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Post by mtrstudent on Jul 12, 2024 14:58:58 GMT
It's nastily hot in Ukraine right now.
And often, even for civilians, there's no way to cool down because the russian terrorists blew up so many power stations.
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Post by mtrstudent on Jul 12, 2024 15:21:37 GMT
Interesting summary of what russian military people are posting, gathered by Andrew Perpetua who runs a massive mapping project of the war and knows a lot. "It is honestly interesting seeing multiple prominent Russian milbloggers talking about the hopelessness of a Russian victory. I think they are starting to realize they goofed. Sentiments along the lines of “no matter how many resources we push in, the front line barely moves”. “ukrainian and european production is growing faster than ours”. “next year ukraine will have more resources than us” Tack on the comments about how 152mm artillery is a dead end technology due to lack of investment and development from the 80s onwards. Even their latest models, which Russia cannot even produce due to lack of industrial power, is dramatically inferior to even cheap 155mm pieces" So long as Ukraine doesn't crack soon (not much time left) then team dictatorship is just desperately holding out in hope for Trump and the Republicans to bail them out.
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Post by mtrstudent on Jul 12, 2024 20:18:23 GMT
Russia might be preparing to destroy the Kyiv dam.
No guarantees, they make up loads of these lies. But they've already destroyed two major ones and they're trying to destroy the power grid so it makes sense.
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Post by Paul Spencer on Jul 13, 2024 2:28:08 GMT
I found this interesting, any thoughts?
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Post by lordb on Jul 13, 2024 8:56:41 GMT
I found this interesting, any thoughts? There's some rubbish there equating the 2014 protests in Ukraine with the Jan 06th farce in the US is just drivel Standard American who can only view the world by directly linking anything and everything to USA and of course it's all down to big corporations Ukraine war is entirely - entirely - down to Putin wanting a legacy of expanding Russia territory, that's it.
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Post by mtrstudent on Jul 13, 2024 15:31:52 GMT
Czech shells have started arriving. They say funding secured for 500,000 to arrive this year. If they deliver it's a huge deal.
Been seeing reports that European industry has fucked up again and only has half the capacity that politicians have been saying. Should be a scandal if that's true.
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Post by mtrstudent on Jul 13, 2024 15:40:41 GMT
Video of another road in Kharkiv. There are a bunch of roads that look like this. The other videos show lots of russian corpses.
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Post by mtrstudent on Jul 13, 2024 16:13:13 GMT
This is Vovchansk. Ukraine heroically stopped russia's Kharkiv offensive here two months ago.
The city looks just like Ukrainian cities do when russians arrive.
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Post by mtrstudent on Jul 13, 2024 16:22:09 GMT
Satellite pics show Russia removed most of its air defences from near the Finnish border.
Any post about "we need to excuse russian imperialism and let them murder children in hospitals because poor Russia is scared of NATO" can go get fucked.
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Post by mtrstudent on Jul 13, 2024 19:31:27 GMT
I found this interesting, any thoughts? Got a summary of that please? I've already spent fucking ages listening to people's opinions and I'm just burnt out and don't feel like doing another 10 minutes...
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Post by musik on Jul 13, 2024 19:55:23 GMT
So the war is still on then? More about Gaza up here.
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Post by hcstokie on Jul 13, 2024 19:56:54 GMT
MOD reckons Russia lost 70,000 troops in May and June. Absolute madness.
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Post by mtrstudent on Jul 13, 2024 20:22:55 GMT
MOD reckons Russia lost 70,000 troops in May and June. Absolute madness. I absolutely do not believe Ukraine's claims about russian losses... For tanks, artillery or planes. But there's loads of evidence on casualties, like data from russian court records on inheritance cases. And it seems to line up with what Ukraine says. Madness. Most are injured rather than dead, and lots will recover and get sent back in... But still insane!
