Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread - Episode III - Revenge of the Ruski (now unlocked with new skins and gameplay modes!!!)

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I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if thousands of Pink Floyd fans suddenly decide that Roger Waters was never a big influence in the band itself.

Ah yes, another paid Putin shill has received his go-code and begun to post his pro-Russian propaganda (that maybe Western governments are slightly to blame for the situation in Ukraine due to their constant shit-stirring and gayops).
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The fact Ukraine started this war outnumbering Russians plus the rebels , 3 to 1 almost (And more If you do not count freshly mobilized men. ) And had to additionally mobilize men several times thus far and now is mobilizing the old and young to a point of even kidnapping Ukrainian people not to mention have asked several EE and WE countries to deliver fleeing military ages Ukrainians back to them. Is very much telling who's winning.

Russia itself also had to mobilize because simply put it needs fresh troops for rotation and just lacks the man power to hold the terrain in sufficient force everywhere and in general it's been pretty obvious by the footage that those 150000 men been stretched thin.
This is supported by combat footage and some OOB documents Ukrainians got their hands on. Basically the Russian troops where so thinly stretched that for example it's 20-31 tanks strong tank battalion infantry support consisted of 24-26 men or less. Or a infantry company having it's rifle squads with 5-6 men strong including in some case including the vehicle crew. Which is fucking bad to a point retarded

Why Putin and Co started this without mobilizing first or directly after the initial invasion can partially be explained them being fucking retards and underestimating Ukrainian forces and the build up. Another reason is probably economy. A mobilization would add an additional shock to Russian economy that a that time Russian economy might not have handled

As far as the Russian loses. Ukrainians where already claiming before the Russian mobilization absurd loses up to 100000 men for the Russians. Which is simply not possible as the entire Russian force along with the rebels consisted of 250000 to circa 270000 men. If the Ukrainians truly did inflict such high losses. Russian Army and "Allies" would have crumbled long ago. Same with Americans claiming that 20000
Russians have already died. No mention of rebels. That would indicate that around 60000 to 70000 Russians have been killed captured missing and wounded. A figure that would pretty much collapse the entire Russian force months ago. But that hasn't happened along with Russia running out of tanks, cruise missiles and artillery shells or zillion other things Western and Ukrainian propaganda claims.

Speaking of propaganda.


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He is a piece of shit along with people who have put him in charge and are behind them.
Here are two images with recent casualty figures for both sides-one is purported to be from Israeli intelligence and the other from Mediazona who work closely with the BBC:

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Verifiable figures will have to wait until this is over, but very revealing both show Ukraine doesn't have/take many POWs.

On the other hand, there's a fair bit of pushing for escalation going on,
here's a Times article

Ukraine prepared to use British missiles to strike Crimea​

(haven't figured out how to do those neat inserts for article links...)
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Ukraine is losing, not gaining ground, and they believe the AFU will suddenly traverse all of Donbass, which is now Russia, to retake Crimea? Too early in the AM for comedy.

I mean, people have noticed everything is falling apart before their eyes at home while the US and UK are sending trillions to Ukraine. It's not sustainable, and they know it. That's why these are "talks".
 
And had to additionally mobilize men several times thus far and now is mobilizing the old and young to a point of even kidnapping Ukrainian people not to mention have asked several EE and WE countries to deliver fleeing military ages Ukrainians back to them. Is very much telling who's winning.
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He is a piece of shit along with people who have put him in charge and are behind them.

LOL thats simply how the world works buddy. You wouldn't survive a second at the high level in any country, your conscience would betray you, the people around you would sense weakness, and either you'd be dead or framed and then disgraced in the media.
 
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Ukraine is losing, not gaining ground, and they believe the AFU will suddenly traverse all of Donbass, which is now Russia, to retake Crimea? Too early in the AM for comedy.

I mean, people have noticed everything is falling apart before their eyes at home while the US and UK are sending trillions to Ukraine. It's not sustainable, and they know it. That's why these are "talks".
Ukraine needs something - anything - they can bring to the negotiation table from the position of strength. Cutting Russia's land corridor to Crimea or presenting a creidble threat to Crimea would achieve that.

The sad reality of the situation is, Putin is not interested in negotiating. Zelensky, Merkel and BoJo have openly stated they negotiated Minsk 1 and 2 in bad faith, so any assurances that Ukraine can give about disarmament and non-bloc status are worthless. He also feels no need to advance: doing so would escalate the situation and cause more Russian casualties. He probably believes Ukraine is going to collapse as soon as the support for it wanes, allowing him to annex it fully, partition it with Poland, set up a puppet government under Medvedchuk (lol) or whatever he fancies to be the best possible outcome.

