Russia - threadbanned users in OP

I'd say also that Putins mass conscription is playing a part too. You simply cannot take key workers out of the system, and still expect it to work This has already been raised in the Duma, but only got the smart-ass response to make the remaining workers work longer hours, increase the 5-day week to a 6-day week, but without any corresponding increase in salary. Add rusting and rotten pipework, electrics etc, and you have the perfect storm, as can be seen in Russia today. The Country is pretty much the same condition as its electrical and heating / water systems, rotten to the core.

They have Increased attacks on Russia proper, but neither side has the ability to break through each other's lines, Russia is still attacking on multiple fronts,but not making much headway,the Ukrainians said a new A50 was active flying today,they didn't learn anything

But not so good. The sooner those independent's who continue supply Putin's war machine get hit with sanctions the better/

Russia does not recognise Ukraine's right to exist if it is a Ukraine that would have the temerity to pivot away from Russia politically. We can see this in how they have been conducting their invasion. They pound towns and cities to rubble when those towns will not simply surrender. They attack hospitals, they attack residential areas, they attack schools, they attack critical general civilian infrastructure like water and power. Everything. They're completely brutal and indiscriminate.

Anyone who's grown jaded of the war would do well to watch something like 20 Days in Mariupol to remind themselves of Russia's evil. Dead children, dead parents, family homes smashed to bits, pregnant women bleeding out in improvised maternity wards because the Russians blew up the actual maternity hospital. Rubble everywhere, horrific injuries, shellshocked people with nowhere to go, people lying dead in the streets. That's what encroaching Ruski Mir looks like for the people of Ukraine. And if Ukraine simply surrendered, we can only guess at how Russia would conduct its 'denazification' programme, but we can be sure that the hell of it would be blanketed by a thick layer of Russian propaganda and Twitter's useful idiots and outright trolls. You wouldn't want to be a Ukrainian who still wants to be so in occupied Ukraine, that's for sure. Bucha's only a taste of that. So, we can understand in this way why Ukraine fights on, and does not simply surrender for peace sake, because it would be a 'peace' similar to what the 'untermensch' felt in Nazi occupied Europe - ghettoisation, stripping of rights, mass deportation and summary execution of those who continued to resist.

This is what all the peace talking negotiators etc. fail to see, and their convictions are reinforced by Putin paid propaganda shills. Putin is not paying 1,5 billion $ per year on propaganda for nothing. Sad thing though is that it's working, as can even be seen here on Boards occasionally. Putin is a genocidal murderous bastard.

Eastern Ukraine has a **** load of gas, oil, lithium, cobalt, aluminium etc. If Ukraine loses that potential it may never recover economically. A conservative estimate is something like 12 trillion euros in assets.

The fact that they didn't ground the aircraft says something,

By the way who jinxed Boeing we know the Russians are bad but who thought flying on Boeing aircraft lately is turning a little Russian

Of course they know it was shot down,

They did it themselves

If it were the Russian's, it demonstrates a lack of IFF capability, system security, and huge co-ordination issues. Replacing an AA operator isn't going to fix any of that, and those issues aren't being fixed any way fast. So you take the valuable target out of the grey area.

If it were the Ukranian's, it demonstrates a previously unavailable SAM distance, or A2A capability. Naval capability is also a very tiny possibility.

In the early days of the war I watched this thread quite closely and I also watched the various YT videos on Ukrainian updates daily also.

I haven’t really watched anything in a while but I did watch the latest kings and generals video on YT this evening and it seems the war doesn’t seem to be going to plan for the UAF?

It looks like a stalemate with marginal Russian gains in the last few weeks maybe?

How will this work for Ukraine with a potential change of government in the USA and a potential lack of funds for the war plus the fact Ukraine are talking about mobilisation now for 500k people to keep the fight going.

IDK it looks a bit like a miracle is needed to beat an enemy that has absolutely no regard for its own soldiers that it just throws into the meat grinder to try and overwhelm the Ukrainians.

There was a program on TV the other night, and by God, it was a revelation!!! From the time Boeing joined with McDonnel/Douglas they seem to have gone downhill, with all the focus on making cash the primary aim and function. To put it mildly, quality control seems to have become non-existent. Be interesting to see how Boeing compares with other plane manufacturers when it comes to manufacturing defects.

Bad week for them between the blow out in Alaska, windscreen crack off Japan and and an engine fire last night,add the other issues with the 737 max , something is going wrong somewhere with QC ,

Doesn't seem to effect military aircraft but then most Boeing aircraft are flying decades with the US airforce ,vs newer civilian types

Ukraine means outskirts in Russian. I mean the west of the Ukraine, where pro-EU/US sentiment is stronger.