Ukraine Watch...

[invalid]

Sadly not, it's apparently under Russian control for now.

For now? When do you think It might be taken back?

There's aren't many Ukrainian forces left on the área after Ze again insisted on no retreat while he was on his jolly in America.

[invalid]

invalid, you might as well give up posting your Russian tripe on here...
You've been doing it for 2yrs now and nobody has changed their stance on the conflict...
Unusually for PowerSwitch, pretty much everyone apart from you has the same views.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambl ... ce-defense

Given Russia's massively degraded military power, and collapsing ecónomy - according to you - how is this possible?

[invalid]

I'm more inclined to believe western propaganda than the Russian propaganda that you spew. Our journalists aren't reporting the Putin line under threat of imprisonment or falling out of a window or being fed polonium tea. Your propaganda is completely invalid. The name is on the tin.

My 'propaganda' is actually following what's going on on the around, which the British media is extremely selective in reporting. If you haven't noticed the differences between what you've been told all this time, and what's actually happening, then, yes, you're probably beyond help.

[invalid]

It is possible that the Russian military is in an even worse state than it appears, it's possible that what's in Ukraine is pretty much all they've got left. If there is a 'palace coup', the whole house of cards could collapse, the Russian Federation collapses into a dozen+ autonomous regions - with decrepit nukes. At that point we see a 50k+ NATO force and a much larger Chinese force rush in to secure the nuclear materials and gain administrative influence over Russia's immense bio-physical resources.

Too much British media really does serious damage to the reasoning faculties.

[clv101]

The key word is 'possible'.

[Forever_Winter]

The key word is 'possible'.

The key word is ' probable '.

[Ralphw2]

Russia has just announced another round of conscription of 130,000 odd. As conscripts they are generally exempt from fighting in Ukraine, although Russia claims that it now extends all the way to Crimea, so that may change. Conscripts are now fighting in Kursk, defending genuine Russian territory.

Russia keeps expanding the size of their army, although they do not report casualty numbers, so it is not clear how many are still alive. BBC reports at least 70000 documented dead, Ukraine claims 600,000

[BritDownUnder]

There was an interesting analysis of Ukraine's population in a report recently. It was in Apple news so I could not post the link.

Taking the 1991 borders of Ukraine there was about 49 million people. This declined to about 40 million in 2010. A loss of 2.5 million people to Russia in the Crimea 2014 takeover - most of whom identified as Russians it must be said. The present front lines have trapped a further possibly 6 to 8 million in Russian hands - again many of whom probably identify as Russian, how many is debatable but the Russian have not been to kind in their occupied areas. How many are aged Babushkas and how many are military age is not known.
It is now thought that there about 29 million people in the areas controlled by the Ukrainian government and 6 million who have fled. Whether the 6 million fled is included in the 29 million number the report did not make clear.

Not all bad news though. The Russian occupied areas had the lowest birth rates and the highest birth rates in Ukraine are in the Western regions around Lvov. And of course Russia has a demographic crisis of its own that they are talking about and Western arms are helping to worsen.

[kenneal - lagger]

Vuhledar has been liberated

No. Vuhledar has been flattened after 18 months of trying at the cost of over 20,000 Russian lives and a few regiments worth of vehicles. It's a very pyrrhic victory.

Russia is doing most of the damage with very large gliding bombs at the moment but doubtless Ukraine is working on an answer to these. Perhaps with the introduction of more F16s with longer range Air to Air missiles Russia will start losing aircraft. The glide ratio for the unpowered bombs can't be any more than 14:1 so the Russian aircraft can only release from fairly close to the front line. The AWACS aircraft/satellites must see the Russians taking off so they can give Ukraine the heads up to get the F16s up. And at 30,000ft, to give the glide bombs maximum range, the F16s are going to be doing pretty much top speed. With AIM -120D missiles the range is about 100 to 120 miles so they should be able to target the delivery aircraft successfully.

