Ukraine Russia War

[sMASH]

Has the spring offensive started yet ?

Winter is coming

[Dizzy28]

Has the spring offensive started yet ?

Winter is coming

Russia has been on the offensive since spring.

Going well for them by their standards

[sMASH]

No mention on the state of territory and the Ukraine losses... Noice .

Carry on.


Winter is coming.

[paid_influencer]

carrying on is what people does do
when their predictions or beliefs
don't go they way they said or thought
many times i seen it, get dizzy from seeing it

men does self gaslight
men doesn't acknowledge

or react
or reflect
on reality

just carry on like nothing happen

not me tho. i willing to self ban for 6 months if i wrong. 2025, we have to make sure an get those international observers
everybody need to come together to get rowley out of power. unity platform

[adnj]

On May 9, Russian forces attacked across Ukraine’s northern border with Russia. This offensive, timed to coincide with Victory Day—the day Russia celebrates the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany—quickly ran into a wall of Ukrainian mechanized brigades.

All summer, the Ukrainians have been pushing back, slowly reclaiming the sliver of Ukrainian territory the Russians captured in the early days of the offensive.

The counterattacks involve artillery and drone operators supporting tanks and infantry—all overseen by commanders in their headquarters. It’s all very modern. But sometimes the outcome hinges on that most ancient tenet of warfare: deception.

The Ukrainian army’s 3rd Assault Brigade, fighting somewhere north of Kharkiv this summer, showed how—in an early morning attack that turned into an elaborate daytime ruse. Cameras in the brigade’s headquarters and with its tanks and infantry captured the drama.

“Work very carefully, very carefully,” one 3rd Assault Brigade commander intoned as a platoon, supported by T-72 tanks, mortars and drones, readied for an assault on a web of Russian trenches anchored by a gully.

The tanks attacked first, just as the sun was peeking over the horizon. “I’ll never forget or forgive you, you bastards!” one tanker bellowed at the unseen Russians.

The tanks fired a few rounds and then pumped out a smoke screen. “Let’s get moving,” an infantry leader said.

The Ukrainian infantry reached one of the outermost Russian trenches. They could hear a Russian machine gunner just 100 yards away. “Little by little, yes, we keep moving,” the infantry leader said, urging his soldiers forward.

They advanced along the trench toward the gully—a Russian strongpoint. “We need to shoot a tank or mortar there,” a commander said back at headquarters.

One of the T-72s fired three shots. “All three shots hit perfectly,” the commander observed.

Back in the trench, one Ukrainian soldier sat bleeding from a wound to his hand. “I’ll just tie it up,” a medic told him. Another had suffered an injury to his buttocks. “Is my ass bleeding badly or not?”

Scrutinizing drone feeds, officers and their staff analyzed the battlefield. A Russian machine gunner “controls two sectors,” one officer concluded.

“We have to break in,” the infantry leader responded.

Luckily for the Ukrainians, the Russian artillery was silent. “There’s no artillery there now—we have a chance to break in,” the infantry leader reported.

But he and his team were low on supplies. “Four freaking magazines,” he muttered. “No water.”

The Russian machine gunner was still firing away. “We’re going to look for them with a drone,” the infantry leader said.

And then, a stroke of luck. The Ukrainian soldiers found an intact Russian radio, left behind by retreating infantry. “They’re assaulting us,” a Russian soldier complained on his channel.

That radio was an opportunity. “Get the frequencies of the ... radio,” a 3rd Assault Brigade commander barked. “Try to organize it.”

“We will now try to firetruck them over,” the infantry leader said. “Who is a Russian-speaker?”

The Russians’ radio chatter indicated they were expecting reinforcements. It was time to move. A Russian-speaking Ukrainian soldier hopped on the captured radio. “We’re 1st Company,” he transmitted—part of the same battalion as the Russians in the gully.

The Russian machine gun shifted its fire to avoid hitting its “allies.”

“Let’s go,” the 3rd Assault Brigade infantry leader ordered. “Yell in Russian!”

By the time the Russians realized the soldiers approaching them weren’t fellows Russians, it was too late. They were all but surrounded.

The Russian survivors retreated across a field. “The rest of the roosters are running away,” a 3rd Assault Brigade commander crowed.

