Russian special military operation in Ukraine #16

GarryB wrote:

Please Garry, for the nth time, he is NOT allowing Russian military ships (home ported in the Black Sea or not) nor anyone else's military ships through, only his own. He is being totally fair, the only way to do it.

The rules state that ships that are home ported in the Black Sea can return to port through the straight, which includes Russian ships.

HATO ships from the US and UK and France are therefore not allowed in because while they are not technically combatants, they don't have home ports in the Black Sea.

Vann7 wrote:taken from another forum..
but interesting.  

it shows what is going on with the west barking at Russia.

flamming_python wrote:

ALAMO wrote:

Podlodka77 wrote:In the meantime......

I would not be so happy about that, as too strong RUB is not a good thing either.

Yeah

But sounds like a nice scheme. Get billions of roubles into the budget from rocketing prices for oil/gas while the rouble is weak

Then strengthen the rouble massively in time for mass debt repayments

Firebird wrote:My criticism from before 2014 has been this.
Russia tries to parry the punches, til its worn out. But doesn't punch the aggressor itself.
Thats sometimes akin to punching a knife rather than a knifer.

The knifer being the United Snakes and minions. The knife being Bandera-stan.
So my question is... how does Russia best defend itself against the knifer?
...

Scorpius wrote:

The Aerospace Forces of Russia use Su-57 fighters during a military special operation in Ukraine. This was told to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex. "The use of Su-57 aircraft in Ukraine began two or three weeks after the start of the special operation. The planes operate outside the zone of active destruction by enemy air defense means, using missile weapons," the agency interlocutor said.

TASS has no official information on this matter.

https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/14679393

So maybe it's just rumors, but Ukraine is quite suitable as another testing ground for new aircraft. As Georgia has become a combat training ground for the Su-34, Ukraine can become a baptism of fire for the Su-57.

Isos wrote:
This was captured in a video from march I think. It may be a su-57.

Tsavo Lion wrote:

GunshipDemocracy wrote:South-East looks like to be incorporated as a whole to Russia. Lvov and surroundings could be left as a protectorate i.e. Panama...

no, Poland will take Lvov & W. Ukraine, Hungary & Romania may take their former lands too.

flamming_python wrote:

Yeah

But sounds like a nice scheme. Get billions of roubles into the budget from rocketing prices for oil/gas while the rouble is weak

Then strengthen the rouble massively in time for mass debt repayments

Ghost of Kiev? 

JohninMK wrote:The plan to lure Ukie troops out of Kharkov and into the region from other places seems to have run its course so now, to prevent them relaxing and repositioning elsewhere, the Russians are starting their counter moves.

Erik Zimerman
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The #Russian counterattack in #Kharkhov aims to cut off Ukrainian troops that advanced too far north and east from the city. It is aiming for the Kharkhov - Staryi Saltiv road (T2014) and to retake a town around Cherkaksi and/or Ruski Tyshky, trapping UA forces north of that all the way to Lyptsi.

The reason this is possible is because there is a dense forest on the west flank of the Kharkhov - Lyptsi road. The troops could be fully or semi trapped because of this as there are no major, even secondary roads through the forest. Whether troop encirclements are achieved or not, the main goal of the counterattack is much simpler than that.

If Ukraine believes that it has finished with its Khakrhiv offensive, having reached the border in several places, & can now safely move troops to the critical battle in the Donbass, it is mistaken.

ALAMO wrote:Aside from a discussion.
There are more and more films revealed, where detachments deny performing duties, claiming lack of a weapon, support, orders, disrupted chain of command, fleeing officers etc.
Along with that, more and more documents with family members claiming the same, occupying the regime buildings, bullying local command officers about the fate of family members etc.

That is a deja vu.

It was already in the script, back in 2015, after the Dobalcevo and Ilovaysk. Just the same story repeats itself.

An official call from the Snuffy office about mobilization targeting the western - more "loyal" parts of Ukropistan is just another point on the list.

We can bet if that all shit will stand to repeat August 2015 ...