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Post by mtrstudent on Jul 22, 2024 2:59:21 GMT
Wait for the boom! A great one. Work of the 47th brigade, I believe castleblack went out and met some of them.
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Post by LDE76 on Jul 22, 2024 10:47:14 GMT
Trump Jr being an imbecile is hardly revelatory but now being desperate to prevent the slaughter of your own citizens is apparently something to be made fun of.
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Post by mtrstudent on Jul 22, 2024 14:24:36 GMT
Trump Jr being an imbecile is hardly revelatory but now being desperate to prevent the slaughter of your own citizens is apparently something to be made fun of. MAGA republicans would have mocked Churchill and left us to face the Nazis alone.
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Post by mtrstudent on Jul 22, 2024 14:26:54 GMT
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Post by LDE76 on Jul 23, 2024 11:09:27 GMT
Not war-related, but:
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Post by mickeythemaestro on Jul 23, 2024 13:43:26 GMT
Is that just drunk people falling out and fighting and then remembering they are actually friends? I'm confused 🤔
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Post by mtrstudent on Jul 23, 2024 15:18:09 GMT
Russia keeps raising recruitment bonuses because people aren't queueing up to join the army. Moscow region signing bonus is now 1.9 million ₱, up 10x since 2022 and over a year's average pay. Clearly it's getting more expensive to fuel their meat machine. Also they're paying out some of the families of dead and wounded - 1.5 % of russian GDP in 2024. Paying to kill and maim hundreds of thousands of working men is going to boost russian economic numbers this year, but I don't think that's good for an economy tbh.
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Post by mtrstudent on Jul 23, 2024 16:44:44 GMT
Looks like new video?
Something shot down, claimed to be a russian Su-25 attack plane. Those and the Su-34s have been doing catastrophic damage to Ukraine's defences, and if Ukraine were allowed to just blow up all the airbases then russia's offensive would grind to a halt very quickly.
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Post by mtrstudent on Jul 24, 2024 16:16:09 GMT
The lad above is fighting near Vovchansk in Kharkiv right now. They took out a russian version of the hummvee and a tank but they lost their own hummvee.
His story is just like my mate's. The hummvee (technically HMMWV) saved everyone's lives. They need loads of these armoured vehicles.
He also says the US sends really old ones that work but the tires are bald, so they have to fundraise for new tires for any replacements.
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Post by mtrstudent on Jul 24, 2024 16:24:05 GMT
The news from the front is still bad. There's some units that could get surrounded in the east, and Russia is advancing in a new area called Toretsk.
A lot of the issues come from republicans blockading aid for six months. They helped kill lots of Ukrainians, so there aren't enough defenders now. Recruits are being trained and the ammo situation is improving though.
Russia has conquered something ~0.15% more of Ukraine in 9.5 months so the Land changes are not anything to panic about yet. I think it's all a question of how big casualties have been on each side.
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Post by mtrstudent on Jul 24, 2024 17:28:36 GMT
Anti drone stick 😂
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Post by mtrstudent on Jul 24, 2024 19:55:42 GMT
Big russian assault. There's video but it has corpses and blood so I'm not posting (it's out there though).
"Soldiers of the 79th Brigade repelled one of the largest Russian assaults...Russian army simultaneously used 11 tanks, 45 APCs with infantry and 1 BMPT ‘Terminator’.
As a result of the battle, 6 tanks and 7 APCs with infantry were knocked out...After knocking out the first tanks and armored vehicles, other vehicles rushed to flee the battlefield. Drone operators finished off the infantry that ran around the landings."
This assault was about as big as Ukraine's largest single attacks during last summer's counteroffensive. The 79th brigade stopped it, seemingly alone, and they've stopped many other assaults too.
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Post by mtrstudent on Jul 25, 2024 14:27:56 GMT
Lots of Ukrainian media sources reporting this. I haven't fact checked it properly yet.
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Post by mtrstudent on Jul 25, 2024 18:47:59 GMT
The news from the front is still bad. There's some units that could get surrounded in the east, Great news from utterly reliable source on this! "At night, the fighters of the 31st OMBr managed to break out of the encirclement Yesterday was an extremely dynamic and intense day north of Progress (a village). Around 14:00, as predicted, a number of observation posts of the 1st and 3rd battalions were completely surrounded... With the help of coordinated actions of artillery, air reconnaissance and related forces, as well as under the control of officers on the ground, the guys from the 1st and 3rd battalions were able to break out of the encirclement in full force. It was a very nervous and difficult operation. A delay of at least a couple of hours could lead to a second ring of encirclement... The most important thing is that the fighters are alive and continue to restrain the enemy"
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Post by LDE76 on Jul 25, 2024 19:08:25 GMT
Lots of Ukrainian media sources reporting this. I haven't fact checked it properly yet. I saw a separate tweet regarding this last night. I obviously hope that this isn't true but we're at the stage now where, if it did turn out to be correct, I'd be sickened but not that shocked. In other news, the UK MOD are reporting that the Russians are forcing Central Asian migrants to sign up for military service on pain of being arrested on sham charges. Some of them think that they're being offered paid civilian work but then end up at the front.
