Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread

[Simpadoo]

Bro, it's not that people don't like you because your face is slightly too wide or your hairline is receding, it's because if you believe shit like this you're a self-loathing faggot that brings it up all the time instead of actually trying to improve yourself.

The thesis of the video is that a wider face is better, so you probably meant narrower face and also reveals you didn’t even watch the video.

 

[Elbereth]

You need to actually read more than the headline, the contracts have 30 day payment terms so Russia won't consider the payments missed till roughly end of this month to mid next month depending on the specific contract.

No. The western media said "Putin said" and you repeat it.

We are in level of denial that should not be possible

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

So it seems that the next big battle will happen in Donbass region (Luhansk, Donetsk)

It's either that or expanding the Crimea corridor wider to allow more transport routes to Crimea that would lead to multiple attack fronts from the South. The Donbass region looks like it's going to be a major attack point in the future so it'll be worthwhile to have as much of the area around it surrounded by tanks and support in order to creep forward.

 

[Ilfitir]

Why are they painted with the Extinction Rebellion logo?
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To mark that this is trophy.

 

[UVB-76]

Kids at War is horrible. I agree with you on that. And not putting your own children in danger is not the own; it is a top priority.And failure to provide safety for them doesn't make people sympathize with the adults of these children, especially when it was entirely avoidable and was entirely ignored. It makes people concerned for children and angry at adults.

And the adults are more concerned with clay than children or babushkas.
Either way, if I was going to concern troll about children being taught to fight, I wouldn't have Chechens on camera. They've crafted the image that they'd probably think that's based as fuck.

I would have agreed if Russia didn't have conscription.
Alas, we do.

And conscripts supposedly can't be sent on operations outside of Russian territory.

 

[naffatune]

I see 3 trucks and 3 AFVs under tow, another 2 AFVs turned around backwards preparing to be towed, a couple trucks close enough together to hookup a towbar, a fuel tanker with a tarp trying to hide the tank, and engineering trucks. That's not a convoy, that's a bunch of broke down shit.

It's definitely possible that some the vehicles being towed are broken, but still, there are many APCs in the column that are clearly free.

Also, just because a vehicle is being towed doesn't mean it's broken. They could be bringing it to the battleground, but there's just no people around to drive them; or perhaps they were for drivers already stationed somewhere near the fight

Reminds me of footage of a Russian convoy headed to Zaporozhye that I posted in the last thread. Notice how the MRL is being towed.

 

[Übertroon]

 

[kuuu]

And conscripts supposedly can't be sent on operations outside of Russian territory.

What does this have to do with anything?

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Meanwhile, Kadyrov writes in his telegram that an assault of Azovstal facilities in Maryupol is underway.

https://t.me/s/RKadyrov_95

 

[Borscht]

Ukraine found a way to repay their military loans.

 

[The Last Boyscout]

If you're following the news and hearing about Ukrainian counter-attacks you'd have assumed that they've taken a significant amount of land back from Russia over the past few days. However the following image basically shows how pathetically small the advances on Russia have been. Every minor 'win' for Ukraine is going to result in their equipment being exposed to air attacks and heavy losses, unironically making it easier for Russia to reclaim it with another push.


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putting on my armchair general hat and looking at that map makes me think Ukraine does still have a solid shot at frustrating any larger offensive. if they manage to do these three things:

1.) hold at Mykolaiv and Odessa. probably the easiest for them - very hard to approach either and from predictable directions. plus I think they've fortified the two places by now pretty well.
2.) get a wide enough perimiter around Kevin, so they don't have to station most of their troops there for fear of a possible assault - this could be hard, since it's not just the western force they have to counterattack but also the one across the Dniepr to the east, which they don't seem to have started doing as much at all as of yet.
3.) hold Kharkiv, thereby allowing a gradual retreat of their best units from Luhansk and Donetsk to a second line that extends to the Dnieper. this could be very hard, and idk if they're even willing to contemplate it, but long-term it would definitely be their best bet. if they stay there at Luhansk and Donetsk, I doubt they can withstand all the troops that are coming in from the russian side AND the ones that get released from Mariupol in a matter of days...but if they move back a bit, their resupply lines get much more manageable, as does the frontline itself as they use the river as part of their defense.

