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Right...... so they can't take a few dusty towns a few km from their own borders and they're going to take Paris. I imagine the French are trembling alright.

Biden receiving Zelensky: Putin has escalated his attacks against civilians and is trying to use winter as a weapon

Putin is the ultimate white walker, the night king

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Good thing the Night King was slow as **** and an easy kill

I talked about this just over a week ago.

I said Melitopol is a clear hinge for the Russian defence in the south, but that the Russians aren't completely stupid and have realised this. I even drew a silly map. You can see I highlighted a few locations of the strategic road intersections where it's known the Russians are entrenching for months now. Some will laugh and joke about the Russian trenches, but at no stage during this war have heavily entreched enemy positions proved easy for the opposing force.

This is not Kharkiv where Ukraine managed to break the single line of Russian defence and charge to Kupiansk with minimal resistance. There are multiple lines of defence here, there won't be an already shattered army defending it, and most importantly there will be no benefit of surprise. I don't think what is expected will be at all easy. I fear that what is expected might not even be possible. I especially worry that sending Ukrainian forces into an offensive in BMP1's and T-55's is not going to give them the best chance of success either.

Unfortunately, I can easily see us being here this time next year talking about the next wave of fighting.

Still waiting for the Russians to turn up and the Ukrainans to start retreating 🤣🤣🤣

For who?

Yes, that is definitely it.

The only victories were seeing from the orcs is who can run back to Moscow the fastest.......

Still surprised some still back the Russians I thought all of the hardcore putinbots had left the building

Genuine question, how long will this war last before it ends in some fashion. American weapon manufacturers have been advised to increase their production capacity for atleast 4 years. Sounds like this will grind on for a few years. It will be interesting if that timeline is anywhere near accurate will the ukraines abroad have settled into new life's and decide not to return. Remember alot of the educated middle class are abroad and the will find employment easy enough and better standard of living. Ukraine's population has fallen by 8-9 million since the 90's like alot of Eastern Europe so they will be anxious for this war not to grind to protect their population long term.

Analysts said the at Russia would run out of ammunition in August, then September, then October...

This could drag out for a while yet. Hopefully the Ukrainians will make a breakthrough and roll up the front line.

I highlighted major towns where OSINT and Ukrainians used satellite photos to confirm Russian entrenchment. I obviously have no source for smaller villages, but I would be shocked if they didn't identify minor roads and not defend them either.

As for manpower, there are 300k Russians who have been called up. I doubt manpower will be an issue.

The final point you adressed is around equipment. I don't see how Ukraine has anywhere near enough useful equipment for the type of war that is being fought here.

Again, I make no prediction of who wins/loses, it's too early to say. The only thing I am certain of is nothing is fast, nor easy.

Nobody cares. They're going to lose anyway.

This address by Zelenskyy to the United States Congress was worth staying up for.

ukraine in crimea by 1st june then?

confident?