There is only one thing that can make it happen, however: Chinese attack on Taiwan. The US talking heads already said they would very much like to concentrate on that problem instead, at least if the rumors about America proposing the "take 20% of Ukraine and go" deal are true. If Xinnie the Pooh fires his cork rifle at the Heffalump Island, the US and its European client states will find themselves in the uncomfortable position of having to support two proxy wars with their resources and arsenals already somewhat depleted.

Unfortunately for Putin, Xi marches to the beat of his own drum and will not be hurried, but who knows what they are going to talk about in the spring when the tubby little cubby visits the Kremlin land. There may be adventures.
 
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Missiles flew over Moldova's airspace. Didn't hit anything, mind you, like the holhols hitting a tractor and killing 2 poles, just holols trying to start WW3 again.


A few moments later, Moldova's PM resigns. The missiles didn't hit anything but apparently shit got too real for our lady here.

 
I need help, friends. Can someone confirm this? The source is usually correct:
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Can't find any confirmation (haven't checked Russian media)

In other news:
Report: Pentagon wants to revive top secret commando program in Ukraine
According to a report in the Washington Post this morning, Pentagon officials want to revive pre-Ukraine war orders that would allow them to insert commandos in the form of “control teams” to direct Ukrainian operatives to counter Russian disinformation and monitor troops movements on the ground.
This would require the U.S. personnel to be in Ukraine or in a neighboring country.
If the military gets its way on the commandos, it will be crossing another red line, but we’d likely never know if it actually happens, because the activities would be “top secret.”

According to today’s report by reporter Wesley Morgan, the U.S. had been operating such teams in Ukraine under Section 1202 of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act until the invasion last year, when the orders were yanked.
The Washington Post report indicates that this request likely won’t be resolved until the fall, but it is yet another reflection of forces inside the U.S. government that are angling to get closer to the conflict in order to assist the Ukrainians.

More and more direct involvement by the USA
 
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There's always more where this one came from, and much damage has already been done.
True, and I can't imagine it's actually hard to see the damned things (if we're talking about transformers, substations, junctions, lines, etc.). Electrical equipment generates heat, especially under heavy load and/or when damaged but still functional. Infrared satellite and drone imagery and/or goggles+Mk. I eyeball should be more than enough to spot pretty much any functioning electrical infrastructure equipment that's not buried underground.

And like you said, this assumes there's even that much left to destroy at this point.
 
BAKHMUT IS SURROUNDED

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Artemovsk [Bakhmut] today

Oh no Ukiesisters, how will you get out?
(inb4 its fake, its not important, it doesn't matter, etc)
Semi-OT, but the concept of people reacting to military news updates with emojis is really cracking me up. And it makes me imagine it throughout history:

Pearl Harbor: 😭😭😭

Doolittle Raid: 😤😤😤

Dieppe: 😱😱😱

Hiroshima: 😶
 
Ukraine needs something - anything - they can bring to the negotiation table from the position of strength. Cutting Russia's land corridor to Crimea or presenting a creidble threat to Crimea would achieve that.
Every time Ukraine escalates, Russia's strategic goals in Ukraine increase. Russia's grand strategy is quite simple.

1) Put as much distance as possible between moscow and western europe and amerca's vassals.
2) maintain access to the sea. In Ukraine this means crimea and sevastopol.

In the beginning, Russia's objectives were fairly modest. But every time Ukraine escalated, those objectives grew. Now Russia will ensure and defensible border at an Dniepr, and a territorial buffer to keep Ukraine from threatening Russias access to the sea at crimea. This may well mean Ukraine will lose its entire coast line. If Ukraine keeps escalating with more shit talk about long range rockets and nuclear weapons, Russia will end the existence of the Ukrainian state one way or another, regardless of the cost.
 
I need help, friends. Can someone confirm this? The source is usually correct:
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Can't find any confirmation (haven't checked Russian media)

In other news:


More and more direct involvement by the USA
I think it's more of a "we can't get ammo to some of our units" thing rather than a "we're out of ammo" thing. Russia has been really targeting Ukrainian logistics.
 
Every time Ukraine escalates, Russia's strategic goals in Ukraine increase. Russia's grand strategy is quite simple.

1) Put as much distance as possible between moscow and western europe and amerca's vassals.
2) maintain access to the sea. In Ukraine this means crimea and sevastopol.

In the beginning, Russia's objectives were fairly modest. But every time Ukraine escalated, those objectives grew. Now Russia will ensure and defensible border at an Dniepr, and a territorial buffer to keep Ukraine from threatening Russias access to the sea at crimea. This may well mean Ukraine will lose its entire coast line. If Ukraine keeps escalating with more shit talk about long range rockets and nuclear weapons, Russia will end the existence of the Ukrainian state one way or another, regardless of the cost.
Oh, I have no doubt about that. But good luck explaining it to Zelensky and his high command, assuming he has any and is not just relaying whatever orders his American handlers tell him to.
 
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