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What makes you think that Russia hadn't pretty much pre planned the withdrawal? I guess if they had drones, or even sattelites, they might have spotted it. Keep up.Given that there is still an offensive in the south, plus another one imminently planned in the SE, I think your twitter story is confused.
Unconfirmed reports of a assassination attempt on Putin
Quote from: Bristol Red Rover on September 13, 2022, 10:24:30 pmWhat makes you think that Russia hadn't pretty much pre planned the withdrawal? I guess if they had drones, or even sattelites, they might have spotted it. Keep up.Given that there is still an offensive in the south, plus another one imminently planned in the SE, I think your twitter story is confused. Then you clearly haven't read it - its a story/article in the New York Post.
Apparently there are large numbers of Ukranian Troops poised to go into the Kherson front. Rumours Russian units have tried to negotiate a surrender having run out of basic supplies. Ukranians are biding their time until they can walk in virtually unopposed with the Russians fleeing via Crimea.
Not desperate at all.''Wagner Group: Head of Russian mercenary group filmed recruiting in prisonBy Matt Murphy''https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62911618
Quote from: DonnyBazR0ver on September 14, 2022, 06:52:10 pmApparently there are large numbers of Ukranian Troops poised to go into the Kherson front. Rumours Russian units have tried to negotiate a surrender having run out of basic supplies. Ukranians are biding their time until they can walk in virtually unopposed with the Russians fleeing via Crimea. Biding their time... losing hundreds of lives a day? A good number of Ukraines currently biding their time in a pocket in Kherson whilst getting shelled from all sides and bombed out of existance as they were cut off by the river flooding and knocking out all their pontoon bridges.
Quote from: SydneyRover on September 15, 2022, 01:16:09 pmNot desperate at all.''Wagner Group: Head of Russian mercenary group filmed recruiting in prisonBy Matt Murphy''https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62911618Absolutely, Sydney. Totally untrained, and doubtless a good proportion of them locked up for nothing more than opposing Putin's regime. They're going to be one hell of a motivated fighting force.
Quote from: Filo on September 14, 2022, 07:50:39 pmUnconfirmed reports of a assassination attempt on PutinLots of reports of this on Twitter….hopefully it’s only a matter of time.
Quote from: i_ateallthepies on September 15, 2022, 02:42:11 pmQuote from: SydneyRover on September 15, 2022, 01:16:09 pmNot desperate at all.''Wagner Group: Head of Russian mercenary group filmed recruiting in prisonBy Matt Murphy''https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62911618Absolutely, Sydney. Totally untrained, and doubtless a good proportion of them locked up for nothing more than opposing Putin's regime. They're going to be one hell of a motivated fighting force."...doubtless..." yeah, right. Have you got any chips to go with that ketchup?I think there's around 500k total in custody. Given that Russia has maybe between 150 to 250k in Ukraine compared to maybe between 800k and 1100k on the Ukraine side, say 10% of the total prison population signing up would make some difference. Most will already have military training, some more than the basic national service. Some will be military veterans.The next stage for Russia will be conscripting, mainly from the Asian territories. Without full training these would be fairly useless canon fodder, much like the Ukraines and foreign volunteers that got thrown to the front. It's a long road ahead.
You’ve omitted one very important factor there in your ‘spurious’ account of numbers of fighters on both sides.Ukraine is fighting an invader that it is determined will give up territories it has/had seized because it’s people are motivated. Motivated to live in a free & democratic country.Motivated to ‘chase’ this bullying regime from its lands.Motivated by the backing of those in the ‘free world’ who see Ukraine’s fight as just & Russia’s flagrant invasion as a precursor to further expansionist ‘incursion’ on other Baltic States should it succeed in Ukraine.Have you absolutely no ‘grasp’ on history?
He has little grasp on anything other than a wish to see NATO and the EU battered down. Russia has wasted so much hardware, it's asking North Korea to send 60 year old munitions to bail them out. It's list swathes of its trained junior officers. They won't replace them with convict thugs. And Ukraine will continue to be supplied with precision munitions to pick them off.
A video reportedly shot from a Ukrainian tank and uploaded onto Twitter was geolocated to Kupiansk on the east bank of the Oskil River. It showed the smashed-up and destroyed city. On the left of the video footage lie the wrecks of two smouldering and seemingly abandoned Russian tanks, one painted with the letter Z which has become a Russian pro-war symbol. Another video of a Ukrainian soldier celebrating the destruction of a Russian armoured personnel carrier has also been geolocated to the east bank of the Oskil River. "All will soon be Ukraine," the soldier says in the video. Russian forces have taken huge losses since the Kremlin ordered the invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24.
Reading the BBC report on the burials, it's clear how evil Russia is and Ukraine are saints. No need for a thorough investigation, the causes are obvious. The BBC already have a lawyer in the job too.They interviewed one tortured guy who is clearly representitive of the whole population of the city. Not even a rumour of Ukraines holding any of the Russian sympathisers prisoner. The situation is clear. It's black and white. Neat for those with blinkers.