I wonder are the Russian grainstores full? #ukrainiangrain
No-one could be naïve enough to think that the Ukrainians haven't been shoring up their northern border. They're hardly going to have diverted all their forces to the southern and eastern fronts and leave that whole flank wide open. Prior to the invasion phase, the Ukrainians were building trenches and things along it , and by time Russia might try to cross there again, Ukraine will have had another 10 months or so to improve all those defensive structures based on what they learned in the prior attempt. Russia would need considerable tactical innovation to overcome what awaits them, there. 'Russia' and 'innovation' don't sit that well together as words.
That's not to mention the craziness of attempting to open another front when they've stalled on the other two and intelligence experts are predicting that they're rapidly diminishing in ability to mount any kind of offensive campaign. The only conclusion is that it's an attempt to dilute Ukrainian troop concentrations elsewhere. I can foresee a possibility of even that backfiring as a fortified northern front becomes a training ground for Ukrainian reservists.
The Ukrainian border guards have been busy since they kicked the Horde out, mining the border and building defensive measures. From what I can gather, the seem confident that an assault from that direction will be difficult and costly for the attackers.
That should clear up any misunderstandings.
Actually they've contributed plenty to the arts and sciences even in the 21st century, from pianists like Daniil Trifonov to filmmakers like Tsvyagintsev and Nobel prize winners in various fields (it should be noted these people also tend to be anti Putin and anti war). Russian society is in a dreadful state but to say absolutely zero good has come out of it in 20 years is an exaggeration.
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And they have also contributed to madness and mayhem worldwide, no more-so than in the last year. Stop defending the scum for the few positives they have, it's boring rogber.
The one thing doesn't preclude the other. Is your mind so simple you can't accept that a country can have a lot of rotten elements and a small number of decent elements at the same time? Only an idiot could think defending talented dissidents is the same as defending a barbaric government
Idiot? Where in my post did I criticize the very few decent Russkis comrade?
I mentioned two examples above, both of which you ignored. What's the point in listing more? For you Russian = orc. Fine, stick to that view. You don't even WANT to hear about any positive examples so why waste time?
My hatred of Putin and his war I've made clear many times. In no way do I share forest's views. All I ever said and have always said is 140 million people can't all be lumped together as uniformly guilty. A vast majority yes, but not all. I know you disagree. Fine. We can have separate views on that issue
1000 orcs killed in the last 36 hours. The orc offensive has failed.
Some people would say mass if they could 🇻🇦
2 holes in the ground for a cost of $20m 😂
Things must be pretty desperate if the regime is having to invent military "successes" for the benefit of the serfs and the Putin bots. Not a good sign for them.
I'd say that Ukraine would wait and see if Belarus soldiers cross into Ukraine first...or would they turn on the Russian's / Lukashenko ? Prematurely attacking military targets inside Belarus might have the opposite effect.
And how many Belarussians will join them on the trip....????
I've often wondered about the authenticity of the intercepted phone calls
Me too. I listened to some of it, of course I don't understand Russian.
I thought two things about it though - first, the voice sounds like an AI voice, and second if it is genuine, where is the wife's voice? It's just a monologue, and nobody talks like that on the phone to a loved one.
From above and yesterday where Russia claimed it had targeted a building and killed 600 Ukrainian soldiers,
Now compare to Ukrainan strikes using precision strikes from HiMars
russian hearse.
Pretty accurate assessment.
Even Russian commenters on their social media are sceptical about the Ministry of Defence claims about Kramatorsk and suspect the whole thing has been made up. Interesting to see awareness that they are being fed BS by the regime.
Makes you wonder how much longer they think can pull this off ,
They have wiped out the Ukrainan airforce multiple times over, captured and destroyed all the HiMars systems multiple times over, destroyed every piece of Ukrainan and western artillery multiple times over,
And even Bakhmut holds .
But the Russians are winning this three day adventure
Just need them to comment and be sceptical on the Nazis and biolabs in Ukraine. The genetically modified mosquito's, NATO troops in Ukraine, Ukraine planning an attack on Russia, Ukraine developing nukes, Poland looking to invade Ukraine, satanists in Ukraine..... My apologies for any other tripe I'm missing out.
I've read, maybe here I can't remember, that while russian men and vehicles are in Belarus, ammunition is going the other way, final destination Donbas. I don't see a credible attack from Belarus. They are making us of training facilities and perceived menacing of Ukraines Northern border areas.
Earlier on in the year Belarus sent Few hundred thousand rounds of artillery and tank shell's to Russia,but now we're seeing a large increase of Russians soldiers and equipment flowing into Belarus,they share a 1,200 km border, they could easily use indirect fire across the length of the border along with airstrikes and various artillery, without having to cross the border,and still inflict a lot of damage,this won't be long over stretched convoys with no real plan
Ukr has said previously they won't wait for forces to cross the border "the next time".
Another successful exchange of prisoners took place. Fifty of our soldiers returned home.
They are guys from the Ukrainian Armed Forces, TRO, NSU, SPSU, Naval Forces and SDF. 33 officers and 17 privates and NCOs," OP head Andriy Yermak said.
The more of these, the better.
There was no Soviet glory, it was decades of mass murder on a scale the world had never seen, only topped by Mao's China.
Russia today is not capable of going back to the savagery of the Communist system, Putin would like that level of control but no chance.
Everyone knows their history of WW2 and the Nazis use of concentration camps.
Well the Russians have their version. They're called "filtration" camps.
Started in the Chechan wars. Continued in the Ukraine war since Russia first invaded in 2014.
To be fair, the Russians had concentration camps of their own long before WW2. Its a system with which their corporate memory is very familar.
From 1934-53, the generally accepted death toll in correctional labour camps (Gulag was actually the agency that ran them, not the camps themselves) was 2.9 million.
People nearly forget that the Soviet Union was more repressive and brutal towards its own people than even Nazi Germany, certainly pre-1939. The Nazis were extreme, but the Soviets were even more extreme and murderous towards ordinary citizens.
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