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Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,085 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Russia is cannibalising itself to fight a war of aggression, a war of choice from which they can just end by withdrawing back within their recognised borders.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 683 ✭✭✭Bitcoin


    putrid's piss must be boiling at times though.

    Just look at last week, one single, smart, well executed move by the Ukrainians just took out over a third of his bomber fleet. On the other hand, his forces spend weeks and weeks throwing everything they have at the Ukrainian positions, and if they are lucky, they might capture a small village that had a pre war population of 100.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,131 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Ukraine has limited ammo. All strikes should be on military targets or civilian targets that would have huge impacts on their industrial base, like dams.

    It's not for me to know when the Orcs will be brought to their knees. For all I know China might fully absorb Orcistan to 'save' their economy just as it's about to collapse, then it's effectively over for Ukraine. However, I doubt that will happen, so it's more likely the Russian economy will suddenly collapse and then they will sue for peace. I think the Orc economy will die anywhere from 6 months to a year from now, but hope I'm being pessimistic.

    You need to get your bleeding heart around the idea that millions of Ukrainians will be exterminated if Ukraine capitulates. If the Orcs win, the carnage that will ensue will make Stalin look like an amateur. How many tartars are there left in Crimea? That's Ukraine's fate if they lose or give in. Ukraine continuing the war is saving far more 'innocent' lives than are being lost, by a huge margin.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,131 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Looks like Ukraine now has their own ballistic missile; wonderful. It's been a bit concerning to me that while they have managed wonders in terms of arms production and drone delivery mechanisms, it's rare for those to have more than 200kg yields, and most are barely a quarter of that. They desperately need their own analogues of Hammers, JDAM-ER and ATACAMS



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,289 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    Fantastic news. No doubt Ukraine's sharing of this news and the reported "stockpile" with their European allies played a part in Germany, France & UK lifting restrictions on use of weaponry supplied by them within Russia. Quite pointless to restrict range or even geofence targets if Ukraine now has an independent means of plonking 500kg of HE on a target.

    More info on the article below.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 839 ✭✭✭poop emoji


    Spectacular fire at a refinery in Nizhny Novgorod which is another 420km behind Moscow from the Ukrainian direction

    <Insert much concern here>



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,131 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    We are possibly as few as 4 days away from the Orcs losing 1,000,000 troops in this abhorrent war.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,840 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,458 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Lol Martin has told Putin to stop the war.

    It's like a fly telling a hornet to stop or else.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,919 ✭✭✭Rawr


    This reminds of me of why the Russian Federation is not as capable as the Soviet Union. This is because the Soviet Union included a Ukraine, and whenever the USSR did anything clever, a Ukrainian had the knack of being involved with it. Space programs, advanced aircraft…that Black Sea fleet that is now afraid of the very land that laid down a lot of their keels; all made possible by Ukrainians.

    It does not surprise me at all that the Ukrainians can manage to create their own systems. They are a clever bunch, unlike the nitwits who want to kill them all.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,131 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Page contains a just released video of the entire flight of one of the drones in the great raid.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,205 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Kerch bridge has to go, why is it so difficult to turn it to a stinking pile of rubble



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,131 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,919 ✭✭✭Rawr


    The Russians are very well aware of how tenuous their position on Crimea would become if the bridge were to fail. They would have to revert back to the old ferry system they had before the bridge, which itself would be short work for a couple of naval drones.

    Whatever capable anti-air defenses that the Russians still have are likely concentrated at the Kerch Bridge for this very reason. That’s not to say that destroying the bridge is beyond the AFU’s gifts. But the Russians will make such an attack as difficult a they possibly can. I believe the defenses will eventually fail, and that the Azov will eventually gain a new coral-reef that looks like the smashed up remnants of that damned bridge.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,705 ✭✭✭Dubh Geannain


    Ukrainian military sources are claiming to have hit a massive convoy of Russian forces on the southern frontline destroying 13 tanks and over 100 other military vehicles.

    Reads like a Russian claim but the fact it's coming from Ukraine means it's TBC. But imagine 😯

    Edit: Southern defence forces claim it was a locomotive that was hit.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 901 ✭✭✭Exiled Rebel




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 880 ✭✭✭junkyarddog


    Incredible,the ingenuity of the Ukrainians is incredible!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 683 ✭✭✭Bitcoin




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 683 ✭✭✭Bitcoin


    67c.gif

    orcs are dumb.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,840 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Yep. Seen this confirmed on seven sources so far.

    While I'm delighted at the destruction of all Russian armour, I'd say worldwide governments are freaking out. Ace Combat game becomes reality (it's a famous game)

    But

    Just think how this changes wareware...forever. the damage a random drone incursion can do in the back of a truck is unbelievable.

    Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,569 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    This is cool.

    Putin now shouting at his advisors that the "best" they do is poison opposition.

    And ukrainians flying drones out of every trojan horse imaginable.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,569 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    How did the germans lose ww1 and end up back in Germany in what was trench warfare in France.

    That's not a question. The answer is a click away. But it makes one think Ukraine may get their land back now they are in the 21st century fighting a 20th century foe.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,138 ✭✭✭purplepanda


    Top secret squirrel operation by Ukraine!

    Post edited by purplepanda on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,897 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    It's mad isn't it? After last weekend, there were photos of tailbacks due to truck inspections across the country. But if drones can fly out of grain carriages on trains, then they could be almost anywhere. It's amazing.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,678 ✭✭✭happyoutscan


    Yet Ukraine aren't holding any cards…



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,840 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Gotta take the bad with the good.

    Hopefully they can stabilise and push them back. Surprised though. Ukraine has had plenty of time to prepare defences along here.

    Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 256 ✭✭Roald Dahl


    Der Spiegel is reporting on the results of an opinion poll among on which country is seen as the most hostile towards Russia. The survey was carried out by the Levada Center, which is described as being an "independent" agency.

    Russians no longer perceive the USA under Krasnov as Enemy Number One, with only 40% viewing America as such, in contrast to 76% in 2024 with Biden still as president.

    The most unfriendly is now Germany, with 55% holding this view. This is far ahead of even Ukraine, which comes in at 43%.

    The poll took place in May, and so before Spiderweb and with Friedrich Merz only having being Chancellor of Germany for a couple of weeks.

    I am quietly hopeful of Chancellor Merz developing an ever-increasing hardline stance against Russia.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,101 ✭✭✭Sunny Disposition


    I would recommend reading Donnacha O Beachain’s new book Unfinished Empire on Russia. It is very clear that Russia has deeply held imperial ambitions, constantly meddles in other countries affairs and will continue to do so until it is forced to stop.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 895 ✭✭✭Avatar in the Post


    Yeah, Putin is looking like a loser more and more each day. He’s being humiliated by Zelensky, outsmarted on an almost daily basis. If only Ukraine had some cards🤦‍♂️

    Surely Putin must employ a food taster like the days of old in royal courts. He must fear every single morsel of food he puts into his body* seeing the amount of harm he has caused his Russian fiefdom. For one reason or another his days of committing war crimes must be near an end. He’ll go down in history as Vlad the Delusional.

    *shout out to the “concerned” on here. Actually do something good for your country!



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