Russia Invades Ukraine

[Jeffros Furios]

Kadyrov's right hand man either dead or injured in missile strike , Kadyrov wants the Ukranians to help with information which he's willing to pay a fee 

 

Hopefully the murdering treacherous pig is blown into 1000 pieces .

[il Duce McTarkin]

56 minutes ago, Jeffros Furios said:

Kadyrov's right hand man either dead or injured in missile strike , Kadyrov wants the Ukranians to help with information which he's willing to pay a fee 

 

Hopefully the murdering treacherous pig is blown into 1000 pieces .

 

[Jeffros Furios]

3 hours ago, Dirk McTarkin said:

 

Durka Durka 

[connlach]

I watch a bit of Callum abroad on YouTube. He is a guy from Scotland that goes round the world visiting places. He visited Kherson this week. You can see a lot of the flooding. Thought it may be of interest to some 

 

[JFK-1]

Judging from latest reports fierce fighting is taking place. It looks as if they're maybe just looking for a weak spot to make a substantial breakthrough.

[Cade]

>Russian commander wants to give a motivational speech to his troops before sending them into the front line

>Russian commander orders the entire company to form up in a field and wait for him to arrive

>Ukrainian drone operators spot this and give the coordinates to HIMARS crews

>HIMARS wipes out more than 200 Russian soldiers

>Turns out this was the same Russian commander that lost 150 armoured units attacking Vuhledar over the winter.

 

In the South, Ukraine continues to push along the valley in the face of desperate Russian defence.

Russians keep getting caught by surprise and abandon lots of equipment as they pull back, including tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and all manner of small arms.

Ukrainian troops think that due to the high quality weapons they're capturing, this means that the first line of defence is being manned by experienced Russian soldiers, as newly mobilised conscripts would not be given such weapons.

The village of Rivnopil is almost entirely encircled now, with Russia having to work very hard to keep the corridor open.
HIMARS and drone operators continue to be a deadly combination, taking out Russian heavy artillery with very precise strikes. The videos of these strikes are incredible; one HIMARS rocket per destroyed artillery piece. Efficient!
 

 

[Mikey1874]

People saying Ukraine is just trying to destroy and degrade Russian forces. Before the full counter offensive to retake areas. Most of the heavy equipment eg Challenger tanks and main battle groups not used yet. 

[Mikey1874]

https://twitter.com/noclador/status/1667859359265595392?s=19

 

 

Edited June 15, 2023 by Mikey1874

[Homme]

1 hour ago, Mikey1874 said:

https://twitter.com/noclador/status/1667859359265595392?s=19

 

 

 

Thomas knows his stuff. My go to guy on twitter.

 

He's a bit patronising but probably has to read some amount of shite on there.

[JFK-1]

I'm glad he got smart and got out of this mass slaughter alive. No one should be dying for Putin.

 

Watch a Russian Soldier Surrender to a Ukrainian Drone in Bakhmut

 

Russian soldier Ruslan Anitin was one of the last fighters alive in his unit on the front lines of Bakhmut after Ukrainian assault drones dropped lethal explosives on his comrades. Battlefield footage shows the frantic choices he made trying to survive.

 

0:00 Drone footage

1:43 Establishing communication

3:01 The note

6:14 The surrender

 

 

[Ked]

Honest tae fek man .

Unreal. 

😆

[Lone Striker]

1 hour ago, JFK-1 said:

I'm glad he got smart and got out of this mass slaughter alive. No one should be dying for Putin.

 

Correct.  You have to actually feel some sympathy for ordinary Russian soldiers being ordered by Putin's senior commanders into frontline action to defend bits of Russian-occupied Ukraine.  They're the poor b*ggers basically being sacrificed  in order to appease the dictator's evil & ruthless ambition.    You also have to wonder how the Russian army generals break the news of battlefield defeats to Putin - or indeed if they actually just  cloak things up to look like  Russian victories.

 

Surely at some stage, Putin will  become aware of the scale of Ukrainian/Western superiority ?

 

 

[JFK-1]

16 minutes ago, Lone Striker said:

Correct.  You have to actually feel some sympathy for ordinary Russian soldiers being ordered by Putin's senior commanders into frontline action to defend bits of Russian-occupied Ukraine.  They're the poor b*ggers basically being sacrificed  in order to appease the dictator's evil & ruthless ambition.    You also have to wonder how the Russian army generals break the news of battlefield defeats to Putin - or indeed if they actually just  cloak things up to look like  Russian victories.

