After Stoltenberg's words about the absence of a plan for Ukraine's admission to NATO, the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry announced his refusal to participate in the summit
Cruise missiles were fired from BSF vessels a while back, as noted by a previous poster. Now there are reports of massive explosions at a fuel depot in Kiev, plus explosions in Kharkov and in Nikolaev.
No idea if related (besides, Kiev and Kharkov are close to RU/BLR borders, so using shipborne cruise missiles from the Black Sea against targets there wouldn't make much sense).
Dr.Snufflebug wrote:There are videos of droves, literal droves of dead Azovites from Mariupol being spread now. Gruesome as I said earlier.
Looks like they were completely cornered and then just mowed down.
Can you please give me the telegram channels that post this? I would like to have some more pro-Russian ones, if anyone has links to them I would appreciate it very much.
The Ukrainian leadership missed its chance for a sovereign state, - the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova
"They have already missed the main chance for the existence of Ukraine within their own borders, a sovereign Ukraine, an independent Ukraine," she said.
If you read between the diplomatic lines and Zakharova does not carry a gag, then this can be understood in such a way that a course has been taken for the annexation of Ukraine.
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HATO has more combat aircraft than Russia. And the US has more nuclear attack subs. So you can bet in a conventional war they would try to use air power to strike Russia. But Russia can just destroy their concentration areas, fuel depots, oil refineries, etc. With long range weapons. Good luck getting those airplanes operational for long without specialized airfields available for them. I think the main problem is the attack subs. They would do the same thing Germany did in WWI/II and do unrestricted submarine warfare on anyone trying to do trade not sanctioned by them.
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lancelot wrote:HATO has more combat aircraft than Russia. And the US has more nuclear attack subs. So you can bet in a conventional war they would try to use air power to strike Russia. But Russia can just destroy their concentration areas, fuel depots, oil refineries, etc. With long range weapons. Good luck getting those airplanes operational for long without specialized airfields available for them. I think the main problem is the attack subs. They would do the same thing Germany did in WWI/II and do unrestricted submarine warfare on anyone trying to do trade not sanctioned by them.
There's thousands of missiles for s400
And we've seen what a PVO without even radar or command and control can really do
Imagine one with functional C4ISR
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Dr.Snufflebug wrote:There are videos of droves, literal droves of dead Azovites from Mariupol being spread now. Gruesome as I said earlier.
Looks like they were completely cornered and then just mowed down.
Can you please give me the telegram channels that post this? I would like to have some more pro-Russian ones, if anyone has links to them I would appreciate it very much.
I won't link to anything, but if you look for t.me links posted by others on this forum, you'll soon find several of these.
Apropos Zakharovas statement, well, I expected that, that it was the idea from the beginning, unless Kiev would just fold immediately and agree to crazy concessions. It predictably didn't, so this is in fact plan A, not plan B.
NATO has no industrial capacity....? okay okay after that line, I cannot take your remarks seriously anymore.
We are done here, go smoke your drugs.
C'mon, bragging is childish but let's admit some facts at least. You ran out of ammo against Lybia. USA is the only western country which has serious firepower - this is common knowledge. But I would doubt even their capacity to some extent. USA is foremost Hollywood after all. Iran is power enough to scare them.
British defense minister admitted to Vovan and Lexus that they are already running out of nlaw's. In a small regional conflict - not world war or intercontinental war which conflict of Russia vs. Nato would automatically become.
Your industrial capacity is in China. It's not early 1900's anymore.
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Ispan wrote:I am at a loss for words hearing of the death of two of the children of Auslander. I believe these were adopted war orphans he mentioned in some posts. I know the eldest boy when he grew up joined the militia a couple years ago. It's awful but it's to be expected. I don't know his name or what he is like but I can figure out some guy like Zhoga, that lad who grew up with the war and was the commander of Motorola battallion and was killed at Volnovakha.
It's bad to see these young guys and men die, but somebody must go to war else the war would never end and the women and children would be killed. It's sad, I got sad seeing the bodies of Russian soldiers but that's war. Somebody has to pay the price. When war comes to your country, you have no choice, you can't expect others to fight for you. Still that Auslander boy volunteered, when he need not, makes his sacrifice even nobler. He died so some other didn't have to. For that I thank him, and thank Auslander. You can be proud of him.
The loss of your daughter is simply awful. A soldier has to expect wounds and death, but that is simply beastly murder. Brave girl too. She must have known the ukros fire at ambulances and when you are in a war zone and within the range of artillery, it can fall anywhere. Still that 's not just bad luck, but sheer murder.
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One way or the other we (allow me to speak as a Russian for once, because your dead are also my own), we are going to lose thousands of people, both brave warriors and unfortunate civilians. Those that make it, like that couple and their newborn son rescued from Mariupol, will owe it to the efforts of thousands like Auslander children.
They did their duty and saved lives. Theirs was a tragic and short life, but they achieved most and did more good than most people will in their life time. Their death was not in vain.
I haven't cried like this since 2014. One day, when my little daughters grow up, I hope to be able to teach them to be worthy of being Russian, of living up to the example of Auslander children and all others. If I achieve that, then my life will have been worth it.
Thank you from my heart for your eloquent post that put it so much better than I could have done.
Auslander and I arrived here at about the same time back in the dark days of 2015, refugees from theMess and mp.net and, although we have never met, I have felt a strong bond with him since then and especially now. I will leave it at that other than to say that their God will be watching over him and his family, perhaps not how they thought but he will be there.
