Quote from: suchmoon on May 07, 2022, 03:05:03 PM

Finally the glorious Russian Ministry of Bullshit has destroyed the last Ukrainian airplane:

Quote from: https://ria.ru/20220506/pvo-1787304356.html

MoD: Russian air defense systems shot down a Ukrainian Su-27 in the Platonovka area.
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In total, 152 aircraft have been destroyed since the beginning of the special military operation [...]

Quote from: Veleor on April 18, 2022, 04:37:01 PM

Further in the same article, the number of destroyed and remaining Ukrainian military equipment is given:

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"The Russian military destroyed [...] 112 out of 152 aircraft, 75 helicopters out of 149,
148 air defense systems S-300 and Buk M1 out of 180 [...]"

The quote about the 152 remaining Ukrainian aircraft was on March 25, 2022.
After that, in April, Ukraine's Air Force received 20 more aircraft, according to CNN.

Quote from: suchmoon on May 06, 2022, 12:07:02 PM

Do you seriously believe that "the Russian side" would say "yeah we dropped a bomb on it" even if they did?
AP is the closest we have to an independent investigation.

An investigation is not a matter of faith, it should be based on a qualitative examination and an objective assessment of the facts presented, regardless of which side points to them.
Have you wondered why the investigation in the theater is not carried out by independent UN experts, but by the US news agency?
Speaking about the AP, some statements cast doubt on its neutrality:

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In 2014, Washington-based website NK News alleged that top executives at AP had in 2011
"agreed to distribute state-produced North Korean propaganda through the AP name"
in order to gain access to the highly profitable market of distributing picture material out of the totalitarian state

There was an OSCE report about the Mariupol Drama Theatre. They write: "This incident constitutes most likely an egregious violation of IHL391 and those who ordered or executed it committed a war crime".
However, when accusing someone of such grave crimes, the phrase "most likely" is inappropriate. Indisputable evidence must be provided, confirmed by independent analysts.
Also, about the OSCE organization, which should be neutral to different sides of the conflict - Moscow has vetoed their observation mission in Ukraine, since, according to the Russian side, the OSCE acted in favor of Kyiv. Moreover, a Russian war correspondent stated in April that the OSCE was involved in transmitting data to the Ukrainian side and adjusting fire on DPR facilities and Russian Federation convoys.

Quote from: paxmao on May 07, 2022, 07:37:17 PM

This is what Russian Young and unready soldiers are going to be facing. Several batteries of this scary toys to be wiping out regiments in minutes.
https://youtu.be/pf76pAYyU8U?t=402

What you posted is propaganda, which is designed to raise the morale of Ukrainians so that they go to fight against Russia. But information from direct witnesses and Ukrainian sources speaks of a different truth.
- The Times war correspondent Anthony Loyd visited the front in the village of Peski and found out that two brigades of Ukrainian troops had been ravaged by Russian bombardment in the Donbas in the space of just over a week.
- A Canadian sniper who returned from Ukraine said in an interview that many Western mercenaries come to Ukraine with their chests puffed out and leave with their tails between their legs and Ukrainian soldiers suffer very heavy losses from shelling.
- At the end of April, Ukrainian telegram channels estimated the loss of Ukrainian armed forces between 13,000 and 25,000 people.
- Ukrainian soldiers were sent to fight with only machine guns, a couple of grenades and defective body armors, against Russian Grad, mortars, aviation, BTR's, tanks. From a company of 110 Ukrainian people, less than half remained.
- A post on a Ukrainian Telegram channel how so-called "rusty Russian missiles" destroyed Ukrainian air defense.

On this week Ukrainian parliamentarians "allowed" the Territorial Defense Forces, together with other groupings of troops, to carry out combat missions outside their territorial communities. Prior to this, in February 2022, the Parliament of Ukraine stated that the Ukrainian Armed Forces would be strengthened by territorial defense units only in case of emergency.