Ukraine War thread.

  • that is what pissed me off with nogame and boroda the most.

    I provoked Boroda a lot trying to break through but it wasn't happening. It amazes me that he is such a mindless tool cheering on the destruction of his own country and that is a reality even if Putin ends up keeping some of the land in UA.


    War sucks for all it's participants. Some of them deserve whatever bad happens to them, most don't. There are tens, now perhaps hundreds of thousands, of dead and permanently wounded who were good people. They just wanted to live a decent life and got sucked into this goat rope by circumstance and a fucked up government fucked them all over. That is why I value the tenets of a functioning democracy that is informed and actively holds it's government responsible. The US has become complacent and has dangerously slipped down the path to Authoritarianism. Both Russia and China are predictable and glowing examples of what happens when the people become complacent and set the stage for people like Putin and Xi.

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  • Outnumbered and Worn Out, Ukrainians in East Brace for Russian Assault

    The war is intensifying in a string of villages on the eastern front, where doctors struggle to handle an influx of gruesome injuries and soldiers fret about a Russian army sending waves of new conscripts.

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    Exhausted Ukrainian troops complain they are already outnumbered and outgunned, even before Russia has committed the bulk of its roughly 200,000 newly mobilized soldiers. And doctors at hospitals speak of mounting losses as they struggle to care for fighters with gruesome injuries.


    When and where the new offensive will begin in earnest is still unclear, but Ukrainian officials are gravely concerned. Russian military just keeps coming. Right now, the newly mobilized troops are finishing their training and entering the field; the forces include as many soldiers as took part in the initial invasion last year.

    They could be ready to fight in as little as two weeks— much sooner than new Western weapons, including tanks and heavy armored fighting vehicles, are expected to arrive in Ukraine.

    “There are so many,” Mr. Haidai said of the new recruits. “These are not professional soldiers, but it is still 200,000 people who are shooting in our direction.”

    Russian forces will likely try to recover territories they lost last fall. as well as take full control of the Donbas, a key objective of Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin.

    The first stages of the Russian offensive have already begun. Ukrainian troops say that Bakhmut is likely to fall soon. Elsewhere, Russian forces are advancing in small groups and probing the front lines looking for Ukrainian weaknesses.

    The efforts are already straining Ukraine’s military, which is worn out by nearly 12 months of heavy fighting.

    Troops say they have tanks and artillery pieces, but not enough of either, and have far less ammunition than their adversaries. Russia has also started fielding the T-90 tank, which is equipped with technology capable of detecting the targeting systems of anti-tank weapons like the American made Javelins, limiting their effectiveness.

    “It’s particularly difficult when you have 50 guys and they have 300,” said a 35-year-old infantry soldier named Pavlo, who was struck in the eye with a piece of shrapnel from a rocket-propelled grenade near Bakhmut. “You take them out and they keep coming and coming. There are so many.”

    Losses among Ukrainian forces have been severe. Troops in a volunteer contingent called the Carpathian Sich, positioned near Nevske, said that some 30 fighters from their group had died in recent weeks, and soldiers said, only partly in jest, that just about everyone has a concussion.

    At one frontline hospital in the Donbas, the morgue was packed with the bodies of Ukrainian soldiers in white plastic bags. In another hospital, stretchers with wounded troops covered in gold foil thermal blankets crowded the corridors, and a steady stream of ambulances arrived from the front nearly all day long.

    A military surgeon at that hospital, Myroslav Dubenko, 36, scrolled through photographs of soldiers with ghastly injuries: a lower jaw blasted off, half of a face missing. One soldier was rushed in with his throat sliced open from ear to ear. Dr. Dubenko was able to quickly repair the damage, and the soldier survived.

    In his sleeping quarters at a base near Bakhmut, a soldier with the call sign Badger pulled out a cloth bag and dumped its contents onto a cot. Inside were half a dozen knives — one with a hilt made from a deer’s hoof — trophies he said he had taken from the bodies of dead Russian soldiers.

    “We also have losses, but they have huge losses,” Badger said. “We’ve wasted them all in huge numbers.”

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    In the city of #Kstovo, #NizhnyNovgorod region, an oil refinery is on fire. pic.twitter.com/B1hMrLte2q
    — NEXTA (@nexta_tv) February 7, 2023

    Danilov: ‘Ukraine’s national interest is Russia’s disintegration’

    Danilov: ‘Ukraine’s national interest is Russia’s disintegration’
    Oleksiy Danilov rarely cracks a smile. The gruff-looking 60-year-old National Security and Defense Council secretary doesn't have much to smile about. One year…
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    [Russians were able to mobilize 321,000 people, with roughly 160,000 of them already sent to the front, Danilov said, adding that Ukraine's defense forces had seriously diminished this wave.

    "A lot of them were gunned down by our army," he said.

    ...

    The other half of the newly-mobilized Russian force is still stuck on Russian and Belarus training grounds. When these troops are sent into battle, too, it could prove challenging for Ukraine, despite their lack of motivation, according to Danilov.

    Defense Intelligence Chief Kyrylo Budanov said on Jan. 31 that approximately 326,000 Russian soldiers are currently fighting in Ukraine. Those numbers can't be independently verified.

  • You know concerning Boroda, be he is completely brainwashed. Or rather he's got that issue of cognitive dissonance..


