Russia - threadbanned users in OP

I would say that's accurate. Cut off supplies to the south and retake as much as possible.

I would hope theyd head to Crimea sooner. Bust the Kerch bridge and sink any resupply ships. When the Russians run low on supplies then attack from land and sea.

The Ukrainians don't have to retake every square mile of land. They need to make Putin's position untenable and push for a peace treaty that restores their borders.

Hopefully it's a question of who cracks first. Putin or the Russian Army.

Emotional stuff. The Russians are fucked. Imagine the motivation for the Ukrainian army, knowing that every meter that they liberate, is liberating their people living there.

I hope they beat those vermin back into a feudal existence.

I think the answer to that "what" is one word in this pic, can you spot it?

I was talking to a friend of mine during the week. She mentioned about the Ukrainian woman and two kids that she had taken in since January. I was looking at her in disbelief. Sorry, did I not tell you, she said. The family are from Kerson. Her husband was a professional soldier. They had an apartment in the city. They locked the door and left. She was heading over to Romania this weekend, to meet her husband for the first time since they left. He had got four days leave to do so. Her neighbour had stayed on Kerson and she sent her a video she took. The Russians had stripped their flat, took everything, down to clothes and duvets. This Ukrainian woman disappeared down town during the week. When my friend asked her what she had been doing, she said she was buying a winter jacket for her husband, because everything they had was in the apartment. Her friend is living locally. Her husband was a ballet dancer, and joined the Ukrainian army. He was killed recently.

It's going to be a bittersweet reunion this weekend, they expected the city to be in ruins, if they ever returned, but the human cost is incalculable.

Fuck Russia. And, remember, when people complain about the cost of looking after Ukrainians, we're doing our bit and should be proud of it. Ukraine won't forget.

If Putin lived, and was punished, for 500,000 lifetimes it still wouldn't be enough to atone for what he has done.

Why 500,000? - well, 100,000 are estimated to have died so far, and each of those had family and friends.

Then there's the injured, the traumatised, the amputees, etc.

You're so right about the Ukrainian people remembering our varying levels of support, I've been appreciated for simply shooting my mouth off.

I'm unimpressed by those who are more interested in their holidays and makeovers.

Where are they now? the ones who vicariously invested so heavily in mighty, glorious, noble Russia.

Technology sank Russia and saved Ukraine from an even worse outcome, they couldn't hide their brutality and incompetence from so many smartphones and satellites. They picked the wrong fight basically.

Well they're getting their buttocks branded and Putin will get his little ferret snout rubbed into his own stinking excrement.

Looks like there is about to be another death in the Dugin family . Wonderful news.

The Orcs are at each others throats - good.

Although there is some doubt whether Crimea will be on the menu for Ukraine during this war, the best opportunity for Ukraine will be before July 2023 when the Kerch bridge is fully repaired. But attacking Crimea from the north wouldn't be much easier than crossing the Dnipro at Kherson. The water may not be as deep (2-3m) in the Syvash (Putrid) Lake, but you will only get amphibious equipment across I think, (but open to enlightenment by those who know). Which really only leaves the Western neck/corridor/choke point.

If I were planning a way to foul up the Russian logisitics in the area, I’d be more interested in the rail junction at the nearby town of Dzhankoy. All trains into and out of Crimea must transit here. Destroy the junction and you force everything onto the roads (including that half-bridge they still have left at Kerch.)

I can only imagine the stories of horror that will come out of Kherson now that it has been liberated and we get the full story of what life is like living under degenerate scum.

What’s next for Ukraine?

Bakhmut still holding?