Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Videos showing Prigozhin himself raising the Wagner flag over the building last night,

They definitely have been making some gains inside of bakhmut, keep throwing bodies at at a wall and cracks will eventually appear,

Tragically hilarious that Prigozhin claims to have captured Bakhmut "in a legal sense".

Absolutely nothing legal about Russia's presence or atrocities in Ukraine.

The best and brightest have long left the country - even men of conscription age were allowed leave the country if they could stump up enough cash.

As with most wars, its almost always the poor and criminal classes who do the fighting on behalf of the wealthy

...

Ukrainian units are a mix. In any interview it's as likely to be an IT professional as a car mechanic talking.

Russia infantry pretty much just contains people fighting for money, conscripts and prisoners.

You were just about hanging to the fence by trying to counter your Russian bias with a titbit of pro-Ukraine stuff here and here. But the past few weeks you dropped off the fence like a crap into a Russian un-plumbed outhouse. Even a cursory glimpse of interviews with Ukranian soldiers would identify that they come from all walks of life, because they want to defend life.

The best and brightest have left Russia long ago,,,17 million Russians living overseas. And this was before the last mobilization which saw 700'000 Plus leave. Real figure is probably nearer 1 million, and they are still leaving the ones that can. Sure, the criminal dregs of society are being killed, but they only make up a % of the total, maybe 15/20%, max, if that, the rest are all able bodied men, and they are not stupid by any means, these are the people who make up the craftsmen, drivers, medical staff, etc. without which the city's grind to a halt. The Metro in Moscow is something to see,, it moves something like 9 million Russians each and every day. Now imagine all the people needed to make that happen,,, and when they don't have the manpower to run it? Moscow seizes up. The chaos would be unbelievable, we already have seen what happened this winter when there was no heating in the apartment blocks, because the people who ran the heating system's had been conscripted. This has not happened to a great degree in Moscow / St Petersburg yet, but you can be sure that in the Republics, its a different story. Look what happened in England after Brexit, when all the migrant workers went back home...massive shortages, and cut backs in services of all kinds, but especially medical service, The same thing is happening now in Russia.

Not true,

They just had to hold it long enough to make enough orc burgers ,to deplete other occupied territories of experienced troops ,and that's exactly whats been happening tens of thousands of Russians slaughtered for essentially nothing,and even if they get bakhmut it will be quickly retaken during the counter offensive

Russia being Russia, when it came to conscription / mobilization, the local offices each had their quotas to fill ( or else) and they were not to particular who they conscripted in order to meet their quotas. So if your name appeared on their list, that was that, off you go. When Putin announced the 2nd round of mobilization's, they were quick to point out that the mistakes made in the first round, would not be repeated ( some hope.....) So Russians from all walks of Life were sucked in. But they all had one thing in common......no way to buy their way out. So yes, the Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Maker etc. etc. are all now being fed into the Ukrainian meat grinder.

This has to be my favourite April fools joke:

According to reports from Hungarian sources, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that their government plans to transfer 12 Saab Gripen fighters to Ukraine to increase the country's defense capabilities

Hilarious.

So when the orcs run out of shovels with which to storm Ukrainian trenches, they'll be storming them with rampant rabbits, strap-ons and over sized buttplugs.

Ooh how the world's second largest army has fallen.

You're some man for being able to create a hysterical strawman argument.

It's actually fairly reasonable thing to suggest that poor people are going to be affected by this war disproportionately. For you to suggest that demonstrates a Russian bias is pathetic.

According to a Russian social media channel, while referening soledar which is a saltmine town ,of course there is tunnels under soledar,

Doesn't mean there is any under bakhmut

The truth doesn’t lie. If you don’t agree with the fact that people from all walks of life are fighting for Ukraine then that is your problem. You can be made see what you don’t want to see.