Makes a change from thieving from supermarkets, now they are just stealing trees. Anything not nailed down, eh. :D
Dutch Ministry of Defense: "The importance of good logistics can never be underestimated, go and ask Putin."
I'm just imagining all the over turned and/or stuck in the mud logging trucks. What a dumb idea on so many, obvious, levels
Are you comfortable with a global recession and all that entails?
Ah, an interesting bit of information:
In recent weeks (before the war even started), dozens of promotions with Office 365 + Kaspersky bundles appeared here in Brazil.
Maybe the transfer of heavy weaponry likes planes, tanks, etc. shouldn't be something we all read about on Twitter?
The whole Polish MiG saga was so embarrassing to read that you hope they were using it as a smokescreen for an actual transfer of weapons.
yeah, scorched earth approach. They're already doing it to the cities
Putin:
It was the plan in his pact with China. Putin would cause trouble in Europe to divert American attention to give China more space in the pacific. But everything else didn't go as planned. But the troop allocations could have impacts on how US approaches its China strategy, we just don't know yet as everything is fluid and the reinforcements sent are said to be 'temporary' as the article mentioned, but I'm less certaina bout that. I think they will be there to stay.
So would this confirm Russia as outnumbered now by the defending force?
I don't think people realize what Bloomberg Terminal is, it's completely legit
Bloomberg Terminal - Wikipedia
Only reason I know about it is because my wife uses it for work, it's not well known outside of financial services
yes if that's what it takes to send a message to China to not fuel a war of aggression in Europe
i'm absolutely done with pacifist bullshit, seeing first hand my lifelong bestfriend that is ukrainian and what her family has had to go through since the invasion
Russia claims its forces have taken full control over Ukraine's Kherson region
They say they are now in full control of the region.
metro.co.uk
Obviously whatever Russia says can't be trusted, but they claim to have shot down 6 TB2 drones in the last day.
I think being careful about sanctioning China is not just pacifism. You have to be really careful because that could honestly lead to a complete meltdown of western order. Phasing out reliance on China is one thing, but doing it suddenly would be catastrophic to global economy. I'm talking social unrest, rapid rise of extremist political parties across the western world, really severe consequences beyond temporary increase in prices.
I mean they likely releases that information hours after being there. It's not like the info was leaked.
Almost 2.5 - 3 to 1 advantage troop wise. ~245K active army, ~200K Reserves, Lets say ~20K foreign volunteers (hard number to verify right now) versus ~150 to 200K estimate of Russians.
We should maybe think twice before cheering on Nazis.
Sorry if this sounds stupid, but like doesn't Ukraine has any long-range missiles? Couldn't they also attack Russia inside of its borders? with missiles or drones. Some military bases, ammunition warehouses, fuel supplies, things like this.
Or would that gives Russia the chance to play the victim card?
Or would that gives Russia the chance to play the victim card?
Russia claims its forces have taken full control over Ukraine's Kherson region
They say they are now in full control of the region.
Obviously whatever Russia says can't be trusted, but they claim to have shot down 6 TB2 drones in the last day.
I wouldn't trust anything Russians have to say about TB2's. Week ago they claimed having shot more of them down than Ukraine ever had, and now 6 more?
They have some afaik and they have done few strikes into the separist regions, not sure if any have gone as far as into Russia itself.
They do, and they have. They've struck inside Russia and Belarus. They just don't have many weapons like that in their inventory, so they have to use them sparingly, both to maximize their effectiveness, and to avoid detection by the Russians.
With zero pictures of wreckage so far as well. Obviously the TB-2 is using a tactic that is evading ground radars and Russia is too scared to commit air power to try and sweep these drones.
Nah I'm not thinking twice about anything that impacts the side sieging a captive city of trapped civilians.
Outnumbered, outgunned and no air superiority which means digging in and shelling civilians is soon their only offensive tactic left. The invasion part itself is pretty much dead. Now it's about maximizing damage for negotiations while also minimizing the amount of soldiers that return home and tell their friends and family the truth of what happened.
