Russian special military operation in Ukraine #24

PapaDragon wrote:
Looks like journalists have no more safety issues with reporting from the front

And Ukrainians are getting comfortable in their new holdings

Someone is definitely taking their sweet time

Looking at it from here it's starting to look awfully a lot like 1995:



Whatever Ruskies plan on doing (if they plan anything at all) they might start considering getting around doing it

This whole shit was sold to people as a patriotic rebirth

It's a big lie, they wrote articles on corruption of Serdyukov

Guess where he works now? Rostec with Putin buddy Chemezov

This was a cabal , they did this SMO like a cabal, no questions asked, and they bungled it

What was the point of the military reform? I thought the money spent was good because it was allocated correctly without corruption

But this army cannot stop an ex soviet , NATO trained cannon fodder so called "largest in europe" army

Now we know why a dry dock was finally built after kuznetsov spent a good portion of 15 to 20 years at dock

Now we know why the construction schedule for military projects is a joke

Now we know why there was no counterattack in Kharkov

These clowns sold the USSR, best army ever, for this corrupt shit that could not protect the Russian people in Donbass and in Eastern Ukraine

Alexander Lebed, Lev Rokhlin, and all those generals that spoke in 90s and early 2000s were completely right of the beastiality of Putin and his regime

Zyuganov himself says we should mobilize

But peskov and the statesmen throw it off the table

I'm voting KPRF , ain't it funny how shit work out?

We've been told that fight against corruption was successful against Gaidar , Chubais, Kudrin and Niabiullina

The scum keep running the show , and all patriots ? Dead and gone  

As Chernomyrdin said  "We wanted the best, but it turned out like always."

mnztr wrote:
If what he says is true, i.e this operation was conducted against a planned Russian withdrawal by the 30k Ukrainian strike reserve then you have to ask the question. What plans does Russia have for the withdrawal? If I look at it rationally, why dick around with Karkhov? Just mass troops in Belarus and cut off Western Ukraine. Troops from Belarus head south, while the troops in the south head north through Odessa. Anything else is a waste of blood and treasure. This will be fast as supply lines would be cut pretty quickly.

And troops in Odessa come from where exactly? Plus, for those huge operations number of troops would have to be much bigger.

3 days ago , i was confident that whatever happens , Russia can always bring more to bare and win. Now we have guys like Russell Bentley talking about Donetsk being attacked and encircled.

I'm not sure anymore.

Backman wrote:3 days ago , i was confident that whatever happens , Russia can always bring more to bare and win. Now we have guys like Russell Bentley talking about Donetsk being attacked and encircled.

I'm not sure anymore.

Truth is awakening all Russia, and Westerns will come around soon

Arkanghelsk wrote:This whole shit was sold to people as a patriotic rebirth

It's a big lie, they wrote articles on corruption of Serdyukov

Guess where he works now? Rostec with Putin buddy Chemezov

This was a cabal , they did this SMO like a cabal, no questions asked, and they bungled it

What was the point of the military reform? I thought the money spent was good because it was allocated correctly without corruption

But this army cannot stop an ex soviet , NATO trained cannon fodder so called "largest in europe" army

Now we know why a dry dock was finally built after kuznetsov spent a good portion of 15 to 20 years at dock

Now we know why the construction schedule for military projects is a joke

Now we know why there was no counterattack in Kharkov

These clowns sold the USSR, best army ever, for this corrupt shit that could not protect the Russian people in Donbass and in Eastern Ukraine

Alexander Lebed, Lev Rokhlin, and all those generals that spoke in 90s and early 2000s were completely right of the beastiality of Putin and his regime

Zyuganov himself says we should mobilize

But peskov and the statesmen throw it off the table

I'm voting KPRF , ain't it funny how shit work out?

We've been told that fight against corruption was successful against Gaidar , Chubais, Kudrin and Niabiullina

The scum keep running the show , and all patriots ? Dead and gone  

As Chernomyrdin said  "We wanted the best, but it turned out like always."

