Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread

How well is the war this going for Russia?

  • ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Blyatskrieg

    Votes: 249 10.6%

  • ⭐⭐⭐⭐ I ain't afraid of no Ghost of Kiev

    Votes: 278 11.8%

  • ⭐⭐⭐ Competent attack with some upsets

    Votes: 796 33.7%

  • ⭐⭐ Stalemate

    Votes: 659 27.9%

  • ⭐ Ukraine takes back Crimea 2022

    Votes: 378 16.0%
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protec cat said:
Pure cope. Putin thought he had free real estate. The Donbas and landbridge to the Crimea is a severe scaling back of Putin's ambition, and they still do not have the full Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. He can barely utter the word Ukraine. He denies its nationhood. Barring some post 2014 settlers, (many now selling up in Crimea) plus some of the mostly far eastern Russian forces, there are no 'ethnic Russians' in Ukraine. Almost all Ukrainians can understand or speak both quite similar languages with people identifying with, or using one or the another in preference. Ukrainians increasingly opt for Ukrainian which they were strongly discouraged from speaking, at best, in Soviet times, and on account of monke's outrages. Putin won't be allowed gain from this war, and Russia has lost so much already, albeit relatively few enough from Moscow and St Petes. Ukraine is eating away at the Russian gains slowly but surely in both the north and south and the central pushes look set to be another RU tragedy.
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I hear the same fanfic larp from Uke fanboys and the next day a new video drops of Ukrainians surrendering or Zelensky begging for more aid and foreign fighters. Sounds a lot like "the walls are closing in" everytime someone wants to convince someone Trump is going to go to jail, this time for real!

Ukrainians are in so much need of soldiers that the Ukrainian government even paid for ads here in austria

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They were told by our foreign minister to stop trying to recruit Austrians to fight in the Ukraine and im sure ours wasn't the only country they are trying to recruit people in, doesn't really sound like a Nation about to win.
 
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Borscht said:
Please, tell me more.
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Oh my the sarcasm. The translator is jarring, and my point was mostly rhetorical, for effect, but Putin has had real difficulty saying Ukraine since his invasion. Given his situation, I fully understand.
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I hear the same fanfic larp from Uke fanboys and the next day a new video drops of Ukrainians surrendering or Zelensky begging for more aid and foreign fighters. Sounds a lot like "the walls are closing in" everytime someone wants to convince someone Trump is going to go to jail, this time for real!

Ukrainians are in so much need of soldiers that the Ukrainian government even paid for ads here in austria

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They were told by our foreign minister to stop trying to recruit Austrians to fight in the Ukraine and im sure ours wasn't the only country they are trying to recruit people in, doesn't really sound like a Nation about to win.
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Given the very uncertain prose style, this looks RT DE with bad translation. Get an actual news source. That's the shittest source possible. Schallenberg is indeed FM, but you have to do better. See below for his actual sentiment.

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protec cat said:

Oh my the sarcasm. The translator is jarring, and my point was mostly rhetorical, for effect, but Putin has real difficulty saying Ukraine since his invasion. Given his situation, I fully understand.

Given the very uncertain prose style, this looks RT DE with bad translation. Get an actual news source. That's the shittest source possible. Schallenberg is indeed FM, but you have to do better. See below for his actual sentiment.

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"Muh source"
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A meme (c'mon get a less shit script, ask your supervisor) and all it is are an indirect mention of some Facebook ads that could've easily been some gippos looking for slave labour, perhaps also revenge for based boys taping them to lamp posts. Perhaps the Freedom Party questioner got confused. Or not. Anyhow at best it's a marginal thing. Embassies are usually for spying and mischief (free parking anywhere etc) with diplomatic immunity. What are they gonna do about it except utter some words?
 
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protec cat said:
A meme (c'mon get a less shit script, ask your supervisor) and all it is are an indirect mention of some Facebook ads that could've easily been some gippos looking for slave labour, perhaps also revenge for based boys taping them to lamp posts. Perhaps the Freedom Party questioner got confused. Or not. Anyhow at best it's a marginal thing. Embassies are usually for spying and mischief (free parking anywhere etc) with diplomatic immunity. What are they gonna do about it except utter some words?
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Those recruitment ads were placed and paid for by the Ukrainian government and put on the facebook site of the Ukrainian embassy in Vienna to recruit foreign fighters. I hope plenty of Slava Ukraine yodeling retards join and get the 5 years in prison if they survive and come back.
 
