Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread

[Wy4M]

It seems that Sean Pinner was a sniper.
According to himself all of this is a big mistake; he was just a cook.
"As it became known to Kommersant, thanks to the testimony of the military who surrendered at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation established that the previously detained mercenary from Britain, Sean Pinner, was a sniper."
"The marine himself claimed that he was preparing the Ukrainian military, as well as food for himself and his colleagues."

https://twitter.com/vic_top55/status/1527930073214492673

https://archive.ph/XofXI

 

[White_N]

It seems that Sean Pinner was a sniper.
According to himself all of this is a big mistake; he was just a cook.
"As it became known to Kommersant, thanks to the testimony of the military who surrendered at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation established that the previously detained mercenary from Britain, Sean Pinner, was a sniper."
"The marine himself claimed that he was preparing the Ukrainian military, as well as food for himself and his colleagues."
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https://twitter.com/vic_top55/status/1527930073214492673

https://archive.ph/XofXI

Considering how many cooks there are in the Ukrainian army, do you think they know how to cook pork in a cauldron?

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

And in the end, the Azov Battalion's claimed total death toll is of 6,000~ dead Russians, this was a city that was defended by 7,000 to 14,000 Ukrainians and attacked by around 14,000 enemy personnel. It was home ground for all these units - a city well known to them. They were well armed, had several well fortified points they were able to use as HQs and regroup at because of their nature (Ilyich, the port, Azovstal) and certainly had a lot of tanks and for a while, an actual air force. They were able to ambush Russian and separatist personnel at will in the start of the war due to Russian incompetence and their belief that all these units would immediately fold. They were only even completely blocked and unable to be supplied (other than the occasional helicopter run) after Volnovakha fell to the DPR. They lasted an OK amount of time, but half of that was spent being blocked in Azovstal, unable to really do anything and being held by nothing but a force of 2 BTGs. The units defending Mariupol were battle hardened (Azov) or well trained (36th Marines), but they had their own share of "normal" troops and even some TDF personnel.

A lot of excuses here. Didn't need to write a whole paragraph if this was a well organized siege.

Sure Russia took over Mariupol, but it was objectively a badly organized siege and Russia threw away more than it needed to.

War is about how much you spend, not how much you conquer.

 

[BaldAndMorallyBankrupt]

It seems that Sean Pinner was a sniper.
According to himself all of this is a big mistake; he was just a cook.
"As it became known to Kommersant, thanks to the testimony of the military who surrendered at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation established that the previously detained mercenary from Britain, Sean Pinner, was a sniper."
"The marine himself claimed that he was preparing the Ukrainian military, as well as food for himself and his colleagues."
View attachment 3304112 View attachment 3304109

https://twitter.com/vic_top55/status/1527930073214492673

https://archive.ph/XofXI

Same meme, different sides.

I highly doubt anyone in a leading position would give a job as highly technical as sniper to some random foreign asshole, or even in the case of Pinner, a citizen turned grunt that had been serving for some year and a half before the war.

On the other side of the token, realistically how many people, let alone redditors know how to cook for over a dozen people and treat the seriously wounded?

The reality likely is that most of the foreign fighters were just dirt shovelers and magazine loaders, if not outright mules for artillery teams and the likes. However that doesn't sound as good propaganda wise so they have to make them snipers, or commandos or something.

 

[DumbDude42]

A lot of excuses here. Didn't need to write a whole paragraph if this was a well organized siege.

Sure Russia took over Mariupol, but it was objectively a badly organized siege and Russia threw away more than it needed to.

War is about how much you spend, not how much you conquer.

cope
the objective was taking the city and neutralizing the defending forces, they fully achieved that objective.
2 months to conquer a city is not terrible, the only reason people think of it as embarassingly slow is because of the "3 days to kyiv, ukraine will not resist" propaganda that the vatniks spread in the first days of the war.
casualty numbers for both sides are not really part of the picture yet because neither side has fully accounted for their losses (dead soldiers, wounded soldiers, dead/wounded/expelled civilians, captured or destroyed vehicles, scale of destruction and devastation of the city, etc) and if they had they wouldn't be releasing that information to the public yet anyway.
we won't know the real casualties until long after the war, maybe never. the only thing we know for certain about mariupol is that the vatniks won.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

casualty numbers for both sides are not really part of the picture yet because neither side has fully accounted for their losses (dead soldiers, wounded soldiers, dead/wounded/expelled civilians, captured or destroyed vehicles, scale of destruction and devastation of the city, etc) and if they had they wouldn't be releasing that information to the public yet anyway.
we won't know the real casualties until long after the war, maybe never. the only thing we know for certain about mariupol is that the vatniks won.

