Russia - threadbanned users in OP

From the Isthmuth of Perekop pretty much all of Crimea will be within GLSDB range. Which should be arriving soon. Not to mention the arrival of F-16s which will have nothing to threaten them in the south from Russia if the landbridge is broken.

Once Russia loses the landbridge and the Crimean bridge is an underwater tourist attraction they haven't a goddamn hope of holding Crimea. It's effectively a dead-end turkey shoot. Ukraine won't have to enter it by force. And Russia knows this well. Or they'd have retreated there already. Instead of burning through their reserves to hold the frontline in the south where it is.

Ya but can't missiles like those be shot down similar to planes and drones in a way that more "dumb fire" stuff can't which is more what I was thinking.

"the Crimean bridge is an underwater tourist attraction".

🤣 brilliant. Once it starts to grow marine life we should petition to have it named "Putin's Folly Reef"

Looks like they have a homegrown missile with 700+ km range.

But I suspect when Ukraine reach the Azov sea, they can launch their drone boats, when they reach closer or eroded Russian air defences, they can use their own drones to attack the bridge. Maybe when there's a nice target on the rail bridge.

Also mentioned was the GDLB's, stormshadow's etc... They actually have multiple options and they just need 1 to hit it to take it out of action. Then the Russians are stuck using ferrys to supply Crimea, which will be more targets to sink.

The irony of Russia losing Crimea through bloody bloody war considering they took it and held it for nearly a decade without firing a single shot 😀

Had he committed a crime? Personally, the Russian supporter sounds like a sad sack, as do the Falun Gong crowd. What are they hoping to achieve in Dublin? Theatrical twits.

I assume he had committed a crime, right? Because if he didn't commit a crime, here you are, without a hint of irony or self-awareness, beating your chest for demonstrating that you would have thrived in East Germany or some other Soviet state as an apparatchik or informant.

In Ireland we have a culture that allows people (and sad sacks) to protest and counter protest without informants running off to the police about it. I will assume he committed a crime though, because no one could be so oblivious to Western values while at the same time claiming to defend them.

They have made progress in recent weeks though, regaining territory, breaking first lines of defense in several directions, striking targets deep inside Russia. It's not spectacular, but it's progress by any metric, and they are not done yet. In other words, the current lines are not and will not be the final lines when it comes to any deal, IMO.

It took a long time to navigate the Russian minefield and their entrenched positions. It seems some of these have now been overcome and steady progress has been seen over the past three days.

Important to note. A video recording of Russian atrocities.

Also important to note how the Russian state operates and impresses its people to work as a horde to colonise new land.

Also important to note how the new colonisers don't need to know the former civilians history and culture as they will destroy it and make their own version.

RuSSia.

You really shudder to think what's been going on in all of the towns that Russia has been officially occupying since Feb 2022. It is clear that the Russian government has a contempt of Ukrainian culture and identity quite similar to what the Nazis had of Slavic peoples, if not the same.

For people still talking about negotiation, what is a suitable reparation for Russia to pay regarding the focused ethnic cleansing they have been perpetrating?