Czech republic president and former NATO commander Petr Pavel the current situation in Ukraine,they are not in a position to remove russia from its territory for the foreseeable future.....
Apparently.
No Idea what your on about, ted
I don't think so. Only the more modern combustibles.
Most of the Russians radars have been destroyed so they can't locate UA artillery positions.
And another oil facility up in smoke.... Russia being strangled slowly but surely.
Clever strategic thinking. Put economic pressure on Russia..
Awesome! Shall we go through just the last little while? Since you seem so confident...
Because the Ukrainian leadership decided against going with the plans and strategies put forward by the US and NATO / They were given the equipment and comprehensive plan for the summer offensive and push the Russians out of Kherson and elsewhere but they chose not to listen to the Americans and decided to go with their own plans
That Ukranian leadership simply "decided" or "chose" to to go against NATO plans for the counter offensive and not listen to the Americans(No evidence provided). Despite the fact that Zaluzhny himself said they tried it and switched style to attrition in the economist article. Never got a reply to that one either and you slunk away. I mean even by your own admission they hadn't been given the abrams at this point. So they either did or didn't have the equipment?
Probably explains the spectacular attack on Crimea to mitigate the loss of marinka
That Ukraine attacked the landing ship as a PR stunt because they lost Marinka..... Never saw much evidence put forward for that one.
F16s aren't going to change anything on the ground they already have an aircraft capable of doing the same job as the F16
I can't wait to see your military aircraft credentials on this one. Or a peek at the crystal ball that says F16's will have no impact on the ground.... I'll wait
if they don't stabilisatise the current situation on the front lines they could lose more territory than they gains in the failed counter offensive
That the situation on the front lines are somehow unstable and need stabilising? The lines in the past year have barely moved....... So where was this instability?
All these just in the last few days/ weeks, I could trawl further but why bother?
And here as a show of good faith: I've seen reported by some channels that actually I may have been mistaken and that Russia does sometimes use planes to transport POW's from eastern Russia. So that element of my post could be mistaken. It's easy to admit to being inaccurate sometimes see?
And yeah I'm not going to comment on mod decisions. I'm inferring what happened based on the time since you were removed last and how that part of your posting style changed since being reinstated. I don't have evidence that's 100% what happened. So I'm not going to make a definitive claim. But I'd bet good money.☺️
What are we comparing those figures too? Any idea of Ukraine's comparative losses?
Hopefully this new tactic of targeting Putin's oil resources pays dividends.
Any source for that?
If true, how easy are those systems to replace?
Your man on Sky News, Michael Clarke, said it recently. Not replaced easily I presume.
also to note, they mean counter battery radars (not all radars).
The fact 1К148's started appearing indicate there are no "legacy" systems left to replace previously destroyed systems.
These are estimated at $250mil a go, and by all accounts bar a few test systems, these are rolling off assembly line straight to the front.
There isn't many, and Ukraine has shown they don't agree with HIMARS either (which they are supposedly designed to detect).
Which would indicate a further issue, that if they could detect it, they don't have an integrated system to intercept it.
It seems the Russians have increased artillery strikes in Avdiivka considerably in the last few weeks, trying to level the residential areas but that's not exactly a change of tact
This abyssal war is over. It’s done. Finished. What is left is a country that can now be most described as a carcass.
Not true,
But hey welcome newbie
You talking about Russia here?
Hi. This yours?
The armed forces of Ukraine do not publish a count of their own losses but since it is putin's forces that are continuing to attack prepared defensive positions and are now likely to be using a lot of reserve equipment rather than the first line equipment that they started the attack on Ukraine with I'd guess the losses on the Ukrainian side are considerably lower.
Seen material about Ukraine developing their own long range strike capabilities for a while now so hopefully they can get these systems into mass production. putin does not seem bothered about the numbers of his own people he sends to get killed but I would also be hopeful that by striking at the economy of the russian federation the retreat of putin's forces out of Ukraine will come sooner as their war machine is forced to a halt along with a wider economic collapse of putin's terrorist state.
The Ukrainians publish estimates of Russian losses - personnel and hardware... do the Russian's not do something similar? In fairness to the Ukrainians, they've absolutely nailed the PR side of things from the very first week. The presentation of enemy losses, using the same format every week, with graphics etc... it's very, very effective.
There was a point at some stage during the counteroffensive last year where there was talk in the media about tank losses, military casualties etc. It was a talking point for a few weeks, but very little mention since then. Obviously the Ukrainians aren't going to publish their own losses, and a largely pro-Ukrainian media in Europe isn't going to go digging either.
They've played it very smart really at every stage of this war. You'd hope that they've managed to keep losses as low as feasibly possible. Yes, a huge cost in terms of shells, guns, munitions, drones etc. But they are all relatively easily replaced (with Western will). So, keeping powder dry for now and hammering away at high profile, high cost targets - and now oil infrastructure - seems like the very best use of time during the winter months.
Can't trust anyone these days,
The Taliban stole 1.2million in cash from the Falcon private jet that crashed in Afghanistan the other day carrying Russian passengers
That's terrible, that a group of religious patriotic individuals would do something so materialistic. Also WTAF was $1.2 million in cash doing on a supposedly medivac flight or was that yet another Russian modification of the truth.
On that subject... any update on that flight number I asked you about Yesterday ?
The publication does not explain the abrupt change in Hungary's stance. However, Budapest's decision coincides with increasing pressure on Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to approve Sweden's NATO membership.
That seems like coincidence though, no? It can't just be about that given that EU and NATO are different organisations and surely one wouldn't be informing the actions of the other? There has to be more to it than that, especially given events like the attempt to strip Hungary of EU Parliament rights.
Claims of 300 Ukrainians killed and 200 injured in one assault, not a great day
300 or cargo 300 means injured, 200 means dead it's not the total number ffs.
300 is likely not the number killed. 300 means injured, 200 means killed. Surely an expert like yourself in all things related to this war would know this?
Edit: Wolf359f beat me to it.
According to some guy on twitter who's not in Ukraine or the Ukrainian military
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