Due to you being so consistently wrong every time you post on political subjects, your opinion on Ukraine has given me the confidence to buy a non-refundable, first class ticket to the Crimea Beach Party. Cheers!!!!!
So this war has basically turned into trench warfare. Going to be a long and gruelling summer.
I think the the absolute definative date Ireland was to leave/get kicked out the EU or was thrown under the Bus by the EU changed about 15 times.
Potentially. But some footage released over the past few months appears to paint the AFU at being quite adapt at storming into Russian trenches and taking out its occupants. I suspect Russia's primary tactic at the moment is to fill the trenches with as many mobniks as they can grab off the street, and hope that the attirtion of fighting will buy them enough time until a Russia-friendly GOP administration is in the White House. In their minds, they might only need to hold out for an other year and a half. Then maybe Kyiv will have to accept a new Russian border....they hope....
But beyond having numbers, minefields and WWI tactics, I don't think they have much left to hold back a motivated & well trained AFU attack. Based on what we saw during Wagner's advance on Moscow, the troops on the field in Ukraine is likely everything the Russian Federation has in terms of military. There's nothing left, and if any part of that frontline folds then you'll see Russian units getting encircled or having to run to Crimea / Eastern Luhansk in a despirate attempt to regroup.
I feel it is just a metter of time now. The question is how much time, and will it be fast enough to make the next President of the US irrelevant to this fight?
The trenches are only on one side though - which is the key problem for Russia; 'cos a big flaw IMO with trenches is that once they're breached and the enemy pushes through, unless you stem the rupture your forces become quickly surrounded, the trenches utterly redundant.
Arrest warrant issued for Prigozhin.
I wonder what his Wagner boys will do…
It's such a frustration that Ukraine wasn't provided these from the start. It's the one criticism of the US I would have.
Kadyrov doesn't appear to be on his death bed but he doesn't appear to be in rude health either
Won't be long I'd say, very philosophical words. Must be full of medication, can barely open his eyes and looking very bloated.
Do you have to be an expert to see two decades were a waste?
Where was the value?
How would you argue that another two decades of occupation would "fix it"?
I'm sure just as there's Russians who think they're liberating Ukraine from Nazis there's many a Brit who think Ireland should be entirely British.
And what's the Russian made equvilent of "Fahrenheit 911"......just so I can get a balanced view?
Viktor Bout, known as Putin's "Merchant of Death" arms dealer, was freed in a prisoner exchange involving American basketball player Brittney Griner and has launched a run for office in Russia as a member of the far-right.
Bout plans to participate in the forthcoming election for the Russian Liberal Democrat Party (LDPR) later this year.
Russia's 'Merchant of Death' challenging Putin for office after being released from prison (msn.com)
Merchant of Death gets the nuke button. Great.
But They got a basketball player in return ..... Great negotiation tactics
Always worth posting the downing of a KA-52.
Apologies, it's a Twitter link
In the direction of Berdyansk, Ukrainian fighters from the 309th, part of the 36th Marine Brigade shot down a Russian Ka-52 helicopter.
Gotcha, many thanks for the reply sir.
700000 stolen children.
“Russia has brought 700,000 children from the conflict zones of Ukraine into Russian territory, the head of the international committee in the Federation Council, Russia’s upper house of parliament, has said. Grigory Karasin said on the Telegram app: “In recent years, 700,000 children have found refuge with us, fleeing the bombing and shelling from the conflict areas in Ukraine.”
You wont get it balanced ...Other then both are responsible for millions of deaths in the last 50 years
How many of these helicopters do they have ?
Think they had about 120 ka52 about 40 destroyed probably another 40 inoperable or for service rotation.
Leaves about 40 active although, available to use against Ukraine I would speculate its less.
Post USSR Russia... although it's multiple feature length films
Last official figure was 133 in 2022 pre-invasion. Minus ones that are not in service and minus the ones lost in Ukraine over the last year. Which is around 38 damaged at least according to Oryx - Attack On Europe: Documenting Russian Equipment Losses During The Russian Invasion Of Ukraine - Oryx (oryxspioenkop.com). Wagner shot one down too.
How many they have left would be great to know. Edit: I'd love to think Dennis's guess is close to it. The recent rate of attrition is around 1-2 lost per week.
It'll be interesting over the next year to see how many stay operational through attrition ... there has been numerous videos showing the airframe is not capable for the weapons loadouts Russia is putting on them, for continuous load/unload conditions, excessive vibration etc...
This increase in shootdowns could be an indication of just that, where airframes are taking to the air in suboptimal condtion.
Ah yes the Liberal Democratic Party. Founded and ran for years by Nationalist firebrand Vladimir Zhirinovsky (until his death from Covid last year). Their sole purpose in parliament was, along with the communist party, to make Putin's United Russia party look moderate by comparison.
The best quip I've heard about them, back when Zhirinovsky was still alive, was the "Liberal Democratic Party manages to somehow be none of those three things"
A lesser man might have stopped arguing with the guy who used live in Afghanistan about Afghanistan but fair play to you you're going to keep ploughing on!
I think it's quite clear looking at the numbers of personnel and vehicles that Ukraine claim to be destroying on a daily basis that the offensive is going well.
The UAF aren't stupid enough to try and breach defences with no heed for how many of their own numbers are lost, they're picking away at the Russian lines, destroying artillery pieces, reducing the manpower available to defend each fortification, using long-range weapons to target Russian HQ's / ammo / supply lines in each area. Where probing attacks go well, they're taking small amounts of territory.
It's patient, methodical warfare. Precisely what they need to be doing at the moment. Russian forces are losing men and materiel faster than they can replace them, the cracks are showing all the way up to the Kremlin. It's only a matter of time before we see start to see breaks in the lines and dramatic movement. That might be months away but as long as the Ukrainians and their allies hold their nerve, those breaks will come.
They're saying around Robotyne alone the Russians have 60 pieces of heavy equipment (going by the video below). While painfully slow Ukraine is progressing and so coming out on top in most of the current battles.
Also, someone might clarify for me. Are Ukraine at the first fortified line of defence now in Robotyne?
Anyone who says that the people of Afghanistan want the US military back has to ask why weren't the people from whom the Taliban hail not won over.
Now I have old friends who gone back to fight in Ukraine, some in their 50s, and they'll the Russians say the same thing that that poster says about Afghanistan, that someone Ukraine needs to be liberated from Ukraine.
The US gave Putin tacit approval to be the **** stick in his region and were all quiet when Russia bombed Georgia. The USA should have boycotted the Sochi Winter Olympics for that alone.
The Russian invasion doesn't make the Iraq war good.
@yagan: you say: "The Russian invasion doesn't make the Iraq war good". Who with half a brain thinks that?
There are some however who seek to think that the Iraq war makes the Russian invasion look good, if you follow the whataboutery on this thread.
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