Russian warship, go f**k yourself!

You don't see it as "wonderfully positive" that Ukraine have managed to fight back to some degree??

If Ukraine had capitulated and Russia took Kiev with ease where & why do you think they'd stop? Especially given the vast resources of the Ukrainian steppes, forestry, minerals, fossil fuels etc. etc. It would be akin to a robber breaking in to a bank and stealing the charity box on the counter unless you really believe they wanted to "rescue" their own people from Ukrainian tyranny....

Just because it's a huge country doesn't mean they had to cover every square inch of it. eight or nine of the ten biggest cities are in the east/south east - Out of the twenty biggest cities only two or three are in the west. Cities on the Black sea would be even more advantageous to them. They have already targeted/taken many of these - why? because once you control the major administrative zones & cities the rest is quite easy to control. They also have de-facto control of northern borders via Belarus. Hungarian border area would be secured by their newly elected ally, and Transnistria region in Moldova is another pro-Russian area (ok much smaller)

Russia has razed most of what its touched in Ukraine, potential atrocities, now deploying troops to Finland for even hinting at NATO, fired at and occupied the plant at Chernobyl -risking every one of us in Europe.....yet you lay the blame at Germany....

Unfortunately, that's the world we live in, and as a well off country, contribute to and benefit from. If that's inconvenient for you there's nothing I can do for you.

Russia has a number of stragetic problem within its army.

First there is little delegation of power. The British and US armies especially when in battle are driven by there experienced NCO's. Russia has no cadre of these.

It's a conscript based army but it seems that these conscripts are poorly trained and this leads to poor morale.

Russian battle groups are mainly armoured. In theory this is grand but you need either excellent air support or ground support. Russia had neither of these in the attack on Kyiv

They are now withdrawing that army and trying to move it to support the attack on Donbass. However this army has taken a bit of a hammering and whether it can again be got battle ready is a good question.

Russia problem with its tanks is that all are cold war design that are upgraded. Upgrades are just an upgrade in armour. The new Russian tank the Armata is not yet deployed. My understanding was Russia has less than 2k upgraded tanks. What was deployed to Ukraine is the question

Russia has lost seven of its senior Generals and Putin has supposedly sacked another ten. In an active army of 300k it's hard to believe that this will not have a serious implications. Putin need to find a Zhukov, not an easy task where loyalty was prized over ability.

Russia has never managed to achieve air superiority over Ukraine. In theory this would seem easier in a concentrated area like southern Ukraine. However the reverse is also true it's a smaller area for guided anti aircraft missiles to prevent this.

Ukraine has managed to develop an alternative military flexible structure. It's army is fighting for its own country and backed at this stage by a large volunteer corp.

It seems to be using alternative technology such as drones very effectively. It's seem to have developed a way to change non military drones into effective weapons.

I am not sure if Putin can make significant military gains in southern Ukraine. Ukrainian military strategy maybe more effective if redeployed to this area. By the time the Russian's win control of an area there is only rubble left.

Russia's big fear now should be revolution's within its borders.

Just another note. The Ukraine has a full-time army of over 200k active personal and a reserve force of another 200k. It so has 50k border guards

It has up 2 million of a volunteer for e at present. If the Ukraine can nullify the Russian airforce then.ig hard to see a successful Russian campaign in the south.

Looks like any surviving crew will be redeployed as infantry men in Mauripol, their army is disintegrating by all accounts

https://mobile.twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1514408661719912449

So happy reading the news about the Moskva. Get f****d Putin!

That crew played a large part in levelling Mauripol/aleppo was their previous playground, the blood of 1000's of civilians would be on the hands of said crew, karma's a bitch

We cop out when someone is being mugged.

The effort to help the refugees is tremendous, but the term of the measure will be directly proportional to the logistical help that is given to the Ukranian army.

You don't need a massive army when you are a nuclear power for countries to be fearful of you. Fearful might even be the wrong word but you have to be extremely careful dealing with Russia for numerous reasons.

That has made my evening. I hope they enjoy that in Ukraine tonight.

Beach of a day for them

Last picture of the Moldova under tow