Russia-Ukraine Invasion
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- neverscared0
Ukrainian Video Game Studio Offers Fans Chance to Write Message on Artillery Shell
Frogwares is celebrating its successful Sherlock Holmes Kickstarter campaign by giving fans a chance to write a message on an artillery
- yuekit0
More horrific atrocities carried out by Wagner Group mercenaries in Africa...what is it with Russian soldiers?
The 32-year-old said he watched from afar as about a dozen Russian paramilitaries dragged the wives of two of his neighbors out of the compound, stabbed them in their abdomen and then disemboweled the two women.
"The women were screaming and begging for mercy...the white soldiers [as many in CAR refer to Wagner mercenaries as] didn’t listen. They killed the women and removed their stomach and intestines."
- PhanLo0
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- grafician-1
"US: Russia to buy rockets, artillery shells from North Korea"
https://apnews.com/article/russi…
"“It does demonstrate and is indicative of the situation that Russia finds itself in, in terms of its logistics and sustainment capabilities as it relates to Ukraine,” said Ryder, in the administration’s first public comments on the intelligence assessment. “We assess that things are not going well on that front for Russia.”"
- Nairn3
I find the idea of sponsoring munitions with a slogan utterly disgusting. There should be no place for this, no matter sense of aggrievement or revenge.
But then...
- this isn't new, you just get the opportunity to see war in details never seen before.sted
- I meant specifically people paying to have messages written on, via the internets. I know soldiers have been 'dedicating' shells forever.Nairn
- probably boosts morale against the cut off balls invaders...and spills some money into the war chest ...neverscared
- Haha that will teach whoever this murdersjagara
- Nothing new!
https://preview.redd…Hayzilla
- NBQ001
Ukraine is making some nice progress on the counter offensive. Slow and steady.
- yuekit3
‘We have already lost’: far-right Russian bloggers slam military failures
- NBQ002
Things are moving fast now, especially in the east.
Ukrainian troops tear down a Russian flag from the radio tower in Yasynuvate & replace it with a Ukrainian one.
Why does this matter?
The radio tower is 40+ km east of Balakliya.
As the map that I will post below shows, the Russians in Izyum are nearly cut off from the north!
- drgs0
Most European empires have left their imperial complexes in the 20th century. Russia is the only European ex-empire which was preserved through USSR till 1991 and still hasn't digested it.
There is one large difference: West-Europe was mostly thalassocracies/empires at sea and it was only natural for their remote maritime realms to drop off at some point because of the distances.
Russia is an empire at land shaped by its geography. Even if it falls apart all of its members remain to be neighbors, so it's sort of never "off the table".
The other two land empires in Europe are the Roman empire, which is already in the past, and the German empire, which was forever castrated in WW2.
Russia needs to have a similar humiliating defeat as Germany -- a death of their collective ego. Russians look down on Ukrainians as younger siblings, so a Ukrainian victory is the perfect scenario. Ukraine absolutely must win.
Discuss
- Well, it looks like Ukraine is in the process now of winning. In the past days 1000 square kilometres have been recaptured.NBQ00
- The humiliating defeat of Germany in WW1 played a part in radicalising Hitler.Chimp
- Whatever happens, dont sell your first row tickets to this history show, next decade will be interestingdrgs
- @chump - Not quite - it was the humiliating terms set upon Germany in her defeat, by France principally, that created the Third Reich.Nairn
- lol, sorry - "@chImp"!!
@drgs - I'm pretty sure I've said as much about Russia needing 'a korrektion' in this thread prior.Nairn - ..but interesting to put it into terms of sea vs. land empires..Nairn
- Very true, good points drgs. Russia should have followed the rest of Europe towards social democracy which was what Gorbachev wanted.yuekit
- I think Russia already went through the first humiliating defeat which was the collapse of the USSR and loss of their imperialist territories like Ukraine.yuekit
- So Putin is more like Hitler coming to power after his country was already defeated. Hitler fought in WW1, Putin was a KGB agent stationed in East Germanyyuekit
- where he watched the USSR collapse. The boomer ex-KGB officials running Russia are still obsessed with fighting the West.yuekit
- NBQ000
- back to 6 month ago?
https://www.qbn.com/…
they gain ground, kill more. ruskies will gather intel, regroup and kill more in the next round.uan - Ruskies are running out of soldiers and working equipmentyuekit
- https://i.gifer.com/…pablo28
- back to 6 month ago?
- yuekit2
- Ukraine+NATOpablo28
- Aww Pablo, sorry your Orcs are losing.NBQ00
- https://i.gifer.com/…pablo28
- yuekit2
Soon...
- but with a squeakier voice and a lot more foot shufflingNairn
- https://i.gifer.com/…pablo28
- yuekit0
Ukraine's next opportunity is to cut off the thousands of Russian soldiers stationed in the city of Izyum
- Russians perfectly know this (and I think it's part of the plan) and finally the ukro troops are going to be baggedOBBTKN
- You serious or joking? Russians seem shocked by what's happeningyuekit
- OBB I hope you're being sarcasticNBQ00
- russian drones from iran are malfunction so hard...neverscared
- Don't know what's going to happen on this, but it's not going to be the first time the ukranian mil says they're gaining positions, and in the end they lose itOBBTKN
- I don't know who once said it, but he defined the Russian army as difficult to measure...OBBTKN
- Neither as powerful as it seems nor as weak as you expectOBBTKN
- UghNBQ00
- https://i.gifer.com/…pablo28
