Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar

[Cosmic Schwung]

Why dosnt EU not provide more tanks and other vehicles if they are providing planes?

I'm guessing there are quite a few mothballed MiGs lying around that they're quite happy to get rid of. Also this conflict is really showing off how ineffective tanks can be compared to air support.

 

[kindai]

Bulgaria (Su-25) - 14

If thats true, thats huge and a game changer, they will make short work of those miles of Russian armor rolling in.

 

[Robbo]

It’s one thing sending weapons and supplies, but fighter planes?!

Good stuff.

 

[Washout]

For those who don't fully understand what those 70 aircraft represent, this is their current MiG-29/Su-25 inventories:

Bulgaria (MiG-29) - 16
Bulgaria (Su-25) - 14
Poland (MiG-29) - 28
Slovakia (MiG-29) - 12

They're literally giving Ukraine all of them to defend their countries, Bulgaria and Slovakia don't even have any other planes, they're currently awaiting delivery of the new F-16s they bought so they could begin phasing out their MiGs over the rest of the decade...

I guess they figure they'd be like spitting in the wind if Russia came after them next and they're in Nato anyway so why not.

 

[Iraklis F.C.]

Well obviously still unacceptable posture towards Greece, though i'll mitigate by saying I was worried about them siding with Russia, I'm still concerned about Erdogan in general.

the next war in europe will be fought in the aegean. Erdogan rhetoric is very similar to putin's, demilitarization, buffer zones etc.

 

[bingham67]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1498403307219562501

Follow the tweets below this is harrowing

 

[bayo000]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1498401018555551747

70 more aircraft coming from NATO. Blimey.

Good move, they're pretty much useless for those countries now. They would have relied on Russia to provide spare parts and any sanctions on military equipment won't be lifted anytime soon no matter how this ends. Hopefully they'll be of good use.

 

[Jokester]

For those who don't fully understand what those 70 aircraft represent, this is their current MiG-29/Su-25 inventories:

Bulgaria (MiG-29) - 16
Bulgaria (Su-25) - 14
Poland (MiG-29) - 28
Slovakia (MiG-29) - 12

They're literally giving Ukraine all of them to defend their country, Bulgaria and Slovakia don't even have any other planes, they're currently awaiting delivery of the new F-16s they bought so they could begin phasing out their MiGs over the rest of the decade...

This will presumably be backed up with other nations providing equivalent air defence protection in the meanwhile.

 

[HEADRAT]

If thats true, thats huge and a game changer, they will make short work of those miles of Russian armor rolling in.

Why hasn’t Russia got air superiority by now, doesn’t make sense, you would have thought first thing you do in a modern war is remove air power otherwise those rows of Russians are toast. X

 

[Ayahuasca]

Those former soviet bloc jets have all been modified to accept nato munitions as well

 

[ubersonic]

Conflicting reports coming in now that Bulgaria's PM has said they aren't sending any planes, if so he's an idiot as they could have got free F-16s out of it lol.

 

[StriderX]

I wonder if there's some ex-military volunteers that know how to operate Patriot systems that could very well be heading into the likes of Lviv to protect refugees and supply routes?

 

[bayo000]

For those who don't fully understand what those 70 aircraft represent, this is their current MiG-29/Su-25 inventories:

Bulgaria (MiG-29) - 16
Bulgaria (Su-25) - 14
Poland (MiG-29) - 28
Slovakia (MiG-29) - 12

They're literally giving Ukraine all of them to defend their country, Bulgaria and Slovakia don't even have any other planes, they're currently awaiting delivery of the new F-16s they bought so they could begin phasing out their MiGs over the rest of the decade...

My brother lives close to main (pretty much only) military airport in Slovakia and said it became an American air base in last couple of days.

 

[HungryHippos]

Follow the tweets below this is harrowing

Pretty grim reading

 

[Crizzy]

Follow the tweets below this is harrowing

The Ukrainian UN ambassador read this out earlier during the emergency meeting this afternoon.

 

[delta0]

Russia aren’t even subtle in their gaslighting at the UN meeting.

 

[kindai]

The Ukrainian UN ambassador read this out earlier during the emergency meeting this afternoon.

I found his other comment much less disturbing.

 

[StriderX]

Why hasn’t Russia got air superiority by now, doesn’t make sense, you would have thought first thing you do in a modern war is remove air power otherwise those rows of Russians are toast. X

I'm guessing (armchair enabled) that they need their planes for NATO and don't want strategic holes they can't fill since their newer generation fighters are either very limited or non-existent.

 

[Lima]

For those who don't fully understand what those 70 aircraft represent, this is their current MiG-29/Su-25 inventories:

Bulgaria (MiG-29) - 16
Bulgaria (Su-25) - 14
Poland (MiG-29) - 28
Slovakia (MiG-29) - 12

They're literally giving Ukraine all of them to defend their country, Bulgaria and Slovakia don't even have any other planes, they're currently awaiting delivery of the new F-16s they bought so they could begin phasing out their MiGs over the rest of the decade...

surely giving equipment like this is the straw that broke the camels back and cause wider conflict with Europe? And since we are seeing that Russia’s military wouldn’t be able to handle that since it’s struggling with Ukraine, surely this is a massive risk we provoke a bad (nuclear) response.

 

[Crizzy]

I found his other comment much less disturbing.

About doing the world a favour by following suit of a certain other dictator in his bunker?