Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread

[Freshly Baked Socks]

INVEST IN PEACE BRO

source: https://twitter.com/FedorovMykhailo/status/1530200687769952257

 

[Homegrown Homophobia]

It really does blow my mind how much Soviet surplus Russia still has lying around, and in somewhat usable condition as well. They practically for all intents and purposes have a nearly unlimited supply of armored vehicles and especially fuel.

 

[NyQuilninja]

It really does blow my mind how much Soviet surplus Russia still has lying around, and in somewhat usable condition as well. They practically for all intents and purposes have a nearly unlimited supply of armored vehicles and especially fuel.

I wonder how much is still floating around in the hands of the Taliban and other operative groups

 

[Su-27 Flanker-B]

It really does blow my mind how much Soviet surplus Russia still has lying around, and in somewhat usable condition as well. They practically for all intents and purposes have a nearly unlimited supply of armored vehicles and especially fuel.

"Dont fight ground war in Russia" is a saying that does have its merit.

 

[Garm]

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I've been away from the war for a couple weeks, but have caught up now. As a Russia shill it pains me to see Ukraine has completely routed the ammoless and demoralized Russian army and is still just 2 weeks away from sieging Moscow. jk lmao, western media has finally started reporting on just how poorly the Ukrainian army/TDF are doing in the Donbas. What they're now reporting has been the narrative amongst the pro-Russia crowd for weeks now, you can only assume with that kind of lag in reporting that the current situation for Ukraine on the ground is very very bad.

The WaPo article that BBC stub cites is long but pretty good.
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Most telling I think is that you're seeing a lot of reporting that the front line troops for Ukraine in many cases are TDF units. Pre-war it was claimed that there were 60k AFU soldiers in the Donbas, that's a lot of troops to cram in to what is becoming an increasingly small front. Many of those were of course in Mariupol, which had a 100% casualty rate. I've seen estimates that troop numbers there were ~10k-15k. That's a lot to lose, but would still leave 10s of thousands to man the rest of the front.

Given the information we have it's my guess that most of those experience, professional soldiers have been killed or wounded. Even in western sources all we've heard of the Ukrainian forces is of surrenders, soldiers refusing to fight, or retreats. These are the signs of an army that's already been defeated.

Either a collapse is coming or they are trying to convince people that NATO needs to escalate.

I suggest reading the comments under the wapo article, as much as I dont like saying it, the amount of cope in there is insane.

Sadly I could not get the comments to load.

 

[MrJokerRager]

One of the things I wonder about foreign aid is just how much non-lethal and support equipment/food/fuel is being given, it's safe to say we're entering territory where the only least proxy of proxy wars in modern history can only really be the Korean War at this point (China swooped in as NK was collapsing just like the US led UN intervention did for SK a couple months before and later we had Soviets pretending to be Koreans flying MiG-15s shooting down F-86 Sabres, so that bar is basically impossible to top.) Only non-lethal aid that has really been announced by anybody is body armor and helmets.

On another note, we've entered Steam game levels of virtue signaling.
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If the Russians don't make some native Call of Duty or Battlefield kind of game about this war and don't the option to wear Zs everywhere.

Then they deserve to be shit on further in the next Call of Duty or Battlefield game that gets developed by pozzed American and Europoor fags.

 

[The Foldless Brain]

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I've been away from the war for a couple weeks, but have caught up now. As a Russia shill it pains me to see Ukraine has completely routed the ammoless and demoralized Russian army and is still just 2 weeks away from sieging Moscow. jk lmao, western media has finally started reporting on just how poorly the Ukrainian army/TDF are doing in the Donbas. What they're now reporting has been the narrative amongst the pro-Russia crowd for weeks now, you can only assume with that kind of lag in reporting that the current situation for Ukraine on the ground is very very bad.

The WaPo article that BBC stub cites is long but pretty good.
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Most telling I think is that you're seeing a lot of reporting that the front line troops for Ukraine in many cases are TDF units. Pre-war it was claimed that there were 60k AFU soldiers in the Donbas, that's a lot of troops to cram in to what is becoming an increasingly small front. Many of those were of course in Mariupol, which had a 100% casualty rate. I've seen estimates that troop numbers there were ~10k-15k. That's a lot to lose, but would still leave 10s of thousands to man the rest of the front.

Given the information we have it's my guess that most of those experience, professional soldiers have been killed or wounded. Even in western sources all we've heard of the Ukrainian forces is of surrenders, soldiers refusing to fight, or retreats. These are the signs of an army that's already been defeated.

