The end?

borolad259 said:
It is though good to remember that they are so unarmoured that they lack doors and windshields.

Beside this they are using 4-wheel mini-thingies, that variety that is famous for tipping over and crushing their owners.
And this is sprinkled in with Ladas rampacked with soldiers driving like crazy towards the Ukrainians.

We are still seeing tanks and armoured vehicles, but the columns are now gone or smaller, instead they use one or two tanks and a couple of armoured vehicles during attacks, interspersed with the more "unusual stuff
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Does anyone read this and get the impression that Putin watched Mad Max 2 when he was high at Uni and thought it was a documentary?

All jokes aside, this seems insane even by the Russian standards of care we've seen so far. It's almost too bizarre to believe - especially the bit about soldiers acting as mine-clearers in front of the vehicles. I really don't understand why the troops haven't just turned around and started shooting the other way.
 
USA has gone from a global super power, to a weak self interested country with no backbone. For god sake Ukraine is getting bombarded every night by a foreign country. And all the USA can say is "do not retaliate"
 
What else can I tell you .... ten bases and some field hospitals are being built in Romania. The bases intended to cope with 2 to 10,000 people.

Some stuff from yesterday

"Oil
Russia is in **** creek now in regards of oil.
They just ordered Belarus to supply 50 million barrels per year from now on to supplement what they produce themselves.
This is the entire Belarusian output, and it is far from enough.
Obviously the Belarusians will not be happy about having no fuel.

The other large supplier of Fuel to Russia is Kazakhstan.
One does not need to ponder that much over if Kazakhstan will shaft Russia, it is more a question about when.
Now do you really need to ponder if Budanov will hit a few more oil refineries.

Now, many are asking themselves why Russia is not defending their refineries, after all without those there will be no war for Russia.
Thing is that the refineries have asked for Air Defence systems to be placed around them by the Russian army.
But, the Russian army in their stupendously stupefying wisdom has decreed that the refineries will have to sort that out themselves.

Besides the implication about the availability of Air Defence Systems and Missiles, it also speaks volumes of the shortsightedness of Russia.
Where the heck are the refinery owners supposedly get Air Defence Units and Missiles?
After all the Russian army is getting what little is produced already.
Budanov is though happy about the endemic and emetic Russian stupidity, after all it makes it much simpler for him to blow up more refineries, deeper and deeper, as longer ranged drones become available he will get them all.
And, he will obviously tap the already hit ones again.

The Russian Government are now making certain that there will be priorisations and quotas for fuel.
1. Russian Defence Force
2. Defence Industry
3. Other essential Industry
4. Farmers
5. The rest

There will be a quota system put in place shortly, and then there will be a free market with market prices that will be extremely high, and obviously a black market with soldiers emptying their tanks to sell oil, and others selling larger amounts.
Oopa!

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Not much is happening really.
Avdivka is contested right now with both sides swapping small fields back and forth.
But none are making any real progress, Ukraine is sort of happy for now with this.

Chasiv Yar is highly contested by Russia, buthere they are getting nowhere while loosing quite a lot of soldiers and equipment, it is clear that this is the new area of main offensive, at least for now.
But, next week Rasputitsa is expected to set in, so if they want to continue the offensive they will have to take a healthy mud bath.
Same is basically true for the Kupyansk sector, ambling Russians being boofed by drones and artillery.

Down at Robotyne Russia is pushing hard, but so far not really getting any traction, this will probably become the new main offencive of Russia since the area is less prone to be Rasputitsa'd to ****.

In Kherson the distance between the Oleshky and Krynky salients have shrunk considerably, Krynky and Kozachi Laheri are still active, but right now the focus is at Oleshky to expand the bridgehead there.
The reason is simple, it is a spot where it is fairly easy to build and sustain a pontoon bridge later on, and it has a good port facility that can be used if the bridgehead is increased sufficiently.
Russia is now having a slow negative movement here, and the slow implosion is still ongoing.

In general the Russian offensives are though coming to a halt, both due to weather and staffing/equipment issues.
And this for now suits Ukraine fine since they are slowly getting the upper hand in the artillery war again, so they can return to shelling and droning Russians while eating borstj for the next couple of months.".

The Russians are now sending troops to Bilhorod and, for some reason, blowing up bridges across the oblast.

I suspect the next update will be tomorrow.
 
I saw the clip of them going into war in a golf cart and getting wiped out.
WTF is wrong with these people!!!!
It's the stuff of very bad comedy, beyond any fantasy.
Imagine being forced to do such a thing and the morale of them all at the front knowing they could be next.

How is it this is hidden from the Russian public? And if it isnt why arent they up in arms against Putin?

None of it makes any sense FFS.
 
Nero80 said:
Breaking news, is this linked to the war?


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68642162
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Apparently ISIS have claimed responsibility for this incident. There was some kind of shoot out in Ingushetia a little while back and that is being linked with this incident.
No doubt Russia will now find some dubious link to Ukraine so they can use that as the excuse to mobilise more Russian civilians for this awful war.
 
zzzzz said:
I saw the clip of them going into war in a golf cart and getting wiped out.
WTF is wrong with these people!!!!
It's the stuff of very bad comedy, beyond any fantasy.
Imagine being forced to do such a thing and the morale of them all at the front knowing they could be next.

How is it this is hidden from the Russian public? And if it isnt why arent they up in arms against Putin?

None of it makes any sense FFS.
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As a depressed person, often, not all the time, I F***ing worry. Will this ever end?
 
ChrisChefYork said:
I haven't felt so down in a long time. I just can't be arsed anymore
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I know how you feel. My Mrs says that I always take the news and start spitting venom…..look for the good, she says……what fcing good? People are dying and starving at the hands of lunatics who have no right to treat other human beings these ways. It’s incredibly depressing. I hope the people of Ukraine, Palestine, Russia, Sudan, Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan……..the list seems endless. I hope the nightmares end for these families as soon as possible, but I have no faith my hope will come to fruition.
 
Druss_The_Legend said:
Apparently ISIS have claimed responsibility for this incident. There was some kind of shoot out in Ingushetia a little while back and that is being linked with this incident.
No doubt Russia will now find some dubious link to Ukraine so they can use that as the excuse to mobilise more Russian civilians for this awful war.
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It seems the US (and several other governments, according to reports) warned the Russians about a possible terrorist attack. The US had also advised their citizens in Russia to avoid any large gatherings, such as concerts.

US warned Russia about a potential terrorist attack in Moscow
 
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