    Before the war he was saying it was pure propaganda that Russia was going to invade Ukraine. Why would we invade Ukraine? There's no reason to invade Ukraine. They're are brothers or whatever he was saying. You can go back and look.


    Then, as is with cognitive dissonance, once the invasion happened he doesn't even acknowledge that he was wrong but he justifies it in his mind and continues on as if his trajectory was not altered at all.


    He did the same thing with the Iraq wars. After 3 days of the offensive when tanks were rolling in the Baghdad, he was pretty much saying that was ridiculous. No tanks in Baghdad. Lol.


    I don't know how the guy can be so wrong about everything. The world is full of sources of news and he gets the wrong news every single time.

  • While I have some pity for him, he chose his path and although a sad one, it's his to chose.


    I look at him as one of those demotivational posters. Some peoples only value to the world is to stand as a warning of how things could turn out if the rest of us forsake our most important responsibilities.

  • You know concerning Baroda, be he is completely brainwashed. Or rather he's got that issue of cognitive dissonance..


    I don't know how the guy can be so wrong about everything. The world is full of sources of news and he gets the wrong news every single time.

    That's the key point when you no longer truth. This is how a democratic culture becomes undermined to the point where it can no longer survive. The key point to all these culture undermining events such as Antifa, tearing down statues etc etc is to cause people to distrust their neighbors, to undermine the value of truth. Critcal Theory, thus CRT, isn't about empowering blacks, it's about dividing white and black neighbors against each other , creating tribalism.


    Why do you think the news has become so polarized? Same thing. This is the march towards Authoritarianism.


    Boroda is the end result of the destruction of truth. You can watch some good Utube vids or read some books on the different levels of acceptable lies in Russian culture. They revolve around identifying opinion as truth and thus there is no truth. the concept has no value because the culture does not value it.


    Because truth has no value the government can tell the citizens the truth and kill / jail anyone for not parroting the governments lies.


    That is how Autocracies survive, on the death of truth.


    That's my opinion. Tell me how I'm wrong.

  • at the current loss rates the ru forces are losing about 2 battalions a day (from reports). each battalion from the volunteers are about 600 troops. with 6-900 dead (and at least that number WIA) that means that in 6 days russia is losing a US division worth of troops.

    david D. (@secretsqrl123) February 7, 2023


    Not sure if I posted this one yet


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    #Ukraine: The aftermath of an attempted Russian attack on Vuhledar, #Donetsk Oblast yesterday: a Russian BMP-1 was destroyed, a T-80BV with a KMT-7 mine trawl, BMP-2 and another BMP-1 were damaged and abandoned.



    The vehicles blew up on AT mines and were targeted by artillery. pic.twitter.com/ineslHQgnP
    — \uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDE6 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) February 7, 2023

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  • Demo of the Stryker Bushmaster auto cannon clearing trenches


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    \uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDE6\uD83D\uDE0EUkrainian military drifting on BMP-1 pic.twitter.com/2j7ICDaVol
    — \uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDE6Ukrainian Front (@front_ukrainian) February 7, 2023



    Bradley style..


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    Sgt Hike [R.I.P. my brother](camera man), Specialist Field (gunner on top), and myself Specialist Ryan Shintaffer (Bradley Driver in front) showing some mad ...
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    We used to power slide brads all over the place. Even got in trouble in Graf by the base commander for "conducting movements with too much enthusiasm"

  • ISW puts out daily updates


    Institute for the Study of War

    Key Takeaways

    • Ukrainian officials assess that Russian forces are preparing to launch a large-scale decisive offensive in eastern Ukraine in mid-to-late February.
    • Select Russian nationalist voices continued to express skepticism toward Russia’s ability to launch a successful offensive past late February.
    • German Chancellor Olaf Scholz undermined Russian President Vladimir Putin’s false narrative that the provision of German tanks to Ukraine threatens Russian security.
    • Kremlin-appointed Russian and occupation officials continue to implement social benefit schemes that target children and teenagers in occupied areas of Ukraine to consolidate social control and integration of these territories into Russia.
    • Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to open the door for further institutionalized corruption in Russia through legislative manipulations.
    • The Kremlin continues to deny Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin legitimacy and authority in Russia.
    • Prigozhin’s appeal in the Russian nationalist information space may also be declining as he continues to overcompensate for the culmination of Wagner’s attack around Bakhmut.
    • Failures of Western sanctions efforts against the provision of arms components to Iran have likely contributed to Russia’s ability to bypass Western sanctions to acquire combat drones through military cooperation with Iran.
    • Russian forces likely made tactical gains northeast of Kupyansk between February 4 and February 6, and Russian sources claimed that Russian forces advanced west of previous positions on the Svatove-Kreminna line on February 5 and February 6.
    • Ukrainian forces maintain positions in Bilohorivka in Luhansk Oblast as of February 6 despite Russian claims that Russian forces captured Bilohorivka on February 3.
    • Russian forces continued ground attacks northeast and south of Bakhmut but still have not encircled the settlement as of February 6.
    • Russian forces conducted limited ground attacks in the Avdiivka-Donetsk City area.
    • Ukrainian forces continued limited attempts to cross the Dnipro River.
    • Russian conventional and irregular forces may be increasingly struggling to recruit from Russian penal colonies due to high casualties among prior penal colony recruits.
    • Russian forces continue to struggle with ethnic tensions and tensions between irregular forces.
    • Russian officials and occupation authorities may be intensifying operational security to conceal new Russian force deployments in Donbas.