The funniest part is that the Hohol officers who spoke to the WaPo got immediately arrested and executed by Ukrainian services after this article.

 

[BaldAndMorallyBankrupt]

Are ya winning?

 

[Su-27 Flanker-B]

Either a collapse is coming or they are trying to convince people that NATO needs to escalate.

Sadly I could not get the comments to load.

I cant get them now either. They want me to register for it, they can suck my dick instead.

In a short, you got an article literally telling you that media has been lying to you for months. In turn, commenters call anyone saying that russia is winning a russian spy. Somehow. Despite the publication itself admitting to it.

 

[White_N]

"Перемога

How to earn the first money and support Ukraine?
Register on Only Fans, and we will direct all taxes to finance the victory!"

Johnny, get down! It's gook hohol! They're in the trees!

The shower from javelin tubes is the last century! it's time to make a beehive out of them!

Advanced Ukrainian artillery

 

[Napoleon Bonerfart]

The funniest part is that the Hohol officers who spoke to the WaPo got immediately arrested and executed by Ukrainian services after this article.

They should be arrested for exposing potentially sensitive info. Loose lips sink ships. Unless that Ship is a Russian black sea warship. Then a Neptune missile sinks it.

 

[Su-27 Flanker-B]

Brits figured it out, Russia is done.

https://archive.ph/oy0DD

A retired Russian Air Force major general was reportedly shot down over Ukraine on Sunday.
Kanamat Botashev, 63, is a top Russian military commander and former major general. According to reports coming out of Russia, Botashev was killed over the weekend after his SU-25 attack plane was shot down in Ukrainian airspace. Multiple subordinates confirmed Botashev's death to the BBC, but requested to keep their identities anonymous.

 

[White_N]

The consequences of the Russian Army's strike on the National Guard barracks near Dnepropetrovsk
Ukrainian channels report about 30 militants killed.
The authorities announced 10 dead and 35 wounded soldiers.
The rubble continues to be dismantled, corpses continue to be taken out.

Lyusya Arestovich confirms the entry of the Russian Armed Forces into Severodonetsk.

 

[kuuu]

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[Su-27 Flanker-B]

ew, 4chong webm
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That was the best thing I had, but I will use yours now.

 

[Aidan]

The consequences of the Russian Army's strike on the National Guard barracks near Dnepropetrovsk
Ukrainian channels report about 30 militants killed.
The authorities announced 10 dead and 35 wounded soldiers.
The rubble continues to be dismantled, corpses continue to be taken out.
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Lyusya Arestovich confirms the entry of the Russian Armed Forces into Severodonetsk.
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This is something I'm curious about regarding this talk of "heavy weapons" being sent in. Russia can presumably track the movement of those weapons using satellite imagery (weather permitting and all) and have already blown up stuff being moved in before. Why would this new equipment be any different? Even if the Ukrainians get it set up, once they use it the Russians can make it a high priority target to blow up using missiles.

 

[Su-27 Flanker-B]

This is something I'm curious about regarding this talk of "heavy weapons" being sent in. Russia can presumably track the movement of those weapons using satellite imagery (weather permitting and all) and have already blown up stuff being moved in before. Why would this new equipment be any different? Even if the Ukrainians get it set up, once they use it the Russians can make it a high priority target to blow up using missiles.

It wont. It will be exactly the same. Chances are, military in countries sending this shit are saying this exact thing - ukrainians have no serious air defence and shipments will be destroyed once they arrive in the first logistical zone. But we both know how much do politicians listen to reason.

 

[White_N]

It wont. It will be exactly the same. Chances are, military in countries sending this shit are saying this exact thing - ukrainians have no serious air defence and shipments will be destroyed once they arrive in the first logistical zone. But we both know how much do politicians listen to reason.

But this is not for politicians, but for their voters who, while eating Freedom fries, wondered why their wallets were getting thinner.

 

[UVB-76]

Maybe I'm retarded, but if the weapons shipments are being tracked then why not have remotely driven decoys to force Russia to waste those long range missiles?

 

[Su-27 Flanker-B]

That would require

A. Much more trucks
B. Much more fuel (scarce)
C. Getting rid of all russian spies in ukraine and poland
D. A lot of realistic looking decoys
E. For russians to lose all and every satellite that can look over eastern europe.

Doable, sure. But its a lot of effort for little payoff. And even if decoy is hit instead of the real thing, ukrainians cannot afford logistical losses.

ETA and with waining aerial defences, russians can just send normal planes to bomb the convoys.