Famous Russian pessimism strikes again. Bro take a break. I mean this as a friendly advice. 
Believe me, I'm Serbian, and even though some of this things do look like a deja vu to me ( i see PD is almost there, as well) ,it is not worth the stress. 
Btw, i don't think current KPRF leadership is the answer. Maybe grassroots movement within the party could change that. Zyuganov is a systemic opposition whole his life and didn't do a diddly squat to change anything. And their candidate in last presidential elections was even worse.

The enemy is stretching the reserves along the flanks (Kherson, Kharkov) exposing the center (Donetsk).

This is the problem with "people on the ground", they can only see a few kilometres. Just like a guy commanding a infantry squad doesn´t know what the plan of the regiment or brigade is his unit belongs to, even less what the division is up to.

The enemy got annihilated at the borders of the Kherson region. No battle in the eastern part of the Kharkov region. I hope the UkroNazis try to attack Donetsk, this will be the final nail in their coffin.

One question for the Emo gang and the Yanks with tourist ushankas on their heads on here.

If Russia could rustle up 50k troops for a glorified show parade in the Far East last week, surely it can bring in a similar amount to the Pukraine.
Likewise it had over 200k massed around the Pukraine in February.

Only an infinitesimal proportion of those troops are no longer available.
And Russia has many more contract and reservists in all the military regions of Russia.

If necessary (and its not) Russia could count on troops from N Korea, China, some of the CIS on top/

Russia has the air power, far superior artillery and tanks, vastly superior missiles and rockets, sea launched power, e-warfare etc etc. The Pukraine has VERY VERY little other than conscript troops.

Russia is the strongest LAND power in the World. So what Russia "SHOULD" be doing CAN be done.

The mystery is WHAT will happen and WHY.

I don't remember the Telegram channels being this quiet for the last 24 hours.

The whole summer was a waiting game. NATO blinked first. Now all the Nazi forces are out in the open. Dead men walking.

Backman wrote:I don't remember the Telegram channels being this quiet for the last 24 hours.

No Ukro bots and trolls because of the black outs. 

Backman wrote:3 days ago , i was confident that whatever happens , Russia can always bring more to bare and win. Now we have guys like Russell Bentley talking about Donetsk being attacked and encircled.

I'm not sure anymore.

It's not about military, but politicians. Many Western people get dazzled by shine and splendor of Kremlin.
It's a golden wrapped shit.

Firebird wrote:
The Pukraine has VERY VERY little other than conscript troops.

Judging from the noise, Nato has put Ukraine uniforms on a foreign army and brought it up to the front.

Backman wrote:

Firebird wrote:
The Pukraine has VERY VERY little other than conscript troops.

Judging from the noise, Nato has put Ukraine uniforms on a foreign army and brought it up to the front.

I think they are more a mass of Pukraine conscripts with some GATO "instructors" ie soldiers masquerading as mercs.

If it reaches a certain level, Russia can say it considers it a declaration of war by NATO. Russia could then justify a pound of flesh (well far more) and then GATO will shrivel up like a slug in salt, rather than risk WW3.

PLus with them being trained outside the Pukraine again, that is tantamount to war.

Russia needs "Al Qaeda" to sink a couple of US carriers or similar.

Arkanghelsk wrote:

PapaDragon wrote:
Looks like journalists have no more safety issues with reporting from the front

And Ukrainians are getting comfortable in their new holdings

Someone is definitely taking their sweet time

Looking at it from here it's starting to look awfully a lot like 1995:



Whatever Ruskies plan on doing (if they plan anything at all) they might start considering getting around doing it

This whole shit was sold to people as a patriotic rebirth

It's a big lie, they wrote articles on corruption of Serdyukov

Guess where he works now? Rostec with Putin buddy Chemezov

This was a cabal , they did this SMO like a cabal, no questions asked, and they bungled it

What was the point of the military reform? I thought the money spent was good because it was allocated correctly without corruption

But this army cannot stop an ex soviet , NATO trained cannon fodder so called "largest in europe" army

Now we know why a dry dock was finally built after kuznetsov spent a good portion of 15 to 20 years at dock

Now we know why the construction schedule for military projects is a joke

Now we know why there was no counterattack in Kharkov

These clowns sold the USSR, best army ever, for this corrupt shit that could not protect the Russian people in Donbass and in Eastern Ukraine

Alexander Lebed, Lev Rokhlin, and all those generals that spoke in 90s and early 2000s were completely right of the beastiality of Putin and his regime

Zyuganov himself says we should mobilize

But peskov and the statesmen throw it off the table

I'm voting KPRF , ain't it funny how shit work out?

