Russia-Ukraine War - News and Developments PART 2

[khansaheeb]

Ignore racist trolls. Makes life so much easier.

Seems like we have an infestation of EuroNazis in pdf who are bullying Pakistanis who don't agree with their pro Nazi view points.

 

[925boy]

This is embarrassing. Russia should just go home and call it a day!

But US spent over a decade in Iraq and over 2 decades in Afghanistan and you never asked it to go home, but Russia spends just a little over a year in the war in Ukraine and it must go home? why such different expectations for different countries?

 

[RescueRanger]

But US spent over a decade in Iraq and over 2 decades in Afghanistan and you never asked it to go home.

You must be new here.

 

[That Guy]

You must be new here.

He's not, he's a troll.

 

[kingQamaR]

Russia lost the battle when their mobilization failed to take Bakhmut within a few months. Despite outnumbering the Ukranians in manpower & ammunition, they have exhausted too much of either to only gain bits of land. What are the Russians going to do now mobilizing untrained civilians with WWII weapons that they couldn't do with their highly trained soldiers, now dead, armed with the best equipment?

Now that the tanks & IFV are coming online, Ukranians are ripping through the Russian defensive lines like a knife cutting through butter. This is not even the real counter-offensive. Much more still to come.

I suspect that Ukraine feinted the Bakhmut struggle to give Russians the illusion that they are struggling to encourage them to throw more lives & resources into the city.

A war of attrition was always going to be a problem for the Russian military, because they were not prepared for it. They expected the entire operation to be over in a matter of weeks, not years.

 

[LeGenD]

Four Russian Aircraft Shot Down Within Their Own Borders

Multiple possibilities exist as to what brought these aircraft down, but most would mark a major change in Ukraine's counter-air abilities.

www.thedrive.com

 

[The SC]

The Donbass Zugzwang | A Dangerous Incident In The Bryansk Region. Military Summary For 2023.05.13​

 

[gambit]

But US spent over a decade in Iraq and over 2 decades in Afghanistan and you never asked it to go home, but Russia spends just a little over a year in the war in Ukraine and it must go home? why such different expectations for different countries?

Because Ukraine is neither Iraq nor Afghanistan. Different geopolitics, different justifications, and different goals. People understands those differences.

 

[Ich]

Uh, Oh

https://twitter.com/x/status/1657467505978519557

 

[gambit]

All the criteria (a–f) must be met, according to the Geneva Convention, for a combatant to be described as a mercenary.
Since most Wagner forces do not survive to get paid, they might not be considered mercenaries in this war.

Uuuhhh...Yes...They are...

A mercenary is someone who fight for pay, whether he is paid upfront or in anticipation of pay, money is the PUBLIC statement of why he fight.

So what is that PUBLIC statement of why a person would be in a military? Patriotism, national defense, and some other philosophical and moral concepts. Of course, you must pay your soldiers because a military life is a full time position. But a mercenary is a fighter ABSENT of those philosophical and moral concepts that are the foundation of any military. The Wagner Group, or whatever their official business name, is a mercenary army.

 

[Ali_Baba]

Four Russian Aircraft Shot Down Within Their Own Borders

Multiple possibilities exist as to what brought these aircraft down, but most would mark a major change in Ukraine's counter-air abilities.

www.thedrive.com

Interesting - none of the fast jet pilots managed to eject from their jets - all pilots and crew lost.

 

[BHAN85]

Watch: Four Russian military aircraft shot down near Ukraine

The Russian news outlet Kommersant reported that two Russian fighter jets and two military helicopters had been shot down on Saturday close to the

english.alarabiya.net

It was destroyed by self Russian air defenses.

I wonder, if someone from ground jammer ADS-B and ACARS signal of Russian planes, could it be detected as enemies targets by the own air defenses?

 

[Mohsin A]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1657483697795260422

 

[aziqbal]

Russia lost the battle when their mobilization failed to take Bakhmut within a few months. Despite outnumbering the Ukranians in manpower & ammunition, they have exhausted too much of either to only gain bits of land. What are the Russians going to do now mobilizing untrained civilians with WWII weapons that they couldn't do with their highly trained soldiers, now dead, armed with the best equipment?

Now that the tanks & IFV are coming online, Ukranians are ripping through the Russian defensive lines like a knife cutting through butter. This is not even the real counter-offensive. Much more still to come.

I suspect that Ukraine feinted the Bakhmut struggle to give Russians the illusion that they are struggling to encourage them to throw more lives & resources into the city.

after how many years did US and its allies fled Afghanistan ?

USSR stayed for 10 years and left and the US + allies stayed almost 20 years and left still couldn't take it

Russia is taking on pretty much the entire world in Ukraine, over 600 different types of weapons from over 80 countries are in Ukraine yet Bakhmut is Russian

here is reason why Russia is the largest country in the world

they know how to fight and take land

 

[Ali_Baba]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1657483697795260422

Hopefully the Russian's shoot them down too? Would be quite entertaining ... would beat the Eurovision that I am being forced to watch right now ..