Russian special military operation in Ukraine #16

Putin wont be annexing anything... the nazis and banderites will be removed and the rest can vote their own future with a range of very specific options put before them if they want peace...Putin is still saying he wants a denazified demilitarised neighbour... if they want their own independence he will not demand they join the RF, ..but it sounds rather like the people of the south and east didn't enjoy the nazis from the west of the country and their games and bs, and they might decide to join the RF themselves. ..but it will be their choice..

No time limit on this job... getting it right is important... you should be pleased nazis are being removed from your home country...

EU Set to Approve New Military Aid for Ukraine
Macron Tells Zelensky: French Arms Deliveries to Ukraine Will Intensify

Dr.Snufflebug wrote:Russia making significant gains on all fronts now. Multiple kessels forming, several UA groupings are surrendering (though at least one was shot in the back by a blocking detachment).

Arkanghelsk wrote:965 for May 17 and 785 for today.  Total - 1750 prisoners in 2 days from Azovstal

Wow all azovstal surrendered

franco wrote:The composition of the Ukrainian military grouping in the northern part of Donbass.

In the Severodonetsk-Lisichansk operational cauldron (all numbers approximate):

Severodonetsk: ~ 2,000 troops
Gorskoye-Zolotoye: up to 3,000 troops
Lisichansk: up to 10,000 troops
for a total of ~ 15,000 troops

On the Svetlodarsk Arc and in Avdeevka/Vasilyevka:

Svetlodarsk: at least 2,000 troops
Avdeevka stronghold: ~ 4,000 troops

Ukrainian command is attempting to further reinforce them with territorial defence (volkssturm) units.

Slavyangrad - Gleb Bazov

https://t.me/s/Slavyangrad

Arkanghelsk wrote:

3 cauldrons are forming around severodonetsk, Svetlodarsk, and Slavyansk/kramatorsk

After the demise of mariupol and azov

The VSU is facing annihilation in the donetsk pockets

Then Russia can move virtually unopposed to Odessa, Kiev, Kharkov and other cities

caveat emptor wrote:https://t.me/boris_rozhin/49339

Ukrainian sources report the death of the first foreign mercenary pilot.  It is known that he was a citizen of one of the Baltic countries, and piloted the Su-25 attack aircraft.  The command of the "reinforced forces" considered him as one of the most experienced (perhaps not without reason), able to set an example for young pilots.  However, he, like most other Ukrainian pilots, made only one sortie - the first and last.  He never managed to reach the line of attack - he was shot down on approach.  Since the flight took place at very low altitude, he could not successfully eject.
It is noteworthy that the flight crew of the Ukrainian Air Force explains his death by the fact that he was sent on a mission that was obviously impossible.  And, as if, after his death, the number of refuseniks (servicemen that deny to follow orders) increased both among mercenaries and among Ukrainian pilots.  @WarDonbass

flamming_python wrote:

Vann7 wrote:
Video above illustrate the quality strikes problems with russia drones in ukraine ,they using unguided bombs and missing their targets a lot in ukraine. in the last link ,they missed to hit an american artillery .  russia desperately to produce a lot more precision strikes drones in very big numbers .
of the like of orion and sirius.  plus mass produce thousands of kamikazy drones.  in the video above
russia airforce not only missed the american artillery , but also its operators got the chance to run in the other direction.      killing an operator of artillery is a big deal , this are people that takes months to train in the use of  artillery..

They didn't miss, from that distance any crew would have been killed and the piece itself likely would have been rendered inoperable

ALAMO wrote:Biden just signed an order for 300 troops into Somalia.
His memory must suck, really.

ALAMO wrote:

MonkeymodelBananaRepublic wrote:Meanwhile Zelensky: "The evacuation mission from Azovstal continues. It is led by our military and intelligence officers."
Haha

I am seriously worried for that guy. You can't go far with this much cocaine.

Hole wrote:...Gonzalo Lira claimed that the Russians making the war boring. No big news, just slowly blowing the shit out of the Nazis. The american puplic is loosing their interest.
If this were a Netflix show it would be canceled next week.

Urluber wrote:

caveat emptor wrote:https://t.me/boris_rozhin/49339

Ukrainian sources report the death of the first foreign mercenary pilot.  It is known that he was a citizen of one of the Baltic countries, and piloted the Su-25 attack aircraft.  The command of the "reinforced forces" considered him as one of the most experienced (perhaps not without reason), able to set an example for young pilots.  However, he, like most other Ukrainian pilots, made only one sortie - the first and last.  He never managed to reach the line of attack - he was shot down on approach.  Since the flight took place at very low altitude, he could not successfully eject.
It is noteworthy that the flight crew of the Ukrainian Air Force explains his death by the fact that he was sent on a mission that was obviously impossible.  And, as if, after his death, the number of refuseniks (servicemen that deny to follow orders) increased both among mercenaries and among Ukrainian pilots.  @WarDonbass

Must have been quite old pilot.
I think there has not been an air force in any of Baltic states since the Soviet times. I know natzos have four planes there though (what a stunt of propaganda in itself btw).

