help with that. Keeping those things flying is almost as incredible as the US still fielding the B-52.

I believe these are the only plane the Orcs can use to launch the 'hypersonic' Kinzhal missile. They don't seem to have very many left as they deployed only 3 to Belarus to air launch other cruise missiles at Ukraine. Those 3 returned to Orcistan a couple of days ago.

Reminds me of the song 'ten green bottles'.

That link claims HIMARS, javelins, drones etc aren’t having the affect that Ukraine is claiming.

It says they are more a psychological plus for Ukraine with little positives on the battlefield.

Apparently at any one time, about a third of werstern supplied artillery is out of action.

I wish the US would stop just giving table scraps. No Patriots, no modern tanks, no longer range stuff like ATACAM, but every request is met with the same mealy mouthed US guff about supplying Ukraine with what it needs, or what the US thinks it needs to stop from going under.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/25/us/ukraine-artillery-breakdown.html