We've been told that fight against corruption was successful against Gaidar , Chubais, Kudrin and Niabiullina

The scum keep running the show , and all patriots ? Dead and gone  

As Chernomyrdin said  "We wanted the best, but it turned out like always."

All the problems in Russia are self-inflicted. The same idiots standing on tanks and waving British and American flags in 1991 (in Moscow mind you not in Kiev) are now the generation in control. Who fired on the people revolting against Yeltsin in 1993? A brave but too little too late effort? I seem to recall it was the Tamanskaya Division. The corruption and economic malaise of the USSR could have been overcome - somehow the Chinese maintained social cohesion and became an economic superpower.

Well what Russians gonna do ?

IF they got good intel and such.. they can pre-empt the attempt. Kalibrs to scatter heavy units and Iskanders/Oniks for buildings or fortifications.

I'm kinda feel as soon as the offensive repelled, Russians must quickly capitalize by counteroffensive, not letting the Ukrainians to regroup.

but that's just me.

caveat emptor wrote:

mnztr wrote:
If what he says is true, i.e this operation was conducted against a planned Russian withdrawal by the 30k Ukrainian strike reserve then you have to ask the question. What plans does Russia have for the withdrawal? If I look at it rationally, why dick around with Karkhov? Just mass troops in Belarus and cut off Western Ukraine. Troops from Belarus head south, while the troops in the south head north through Odessa. Anything else is a waste of blood and treasure. This will be fast as supply lines would be cut pretty quickly.

And troops in Odessa come from where exactly? Plus, for those huge operations number of troops would have to be much bigger.

The troops to take Odessa are already there, just just need to finish grinding up the defense. If they launch an assault from Belarus to close the border the collapse in Donbass will happen quickly, then those troops fighting there can attack Odessa, with a closed border and lack of supply Odessa should fall quite quickly.

So from what I'm hearing, the Ukraine is bringing a bunch of tanks/artillery/MLRS systems and 10's of thousands of cannon fodder away from their fortified areas, human shields and major cities towards the front lines to attack Kherson and Donetsk.

Am I missing something here? What's the problem exactly? Mariupol was a major port city, heavily fortified for 8 years straight and had 100's of thousands of human shields for the vile nazis to hide behind while shelling and shooting at Russian troops (and everyone else for that matter). Why wouldn't Russia want to avoid a repeat of that situation?

The Ukraine's hemorrhaging soldiers and equipment at a horrendous rate while Russia suffers negligible losses, holding territory was always going to be a secondary priority. But the amount of fear mongering and crying here is truly extraordinary, such shameful people whom many of you were barely active 2 weeks ago when the only news coming out was about the Ukraine getting its teeth kicked in repeatedly are now literally 20 out of the 25 comments on every page. 

I wonder how many of you assholes and clowns are going to disappear (again) when Russia evacuates another 20,000 ukrops to Stepan Bandera in hell, liberates the rest of Donetsk and starts moving onwards to Nikolaev and Odessa?

mnztr wrote:
The troops to take Odessa are already there, just just need to finish grinding up the defense. If they launch an assault from Belarus to close the border the collapse in Donbass will happen quickly, then those troops fighting there can attack Odessa, with a closed border and lack of supply Odessa should fall quite quickly.

Where, in Kherson? Not nearly enough. First you have to take Nikolaev and go further north. Establish a blocking force towards Zaporozhye and Krivoy Rog, because Ukrainians will counter-attack on the flank. You can't go directly on Odessa, because south of oblast has several big estuaries, first being at Nikolaev and very swampy ground. 
That means you have to cut from the north and, basically, cut it off from rest of Ukraine. How many forces Russians have in Kherson, what do you figure?

thegopnik wrote:

Should you be posting that image here without a warning?