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The Kursk incursion area does not seem to have as much urban area to get bogged down in, like the cellar to cellar fighting that going on in the fronts in Ukraine.
As a strategy to draw Russian forces into as easier more open battlefield the Kursk incursion is probably saving more Ukrainian lives than the hard urban slog elsewhere. The more Russia loses in Kursk the less it can devote to the front in Ukraine.
If the jet is as good as the soundtrack…
More on the Kursk offensive, "elite" ruzzian marines and airborne troops are being overrun. Sounds like a complete rout.
Read that this is a very capable aircraft in the right hands. Better than the F16.
@brickster69 any chance you have the telegram posts of the russians being encircled?
Very concerning, it seems to be over for Russia. They should negotiate, but the "friends of Russia" will not allow the Putin regime to do that.
Or something like that.
Those clips look like they were taken from the movie Les chevaliers du ciel, which was basically France's answer to Top Gun. It was made in 2005 and its English name is "Sky Fighters". I watched it back in the day and still have the DVD flying around here somewhere. The plot is pretty meh, but the aerial sequences are top notch and the Mirage 2000 takes centre stage.
As for the Mirage 2000, I have a hunch that they're going to be taking over the cruise missile truck role from the Ukrainian Su-24 Fencer force, which must be severely depleted by now. Storm Shadow/SCALP is designed to be carried and launched by the Mirage 2000-5F, which is the version that Ukraine is getting, so it would be a natural fit.
Last I heard, the Russian MoD said they'd killed 300 Ukranians, destroyed 50 tanks, and everyone's gone home to their beds. Probably to have a bit of a rest before they liberate the rest of Kursk in the morning.
Using Donkeys for war is "normal" apparently!!
Speculation at the moment
As the old saying goes,There's no smoke without fire!
They were always at war with East Asia, using donkeys.
To be fair, both the German and Austrian armies have mules and horses in their forces as well, so it's not completely unheard of. The Austrian unit is based at Hochfilzen, the German unit at Bad Reichenhall. However, the German and Austrian units are dedicated supply units for mountain troops and/or special forces, and not regular field units.
Poor donkeys. Sorry to see them being collateral damage.
Looks like footage taken from Les Chevaliers Du Ciel ? (Edit: thomil beat me to it)
”Knights of the Sky”, no? Cheval being horse.
Yep, no idea why they changed it to Sky Fighters in the international release. Worth it for the flying sequences alone though. The Armee de l'air basically gave the production an entire squadron of Mirage 2000 and gave them carte blanche otherwise.
They should really be playing this song when bombing the fcuk out of Russian strategic positions.
Plus, it offsets the Russians tales of gaining ground. Which I imagine the Russians find upsetting.
Ukraine Parliament very quiet at the mo, might be something in the offing, Trumps plan is just the usual gambit, I'd say negotiations are going on big time from the 3 sides ,putin also keeping stuff, let's hope ..
You know who is very quiet? Friends of Russia regarding Oreshnik that exploded on launch
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2025/02/06/russia-may-have-launched-a-second-oreshnik-ballistic-missile-at-ukraine-but-this-one-reportedly-exploded-on-russian-soil/
And Ukrainians advancing 5km (which usually takes meatniks 5 months) in … Kursk
Unlike the attacks a month ago near Berdyn, Russian channels are very quiet after the first wave of attacks. Last month it was clear quite quickly that attacks had been countered, but now Russian sources after 24 hours only speak of 'we are working', an indication that Russians do not have it under control this time.
As you can see from the map above counter attacking here is so important if they want to protect Sudzha. And given the size and proximity of Sudzha it gives Ukraine an advantage because Russia doesn't have an accumulation point as big nearby.
They were commandeering the public's shotguns and now they are commandeering their donkeys. Probably coming from Kadyrov's area. Or lorries loaded from Syria or Iran.
I don't Astro, had a quick look just now and don't see any encirclement anywhere. Possibly, we will see.
Could be another one forming in Kurakhove though.
Yep. Not going well for the Russians
You wouldn’t find anything in the “free and fair” media in Russia either
They instead discuss election fairy tales and pluses and minuses of nee Ladas which government officials now have to drive instead of BMWs
So "it seems" that things really went south for the North Koreans in Ukraine. Very concerning reports of lack of preparedness. And this all coming from the pro-Socialist Guardian…
Russia withdraws North Korean troops in Kursk after losses, Seoul says | Ukraine | The Guardian
Surely it's only a matter of time before Russia implodes? Such a pity that the 'friends of russia' won't enter into peace talks and save the lives of tens of thousands of ordinary Russians tricked into frontline operations.
Yours etc.,
A. Concerned Citizen
I do wonder what a Russian implosion would look like. Does it start in regions furthest away from Moscow, like Vladivostok where proximity to China is like a safety fallback.
New attorney general Pam Bondi is closing task force klepto capture which has been in place since early 2022 which found and seized oligarch assets. The lawyers will be now redirected to working against the cartels in Mexico.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-disbands-task-force-targeting-russian-oligarchs-2025-02-06/
Also the US has handed over it's role for the UK for the next Ramstein meeting while it sorts out it's position. Pete Hegseth will be participating.
I can confidently predict that it will come in a surprising manner at a time no one expects. It may happen tomorrow, or in 10 years. Trump may save his buddy Putin with a cowardly deal that Putin can spin into a political victory in Russia which will keep him alive for a few more years. Or Trump's cowardly deal might not be enough for Putin, resulting in Trump giving Ukraine better weapons, leading to more internal turmoil in Russia and a possible deposing of Putin.
Yugoslavia in the 90's I think gives us the closest model to what would likely happen to the Russian Federation in a collapse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_Yugoslavia
In that case we had a monolithic authoritiarian state focused mainly towards one ethnicity (the Serbs in that case), experiencing a collapse of central power. Much like Yugoslavia, I can imagine 2 things to happen:
The remaining Russian State might be a patchwork of Moscow-centric Oblasts / "Republics" that might look like a bit of a mess. The various new independant states would likely become the setting for a 21st Century "Great Game" between Europe and China to collect as much influence as possible.
Ukriane, Georgia, Transnistria, and possibly even Belarus could eventually fall square into the European sphere after a collapse of the Kremlin.
