cn_habs
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Ukrainian War Developments
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SteelBird
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Well, what should I say? Like a clown dancing, an ant to impose sanction against an elephant.
At the mean time, this seems to be the most heart-breaking sentence from Zelensky:
NordStream 2 AG, a company based in Switzerland, own the pipeline. They are owned by Gazprom and several European energy companies with Gazprom having half the capital and the other companies the rest. The pipeline has been built and filled with gas since past December. All it needs is certification i.e. a license to operate. The Germans have been dragging this for over 6 months and now froze the licensing process.
Iraq had been under sanctions for a decade and had no weapons supplies. The US also destroyed most of their military hardware when they destroyed retreating Iraqi military columns after Iraq had done a cease fire and had signed a troop withdrawal. Russia is fighting an enemy which was supplied even just a week ago. Even then it does not matter if they were supplied or not. They have no proper combat experience and you can't just handle non-combatants weapons and expect them to perform well. They would just be cannon fodder. Which the US would love of course.
Most of the Russian troops here seem to be the bulk of their forces. But they are not the elite Russian forces. All of those seem to be held in reserve. We see T-72B3 tanks and T-80BVM. But no T-90 tanks. They aren't bothering sending those since even the T-72B3 is better than Ukrainian tanks and against infantry the result is more or less the same.
Agreed. The US commentators thinking this will happen are delusional. Notice how Russia didn't even bother cutting traffic or power supplies. NATO bombed Serb energy and telecoms infrastructure.
Remember it took several days for the US to enter Baghdad in 2003. In the meantime we often heard reports of how the US were retreating. It is the same shit all over again.
They are basically just roaming around and destroying any active opposition they come around. This way they can force the Ukrainians to expend their weapons stockpiles with minimal expense of their own. It also keeps them on their toes. The proper ground offensive, if it happens, should be later. They should be holding more than half their troops back in reserve.
This is idiotic. These kinds of Volksturm units will only lead to unnecessary losses for what are essentially armed civilians. Lots of Ukrainians will die needlessly.
Didn't you get Putin's memo? He said de-nazification. There will be no negotiation with the Ukrainian government of the Euromaidan regime. Just capitulation.
Russia has almost two hundred Su-34 and we have seen none of those yet. So far I have seen helicopters, Su-25, and Su-35. The Russians seem to be trying to ensure air superiority but not air supremacy. They also aren't engaging on massive aerial bombardments yet.
The Russians traditionally rely more on artillery than aerial bombardment.
Exactly. They haven't bothered with aerial bombardment yet. It will probably happen once they move into the main cities proper.
The Russians have next to no MiG-29 in service. All the pictures and movies you see in Twitter with MiG-29 are Ukrainian forces.
Exactly. However, some of these contours of the operation emerge. Let's look at its development today, Kiev is obviously one of the priority goals.
At 03:00 explosions were reported in Gostomel.
In the area of Gostomel explosions are heard again, - mass media
On Friday, February 25, at approximately three o'clock in the morning, the explosions resumed in the Gostomel district of the Kiev region.
This was reported by UNIAN with reference to TSN.
It is worth noting that in this area there is a military airfield, which the occupiers failed to capture on February 24.
Isolated explosions can be heard in Boryspil, near Kiev, eyewitnesses say.
According to Vgolos, Russia is preparing a large-scale bombing of Kiev, an international network of hackers.
We will recall that on Thursday the defenders of Ukraine completely recaptured the Gostomel airport where the Russian landings landed earlier.
I personally think the attack on Kiev is a feint and their aim is to encircle the bulk of elite units the Ukrainians have which are in the East of the Dnieper river. Once the troops in the south and north link up they will move the main forces over and mop them up. An attack on Kiev would happen afterwards.
Ace Combat 8: Ghost of Kiev sounds like a hot game title. Realistic? Not so much LoL
Do you think that, since Russia is moving in on Moldovas door step that they could officially recognize Transnistria; essentially a repeat of what happened with the LNR and DPR, taking care of lose ends?
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