CNBC euro report that the new Russia attack from the North is down to Ukraine not having long range weapons to target Russia logistics during the last 6 months. Big mistake from president Joe to hold off on those weapons. At lest UK and France saw this problem over the last few months and did what they could.
It was Mike Johnson and the other Republican loons' fault, not Biden's.
It’s both their faults
The prohibition on using weapons (that are late to arrive) into Russia is stupid, that means fortifications have to be build far from border
Imagine if during WW2 all the lend lease aid that’s swung the war had a clause that it couldn’t be used outside Russian borders once Nazis are driven out (ignoring for a second that such a condition would not have been enforceable)
Please elaborate. Ukraine has a manpower problem. I flagged it as an obvious problem months ago, some people did not like the conclusions. Now we see it arising as a more pressing problem. What's changed?
In Luhansk we see the benefit of long range weapons. Been a while since I've seen a big Russia ammo depot go up like this. If you want to cause the Russians an artillery shortage at the front this is how.
Meanwhile the endless waves continue.
Luhansk gets blasted again
May is going to be a bloody month for the Russians. Knowing them they'll somehow going even harder at it in June.
Sky news
Ukraine has sacked the commander responsible for Kharkiv, military command has said.
Nazar Voloshyn told RBC-Ukraine media a decision was made on Saturday to appoint Brigadier General Mykhailo Drapatyi to the position.
The day before, Russia launched an incursion across Ukraine's northeastern border into the Kharkiv region.
One soldier blamed poor fortifications at the border, telling Sky News the Russian army walked "freely" across it.
Fighting continues in villages nearby, with the region's governor warning earlier this morning that it could spread to new areas.
I don't think you build defenses right at the border because you're placing those defences at a range where the enemy can kind of sit there and lob ordinance at those lines and those constructing them. The idea would more be that you build them a few miles back where you can take advantage of a logistically-stretched enemy when they decide to advance.
We saw this last Summer when Ukraine launched an offensive and were able to move forward in small pockets early on, but we were reliably informed that Ukraine had yet to reach Russia's main defensive line.
Not only can the Russians sit there lobbing artillery at those constructing defensive lines but the Ukrainians would not be permitted to fire back into Russia
as per ISW comments linked higher up
A better question is how do Russians intend to capture Kharkiv a city with 1.5 million people with only a fraction of troops they used in much much smaller Bakhmut this time last year, and what will the world do about yet another Ukrainian city being reduced to rubble
1740 Russians destroyed in the last 24 hours. This is a daily record-
Some serious amount of equipment too,
Twitter is full of gruesome videos too, including pictures of dead Russians underneath broken tank threads of their own tanks
And now this
Then that would be the choice of the Ukrainian people.
Unsurprisingly, your view of how a country's 'subjects' should be treated in the context of war is loudly echoed in Russia today where tens of thousands of young lads who should've been in university but instead were conscripted and thrown into war with no experience are now lying dead in fields in Ukraine.
Still, we'll all sit back and let the internet experts, full of bravery behind a keyboard, on an island in the Atlantic, with qualifications and PHDs coming out their ears, tell us how it all should be.
Carnage for those Russian volunteers.
Putin has shuffle at the top ..
Dara Massicot is a Senior Fellow at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Russia and Eurasia Program, focusing on defense issues in Russia.
Belousov has no military experience at all or background in the military. He’s an economist. This will raise questions within the military who will fear a repeat of serdyukov. So I anticipate some unformed officer favorites appointed to leadership positions to balance this. /3
Normally I’d say that Gerasimov will be replaced soon, but he is the overall commander of the war. I still think he will be replaced, which is typical. Peskov said he will stay, no decisions to change have been made “yet”. So an (unintentional) indicator of change /4
Is Belousov a multi-year defense minister? My gut reaction (that I will keep updating ), I would say no. This looks like a move shorter in duration that will be followed by house cleaning: of deputy defense ministers, some organizational changes, and auditing. / 5
I have to note that a person with this kind of financial background and with *no organizational ties or priors* is helpful for making major changes to the Defense economy to reconstitute the force post war. /6
In sum— Shoigu gets a respectable way out, the new defense minister will probably make organizational changes, too soon to tell if he’s a placeholder for a post war minister, and watch Gerasimov. /7
They walked in alright
Just didn’t walk back out
BTW why are Russians mostly on foot (or golf buggys and motorbikes) these days? What happened to “endless” tanks and infantry vehicles were told about??
Think of what Ukraine could do if they had ammo.
You come to this conclusion based on what? Obviously not the numbers who have already returned, more likely the same uninformed personal biases that presumably had you 'censured' on here before? "in practice they'll do their damndest not to and we'll be stuck with them"… classic case of mask slipping right there. At least we know your faux-concern for the plight of Ukrainians who remained was just that.
'volunteers'… can the mask slip any further?
For anyone who didn't watch Eurovision this year Ukraine's entry is worth watching. It was raw emotion and quite beautiful. I believe the competition isn't meant to be political so I'm not sure how they slipped the staging of this past the EBU - it's not exactly subtle what they're depicting here. Specifically it's an homage to the women of Ukraine under the dire circumstances of what they have been going through in recent years:
It ended up coming third (despite being given one of the worst positions in the running order in the final on Saturday night)
The OP asked what would happen to the Ukrainians that left if they were to return to Ukraine.
You reply was : “I've been censured here for previously expressing this question.”
You never asked that question. You want Ukrainians in Ireland to be sent back against their will by the Irish state. How is it the same question?
what has qualifications and PHDs got to do with anything? 🤔
Man on fire
Well , it looks like you were right. Shoigu was removed as defense minister. Corruption Is ok as long as it benefits Vladimir long term. That was Shoigu's mistake.
10 vehicles in one go
Aaaaaaah there is a quaint, antiquated term, a penal colony! Haven’t heard it in such a long time! Can wholeheartedly recommend Franz Kafka’s short story “In the Penal Colony”, a treasure to savour for all lovers of tragicomic absurdism (which includes readers and posters on this thread as a matter of course).
P.S. Caution though, it does get a bit gory (the short story, I mean).
"Then that would be the choice of the Ukrainian people."
A "choice" ? To leave one's country when the neighbour invades?
Isn't that what the Ukrainian authorities want? Closing overseas consular services to those of service age, obliging them to return to Ukraine. I'm all for supporting Ukraine in any way we can during this emergency. Are you?
There's a massive difference between "Obliging someone to return" and requesting that a third party country forcibly returns someone against their will.
I think someone said it well higher up, it’s an issue for Ukraine and Ukrainians to resolve and resolve it will
I wouldn’t be surprised if they also copy Russians this year and start hiring from third world countries paying 1000-2000$ a month for service
Quick back of napkin calculation shows for 1.8 billion a year (Ukraine gonna get double this from seized Russian assets yearly interest alone) they can maintain 100k mercenaries
I suspect the issue right now is not manpower but equipment and ammo. What good are more soldiers if they don’t have training and equipment (just look at what’s happening to Russians being fed into meatgrinder without equipment and training) especially if ontop of payment citizenship to what soon is to be an eu country is offered
BTW the above could also solve Europes young male migrant problems that is causing such controversy across Europe (just look at parallel thread here) There is potential to solve two problems in one go for Europe and Ukraine
But once again equipment and ammo seems the highest priority followed by air defences and EW
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