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Post by Marc01 on Jul 25, 2024 20:52:03 GMT
Like those involved in active defence of Ukraine, Quentin Sommerville of the BBC has got some bottle. No wonder he’s out of breath.. Longer video report here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cw4y2mrp4jwo
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Post by gawa on Jul 26, 2024 11:50:50 GMT
Are our sanctions pretty much pointless? Russia seems to be thriving economically and I thought our sanctions were meant to put pressure on their economy to try and force their hand a bit?
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Post by mtrstudent on Jul 26, 2024 14:37:57 GMT
Russian military blogger posted a memorial which they only usually do for lost russian air crew.
So Ukraine probably hit something good at the airbase.
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Post by mtrstudent on Jul 26, 2024 14:48:28 GMT
Are our sanctions pretty much pointless? Russia seems to be thriving economically and I thought our sanctions were meant to put pressure on their economy to try and force their hand a bit? I'm absolutely convinced the sanctions are a big deal that are helping to shorten the war and push things in Ukraine's favour. There need to be more though. Russia has been trying to raise money from lenders to fund the war, and Russian banks think the long term financial outlook sucks so much that for the last two weeks Russia raised zero ₱ when offering 15.5% guaranteed returns for 16 years. Banks wouldn't lend them money at 15.5% returns. That's very revealing IMO. Here's a historical comparison of the pro-Putinist argument on sanctions: From 1939 to 1944 Nazi Germany's real GDP increased by about 25% according to this. In 1944 here's the same argument: "the German economy is growing so clearly destroying their tanks and bombing their factories and blockading their supply of oil and war resources isn't doing anything."
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Post by mtrstudent on Jul 27, 2024 0:42:36 GMT
Translated story from a russian on social media. I'm posting it because they found a lot of stories like that.
There are things kinda like Facebook groups on the russian internet where families post info about their missing people. Names, date of birth, unit, where they said they were fighting and when they lost track.
Some of the people I follow count up all of those and used the info to confirm leaked russian documents showing huge casualties. A single regiment listed hundreds of people as missing in under 2 months iirc.
"Missing" is good because then they don't count as killed. And Russia doesn't have to pay the families.
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Post by mtrstudent on Jul 27, 2024 2:27:08 GMT
The russian central bank met today and russian interest rates went up to 18%.
That's not usually a good sign. Would you want to splurge a load of your money on a pointless adventure if you had to fund it with an 18% APR personal loan?
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Post by hcstokie on Jul 27, 2024 7:52:37 GMT
Are our sanctions pretty much pointless? Russia seems to be thriving economically and I thought our sanctions were meant to put pressure on their economy to try and force their hand a bit? I won’t do it justice but the CombatVeteranReacts YouTube channel did an excellent video on this recently. Wages are increasing to tackle the massive inflation which is due to the sanctions and Russia’s war economy. They’ve had a huge number of working age males killed and wounded, plus a brain drain from professionals fleeing the country before being mobilized, which compounds the issue and drives up wages. Ukraine’s targeting of oil refineries has driven further Russian inflation, affecting their supply chain costs and driven costs up across the bord due to higher production and transport costs. Due to the higher civilian wages, they’ve had to massively increase the pay for soldiers to incentivise volunteers, as Putin knows a large scale mobilisation would be opposed. To try to tackle this massive inflation, the bank has raised interest rates to 18%, but it looks like it will creep over 20% in the near future. This is putting massive pressure on anyone with a loan or mortgage, for obvious reasons. Basically, yes, Russian wages have increased, but nowhere near enough to tackle the inflation or interest rates, and it’s only going to get worse for them the longer the war goes on. They’re in a real mess.
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Post by mtrstudent on Jul 27, 2024 17:47:26 GMT
Ukrainian Bradley whacking a russian vehicle. Claimed BMP, which is the russian Bradley equivalent. Except way way worse.
The Bradleys gave been incredible and Ukraine needs more.
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Post by mtrstudent on Jul 27, 2024 18:33:48 GMT
Russia's been building "dormitories" for migrants in Moscow and raiding places then force conscripting non-russians.
A russian official said a goal is to "lighten" the moscow region so it is not "blackened" by foreign citizens.