 

Surely at some stage, Putin will  become aware of the scale of Ukrainian/Western superiority ?

 

 

 

Putin must know what's happening the same way we do, it's all over YouTube for just one thing. That video is shocking, did you note the dead bodies littered everywhere? He literally was the last man standing and I think he was hit too.

 

Even the drone operators thought this is pathetic, let's try to help him out of there.

[JFK-1]

The BBC has verified through a variety of means a bare minimum 25,000 dead Russian soldiers. A feature of it being during the first 3 months of the war the average Russian fatality they recorded was 21 years old and a professional soldier.

 

During the most recent 3 months the dead they have identified had an average age of 34 and are convicts.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-829ea0ba-5b42-499b-ad40-6990f2c4e5d0 

[Lone Striker]

4 hours ago, JFK-1 said:

The BBC has verified through a variety of means a bare minimum 25,000 dead Russian soldiers. A feature of it being during the first 3 months of the war the average Russian fatality they recorded was 21 years old and a professional soldier.

 

During the most recent 3 months the dead they have identified had an average age of 34 and are convicts.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-829ea0ba-5b42-499b-ad40-6990f2c4e5d0 

Wow - that BBC report is hard to read from a humanity/emotion perspective.   You wonder how the Russian military top-brass break the news to these guys' families -  probably dress it up as a hero of the motherland blah, blah, blah.

 

 

[Cade]

Possibly a breakthrough just north of Bakhmut.

Ukraine has reportedly taken control of the small villages of Berkhivka and Yahidne which are very close to Bakhmut.

Nobody thinks that they'll be attacking Bakhmut directly; they know fine well how many people get killed assaulting a town. They killed tens of thousands of Russians when they were defending the town.

Unconfirmed reports state that other attacks were launched even further north, and may eventually aim to push all the way to Krasna Hora or even Soledar.

 

 

[JFK-1]

1 hour ago, Lone Striker said:

Wow - that BBC report is hard to read from a humanity/emotion perspective.   You wonder how the Russian military top-brass break the news to these guys' families -  probably dress it up as a hero of the motherland blah, blah, blah.

 

Sometimes at least they tell them nothing at all, this is from the report.

 

Some relatives did not even know what had happened to their loved ones until the BBC traced them.

[Pap]

Biggest missile attack on Kyiv for a while, whilst the South African and Senegal presidents are there promoting peace. I wonder what they will say to Putin when they visit Russia in a couple days. They had to take cover in a bomb shelter.

 

Absolutely mental.

Edited June 16, 2023 by Pap

[ArcticJambo]

At the last UN vote on Russia GTF I can find South Africa abstained and Senegal didn't vote (tho not sure on this as there is none of the 3 official votes against it's flag).

 

Seems odd that, if they knew they were there to promote peace, and just them, that Russia would launch its 'Biggest missile attack on Kyiv for a while'. Suspect there's a bit more nuance to it all.

[Pap]

Just now, ArcticJambo said:

At the last UN vote on Russia GTF I can find South Africa abstained and Senegal didn't vote (tho not sure on this as there is none of the 3 official votes against it's flag).

 

Seems odd that, if they knew they were there to promote peace, and just them, that Russia would launch its 'Biggest missile attack on Kyiv for a while'. Suspect there's a bit more nuance to it all.

 

Its the Putin's mentallity. Just to remind them how "powerful" he is.

[Pap]

Great footage of Ukraine clearing mines.

 

 

[JFK-1]

Ukrainian forces destroy ammunition depot in the village of Rykove – official

Serhiy Bratchuk, a spokesperson for the Odesa military administration, said on Sunday Ukrainian forces destroyed a “very significant” ammunition depot near the Russian-occupied port city of Henichesk in the southern region of Kherson.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/jun/18/russia-ukraine-war-live-ukraine-destroys-russian-ammunition-depot-in-kherson-says-odesa-official?page=with:block-648e9a248f087e45653fc336#block-648e9a248f087e45653fc336

[JFK-1]

Explosion of Russian Ammo Depot in Rykove Village, Kherson Region

 

 

 

[henrysmithsgloves]

 

[periodictabledancer]

48 minutes ago, JFK-1 said:

Explosion of Russian Ammo Depot in Rykove Village, Kherson Region

 

 

 

What a glorious sight. 

