Russian Invasion of Ukraine (2022): Thread 1 - Ukrainian Liars vs Russian Liars with Air and Artillery Superiority

How well is the combat this going for Russia?

  • ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Blyatskrieg

    Votes: 46 6.6%

  • ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A well planned strike with few faults

    Votes: 45 6.5%

  • ⭐⭐⭐ Competent attack with some upsets

    Votes: 292 42.1%

  • ⭐⭐ Worse than expected

    Votes: 269 38.8%

  • ⭐ Ukraine takes back Crimea 2022

    Votes: 42 6.1%
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tyko said:
It's obviously too early to say, but from all the reports it seems like Russia is dominating right now.
Meanwhile the western media is going on about how Putin doesn't know what he is doing, trying to spin it like Russia is losing because the stock market temporarily went down.
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Russia is likely not losing engagements, but this hasn't come for free either. There are already videos of fireballs in the sky as Ukrainian AA fire at Russian jets.
I'm not sure if Ukraine us worth all those jets and bombs.
 
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Disheveled Human said:
The worst thing I can see from the front line footage is the lack of fortified defenses, like no sandbags no trenches, no landmines, nothing.... NATO and the UN really tried to make Ukraine out to look like a martyr in all of this, its that or the Ukrainian military are that incompetent. They had a long time to setup some basic perimeter defenses to at least slow the Russians down or force choke points on them.
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All of the static defenses were at the border, and it's looking like they got rolled over in 3 hours, tops. We're still very much in the "OH SHIT OH FUCK OH SHIT OH FUCK" stage, and I'd be surprised if the Ukranian government has much clearer of a picture than we do. Right now, there's going to be a giant clusterfuck going on in Command and Control, between comms lines going down, people running the fuck away, people trying to fall back to somewhere where they can get set up, people trying to pull hero shit, conflicting orders coming from people each thinking the levels above or below them are gone, Private News Network going haywire, people trying to get on the radio with units that don't exist anymore, or maybe they do and they're so deep in the shit that they can't respond, and every other form of communications breakdown known to man. Shit's fucked, and even under best-case scenario, it's going to take a few days for the picture to clear itself up. Only question is if the war's going to last that long.
 
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I have to say, I find the moralising and screaming about international law/justice/whatever from world leaders pretty funny in all of this.

Don't know about the rest of you but I'm old enough to remember NATO bombing Yugoslavia into submission. I know they have to put on the moralising show for everyone but it's just a little bit funny for me personally.
 
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Smity Werbenjagermanjensen said:
Russian troops put up a flag in New Kakhovka, goddamn barely encountered any resistance.
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Российский флаг водружают на здание администрации Новой Каховки. #Россия #Украина @rybar
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Well, if they've just walked in like that there, then presumably either the Ukrainians are going to try to hold west of the Dnieper river, or they've just given up entirely and only have a few units actually fighting back on their own accords.
 
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Estolysis said:
Ukraine keeps saying they're successfully pushing back the Russians, whilst on the Kherson front (the Crimean invasion) they're over 100 km deep into Ukraine and finding abandoned Ukranian vehicles. It's hard to know what's true, there's so much propaganda.
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We'll learn more as time moves on. Just got to keep an eye on things.
 
Prosphora said:
An entire squadron of helicopters are wrecking the entire place
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Pure kino.

I would like to remind all the warmongers like @Techpriest - each one of those helicopters could take out your entire local police force.

Just because Russia has a weaker currency doesn't make their enormous fleet of heavy tanks and helicopters any less lethal - and you overestimate your own technological edge.
 
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Larry David's Opera Cape said:
They are already unironically cranking things up for that meme's rhetoric:


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So the strike is most significant because it is a "holy place for Hasidim"? And when was the last time they lived there, sorta doubt that they still do...
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Oh no, they're back, and they're the single craziest hasidic sect imaginable (search "Eliezer Berland"). I posted a while ago that they requested weapons from the Ukrainian military for "self-defense". The annual pilgrimage on Rosh Hashanah draws tens of thousands, and there's a small community of a couple hundred people that lives there year round.
 
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