Even more excuses lmao.

Muh muh muh nobody counted. Muh muh muh ackshually we need to wait.

I don't even ask for numbers, and you hit me with this wall of cope. Pathetic.

 

[The Foldless Brain]

My fellow huwhites, did the Devil Ape Putler spread the monkeypox to enact his antigay plot?

 

[Lorne Armstrong]

Getting naked for political protest is rlly thoughtful + inspiring.

Stunning&brave!

 

[Ponzo]

Complete Surrender Of Ukraine Forces In Mariupol

Ukr base in Kharkov hit by rocket strikes and what appears to be follow up hits against troops who ran out

Iskander btfo a Uke command post near the town of Petrovskoe

Good artillery series drones, fires and results

Some Russian Kino

Russian Terminators rolling

The famous war criminal David "Chemist" Kasatkin. Lieutenant, platoon leader. In the old days, he short-sightedly promised to cut off the head of Ramzan Kadyrov's mother.

edit. Bonus mexican

 

[Getting tard comed]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10839637/Father-DUMPS-partner-falling-22-year-old-Ukrainian-refugee-came-live-them.html

And so it begins

 

[White_N]

>Result: temporary occupation

POV fighting

Full video from the Cannes Film Festival

 

[TruthSeekingDaimon]

Getting rid of Saddam was a net loss for the Iraqi people and all it did is make them into Iran’s bitch.

How retard does a nation has to be so that the removal of a clown like saddam means a loss?

 

[White_N]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10839637/Father-DUMPS-partner-falling-22-year-old-Ukrainian-refugee-came-live-them.html

And so it begins

lol





By the way, it is refreshing to see ordinary soldiers in comparison to the hysterics of the media about "Ukrainian fighters for democracy/ the fate of Aryans/transgender people". And the low quality of the video reminds me of Chechnya, which is a bonus.

 

[Hell on Earth]

A lot of excuses here. Didn't need to write a whole paragraph if this was a well organized siege.

Sure Russia took over Mariupol, but it was objectively a badly organized siege and Russia threw away more than it needed to.

War is about how much you spend, not how much you conquer.

Sieges are always costly and slow, lmao and half of the siege was waiting for Azovstal to surrender.

Your brain is so rotted from the experiences in the war on terror that you forgot that cities are excellent defensive positions that can hold for a long time.

If your definition of a good siege is just spending a few hundred casualities then most sieges in history are "badly planned"

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

Sieges are always costly and slow, lmao and half of the siege was waiting for Azovstal to surrender.

Your brain is so rotted from the experiences in the war on terror that you forgot that cities are excellent defensive positions that can hold for a long time.

If your definition of a good siege is just spending a few hundred casualities then most sieges in history are "badly planned"

Haha more cope.

I'm not saying sieges shouldn't be this slow/costly, I'm saying this one was inefficient, took longer than it should and wasted more than it should have.

 

[White_N]

I'm not saying sieges shouldn't be this slow/costly, I'm saying this one was inefficient, took longer than it should and wasted more than it should have.

based on what exactly?

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10839637/Father-DUMPS-partner-falling-22-year-old-Ukrainian-refugee-came-live-them.html

And so it begins

If I was the leader of Ukraine, I would be very pissed off that these foreigners are stealing our women. But of course Ukraine is lead by a chosen man so it would not matter to him.

 

[Ponzo]

By the way, it is refreshing to see ordinary soldiers in comparison to the hysterics of the media about "Ukrainian fighters for democracy/ the fate of Aryans/transgender people". And the low quality of the video reminds me of Chechnya, which is a bonus.

People complain about the WW2 helmets but imo they are dope af

edit: excuse me while i go down the rabbit hole of old vs modern helmet videos

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

based on what exactly?

Reports.

 

[kuuu]

Three minutes of colourful Azovstal individuals.