Panzer... now, THAT's a name... possibly a LITTLE too associated with Nazi Germany...
Another example of just how interested the Russian government is in looking after the wellbeing of its average citizens:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/10/wagner-convict-soldiers-return-from-ukraine-russia-mercenary-group
Found this in a reply to that thread:
It was apparently filmed at midday yesterday. There is an interesting interview with a civilian in Bakhmut. The soldier calls the civilians “waiters”. They are just eating for whatever happens. If it were me, I’d be suspicious of those who have refused evacuation, or have returned.
I also enjoyed the last sentence the soldier said.
100% this is a test by the Russians to see if we respond or we just pretend it didn't happen
If it were up to me, I'd respond to each and any of these breaches by specifically using it to greenlight longer range weapons, or aircraft.
With very artillery bombardment of every settlement in Northern Luhansk. This is where they have been hoping to make their biggest push from.
They wanted to punch holes in Ukraine's defence elsewhere beforehand. Hence the really heavy losses in the last couple of weeks for only incremental gains. They needed a more significant breach. Soledar falling, if it had happened in the last week, might have been better timed for them. The Ukrainians will leave Bakhmut eventually but with every passing day the hold they're neutering the Russians.
A proper collapse anywhere would have forced Ukraine to call in their reserves which has not had to happen and so the Luhansk push will be met with plenty of resistance. Vulhedar would have been ideal for a significant breach due to being so far South but alas their assault here has been the least successful of all.
This is absolutely done in response to Zelenskyys European visit.
Interesting to see NATOs response. Could they just blow it out of the sky the next time?
I don't think that going back into history will help. Hitler killed Jews, does that mean Israel should kill modern Germans? Russians are the true nazis today and that is what matters. At any rate, this war is not about history or nazis, it is about Putin's ego and his lust for empire.
The few articles I've read under the NYT banner has me dubious.
I'd equally be concerned the Bucha report was Putin's way through the NYT to get to eyewitnesses on the ground to influence statements ahead of courts.
Like pieces in rags though it's just my opinion. (and concern).
Musk is a duplicitous nasty piece of sht.
Nationalize starlink!
I read the newspapers. You should try it some day.
Romania came out and said the missles never entered their airspace
Next time...It should have been tracked and shot down the second it passed into Romania. It wouldn't be an escalation. After what happened in Poland, one would think as soon as Russia launches a large barrage of missiles, neighbouring countries would put their AA on high alert.
Moldovian government resigning
Source claimed as Reuters but I cannot find a confirmation on it.
Pressing X to doubt. Until I can confirm.
I heard a commentator on during the week surmising as to what would happen if Ukraine did actually get F-16s etc. Basically was saying as to who would protect the airfields they would be flying from. Those nice long immovable runways would be prime targets for the Russians. I wonder would a VSTOL aircraft like the Harrier II be an option (can't see Ukraine getting F-35B's) because of this? The USMC, Italian & Spanish Navies are still flying them, until replaced by F-35s, I think.
Absolutely outrageous.
The only answer is to move patriot missile batteries right up to the border and start shooting anything down that creeps even one millimetre into NATO airspace.
Trying to find a source on this
More orcs being slaughtered but at least the wives/mothers will get a new lada 👍️
I'd agree. Better served as an overall Garden of Remembrance about the war. I'd also tear down any Stalin monuments too and a few have been going up in Russia of late as he's been repolished for Russian history.
Bandera was awarded the highest Ukrainian medal ten odd years back, but that got a lot of pushback, not least fom many Ukrainians(his support seems to have been highest in the far west of the country, rather than the "banderite" east according to Russia). In the end the award was withdrawn a couple of years after that after legal challenges and general disquiet. His fans tried to get it reinstated a few years ago, but that was defeated by a vote in the Ukrainian parliament.
This is another aspect of this whole thing; if Russia wanted to rid Ukraine of nazis, why didn't they do it back then when Bandera was more popular and actial neo nazi parties were holding government positions? Was it perhaps because Ukraine was in their pocket and obeying Moscow? Yet since 2014 when both polls and people voting with their feet showed support for neo nazis was falling off a cliff and they could even secure one seat, Moscow ramped up the nazi reason?
This can be applied to the civil war in Donbas too. Of the 15000 combined deaths on both sides of that sectarian conflict, the majority were killed between 14-16 and it had calmed down quite a bit since then(though was still simmering), so why didn't Russia go in and "protect her people" when they were actually being killed and injured and fleeing? That would be akin to the British army going into Ulster to protect Unionists in the 90's rather than the 70's.
They could operate out of the airport close to the Polish border. Russia may not risk trying to target it. It's far from the Frontline however. Just need to find a place close enough to launch sorties from, but out of range of ground launched S300 systems, but still within the protection of the Patriot systems when they arrive.
Or just just what ever infrastructure they currently use for their Migs. It won't be their first fighter jets after all.
Finland and Singapore have trained on takeoff and landing on regular roads.
If the US or the west wanted to give fighter jets, they will find a way. Lack of runways would be least of the issues.
Yikes
The Empire "warning" Moldova yet again
I don’t think he has a normal brain, I think his sense of empathy is severely lacking.
Very interesting short piece on a unit repelling a small Russian probing attack and how they do it
unlucky
Yet just a few posts back you said:
"I don't know anything and I didnt say I did. I just posted a link to an interesting story I thought was relevant in the context of this conflict."
So which of your statements have any truth to them or do you not like the question I clearly asked you? Is it true you read newspapers or that you know nothing and are just posting misinformation to support the increasingly boring playbook that russia is somehow the victim in invading Ukraine?
For your information I have read newspapers and find you implying I have not done so stange. You are responding like a child. Are newspapers some how something unusual where you are from? Is it part of your job to read newspapers to scrape the bottom of the barrel for anything that might potentially be positive for putin and his genocide in Ukraine?
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Move in a straight line and tight formation, that'll confuse the enemy for sure
Gone alright.
So tanks and longer range missiles deliveries well under way. Putin still hasn't launched nukes. I can't wait for fighter jets and attack helis to be announced so we can finally stop hearing about red lines and nuclear sabre rattling.
At that point the red line would be shifted to a NATO country directly entering Ukraine or Belarus.
Time for the 155 artillery and guided shells to shine. May as well be watching the videos from last year, remember the tank column entering a town single file. Ukraine decimated that and they are better armed now! Even without western tanks, I think this advance from Russia will prove even more costly. Probably launched too soon to get gains for the 1 year anniversary and also before western tanks arrive.
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