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I'm definitely not wrong
I'd say that for Prigozhin its now a matter of personal survival. Apparently he's no longer in Vladimirs good books and he's crossed the Military as well. Not looking good for him presently and had he taken Bakhmut in time for Putins anniversary speech, all might have been forgiven, but that chance has now passed, and as they sy " Bahkmut still Holds".
Not for Ukraine apparently, but who knows...one day
This twat needs to stick to making electric cars and not airing his conspiracy minded twaddle
You are taking that out of context. That tweet was later followed by quite dire ones, so it's anything but evidence of Bakhmut holding.
But enough of the bad news, this has been a crushing week for the Orcs, let that lighten the mood:
Enemy losses per week:
✅ 5270 destroyed invaders,
✅ 279 units of weapons and military equipment
Weapons / military equipment of the Russian troops suffered significant losses:
🔸 - 71 tanks
🔸 - 70 combat armored vehicles
🔸 - 53 artillery systems
🔸 - 6 RSZV
🔸 - 4 air defense systems
🔸 - 46 units of auto equipment
🔸 - 6 units of special equipment
In addition, our defenders shot down 1 plane, 1 helicopter and 21 unmanned aerial vehicles.
Look at those tank and artillery losses, the Orcs should be feeling the burn from those. We know thay don't care about people, those they will.
Ukrainians are being slaughtered, tortured, raped by an invading army. I don't see anyone hoping for casualties on the Ukrainian side, so amid all this your "concern" is for the invading army?
Care to explain?
If true, I’d be in favour of stripping her Irish citizenship, and deporting her.
Fair to say University College Cork is riddled with Russian influence. We've crazy professors advocating for Russia publicly and now Russian spys being educated there. You'd be sorely wondering what the meaning of Irish intelligence is and what the Australians know of Russian assets in Ireland.
An Irish Russian asset is facing deportation from Australia due to being a security risk. She previously worked for the Irish space agency, worked in the Dail, educated in UCC. Was trying to get into the Australian Space Agency and make links when the security services moved on her.
I'd call it sane and proportionate. The Orcs could withdraw from Ukraine and it all ends. Clearly they want their own exterminated so the Ukrainians obliging them is just being considerate.
You state this as if they were facts, whereas none is at all certain. Russia is not going to come well out of this campaign regardless of what happens and China will not want to be tying their fortunes to a loser.
As for the war itself, a lot comes down to morale in both the military and the populations as a whole. Assuming Ukraine continues to be motivated and the west continues to help with the defence of their territory, that is a big factor. Regardless of how people style the Russian war machine and refer to them as 'orcs', they have their breaking point too and that breaking point is more exposed where morale and conviction is falling. Putin is reframing his invasion now as Russia V NATO and aiming to persuade his people that they face an existential threat as opposed to be the result of his imperialist invasion & over reach. That they are fighting for their survival, which is preposterous of course. Will they continue to buy that line and what can be done to undermine it.
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Because of course they threw down the Ukr flag, their "protest" has nothing to do with supporting peace in Ukraine.
Of course there are no winners, but every inch of land Putin has he sees as a win.
Your "solution" to the war is to reward Putin with more land. That's not a solution, it's encouragement. Weakness like that to a tyrant rebuilding an empire is a red rag to a bull.
I'm sure the war will go on for a long time. However in just one year we've seen Russia having to rely on prison convicts, mercenaries, Iranian drones, equipment from the sixties, they've thrown the kitchen sink at Bahkmut for 6 months and still haven't fully taken it, at extraordinary cost, i wonder where they'll be in a year.
China won't supply Russia with anything to do with offensive weapons unless they want the entire world to stop buying off them.
Losses aren't even close to 1:1 the Russians are losing way more soldiers as they're under supplied, under trained and just worse in every conceivable way.
The Ukrainians now have the ability to hit ammo dumps and bases almost anywhere inside Ukraine. It took 6 months for Russia to adjust to keeping their dumps 50 miles from the front line now they have to try operate at 100 miles or further.
Russians can barely supply it's forces as it stands imagine how inefficient the whole thing will become now.
Those are unverified claim of 'explosions', and could as easily be Orc accidents or partisan attacks. What should tell anyone, with any nouse, that these are not the same is that the air defence systems didn't light up and start hosing the sky, as they did for the attacks on from Feb 21-23.
Bakhmut still holding.
There's no winners in this war and there won't be.
War is a profoundly nasty and regrettable business. In that sense, there are no winners, but allowing that wars have happened, are happening, and will happen throughout human history, Russia will fail in more of its objectives than Ukraine will.
China will supply Russia and then we are all fucked.
China isn't that interested in directly supplying a losing war effort while also trying to keep some sort of diplomatic/business relationship with the West. There's even an argument to say that China benefits from a weakened Russia which then must prostrate itself to China in order to stay afloat.
Russia have more men than Ukraine. It doesn't matter if Russia is losing 1k a day. Ukraine will be losing similar.
Ukraine is not losing a 1000 men a day at Bakhmut or anything comparable to the Wagner zombies. The Ukrainians are sitting in gun nests while mowing down Wagner who are essentially trying to Normandy their way across open ground, gaining however many yards each time.
This war will still be going on this time next year with the same conversations.
It could be, but there may be new phrases popping up such as 'Leopard', 'Abrams', 'Fall of Donetsk to Ukraine' and 'Putin falls out of 17th storey window while golfing'.
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The general consensus seems to be Ukraine is losing approx one third to a half a day of what Russia is losing. I do agree that China holds a lot of the cards here in regards which way the war will go. At the moment they are playing a blinder keeping both the west and Russia onside.
Bye bye.
I didnt say anything about casualties. Isolating them from supplies and food is enough to ensure surrender thus removing them from the war.
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Ukraine counter attacked and pushed the orcs back at Bakhmut.
Russia in general is a synonym to the word Failure
Another failed orc assault in Kreminna.
There's a good chance he could be taken out, but I can't see it happening. He's probably somewhat useful for the Ukrainians in that he's a massive pain in the hole for Putin
We don't need to hope. The orcs are losing around 1000 a day.
No one cares what you think. Ukraine will win this war.
As long as RuZZIa is simply using its conscripts/prisoners/men-in-the streets as a human wave, we should hope for mass RuZZian casualties.
Whatever side of the argument you fall on, hoping for mass casualties is quite gruesome
Whether Bahkmut holds at this stage is irrelevant. The main concern is an orderly retreat should it be needed where you take the least casualties possibly. After that it can be isolated by artillery strikes and surround it in the counter offensive once the bradleys etc are in position. Hopefully the Russians will have packed it with 10,000 troops by then and they'll lose another 10k of their army in a matter of days.