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Post by hcstokie on Jul 13, 2024 21:09:32 GMT
MOD reckons Russia lost 70,000 troops in May and June. Absolute madness. I absolutely do not believe Ukraine's claims about russian losses... For tanks, artillery or planes. But there's loads of evidence on casualties, like data from russian court records on inheritance cases. And it seems to line up with what Ukraine says. Madness. Most are injured rather than dead, and lots will recover and get sent back in... But still insane! To clarify, those are our MOD’s figures, but I agree with what you’ve said. If correct, it’s probably 10k a month more than what Russia are currently able to train and replace, so over time it should start to bite. You’d think Russia will scale back its offensives soon though with these losses and Ukrainian supplies improving shortly. The scale of loss is insane when you consider Russia will have lost well over 100k this year, yet they’ve captured just a couple of hundred square miles of territory. It’s even more insane considering most of it are empty fields which Ukrainians will have given up just to draw Russians into the open so their drones can have a field day.
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Post by LDE76 on Jul 14, 2024 11:00:52 GMT
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Post by mtrstudent on Jul 14, 2024 23:57:00 GMT
Ukrainian engineer is now allowed to release battle images from December-April.
He says Russia lost 300 vehicles conquering a town of 1600 people called Novomikhailivka. His new images show 20+ russian tanks taken out that we hadn't seen before.
Russia has just 700 decent condition tanks left in storage. Thousands have been taken and used and lost.
Russia's gonna hit major supply problems next year so they're begging for trump to switch the US to team dictatorship before it's obvious they'd get squashed.
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Post by questionable on Jul 15, 2024 15:39:29 GMT
MOD reckons Russia lost 70,000 troops in May and June. Absolute madness. I absolutely do not believe Ukraine's claims about russian losses... For tanks, artillery or planes. But there's loads of evidence on casualties, like data from russian court records on inheritance cases. And it seems to line up with what Ukraine says. Madness. Most are injured rather than dead, and lots will recover and get sent back in... But still insane! I was pessimistic at first but I read a report basically saying that the battle front is a staggeringly 600 miles wide and that at anyone time there can be at least 10,000 drones active. Drones literally hammer anything and everything, even seen them delivering food/water/ammunition and even placing ATM’s
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Post by mtrstudent on Jul 15, 2024 19:15:31 GMT
I absolutely do not believe Ukraine's claims about russian losses... For tanks, artillery or planes. But there's loads of evidence on casualties, like data from russian court records on inheritance cases. And it seems to line up with what Ukraine says. Madness. Most are injured rather than dead, and lots will recover and get sent back in... But still insane! I was pessimistic at first but I read a report basically saying that the battle front is a staggeringly 600 miles wide and that at anyone time there can be at least 10,000 drones active. Drones literally hammer anything and everything, even seen them delivering food/water/ammunition and even placing ATM’s My favourite one was where the drone delivered a sausage to the dog. They're talking about using AI to ID a target like a tank or soldier, then the drone will just follow it and hit even if it's jammed so the pilot can't see any more. Imagine being relentlessly chased by a flying explosive robot.
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Post by questionable on Jul 15, 2024 19:49:28 GMT
I was pessimistic at first but I read a report basically saying that the battle front is a staggeringly 600 miles wide and that at anyone time there can be at least 10,000 drones active. Drones literally hammer anything and everything, even seen them delivering food/water/ammunition and even placing ATM’s My favourite one was where the drone delivered a sausage to the dog. They're talking about using AI to ID a target like a tank or soldier, then the drone will just follow it and hit even if it's jammed so the pilot can't see any more. Imagine being relentlessly chased by a flying explosive robot. Seen the video of the orc sitting on the toilet and a drone flying in, boom, bet he shit himself….
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Post by iancransonsknees on Jul 15, 2024 20:35:11 GMT
I was pessimistic at first but I read a report basically saying that the battle front is a staggeringly 600 miles wide and that at anyone time there can be at least 10,000 drones active. Drones literally hammer anything and everything, even seen them delivering food/water/ammunition and even placing ATM’s My favourite one was where the drone delivered a sausage to the dog. They're talking about using AI to ID a target like a tank or soldier, then the drone will just follow it and hit even if it's jammed so the pilot can't see any more. Imagine being relentlessly chased by a flying explosive robot. It's all a bit skynet, not to be cheered at all.
