Then why is sanctions removal always on top of Putin demands when he is trying to blackmail the west? Latest is that he is refusing to allow western banks ( the remaining ones) to leave, unless sanctions are lifted. No matter what Russia is producing at home, its obviously not enough. Nope, the sanctions are hurting Putin, and hurting him very bad.
Erm the only similarity between this and Barbarossa is that the Russians are still using the same guns 🤣
Not every offensive is the same.
Then why is this classed as slow? Has Ukraine or any of their allies stated that x km2 must be liberated by Y date? If not, the pace is the pace and you, me or anyone can't do diddly squat about it. It might not fit in with peoples expectations from previous offensives in this war, which again shows that not all offensives are the same. Progress is progress.
If that's the case why aren't they getting smashed then?
And Russian GDP growth of 0.7% this year as well accelerating to 1.4% next year.
I'm sorry some don't like this (I don't 'like' it) but facts are facts.
We can't just ignore them because it's the other side.
They are getting smashed. But there is rather a lot of them; half century of Soviet production. Plus there is a lot of land mines. So Ukraine need more drones and artillery supplies/ guns/ barrels.
Well, if that 108km2 gives Ukraine artillery control over Russian logistics, then its more than enough. Its all they need in fact for now. Let Putin send his ammo and supplies along that route, and Ukraine will take them out, with pleasure. They don't have to do anything else, sit it out until the Russians run out of supplies of all descriptions, not only ammo, but food, medical, winter clothing, etc. with winter on the way.
Apparently, according to some, there's no excuses and Ukraine should be simply wandering across the mine-fields like it was wheat. Anything else is just slow-going. Reality be damned.
It's from June 5th this year, so not counting gains last year or this year before June.
It's from this paywalled article in The Economist. He just read the Google search summary, and went with it without actually reading the article.
This is the graph the sentence captions:
Ultimately, they say the stats come from The Institute For the Study of War's Critical Threat's Project: https://www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/ukraine-invasion-updates-ctp , although that 108 sq KM stat isn't expressly anywhere on their pages.
It was data as of August 31st, so it doesn't include gains this September.
Estimates vary up to approx 300 km squared regained (gross) since the counter-offensive started. With the gains increasing recently.
I suspect you've gotten the above figure from the first page of a google result, a paywalled Economist article which sources the ISW
Here's the title of that article "Ukraine's counter-offensive is speeding up - this could be a turning point"
Also, gains are strategic, some kilometers gained on the Southern front and Russia's supply lines are in range. Russia does indeed occupy around 17.5% of Ukraine, but has defenses only in a portion of that.
Thank you. I genuinely laughed out loud at that one. Very Darth Putin-esque 👍️ My wife actually asked from the other room what was so funny.
Thought you had me on ignore? I've dealt with Brexit before. Why my arguments were completely right, how you intentionally misunderstood it or weren't capable of understanding it through your own bias despite obvious realities at that time.
Your fact is based on year on year. Another fact, could be to check the real GDP from pre war and the one planned for next year.
and you registered only for this?
Somewhere in the Kremlin, there's a military analyst furiously taking notes:
"Bow and arrow. Poo on sticks. This is a goldmine..."
This is pure gold.
You made predictions of doom for Ireland every few months which when they didn't came true you hid away for months afraid to make a peep until the next attempt.
Just like you are doing now. Only you won't get banned from here because CA allows a lower standard of shte talk.
That's just a fact.
You're point being what, exactly? You think Russia's devolution in its armed forces' capabilities and technology is somehow a net positive?
Indeed I could probably kill someone with this keyboard I'm typing on - but I doubt any army will fit its soldiers out with logitech products any time soon.
These are painfully terrible comparisons. One was a surprise assault against an unprepared enemy (which, it is worth adding ultimately failed) and the other three involved massively asymmetric warfare with the invading force having air superiority.
Hey, advertising certain brands is not allowed here! 😋
Well you are clearly a new poster. Definitely not posted on here before 😉
That much is clear.
I don't know. Russia is famous for its keyboard warriors.
Made me spit my coffee.. Hilarious!
The figures are fake to start with. The IMF takes figures which are declarations from the countries themselves as getting access to info in Russia, China and the likes is nigh on impossible. So the books are cooked to make it look favourable and given to the IMF who like the UN are practicality useless and just publish close enough to whatever codswallop was provided to them.
Technically grey zone reclamation but could add two more villages to the list -
Territory taken is not the only measure of success. Russia is being mauled by Ukraine and if the line collapses there may be a rout. All depends on Russian strength, which is weakening by the day.
Barbarossa is a good equivalent in that an initially superior force attempted to gain a quick win before the defenders could regroup. Then when that failed there was a slow bloody war to push aggressors out of the country. You seem to have the sides mixed up a bit though!
Applying the attack to the Ukraine does not work as Ukraine launched a offensive in an already ongoing war and so the Russians had dug in. Barbarossa and the initial strikes on the Ukraine opened up those theatres of war and were designed to be quick strikes to end hostilities before the attacked nation could have built up proper defenses
Words fail me. What an asset for Putin.
"Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet, according to an excerpt adapted from Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the eccentric billionaire titled “Elon Musk.”
As Ukrainian submarine drones strapped with explosives approached the Russian fleet, they “lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly,” Isaacson writes.
Musk’s decision, which left Ukrainian officials begging him to turn the satellites back on, was driven by an acute fear that Russia would respond to a Ukrainian attack on Crimea with nuclear weapons, a fear driven home by Musk’s conversations with senior Russian officials, according to Isaacson, whose new book is set to be released by Simon & Schuster on September 12."
What's more, Ukraine is, for the most part, able to keep its units supplied, cycle them from the front lines to the rear for R&R as well as back, and is able to protect its logistics base, even while advancing and liberating its territory. They're also able to keep a structured training and recruiting program going. This isn't perfect, I'll be the first to admit that, and there have been issues with corruption especially when it comes to recruiting, but given the state that Ukraine's Armed Forces were in back in 2014, even the current state of affairs is impressive. This isn't a proxy army propped up by foreign "advisors" that will fall apart as soon as western support falters. Unlike the South Vietnamese or Afghan National Army, Ukraine's Armed Forces are a cohesive and internally stable fighting force.
Are there supply issues? Are there units being left in the front lines for too long? Of course. But even the US Army during WW2, probably the best-supplied Army in history, regularly had units that ran low, or out of supplies, outran their supply lines, were cut off from resupply, or left on the front for far longer than they should have been. Point is that Ukraine is aware of these issues and is trying to mitigate them, with the recent MoD reshuffle being another case in point.
Economically, too, the Russian mob aren't doing too well. Their "currency" has been deflating at an epic rate.
Not surprising though: Musk has basically said Crimea is Russia's with some shaky history... in what I wanna say was his tweeted "peace plan" that ... would you believe, broadly involved giving Russia what it wanted while further neutering Ukraine.
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