Who cares? 200k Russian troops should have rolled over Ukraine and here they are still dicking around.
The Russians will likely win as they did in Grozny, with the block-by-block destruction of the city with artillery. The way this kind of thing works is they do a probe in force, note where incoming fire is coming from and demolish those areas with artillery. They are using MLRS strikes (Grads), not smart bombs to accomplish this, because smart weapons are expensive, whereas dumb bombs, whether Grad rockets or artillery shells, are cheap.
Most Ukranian claims of success have proven to be total lies.
Must be true then.
Why are you anxious?
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I have seen a few videos of what is going on today. This report is doubtful. The Russians are throwing some serious ordnance around now.
Message to Russian troops from Kyiv’s Defenders.
Great video from the defenders of Kiev/Kyiv. They know they’re surrounded and they’re not afraid.
Video at Link (Language Warning)
https://twitter.com/EnglishUkraine/status/1497986717470580744
Up until now, the US was pushing the reluctant EU. Now the EU and Germany are out in front. The sanctions WILL hurt Russia, a lot, especially the rich. The weapons that the EU is paying for and sending will hurt Russia. Putin is like Japan at Pearl Harbor – he has awakened the sleeping eagle (albeit the German one) and it wasn’t a good idea to do so.
When the German chancellor, who has acted like Putin’s personal valet throughout suddenly does a U-turn - that’s when you sit up and take notice. When the Green weenies in Germany start talking about reviving coal, you know these people have seen the elephant, and are acting accordingly.
The Mayor of Kiev already announced that the "surrounded" quote was bogus and not true. I would take this story, just like the "surrounded" story with a huge grain of salt. Both sides are furiously spinning tales of victory and defeat.
Russia can obviously prevail in this war if they press their military advantages. The question is how far Putin will go and what political price is he willing to pay.
Don’t count on the Daily Mail or the alphabet news to give you truth.
Putin going to end the horseshit instigated by Obama, Soros and Biden.
It’s all propaganda.
Fake war
So there is this fluff over Ukraine...Russia invades and seems to get slowed down...Europe sends stuff to Ukraine> Germany and Europe seems to start to “wake up”. Meanwhile Putin puts his nuke forces on max alert while raving to his supporters, not against Ukraine but the USA.(keeping in mind Biden and some Dems are on record as saying that the USA could absorb a few nuclear hits without necessarily responding back in kind).
Russia launches at us and hits us in a few key areas but Biden inexplicably will not launch back stating in sperches that we much take a few sacrifices so that the world is not engulfed in flames. The USA collapses...the world leaders have their reset and the whole Ukraine Russia thing goes away with Europe and Russia the preminent world powers...opening the way for total isolation of Israel.
I fear the Ukraine thing may be a feint by Russia and the EU to bloody our nose taking a gamble that the USA will not respond back in kind! We may be being played and those who we called friends are really not!
There is cellphone video of some of these Russian soldiers and they are being asked things like what did your officers tell you about what is going on?
The soldiers said they were told this was just part of a training exercise and then suddenly they discovered they were participating in some sort of attack
One guy was a reservist said he was called up just two weeks ago
This does comport at least with the report I’ve seen elsewhere that soldiers’ cellphones were confiscated two days before the order to invade
May be there is a strategy to try to intimidate Ukraine armed forces just by the sheer numbers of Russian troops thrown in their direction, even if some of these units are not being counted on to do much
My people…
Standing tall.
Slava, Ukraine… Slava heroiam, Ukraine…
Come on man.
Russia outnumbers them 10 to 1 in a million different categories.
If something didn’t fall today, it will tomorrow or the next day.
Hope is one thing.
Being naive is another.
And I KNOW you are not naive.
It’s like those who rooted for Iraq to beat the US.
It ended up being a travesty in the long run...but the winner of the initial war was never in doubt.
In the fwiw department General Milley of the JCOS said Kyev and Ukraine would fall in 72 hours.
Well, not so much.
ESAD Milley.
5.56mm
Putin now has sent into Ukraine two-thirds of the forces he had assembled on the border
Also, Lukashenko ordered Belarus army units into Ukraine to join the assault on Kyiv
I think Putin is pushing all his chips to the center of the table now (the ruble is crashing, bank runs in Russia, more stinger and anti-tank weapons coming in, growing dissent at home)
Some are saying well, maybe the final one-third are Putin’s finest troops, they will be held for later
I doubt it, one-third of the army is conscripts. I think these are mostly troops not suitable to be effectively sent in as well as troops to defend and administer his supply lines there in Russia and Belarus
What he has, he is rolling the dice on