I have heard of a similar date. The State Duma and the Federation Council have to officially approve (I think there is 1 more but idk). It’s just a matter of when they will do it at the moment.
The War in the Ukraine
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I have heard of a similar date. The State Duma and the Federation Council have to officially approve (I think there is 1 more but idk). It’s just a matter of when they will do it at the moment.
—Putin thought he could take Ukraine Crimea style. Now he’s got himself and Russia in a world of hurt. He’s stuck between full mobilization or going mad dog nuclear. He’s trapped…..and this is his last stand.
—Without air superiority or gaining control of Ukrainian air space, Russia will continue to sustain heavy losses.
—Instead of ground troops doing mop up work after a successful air campaign, Russian troops are forced to grind it out on the ground. And this may prove fatal to Russia for this entire war.
And if tactical nukes are used, US has stated unambiguously that it will work with NATO, a collective effort, to completely destroy every Russian troop they can identify in Ukraine and its entire Black Sea fleet.
—Russia has failed to conduct both SEAD and DEAD missions. Leaving it’s pilots and troops exposed. It doesn’t have the training, the tactics, and equipment to do either on scale. And no amount of mobilization is going to fix that in the short term.
—Without air superiority or gaining control of Ukrainian air space, Russia will continue to sustain heavy losses.
—Instead of ground troops doing mop up work after a successful air campaign, Russian troops are forced to grind it out on the ground. And this may prove fatal to Russia for this entire war.
And if tactical nukes are used, US has stated unambiguously that it will work with NATO, a collective effort, to completely destroy every Russian troop they can identify in Ukraine and its entire Black Sea fleet.
—Russia has failed to conduct both SEAD and DEAD missions. Leaving it’s pilots and troops exposed. It doesn’t have the training, the tactics, and equipment to do either on scale. And no amount of mobilization is going to fix that in the short term.
It truly confuses me because to an outsider it looks like Ukrainians are just fighting for the regime and their regime has let them down literally every day since 1991. if their regime did not let them down, then how come Ukraine's population has declined by over 10 million even pre-war from 50 million to 40 million, and now declined during the war by another 10 million including 2 million fleeing to Russia proper?
I just don't see Zelensky as being significantly different than Saddam Hussein, another third world 'president' who took power in a military coup. Iraqis didn't want to fight for Saddam Hussein after just a few years of being pounded by Iran, and these are supposed to be the famous fanatical Arab warriors. Ukraine being a secular European society just doesn't strike me as the type that can stand without cracking for long.
Intrepid
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The families have divided. Women and children were taken to safety and the men stayed in the country to fight. This explains the 40 million population, of which 10 million remain outside the country and hope to return to a liberated Ukraine soon. Ukrainian families were also housed in our village, and the children now go to school here. In Ukraine there might not be any schooling for them at the moment.
you mean the few children from 1.6 fertility rate? women that might just never come back? who the hell goes back to a country with 3k GDP per capita in peacetime, never mind war, when they're physically in a country with 30k GDP per capita?
There are reports that Ukranian forces are clashing with the Russians in Dudchny
They can already use whatever they want, anti-terrorist operation is a lower tier than special military operation. The latter has less limitations on the type and quantity of military equipment used. So the only avenue for further escalation is war declaration, imposition of wartime laws (restrictions on citizen movement, war economy and taxes, etc.) and full mobilization. Needless to say that if Putin is unable to quickly win after doing that, he is finished, so we will see whether he is ready or he again goes with "partial" stuff & imposes wartime laws only in the border regions, while postponing further mobilization to mid-October/early-November.
@anzha agreed, my observations highly align with yours.
Intrepid
Major
I speak to the people and yes they want to get back as soon as possible. In the first few months they had to be persuaded to stay a while longer until the most intense fighting ends.
next you'll tell me the lines at the Canadian embassy in New Delhi are short.
I am not sure what's your source of information is but Ukraine is steadily gaining control over new areas quite massively at times. But it's not 'Blitzkrieg' is some weird coop out though.