Russia-Ukraine War - News and Developments

[WotTen]

Russia completed its goals, if it's goals were doing nothing and turning Russian military into a joke.

Regardless of anything else in this war, the myth of the mighty Russian military has been destroyed.

 

[dbc]

He said Donbas..a Russian majority speaking region in Ukraine.... not Russia..

check again your tweet says Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014.

 

[Oldman1]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1507400326475055104

This is very good development. These idiots can hopefully convince themselves of whatever BS they like and go out of occupied territories without more damage

Well as I have said before it was unrealistic expectations.

 

[Foinikas]

France seems to be able to do it.

I pointed that out in another post.

 

[jhungary]

What can you expect from people who said " We have no intention of invading Ukraine".

Well, it's more than that. If you really read into the situation before and after the war. The complete picture is something like this

Before the war:

Russia : "We don't have plan to invade Ukraine, but let's talk about peace plan anyway."
Russia : "We have intention to pull the troop once the exercise is over
Russia : "We recognize the independence of DNR and LPR"

Immediately after the war

Russia : "We have started a special military operation to demilitarize and denaizify Ukraine"
Russia : "Ukraine have been genociding the ethnic Russian in Donbas"
Russia : "We have no interest in talking about peace plan"

Now

Russia :"We have no intention to attack and occupy any Ukrainian City (Strange because they did occupy 2, Kherson and Melitopol)

Its been

Slat armor is not very effective against current gen ATGM's. Neither is ERA. Tank designers will have to sharpen their pencils and head back to the drawing boards. IMO, future tanks should prioritize passive armor against ATGM's.

It REALLY depends on how you use the tank and how you use those ATGM.

If you do what the Russian do, which is don't bother to run any infantry screen in front of on top of the column, whichever country did that would have the same result. You are effectively allowing your enemy to ambush without you seeing it, and inside that tank, you cant see shit.

From all the footage I saw on how Russian run their Armor, that can be made in a compilation video title "How not to run your armor in modern warfare" I don't see any unit coherent, I don't see dismounted infantry, I don't see overhead gunship accompanied the armor. I mean, it would be stupid not to expect your armor are going to cut to piece if you do stuff like this, sort of like how are you going to expect anything is going to be different? As that is the only logical outcome.

On the other hand, Ukrainian have used their knowledge of their own land pretty well, and the excellent use of cover vs concealment is the key to how those Russian Armor getting cut to ribbon.

 

[Oldman1]

You are assuming that Russia is trying to take every single place its troops get close to.

It is actually a brilliant strategy. By having forces near kiev, mariupol, kharkiv and donbass region. They force the ukies to commit huge portions of their army into defending everywhere from a potential attack. and prevents them from massing to defend a single area. and keeps them constantly guessing about Russias moves. and will be an absolute logistical nightmare.

They could be simply diversionary troops. its a pretty common tactic actually. And the Ukies might even be able to recapture a village here and there from these diversionary troops.

but in reality while everyone is fapping to CIA propaganda on twitter, Russia is getting very close to capturing a second major ukie city of mariupol along the black sea, and getting ever closer to landlocking ukraine. The west is even trying to evacuate its agents in some turk,greek,french civilian saving cover operation knowing the end is near

No, its a bad strategy because there is still a large Ukrainian force there, they haven't gone far pushing through to take Donbas, why else would they have to say oh we are going to stage 2, focusing on Donbas now. Did they failed their objective not taking over Donbas the last month if it was true? Wouldn't that be the first and primary stage objective? No its just a cover up for their failures to take Kiev and the rest of the major cities. They just don't have the manpower or resources to do it. They really don't. You see them trying to encircle the cities but failing, try to get to Odessa but failed, so they have to try to consolidate any gains they made.

Interesting analysis.
Making Ukraine a landlocked country even at the expense of several thousands Russian lives and able to fortify the gains along the coastal Ukraine and along the eastern Ukraine, even for a few hundred miles, would be major strategic gains for Russia. The Russian then would and should call a ceasefire on those gains without having to ask more from Ukraine except a pledge of neutrality.

And if Russia achieves those, sort of, minimal goals then I'd call Russia a winner with a very bloody nose. And I don't think any amount of sanctions would cripple Russia long term. Empires have been forged by shedding blood and, despite all the modern sensitivities, human beings are still the same primitive brutes. What gets established on the ground far outweighs a million social media victories.

They can't even take Odessa. You want to landlock Ukraine, you have to take Odessa. Look at the map, you think Russia going to try after failing that?

 

[Oldman1]

I agree with you on that. I don't understand why they proclaimed it independent and recognized it and they invaded 2 days later. What was the reason? Why? What for? Why bother recognize it if you are going to invade anyway?

Its an excuse for Russia to invade Ukraine under the guise of protecting the newly independent countries which if it still stands, be annexed by Russia later on. Just more justifications to try to conquer Ukraine. You already see it on the news, Secret plans by Ukraine to invade Crimea, biological weapons, protecting the Russian speaking people, Nazis, NATO, etc.

 

[Viet]

The best what is projected is 3-5 years for all the LNG-terminals. But i doubt it. Do you know how long it needed to build the new Berlin airport? Here you go.

Also a LNG-tanker isnt build in days. At the moment all LNG-tankers in the world are in use, And there are estimates that for Germany alone are 660 LNG-tankers needed - around the clock - to replace russian gas. Let alone the masses LNG-tankers for whole EU.

Well giving up domestic nuclear, coal may be not the brightest idea on earth.

 

[sammuel]

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Putin's lying again to his people.

Does he think all Russians are just idiots or completely cut off from the world like in the soviet era , that they don't know what is happening outside Russia ?

Just to make it clear.

No , no Russian authors where banned in the west . Orchestras in the west have no intention to stop playing music of Russian composers like Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff ( what serious orchestra would do something like that ? ? ? )

And no , J .K Rowling is NOT " canceled " , in fact the new movie ,Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore , is about to come out this year.

I have only two words to say to you Mr. Putin :


Expecto patronum !

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[Trango Towers]

I would have agreed to that before the current conflict. But now, I don't think Russia would feel confident about starting an offensive war with NATO given their performance in Ukraine.

I understand your feelings and I agree. The days of when you can walk into a country and occupy are long gone. Even if Ukraine had not recieves 1000s of javelin and NLAW missiles the resistance would have been good. Other examples include Afghanistan and Iraq. However, its the nukes that save Russia. Even if it starts a ground war the threat of MAD will prevent an all out NATO Russia conflict

 

[Viet]

Putin’s army has taken Mariupol yet?

 

[Oldman1]

Putin’s army has taken Mariupol yet?

Fighting still ongoing.

 

[Trango Towers]

They will be very flexible with India.. remember that Biden administration said that their main target is China.. now they are just trying to weaken Russia as an intermediate phase..

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US soldier in Ukraine as part of the International Paid Legion

https://twitter.com/x/status/1507374511846563855

Oh imagine they catch some yanks ...

 

[Viet]

Fighting still ongoing.

embarrassing for Russia army.
more sanctions. It’s harder now for Putin to sell gold.

Why the US and allies moved to freeze Russia’s gold

The restrictions aim to limit the country’s ability to use its international reserves and circumvent sanctions.

www.aljazeera.com

 

[WotTen]

Orchestras in the west have no intention to stop playing music of Russian composers like Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff ( what serious orchestra would do something like that ? ? ? )

Cardiff Philharmonic removes Tchaikovsky performance over Ukraine conflict

Orchestra faces ridicule over decision to remove Tchaikovsky’s 1812 overture

www.theguardian.com