Talking about propaganda being propaganda kind of misses the point. If Ukrainian propaganda aids their war aims, then it is good. So my question is whether Ukrainian propaganda hurts Russia psychologically and/or steels Western support. If yes, then more of it. If not, then reconfigure the approach. The first casualty in war is truth, so they say. This is by necessity. The psychological battle is a huge element.
you're talking sense and apply logic. that's not something they are capable to understand.
if they use their usual zinc box from soviet times, you can fit 2 in one.
That's certainly true but I'd be shocked if nearly 2k tanks have been taken out by long-range strikes.
Not just long range strikes, that was just an example. But Ukrainian artillery taking tanks out behind enemy lines and not releasing any drone footage. Tanks being taken out on the Frontline with javelins and no footage released etc...
Not every tank behind the lines that has been damaged/destroyed would be filmed and not all footage would be released.
Not much change from Grozny then. Russian soldiers pissed out of their minds on Vodka and generally being used as cannon fodder
So it seems that the Russians launched a missile attack on Kyiv while South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and the Egyptian PM were visiting. That doesn't seem to be quite the right way to foster relationships with South Africa just before you're planning a visit there where you may, or may not, be arrested for war crimes. I guess Putin really is a master strategist after all 😂
I would imagine having to do this a lot is one of the reasons why progress is going to be relatively slow on the southern front. The Ukrainians certainly can't charge through like they did in Kharkiv last September.
So if a russian tank is blown up in the forest and no one sees or hears the russian tank being blown up in the forest is there really a russian tank blown up in the forest?
If the Ukranian's blow up a tank in the forest and don't post footage for Oryx to visually confirm...... you get the idea.
Good article about Russia's increasing use of attack helicopters
Multiple accounts now document how Russian aviation is operating very close to the front lines, with attack helicopters presenting an especially serious threat to the Ukrainian counteroffensive in areas where armored advances are orchestrated.
Seemingly, the lack of forward-deployed Ukrainian mobile SHORAD has left a ‘dead zone’ in which the Ka-52 can operate with a greater degree of safety than in the past.
Ka-52s have been engaging Ukrainian vehicles — including moving targets — with Vikhr-1 ATGMs from slant ranges of roughly 8 kilometers [5 miles] or more.
The Ka-52 is expected to receive the advanced LMUR anti-armor missile, a much heavier weapon with a range of up to 9 miles, providing an even greater standoff range.
Ukraine is forced to move air defense systems closer to the front lines to attempt to destroy the munitions, if not the aircraft launching them. But as soon as the radars of the Ukrainian air defense systems are activated, Russian forces respond by targeting them in turn with Lancets and other loitering munitions and drones.
It’s clear that as Ukrainian troops push forwards in the counteroffensive in the east, they will also be covered by fewer air defenses, and will likely come under more sustained attack by Russian aviation. The fact that, according to U.S. intelligence, Ukraine is running very low, if it has not yet exhausted, many of its Soviet-designed SAMs across its air defense portfolio, is likely a major factor too.
I'd have thought that this is very much to the heart of the statistical debate. Going by many accounts of what happens on the ground, there is no doubt but that there must be many Russian dead never recovered. Therefore not counted and probably conveniently so, since that would relieve the Russian state from supports to relatives. They could be reported as missing, absconded etc
And likewise, who knows what the real level of Ukrainian civilian death is as well - buried under rubble and in mass graves.
Again you're completely dodging the question which basically says all we need to know about how little interest you have in facts.
The rest of your incoherent gobbledegook I'll let your comrades in wishful thinking decipher
Not good.
At least the injured Russians will get good medical care.
Meanwhile at the st Petersburg international economic forum, Barry or paul Putin seems to think everything is rosy .....
What rockets are those? The payload seems to be pretty big, not seen much footage from this range on the ground.
Full details from wiki:
clearer video of how it works. It's basically a line of explosives rather than a single charge.
Or did the Russian even tank exist in the first place?
How has that changed? How much does a rifle and bullet cost, compared to the cost of a minimum of 18 years of investment into raising and training a soldier? How about joystick-flown missiles vs tanks in the 1970s? It is obvious that Air Defence is no longer the bastard stepchild of a Western army, a problem that was obvious a decade ago and various nations have been digging into it since. Some nations have gotten further along than others, but they'll all get there, just like they've always done in the past.
If these numbers were real, Russia would be fighting with sticks and stones and would have very few soldiers left in the frontlines. Yes they have suffered heavy losses, but 220k dead, 4000 tanks, ~7600 APC's, 300 aircraft & helicopters lost? Did they even have that many available to start with?
Ah come on you can't possibly be that naive? You can't take Ukraine's figures on Russia's casualties seriously just as you can't take Russia's figures on Ukraine's casualties seriously. The first casualty of war is always the truth. Next you'll be taking Ukraine's claims that they intercept 40 out of 30 missiles seriously.
As far as I know they did but not sure on how many troops are assigned to different duties like for example the large number I have seen quoted for the troops specifically tasked with keeping putin in power. The wikipedia page on their military gives a figure of over a million active troops with 2million in reserve so I have no difficulty believing the Ukrainian estimates could be correct and putin's forces still have more than sticks and stones to fight with.
The figures are presented as estimates and I have no reason to think the Ukrainians are not giving the numbers they believe to be true. Never seen them to claim to have intercepted more missiles than putins genocidal scum are sending at their civilian population so by claiming this without providing any evidence you are revealiong yourself as a putin fanboy trollski with no interest in discusion other than furthering putins deranged ambitions with misinformation.
Not a great example, Ukraine actually intercept a lot of missiles, especially in recent months.
As for casualty figures, US leaks and credible estimates have given us some idea. Casualties (deaths, MIA, wounded) among Russian troops, LNR/DNR, Wagnarites is a high number.
Gas having leaders from the likes of South Africa (a country literally falling in to a failed state under it's own corruption and ineptitude) getting involved in anything like this. Putin may care since these types are the only allies he has , the west certainly doesn't.
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Yes yes anyone who questions Ukraine in any way is a Putin fanboy YAWN! Ukraine inflates Russian casualties as part of its propaganda very similar to how Russia claims to have destroyed more HIMARS than have actually been sent.
Yes if they equate the accuracy of the information coming out of Ukraine with that of Russia. It is the classic 'both sides' tactic which yes has been used by Putin 'fanboys' to muddy the waters and spread misinformation.
The Ukrainian figures are at least within the realms of possibility and are grounded in real world data. And it is not just Ukraine themselves providing estimates.
The Russian figures are obvious garbage.
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