Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Why am I not surprised?

Russian wagner influences are being blamed for this action in Burkino Faso.

Maybe Macron has finally said "**** it" lets end these trolls once and for all.

Which means they did.

Tank destroyers, at least in their WW2 iteration were meant to be used as mobile anti tank guns. To quickly plug the gap in lines from a blitzkrieg. So maybe France can argue it's not an 'offensive' weapon.

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Along with the US Bradley's I think this indicates that NATO is going to flood Ukraine with Der easy to use technology. They must feel this is more than adequate to match what is left of Russian armour which is mostly T72 or earlier out of date Soviet armour.

Poland has send most of its Soviet era armour and may well send it's older Leopard tanks. They were upgrading these but only have a few done. The Abrams may be a cheaper long term solution. It would also be a kick in the teeth to the Germans

They have a out 140 in total, o ly about a quarter is upgraded. Add in the Bradley's and the French armoured gun platforms it would be a fairly serious amount of armoured weapons along with Ukraine own Soviet armour.

It was an excellent programme. It gave a great insight into what's going on on the ground and some understanding of the military stuff, to us non-military people. It made me feel like I was there with them.

Thoroughly agree with you, seeing them on the ground, the communication between them . It was very emotive too , .

Crimea river

Can't argue with out resident tanker and historian...

It's a big gun thingy

Looks like more fertiliser on order.

I'm not someone who got banned and re-registered. Why would you even think that? I have portrayed no characteristics of someone who is banned. The only thing I did was extremely briefly point out some successful attacks of one side of a war and how the attack from the other side may have been a response attack. And for that, a bunch of people started going crazy with inflammatory, vile, offensive, and plain sickening remarks, lol.

I had no idea this is an Irish site. I've been following the Ukrainian/Russian/American/NATO situation since 2014, when the illegal, violent US/CIA - backed coup took place in Ukraine and when Ukraine started to bomb and shell it's own Ukrainian & Russian citizens in Eastern Ukraine (especially the areas of Donetsk and Lugansk). During all those years, I've never come across this site. I have no idea how but a few days ago I first came across this site. I saw that this thread was huge (almost 3000 pages) so it's an extremely active thread and therefore I decided to register and post.

Also, the name of the thread is "Russia" and not "Support Ukraine / US or else you'll be attacked" or something similar.

Regarding the attack a few days ago on the Russians. I don't believe Russia's number so far of 89 dead. I also don't believe the Ukrainian / Western number of 500 or 600. I believe it's around 200 with another 150 wounded. That's what a Russian soldier said who was there helping to remove the rubble. He said from what he saw, it looked like around 200 dead bodies and 150 wounded.

In response, it seems like Russia struck back and destroyed the HIMARS with return fire. Furthermore, via missile and air strikes, 4 more HIMARS, 4 RSZO RM-70 Vampire MLRS', over 800 rockets in storage facilities, 8 military cars, and over 200 Ukrainian soldiers & foreign mercenaries were taken out. Those #s are in addition to the deployment point of one of Ukraine's Foreign Legion units in Maslovka apparently being destroyed along with 130 of it's foreign mercenaries.

It looks like a situation similar to the Azovstal plant situation (spring, summer 2022) is starting to develop in Soledar as the Russians are in the process of pulling off a sort of pincer movement similar to what they're doing in Bakhmut. The Ukrainian 128th Brigade and 61st Brigade are said to have fled into the salt mines as they were forced to retreat with no where else to go as they were being attacked from almost every direction (mostly 3 main areas, from the north from Yakovlefka, from the Dekonskaya railway station which Russia captured, and from the south Bakhmutskoye region).

Bakhmut fighting is intense. Russia is trying to complete full encirclement. If it does, 10s of thousands of Ukrainian forces could be surrounded. According to some, it's around 50,000. If Ukraine looses the Kleshcheevka and Toretsk settlements/regions, it will be a humungous blow to them as loosing Toretsk could cause a very quick collapse of the southern front portion of their Bakhmut defenses and loosing Kleshcheevka would mean the cut-off logistics of the forces in west of the area and that could then lead to being fully encircled.

Sources for this please