Ukrainian War Developments

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pqow1234

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Are the Ukrainians dumb? Even if that suicide mission works, how many people are they going to save with a single Mi 8?

The Russians aren't smart either. They should have let it through and hit it on the return leg.
You are only considering the evacuation angle. Have you considered they might be bringing stuff in?
*tinfoil hat on* Like possible suicidal false flags on chem weapon attack?
 

Fede_LV

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You mean this one?
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Some say that it is a SU27P while others say it is a Russian SU30SM:
No, this one.
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The rob lee video shows the su30 that crashed after stalling at low altitude. It wasnt shot down. The aircraft hited the ground with no foward motion. It fell flat. There is a video of the su30 stalling after doing some very agresive maneuvers and popping flares. A pitty.
 

enroger

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That is a tactic suggested by some Chinese observers. But the same observers determined that the Ukrainians knew they have no chance in open space fighting the Russians, so they stay in the bunkers hoping to weaken the Russians to abandon. It is a matter of how much pain each other is able to take.

Yes the Russians can pull this off, it is their favoured options because only in the open they have the upper hand in armours, aircraft and MRLS etc.

The tactic is well known to everyone, the real challenge is to make the enemy think that they have a chance by going out to the open, or the risk of fighting in the open worth the gain, or the defeat in the open is better than starve in the bunker.

A great example is battle of Changping between Zhao and Qin in 260BC. Lots of people calling the Zhao general Zhao Kuo a moron because he went out his fortresses to fight the Qin in the open leading the defeat. But a research paper by PLA actually think that Zhao Kingdom had no chance of avoiding the defeat on strategic level because of the lack of supply and economy size. It is just matter of time, the outcome would be the same. So Zhao Kuo was forced to gamble. Lian Po who was replaced by Zhao Kuo took the opposite tactic by staying in the fortresses. He was not defeated, but he was depleting the country, so he wouldn't make it any better for the country.

Ukrainians are just doing what Lian Po did. The difference is that Zhao hand no allies then, Ukrainians "think" that west is their ally and able to pressure Russia to back down.

Yeah, my initial thought was no way Ukr forces want to fight in the open, recent signs of counter attack by the Ukrainians gave me this line of thoughts

NATO intel support also complicate things, as they'd be able to spot possible ambush and advise Ukr to stay put
 

Lapin

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Quote from the article:

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It is a region that is no stranger to war. In the second half of 1943, a massive Soviet Army swept across the eastern parts of Ukraine from their starting points in Western Russia. Part of this campaign was a battle in the Donbas region that saw 1 million Soviet soldiers battling 400,000 Germans. Over five weeks, the Soviets lost nearly a quarter of their men killed and wounded.

The Nazis made the Russians pay for every kilometre gained.

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So... are the Ukrainians the Nazis then?
Please don't equate 'Nazi' with 'German' and don't equate 'German' with 'Axis'.

Forces from several countries, not only Germany, fought on the Axis side in the Ukraine.
Romania, Italy, and Hungary sent armies. Slovakia and Croatia sent smaller forces.
And that does not include Waffen-SS units recruited from volunteers in many countries.

According to Franz Halder, Operation Barbarossa in 1941 employed about 15,000 Polish troops in support roles.
Odessa was captured primarily by the Romanian, not German, forces.
The Romanians were chiefly responsible for a massacre of Odessa's Jews.

Moreover, significant Ukrainian forces fought against the USSR.
In 1944, Ukrainian partisans killed Nikolai Vatutin, who was one of the best Soviet generals.
 

FairAndUnbiased

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Yeah, my initial thought was no way Ukr forces want to fight in the open, recent signs of counter attack by the Ukrainians gave me this line of thoughts

NATO intel support also complicate things, as they'd be able to spot possible ambush and advise Ukr to stay put
Turns out that they moved out a bit, got hit by artillery, and ran back. There's no threat to the Russian positions in Kherson.
 

Abominable

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"If a regime is illegal, all subsequent actions it performs are illegal."

Ukraine's election in 2019 should supersede what happened in 2014.

Russia violated international law by seizing Crimea. Russia then held a plebiscite in which a majority voted
(allegedly under duress) to approve of Crimea becoming a part of Russia. Thus Russia argued that its
annexation of Crimea was legal ex post facto. Western critics of Russia argue that since the initial invasion
was illegal, any subsequent plebiscite must be illegal as well.
If you believe the revolution of 2014 was illegal, then so were all subsequent elections. They occurred in the aftermath of a neo-nazi revolution where political opponents were arrested and tortured, opposition parties banned and dissenting pro-Russian opinion censored.

You could make a case for Russia's annexation of Crimea to be illegal. They should have taken Kiev in 2014 and restored the original government. It's good that they are rectifying that error now.
It's extremely condescending to imply that most Ukrainians are so benighted that they cannot know what's
in their best interests when they vote for a government, so they need occupying Russian soldiers to teach them.
Wasn't that what you were saying about Russia and Putin?

Ok, no more discussion about the political aspects of this from me. This is a military forum.
 

Abominable

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You are only considering the evacuation angle. Have you considered they might be bringing stuff in?
*tinfoil hat on* Like possible suicidal false flags on chem weapon attack?
I doubt the Americans would let the Ukrainians use chemical weapons in this war. If they knew the Ukrainians were planning something on their own, they'd likely inform the Russians beforehand to as a sign of good faith that they weren't involved.
 

enroger

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I don't get it. Why post a video about this and get reprimanded by the Russians or Donbass militia? Why not just surrender to the Ukrainian forces and agree to play PR for the Ukranians in exchange for not getting shot?

We can't assume anything in this war. This could already be "surrender to the Ukrainian forces and agree to play PR for the Ukranians in exchange for not getting shot"
 
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