Russian Invasion of Ukraine 2022

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Marduk said:
Soon to be Russian logistics equipment in Ukraine:

Speaking of...
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They're the same model of vehicles used by the Russian Military just in civilian colors. Note the Tigr in clear military colors. Likely leased out with Reservist Drivers for the Civilian Economy and called back up. Standard fare going all the way back to WW2.



Compilation of footage from Ukrainian Civilians of the attack on Antonov Airport in the opening phase. Also looks like a UkA column was caught in road march during the attack and destroyed.

Combined with the purposely slow leaks by Russia such as the capture of the Kherson Base, Russia is letting Ukraine hang itself in the propaganda war.

We've seen this before in Syria and Nagorno-Kabarakh plus the Tigray Conflict.

Same here, all these Ukrainian tactical successes are irrelevant at the operational level. They are being encircled and forced to send untrained civilians out with small arms with predictable results.



Izium fight shaping up.



Russia tightens its hold on the NPP and attached city.



An attempt to assess what units are where and their current actions.



Ah the 'Experts,' war in all its absurdities is playing out across social media.
 
King Arts said:
What time period? Britains heyday was the 1700 and 1800s even in ww2 england relied more on officers than Americans did. It was only in the modern period that British followed the American example.
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Literacy rates were part of why the US needed fewer officers.

In 1850 the white adult literacy rate was roughly 90% in the US. It was less than 70% for British men and about 55% for British women back then.
 
Reddit is helping the war effort. Russia's that is.



Also, I found a video on Utube of Ukie civies trying to go commando like Zelensky instructed. Or rather, the gruesome results. (Therefore I can't just post it here)

They had molotovs and one RPG-22 type weapon (it was one of the disposable single shot ones, I'm fairly sure it's an RPG 22).

Russians shredded them with their 30mm cannons.

If you want the video link, I can PM it to you.
 
BlackDragon98 said:
Which is the result of the photoshop battalion or Ukrainians dragging their own broken shit from some warehouse west of the Dnieper to do a last photoshoot.


Now we get to watch the Chechens and Sparta Battalion grind them into dust.
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Uh...except it isn't.
Because unless the thousands of footage taken of vehicles opening fire, fire fights. Scared civies recording are all faked.
I call bullshit
 


Western Governments are starting to realize that Ukrainian Forces are getting ground up and UkA is even training children.

This is why you never fight a war on social media folks. How many divisions does Twitter have?



Yep.



The rail network of Ukraine. This is why the Kyiv Fight is difficult, but once the pockets are cleared in the North East, the Russians will have a secure supply line. Same with Mariupol once it falls. It is also why the South has more success as they grabbed more rail lines early on.
 
Russian logistical problems in the north are probably because the supply lines are literally running through a radioactive exclusion zone.
 
Chiron said:
Uh no, its because the UkA flooded the west bank of the Dnieper. It was why the VDV had to get Antonov Airport in the opening attack otherwise UkA Forces could have reinforced the Chernobyl Garrison and held the Russians long enough for the flooding to stop all further advances.

Had that occurred, the UkA could then punch escape corridors for the pocketed troops in the North East and formed a solid defense line at Kyiv and form a Corps level formation to buy more time to get its reserves up.

The seizure of Antonov up ended any chance for that and placed the UkA in an operational no-win situation of desperately launching local counter-attack that were operationally futile.
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By which you mean they're launching counter attacks that do massive amounts of damage to Russia's forces...
 
WolfBear said:
www.reuters.com

Russia, without evidence, says Ukraine making nuclear "dirty bomb"

Russian media cited an unnamed source on Sunday as saying that Ukraine was close to building a plutonium-based "dirty bomb" nuclear weapon, although the source cited no evidence.
www.reuters.com www.reuters.com
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That's an interesting, but probably unlikely theory. If Putin had any proof that Ukraine was developing a nuclear weapon, they would have revealed that much sooner. Doing so would have killed any claim that the Ukraine had to the moral high ground. I could only think that Moscow might have raised this privately, in order to avoid Kiev from pulling the trigger or rushing to defend the site...but still.

I'd say most likely false, but not a bad play given the bullshit that Zelensky has been pulling for the past week.
 
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The Original Sixth said:
That's an interesting, but probably unlikely theory. If Putin had any proof that Ukraine was developing a nuclear weapon, they would have revealed that much sooner. Doing so would have killed any claim that the Ukraine had to the moral high ground. I could only think that Moscow might have raised this privately, in order to avoid Kiev from pulling the trigger or rushing to defend the site...but still.

I'd say most likely false, but not a bad play given the bullshit that Zelensky has been pulling for the past week.
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I think it's cover for people hitting waste containers with munitions in the different radioactive waste repsoitories/reactor complexes, and calling it an enemy 'dirty bomb' when it gets into the wind and ground water.
 
Bacle said:
I think it's cover for people hitting waste containers with munitions in the different radioactive waste repsoitories/reactor complexes, and calling it an enemy 'dirty bomb' when it gets into the wind and ground water.
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No, I don't think so. Cliche as it sounds, Ukraine developing a cheap, dirty nuclear weapon is actually not that far fetched. That's basically the sole defensive strategy of North Korea. It's also the defensive strategy of Pakistan and Israel. The idea that Ukraine might be developing nuclear weapons in secret is not only plausible, but full justification for a Russian invasion. And honestly, if I credited Zelensky with more brains, I would actually give it a salt of credibility.

As it stands, I don't think Zelensky had the brains to develop a nuclear weapon, because he probably bought into the rather cheap dream that Ukraine would someday be allowed to join NATO. Or that the West would ride to Ukraine's defense, so long as they bled hard enough for it.
 
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