Posted on 04/06/2025 10:11:25 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Ukraine loses more territory by the day .
On that measure , Ukraine is doing rather poorly, no ?
An equal question would be: “Do the arms and munitions, MIC suppliers” want peace. Bad for profits. (I agree that we should supply up and advance technology to put the “Not Today” fear into potential enemies but seems a nice little (or big) war is on a lot of business plans and wish lists.
They do make Chinese military planners stomach churn a bit, I would think as a bonus.
Russia loses more money and men by the day. They are going broke.
On that measure , Russia is doing rather poorly, no ?
So Ukraine is lesser than it once was , eh ?
Men and land.
On US taxpayer money too, not much there these days , is there ?
To the last Ukie ! lol,
Winning !
“Ukraine loses more territory by the day .”
So how much have they lost this year ?
So Russia is lesser than it once was , eh ?
Men and land.
China takes Russian territory.
Chew on those numbers
Kursk !
[ Frontline History: March 2025 ] "MASSIVE COLLAPSES" MONTH for Ukraine
Posted on 3/30/2025, 7:31:44 AM by marcusmaximus
I don't have time to watch it all. How about you post the figures, how many square miles they have lost this year in Ukraine/Russia/total ?
Use a calculator chump
Hey clown the numbers are posted up in upper right hand corner
You can freeze the video and do your own addition.
Zeepers, always in denial.
“Ukraine loses more territory by the day. On that measure, Ukraine is doing rather poorly, no?”
As of the latest full month (March 2025), Russia is now advancing at a rate of about 50 Square Miles per month, at an average cost of more than 800 casualties per square mile.
233,000 Square Miles of Ukraine could be captured in only about 400 years at that rate, for around 200 Million casualties.
Their average rate of advance has been slowing since November 2024, and their average rate of daily casualties has been climbing - from around 200 per day early in the war, to around 1,300-1,400 per day recently.
The Russian ground forces in Ukraine over that time have evolved from a tank heavy mechanized force, overwhelmingly manned by contract soldiers with years of experience, and with around a 20-1 Artillery advantage; to today’s Russian ground forces in Ukraine, which are predominately Light Infantry, overwhelmingly manned by relatively poorly trained recent recruits, approaching parity in Artillery, and suffering under growing Ukrainian battlefield drone superiority.
These trends in force quality seem likely to continue, as the old Soviet stockpiles that have provided about 90% of the heavy equipment replacements, are now mostly depleted, and they have been pulling it in order of the best first.
The Ukrainian War has largely demilitarized the old Soviet Arsenal, that had threatened the Free World, and Russia’s neighbors, for decades.
“President Trump warned Putin that he would decimate the price of Russian oil.”
Overseas markets (Asia) have already reopened after the weekend, and oil prices have resumed their fall - down about another 4% so far today. WTI just cracked below $60, Brent under $63.5.
Russian Urals and ESPO grades are no longer openly traded or prices reported in real time, but would be expected to be falling roughly proportionally, with their discount to Brent.
And Putin has to sell it to China and India at an additional 30% discount. The oil income freefall for Russia continues.
Low oil prices could motivate other big oil producers to beg Trump (behind the scenes of course), to slap those big secondary sanctions on Russian oil sales, so the rest of them can make up some the revenue lost on the price drop.
Could be in for even more Geopolitical excitement!
Honey Badger don't care.
“He started there because there were a lot of Russians there.”
There’s a whole lot more.
You might be surprised at how ‘RICH’ the Ukraine is. It is no way connected to their economy as that has been destroyed by politicians and corruption. But all the tools are there for the taking.
Ukraine has extremely rich and complementary mineral resources in high concentrations and close proximity to each other. Rich iron ore reserves located in the vicinity of Kryvyy Rih, Kremenchuk, Bilozerka, Mariupol, and Kerch form the basis of Ukraine’s large iron-and-steel industry. One of the richest areas of manganese-bearing ores in the world is located near Nikopol. Bituminous and anthracite coal used for coke are mined in the Donets Basin. Energy for thermal power stations is obtained using the large reserves of brown coal found in the Dnieper River basin (north of Kryvyy Rih) and the bituminous coal deposits of the Lviv-Volyn basin. The coal mines of Ukraine are among the deepest in Europe. Many of them are considered dangerous because their depth contributes to increased levels of methane; methane-related explosions have killed numerous Ukrainian miners.
Ukraine also has important deposits of titanium ore, bauxite, nepheline (a source of soda), alunite (a source of potash), and mercury (cinnabar, or mercuric sulfide) ores. A large deposit of ozokerite (a natural paraffin wax) occurs near the city of Boryslav. Subcarpathia possesses potassium salt deposits, and both Subcarpathia and the Donets Basin have large deposits of rock salt. Some phosphorites as well as natural sulfur are found in Ukraine.
