My brother is over there, he was in Lviv helping mercs find the gear they need and trying to keep in contact with them, he travelled to Kyiv with a reporter yesterday now it's a little safer.
Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar
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My brother is over there, he was in Lviv helping mercs find the gear they need and trying to keep in contact with them, he travelled to Kyiv with a reporter yesterday now it's a little safer.
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Hopefully the sanctions will remain until the country completely changes direction, if Russia retreat back to Crimea and things go back to business as usual it will be an absolute outrage.
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Really irked me when ISIL were running around Syria with loads of StG 44s.
You'd all be baggage
One of the AN-225 pilots doing a walkaround of the wreckage of the airfield after the VDV troops left -
Maybe this is just my "western" military training talking, but I can't understand for the life of me why these "professional" VDV soldiers (rather than untrained conscripts) who fought at Hostomel would be stealing pictures of planes from a wall or smashing a Logo of the airline etc. I can understand taking aircraft manuals, diagrams etc as EXINT (EXploitative INTelligence) if you were hitting a military base and taking that tech data that might have secret codes etc but not An-225 stuff, thats just really dumb.
It literally feels like barbarians destroying a settlement rather than a members of a "professional" army taking/defending a strategic location and the VDV are supposed to be the elite of their conventional troops yet have shown themselves to be unprofessional idiots with virtually no "skill", either in combat vs Ukraine or in their ability to exploit an intel they find.
I'm seeing a lot of that during their pull-out, amongst other more horrific things, and it's just a further indicator of how utterly crap the Army's morale/ethos is that soldiers would reduce themselves to basic barbarianism and yet still call themselves soldiers.
Maybe this is just my "western" military training talking, but I can't understand for the life of me why these "professional" VDV soldiers (rather than untrained conscripts) who fought at Hostomel would be stealing pictures of planes from a wall or smashing a Logo of the airline etc. I can understand taking aircraft manuals, diagrams etc as EXINT (EXploitative INTelligence) if you were hitting a military base and taking that tech data that might have secret codes etc but not An-225 stuff, thats just really dumb.
It literally feels like barbarians destroying a settlement rather than a members of a "professional" army taking/defending a strategic location and the VDV are supposed to be the elite of their conventional troops yet have shown themselves to be unprofessional idiots with virtually no "skill", either in combat vs Ukraine or in their ability to exploit an intel they find.
I'm seeing a lot of that during their pull-out, amongst other more horrific things, and it's just a further indicator of how utterly crap the Army's morale/ethos is that soldiers would reduce themselves to basic barbarianism and yet still call themselves soldiers.
Cleansing all 16-60 year old males? That's what the claim is.
Civilians being killed, many deliberately that I can believe.
And so far evidence from the twittosphere is backing up these claims. Literally people lined up and shot with their hands tied. Anyone who could potentially fight back just shot/executed.
Incredible if true that is a widespread policy.
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The amount of death in these villages is concerning not only because it's an utterly horrific waste of life but also Ukraine wanting revenge, this is how things escalate into Ukraine actually wanting to destroy Russians and Putin's original claims of Russophobia and Ukrainians exterminating them become true, then he's probably justified in his mind and millions of Russians to use any means possible to put to rest the Ukraine problem
Problem is, unless Ukraine are willing to eradicate the retreating forces form the air like we did in Iraq it still means they can't redirect/send additional forces south to help with the war down there because if they do the Russian forces may resupply and advance back down. So while this is a fantastic victory for moral it's not as massive as some news outlets are making it out as.
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Yeah, they are chasing after them though, I think they will try to keep them engaged somehow, if they cross the border to Belarus the Belarus army might be waiting for them, I don't think the Russians will fully trust the Belarus army though, some of them might want to change sides from what I have read.
Well it's unfair Russia is the only one armed with cannon fodder regiments, we could even the field.
I hope seeing what comes back stops any plans Lukashenko have of joining this war.
I hope so! That fat #### who is in charge right now also needs a bullet in the head
Russia is expending a huge investment on it's attempt to replace trade through the Suez Canal, would be a real shame if we accidently closed our borders completely...
The other benefit would be to irritate China who will find little use for Russia on it's Belt & Road Initiative if it can't use it to trade with the rest of Europe, this would serve to please Turkey and the Balkans as a side bonus.
The other benefit would be to irritate China who will find little use for Russia on it's Belt & Road Initiative if it can't use it to trade with the rest of Europe, this would serve to please Turkey and the Balkans as a side bonus.
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