Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread

[Lone MacReady]

right now propagandized westerners are unironically plastering more ukraine flags everywhere than actual ukrainians so this might actually be believable lmao

Literal porn sites are doing it, stunning and brave, truly. The same sites that use Ukrainian sex slaves really do #care about their proud people.

 

[Meat Target]

Asshole.
Cats don't hang with hillbillies

There's no need to be so grumpy on the internet.

You'll be laughing real hard when Putin target's these servers for the first nuke attack knowing that the west will be over run with disoriented aspies throwing tendies everywhere

Silly goose, we want that!

"Blessed are the aspies, for they shall inherit the earth."

 

[A_Callow_Youth]

I still think it's because Russia's not needed to play the propaganda game. Ukraine can have a thousand videos and stories about Ghosts of Kyiv and telling Russian ships to fuck off, but it ultimately doesn't matter since it quickly gets revealed as bullshit. Russia doesn't need to pretend it's winning when it has unopposed tanks near the capital.

When those tanks have been sitting there for a month, I'm not sure I'd call it "unopposed". The Ukrainian government went very heavy-handed on the propaganda effort from day 1, and I think that's soured things a lot, because we all remember that disparity between what Zelensky was saying and "Russian tanks at the outskirts of Kiev in 36 hours". The thing is, for all the media bullshit, Ukraine is holding out, and I think it's a disservice to let our hateboner for the mainstream news lead us to assume that the situation on the ground has to be the polar opposite of whatever they say.

 

[The Bovinian Derivative]

Adults don't have avatars like that.

I am an anonymous frogfaced highschool girl(male) of the 21st century.

 

[Wy4M]

"According to reports the Ukrainian 79th Air Assault Brigade garrison in Mykolaiv was hit by a Russian missile strike, with very heavy casualties."

It's also reported in this article that out of 200 men who were there, 90 % of them didn't survive the strike.

https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/raketattack-i-morse-levande-och-doda--gravs-ut-ur-ruinerna/

This site has NSFW images (dead bodies)

5 days ago an army base got bombed. You would think they learned from that.
Maybe it's Ukrainian stubbornness?

 

[kuuu]

Mariupol.

— :incomplete sentence: -in a private (living) sector, they bury them where they were living.
— Were Ukrainian forces helping you in any way? Gave you a green corridor(safe passage for evac)?
— Not at all. Not at all, nobody was giving anyone anything nor did they allow us safe corridor.
:female crying: — We were all sitting in basements.
— Azov cunts were.. People were trying to leave and Azov were shooting people, pidorasi suka -
— What were Azov doing?
— They were shooting columns of civilians trying to leave for Volodarsk(?) in buses, fuck.

 

[IamnottheNSA]

You'll be laughing real hard when Putin target's these servers for the first nuke attack knowing that the west will be over run with disoriented aspies

Yes.
Your point?

 

[Kenya Jones]

Would it really be that hard to get a large amount of Muscovites to show up to a pro-war rally? The Levada-Center has Putin all the way up to 71% approval since the war started and I've seen interviews with people who are convinced they're cleansing Ukraine of Nazism and stopping a genocide.

Well, I do not know how much you can trust a place that will jail you for saying anything against the "special operation". I do think however that it is a sizeable portion of the population are for it though, but I do not believe 70% are for it.

When those tanks have been sitting there for a month, I'm not sure I'd call it "unopposed". The Ukrainian government went very heavy-handed on the propaganda effort from day 1, and I think that's soured things a lot, because we all remember that disparity between what Zelensky was saying and "Russian tanks at the outskirts of Kiev in 36 hours". The thing is, for all the media bullshit, Ukraine is holding out, and I think it's a disservice to let our hateboner for the mainstream news lead us to assume that the situation on the ground has to be the polar opposite of whatever they say.

IMO doing everything opposite to what the MSM is saying is just as dumb as going with everything they are saying.