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Arkanghelsk wrote: The Ukrainian leadership missed its chance for a sovereign state, - the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova
"They have already missed the main chance for the existence of Ukraine within their own borders, a sovereign Ukraine, an independent Ukraine," she said.
If you read between the diplomatic lines and Zakharova does not carry a gag, then this can be understood in such a way that a course has been taken for the annexation of Ukraine.
Arkanghelsk wrote: The Ukrainian leadership missed its chance for a sovereign state, - the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova
"They have already missed the main chance for the existence of Ukraine within their own borders, a sovereign Ukraine, an independent Ukraine," she said.
If you read between the diplomatic lines and Zakharova does not carry a gag, then this can be understood in such a way that a course has been taken for the annexation of Ukraine.
Won't happen, just a scare tactic
Not annexation, but regime change is guaranteed
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Arkanghelsk wrote: The Ukrainian leadership missed its chance for a sovereign state, - the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova
"They have already missed the main chance for the existence of Ukraine within their own borders, a sovereign Ukraine, an independent Ukraine," she said.
If you read between the diplomatic lines and Zakharova does not carry a gag, then this can be understood in such a way that a course has been taken for the annexation of Ukraine.
Won't happen, just a scare tactic
Not annexation, but regime change is guaranteed
More than regime change
A reformatting of the state
A Ukrainian or Malorussian federation I think, with the LNR/DNR included, a Transcarpathian autonomous region for the Hungarians, and the rest of Western Ukraine formatted to the 'Carpathian Rus' project, where the Galicians and others will be returned to their once uncorrupted state, as innocent peace-loving Rusyns, before the Bandera ideology infested them.
And the nationalization of all oligarch-owned enterprises. They will serve the people.
There is no sense in annexing the LNR/DNR, or Novorussia, or the whole of the Ukraine. Russia has enough territory. It just needs a sane neighbour. More over do you really want all those Ukrainians to have the vote in Russia? They'll always vote for who you don't, leave 'em be to their own state.
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Arkanghelsk wrote:E3 Sentry doesn't work that well in Ukraine even without Mig 31 firing in anger
In reality warfare Mig31 would send R37 to those AWACS and cut off completely C&C from the ground
Once the AWACS are gone also CAS and CAP missions cannot proceed
Russian forces have done very well against NATO with only 50k men
The losses are irreplaceable in terms of human life, but performance wise losing 500 men is stellar against a NATO armed and supported state
It's 50k Russians fighting 400,000 Ukrainians and 25,000 NATO mercenaries of the foreign legion
Along with E3 Sentry support, Arms support, manpower support , and Intel support
So Russia is doing good job
The method of sitting back and chewing the Ukrainian infantry is a good tactic, no need to swallow food without chewing it first
No need for mobilization, the ground forces are waiting quietly at garrison and deployment locations
You past a lot of good stuff. Why do you have to exaggerate like this and make us doubt the rest?
How do you know the E-3 doesn't work well in Ukraine?
How do you know there are only 50k Russians in Ukraine?
We know that Russia lost 500 in the first week and up to the end of last week DNR had lost over 560, where does your 500 come from?
The Ukrainian forces, including everyone may just scrape to 400k but where does your 25k NATO mercenaries come from?
For the E3 not working good part: the attack on the "peacekeeping" = NATO base close to the polish border is proof of that. It was done mostly by air-launched cruise missiles fired from within russian airspace. The missiles were in the air for 2+ hours but the mercenaries at the base got no warning. Either the E3 radar isn´t as good as advertised, at least against low flying targets, or the Il-22PP bases in Belarus did some surgical jamming.
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lancelot wrote:HATO has more combat aircraft than Russia. And the US has more nuclear attack subs. So you can bet in a conventional war they would try to use air power to strike Russia. But Russia can just destroy their concentration areas, fuel depots, oil refineries, etc. With long range weapons. Good luck getting those airplanes operational for long without specialized airfields available for them. I think the main problem is the attack subs. They would do the same thing Germany did in WWI/II and do unrestricted submarine warfare on anyone trying to do trade not sanctioned by them.
NATO cannot be underestimated. Nevertheless, NATO's strength is in the United States, not Europe. I can't see a conventional war between Russia and NATO. It is certain that tactical and strategic nuclear weapons would be used. Missiles like Kinzhal and Iskander hypersonics can give Russian a tactical advantage in European theater. In addition to being almost unstoppable, NATO's anti-aircraft defenses appear weak and ineffective (as demonstrated in the case of the Ukrainian missile that crashed into Croatia unnoticed). Employed in a massive, "blitzkrieg" fashion, major NATO bases would be torn apart before they could react. Putin left this between the lines at the last meeting with Macron: "in case of conflict, you won't even have time to invoke Article 5..."
SeigSoloyvov wrote:Oh they are finally being honest they plan to annex most of ukraine if not all of it, good good.
Probably not serious yet. But it might be the only solution to put an end to all this. If Russia does not establish strict control over Little Russia there are ways for Americans to keep grinding it to the ground for years. They will send mercenaries, smuggle in nastier and nastier weapons etc.
I don't believe in annexation though. Maybe some kind of coalition of Eurasian block can establish peacekeeping mission in Little Russia after the liberation is completed. Could be good opportunity even for China to join in as one of the guarantors? Definitely some kind of Supervision Commission is needed at least. To keep an eye that it doesn't slip back to dark era.