if they pulled off those three things, chances are actually pretty good that Russia would be forced to make some very costly (moreso than they have been thus far anyway) and hard choices that would force them to admit they can't go much further. meaning Putin is likely to stop being stubborn and prideful sooner rather than later and peace talks might actually get somewhere. if, on the other hand, Ukraine keeps persisting in trying to defend the frontline in a stretched manner, then methinks that no matter how much lend-lease comes in from the West, it's gonna have a horribly hard time reaching their frontlines to be of any good and they might lose a lot more, if the russians finally unfuck their logistics. ofc it's just as possible that they won't, in which case I guess they can just stay exactly where they are, pray that what they got is enough and continue to not be mobile at all.

 

[No Batty Boys in Jamaica]

I would have agreed if Russia didn't have conscription.
Alas, we do.

Meanwhile in the US, we don't need de facto conscription because poor kids in inner cities and middle America have to choose between free college and healthcare, or working at Walmart.

Countries with free healthcare and college need to have actual conscription to keep their peacetime armies staffed. Totalitarian shitholes like Finland, South Korea, Sweden, and Switzerland all call on their young men to serve.

If you want to read about the worst military conscription in recent history, read about the Derg in Ethiopia.

 

[Animewasamistake]

So Russia who according to the west, cannot find their own ass cheeks if they looked. somehow managed to evacuate a entire army group in the face of the enemy without incident. The Battle for the Donbass has moved ever closer.

 

[Übertroon]

So Russia who according to the west, cannot find their own ass cheeks if they looked. somehow managed to evacuate a entire army group in the face of the enemy without incident. The Battle for the Donbass has moved ever closer.

According to the footage the evacuation was messy and violent. They either blew up a lot of their own equipment they had to leave behind, or were ambushed by Ukrainians.

 

[Shittus Maximus]

So Russia who according to the west, cannot find their own ass cheeks if they looked. somehow managed to evacuate a entire army group in the face of the enemy without incident. The Battle for the Donbass has moved ever closer.

Ukraine is running out of ammunition stores and logistically it's more of a hassle to pursue a retreating army. It's been a constant war for over a month for a war both sides thought wouldn't last that long.

 

[Narcotics]

Question, isn't most of the dumbass already under ruski control? I don't remember quite well.

 

[Hell on Earth]

If you're following the news and hearing about Ukrainian counter-attacks you'd have assumed that they've taken a significant amount of land back from Russia over the past few days. However the following image basically shows how pathetically small the advances on Russia have been. Every minor 'win' for Ukraine is going to result in their equipment being exposed to air attacks and heavy losses, unironically making it easier for Russia to reclaim it with another push.


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Well, look at this map :



They've retreated from the western side of Kevin and they're suffering heavy casualties while doing so as seen on the numerous images and videos of abandoned and destroyed Russian armor and trucks.

Chernihiv is no longer encircled and those two frontlines potruding from the northeast starting from Konotop are more liabilities than boons because the Ukries are operating behind the Russian frontlines.

All of this indicates that the northern front is collapsing for Russia and their initial decapitation operation towards Kevin has been a strategic defeat.

 

[The Last Boyscout]

Kevin is certainly not being taken now. not without a ton of nukes, which we already said would be utterly insane and unnecessary. the real question, though, is how much of the Ukranian army will still have to be tied up in its surroundings to make sure it doesn't get threatened again, rather than get redeployed further out east to bail out the main forces, that are still holding out there and probably running low on supplies themselves by this point.

 

[Borscht]

Ukrainean volunteer rescuing abandoned animals in Yrpen. Hates Russians with a passion, which doesn't make him any less of a hero in my book.

 

[Animewasamistake]

According to the footage the evacuation was messy and violent. They either blew up a lot of their own equipment they had to leave behind, or were ambushed by Ukrainians.
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Remember according to the Ukrainians these guys have had no food, fuel or bullets for weeks. i was more saying its a retreat but not a route.

 

[Übertroon]