Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

Very serious damage sustained to that one, possible it's been taken offline for the long term.

Good strike in Moscow this morning. None of these are going to win the war but they at least remind these people that they are safe nowhere and that might help end this a bit sooner

We should also note that Russian advances on the ground are at a crawl with massive losses.

Id wonder how much longer until the back of the Russian army breaks.

AA seems to be confined to the Front leaving huge amounts of Russian rear targets as easy picking

The oddity and rareness of Russian armour leads me to believe there is serious trouble here too.

Russian infantry morale is non existent. They know they are sent in meat suits.

So if there is no body, there's no payment to the family.

Lovely man is Putin.

That gave me the shivers .. I'm struggling to get my head around the scale -

Look that video could be propaganda - but with the number of Russians dieing daily.. it wouldn't surprise me if it's 100% true

That's an interesting point and it'll be an interesting election to watch, thanks. Maybe this is also why Trump hasn't implemented tarrrifs against the EU yet too?

Afd has a lot more influence than it's had previously and the CFD might need to carefully heed the lessons of the US election (whatever those are!) . I've personally no idea how it'll play out or what effect the result will have so I won't speculate. But as the largest economy in the EU, whatever happens in Germany will have an influence on EU policy.

Perhaps the wounded that were able to make it back to their support side. I know, mostly they leave the wounded to die, or kill them out of hand, but some must make it back.

In the clip it shows rows of white coloured body shaped bags. It's not a solid row because it's staggered in places. It shows trenches being dug then and the spoil heaped up. At the excavator at the trench it shows people in white coveralls in the trench. Commentator says they are dragging the bodies in. As the excavator is digging it looks like these white rows of body shaped bags are ending at the excavator so would concur that they are being dragged in as it's being dug. Commentator pans out to show more artic refridgerated lorries queing up down the road facing towards the site.

Really when you see images like that, Putin really is a psychopath.

The whole war is entirely unnecessary outside of Putin's head, yet we now have approaching a million Russians dead and injured. Not to mention Ukrainians, Koreans and others.

Thousands of bodies just being tossed into pits with no regard whatsoever. Fairly clear that the orcs are suffering catastrophic losses in manpower.

I can see why a warped madman like putler would order such a thing though.

1. To give these people proper burials in moscow or st petersburg would mean revealing the true scale of the losses. It would really bring the war home to ruzzia and be a personal disaster for putler's image.
2. If soldiers go missing and there's no body, then there's no need for putler to pay out death in service benefits to the family of the deceased.

Reminds me of the images of the mass graves being dug in New York during covid. Over a million people dead across the country. The orange idiot suggested looney tunes remediations. Now he's back.

And the other micro sized looney in Moscow is now actively perpetuating mass murder and mass graves of his own people.

For sure Russia has a lot of demographic problems.

• Decreasing population. It's been decreasing since 1994, and the war accelerates the drop.
• High mortality/low life expectancy: Due to for example alcoholism, poor medical facilities for the average citizen, reduced spending on services etc.
• Low birth rates: not helped by the young people being sent to die in a war
• Brain drain: educated Russians are leaving the country for a better life abroad

This is not easily reversed, and immigrants aren't a sufficient answer. And again, a bad economy and risk of being sent to the meat grinder aren't very enticing to immigrants. It's all linked.

Even if the war was to stop tomorrow and all sanctions were lifted and assets unfrozen, it's still a grim situation for Russia. The frozen assets would surely need to be used for compensation and reconstruction in Ukraine anyways.

With that in mind maybe the mass burial in the clip is from their covid era. It would make far more sense considering the retrieving bodies from the front is not really happening.

Could be , I'd be intrigued if someone who's good at things could geo-locate and date the video , but I'll keep an open mind - COVID is a very valid explanation - but current war grave is quite likely as well ..

This article from Forbes sums it up pretty well: Russia is still advancing, but slowly and with losses that surely are not sustainable indefinitely (which does not alter the fact that Ukraine also has issues now with manpower and morale):