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Post by mtrstudent on Jul 15, 2024 21:05:35 GMT
My favourite one was where the drone delivered a sausage to the dog. They're talking about using AI to ID a target like a tank or soldier, then the drone will just follow it and hit even if it's jammed so the pilot can't see any more. Imagine being relentlessly chased by a flying explosive robot. It's all a bit skynet, not to be cheered at all. It terrifies me. It should scare us all. I did like the videos where they were delivering food to animals and water to trapped civilians. Drones could do so much good but they'll probably mostly be used for bad.
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Post by iancransonsknees on Jul 15, 2024 21:07:21 GMT
It's all a bit skynet, not to be cheered at all. It terrifies me. It should scare us all. I did like the videos where they were delivering food to animals and water to trapped civilians. Drones could do so much good but they'll probably mostly be used for bad. Same as it ever was.
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Post by mtrstudent on Jul 15, 2024 21:18:06 GMT
Yet another drive through showing the number of russian vehicle losses to advance down some dirt roads.
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Post by scfcbiancorossi on Jul 15, 2024 22:19:50 GMT
It's nastily hot in Ukraine right now. And often, even for civilians, there's no way to cool down because the russian terrorists blew up so many power stations. Incredible how one part of Northern Europe can have such a vastly different climate to the other half. I wish we could have some of that 36 degree heat. Another day goes by and this terrible war continues with barely a whisper from anyone in the West these days. Putin will not be defeated and the West refuse to entertain negotiation. We need an end to this monstrosity of a war and that is only going to come by all parties sitting round the table. My stance would be that Putin should retain Crimea and Ukraine should rescind their Nato application while Russia removes all remaining forces from occupied territory. That would be a reasonable concession from both parties. I don't think Putin would accept Ukraine taking back control of Donetsk and Luhansk but it gets the ball rolling. There has to be some effort from both the West and Russia to drive a negotiation otherwise the tragic killings of innocent Ukrainians and young Russians will continue.
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Post by mtrstudent on Jul 15, 2024 23:13:29 GMT
It's nastily hot in Ukraine right now. And often, even for civilians, there's no way to cool down because the russian terrorists blew up so many power stations. Incredible how one part of Northern Europe can have such a vastly different climate to the other half. I wish we could have some of that 36 degree heat. Another day goes by and this terrible war continues with barely a whisper from anyone in the West these days. Putin will not be defeated and the West refuse to entertain negotiation. We need an end to this monstrosity of a war and that is only going to come by all parties sitting round the table. My stance would be that Putin should retain Crimea and Ukraine should rescind their Nato application while Russia removes all remaining forces from occupied territory. That would be a reasonable concession from both parties. I don't think Putin would accept Ukraine taking back control of Donetsk and Luhansk but it gets the ball rolling. There has to be some effort from both the West and Russia to drive a negotiation otherwise the tragic killings of innocent Ukrainians and young Russians will continue. Putin has demanded that Ukraine hand over huge swaths of territory and retreat their army before even starting negotiations. Do you think Ukraine should hand over four full Oblasts to Russia for a cease fire? I'm also interested in hearing your plan for forcing Ukrainians to capitulate when polling says they don't want to.
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Post by scfcbiancorossi on Jul 15, 2024 23:22:16 GMT
Incredible how one part of Northern Europe can have such a vastly different climate to the other half. I wish we could have some of that 36 degree heat. Another day goes by and this terrible war continues with barely a whisper from anyone in the West these days. Putin will not be defeated and the West refuse to entertain negotiation. We need an end to this monstrosity of a war and that is only going to come by all parties sitting round the table. My stance would be that Putin should retain Crimea and Ukraine should rescind their Nato application while Russia removes all remaining forces from occupied territory. That would be a reasonable concession from both parties. I don't think Putin would accept Ukraine taking back control of Donetsk and Luhansk but it gets the ball rolling. There has to be some effort from both the West and Russia to drive a negotiation otherwise the tragic killings of innocent Ukrainians and young Russians will continue. Putin has demanded that Ukraine hand over huge swaths of territory and retreat their army before even starting negotiations. Do you think Ukraine should hand over four full Oblasts to Russia for a cease fire? Certainly not. But rescinding the Nato application (which was understandably done by Ukraine as a retaliation measure) and conceding Crimea would be a decent position for both parties on the provision Putin pulls out all forces from the rest of Ukraine. Followed up by a renewal of the Minsk agreements that are clear and firm and do not allow for "misinterpretation". The problem at the moment is all 3 parties are too proud to talk - Russia, the West and Zelensky need to have a discussion on neutral ground. What are the other opinions?
