Russia - threadbanned users in OP

The best and brightest have left Russia long ago,,,17 million Russians living overseas. And this was before the last mobilization which saw 700'000 Plus leave. Real figure is probably nearer 1 million, and they are still leaving the ones that can. Sure, the criminal dregs of society are being killed, but they only make up a % of the total, maybe 15/20%, max, if that, the rest are all able bodied men, and they are not stupid by any means, these are the people who make up the craftsmen, drivers, medical staff, etc. without which the city's grind to a halt. The Metro in Moscow is something to see,, it moves something like 9 million Russians each and every day. Now imagine all the people needed to make that happen,,, and when they don't have the manpower to run it? Moscow seizes up. The chaos would be unbelievable, we already have seen what happened this winter when there was no heating in the apartment blocks, because the people who ran the heating system's had been conscripted. This has not happened to a great degree in Moscow / St Petersburg yet, but you can be sure that in the Republics, its a different story. Look what happened in England after Brexit, when all the migrant workers went back home...massive shortages, and cut backs in services of all kinds, but especially medical service, The same thing is happening now in Russia.

Not true,

They just had to hold it long enough to make enough orc burgers ,to deplete other occupied territories of experienced troops ,and that's exactly whats been happening tens of thousands of Russians slaughtered for essentially nothing,and even if they get bakhmut it will be quickly retaken during the counter offensive

Russia being Russia, when it came to conscription / mobilization, the local offices each had their quotas to fill ( or else) and they were not to particular who they conscripted in order to meet their quotas. So if your name appeared on their list, that was that, off you go. When Putin announced the 2nd round of mobilization's, they were quick to point out that the mistakes made in the first round, would not be repeated ( some hope.....) So Russians from all walks of Life were sucked in. But they all had one thing in common......no way to buy their way out. So yes, the Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Maker etc. etc. are all now being fed into the Ukrainian meat grinder.

This has to be my favourite April fools joke:

According to reports from Hungarian sources, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that their government plans to transfer 12 Saab Gripen fighters to Ukraine to increase the country's defense capabilities

Hilarious.

So when the orcs run out of shovels with which to storm Ukrainian trenches, they'll be storming them with rampant rabbits, strap-ons and over sized buttplugs.

Ooh how the world's second largest army has fallen.

You're some man for being able to create a hysterical strawman argument.

It's actually fairly reasonable thing to suggest that poor people are going to be affected by this war disproportionately. For you to suggest that demonstrates a Russian bias is pathetic.

According to a Russian social media channel, while referening soledar which is a saltmine town ,of course there is tunnels under soledar,

Doesn't mean there is any under bakhmut

The truth doesn’t lie. If you don’t agree with the fact that people from all walks of life are fighting for Ukraine then that is your problem. You can be made see what you don’t want to see.

The video where Vladlen Tatarsky goes boom (supposedly).

I see it's on Twitter as well (nothing graphic shown, so I think this should be ok to put up here).

Is that the woman they arrested sitting in the bottom left?

Volunteer soldiers from South America have entered the fray in Ukraine. They will be called the Bolivar Batallion.

This is why tanks and machinery matters. Tank operators were obviously fairly confident of no anti tank weapons in the trench.

18 +. So skip by if tank attacking soldiers in trenches are not what you want to see. It's self explanatory by the description. It's the war in Ukraine.

You're the one who's created the argument by incorrectly conflating an innocuous statement.

Take off your shoes and socks, and argue with your toenail instead. I have no interest in feeding your nonsense just because you hold grudges.

I'm struggling to make sense of the tactics. Two tanks launch an attack without infantry support and immediately split up like teenagers in a horror movie, even losing line of sight to each other. Then one tank gets far too close to enemy infantry than a tank ever should when unsupported. For a couple of minutes I thought the tank was going to bog down and hand the Russians a free mission kill. That tank crew must surely have had "the dander up". As for knowing they infantry had no anti-tank weapons, well...maybe, but war isn't an activity where anyone knows anything for certain, and something that seemed to fly like an RPG round shot at them from the upper right of the picture.

The last moments of the remaining Russians' lives must have been hell. Feeling the vibrations through the earth of the tank's movements, the racket of the engine and treads, and nothing to do except hope the Ukrainian crew would tire of it and move on, and then losing even that feeble hope as they felt the trench collapse around them.

I'nterestingly (for me at least) my WW2 squad-level boardgame of choice features a thing called an "overrun", in which a tank can enter a (40-metre) hex with enemy infantry and commence dishing out emetics...or come a cropper if the dice gods are feeling cruel. I always thought that real tankers were probably too careful to do that except on very rare occasions and that the rule was probably a bit unrealistic. Also, being in a trench gives the overrun infantry lots of lovely protection. Cut to Ukraine in 2023...

To me it looked like one tank and an infantry carrier for follow up.

Reconnaissance with drones obviously had the situation sussed. That said it was a fairly isolated trench. Probably could have been a former Ukrainian trench.

Don't think that looked like an rpg round. Looked like some kind of missile but the footage could have elongated the shape. It shows too further out the Russian response with non targeted explosions but maybe some of these could have been Ukrainian on other infantry further up the tree line.

It's a war of artillery and ensuring there's only one target for russian artillery till it's absolutely necessary to move other targets for the artillery in range and view of the drones.