They did a couple of times, at least in the earlier days of the war, hitting a Russian airbase or airport. However, I assume anti air defenses will be present there, so it may be a waste of missiles as well.
Ukraine hit 2 airfields and a supply depot in Russia. Ukraine was (presumably) using Tochka-U ballistic launchers, with a range of 150 km
Ukraine has not attacked Belarus yet, as they are unwilling to give Lukashenko a reason for a ground invasion.
uhhh no lmao
With good sources Twitter is the absolute best place for breaking news.
I was thinking of a supply convoy that I thought was struck in Belarus by drones, but I might be mistaken.
Red Cross really starting to gear up their humanitarian aid efforts in Ukraine.
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Edit:
Maybe we can put something as a thread mark. I know multiple people has questioned the all screaming caps guy as a bad source/fake source
https://news.err.ee/1608532135/riigikogu-passes-communication-calling-for-no-fly-zone-over-ukraine
Estonia's parliament took a stance yesterday and my country become the first NATO member to officially call for NFZ. Personally I have been on the fence on the NFZ issue because of all the reasons already discussed in this thread. However, after weeks of indiscriminate suffering inflicted upon civilians, I support this gesture, even if it's largely symbolic. May it at least serve to finally resolve the embarrassing back-and-forth on the topic of jets and other more substantial equipment.
Estonia's parliament took a stance yesterday and my country become the first NATO member to officially call for NFZ. Personally I have been on the fence on the NFZ issue because of all the reasons already discussed in this thread. However, after weeks of indiscriminate suffering inflicted upon civilians, I support this gesture, even if it's largely symbolic. May it at least serve to finally resolve the embarrassing back-and-forth on the topic of jets and other more substantial equipment.
God if they can break the siege of Mauripol, that would be great.
I'm cheering the result of Russian defeat so thousands of innocnent lives aren't butchered. 🤷♂️ Hopefully we don't need to see scenes like this
Watching this interview made me think Putin really just fell victim of his own propaganda and circle of yesmen. Especially the part about how for the past 2 years he isolated himself.
The lady is Kira Jarmis, spokesperson of Navalnij.
The lady is Kira Jarmis, spokesperson of Navalnij.
Related to the Kherson Airport attack, some very low-resolution imagery analysis has been done, and you can't for certain see if there are destroyed helicopters. That said it does look like 30 is very unlikely if the damage was just done by artillery fire. Most likely it was in the range of 3 to 10 helicopters (max and being generous) destroyed or damaged, if they were still parked in the spots they were then night prior:
Most probably is at least four were at least damaged beyond field repair if they were still on the ground as the picture showed (which isn't a guarantee either).
Most probably is at least four were at least damaged beyond field repair if they were still on the ground as the picture showed (which isn't a guarantee either).
Suicide. Been a lot of posts like this, but absolute suicide if they land within 20 miles of Odessa. Could be another deception ploy though to Keep Odessa Garrison from moving into the countryside to support Mykolaiv.
They've lost the element of surprise, logistics are awful, the land forces are nowhere near close enough to support, and Odessa has been turned into a fortress with the coast completely mined
Seems like they'd be sending men to die if they tried it
I swear some general has "order amphibious landing" on their bucket list, they are so hellbent on doing that shit onto the fortified beaches.
The waters are supposedly mined as well according to a Naval alert message sent by Ukraine (like a NOTAM).
From recent comments today, it sounds like Zelenskyy is setting the stage for Ukraine officially abandoning it's goal of joining NATO. It is something which has been all but impossible since 2014 anyway, and is even more unlikely to ever happen now, but this could be part of a deal to get Russian troops to withdraw back to pre-2022 invasion positions.
It seems clear now that Russia will be unable to achieve it's goal of taking over Ukraine and installing a puppet government so Putin may settle for some lesser "victory condition".
It seems clear now that Russia will be unable to achieve it's goal of taking over Ukraine and installing a puppet government so Putin may settle for some lesser "victory condition".
