Russian warship, go f**k yourself!

It will all depend on what side the army go to. Surprising the air force aren't stopping them moving towards Moscow.

Jaysus, if they can't make hay now when Russia's imploding there's no hope! Surely plenty of Russians on the front will down tools n head home.

Ukraine's been doin a job on Russian arty, it's thought 2/3's of pre war is gone or worn out with very very limited replacement. Hard to get through mine fields and the likes underfire when your funnelled into areas pre-aimed and dont have overwhelming airpower to blast a more favourable path through.

The Russians in the south won't have much arty by next weekend if supplies of ammo and fuel aren't rolling in as himar and storm shadow essentially pushed depo's back into Russia.

Any attack is costly. They have carried out probing attacks really, haven't committed the bulk of their brigades. Even if every Russian abandoned their position today, it would indeed be very slow progress due to the sheer number of mines. It took Ru 7 months to "take" one town, the Ukrainian counter-offensive will be slow no matter how successful it is.

Also Russian forces now have to move to fill the gap Wagner has left, plus if Prigozhin can stay alive more than 48 hours and his push doesn't evaporate the effects of a prolonged stand-off could start to impact the Russian forces in Ukraine.

Whatever was going on seems to be over. But were any shots even fired?

Psychotic statment.

Couple of helicopters shot down, that was pretty much it. Prigozhin rolled an army from Ukraine all the way to the Moscow oblast, in 24 hours, no one stopped him or could stop him. The regime were digging up roads to Moscow with excavators, that's how impotent they were in this situation. Putin's supporters, who've been deathly silent for 24 hours have suddenly piped up with "huh, what was that?", as if every other day a mercenary army gets to within 200km of Moscow causing the entire Russian leadership to flee the capital and negotiate with the mercenaries.

As has been mentioned many times over the last year and a half, the Russian military in Ukraine has cracks and can fracture. If the Ukrainians can put enough pressure on, who knows what can happen. That was a very close call for the Russian leadership (and military) today, and this whole thing isn't over, there will most certainly be a massive purge.

Oh yeah and then there's this:

It's back to the grindstone for the Ukrainian troops now.

It could be a cash cow for putin,very much like north Korea farm out workers.

Well there was nothing that it could do re the Luhansk and Donbas area as Ru/ proxies were there already . It could , technically , have mined the border re Donbas / Luhansk. It did not need to do anything re Kiev as it had sufficient defence

to repel the Russians. It’s hard to know what else it could have done before 24/02/ 2021 apart from having more F16s’ or at least equivalent

What did they do before the start of the war.

Not sure what you mean.

Russia holds Ukrainian territory. Russia is mining the hell out of that territory. There is little Ukraine can do about that.

In the 11 months that Russia were building numbers close to the border before the war started what did Ukraine do to defend themselves.