Russia - threadbanned users in OP

The Kremlin sets Nikolai Patrushev as the fall guy for Putin's order to plant a bomb on or under the wing of Prigozhin's plane that exploded in August.

The Kremlin probably have a list of actors for the job based on differing scenarios.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/ukraine-conflict-updates

Interesting quote from the recent ISW updates. Nice if Ukraine were secretly ready to take them and there was no advanced warning for the Russians.

Yeah for sure the training element is the bottleneck. Perhaps wishful thinking, but maybe all those articles earlier in the year about Ukraine "maybe possibly being ready soon to consider looking at english for F16 manuals" was just bs and the pilot training was already well underway. Much like the first stormshadow announcement were the things blowing sh*t up. And the brits had been quietly integrating them with the Su-25 for months. Ditto for ATACMS although I understand the situations aren't exactly analogous.

And it's the same one that their grandfather used in the Great Patriotic War in Stalingrad.

At this point, their value must lie far more in their ability to help thwart Russian attempts to advance as well as fly hit and run sorties and maybe even help police the Black Sea corridor. Basically, anything where danger of being overwhelmed is reasonably low and they can press the speed advantage.

How am I bigging myself up. Stop being so melodramatic.

Back on topic, imagine how safe Russian cities must feel now with so many Russian men, especially prisoners and those who use to be on the dole off in Ukraine.

Now imagine what they'll be like in comparison when the surviving soldiers eventually return all brain damaged. It will be some shock to society.

Can't be, we were assured by experts on here that training alone would take 18 months!

I'd say the most likely suspect is the new Patriot system Germany gave Ukraine (either that system is down south or Ukraine is able to move another system that the patriot system replaced, IRIS/SAMP/T etc..)

It's quite possible,but it would be difficult to hide a number of new aircraft unless they operated from outside ukraine

Im not a military expert, but i always thought its 18month for somebody who has absolutely no flying experience, but for experienced pilots its about 6 months.

Reports on twitter that it was actually a patriot ad who shot those su-34s. They were chasing them for the last couple of weeks and finally got the chance to strike

I don't think this was reported on here at the time in september this year.

But a famous contract killer in Russia who killed another famous contract killer from Russia in Greece in 1996 along with his Miss Russia partner. Was released from his sentence in a penal colony. Article gives an idea of life in Russia and all various crime gangs.

You dragged up an article from 2015, so you could cite falsely cite Ukraine as being the most corrupt country. A quick google would have shown the changes in rankings since then. An entirely bad faith argument.

Ukraine was part of the USSR and then part of Russia's economic orbit. Estonia has been in the EU for 20 years and had to get its house in order to join. One of the major reasons for the war is Ukraine's attempts to move out of Russian economic influence and into the EU - the results of which can be seen in its improvement in the rankings.

Keep dropping in Russian propaganda talking points and they will be discredited - as easily they were the previous times they were dumped here.

The posters here who are pro war are those who spread Russian propaganda and dredge up any muck they can to try to attack Ukraine. Because it is Russia who is pro war. It was Russia who resorted to war. Ukraine is defending itself against that illegal aggression. And yet those posters never subject Russia to the same treatment. Because they are pro Russian and pro war.

So another entirely false Russia propaganda canard in your post.

If Russia isn't beaten they will push on. Moldova amd the Baltic states. They have said so not even hiding it.