Well I was taking the piss...
Awkward
Looks like a positive development alright. From what I can tell, it's a forward defensive line which the Ukrainians may have breached, here, but it's a significant divot they've put in the front line, and we can see how close a part of one of the Russian main lines of defence curves toward the area Ukraine is now claiming to control.
No one would support the murder of innocents. (Although the Russian high society ha no problem with it)
Awkward for you. Comment like that in a thread like this.
The same comment you were so soft on?😂
Eichmann in the flesh
I'm Irish Ukrainian by the way. Have plenty of friends and relatives in the heat of it.
Do them a favour...
Sure...
Blew the wheels clean off one of them, gearbox and exhaust on another. That Storm Shadow is something else.
Every other person on here say's the same thing ,I've Ukrainian friends , workmates, girlfriends,usual antedotally speaking.
Irish Ukrainian not Russian? 😂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BUxGMbiMps
My bleakest scenario for this year, nps is being buggy trapped if not already.
What ever happened the world didn't even blink at the blown dam.
Russia will do same to the nuke plant now it knows it will get away with it and so destroying 90% Ukraine.
Then it will be tactical nukes on the way out.
Nato and world, nuke plant has to be a red line
This will happen if Ukraine makes it to the sea of azov
Sorry 😞 for gloom this will be Europe's biggest humanitarian nightmare need to prepare imo
Putin's cronies have invested in too many yachts in St. Tropez and palaces in Belgravia to go all in on this suicidal venture.
There's still an escape route for them if the war ends. Is there a Russian Stauffenberg?
I'm a Ukrainian mail order bride at the weekends
Chuck was saying there's quite the serious Russian offensive going on around Kremmina. He has been wrong quite a bit before. Any confirmation on this?
"Russophobic hysteria"
Yes, and the world needs more of it.
The Ukranian army look to have made some advances. If they take Robotyne it would put them just under 30KM from Tokmak
Most ordinary people will understand what you meant, even if it was OTT. Personally I think EU states should be closing all Russian embassies and deporting all Russian citizens back to their home country where they can deal with matters. And I've no time at all for Russian military on Ukrainian territory, the quicker they are driven to retreat or killed, the better for us all.
Take little notice of some of those piling on - they include some who covertly support this Russian invasion or who are more concerned with their perceived evils of NATO and the USA.
This fella getting more and more interesting by the day.
That fella now has a militia spread across Russia as the convicts who have served their 6 months and not been killed, return home. Hard to know if they would be loyal to him or only themselves. But if you want a dystopian view of the future, picture a Russia run by him and the 'police'/regional security being carried out by ex Wagner convicts.
We don't give Ukraine everything it needs, but we ask to fight so that we don't fight - billionaire and philanthropist Howard Buffett.
"We've been helpful, but we've been slow. At times we've been indecisive. We're not providing the Ukrainians with everything they need to win this war. And what's worse, we're asking Ukraine to fight this war so that we don't fight it ourselves. This policy leads to the death of people every day.
To those concerned about the escalation of the war, I simply ask: are you paying attention to how the geopolitical landscape is changing and has already changed?
It's not good for us. It is not for the benefit of anyone sitting in this room.
Do you have the slightest idea of what our world will look like if we allow Ukraine to lose?" Buffett said at a conference on the recovery of Ukraine in London.
Twitter links broken? - twitter.com/TreasChest/status/1672059276112666627
Precision stand off weapons are the thing Ukraine needs most now. All this stuff of needing to storm trenches is macho bull$hit that no other country would do.
Another one
I read that the Australians have stopped the Russians building a new embassy. A 'diplomat' has now squatted on the site and stated he won't leave!
Three Western officials told CNN that Ukraine's counter-offensive is not meeting expectations. Russia showing more competence than expected.
The counteroffensive is “not meeting expectations on any front,” one of the officials said.
Russian lines of defense have been proving well-fortified, making it difficult for Ukrainian forces to breach them. In addition, Russian forces have had success bogging down Ukrainian armor with missile attacks and mines and have been deploying air power more effectively.
Russian forces “competent” in their defense, one of the Western officials said.
It's not looking good for Ukraine, they spent the last year telling us how Russia was 'so stupid' and fighting with shovels, taking parts out of washing machines. I never understood this thing of saying your enemy is useless, drunk, incompetent... because now it doesn't say much about Ukraine if they can't push some ill-equipped drunks out of their country.
Not one of those officials named, Daly and Wallace are Western Officials by most arbitrary metrics.
CNN is trash, just clickbait junk.
Unfortunately percision standoff weapons are great for hitting high value targets behind the lines ,but you are still left with hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers who need to to removed from Ukrainan soil and the only way to do that is literally to storm the trenches it's not macho, it's the only way to do the job ,wars are won on the ground
Like the ones Ukraine already have? HIMARS, stormshadow, Excalibur etc..
The trenches don't move, I'm sure it's well within Ukraine's capabilities to gain fire control on them. Save the precision weapons when you want to retake a town and don't want collateral damage.
Cluster shells would be ideal for the trenches, but so far it seems only Turkey supply them.
Even a harmless game of paintball shows how much easier it is to get commitment to defend rather than attack. The Russian know they have machine guns on their back if the they retreat for additional motivation. That being said if someone had said to Putin after a year in combat in the Ukraine Russia would be in a defensive position trying to hold onto a sliver of the country some of which they had before the war started, he’d have shot them for treason.
The Russians have gained a lot of experience over the past year and are not as 'stupid' as they were. Russia lost 44 pieces of artillery in the last 24 hours and are losing about 150 pieces per week. 70 tanks and 140 APVs per week along with 4000 troops. I can see this war getting to the point where one or both sides will lose so much kit that serious war will not be possible by end of summer. Then back to WW1 for the winter.
Alternatively, the Russians may cave in over the next 2 or 3 months.
Ukraine's cheap Punisher drone:
The Ukrainian military has been using “Punisher” drones that can target fuel storage, ammunition supplies and electronic warfare stations up to 30 miles behind enemy lines. Eugene Bulatsev, an engineer with the Ukrainian designer UADynamics, said that the electric drones were “game-changing” and had completed up to 60 “successful” missions since the invasion began. Speaking from Kyiv, where he is about to go and join the fight, he told The Times: “This is the cheapest and easiest way to deliver a punch from a long distance, without risking civilian lives.
He said the drone, which can carry 3kg of explosives, needs the co-ordinates of its target and then carries out its mission automatically. Onboard cameras record the impact of the blast to check the accuracy of the mission. A number of them are in use in different units in the Ukrainian military, including in the elite Special Operations forces. How many, and where they are deployed, is classified, he said.
The unmanned aircraft, which have a 7.5ft wingspan, can loiter for hours 1,300ft above ground. A smaller reconnaissance drone called a Spectre flies alongside to identify the targets and then the Punisher is flown in to strike.
I read this too. Pure junk. Who are the officials? What are their credentials on military matters? What were the expectations for the counter offensive exactly? None of this is stated. However half way through the article we also get:
"The officials cautioned that the counteroffensive is still in its early stages – and that the US and its allies “remain optimistic” Ukrainian forces will be able to make territorial gains over time."
It's an absolute nothing burger of an article that doesn't say anything at all by anyone at all. It's the same level of tripe that said Russians were all fighting with shovels instead of rifles. When you scratch the surface even a little you find completely reasonable logical reasons for what's happening and it rarely matches the click grabbing titles.
Most of the claims of Ukrainan successes and lack of successs come from unnamed sources the majority of reported losses of both sides equipment comes from unnamed sources and social media accounts, we generally don't see anything that backs up visually or other means
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