Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Another post using Putins Disinformation strategy. Bits of truth here and there, bits of information showing us that you are on the Ukr side , bits of doubting type information , bits of half truth, bits of what if, bits of whataboutary, bits of opinions that are one sided, etc, etc, etc.

all with the purpose of sowing confusion , sowing the seeds of doubt, create division, etc, etc,etc. I, at least know what you are at.

ONE KEY thing jumped out from your post that blows ‘your cover’ with regards to how knowledgable you claim to have with all your assertions ie I assume that the UKranians have been storing recently harvested grain for years and they well know how to keep it from ROTTING unless, of course the Russians blew the roofs off the grain stores. Have you forgotten that Ukr exports a very high percentage of grain used internationally so why would it let grain rot if it is used as a very significant foreign / income earner. You again picked the WOrST POSSIBLE scenario of another aspect of the war in the broadest sense to sow some doubt , etc, etc.

HO WAIT, maybe you are right. If grain under adequate cover, ie a good roof, is left there long enough, eg 10 years + and VERMIN - of ALL types including two legged types if they get short taken- p-ss on it on a continual basis then deterioration takes place including secondary infection and maybe leading to rotting.

you are some detail with your rotting idea. Will you get up the yard and stay there until called down

PS the Ukr seem to be very good to date of getting rid of ‘vermin ‘so I do not think that wermin will be a problem for them

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/20/russia-funds-moscow-conference-us-eu-ukraine-separatists

Irish participants at the conference told the Guardian that they had no Kremlin links and were simply taking an opportunity to promote their cause. 

“Sinn Féinmember Diarmaid Mac Dubhghlais compared the eastern Ukraine conflict to the “Ireland of years ago”, arguing that the pro-Russian rebels were fighting a “fascist government” in Kiev.”

Just remember this……

Former US Defense Secretary James Mattis had this to say yesterday,

“The tragedy of our time is that Putin is a creature straight out of Dostoevsky. He goes to bed every night angry, he goes to bed every night fearful, he goes to bed every night thinking that Russia is surrounded by nightmares and this has guided him,”

So Lisichansk looks like it will be totally encircled within the next 7 days, if it does infact fall it will significantly reduce the length of the frontlines and the Russians will be able to press Bakhmut and Siversk with far more manpower too

It looks like the HIMARS were at play with the last bombardment of Snake island.

Locating them around the Odessa Oblast puts them out of reach of accurate Russian artillery but importantly within 70 or so miles of Kherson and its surrounding areas. Could be part of the reason for the Op-sec on that front as Ukraine look to put them to proper use there.

I suspect that's why Odessa is under a fresh bombardment in the last day also with blind missiles launched by Russian aircraft aimed in the direction of Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyi. Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyi which is 60 miles from Snake island. Goodwill gesture my backside.

At Donetsk direction Russian army attempting to block Lysychansk and seize Lysychansk-Bakhmut highway. Russian artillery shelled Lysychansk, Verkhniokamianka and Siversk. Russian aviation conducted airstrike near Vovchoyarivka. Assaults continue at Verkhniokamianka and Lysychansk refinery, - General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine says in the morning report

It is. What it is.

Seriously?!

They have went from bring seriously rolled on, to inflicting massive casualties and serious damage to the supposed second strongest army in the world, in a period of 8 years.

Name another nation who has undergone such a transformative change in such a short space of time.

Depends on what you mean by repel - could things be worse - yes - could they be better, also yes.

Just because you aren't losing as badly as expected doesn't mean you still aren't losing - from that POV yes Ukraine have failed to fully repel the Russians. Otherwise the swathes of red on these maps would be blue instead.

I mean the fact that Russia still holds large amounts of territory in east and south implies that they have not been repelled - if they were then they wouldnt be in the country. At this point its semantics on what you consider repelling vs what I do.

..What? Where did I ever say anything about this? You're just being needlessly bitter here - do you think I am one of those putinbots under the bed you see everywhere or what? I have no affinity for Russia in any sense, so why would it suck that they wont take the Verkohvna Rada? I would think its quite a good thing, do you not agree?

Theyve gotten a fair amount of howitzers from Italy, France and US, theyve all been in use to some effect certainly.

Russian army suffers from the same corruption as Ukrainian, only advantage Russia has is that they have had the funds to buy newer weapons and planes and crucially, missiles. But in terms of the troops and organisation of their armed forces, there is serious corruption and rot. Same as rest of society over there. At least Ukrainians have had NATO training, Russians have only had joint trainings with the Chinese and their "made in China" armies.

They were never going to take Kiev by force - they likely thought if they surrounded it the Ukrainian government would surrender, but they got bogged down and failed. Encirclement is really their only tool, as they alternative is totally flatten cities and shoot on sight