Russia - threadbanned users in OP

They won't have 38 million against them because most will have headed west for refuge.

This is one of Putin's plans to destabilise the western Europe.

I certainly don't think Ukraine is about to fall, nor do I see any others suggesting it. But momentum swinging towards Russia coupled with increasingly alarmed noises from both the Ukrainians and Europeans is why there is some pessimism. There isn't any talk of a counter offensive this year so of course people are wondering how and where this will all end. It's realism, not defeatism, and it's also accompanied by the call for allies to maintain or increase support

No talk of a new counteroffensive... I wonder why:

Asked whether Ukraine had plans for another attempt at a counteroffensive this year, he said: “We have a plan, a clear plan. Several plans will be prepared because of information leaks.”

You should let him know!

I've a few thoughts on western countries finally saying they could enter Ukraine.

1. It might be a warning to Putin not to pull another mass mobilisation post election which would probably help them take large chunks of Ukraine especially if US aid doesn't resume and Trump wins.

2. The west planned on doing this all along but waited for the Russian army to take huge losses, especially in terms of air and naval assets and missile stock depletion before going in which will mean less danger to their troops/jets.

3. Initially actual western troops could just protect the northern border with Belarus. Stay in western Ukraine and seriously help the logistics on that side. This will free up a lot of Ukrainian man power. If they ever decide to directly intervene I think it will come in the form of long range air strikes on land based targets in Russia itself. Probably targeting artillery, logistical hubs, ammo depots, bridges and air defence.

4. At most western countries would get involved with artillery and HIMARS strikes. I can't see them putting actual boots on the frontline.

Unfortunate

Will the British need 6 months training?

Or was that last months excuse from Berlin?

No captions on that one. I wonder do the German launchers have German plates?

Amazing the details people can get from videos.

So via a random tweet, we can surmise the Germans provided the PAC-2 system and the US the PAC-3 system.

Russia seems to be getting a bit of Ukrainian AA equipment at the moment especially over in that direction from adviika. Ukraine are pushing their AA equipment closer to the front to help support their forces against Russian air power that's why Russia lost a lot of planes in that direction lately, but works both ways as Russia are seeing Ukraine move the AA systems around now, Ukraine are moving them closer to the front as Russia are advancing and are using their airpower more in the adviika direction and Ukraine don't have as good positions there so they need to try and neutralise the Russian airpower to help the Ukrainian ground forces to be able to stop being pushed back from there.