Real Quick I'll do an update on the lines since I missed it today
Big news is that Things west of Avdeevka have not slowed down. You've seen me discuss this before and everything I said then is still true. Russians storming Tonenke.
Other really notable thing is that the Russians seem to have been pushed back from Robotyne. Don't know why this keeps happening. Maybe the mappers are wrong, maybe the Ukrainians are burning stupid amounts of reserves to accomplish this. Maybe the Russians are pushing forward and retreating really easily to bait Ukraine into sending more and more reserves. I just have no idea what is going on here. We've all seen the video of the Russian Vehicles travelling through here and meeting little resistance. This would probably give you plenty of time to set up somewhat decent defenses that mean you couldn't be pushed back. But this is not the case. To address any Strelkov Enjoyers or Pro-Ukrainian people, I'll say this is the only place on the front where this is happening. Despite heavy attacks in Ivanskoe the Russians established a foothold just fine with heavy fighting but it wasn't a giant hassle like this.
West of Donetsk the Russians advanced towards Krasnohorivka from the South.
It is not just Pro-Russia people that think things are starting to go really badly for Ukraine and that things will be very bad soon. Well bad for Ukraine anyway.
Almost forgot. The Ukrainians are suggesting Russia is pulling troops from Crimea. There does seem to be some truth to this since I have seen videos of armored vehicles being put on trains and leaving here. My other possibly wrong thought is that Russia is trying to Reduce the logistic Footprint of Crimea incase Ukraine tries anything.
Mercs are a special case. While they technically don’t have any protections under the Geneva convention, I’d assume that many of them get thoroughly interrogated instead of executed, since they in particular have no reason to keep mum.
I'll be honest of the Videos I've seen Mercs usually get killed pretty quickly and pretty violently. You have to remember Russians basically see them the same as the Azov Type guys. This is also not far from the truth considering a lot of these people are from places like Poland/Georgia and aren't too far removed from the Nationalist types. The next group you have are war tourists from places like the US/Britain who are there because this a chance to fight some war. The last group you have is the normal Mercenaries from places like Columbia.
A lot of Russian Soldiers don't like to hand over Merc prisoners because the Russian government will treat them like any other prisoner and exchange them. This was an incredibly stupid decision even on a real-politik sense because it meant you lost the ability to tell your soldiers to capture people and have them actually do it. Russia could torture these people and get intel out of them but since a lot of these captured mercs don't speak Russian and the Russian Soldiers don't want them to get traded they just execute them.
It feels like half the problems with Britain end up involving the railways in some way or another, I guess when you're the first people building the things you're gonna make a bunch of dumb mistakes that all the other people get to learn from.
The funny thing is Belgium built the first steam Locomotive railroad. As far as things like minecarts and those really old rails Bohemia has those first. Does it really matter? No but it bothered me.