[cosanostra]

Just googled Rykove and it's only 20km from the coast.

That's interesting. 

[Footballfirst]

More detail on the Rykove hit (Storm Shadow I assume)

 

 

Edited June 18, 2023 by Footballfirst

[Cade]

Ukrainian troopers on the ground seem to have worked out the working practises of the Russian artillery groups.
They know how much ammo they have on hand and when it'll run out.

So they launch a dummy attack, wait for the Russian artillery to open up then take cover again.

Once the Russian artillery is out of ammo and sending trucks to get more ammo from the local supply dump, they launch the real attack on the village/town/trench network.

Whilst they are doing that, drone operators have identified the Russian artillery positions and knocked them out with their own artillery.

This is why the Russians have had to resort to using Ka-52 attack helicopters in a defensive role, using them as airborne artillery with rocket pods.

Russia began the war with a couple of hundred of these and so far has lost about 35.

 

[JFK-1]

On 16/06/2023 at 05:30, Pap said:

Biggest missile attack on Kyiv for a while, whilst the South African and Senegal presidents are there promoting peace. I wonder what they will say to Putin when they visit Russia in a couple days. They had to take cover in a bomb shelter.

 

Absolutely mental.

 

People need to quit visiting Ukraine to tell them the fighting needs to stop. Go to Moscow and tell Putin to go home. That will stop it.

[cosanostra]

4 hours ago, JFK-1 said:

 

People need to quit visiting Ukraine to tell them the fighting needs to stop. Go to Moscow and tell Putin to go home. That will stop it.

 

Facts. 

[JFK-1]

Fierce fighting being reported plus Ukraine have captured another settlement. Heavy cost to both sides.

 

Russia and Ukraine are taking high  numbers of military casualties as Ukraine fights to dislodge the Kremlin’s forces from occupied areas in the early stages of its counteroffensive, British officials said on Sunday.

 

Russian losses are probably at their highest level since the peak of the battle for Bakhmut in March, UK military officials said in their regular assessment, AP reports.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/jun/18/russia-ukraine-war-live-ukraine-destroys-russian-ammunition-depot-in-kherson-says-odesa-official?page=with:block-648f25d98f08c1a38208ab72#block-648f25d98f08c1a38208ab72

[Dusk_Till_Dawn]

Ukraine not making spectacular progress here so I guess the question is, can they stick this out long enough and maintain enough international support to sustain a slow creep?

[JFK-1]

55 minutes ago, Dusk_Till_Dawn said:

Ukraine not making spectacular progress here so I guess the question is, can they stick this out long enough and maintain enough international support to sustain a slow creep?

 

Judging from what the analysts say yes, and chances are it wont remain such a slow creep. Apparently what we have to keep in mind is that Russia has been digging in for about 8 months, dug in like ticks as Americans would say. Analysts say this was always going to be an initial slog. Think WW1 when they were dug in like ticks, advances were in yards even after gigantic artillery bombardment.

 

I saw a Russian blogger who has been at the front say yesterday that the Ukrainian 'press' is insistent, and his belief is that sooner or later some point or other will collapse and he believes a mass collapse could occur.

 

The analysts are saying something similar, that this probing will go on till they have defined the weakest point and a combined arms action will take place. Some say it looks to them as if the 'press' is orientating towards Crimea.

 

While that may be so I was thinking right from the start of this war Ukraine has been very smart about everything. Even when they have to think on the hoof so to speak they're innovative and even crafty, and they have had a long time to think about this. Maybe they want Putin to think it's heading to Crimea.

 

No idea how long it may take to happen but I feel they will definitely attempt a major move involving the entire array of offensive weaponry they now have. And just like that Russian blogger I have always felt as if a mass collapse could be ignited in this shambles of an army Putin has fielded.

 

Incidentally that Russian blogger also said he thought the end of not just Putin but the Russian federation could be nigh. In the event of a mass military collapse he thinks may happen. Good on the face of it but could present major problems. Just one being a nation with 5,000 nuclear warheads falling apart. 

[Cade]

Fighting is fierce on the first lines of defence, but once the Ukrainians breach these, I'd expect the advance to gather pace and panic to spread in the Russian ranks, much like last year.

