Russian invasion of Ukraine

[SPIDERBOY]

It took the Russians 11 month and just shy of 100k losses to take 390 square kilometers in Avdiivka area.
Ukrainian Forces have took 470 square kilometers of Russian territory in 5 days with minimal losses.
Some Russian millbloggers say Ukraine has taken 700 square km.

Slava Ukraini.

 

[SPIDERBOY]

Current Ukrainian control of Russia.
And they aint stopping.
Pretty insane to be honest.
Did Russia brainwash the West into thinking Russia was a super power?

Slava Ukraini.

 

[cleavers]

When you can't admit you are using WW2 tanks and tactics last deployed in Enemy at the Gate I suppose you have to rationalise things somehow

The thing people forget, is that Ukraine troops were here training in their thousands, just to use our tactics, that is why it'll look like our tactics. Not only that, but many other NATO forces tactics too, so NATO tactics will be common.

 

[bluethrunthru]

The thing people forget, is that Ukraine troops were here training in their thousands, just to use our tactics, that is why it'll look like our tactics. Not only that, but many other NATO forces tactics too, so NATO tactics will be common.

yeah but thanks to Putin and his control of the information in Russia that clown will be totally unaware of that

 

[Kirkstall Blue]

He’s got a Ukrainian flag in his back pocket

 

[tregyblue61]

When you can't admit you are using WW2 tanks and tactics last deployed in Enemy at the Gate I suppose you have to rationalise things somehow

11 years ago, pootin and ruSSia were telling the world that Britain is a small island that nobody listens to.

It's been constant throughout pootin's "special military operation," they always mention Britain is doing this, Britain is doing that .

Not so fuckin' small now, are we?

 

[bluethrunthru]

11 years ago, pootin and ruSSia were telling the world that Britain is a small island that nobody listens to.

It's been constant throughout pootin's "special military operation," they always mention Britain is doing this, Britain is doing that .

Not so fuckin' small now, are we?

Like the UK public got done over Covid and people leeched off money that should have gone on the greater good that what the Russian Military has had for decades - money leeched out in corruption which is why they are having to de-mothball old equipment like tanks. Mind you if things got tasty for us I wouldn't fancy the museum at Bovington surviving without being stripped of assets

 

[Streetsweeper]

Like the UK public got done over Covid and people leeched off money that should have gone on the greater good that what the Russian Military has had for decades - money leeched out in corruption which is why they are having to de-mothball old equipment like tanks. Mind you if things got tasty for us I wouldn't fancy the museum at Bovington surviving without being stripped of assets

Russians have been using obsolete stuff for decades. Back in the early 2010’s when I was working in Republic of Congo there a small but growing group of Russian mercenaries in country. They usually flew helicopters - a combination of troop transports and gunships (the Congolese government hardly had any at this point) and the kit they were using was ancient. I got to know one guy in passing as he drank in the same place in Brazzaville as all the NGO staff and MSF medics. He was flying a troop transport converted to a gunship and it looked completely knackered - bits were held on with duct tape and zip ties. I assumed he’s just bought it cheap off the Russian Air Force but he pointed out that he’d actually leased it from them and it was still a part of their current inventory. I looked at it and wondered how long it would have lasted coughing its way into Poland had the big one kicked off before it was either shot down or something vital dropped off. I’m guessing minutes.

He asked me if I wanted a trip round Brazzaville in it and I politely declined, not just because it looked more knackered than my car, but also because I never actually saw him sober.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Russians have been using obsolete stuff for decades. Back in the early 2010’s when I was working in Republic of Congo there a small but growing group of Russian mercenaries in country. They usually flew helicopters - a combination of troop transports and gunships (the Congolese government hardly had any at this point) and the kit they were using was ancient. I got to know one guy in passing as he drank in the same place in Brazzaville as all the NGO staff and MSF medics. He was flying a troop transport converted to a gunship and it looked completely knackered - bits were held on with duct tape and zip ties. I assumed he’s just bought it cheap off the Russian Air Force but he pointed out that he’d actually leased it from them and it was still a part of their current inventory. I looked at it and wondered how long it would have lasted coughing its way into Poland had the big one kicked off before it was either shot down or something vital dropped off. I’m guessing minutes.

He asked me if I wanted a trip round Brazzaville in it and I politely declined, not just because it looked more knackered than my car, but also because I never actually saw him sober.

It works when you are fighting and equally poorly equipped enemy but as Ukraine gets more inventory and training in the West its no longer a winning strategy - given the history out there as losses wrack up for sweet fuck all and if the ongoing war is taken onto Russian soil Putin becomes under threat from within

 

[LGWIO]

I would like to think that Ukraine will put out some press release in the next few days around the "liberation" of Kursk Oblast and announce a poll on it being re-united with its fellow freedom loving people in Ukraine.