The War in the Ukraine

The Russians continue to push on and slowly advance despite this costing horrendous losses both in Kursk (where the Ukrainians wanted to consume the Russians on their own territory)...


than in the Kurakhove sector, where the Ukrainians, however, are in trouble..




Below you can see the dam explosion, which is, however, attributed to the Russians and not the Ukrainians as Majakovsk does...


While the newly-elected American disaster maker thinks of new ones, the Ukrainians prepare for the worst...


and the Europeans had better get busy

Moreover,yet another Putin masterpiece,Taiwan quietly begins to give aid...

tabu said:

The Russians continue to push on and slowly advance despite this costing horrendous losses both in Kursk (where the Ukrainians wanted to consume the Russians on their own territory)

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I believe ukraine trying to hold kursk is the biggest mistake they are doing. Both side are suffering heavy loss. But it seems ukraine suffering more casualties compare to russian. On top of that they are already having hard time to recruit more people. IMO this will quicken the process of ukraine(zelensky government) downfall.

Islander strike at a concentration of Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region. The first strike was followed by missiles with cluster munitions. Of course there's always the possibility this is Tornado-S.


Ukrainian D-20 howitzer gets knocked out by Krasnopol in Kherson.


Another Ukrainian D-20 howitzer, this time in the Kharkov region, gets knocked out by precise artillery fire.


LMUR arrived at a Ukrainian deployment point in Lvovo, Kherson. Followed by an artillery barrage.


X-38ML hit at another Ukrainian bridge over the Oskol River near Kupyansk.


FABs arrived on Ukrainian positions in the Kharkov region.


AFU personnel escorted a UAV operator to a deployment point, all of which are tracked by a Russian UAV. Russian artillery hit the point with precise artillery.


Kyiv's air defense reduced to small arms fire as they defend against incoming Gerans.


FPV drone arrives on a Ukrainian M80A IFV from the Ukrainian POV. The vehicle managed to survive this one.


Destroyed Bradley with BRAT protection at Sudja.


Knocked out Ukrainian T-64BV. This one seem set to be recovered by the Russians.


TOS arrives on Ukrainian positions in Krasnoliman direction.


FAB strike Kursk border region.


More destroyed Bradleys, from the Ukrainian POV.


Leopard tank gets attacked by FPV drone.


Dramatic rescue of a Russian fighter Aliyev who alone has been fighting and trying to stay alive for three weeks. A Russian drone is trying to lead him back to Russian lines while Ukrainians are firing at him, which he dodged. He told his mother he has been working as a security guard and didn't tell her he signed up in the SMO. He was in a DRG when other members of his group was killed leaving him the sole survivor.

tabu said:

The Russians continue to push on and slowly advance despite this costing horrendous losses both in Kursk (where the Ukrainians wanted to consume the Russians on their own territory)...

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So the Russians have an 10:1 artillery advantage, and they recently did an exchange where the Russians exchange 1 dead Russian for 10 dead Ukrainians. And you still believe this. Ukraine's Kursk "offensive" is just Krynky 2.0.

tabu said:

Below you can see the dam explosion, which is, however, attributed to the Russians and not the Ukrainians as Majakovsk does...

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The dam was clearly blown up with explosives installed by demolition engineers. And it was located in Ukrainian held territory when it blew up. But of course it was the Russians which blew it up.

Almond98 said:

I believe ukraine trying to hold kursk is the biggest mistake they are doing. Both side are suffering heavy loss. But it seems ukraine suffering more casualties compare to russian. On top of that they are already having hard time to recruit more people. IMO this will quicken the process of ukraine(zelensky government) downfall.

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I wouldn't be surprised by these losses either ..

Given that there are 50000 men in the Kursk, I wouldn't be so sure that the operation didn't distract the Russian forces. Maybe the Ukrainians were hoping to block the advance in the Donbass, which didn't happen, but those 50,000 Russians (and the 10-15,000 Ukrainians facing them) placed elsewhere might have been able to do more damage (in Pokrovsk and Vovchansk).... Then it's not just about killing as many Russians as possible (brutally), but also about where this happens. If it happens in Kursk, they bomb and devastate their villages instead of the Ukrainian ones...

tabu said:

Then it's not just about killing as many Russians as possible (brutally)

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No, it's just about making as much noise on Western media as possible. There's no sense to it, but then again there's no sense to a drowning man flailing his arms.

tabu said:

I wouldn't be surprised by these losses either ..

Given that there are 50000 men in the Kursk, I wouldn't be so sure that the operation didn't distract the Russian forces. Maybe the Ukrainians were hoping to block the advance in the Donbass, which didn't happen, but those 50,000 Russians (and the 10-15,000 Ukrainians facing them) placed elsewhere might have been able to do more damage (in Pokrovsk and Vovchansk).... Then it's not just about killing as many Russians as possible (brutally), but also about where this happens. If it happens in Kursk, they bomb and devastate their villages instead of the Ukrainian ones...

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If it was about trying to inflict losses on Russia, it's much smarter to let Russians come to your ground. In some of the Russian offensive actions, Ukraine had achieved near 1 to 1 kill ratios, by using heavily fortified terrain.

It's just an awful fail, maybe they expected the eastern front to be relieved, maybe they just want to show the west that they can still "attack". The first town they reached they got stopped in, and Russia is laughing to the bank with the amount of equipment and kills they can milk from this salient where even Orions are flying unimpeded over Ukrainian formations...

And Ukraine cannot easily retreat from here either, since it will cause a cork opening effect if they pull back en masse.

tabu said:

I wouldn't be surprised by these losses either ..

Given that there are 50000 men in the Kursk, I wouldn't be so sure that the operation didn't distract the Russian forces. Maybe the Ukrainians were hoping to block the advance in the Donbass, which didn't happen, but those 50,000 Russians (and the 10-15,000 Ukrainians facing them) placed elsewhere might have been able to do more damage (in Pokrovsk and Vovchansk).... Then it's not just about killing as many Russians as possible (brutally), but also about where this happens. If it happens in Kursk, they bomb and devastate their villages instead of the Ukrainian ones...

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I mean at first their main goal was to capture kursk nuclear power plant. But that didnt happen and later they said it was to distract russia armed force which they also failed to do. Instead russian decided to focus on capturing donbass while additional force send to defend from advancing ukraine force. Now russian are counterattacking and slowly recapturing their territory. While ukraine losing their best soldiers in kursk. My main question is what they have achieved from this? To kill as many russian as they can? Because let me tell u they have much larger manpower compare to ukraine who already lost many people migrating to other countries. Time is not on ukraine side. As more and more people die there would be a day when their people had enough and decided to rebel against their government.

If it isn't clear at this point, @tabu is an Anti-Russian troll, much like @SolarWarden.
Just in the Russian Economy thread, he used the term 'vatnik' unironically. I don't think there's any need to engage this guy.