Yeah I think looking back the Ukrainian military probably were and could of given Russia a proper and major military defeat on their armed forces. I think they believed it was a Russian trap but it was not.
Or it will be a massive deterrence to any other Russians thinking about avoiding the next draft....
Looking increasingly likely that Soledar will fall eventually in the coming weeks, which would then allow the russians to bypass heavily fortified areas of bakhmut and seversk.
If Russians manage to get as far as main bakhmut - slavyansk highway, it would make positions in bakhmut untenable and force Ukrainians to retreat back to another line of defence, either along the donbass canal or Konstantinovka-Kramatorsk-Slavyansk.
If they dont retreat from Bakhmut at that stage they risk being encircled as russians will inevtiably push north west from their positions south of bakhmut, towards bakhmut-chasiv yar highway.
And whatwhat does he expect the Duma to do? They are mere putty in Putins hands.. they exist only to legalize Putins whims., not to tell him what he may or may not do.
"Zelensky regime has now reportedly started sending in 16 year olds and pensioners over 60"
Reportedly where?
unfortunately the reformists in the Duma are a very depressed bunch, keep shooting themselves in the back of the head
Anyone thinking of travelling to Ukraine to help them should be skilled in one form or another. Turning up with the good intention of "trying to help" will prove to be more of a hindrance than a help. Military skills? Definitely, always welcome. Medical Skils? Ditto. Logistical skills? Warehousing, heavy transport? The same. And Good Luck to anyone with the above mentioned skills who are prepared to travel.
Lol
It's been predicted bakhmut would fall everyday for the last 6 months,
Mystical meg's haven't predicted anything correctly yet
You have experience in these situations yourself Forest that makes you such an expert? Where and when if its not too much to ask?
UK may be sending Challenger Tanks to Ukraine.
https://news.sky.com/story/uk-considering-supplying-ukraine-with-challenger-2-tanks-to-fight-russian-forces-12783107
"Zelensky regime"
You're relentless. I'll give you that
You are forgetting the dam was mined.
I believe there's been a few close calls lately involving tourists having to be rescued after trying to get to the front lines,
Kids out of school trying to get over,it's not call of duty, there's no unlimited respawns in a real war .only real bullets and real death
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Tosh. NATO is a defensive organisation. Any member can do what it likes millitarily and can instigate military action unilaterally, but doing so absolves the other NATO members of providing assistance or aid. So nothing is holding Poland back except their own will.
Thanks for that will save me in future.
Great news if true. As the piece says the 10 tanks is really just a reason for Germany to greenlight supplying the leopard 2 which is available in much bigger numbers.
Other than the Wagner PR organisation, who has been predicting when Bakhmut would fall?
Unless western countries step up the supply of artillery to Ukraine, Soledar will fall and the russians will be able to maneuver around Bakhmut to the north cutting off one of the main supply routes
Finland said they would provide some Leopards if another country went first, but they can't spare many, for obvious reasons. Greece has some Marders on order about to be delivered and has said they don't need them iimmediately and would rather they went to Ukraine.
I wish Scholz and some other gutless wonders would wake up and smell the cordite in the air.
The Bundeswehr was in bad shape before the war, I believe of the Marders they were going to send to Ukraine a large number would be taken directly from Bundeswehr stocks
It is strange that they are dragging their feet so much on Leopards though - are Bundes stocks of those just as bad?
"The Tsar is naked": Podolyak predicted how Putin's desacralisation in Russia will end,
Russians are beginning to realise that the power vertical in the Russian Federation is not working, so the criminalisation of social relations is rapidly increasing and ethnic conflicts are escalating.
Defeat on the battlefield and the general state of Russia after the attack on Ukraine has desacralised both Putin and his entourage. The consequence will be internal sabotage, loss of process control, criminalisation of society and ethnic conflicts in Russia.
According to Podolyak, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs gives official statistics about a 600% (!) increase in criminal offences in the regions bordering Ukraine.
On realising that Rome's legions either no longer existed or were otherwise engaged and would be for the forseeable future, the provinces realised they could go their own way.
Russia strikes me as as an empire being held together with nails, rather than a glue of shared ethnicities, culture and religion. Pull the military nails and bits might start to fall off.
The announcement of delivering IFV's was all planned with France being allowed announce it first. Possibly for good PR etc...
Maybe the UK will be the first to move in tanks, followed quickly by Germany granting export licences for countries with leopards who are willing to give to Ukraine.
No point giving Ukraine tanks after a spring offensive.
Poor old George"rent a shill"Galloway isn't happy🤣
Surely they are free to enter the conflict unilaterally if they wish.
Other NATO members have been engaged in military adventures without disbanding from NATO, as we are often reminded here by the anti NATO/ anti US brigade.
Does this worry you?
He's afraid of mobilisation 🤣🤣🤣
If true that is huge, not because of the rumored 10 tanks but because it opens the door for other main battle tanks.
I can't see everyone donating more than 10 -20 each but it adds up, American has said they are planning to train 500 Ukrainians at a time on the Bradleys which would suggest they will be sending more than the 40 that's already been made public
But 10-20 instances of each type isn't a great solution. You'll need teams trained on the various types, logistics chains will all be duplicated/triplicated/multiplicated.
Looks like UK intel has come up trumps again, any day now someone will put operation chip pan into effect to render Blofelds secret base a no-go area.
Su-57 jets in Akhtubinsk Air Base are reportedly been used to carry out a lot of recent missile strikes. It's a fair distance from Ukraine.
The idea behind the UK sending Challenger tanks is to gain support for EU countries to send their Leopards which vastly out number the Challenger tanks ,the UK currently only had 220 tanks in the first place, where the leopard tanks available is 1800,-3000 if I'm remember correctly.
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