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Last time, it seemed it was basically just a distraction to get the Russians to shift their units elsewhere, as well as for morale purposes. I wonder what their aim is this time?

While it's impressive how long the Ukrainians managed to go without losing any of them, as the war ground on, losing at least some became almost statistically certain.

And what's your source for it being unmanned? The Russian ministry of propaganda?

Do you not understand how desperate comments like this make you look? It's pretty obvious you're grasping at straws here.

As recently as the 1980's, such things were much more feasible. Truly globalized supply chains are a much more recent thing; until the 90's, it tended to mostly be raw materials imports, and finished product exports.

Corruption and disdain for human life will do some nasty things to your civilization. Russia threw away millions of people trying to prove that plants were 'socialist.' They haven't even lost a million to this war yet, and they do still have more land than they started with. This is entirely...

The Russian government sure as heck is acting like it's suffered catastrophic losses.

Sempai noticed me.

Can counter artillery and conventional anti-air. Part of the reason for what we're seeing right now, is because this is the first large-scale war with mass-deployment of low-end drones. Not only was neither side prepared for it, but neither side has the technological and economic base to...

Not really. Such an anti-Putin crowd might keep a couple of the old oligarchs alive to pass off to the west for war crimes trials as sacrificial goats, to try to end sanctions. I can't really think of any other way Putin supporters would survive such a complete upset of the power structure though.

At this point, Ukrainian counter-bombings like this are starting to just become a regular aspect of the war. That's pretty significant.

And yet for all these advantages, some real, some over-hyped and less-real, the Ukrainians are gaining ground far faster than the Russians have in any of their offensives in the last year. Sure, a lot of people were hoping for a crushing offensive like in Kharkiv, or steady advance like around...

Do you not understand just how brutal trying to assault a city or town is?

This is a very stupid game for Putin to be playing right now. As long as the war is 'just' in Ukraine, a lot of people can convince themselves that the war is 'over there,' contained in some 'other place' that they don't have to worry about touching them. Pushing it out to the far side of...

Aye. Just like some people are going 'ha ha Winter weak' right now, we'll probably see at least one serious storm come through, and the vatniks going 'ha ha Winter strong' then. We won't know what the overall severity of the Winter is until we get through to Spring.

Tu-141 implies Russian manufacture. They may have been sitting in someone else's arsenal, but there are good odds it came from the Russians themselves.

As amusing as that sounds, odds are that's a pretty temporary patch, that will be completely shot after one Winter.

Not exactly surprising. When your morale is already hanging by a thread, announcing a general retreat rarely leads to well-maintained discipline.

"That said, given the GOP’s history of support for Putin," Insane fantasy world. Not that you should really expect anything else from The Daily Beast. Funny how quickly they memory hole Hillary Clinton's 'reset button' and her selling Uranium One to the Russians...

The scary thing, is that Belarus is the logical place to launch a nuclear strike towards Kyiv. If the Russians actually nuke a city, even with 'just' tactical-grade weapons, then the entire world is going to have to make a decision about whether or not a rogue state willing to do that can be...