Out in the open, the fleeing Russians were easy targets for the Ukrainian mortars and drones. “Let’s start shooting at that field a little bit,” an officer ordered.

Two Russian survivors approached a bridge. A Ukrainian drone was watching. “Wait a moment,” a Ukrainian commander breathed. “They’ll be together.”

As soon as the two Russians were standing side by side, a Ukrainian shell exploded at their feet. The carnage was bad enough that the 3rd Assault Brigade censored the drone video before releasing it.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2 ... sian-unit/

[sMASH]

All summer, the Ukrainians have been pushing back, slowly reclaiming the sliver of Ukrainian territory the Russians captured in the early days of the offensive.

This is what we want to see, the rest is lol

[Dohplaydat]

All summer, the Ukrainians have been pushing back, slowly reclaiming the sliver of Ukrainian territory the Russians captured in the early days of the offensive.

This is what we want to see, the rest is lol

Eh?

Definitely don't think Ukraine is pushing back and reclaiming, latest information is that Russia continues to make advances

https://understandingwar.org/background ... ust-1-2024

[sMASH]

All summer, the Ukrainians have been pushing back, slowly reclaiming the sliver of Ukrainian territory the Russians captured in the early days of the offensive.

This is what we want to see, the rest is lol

Eh?

Definitely don't think Ukraine is pushing back and reclaiming, latest information is that Russia continues to make advances

https://understandingwar.org/background ... ust-1-2024

It's slow , arduous , expensive .
Even the best gamers lose nearly 50% of their matches .
Russia would not win every single engagement.


But Russia just has more of everything .
Putin quoted a figure of 5 to 1 losses.
So if that 70k figure is true , thsts like 350k Ukrainians .

And the bloggers say thst within the last months , the gains have been faster, greater , and the kills even more .

While before Russia was just merely matching the Ukrainian resistance to reduce unnecessary losses, with only enough to over all succeed, the resistance on the field has become less. And now it's safer to put more troops in the field more.
Is a numbers game and gradient starting to go down on the Ukrainian side.



What the bloggers say, because Ukraine is not showing any signs of meeting in a middle ground , Russia will be grinding down any resistance they get.

There is no peace deal , only terms of surrender .

Any other nation decide to step in to help, gonna open them up for attack .

Time line that Russia has estimated is middle 2025 to have a Russia friendly regime in Ukraine .

[adnj]

Ukraine recently got new permission from allies to hit within Russia using donated weapons, meaning Russia has more sites it needs to consider defending.

And the ISW said this month that Ukraine's escalating drone attacks on Russian military and oil facilities, sometimes hundreds of miles inside Russia, had also stretched Russia's capabilities.

The ISW said such strikes "continue to pressure Russia's air defense umbrella and force the Russian military command to prioritize allocating limited air defense assets to cover what it deems to be high-value targets."

[sMASH]

Don't forget the f-16's

[Dohplaydat]

Man drones have changed everything about war. There's a lot that be learned from this war, f-16s I imagine will not help Ukraine at all.

[adnj]

[sMASH]

Didn't that get attack already ?
What, they copy and pasting stories.. Jess changing the date ...

[adnj]

No room for Russia to cut rates this year as inflation climbs, economy overheats

Aug 2 (Reuters) - Russia's central bank has no room to lower rates from 18% this year, a Reuters poll showed on Friday, with analysts forecasting inflation above the bank's 4% target in an overheating economy propelled by military production and consumer spending.

Russia's economic growth relies heavily on large-scale government spending on arms production as Moscow funds its war in Ukraine, contributing to soaring real wages in a tight labour market with unemployment at a record low.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/rates-b ... 024-08-02/

[paid_influencer]

ukraine turning into a mail-order bride country

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/04/worl ... ating.html

For the past two and a half years, Kateryna Bairachna has wanted to meet someone special. But war always gets in the way.

Ms. Bairachna met a soldier, but then he was sent to the front. She traded text messages with another man, but those fizzled out because he was in no mood to meet, fearing he might soon be drafted. On the dating app Bumble, Ms. Bairachna liked the looks of a hipster. But when she scrolled through his photographs, she noticed his amputated leg.