The three major areas producing natural gas and petroleum in Ukraine are the Subcarpathian region, exploited since the late 19th–early 20th century, and the Dnieper-Donets and Crimean regions, both developed since World War II. Following World War II, the extraction of natural gas in Ukraine soared until it accounted for one-third of the Soviet Union’s total output in the early 1960s. Natural gas production declined after 1975, however, and their petroleum followed just the same.
The exploitation of petroleum and natural gas in Ukraine necessitated the creation of an extensive pipeline transport system. One of the first natural gas pipelines in the region opened in the 1920s, linking Dashava to Lviv and then to Kyiv. As a result of the Soviet Union’s commitment to major gas exporting in the late 1960s and early ’70s, two trunk pipelines were laid across Ukraine to bring gas to eastern and western Europe from Siberia and Orenburg in Russia. Petroleum from the Dolyna oil field in western Ukraine is piped some 40 miles (65 km) to a refinery at Drohobych, and oil from fields in eastern Ukraine is piped to a refinery in Kremenchuk. Subsequently, larger petroleum trunk lines were added (some 700 miles [1,100 km]) to supply petroleum from western Siberia to refineries at Lysychansk, Kremenchuk, Kherson, and Odessa, as well as a 420-mile (675-km) segment of the Druzhba (“Friendship”) pipeline, which crosses western Ukraine to supply Siberian oil to other European countries. The pipelines connecting the Siberian oil and gas fields with Europe are a major economic asset for Ukraine, as their importance to Russia gives Ukraine leverage in negotiations over oil and gas imports. However, disputes between Ukraine and Russia have in the past led the latter to cut off its supply temporarily—negatively affecting Ukraine as well as the European Union, which depends on gas and oil from these pipelines.
So, location and minerals have driven the Ukraine’s worth to a very valuable piece of property the Russians want back. And I think it’s obvious the Russians think they can handle the property better than the Ukrainees.
Wy69
Down to donkeys and shovels now. lol
Zeep a little dream bobo
Well check April’s totals
Until, they’ll always have Kursk , right Bobo ?
To the last Ukie !
The Russian economy teeters on the edge of the abyss. Without a peace deal, they risk ruin in the short term.
The Moscow Times reports:
““A massive crisis is unfolding before our eyes,” said Yevgeny Kogan, an investment banker and professor at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow...
...The tariffs have caused prices for raw materials to fall, with Brent crude (oil) dropping 12% over the past two days...
...The consequences of a global trade war — including lower energy prices, an increase in import costs and renewed inflationary pressures — would acutely impact Russia, a country heavily reliant on commodity exports, said Yelena Kozhukhova, an analyst at Veles Capital in Moscow.
MOEX (The Moscow Stock Exchange Index) has shed 17% of its value since mid-February, and shares of major firms have fallen in double-digit percentages: Gazprom by 30%, Norilsk Nickel by 25% and Rosneft by 28%.
Russian Urals crude, the country’s key export blend, is now trading (far) below $60 per barrel (the redline for their Federal budget analysis). These prices signal problems with the state budget and a likely devaluation of the ruble devaluation in the coming months, Kogan said.
“Progress in the peace talks could save the situation, but that is yet to be seen,” he said.
A visit by Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, to Washington on Thursday did not appear to advance talks on ending the war in Ukraine.
“President Trump is not going to fall into the trap of endless negotiations about negotiations,” U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday. “We will know soon enough — in a matter of weeks, not months — whether Russia is serious about peace or not.””
Crunch time for Russia on the business and finance front, where President Trump is the master.
From $75 on 2 April, Brent Crude Oil price has crashed to $63.40 a few minutes ago. Russian Urals was reported to be selling for $45 - below the breakeven cost for many (not most) Russian oil projects.
OilPrice.com reported on 27 March:
“Russia’s central bank issued a warning to the government that oil prices could enter a prolonged slump on the back of higher U.S. and non-OPEC production this year. The warning came earlier this year and was quite likely linked to the multiple forecasts anticipating just such a development...
...Reuters reported the news about the Central Bank of Russia earlier in the week, saying the warning was included in a presentation that Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin had prepared for a cabinet discussion. “A significant risk is the oil price,” Reuters cited one slide from the presentation as saying “a significant increase in production in the United States and outside OPEC.”...
...As regards Russia specifically, it is in a delicate position because any talk of sanction lifting will pummel oil prices, which would be a disadvantage to Russian producers. The effect might be transitory, until the market calms down that Russia will not be flooding the world with oil, but for now, it seems that, quite ironically, sanctions are better for Russian oil prices—and U.S. oil prices, too.”
Unless of course, President Trump were to impose the secondary sanctions on buyers of Russian oil that he recently proposed - that would crash Russia’s remaining oil revenue more deeply and more suddenly than the drop that brought down the Soviet Union.
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