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I take it from your "YAWN" expression that you did not find my post replying to your comment entertaining. I'm happy to see that. Your comment I replied to was specifically claiming lies from Ukraine about intercepting russian air attacks on Ukraine. You made a claim that Ukraine reported intercepting more missiles than were fired at them with absolutely no evidence to back up your claim with a background of thousands killed and injured in Ukraine from putin expending billions of euros on cruise and ballistic missiles, artillery and cheap Iranian made drones filled with explosives specifically targeting civilians. I hope you get everything you deserve for siding with the genocidal *diot the russians have decided to be their leader.
I'm not saying that. I'm saying that a country in a state of collapse which can't even keep the electricity running for a half a day at this point - I think leaders, even corrupt ones, would be better off focusing their energies on there own catastrophic problems for their own people.
South Africa, incidentally, refuses to condemn Russia for the invasion.
South Africa is a regional powerhouse - it's the Germany of sub-saharan Africa. It matters.
No Air raids or missles during the Biden visit go figure...
Wasn't it actually claimed by several people on here about some super secret deal with the Russians at the time
Sure there was someone on here claiming the air raid siren in Kyiv when Biden was visiting was just for show.
I have read this post now about three or four times and I still can't figure out what the point you are trying to make is.
Are you saying that Ukraine shouldn't be meeting with the democratically elected leader of the second largest economy in Africa and a G-20 nation because they're currently undergoing severe economic problems exacerbated by corruption?
If that's the yard-stick for whether they try and gain new allies then they'd be excluding a significant percentage countries, especially outside the OECD.
What is worse is that some South African sources are now claiming that there wasn't an air raid or missiles at all, and it was all Ukrainian propaganda. They still seem to be annoyed that some of their journalists and security personnel weren't allowed off the plane in Poland due to irregularities with their paperwork.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Or did the Russian even tank exist in the first place?
Full details from wiki:
clearer video of how it works. It's basically a line of explosives rather than a single charge.
What rockets are those? The payload seems to be pretty big, not seen much footage from this range on the ground.
Meanwhile at the st Petersburg international economic forum, Barry or paul Putin seems to think everything is rosy .....
At least the injured Russians will get good medical care.
Not good.
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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