Hole wrote:.....

Seems to be the barracks hit yesterday.

sepheronx wrote:

Werewolf wrote:

flamming_python wrote:I could care less about the smelly gangrene mutants from the Azovstal catacombs to be honest
Russia is treating them with more respect than they deserve. They've even taken the piss, portraying the whole thing as an 'evacuation'.
They took the civilian population captive as shields, fortified a city whose population does not want them to be here, tied down Russian forces, and played this morale boost role in prolonging the war.
And now this 'no filming' condition. What?

Russia should declare the thermobaric blasting of the whole place in 24h, with the only acceptable means of salvation being to crawl out of there on whatever limbs are intact. And if foreign mercs want to stay down there to avoid being filmed - fine, they can savour the high-temperature smell of fuel-air explosives.

By all means of course treat ordinary Ukrainian soldiers who surrender like normal people and in a timely manner elsewhere in the Ukraine - with all due decency and medical assistance if required.

As much as I wanted to see that whole shit place FOAB'ed the entire scenario would have been not in favor for reasons like LNR and DNR putting to trial the Nazis and ultra Ukro-Orcs.

Taking them hostage for the legal denazification will add only wonders for LNR and DNR being more actively accepted as souvereign countries and on top of that can be shown like trophies to the world of the "non existent Nazis" in Kokaina.

Ultimately it is a propaganda move with far greater consequences than a FOAB as it will be going to history books and be just one huge coffin nail in the Empire of Lies who fought for the "Good".

No Azovites will be exchanged as POWs but the Russians should agree to exchange Azov POWs against their own and meet up, but coming with average VSU soldiers. They can't know each Azovite by face and will exchange them for their supposedly Azov guys. But no Nazi should ever be exchanged but be openly trialed by LNR/DNR with death penalty.

Hell the Germans were prosecuting some 90+ year old gardeners from some people who were not even confirmed to be ever in SS. Russia needs to denazify for the next 3 generations until all of them are dead along with the slogan of Salo Kokaine and all the other nationalistic views.

Anyone who was and is actively rewriting history, like the Ukrainians get thought in school, that all human species came from the Ukrainians with their 140.000 history of high-elf civilization must be seen as a form of systematic Nazi collaborators and must face death penalty as the Gardner of some alleged SS-Soldier.

Kokaina seized to exist, they just didn't get the message, yet. It was about time.

My hopes or prognoses are, that Kokaina will be eventually gone from the map by end of this decade and by 2035 or preferably prior Belarus will hold a referendum to join Russia.

Kazakhstan will be the next Kokaina project and Russia is losing their sphere of influence there.
The Turks have successfully established for some years now a "Pan-turkish" sphere of influence. The nationalistic sentiment of Kazakhs against russians is growing and will be exploding within the next few years if Russia does not intervene with Kazahkstan's government.

With the turkish influence among the Turk*& *stan countries and Russia getting bigger by swollowing its old territories they might get more afraid and nationalism will increase and this vast territory with huge resources will go in Turkish hands.

I don't see much of Russia doing work in this regard. We will have something similiar next decade if we are unlucky.

Turkey tried but got its ass handed to it in Kazakhstan.  China was pissed about that too regarding what Turkey tried.  The Russians are well aware and has done its action in Kazakhstan simply because of what Nazarbyev tried. Tokayev is the leader now and the guy who pushed the Turkish style nationalism in Kazakhstan.  He is now out of the country.  And in response Kazakhstan is holding a permanent CSTO mission in Moscow.

Azerbaijan is the biggest obstacle now and even they aren't interested in passing the Russians off.

Turkey won't have just Russia to worry about but also China too which is something Turkey should really be worried about as well.

sepheronx wrote:

Isos wrote:

EU Set to Approve New Military Aid for Ukraine
Macron Tells Zelensky: French Arms Deliveries to Ukraine Will Intensify

He can't atm french army let alone ukrainian one to fight Russia. Another sign to give up for Ukraine.

I am unsure on this comment.  Is it that France has no ability to arm Ukraine due to lack of weapons for French Army or is it because of finances?

Arrow wrote:Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant will work for Russia – Russian Deputy Prime Minister Khusnullin.
This power plant has almost 6,000MW of power.