Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Ask not how much death and destruction will be recieved, but how much will be delivered.

Keep them behind your lines taking out tanks and short range artillery positions. The apache is very capable of defending itself once facing the enemy head on. It when you start flying sorties over enemy lines that you'll get a stinger up your jacksy.

Sorry to disappoint some here, but the news is that Soledar is still holding as of this morning.

I said I'm out but I'm here now one last time because I want to set the record straight.

I am not - for the record - a friend of Russia and its actions. I simply reject this simple message that most seem to prefer here. It is not IMO the action of a rogue nation or that of a lone lunatic who wants to restore Russia to greatness or something.

In my opinion - and this is going to be a simple and not very fitting metaphor but will serve for now - it is a game of chess between USA and Russia. Where USA has moved a pawn into action and said 'check' and now the other party makes their even uglier move. It's a cynical and horrible game of chess with both parties being sh1ts but it is not Russias game alone.

Also one last note on all your accusations of genocide and child raping and systematic war crimes etc. You do realise that Ukraine has complete authority on the information coming out of this war? You take every Ukrainian piece of information for gospel, do you really think they have no incentive to paint the most horrible picture possible truth or lies? You really think they are telling you the truth in everything whereas Russia is only telling lies? Surely that is a bit unlikely, no?

Everyone can see with their own eyes the civilian buildings being reduced to rubble, attacks on civilian infrastructure and a huge humanitarian crisis, all this done to a peaceful nation by a rogue one.

Half of Europe still remember the Russian liberation and denazification, raping killings and plundering so when Ukraine is saying russians did this I tend to assume they actually did much worse.

But let's not rush to conclusions comrades.

And not only in Ukraine, bring on modern weapons so this terrorist nation can be battlefield anialated on mass no prisoners unless officers

We didn't know we where going to fight in Ukraine, zombies I still find hard to believe

Number is going to go a lot higher 🤬

Needs to be a big reaction to this. 12 British tanks just doesn't cut it.

Very little of anything.

We have a small number of javelins and other Anti tank weapons and some Giraffe anti aircraft systems .

:-)

If it's a negligible amount (in the context of what's being used daily over there), then it may not be worth sending anything. There's also this other argument you hear that Ireland's defences are woefully understocked as it is and we therefore need more of everything to deter foreign aggression and/or be able to police our borders, territorial waters and airspace. So you'd expect those people to clear their throat if it came out that Ireland was donating what little usable weaponry it had.

Typical cowards in Russia are saying the missle strike in Dnipro wasn't their fault,the Ukrainans shot it causing it to crash into the building therefore it wasn't our fault

Ireland was committed to supporting Ukraine with non lethal aid and that there were discussions with the EU partners on a package. She must have been referring to this which happened a few weeks after I got my response.