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Post by lawrieleslie on Sept 14, 2024 8:18:55 GMT
The Washington meeting didn’t reveal anything regarding the use of Western long range weapons inside Russia itself. Although most of the meeting was unreported due to secrecy wonder why they’ve taken this stance given there was much speculation that western long range weapon use in Russia would be given the green light.
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Post by lordb on Sept 14, 2024 9:10:14 GMT
The Washington meeting didn’t reveal anything regarding the use of Western long range weapons inside Russia itself. Although most of the meeting was unreported due to secrecy wonder why they’ve taken this stance given there was much speculation that western long range weapon use in Russia would be given the green light. They haven't said it's not got the green light either Keep Putin guessing
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Post by terryconroysmagic on Sept 14, 2024 10:07:37 GMT
The Washington meeting didn’t reveal anything regarding the use of Western long range weapons inside Russia itself. Although most of the meeting was unreported due to secrecy wonder why they’ve taken this stance given there was much speculation that western long range weapon use in Russia would be given the green light. They haven't said it's not got the green light either Keep Putin guessing What’s the actual point in keeping Putin guessing. Ridiculous at this stage that a country being attacked and invaded can’t defend itself and inflict damage on the aggressors by targeting strategic assets in the aggressors territory
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on Sept 14, 2024 10:15:12 GMT
They haven't said it's not got the green light either Keep Putin guessing What’s the actual point in keeping Putin guessing. Ridiculous at this stage that a country being attacked and invaded can’t defend itself and inflict damage on the aggressors by targeting strategic assets in the aggressors territory Permissions have been granted in the past, and they were only made public after they had been put into action. Telling the world that the go ahead has been taken will result in Putin taking appropriate defensive measures. Not knowing will cause a mild paralysis.
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Post by terryconroysmagic on Sept 14, 2024 10:17:46 GMT
What’s the actual point in keeping Putin guessing. Ridiculous at this stage that a country being attacked and invaded can’t defend itself and inflict damage on the aggressors by targeting strategic assets in the aggressors territory Permissions have been granted in the past, and they were only made public after they had been put into action. Telling the world that the go ahead has been taken will result in Putin taking appropriate defensive measures. Not knowing will cause a mild paralysis. Are you suggesting he’s not taking appropriate measures until they announce it?
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Post by lawrieleslie on Sept 14, 2024 10:20:59 GMT
They haven't said it's not got the green light either Keep Putin guessing What’s the actual point in keeping Putin guessing. Ridiculous at this stage that a country being attacked and invaded can’t defend itself and inflict damage on the aggressors by targeting strategic assets in the aggressors territory Perhaps keeping him guessing will destroy his ability to effectively deploy anti-missile systems. Apparently there are numerous military targets in russia within range of these long range missiles and doubt he has the ability to protect all of them at once. Hopefully this is the case only time will tell.
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on Sept 14, 2024 10:21:11 GMT
Permissions have been granted in the past, and they were only made public after they had been put into action. Telling the world that the go ahead has been taken will result in Putin taking appropriate defensive measures. Not knowing will cause a mild paralysis. Are you suggesting he’s not taking appropriate measures until they announce it? No, I'm saying that Putin has finite resources, so he can't do everything all at once. Compromises have to take place, so strengthening one area weakens another thus creating opportunities. Keeping the decision quiet may force Putin's hand in ways that can be exploited.
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Post by terryconroysmagic on Sept 14, 2024 10:23:29 GMT
Are you suggesting he’s not taking appropriate measures until they announce it? No, I'm saying that Putin has finite resources, so he can't do everything all at once. Compromises have to take place, so strengthening one area weakens another thus creating opportunities. Keeping the decision quiet may force Putin's hand in ways that can be exploited. Well let’s see but I’m not convinced by that argument Get on with it, the Crimea bridge should be at the bottom of the sea at this stage !