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Officials of the Cherkasy OVA sold free armor through the Epicenter. This became known after the public organization found its bulletproof vests in the Epicenter.
About 1,000 free armor plates were intended for the AFU. Their total cost was 12 million hryvnias.


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Ponzo said:
Those recruitment ads were placed and paid for by the Ukrainian government and put on the facebook site of the Ukrainian embassy in Vienna to recruit foreign fighters. I hope plenty of Slava Ukraine yodeling retards join and get the 5 years in prison if they survive and come back.
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At this stage diaspora with concrete military experience beyond national service (ie professionals) or maybe Austrians with similar would only be wanted, if it wasn't illegal. These ads were in early March when matters were uncertain for Ukraine. Now the only question is how Putin will give up his adventure. Ukraine aren't gonna concede a Donbas Crimea corridor after such miserable Russian efforts. Russia isn't even doing well enough for a lengthy ceasefire pause (like in Korea or Cyprus). Ukraine is eating the Russian holding at a slow, steady pace

Inexperienced foreigners would be of no use except at most for rear area duties alongside natives, hence a diaspora focus.
 
protec cat said:
At this stage diaspora with concrete military experience beyond national service (ie professionals) or maybe Austrians with similar would only be wanted, if it wasn't illegal. These ads were in early March when matters were uncertain for Ukraine. Now the only question is how Putin will give up his adventure. Ukraine aren't gonna concede a Donbas Crimea corridor after such miserable Russian efforts. Russia isn't even doing well enough for a lengthy ceasefire pause (like in Korea or Cyprus). Ukraine is eating the Russian holding at a slow, steady pace

Inexperienced foreigners would be of no use except at most for rear area duties alongside natives, hence a diaspora focus.
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TLDR: "The walls are closing in for Putin!"

Last i heard from yesterday, the AFU was retreating, which is pretty hard considering they have no support from the Government and almost no transportation to evacuate.

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If you think that the Ukraine war is going slow i'd like to remind you that the Ukraine is almost twice the size of Germany and you can look how long the americans and british needed to gain ground in the west during WW2. D-Day was June 6th and it took the US until October to even reach the german border and that was WITH help from the russians in the east.

This war will take at least until next year and by that time, most Ukrainian troops will have bled out due to lack of support from Kiev
 
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Ponzo said:
TLDR: "The walls are closing in for Putin!"

Last i heard from yesterday, the AFU was retreating, which is pretty hard considering they have no support from the Government and almost no transportation to evacuate.

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If you think that the Ukraine war is going slow i'd like to remind you that the Ukraine is almost twice the size of Germany and you can look how long the americans and british needed to gain ground in the west during WW2. D-Day was June 6th and it took the US until October to even reach the german border and that was WITH help from the russians in the east.

This war will take at least until next year and by that time, most Ukrainian troops will have bled out due to lack of support from Kiev
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Oh god, this bullshit again. The Russian invasion has been slow, unfathomably slow, in fact they've got less territory now than in March. It took the Germans a month to take all of Poland, again just a month to reach Minsk from the border and annihilate two army groups.

On the western front the allies took all of France and belgium in three months.

In three months the Russians have had to lower their ambitions twice and had to lose men on wastes fronts, it's a winter war level fuck up at this stage if they somehow can clinch a win
 
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Übertroon said:
Oh god, this bullshit again. The Russian invasion has been slow, unfathomably slow, in fact they've got less territory now than in March. It took the Germans a month to take all of Poland, again just a month to reach Minsk from the border and annihilate two army groups.

On the western front the allies took all of France and belgium in three months.

In three months the Russians have had to lower their ambitions twice and had to lose men on wastes fronts, it's a winter war level fuck up at this stage if they somehow can clinch a win
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And neither of those two scenarios had someone arm and fund the enemy faction the way the west does Ukraine. How far would the americans have gotten in the west without help from Russia in the east and if Germany was funded and armed by dozens of other countries? I would not be surprised if NATO soldiers had boots on the ground in guise of foreign soldiers manning the artillery and other shit away from the front line
 
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