If it fall's it's main beneficiary will be Prigozhin, because I'd say that his life literally depends on taking Bakhmut. Its his last and only chance with Putin and the Russian Military establishment.
Yes, and there are thousands of Russians living outside Russia who have access to a more balanced view of things. For example, they can tell that the Brits are not eating squirrels. How will this go down when they report the truth to Russians back home?
I can't really see how any EU state will want to trade with Switzerland in due course.
If the US military, who in this case are the supplier, modify stuff, then what the manufacturer states, ceases to be relevant because the modified device is now out of spec, which is what has happened with the launchers - they are modified, what SAAB say on their website only applies to stock standard rockets and launchers.
"It wasn't claimed the jdam kits were in Ukraine 3 week's previously."
Joint Direct Attack Munition-Extended Range (JDAM-ER) precision-guided bombs arrived in Ukraine around three weeks ago, according to General James Hecker, the U.S. Air Force's top commander in Europe and Africa.
Duh!
You said a while back you enjoyed trolling - how about you knock it off.
Hard to tell truth from fiction, seems inevitable though.
There was talk earlier on that Germany's reluctance to send it authorize 3rd countries to send arms to Ukraine would but it going forward. I'd say they turned the boat around.
Companies whose hardware has shown to be crucial in Ukraine will do well with orders.
Like the Bayraktar TB2's, HIMARS and the IRIS-T AA system.
I was expecting more artillery hit vehicles on the side of the road
Of course Russia has artillery control or cover over these roads ... It has so for months .... Or do you now claim Russian artillery cannot reach that road ?
Again with the opinions.
Your Hypothesis is wrong.
Saab Isn't wrong,
I enjoy trolling that's new hmmm should requote you ????
And yet Ukrainian vehicles are driving through the roads unhindered by artillery,
There is three damaged vehicles but that's nothing
Yeah ,
But very little evidence of any artillery strikes, considering the apocalyptic scenes we've seen elsewhere after months of Russian artillery strikes,
So you don't think Russian artillery can reach that road or even all roads leading out of Bakhmut to the west ?
You do realize that Russia does not have the capability to hit moving targets with their artillery ....
Roads are not closed because of being "covered" by artillery ... moving vehicles have nothing to fear from Russian artillery 20 km behind the lines
No evidence of any artillery strikes on that road ,one shell of a bmp , one suv that looks like it was run over with a tank and lada niva ?
Not a lot of anything to suggest that there was months of artillery strikes on the road ,
Can Russian artillery hit moving possibly but from what we seen so far it's not their forte,mass strikes on population centers untill there is nothing left
It has been my experience of many(but not all) Russians overseas tha they are incredibly "blind" when it comes to such things. They'll simply not mention them if they're talking to people back home. If you bring such things up they rapidly try to change the subject to avoid it and if pushed "It's all lies!!". Our lies, not theirs.
I've met all sorts of people from all sorts of nations and cultures and of course we all have our cultural narratives and love of the nations of our birth, most of them positive and prone to exaggeration, like the way most older individuals romaticise their youth and the era of same, but I have found Russians to be uniquely and doggedly surreal in this particular regard. Maybe it's more surreal because they look and act the same as Europeans in most everything else so when it gets weird it tends to throw you? When it comes to troubling questions or things they just ignore and deny. Not unlike extremely literalist religious people faced with obvious counters to what they believe.
Now these were mostly, but not all people 40 years of age plus. How younger generations parse this kinda thing I have no clue.
PS I also found similar in folks from Ukraine and Belarus I knew years ago. I suspect the former are quite different now though.
its not when you see they're in the pocket of Russia
If Russia had firing control, Bakhmut would be gone already
The consequences of that would be very bloody
Well if they tell it to the anti-Putin brigade, they will be told, "we know that, because that's all that comes out of Putins factory of lies", and if they say it to a Putin follower, they will probably be reported to the FSB for undermining the war effort, and that's an offence punishable by many years in a Gulag if they are lucky, or else when they arrive home, its straight to Bakhmut from Sheremetyevo Airport. These were the two reactions I got anyway when speaking to Russian friends after the war started. But what really surprised me was the depth of of feeling and invective against the west and Ukraine.
I'd say that there was a sharp increase in the Nrs when Putin invaded, and many more are yet to leave, as soon as the opportunity presents itself. A Russian friend succeeded in getting one of his sons out, but the 2nd one is problematic. Both of them are highly educated, ( ones a doctor) and the other is in the scientific area. These are the people Putin is driving out, and you can be sure that there are many like them in the 17 million Russians living abroad. When this period of World / Russian history is looked back on, Putin will be shown as the one who singlehandedly destroyed Russia.
Could well be that once the bridge was hit, traffic on the road stopped no targets, little or no shelling. We wont have long to wait to see what happens when the Russians see it being active again.
I know that,but compared to what we've seen in Vuhledar for example where we see a veritable moonscape , but there are other roads open in bakhmut too,the biggest issue seems to be the mud rather than enemy fire
There are two roads. That Commander who visited a few days ago was said to have used a dirt road, not the main one.
I wonder if the Swiss can spot the trend?
Yevgeny Prigozhin's head is so big and bulbous, a Ukrainian sniper could split it open like a goose egg. Here's hoping that happens very soon, and Putin loses his chef, forcing him to resort to Pot Noodles for lunch.
Perhhaps you'd like to give it a go and report back.. or not.
On March 3, five days after the AP image was published around the world, the combat medic was killed, reportedly by a Russian shell that hit the vehicle she was traveling in as she helped transport wounded people from the battlefield around Bakhmut.
Given she was killed while evacuating wounded from Bakhmut and reports say 'near Bakhmut', seems fairly obvious the car was on the road heading out of Bakhmut.
RIP - too young.
It'll sound very cold but who really gives a flying **** at this stage?
Any Russian with a conscience has left or is in jail for speaking or acting against Putin's criminal gang. The rest? They're accomplices in his crimes either by voting for him or failing to oust him and I would much rather see Russian criminals killing each other than Ukrainian soldiers, civilians or children (or the people of any other civilised nation).
In the event of a Russian civil war how many hundred thousand Russians should we take here?
Anything for likes .
I suppose
Kazakhstan is gradually becoming it's own country and weaning itself away from Russia influence.
Something we don't get to see too often, unless you follow various battles over the last 30+ years,
But a different view this time from inside a Russian bmp while it's on fire and the crew try to use dirt to extinguish the fire .
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