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Post by questionable on Sept 14, 2024 11:35:30 GMT
No, I'm saying that Putin has finite resources, so he can't do everything all at once. Compromises have to take place, so strengthening one area weakens another thus creating opportunities. Keeping the decision quiet may force Putin's hand in ways that can be exploited. Well let’s see but I’m not convinced by that argument Get on with it, the Crimea bridge should be at the bottom of the sea at this stage ! Strange that it’s still in one piece, I’ve read an article basically saying that from the last attack the damage caused is irreparable, hence Ukraine had concentrated on the boats that transported fuel rather than rail via the bridge, I also read an article from a Dutch engineer stating that given the tidal patterns the bridge is fooked given the erosion of the sea bed. Putin now stating that deeper incursions with NATO weapons will put us at war with them, in a minute way we’re there anyway as Putin won’t stop or forget what’s been supplied to Ukraine so far and the devastation it’s caused. Israel still have a part to play and I think an example in Iran will be a show of force against Putin.
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Post by hcstokie on Sept 15, 2024 6:08:58 GMT
Looks like the Russian troops trapped in Kursk are trying to counter attack Ukrainian positions and break out. Ukraine counter attacked the Russian positions within hours, so it looks like they’ve lured them into a trap.
Expect to see some significant changes in Kursk over the next few days. I predict a large number of Russian POWs and Ukraine swallowing up much of, if not all, of the pocket of territory south of the Seym river.
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Post by LDE76 on Sept 15, 2024 11:25:04 GMT
I mentioned a few weeks back that I'd read Shaun Pinner's book, where he describes being tortured after being taken into Russian captivity. Here's one of his latest tweets, where he talks about the role of RT:
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Post by mtrstudent on Sept 15, 2024 16:55:53 GMT
I'm still moving flats but checking the news, thanks LDE (sorry - hcstokie!) for posting updates on Kursk, a lot is happening but it's not clear exactly where things are!
Also Russia is still dropping glide bombs and missiels on civilian targets. The sickest ones to me are where they post videos of them hunting down civilians with drones. Fucking monsters.
Air raid damage;
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Post by LDE76 on Sept 15, 2024 16:59:28 GMT
I'm still moving flats but checking the news, thanks LDE for posting updates on Kursk, a lot is happening but it's not clear exactly where things are! Also Russia is still dropping glide bombs and missiels on civilian targets. The sickest ones to me are where they post videos of them hunting down civilians with drones. Fucking monsters. Air raid damage; Think the Kursk posts were someone else
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Post by mtrstudent on Sept 15, 2024 17:04:21 GMT
Near the bottom right corner of the front is Vulhedar. Russia is pouring armour into attacking the areas around this "hinge".
The current worse situation is near Pokrovsk, where Russia is pouring in infantry. Videos show hundreds of russian corpses as they just keep coming.
Having used up the free and cheap meat, Russia now has to pay about 2.5 million ₱ signing bonuses (£21k) for new meat. So it's getting more expensive.
Lots of things are coming together to push up their costs. They desperately want trump to force a Ukrainian surrender before next year when their amount budgeted for the war drops by half. If democrats win then Russia will have to take on masses of debt at 20%+ interest or do other extremely painful things.
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Post by LDE76 on Sept 15, 2024 17:15:36 GMT
It's being suggested that Russian forces have been transferred from Pokrovsk to Kursk, to deal with the Ukrainian incursion. Whether this will help relieve some of the pressure in Donetsk Oblast, even temporarily, remains to be seen.
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Post by mtrstudent on Sept 15, 2024 18:44:02 GMT
It's being suggested that Russian forces have been transferred from Pokrovsk to Kursk, to deal with the Ukrainian incursion. Whether this will help relieve some of the pressure in Donetsk Oblast, even temporarily, remains to be seen. That'll be good if confirmed! So far they've really avoided removing anything serious from there I think. The units I saw with proven ID were from other areas. There's a Ukrainian soldier in Chasiv Yar (near Bakhmut) and he said the russian drone numbers dropped because the russians moved the operators away somewhere. He guessed Kursk.
