Russia - threadbanned users in OP

fortnight ago I could read everywhere that they Russian army was getting battered around the place and taking huge casualties. Well they seem to be getting their act together, and this is not over yet.

I don't know where you are getting that information from but that certainly isn't true. The Russian army are getting a right battering from an inferior Ukrainian Army. If they continue at this rate, They be gone out of Ukraine in the coming weeks.

This guy is convinced the invasion is literally about 'pushing boundaries'.

Contact the Russian embassy, I'm sure they will help you out.

It may hold out and I hope relief comes but I'm doubting it. Russia will squeeze as hard as it can, its in too deep now to leave with nothing.

Good, the more sound heads calling for material intervention, the better and the more lives that will be saved ultimately. Waiting until millions are dead is just too horrifying.

That's just being silly. Obviously it's the lizard people who would take over as they're so well-established already. Nuclear war wouldn't bother them because they've developed radiation-proofness. I know this is true because I saw it on YouTube.

It's a fantasy for most part ,

Something like 8 exist and they are test vehicles , doubt they will ever appear in large numbers , considering whats happening in Ukraine and economically in Russia I might not see production at all

So having acknowledged that Russia is as Nazi as UIkraine (and, evidently much more so) you are still fine with people claiming that 'de-Nazification' is legitimately a reason for this invasion?

That wasn't exactly my take from that. He seemed to be saying letting Putin win is the end of the idea of the UN, so if you want the principle of a rules based order that underpins the UN to survive, the west has to win; and he's being far too cagey about specific recommendations for action, but does say basically, whatever it takes.

I think he and the west would rather sit back and hope assistance and sanctions will deliver a win, but I doubt he or other western leaders believes it's enough.

This annoys me, because the west knows the most likely outcome is an eventual win for Putin at a horrendous cost to Ukraine, but they are stalling on doing more because of this faint hope.

It's like watching the Chinese commit real and cultural genocide against the Uyghurs and hoping they will have a change of heart at some point, or patching a hole in an exhaust you know won't last, but hope it will, istead of replacing it which you know you will have to do anyway, except without the tens of thousands of dead and far more with life changing injuries and suffering that could have been avoide by not dithering and equivocating and acting sooner.

how so?

RT main site is still up... Russia 1 is up but the English site doesn't give a toned down version of the Russian version..

Россия 1 isn't available on Youtube in the UK

They can be waypoint guided.

I wonder how many they are actually losing in battle or are having unexplained work place accidents.

Things must be incredibly bad if you're sending generals and high ranking officials to the front to force your men to fight. Or maybe it's punishment by Putin. Old Russian tactic.