The Russians seem desperate to hold the first lines, I think this is because they know how shaky the rest of their defence is.

UK intelligence reckons that the Russians are losing as many men each day as they were during the heaviest part of the battle for Bakhmut, which is staggering.

 

In the south, Ukraine continued the method I described yesterday, launching fake attacks then withdrawing, making the Russian artillery waste ammo and reveal its location then pressing forward with the actual main attack.

Russia once again used Ka-52 helicopters as flying artillery but this time they had two of them shot down.

Ukraine has now liberated the small village of P'yatykhaty.

 

As well as taking this village and developing new tactics, they destroyed the command post of the Russian defenders in the area with a Storm Shadow strike, killing up to a dozen officers.

They also use Storm Shadow to kill another 150 Mercenaries who were being assembled further behind the lines to be used as a mobile reserve.

And they also Storm Shadowed that massive ammo dump down near the coast.

 

With no ammo, no reserves, no officers, suffering huge casualties and their very valuable attack helicopters being taken out, the Russians are having a bad time of it right now.

[All roads lead to Gorgie]

It's staggering how one little inadequate mans empire building ego can cause this senseless destruction of human lives. It does sound like the young especially in Russian big cities are starting to shift opinion but the old head in the sand, or Mother Russia position remains in most of the twisted minds of the older citizens, they should be the ones sent to the front not the young!  

[Sawdust Caesar]

Apparently as a result of the dam being blown there is an epidemic of cholera which is affecting the Russian troops. Also acute gastrointestinal infections, viral hepatitis, and botulism. 

Edited June 19, 2023 by Sawdust Caesar

[Cade]

34 minutes ago, Sawdust Caesar said:

Apparently as a result of the dam being blown there is an epidemic of cholera which is affecting the Russian troops. Also acute gastrointestinal infections, viral hepatitis, and botulism. 

 

On top of that, the flood has exposed burial pits for millions of infected cattle and other farm animals from various outbreaks over the last few decades.

 

[indianajones]

Some mental footage of the Ukrainians clearing out trenches on foot doing the rounds just now. 

 

This needs to stop. Pack up and go home. It's not worth dying for. 

[JFK-1]

25 minutes ago, indianajones said:

Some mental footage of the Ukrainians clearing out trenches on foot doing the rounds just now. 

 

This needs to stop. Pack up and go home. It's not worth dying for. 

 

There's now no.place to hide. The allies have trained 10,000 Ukrainian drone operators who are now in the field.

[periodictabledancer]

4 hours ago, indianajones said:

Some mental footage of the Ukrainians clearing out trenches on foot doing the rounds just now. 

 

This needs to stop. Pack up and go home. It's not worth dying for. 

Plenty of that stuff has been available for weeks. Watching them in action is pretty impressive. The Canadians did a good job there. 

[Cade]

Piatykhaty village saw some brutal action yesterday.

Ukraine managed to cut off the retreat of the Russians there and totally eliminated and entire battalion, including the commander.

300 Russian soldiers caught in a pocket and wiped out.

 

Russia sent a column of heavy artillery systems, including thermobaric rocket launchers, up to the region from Melitopol but this convoy was ambushed by partizans and destroyed with explosives.

And the railroad bridge over the canal was hit again.

 

[Sawdust Caesar]

This guy is always good for a laugh.

[Bauld]

21 minutes ago, Sawdust Caesar said:

This guy is always good for a laugh.

 

It's comedic but also concerning. The attitude towards the Russian army. Of a machine that is sent on its way and won't stop until the job is done is concerning.

 

Not because the machine will achieve its goal.

 

But because of how many Russian lives will be sent to slaughter in order to fuel the machine. The attitude is just keeping fueling the machine. It's tragic.

[henrysmithsgloves]

2 hours ago, Sawdust Caesar said:

This guy is always good for a laugh.

The polish channel TVP has them well sussed 🤡

[JFK-1]

19 hours ago, Sawdust Caesar said:

This guy is always good for a laugh.

 

I'm starting to wonder who this utter drivel is aimed at. Apparently there's a core of septuagenarians who support Putin, they were young before the collapse of the Soviet Union. But they would follow no matter what anyway.

 

Or maybe targeted at people in the let's call them harvest areas, where they are gathering the bulk of their cannon fodder. Apparently being cannon fodder pays relatively well for many of them, and presumably they don't know it's nothing like enough for what's going to happen to them out there.

