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

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Surely Ukraine wouldn't strike anywhere within Belarus. Although Belarus are providing support to Russia, they're not sending their own troops and the last thing Ukraine will want to do is give them a strong reason to enter the war for real. Belarus is not exactly a military superpower, but having to fight fresh troops on another front would be a big blow.

It wouldn't be great but I'm not sure if it'd make a huge difference to the outcome and would probably cause the house of cards to collapse in Belarus. Didn't they need Russian troops to restore order after the last election 'win'? I suspect if their soldiers enter then Lukashenko would be toppled soon after - either by his own generals when thousands of their men are killed doing Putins bidding, an enraged civilian uprising who don't have to fear the army (and no doubt heavily armed by Ukraine) or both.
If they didn't go in at the start when they were sure of the outcome (sounded like the army outright refused at the time?!) then I really doubt they'll go now against a much more mobilised and armed Ukraine.

But agreed, it's not a headache Ukraine needs right now and would cause more catastrophic loss of life and damage to infrastructure so they won't be officially doing anything unless Belarus really start taking the **** even more than they have. Don't get me wrong - with what they've done already Ukraine would have every right to officially declare war on them imo!

The only good thing here is Lukashenko is damned if he does or doesn't now. Go in and probably lose power soon after. Don't and assuming Ukraine essentially wins then Russia will be in no condition to prop him up anymore and any uprising will be fully supported by Ukraine.
I suppose he could try folding Belarus in under Putin's ussr mrk2 which I reckon he was going for before Ukraine stuck a thorn in his paw. But that would be civil war too.
 
I suppose he could try folding Belarus in under Putin's ussr mrk2 which I reckon he was going for before Ukraine stuck a thorn in his paw. But that would be civil war too.

Lukashenko apparently intended to do just that until he figured out that it was going to be under Putin's control instead of his. I guess he might give it another go when Putin happily pops his clogs.
 
Lukashenko apparently intended to do just that until he figured out that it was going to be under Putin's control instead of his. I guess he might give it another go when Putin happily pops his clogs.
The treaty of a Union State, Lukashenko didn't mind signing because Yeltsin was a drunk and could see he was never going to enforce it but with Putin in power he realised it may not have been a smart move. He pushed back on the idea of political alignment for years much to Putin's shergrin who at one point got so miffed with Lukashenko he was going to cut the gas supplies going into Belarus (although Lukashenko in turn said outright he would steel out the pipes that were going into western Europe if Russia did that).
 
Just to give more context to the story:

Girkin, an ex-officer of Russia's Federal Security Service, launched Russia's war in the Donbas by seizing Slovyansk in 2014. Since then, he has become critical of Putin, lashing out at him for mishandling the war effort and refusing to carry out mobilization.

Basically arrested becasue he said Putin is an idiot and has mishandled the whole invasion.
 
Surely Ukraine wouldn't strike anywhere within Belarus. Although Belarus are providing support to Russia, they're not sending their own troops and the last thing Ukraine will want to do is give them a strong reason to enter the war for real. Belarus is not exactly a military superpower, but having to fight fresh troops on another front would be a big blow.
Not so sure about that, you have to remember there are frequent missise attacks coming from within Belarus. I suspect it's a reply to that to let them know they cant just fire on Ukrain without a response.

All these excuses coming from Belarus as to what happened are unlikely.
 
Not so sure about that, you have to remember there are frequent missise attacks coming from within Belarus. I suspect it's a reply to that to let them know they cant just fire on Ukrain without a response.

All these excuses coming from Belarus as to what happened are unlikely.
Agreed.

It is odd that the default mindset seems to be that the defender shouldn't retaliate against the attacks lest they anger their attackers and/or those supporting the attacks.

Maybe its time the aggressors and those who support them worry abbout the consequences of their actions?
 
I found the video of an 'off the shelf' drone hovering above a Russian RLK-MC-A (ROSC-1) and dropping fragmentation grenades highly amusing considering what that bit kit is designed for. :D
Sadly it turned out to be fake-ish (they bombed a long abandoned site with a bit of equipment left behind them acted like they took out an active site).


NB: It's a Russian source but the info checks out.
 
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