Ukrainian War Developments

Hostomel has allegedly been retaken by Ukrainian ground forces this evening.

Overbom said:

Yikes Thats pretty damning. He is basically saying he has been promised (what a suprise..) false goods...



The only international talk that you should have is either with Putin (if he even wants to speak with you) or with Xi to mediate. Anyone else, and its just hot air

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The U.S. had, long ago, said we would not be involved militarily. With that, they should also know that all the other Western European countries will not be sending troops. Yet, he kept his troops on the Russian enclaves. He was gambling that the Russians would not dare invade and risk sanctions and he lost the gamble. Now he is spinning it as "surprise, no one is helping us". To be fair, it is not clear how much control he has over his own troops. It was said that many commanders have dual U.S. citizenship, so it was basically a U.S. commanded army. Z may not have a lot of real power.

meckhardt98 said:

Airborne? They have only one so far that we know of however they have atleast two dozen A-50U in working order. A-100 is the newer AWACS that hasn’t been produced in sufficient numbers yet.

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The Russian Air Force has 7 A-50Us in service so far.


""We are continuing work on upgrading the operational A-50 aircraft to the A-50U level. This is already the seventh airborne platform delivered to the troops. We are planning to deliver the next plane in 2023," the Rostec press office quoted the chief executive as saying."

More images and videos of Ukrainian volunteers this evening

HeiTangSeng said:

The Russians has a unique strategy for Ukraine day one invasion:

1. Control the airspace, roads, and airports (draw opponents out to destroy by air or artillery)
2. Avoid going into cities （limited casualties)
3. Avoid hitting civilian infrastructures, gas/elec/water/4G appear to be working in all cities
4. Waiting for reinforcement or logistics to catch up? (They must be running low on everything)

Curious about the second wave's objectives.

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Considering the Russians have been preparing for some time. It would be extremely strange or worrisome if logistics or reinforcements are already being strained when they barely push that far in.

I just don’t see Putin nor his advisors doing something that risky if logistics or reinforcements weren’t already in place.

Really complete catastrophe

Zelensky speech is important and is hinting that he might fold to the Russians.

meckhardt98 said:

More images and videos of Ukrainian volunteers this evening

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1496877618335039497

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What good are such volunteers at this stage? They have less training and less combat worthiness than Volkssturm, this is going to get them killed for very little value.