It is now a question of how many men and material Ukraine is willing to lose in order to hold Bakhmut. As the Wagner success in Yahidne and the advance into Ivanivske is the Trap closing on the potential escape routes from the city.
No someone will be along to deny it, because they can't get the basics right.
At least we know the search function works ,
Hungary is now signalling delaying Sweden and Finland’s approval to nato. Wish they’d get kicked out of the EU/Nato. Orban is another wannabe hard man with a itch ego
Here it is lads
Just to keep the discussion going
All i got from that link was that explosions were heard
There's a search function for a reason,
Just like Google that the same poster couldn't even find the most basic of information on something the other day
Heres a post. It happened once more than 3 weeks ago and most people forgot about it. How hard was it to drop a link again? Sometimes you DO act like a child or a troll, "its there, go and find it yourself...", I thought we were having a civilized discussion here...
They don't have to be on the front line with GLSDBS you know this,
They have multiple HiMars that now can operate and hit targets at 150kms.
Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrskyi, Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Commander of the Eastern Group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, has visited military units of the Ukraine’s Defence Forces in the city of Bakhmut and its outskirts...
It is noted that Syrskyi has checked the situation in units, listened to unit commanders speak regarding problematic matters, assisted in resolving them and supported the soldiers there. He has also awarded the best defenders with valuable presents.
Hopefully he will be motivated to dig deep in finding more resources.
Don't need to, it's there
A link to the post then.
For three days straight Russian-occupied Mariupol was hit by Ukraine. But the targets were just beyond the range of the HIMARS missiles the U.S. has been supplying them with.
Nataliya Humeniuk, senior spokeswoman for the AFU’s Joint Forces South, was cryptic in a Feb. 23 statement confirming the three day strike series, saying “At this stage, we can only state that inaccessibility is a very relative concept. What is considered so remote that it is unreachable, is not always so. The direction of Mariupol is no longer completely unreachable for us.”
Nighttime blasts in and around Mariupol airport on Feb. 21 and 22, and a series of daytime strikes on Feb. 23, were widely reported in Russian-controlled information platforms, independent Ukrainian news outlets, and local social media. Some, but not all, of the accounts alleged the AFU had employed a new, long-range weapon in the strikes.
The quoted bit suggests that Ukriane previously didn't have the capability, but now does.
Yes, of course they could shoot and scoot on two cosnecutive days and then really mix it up by having a HIMARS operating in broad daylight on the front line in a third day of shoot and scoot. Lucky for the Ukrainians the Orc's never noticed and are incredibly stupid.
However, I don't believe these strikes were from a HIMARS parked on the line of conflict on three consecutive days, including in daylight, if for no other reason than the US would likely have been displeased for such stupidity.
I not so sure that they have any operational I've not seen any of those over the few months anywhere,
Why would they need more HiMars if they have their own home grown (soviet) systems operational
Posted already in this thread on the 2nd of February.
That rules out Terences and your theories
Explosions rocked the Russian-occupied city of Mariupol in Donetsk Oblast on the night of 21 February.
Source: Mariupol City Council on Telegram; Ukrainska Pravda. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/02/22/7390405/
Two explosions were heard in Russian-occupied Mariupol on the evening of Feb. 22, Mariupol City Council reported.
The first explosion was reportedly heard at around 10:50 p.m. local time near the Illich Iron & Steel Works plant.
https://kyivindependent.com/news-feed/explosions-reported-in-mariupol#:~:text=Two%20explosions%20were%20heard%20in%20Russian-occupied%20Mariupol%20on,siege%20of%20Mariupol%20in%20the%20spring%20of%202022.
Can you provide links to your claims of these precision strikes on Mariupol on the 1st and 2nd of this month?
Ukraine also have Vilkha M MLRS with 130 km range,allthough not the same accuracy as HIMARS,its within 10-30 meters.
But still enough to hit large formations of armour or troops and ammo dumps.
Have we seen this pattern before,yes,just before Ukraines last offensive
He can't afford to lose them,he can't afford to build them either,he's already let his airforce stuffer losses and Long term damage, despite some claims it's not easy or quick to train new pilots not just in the basics of flying but the more advanced training in air 2 air combat and air 2 ground combat
Ukraine counts 299 russian aircraft and 288 russian helicopters shot down by them so far since last years attack by russia. Lots of anti aircraft missile systems make it a fairly dangerous place to send fighter planes so if he did send in more they might not last very long. putin seems to be using them more to launch cruise missiles from a distance so there is less chance of his fighter planes being shot down.
Wonder why Putin hasn't sent in his fighter planes up to now if he wants an end to the war quickly, he obviously doesn't care about civilian casualties so not sure whats stopping him.
Biden visited Ukraine/Kiev on the 20th ,
The first percision strikes on Russian positions in Mariupol and metiplol date to the 1st/2nd of this month,18 /19 days before Binden arrived
I’m surprised they hadn’t pulled the trigger on that by now. I had always assumed that the “Union State” between Belarus & Russia was just an pretext to absorb Minsk into the Federation. I’m guessing the original intent was to create a more concrete successor to the USSR than what the fairly impotent CIS had managed to be. I think I read once that Lukashenko went into this into the 90’s believing he’s become the overall president of the Union given he was a more solid figure compared to Yeltsin at the time. But since Putin, the relationship is clearly different.
My current guess is that they’ll wait until a point of possible defeat in Ukraine before holding a “referendum” to take in Belarus, as way of deflecting local opinion to something seemingly positive, while erasing a potential new Ukraine 2.0. They can’t risk losing the strategic position that Belarus offers, and I think they’ll do what they can to hold on to it.
I’m also guessing if they had succeeded in taking Kyiv, Minsk would have been absorbed soon after. Right now they continue to be a somewhat useful “Russia, but not Russia” pawn in this fight.
Lushashenko confirms the leaked story on the reunification of Belarus with Russia,said documents are three years old ...
Oh you're so right, they can only shoot and scoot one day and not the next day /s
The explosions in Mariupol happened over two consecutive days. Nice trick.
🇮🇳 India does not condemn war in Ukraine after G20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors, says there are "other views and different assessments of situation" - media
Modi is one disgusting turd.
Organising a tax raid on BBC offices because they made a program exposing him for what he is.
There was reports early in the war about Russian soldiers eating dogs due to the quality or lack of ration packs.
Reports of them also booby trapping dogs in villages that were about to be liberated. So I wouldn't put them past you.
Meanwhile Ukrainian soldiers were evacuating pets in towns and villages being shelled. Looking after stray animals on the Frontline and sharing rations with them.
They even managed to get a dog released with a prisoner swap of soldiers.
Well we'll know soon enough
how long before we see grenades strapped to dogs and forced to charge the Ukrainian lines. they tried that before in WW2
That’s some read, real evil scum
Technically you could say via proxy's through Iran ?
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