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Post by mtrstudent on Jul 27, 2024 18:39:22 GMT
Russian Su-34 strike jet crashed in training. 😊
Unfortunately the pilots ejected.
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Post by mtrstudent on Jul 27, 2024 18:47:21 GMT
The situation is Very Bad in a number of areas right now.
For context, we're still mainly talking about whether Russia will conquer 0.2% or 0.3% more of Ukraine in a year-long assault...
But this is what the republicans were aiming for with their six-month pro-Putin blockade. They starved Ukraine of ammo and got loads of Ukrainians killed. They also killed the 2025 aid package so that the help that's been committed has to last two years.
The MAGA republicans have been war criminal Putin's strongest and most effective ally so far.
But they might still be frustrated as Russia can't keep this up and Ukraine's reinforcements will start arriving soon.
If the democrats win then Putin is going to be in deep deep shit since by next year effectively all of russia's stockpiles of their better armour will be empty. It'll be older and crapper stuff only.
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Post by hcstokie on Jul 27, 2024 20:02:09 GMT
As much noise as we’ve heard about Trump and his new running mate, it’ll be interesting to see their approach should they get in.
Ukraine have recently restructured some huge loans. This has included extending the repayment terms and using lower interest rates. Interestingly, these loans are underwritten by various countries, banks and corporations.
This tells us that these parties are confident that Ukraine will be around in the longer term to pay off the debt.
We also know that the at the end of all this, the rebuild contracts will be astronomical.
I just can’t see Trump going against the interests of these banks and corporations given their influence. I also can’t see the US ego letting Russia get one over on them given what America has already invested.
I may be totally wrong of course, but I think the influence of Ukraine’s financial backers may determine the US (and other’s) position.
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Post by mtrstudent on Jul 27, 2024 20:38:10 GMT
As much noise as we’ve heard about Trump and his new running mate, it’ll be interesting to see their approach should they get in. Ukraine have recently restructured some huge loans. This has included extending the repayment terms and using lower interest rates. Interestingly, these loans are underwritten by various countries, banks and corporations. This tells us that these parties are confident that Ukraine will be around in the longer term to pay off the debt. We also know that the at the end of all this, the rebuild contracts will be astronomical. I just can’t see Trump going against the interests of these banks and corporations given their influence. I also can’t see the US ego letting Russia get one over on them given what America has already invested. I may be totally wrong of course, but I think the influence of Ukraine’s financial backers may determine the US (and other’s) position. I think you're wrong. It's a mistake to think of trump like a normal president. He wants to be a dictator, he tried to do it already, he's made it clear that's the plan. Maybe if Ukraine can offer him and his family more money then he might change his mind. Or Congress could put him in a position where he'd leave Putin to swing so he can focus on his #1 priority of purging the government and military of pro-democracy people.
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Post by hcstokie on Jul 27, 2024 20:49:12 GMT
As much noise as we’ve heard about Trump and his new running mate, it’ll be interesting to see their approach should they get in. Ukraine have recently restructured some huge loans. This has included extending the repayment terms and using lower interest rates. Interestingly, these loans are underwritten by various countries, banks and corporations. This tells us that these parties are confident that Ukraine will be around in the longer term to pay off the debt. We also know that the at the end of all this, the rebuild contracts will be astronomical. I just can’t see Trump going against the interests of these banks and corporations given their influence. I also can’t see the US ego letting Russia get one over on them given what America has already invested. I may be totally wrong of course, but I think the influence of Ukraine’s financial backers may determine the US (and other’s) position. I think you're wrong. It's a mistake to think of trump like a normal president. He wants to be a dictator, he tried to do it already, he's made it clear that's the plan. Maybe if Ukraine can offer him and his family more money then he might change his mind. Or Congress could put him in a position where he'd leave Putin to swing so he can focus on his #1 priority of purging the government and military of pro-democracy people. You may be right, but he made all the same noises about tackling the establishment before he got in last time. Once he was in the status quo continued, despite all of the bullshit on the final few days of his tenure. It would be very difficult for a country with a populace that are used to democracy to knowingly and willingly move to a dictatorship. This is especially true in a two party democracy as the outcome would be civil war.
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Post by musik on Jul 27, 2024 20:54:52 GMT
During today (Saturday) the Russian aircraft base Olenya was attacked by droners from Ukraine, according to Ukraine.
This aircraft base is less than 200 km from the Finnish border, and only 370 km from Sweden.
The Finland president Alexander Stubb has been in contact with the Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson about how they will handle this and what to do.
With these things happening close to us no wonder people in Finland and Sweden fear a continuation.
If an invasion, what will other countries do, if anything?
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