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

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bingham67 said:

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Haven't watched the whole video but Ukraine is going to have to surge manpower to mount an offensive (and as noted in the video Russia increasing mobilisation) - current mobilisation has been about stalling Russia's advance.

Many of Ukraine's territorial/volunteer brigades have been undermanned just due to the sheer logistics not due to losses or manpower shortages.
 
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Funny when the bots try to propagate Russia vs Ukraine losses, etc. and have clearly switched them around as in some cases Ukraine hasn't even had as many of some types of vehicles total ever as they've supposedly lost. Interestingly the numbers when switched back do quite accurately portray likely losses - some of which aren't known/not published.

Oh and the supposed FV103 losses which are blatantly Russian MT-LBs LOL...

EDIT: Something happening in Bakhmut as well - Ukraine seems to be pulling out certain units and moving others in.
 
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There is an amazing video on YT and Reddit of a Ukrainian squad attacking a trench seen from a drone. The commander almost has his ear shot completely off at the beginning of the attack but gets back up to lead it. They are all being interviewed after getting out of hospital, at least 2 received gun shot wounds, the commander got shot 3 times. One soldier even disassembled his rifle mid firefight after it took a round, fixed it, reassembled it and got stuck in again. Medals for all!
 
Roar87 said:
The UK arrests loads of people over social media posts though
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I don't know about 'loads', but yes it happens.

Roar87 said:
you're not even against that.
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I am absolutely against that, unless the charge is inciting violence or conspiracy to commit a crime.

Roar87 said:
It's fair enough to criticise Russia if you're some free speech advocate, except you aren't
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But I am.

Roar87 said:
www.theguardian.com

Civil liberties groups criticise police over arrests of anti-monarchy protesters

Series of incidents in Edinburgh, London and Oxford include woman being charged after protest outside St Giles’ Cathedral
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None of these people were arrested for their political views. They were arrested for breach of the peace. Read the article.

FWIW, I think it's wrong that they were arrested in the first place. The police have become extremely heavy handed under the Tories, although Labour is no better because they keep pushing cops to arrest people who say things like 'A man can't become a woman' on Facebook. I condemn both extremes.
 
bingham67 said:

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Last year I had guy down as a Russian troll but even though I don't watch his content I've realised he's more of a sensationalist. Last year when Russia captured the small village of Pisky in Donetsk he made out that the whole Ukrainian front in the east had collapsed and it was game over. Fast forward 8 months and the Russias's have progressed an impressive 0.5 KM from that village. He gets called out on his B.S all the time but he keeps making content.
 
NATO's defence strategy has changed

It used to be that they used deterrence by retaliation - meaning the Baltic countries were considered trip wires and it was always expected they would be quickly overrun by Russia before the US arrives and liberates the baltics again.

But due to the way Russia has waged its war in Ukraine and seeing the complete flattening of cities and war crimes inflicted on people, the trip wire strategy is no longer morally viable.

So NATO is switching to deterrence by denial - meaning NATO builds up enough forces on the border of the baltics to stop the Russians from crossing

www.nytimes.com

Russian Invasion of Ukraine Revolutionizes NATO Military Strategy (Published 2023)

Shocked by Russian atrocities, NATO is becoming the war-fighting alliance it was during the Cold War, committed to defending “every inch” of its territory from Day 1.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
 
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So KRH in Estonia, instead of being the tripwire force are now the tip of the spear, with adequate support and logitics - as it should be
 
Harlequin said:
So KRH in Estonia, instead of being the tripwire force are now the tip of the spear, with adequate support and logitics - as it should be
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I'd imagine Russian strategy would be to attempt to cut off rather than invade Estonia (one aspect of that attempting to take Gotland by force so as to install S-400 complexes) and utilise their forces to link up with Kaliningrad one way or another.

Not sure Russia as is could carry that out any more - they've lost much of the reserves of hardware and manpower required.
 
XPE said:

Might be why there is no missile attacks.
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More likely that it takes Russia a few weeks between launches to build new missiles and secondly they are probably saving some for the Ukrainian offensive - cause it would be nice to have anti air systems near the front to cover the offensive advance but if Russia starts launches missiles deep into ukraine during the offensive then some anti air systems may be held back instead of being sent to the front
 
Looks like his wikipedia photo to me. Comparing things like his ears, all looks the same. A lot of definition lost in the TV broadcast quality.
 
Grim5 said:
NATO's defence strategy has changed

It used to be that they used deterrence by retaliation - meaning the Baltic countries were considered trip wires and it was always expected they would be quickly overrun by Russia before the US arrives and liberates the baltics again.

But due to the way Russia has waged its war in Ukraine and seeing the complete flattening of cities and war crimes inflicted on people, the trip wire strategy is no longer morally viable.

So NATO is switching to deterrence by denial - meaning NATO builds up enough forces on the border of the baltics to stop the Russians from crossing

www.nytimes.com

Russian Invasion of Ukraine Revolutionizes NATO Military Strategy (Published 2023)

Shocked by Russian atrocities, NATO is becoming the war-fighting alliance it was during the Cold War, committed to defending “every inch” of its territory from Day 1.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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It's interesting but Russia invading any country in NATO is a fantasy, the only place you'll see it is written down on a piece of paper as a work of fiction, the absolute wrath they'd face from the USAF combined with European air power would make any invasion attempt simply a death sentence that would be over in days. It actually wouldn't even be a fair fight or remotely close to one.
 
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