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Long ranged missiles with target restriction of within Ukraine would make a good difference even so.
Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar
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I'm just not convinced Putin won't order horrific gas attacks.
By the time the rest of us have debated what happened, after they of course go into denial it was not us mode, a vast amount of damage could be done.
What a stupidly thought out post, have you had your breakfast yet.
Various reasons, which I wouldn't want to try and assess the relative importance of:
Logistically more difficult: everything needs to be taken further from their bases in Russia.
Politically more difficult: Belarus is still an independently ruled country, even if extremely close to Russia, and running hundreds of thousands of troops through the country, and making Belarus a target for Ukraine is unlikely to be popular with Belarus.
Militarily more difficult: Ukraine's North is better defended, but more significantly, Kyiv is a massive Urban area, the 7th most populated city area in Europe. Fighting in Urban areas is much more difficult and likely to become a massive meat grinder for the Russians.
They tried and failed: In the early days of the war, Russia mounted a substantial assault from Belarus, capturing Chernobyl with troops through a large areas to the North, Northwest, and East of Kyiv. These forces suffered heavy losses and retreated.
Lack of capability for multiple goals: At the same time as these forces were suffering near Kyiv, Russia was also struggling in the East and Southeast. Relocating the forces active near Ukraine let them reinforce these other areas. It seems likely Russia could not have fought a battle in Kyiv at the same time as these other objectives without committing substantial increased forces.
Strategically separate from their secondary goals: Putin's first goal seems to have been regime change but his new goal seems to be securing a land bridge between Russia and occupied Crimea. The fighting in the East is about securing that land grab, attacking Kyiv might have done more to hurt Ukraine but it would do less to achieve these goals.
Strategically remote from their existing positions within Ukraine: following the 2014 invasion, Russia secured Crimea and effectively annexed parts of Donetsk and Luhansk. These provide better bases for military expansion into Eastern Ukraine than attacking fresh areas to the North of Ukraine from Belarus.
Attack from Sea: not so relevant since they lost their flagship and several other important vessels, but in the early part of the war several attacks were mounted from the Black Sea.
Russians are so ******* useless
They try to respond to Kerch bridge by blowing up a small glass pedestrian bridge in Kyiv
And... they missed it, they completely missed it. But the missile made a nice crater near the bridge and after the next time it rains Kyiv fisherman will be able to fish from the bridge, thanks Putin ya ****
They try to respond to Kerch bridge by blowing up a small glass pedestrian bridge in Kyiv
And... they missed it, they completely missed it. But the missile made a nice crater near the bridge and after the next time it rains Kyiv fisherman will be able to fish from the bridge, thanks Putin ya ****
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I think there are longer range missiles that the HIMAR's can use but I fully understand the reluctance to hand them out, frankly i don't think Zelensky would pay any attention to a restriction of "Ukraine only targets" and would start striking areas over the border.
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What putin plan on doing with the land if he manages to take over. Will take a long time just to clear up the mess, rebuild and restore services.
He's never going to take over cities far away from the Donetsk.
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He'll send in favoured aides to "govern the region" (read: extract as much profit as possible), displace Ukrainians to work less occupied areas in Russia, and move more Russians in to farm, etc. Putin doesn't give two hoots about how the people of Russia live so restoring the regions to actual comfort isn't a problem.
Well lets be honest Russia has no one to send they are all in Ukraine
Yes basically they are now just terrorists.
I hope that Biden sees this as petty revenge and offers longer range missiles to Ukraine now to hit legit targets inside Russia.
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I dare say if Russia gets targeted it will escalate very fast. That’s an all out war.
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Frankly I hope not, its a one way ticket to massive escalation, too easy for an apartment block in Russia to get levelled (by a missile or false flag by the Russians) and used as a pretext for even more serious escalation.
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They can do that at any time they don't need anyone else to provoke them to do it.
They wont get anywhere near kviv, their are thousands of troops waiting for Belarus to enter the war, Kyiv isn't that stupid to leave the Belarus border unwatched.
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True but its a lot easier to "sell" if there are Western made missiles landing in Russia everyday
Seriously you really think Putin is holding anything back at this point in his disgraceful humiliation?
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