It's certainly shallow and narrow enough to cross with a rifle in hand with no problem, and like I said, that's a moot point anyway since you would die if you tried to cross it in those temperatures. Likewise, even if someone was trying to cross it, there look to be narrower points a short distance both up and downstream that you can see in the video.
I expect they'll end up with Donbass, an enlarged Crimea, and the Black Sea coast up to... Odessa, maybe. Ukies may get to keep a bit of coastline in the far west, but access to it will depend on the Russian navy allowing them to use it.
Found it!
lol alright then. Let's ignore everything else I pointed out and assume that's true. I'm pretty sure I can chuck a rifle across that narrow ass creek and pick it up on the other side, and then not have to worry about getting raped later on. This story would have been believable if they'd dropped everything else but their rifles. Ultimately, an unlikely story coming from pathological liars has pretty high odds of being bullshit.
I'm ignoring the debate and beg to ask, why are you so obsessed with rape?
A bonus of potatoes may just be the most Russian thing I've seen this whole thread.
bruh have you ever tried to throw a gun before?
Again, where are these gangs of homosexual rapists prowling the countryside, did Garth Ennis' Crossed just begin in Ukraine?
I'd prefer a 20% differential
And now for a million takes on how Russia losing the battle for Kiev is actually part of the plan.
I have actually and am rather curious as to why you think this is something particularly hard to do.
>fleeing troops have done throughout history
In @mr.moon1488's defense some Russian guys look as effete as a young Björn Andrésen. More than enough to make a starved Ukrainian revolutionary want to bust a nut instead of busting a cap.
Ukraine is making history while Putin drowns in his own distorted past. That's more poetic than visiting the Hague.
according to the russian side, the entire kiev part of the operation was only ever intended to be a distraction, to pin down lots of ukrainian forces in the northwest in order to prevent them from being deployed in the southeast, which is where the russians real war effort is happening
It's pretty much entirely cope. You don't throw that much of the VDV into the meatgrinder alongside thrusts from the 2nd Guards Motor Rifle and 4th Guards Tank Divisions on a 'feint'.
we dont know how many ukr forces were actually pinned or distracted by this feint, how many casualties were inflicted vs how many losses the russians suffered in the process, how much overall value was gained from it, etc. maybe after the war is over we can look back and see clearly, but for now i think we just dont have enough information to know for sure
