I thought 155mm is nato ammunition???
ya like a bunker buster
You are more than likely correct, but its the nearest one that I can compare with.. It happed in Chechnya, so the one I mention was definitely Russian. Chechnya, and especially Grozny was littered with UXO's of all shapes and sizes. There was one in particular that I remember vividly. In Grozny city Centre, there's a roundabout with an over and under pass. and the underpass was frequently flooded. I had used it several times without problem, until one day after the wet weather had stopped, and for the first time I actually say the road dry. There was an unexploded mortar sticking up out of the road. that had been hidden under the water. My Guardian Angel was looking out for me back then.
Lucky soldier
That kind of reaction only happens for the first or second time....then the novelty quickly wears off. And people quickly learn to head in the opposite direction as fast as they can go, even to abandoning their cars if caught in a traffic snarl up. Now all that needs to happen is a second or third "accident" to happen, and suddenly Belgorod Citizens might decide that Putin is the real enemy.
Yeah, and in Moscow too!!! Who'd have thought Putin would be that desperate? All the minimalist phrases,, SMO, Limited mobilization etc. were designed not to disturb the population. Putins dread was anything that would trigger protests that his security forces would not be able to control. or even worse might even join in. So this is very big change for him. Something deep in the water is stirring.
Hell on earth.
There's anywhere between 5k and 10k shell hits in that image alone. Makes you start to believe the daily artillery usage that's been touted for both sides. I always thought it unrealistically high.
It's actually a damning indictment of the Russian Armed Forces. Supposed to be one of the best military forces in the world, now completely bogged down in static trench warfare against one of Europe's smallest armies in terms of projection and tech capability.
Yeah, they have more tanks, more planes, more artilllery, more missiles, more everything on a vast scale - but the fact they've been completely unable to leverage any of that collossal material advantage, shown a complete inability to conduct war in a modern combined arms sense, speaks volumes to how utterly rotten to the core their army is with corruption.
Now it's just the brute cave-man approach, squandering of lives in mass frontal assaults, mass artillery bombardments, reminiscent of a conflict from 70 years ago. Unbelievable.
I'm sure the RU defenders will moan about western support, but it would never have amounted to anything if the Russian army performed to even a fraction of what people expected it would.
I still feel sorry for that student forced out of bed and to war. What did he do wrong?
“Predator” talking about that busy day in the trench (age restricted, translation available):
Bakhmut life (with translation):
The Death Ditch, or making short work of orcs (might have been posted already? I so enjoy the score counter in yellow!):
Hypothetically if Ukraines southern offensive is a roaring success along with a northern offensive that takes Svatove keeping the Russians spread out.
Now let's say late summer Ukraine were to enter Crimea and start advancing. The Kerch bridge is blown and Russian ships forced to leave Sevastopol. Does Putin withdraw his entire army from Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts to try hold it and push the Ukrainians back or does he fight a multi front battle and risk losing Crimea?
Imo the best chance Ukraine have of retrieving it is that scenario. And if they start advancing through Kherson oblast Russians planter's in Crimea will start leaving before the bridge is blown.
Crimea is what Russia probably wants most out of all of this, but is also their most precious position if Kerch is taken out along with the land bridge. Historically Crimea is a massively difficult challenge to invade and I fully expect the Russians might leave the DPR and LPR to their own devices and move most of their forces to Crimea to try to prevent a takeover.
Crossing the 2014 trenchlines and fighting for Donetsk in particular would be a massive headache for the AFU that even with all of the new Western armour. I think we’d probably see a creeping advance towards the actual Russian border that might take another year or two, assuming the local “People’s Republics” are abandoned by the main Russian army.
But this is all assuming the Russians can even manage the logistics of moving their main forces to Crimea and most important, keeping them supplied. I don’t have much faith in their abilities there.
He tried to buck the system, and in Putins Russia, that in itself is a crime. Putinland is one huge open air prison.
If Ukraine were to give up territory to the Russians in a peace settlement, and Im not saying they would or should, they can most easily give up Donbas. At this stage, so much of it has been destroyed that its a massive headache to rebuild. So in a scenario where Ukraine takes Crimea, or rather Russia abandons Crimea to strenghten the Donbas, that would be the last phase of the war.
I dont think its all that likely though. Crimea can be supplied even without the Kerch bridge and Russia is unlikely to give it up without a massive fight. More likely Russia woukd forsake Donbas to secure Crimea.
The region to the EAST (temporarily occupied by Orcs) is where a treasure trove of mineable material exists. Russia wants this.
The Kerch bridge was built for a reason, it’s hard to supply and maintain planters by Ferries. Ferries can go boom too.
The difference between Orcistan and Ukraine can be summed up in many ways by this article.
But look closer at the images plenty of impacts but like or no craters from explosions
Crimea would be tricky to supply especially with the kirsch bridge gone or badly damaged again,boats and aircraft would be the quickest options but if the Ukrainan get close enough it won't be safe for aircraft or boats to get across to it , and HiMars can destroy any of the bases infrastructure too , it's possible to completely isolate forces and the population at the same time
Leaving out Crimea, if Ukraine pushed all the way back to the Russian border and the Russians don't surrender, what then? Do the Ukrainians have to keep pushing on into Russia? Is that a different war then? Do they just stand at the border and dig in? Is it a Korean peninsula situation where both stand off each other for decades?
Again...
I’m betting on good old Russian incompetence and disregard for safety on this one.
I fear this might be the case if Ukraine can fight all the way to the actual border. They’d have to entrench and fortify the border against an increasing unstable Russia which at this stage can’t be trusted to abide by any peace agreement without major changes within their leadership.
What Ukraine has started and might continue, is the enablement of anti-Putin Russian partisans who are equipped and trained to Ukrainian standards. An active insurgency against the Kremlin may serve them just as well as an actual land invasion of Russia proper.
2nd bomb unexploded found in Belogrod very surprised it didn't explode when the first one went off ,
Shame it didn't go off now they'll just find a way to launch it at Ukraine again.
Highly unlikely that gets reworked and loaded onto a plane. They’ll have to destroy it. Granted the Russians can be stupid, but surely not THAT stupid.
Let's not underestimate their stupidity
https://news.sky.com/story/nato-allies-agree-ukraine-will-become-member-12862389
Has to be done, we've seen security guarantees such as Budapest only give a false sense of security. It is Russia that has pushed Ukraine into NATO by leaving it no other option to preserve its sovereignty.
Has in been confirmed Hungary have stopped acting the bollix?
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