 

Don't know cos that guy told them the army is a machine, crushing those Ukrainian bugs and the west underfoot, NATO shnato.

 

In that guys view it's like a scene from trainspotting. Begbie says something like "and whit did the hard case dae? or the so called hard case, shat it, and well, the gemme was mine"

 

Incidentally he didn't say case, he was more colourful than that with words beginning with c. 😉  

[Cade]

25 minutes ago, JFK-1 said:

 

I'm starting to wonder who this utter drivel is aimed at. Apparently there's a core of septuagenarians who support Putin, they were young before the collapse of the Soviet Union. But they would follow no matter what anyway.

 

Or maybe targeted at people in the let's call them harvest areas, where they are gathering the bulk of their cannon fodder. Apparently being cannon fodder pays relatively well for many of them, and presumably they don't know it's nothing like enough for what's going to happen to them out there.

 

Don't know cos that guy told them the army is a machine, crushing those Ukrainian bugs and the west underfoot, NATO shnato.

 

In that guys view it's like a scene from trainspotting. Begbie says something like "and whit did the hard case dae? or the so called hard case, shat it, and well, the gemme was mine"

 

Incidentally he didn't say case, he was more colourful than that with words beginning with c. 😉  

 

That pish is aimed at an audience of one.

 

One Vladimir Putin.

[periodictabledancer]

20 hours ago, Bauld said:

 

It's comedic but also concerning. The attitude towards the Russian army. Of a machine that is sent on its way and won't stop until the job is done is concerning.

 

Not because the machine will achieve its goal.

 

But because of how many Russian lives will be sent to slaughter in order to fuel the machine. The attitude is just keeping fueling the machine. It's tragic.

Just imagime a union jack background and Farage talking his usual crap - people are lapping it up because they want to. This guy (like Farage does in/to the UK) takes them back to a time when Russia was a feared global super power. These folk yearn for that and if it means a return of a "proper" communist regime (or just a Putin-led dictatorship) then so be it. The folk who yearn for it, of course, aren't the ones who wil be doing the fighting. And so long as Putin can amange casualties to keep the big cities like Moscow & StPetersburg out of the picture (in the early days of the was , there was a significantly high number of deaths from minority groups - eg people who white Russians don't regard as being Russian) then he'll carry on regardless. 

[Cade]

Russians are launching berserk, illogical and reckless counter attacks on recently liberated Ukrainian towns and villages.

 

The first thing Ukraine has been doing when taking a town is to dig in hard and establish a defendable line, use the 152mm mine-laying artillery shells to mine the approaches to the town and zero-in their artillery on likely counter attack routes.

 

Russia is throwing everything it has at the first defence line; heavy artillery, tanks, IFVs, helicopters, the lot.

But it's all being fed directly into the mincer and not being used carefully or intelligently.

They're running straight into the minefields and artillery kill zones and then trying to breach the Ukrainian defences head on, losing even more armour to Stugna missiles, helicopters are being shot down....then once all the vehicles are gone they're actually re-forming the surviving troopers for human wave attacks, resulting in piles of dead Russians.

 

None of it makes any sense.

How the hell are they managing to take more casualties than the Ukrainians when it's the Ukrainians on the attack?!

 

[il Duce McTarkin]

10 minutes ago, Cade said:

Russians are launching berserk, illogical and reckless counter attacks on recently liberated Ukrainian towns and villages.

 

The first thing Ukraine has been doing when taking a town is to dig in hard and establish a defendable line, use the 152mm mine-laying artillery shells to mine the approaches to the town and zero-in their artillery on likely counter attack routes.

 

Russia is throwing everything it has at the first defence line; heavy artillery, tanks, IFVs, helicopters, the lot.

But it's all being fed directly into the mincer and not being used carefully or intelligently.

They're running straight into the minefields and artillery kill zones and then trying to breach the Ukrainian defences head on, losing even more armour to Stugna missiles, helicopters are being shot down....then once all the vehicles are gone they're actually re-forming the surviving troopers for human wave attacks, resulting in piles of dead Russians.

 

None of it makes any sense.

How the hell are they managing to take more casualties than the Ukrainians when it's the Ukrainians on the attack?!

 

 

This reads a lot like what other sources tell us the Ukrainians are doing, tbf.

[Mikey1874]

Full mobilisation or defeat.