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Post by mtrstudent on Sept 15, 2024 18:45:24 GMT
It's being suggested that Russian forces have been transferred from Pokrovsk to Kursk, to deal with the Ukrainian incursion. Whether this will help relieve some of the pressure in Donetsk Oblast, even temporarily, remains to be seen. That'll be good if confirmed! So far they've really avoided removing anything serious from there I think. The units I saw with proven ID were from other areas. There's a Ukrainian soldier in Chasiv Yar (near Bakhmut) and he said the russian drone numbers dropped because the russians moved the operators away somewhere. He guessed Kursk.
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Post by scfcno1fan on Sept 15, 2024 19:57:11 GMT
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Post by Olgrligm on Sept 16, 2024 11:36:18 GMT
Is this assassination attempt bad news in the case of a Trump victory?
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Post by mtrstudent on Sept 16, 2024 14:54:35 GMT
Is this assassination attempt bad news in the case of a Trump victory? This looks fucking terrible. Trump was going to try and help Putin win anyway. This attempt makes it more likely that Trump wins the election. Seems like journalists back in 2022 thought he was a nutjob. Voted Trump in 2016, but also pro Taiwan, Palestine and Ukraine. Maybe trump's position on them made him go crazy.
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Post by mtrstudent on Sept 16, 2024 15:25:02 GMT
Something is still happening in Kursk. Ukraine has the light blue bit but the Russian governor seems to have issued an evacuation order in a new area to the West.
I think Ukraine wants to cut off the bit to the left of the blue because there's an easily defendable river above it.
The question is whether they have the resources to even try?
According to public claims, Russia doesn't have a huge amount of pontoon bridge units. They keep using them in Kursk and Ukraine gets to destroy them pretty cheaply, so I guess they're achieving something.
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Post by mtrstudent on Sept 16, 2024 15:56:21 GMT
Budanov is a bit of a bullshitter and a troll but I think he's right that Russia is going to see serious effects in 2025, unless Republicans win US elections and can slow things down. The russian federal budget plans a huge drop in war funding next year. But! Things can change. - I thought Russia would have ammunition problems by now, then North Korea sent them millions of shells. - Urals oil prices rose, worth about $30 billion more this year than I'd hoped. That's huge. - European incompetence delayed ammo supplies and the republicans' pro-Putin blockade saved a *ton* of russia's units. Each of these things delayed Russia's reckoning.
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Post by mtrstudent on Sept 16, 2024 23:18:38 GMT
Moscow Times says Qatari howitzers are going to Ukraine. The deal is brokered by Germany. There are some other weapons hanging around in the middle east that could be useful for Ukraine...
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Post by mtrstudent on Sept 17, 2024 14:49:17 GMT
Corpse in Ukrainian uniform with hands tied and a sword through the chest, in russian controlled area. Posted by russians.
There are some who say this can't be true because why would Russia be so obvious about their crimes? I would answer because they're encouraged and not punished. I just can't deny what witnesses tell me, satellite imagery of murdered civilians and hundreds of videos *filmed and posted by russians* as they mutilate or kill innocents.
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Post by mtrstudent on Sept 17, 2024 17:15:09 GMT
Ukraine have had more luck hitting big russian ammo dumps recently. Satellite pics prove the damage. The videos have been impressive.
No idea how much explosive is in each one but for some the explosions were booming for hours.
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Post by mtrstudent on Sept 18, 2024 4:40:51 GMT
Not confirmed yet but seems to be new and seems to be the russian 107th arsenal exploding. The rumble sounds like "secondaries" from ammunition exploding. 🥰
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Post by Northy on Sept 18, 2024 6:38:49 GMT
Not confirmed yet but seems to be new and seems to be the russian 107th arsenal exploding. The rumble sounds like "secondaries" from ammunition exploding. 🥰 That looks a good viewing 👌
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Post by questionable on Sept 18, 2024 13:48:48 GMT
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Post by mtrstudent on Sept 18, 2024 15:31:23 GMT
That's just a profile with a pretty lady in the picture. Is that your OMG? 😲
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Post by mtrstudent on Sept 18, 2024 16:06:19 GMT
Satellite pictures seem to show only four of the "hardened" depots blew up. Dozens seem to have survived 😭
There's a massive storage area to the NW that's covered by smoke in the pics I saw, and NASA fire detection had it lit up last night so maybe there's more damage.
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