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Post by mtrstudent on Jul 16, 2024 0:18:07 GMT
Putin has demanded that Ukraine hand over huge swaths of territory and retreat their army before even starting negotiations. Do you think Ukraine should hand over four full Oblasts to Russia for a cease fire? Certainly not. But rescinding the Nato application (which was understandably done by Ukraine as a retaliation measure) and conceding Crimea would be a decent position for both parties on the provision Putin pulls out all forces from the rest of Ukraine. Followed up by a renewal of the Minsk agreements that are clear and firm and do not allow for "misinterpretation". The problem at the moment is all 3 parties are too proud to talk - Russia, the West and Zelensky need to have a discussion on neutral ground. What are the other opinions? I agree it'd be nice if he'd just pull out. But that's not on the table from Putin yet. Last month he demanded that Ukraine hand over all of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts to just get a cease fire and begin discussions. Millions of Ukrainians put under occupation by a brutal tyrant when Putin can't even hope to manage that by force. Unless Trump and other pro-dictatorship westerners help him out. How do you get Putin to the table in a sensible way?
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Post by terryconroysmagic on Jul 16, 2024 1:53:29 GMT
Certainly not. But rescinding the Nato application (which was understandably done by Ukraine as a retaliation measure) and conceding Crimea would be a decent position for both parties on the provision Putin pulls out all forces from the rest of Ukraine. Followed up by a renewal of the Minsk agreements that are clear and firm and do not allow for "misinterpretation". The problem at the moment is all 3 parties are too proud to talk - Russia, the West and Zelensky need to have a discussion on neutral ground. What are the other opinions? I agree it'd be nice if he'd just pull out. But that's not on the table from Putin yet. Last month he demanded that Ukraine hand over all of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts to just get a cease fire and begin discussions. Millions of Ukrainians put under occupation by a brutal tyrant when Putin can't even hope to manage that by force. Unless Trump and other pro-dictatorship westerners help him out. How do you get Putin to the table in a sensible way? Yep fuck that. At a stretch I’d concede Crimea, everything else no way I’d concede any of that territory Unfortunately Putin can’t accept that as it a defeat in all but name. Need Putin overthrown to see a sensible end to this horror.
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Post by mtrstudent on Jul 16, 2024 2:32:52 GMT
I agree it'd be nice if he'd just pull out. But that's not on the table from Putin yet. Last month he demanded that Ukraine hand over all of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts to just get a cease fire and begin discussions. Millions of Ukrainians put under occupation by a brutal tyrant when Putin can't even hope to manage that by force. Unless Trump and other pro-dictatorship westerners help him out. How do you get Putin to the table in a sensible way? Yep fuck that. At a stretch I’d concede Crimea, everything else no way I’d concede any of that territory Unfortunately Putin can’t accept that as it a defeat in all but name. Need Putin overthrown to see a sensible end to this horror. I think if he realises he's under threat because his army is collapsing, there's a good chance he'd take a deal where russia withdraws but Ukraine throws in a few things. They could scrap their old soviet artillery, add "protections for the russian language" into the constitution etc. He controls the state police and all the media so he can parade it as a victory, and if you don't agree then you go to prison. Sorted.
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Post by mtrstudent on Jul 16, 2024 14:21:24 GMT
Ukraine's commander claims they took out another very expensive S-300 air defence system.
Bit hard to tell damage on the videos but the cluster munitions are spectacular.
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