Quote from: be.open on Today at 08:49:44 AM

Quote from: swogerino on Today at 08:31:31 AM

Quote from: be.open on June 08, 2023, 07:44:10 PM

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian counter-offensive that has not yet begun seems to be going badly. Lots of casualties in manpower and armor (including a few Leopards) and little progress in moving forward. There is no air support and there are very few drones in the skies above the front line (Russian electronic warfare probably works well). There is no stampede, and attack helicopters shoot columns of armored vehicles like in a shooting range. Crimea cannot be won back in this way, Ukraine needs to try harder.

Quote from: coolcoinz on June 08, 2023, 07:12:48 PM

And here's how the protection is going. Russians will come to liberate you with tanks, rape your women, kill your dogs, murder men in cold blood, steal your cars and washing machines, drink all your alcohol and then blow up a dam or a nuclear power plant and destroy what's left. If I were to find myself under the protection of RF, I'd pack my bags and run West.

You forgot about trophy toilets and asphalt, without them the picture would be incomplete.

Who said Ukraine counteroffensive is in Crimea mate.Don't you read the news,it is elsewhere but as president Zelensky says,no details will be provided except that they are seeing good results from heavy fighting in Donetsk and somewhere else.I am giving you a hint anyway so you can pass it on to the Russian commanders if they don't read this forum Grin

and that is that Crimea will be the last territory to be restored to Ukraine after heavy fighting.They also have intercepted a call that clearly shows that Russia had blown the dam at Nova Khakova,unthinkable terror move but that is what Russia is nowadays.

Mykhailo Podolyak said that on May 28 he would go to Yalta and tell everyone about the future of Crimea. Somehow it didn't work out. Well, I'm not the only one who sometimes makes mistakes in forecasts. Grin

It seems that the strength of the resistance of the Russian troops and the level of losses among their own came as a surprise to the Ukrainian command. As a result of the battles of the last few days, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have clearly not been able to achieve anything resembling a strategic success. The main task - to break through the first line of defense, create a bridgehead and develop an offensive - has not been completed. Officials do not know how to comment on what is happening. In the front-line cities they write about a large number of wounded, call for blood donation.

About Zaluchny. What the Russian rocket failed to do seems to have been successfully done by Zelensky (apparently fearing the growth of Zaluzhny's popularity) - Zaluzhny is now in the role of a wedding general and essentially does not command the General Staff, key decisions are made at the Headquarters, where there are more officials than professional military men. I think there are so many frankly stupid and failed decisions from here.

I am not seeing any advance from Russia either and the blowing up of the dam was a stupid move as they made their "own people suffering big",weren't they the saviors and the protectors of that land that they brutally blew up and made all the city go deep in water.They did this intentionally to halt any counteroffensive from Ukraine but they did not take into consideration that they hit themselves,I don't know if Russians are that stupid but this was a really really bad move from their side.They are losing everything in this senseless war in Ukraine as Finland added 1300 km border to Nato country now,Sweden will join soon and after the war Ukraine also,so what did Russia achieve from this war I cannot get it?