“I looked at his profile for 15 minutes and felt so sorry for him,” Ms. Bairachna, 35, a marketing director for a clothing brand in Kyiv, said in an interview. She wondered if she could handle a relationship with a maimed war veteran. Then she swiped left, removing him from potential matches. “I feel I’m not ready for that.”

Russia’s full-scale invasion has upended nearly every facet of daily life in Ukraine. Two-thirds of Ukrainians have lost a relative or friend to the conflict. Hourslong blackouts are now routine across the country, and entire cities have been obliterated by Russian strikes.

[alfa]

Lonely Trinis could score with promises of sun sea and sand

[sMASH]

https://youtu.be/Ud2riAiwVHg?si=8T_zIbesyhPuwvLY


https://youtu.be/PPAtguSRnFM?si=NXvSdidvg9tJ8Wmh

Elensky cut off oil from Hungary and Slovakia ... He going mad.
They will hold up more eu funding in response , as well as Hungary supplies elenski with ttec.

If I was Hungary I invade and take custody of the line .

[Dizzy28]

Ukraine can hold a referendum and claim Kursk Oblast soon I guess because precedence?

Putin wish to have Ukraine in Russia is finally coming through

[sMASH]

Ukraine can hold a referendum and claim Kursk Oblast soon I guess because precedence?

Putin wish to have Ukraine in Russia is finally coming through

To the Victor, goes the spoils .

There were pics and vids of the aftermath of the incursion , but from russisn sources , did not see any from the Ukraine sources.
So not sure how sustained it was

[sMASH]

Ukraine has been expanding globally , but can't keep the line where it matters .
Resorted to global terrorism

[Dizzy28]

Ukraine has been expanding globally , but can't keep the line where it matters .
Resorted to global terrorism

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Mali is currently run by a man who did a coup
Niger is led by a military junta in power because of a coup
Wagner is a Russian mercenary group but somehow in Africa

But yet Ukraine is the problem

[sMASH]

Ukraine has been expanding globally , but can't keep the line where it matters .
Resorted to global terrorism

IMG_20240806_221227.jpg

Mali is currently run by a man who did a coup
Niger is led by a military junta in power because of a coup
Wagner is a Russian mercenary group but somehow in Africa

But yet Ukraine is the problem

Ukraine facing extinction but have time to send forces to cause trouble in Africa ?
They not srs. Them on games.

[adnj]

A Russian Red-Line has been crossed for the sixteenth time. Please hold for the next "nuclear holocaust."

[PariaMan]

Ukraine in Russia

The beginning of the end .

Start building those bunkers immediately !

[sMASH]

Ukraine still active on kursk region, suspected to be trying to reach the nuclear power plant there.

While zaporozheye one is on fire now.

F16's at play ?


Belarus is stepping up its border defense while they had sent an air force commander to consult with Iran .


The game is afoot

[sMASH]

Bloggers say, Russia didn't deplete any resources from the donbass to attend to the kursk offensive . While Ukraine pulled its best forces from donbass to attempt kursk, leaving them weaker .

Nobody knows what kursk was for , best assumption is to hold territory for exchange in future negotiations .


Bloggers also said Russia uncovered the kursk plot a couple months ago, and let them do it to whittle down their strenght.
A wider front benefits Russia as they have more resources to span out.
And in this drone warfare , concentrated resources is a negative, as it leads to higher losses.





Russia is treating the kursk as an act of terrorism .
They are willing to negotiate with i
Ukraine but under a differnt regime .

Inside rumblings is calling for the complete obliteration of Ukraine , but that is logistical load stone. Better to have a passive friend than a resistive dependency.

I assume the next goal is Odessa.... With f-16 appetizers.

[Davidmaha]

Ukraine in Russia

The beginning of the end .

Start building those bunkers immediately !

This is the same how I acted at the beggining of the war and when they captured Zaporojie Nuclear Station and so on and so forth, I think we should see that Russia is just talk and Ukraine can defend itself with the proper backup. No need to hide

[Davidmaha]

A Russian Red-Line has been crossed for the sixteenth time. Please hold for the next "nuclear holocaust."

This raises my spirit and I think the spirit of every Ukranian soldier outthere on the field.

[PariaMan]

Putin has made it clear I'd the motherland is threatened he will go nuclear

[PariaMan]

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukrai ... 6fbd9b477d