 

[DumbDude42]

5 days ago an army base got bombed. You would think they learned from that.
Maybe it's Ukrainian stubbornness?

what do you expect them to do? preemptively abandon all military bases during times of war? that's not workable

 

[Kenya Jones]

Just found a very cool site. Shows the vehicles lost on both sides (that have been seen on camera).
Link
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[Wy4M]

what do you expect them to do? preemptively abandon all military bases during times of war? that's not workable

Put soldiers into kindergartens/schools and put the kids, women inside the military bases.
Also the men above the age of 60.

 

[Mussi]

Well, I do not know how much you can trust a place that will jail you for saying anything against the "special operation". I do think however that it is a sizeable portion of the population are for it though, but I do not believe 70% are for it.

According to the Levada-Center, 58% are for the war and 23% are against it. This isn't a governmental poll, LC is highly respected and seen as accurate. They have Putin's popularity at a four year high. It seems most Russians are buying the propaganda and are more angry at the West.

 

[SneedEyeMitch]

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There's a whole world out there and it's got alot of beef with the west more than it does with Russia.

Who's ready for the United States of Eurasia?

 

[The Other Baldwin]

Remember that "hottie" that took up arms to Defend Ukraine and Is Totally Not A Guy?

Well bad news, my dudes. Depending on what you are into...

https://twitter.com/kiraincongress/status/1504776428637798401?s=20&t=Hz4kSmNUbi9hQ_B8jl43lA

.....a rocket is going to hit your home alright.

 

[ColtWalker1847]

Looks like a ton of T-80's. Nothing new in the tanks department, but just a lot of them.

These must be the reinforcements from 5th CAA that there have been rumblings about over the last few days. You also have that other unit coming out of South Ossetia, a part of the 58th, that is on it's way too.

Russia doesn't need to pretend it's winning when it has unopposed tanks near the capital.

"unopposed"
You have a funny definition of words.

 

[Aidan]

Put soldiers into kindergartens/schools and put the kids, women inside the military bases.
Also the men above the age of 60.

I was wrong before. Ukraine is The Joker and Russia is The Batman. Omg this is just like in The Dark Knight!!!!

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I find it interesting how we still have people saying Russian missiles are hilariously inaccurate while simultaneously lamenting that same accuracy that has resulted in at least 200 confirmed kills in the past week.
Russia simultaneously can't hit an airstrip but can hit specific buildings.

 

[kuuu]

Meanwhile in Kharkov

Spoiler: NSFW

Meanwhile in "Kiev"

I've said it before, I'll say it again:
There is only one way to stop this and that's for Ukrainian higher ups to suck it up and surrender.
Whoever thinks they can win is delusional.
Putin isn't gonna stop. Can't stop, wouldn't stop. Literally.
West will not stop egging Ukrainians either nor will they provide any real help. Because yuros need gas.
A fucking tragedy none of us probably expected to witness in our lifetimes.

 

[No. 7 cat]

Aftermath of a Russian missle attack on the Lvov state aviation repair facility.

Source

RU certain seem to be making using of a method of attack the Ukrainians appear not be able to counter so well, and these attacks close to the border, might be about sending a message that there's quiet rear areas and that Russia isn't over delicate about what Poland or other nearby states might think. Perhaps.

 

[Aidan]

Meanwhile in Kharkov

Spoiler: NSFW

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Meanwhile in "Kiev"
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I said it before, I'll say it again:
There is only one way to stop this and that's for Ukrainian higher ups to suck it up and surrender.
Whoever thinks they can win is delusional.
Putin isn't gonna stop. Can't stop, wouldn't stop. Literally.
West will not stop egging Ukrainians either nor will they provide any real help. Because yuros need gas.
A fucking tragedy none of us probably expected to witness in out lifetimes.

Is that Zelensky vid supposed to actually imply he's outside in Kiev or is it just there as a backdrop? It's so unconvincing I struggle to think they're trying to convince anyone with it. For all I know it could be an edit over an easily chroma keyed background, it's that bad.

 

[The Ugly One]

— What were Azov doing?
— They were shooting columns of civilians trying to leave for Volodarsk(?) in buses, fuck.

OMG! It's just like Captain Marvel and the Avengers! Slava Ukrainia!