Also the Ukrainians are successfully targetting Russian air defence systems and many of those are being withdrawn to cover Russian bases and infrastructure at home. So the Russian defences against aircraft flying in Ukraine are being weakened by the day. A few more drones raids into Russian airfields and the Russian aircraft will be driven back even more making for a longer flight time before bomb release giving Ukraine a better chance of an intercept.

A recent drone attack on a Russian airfield also successfully targetted the pilots accommodation blocks as it takes a long time and a lot of money to train a fighter bomber pilot so it is a good investment in FPV drones. The accommodation was flattened but it is not known how many pilots were at home and tucked up in bed at the time. Meanwhile the Russian criminals target Ukrainian civilian infrastructure.

[kenneal - lagger]

Russia has just announced another round of conscription of 130,000 odd. As conscripts they are generally exempt from fighting in Ukraine, although Russia claims that it now extends all the way to Crimea, so that may change. Conscripts are now fighting in Kursk, defending genuine Russian territory.

Russia keeps expanding the size of their army, although they do not report casualty numbers, so it is not clear how many are still alive. BBC reports at least 70000 documented dead, Ukraine claims 600,000

ed to sign full contracts

Ukraine claims to be killing and wounding well over 1000 Russians per day so those new conscripts, when they are "persuaded" to sign full contracts will only last about four months. That is why Russia needs another round of conscription. The new conscripts, by the time they are trained, might just about replace the losses in that time!

Sorry that is a bit of an exaggeration because it is the Ukrainian conscripts who get three or four months training. The Russians only get about two weeks which is why they only last about two weeks on the battlefield. That and a complete lack of care for their welfare on the part of the incompetent Russian officer corps.

[Ralphw2]

Interesting reports that the Russians have lost an SU70 "stealth drone" shot down over Ukraine. This is Russia's newest "6th gen" large bomber drone, only 2 prototypes are known to have been built so far. VIdeo of the crashed drone on the ground is online, and of the drone being shot down, by a Russian fighter. Clearly they shot their own drone to stop it falling into Ukrainian hands, it is not clear if the drone had lost contact with its operators, or if Ukraine had electronically hijacked it. I do not think this is fake video reporting.

[invalid]

Ah, I see!! When Russia loses territory it is permanent, but not the other way around!

Do you somehow think that Ukraine can hold a gew villages with improvises defences when they' couldnt hold Bakhmut or Adviivka?

Given that they are still advancing and the Russian defence is all over the place? Yes, obviously. Russia does not have the (willing and capable) manpower to defend its entire front line. That is the whole point.

Keep up, orc apologist.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/ ... -territory

Russia has recaptured half of the territory it lost to Ukraine in Kursk, a region central to Volodymyr Zelensky’s plan to defeat Vladimir Putin.

Emil Kastehelmi, an open-source research analyst at the Finland-based Black Bird Group, also said that the terrain that Ukrainian forces were trying to defend in Kursk favoured the attacker.

“The area is mostly dominated by large open fields with a limited natural cover,” he said, describing Ukraine’s western flank. “Especially without proper fortifications, defending it can be difficult.”

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Big brain move from the comedian in chief and his backers in the West as usual...

[invalid]

Confirmation this morning that British-supplied Challenger 2 tanks are operating inside Russia. Ha! Putin's head must be ready to explode at this point.

Where have the pro-Russian trolls gone?

There's some good recent footage of the challenger 2 you can find... It is in at least 2 pieces but something to cheer hey! More money for the MIC!

[UndercoverElephant]

If the obsession with my posts continues I will be forced to conclude you are Default0ption's sockpuppet. Please get a life.

[Ralphw2]

Russia has made this a war of attrition. That means a lot of death and suffering on both sides. The war will be won by the side with the most motivation, logistics and economic strength and support. Invalid is doing his tiny little bit for Russia by trying to talk down Ukraine's chances and sap Western public support.

Reports that multiple incendiary devices originating from air freight from Russia have caused fires in DHL warehouses in Europe and uk