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%

  • Total voters
    694
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It's from Euromaidan back in 2014

Supposedly from Kyiv but I have some doubts
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A part of me is wondering if Russia is going to seize Kiev in one night, or attempt to besiege it and wait it out. There's active gunfire sure, but those can be infiltration units slipping in during the night to try and harass and keep Ukrainian units up and exhausted. At the same time if Russian units are out in force and pushing hard I wouldn't be surprised. They have superior night-fighting equipment and more of it. A molotov is deadly but what's essentially militia is at a strong disadvantage at night. Either way, I kind of hope that Kiev turns into a blood-bath. This may be my Reagan-loving zoomer ass talking, but no matter how globo-homo the world gets dead Russians always give me a pang of pure, unadulterated joy.
Taking a large metropolitan city in a night is almost impossible to do I dont think you understand how large a major city is.
 
Didn't realize the Ukrainians had done that all the way back then. It's just something that I've only noticed in the past year in all the major media started using the new spelling.
The United States Board on Geographic Names adopted the new spelling in 2019 The Associated Press will follow what they say on spellings and all the other US media will tend to do what AP does.
What the board on Geographic names in the US does means way more than what any idiot country does.
 
Kyiv is an English transliteration of the actual name of the city. Kiev is the English version of the name, it's easier to pronounce for English native speakers. It's kinda like how Moscow is called, well, Moscow in English, but the Russian name is pronounced more like Moskva. Or, for example, Vienna (the German name is Wien) or Prague (the Czech name is Praha). Pretty much any major city in Europe has different names in different languages.
People get really pissy about this shit, I had someone call me a Russian sympathizer because I accidentally said "The Ukraine" instead of Ukraine.
 
New silk road is why they are natural allies.
Yeah but for how long? Once a common foe is out of the picture things change, it's not like May 1945 was a storybook happy ending for Europe. Hell the USSR and China were the closest of friends then they turned against each other fairly quickly, almost to the point of nuclear war. America even exploited this by opening trade and diplomacy to China in the 1970s.
 
A part of me is wondering if Russia is going to seize Kiev in one night, or attempt to besiege it and wait it out. There's active gunfire sure, but those can be infiltration units slipping in during the night to try and harass and keep Ukrainian units up and exhausted. At the same time if Russian units are out in force and pushing hard I wouldn't be surprised. They have superior night-fighting equipment and more of it. A molotov is deadly but what's essentially militia is at a strong disadvantage at night. Either way, I kind of hope that Kiev turns into a blood-bath. This may be my Reagan-loving zoomer ass talking, but no matter how globo-homo the world gets dead Russians always give me a pang of pure, unadulterated joy.

You cannot take a city in a night if it's defended. Even the USA took a few days to take Baghdad and the city was largely undefended.
 
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