Russia - threadbanned users in OP

If the prison supply of conscripts had not already started to dry up, this would finish it for sure! Exchanging a non to comfortable Russian prison but alive, for a war zone until the end of the war. with very odds of not surviving? Het Spasibo.

People don't generally dismiss bad news, but when posters quote a tweet and say (without any evidence in the tweet) that 300 Ukrainians were KIA and 200 wounded, it's not too much to ask for some source for the claim of the figures. Figures that high should be backed up by some/source.

Same poster is very quick to question other people sources.

I'm not sure I'd say it's ironic. It's very easy to make fantastical claims with little evidence. So I refrain from doing that where possible. I come to this thread for news updates. But it's very grating when the thread is being scuttered by certain posters who only seem to post bad news and do so with the bare minimum of evidence or none at all. While at the same time childishly sniping at others who do the same but with good news. Blind to their own hypocrisy.

However I'm not unbiased and anyone reading any of my posts where I make any claims should not take my words at face value. In fact I'd encourage the opposite.

I understand well enough. Ukraine are waging a war on all our behalf where the very idea of democracy and fairness globally is on the line. I'm not exaggerating when I say that I won't be rushing to bring any kids into this world if Ukraine is simply left to die slowly. Either through incompetence, greed or apathy. So I'm happy to admit my bias. As I'm sure others are. So when I see good news I hope that it's true and wait for more confirmation.

So when I see others that consistently post only bad news I have to question their motives. Do they want Russia to win? Are they just edgy contrarians who don't care and internet clout is the best thing going in their lives? In any case there's a simple fact to be known. Russia lies. A lot. About everything. The same can't be said to the same degree about Ukranian sources. So any good news for Russia has to be filtered through that lens in my opinion.

And in any case if you ever feel like seeing the scale of Russian losses and you have a strong stomach, head on over to the combat footage reddit. I'll reiterate it's not for the faint of heart. It's not completely possible to verify each and every combat kill Ukraine claims(and perhaps it never will be) but there isn't a day that goes by where new footage of scores of Russian soldiers being drone grenaded or columns of armor being shredded by javelins, mines and artillery doesn't show up. So I'd well believe Ukraines numbers are close enough. Sooner than I'd believe anything from the Kremlin anyway.

But sure don't take my word for it. I'm just an internet pleb.

I assume you mean that Russia is a carcass ?

And meanwhile, back home in Russia,,, the next battlefield?

Over the past number of weeks I've seen that poster link loads of Ukraine-positive stories/ tweets/ updates etc. with some of his own commentary. I don't recall anyone pulling him up on those, suggesting that they were his claims (as opposed to just repeating what was in the tweet/ link etc) and drilling down into the evidence, demanding sources etc.

We keep getting the Ukrainian updates of destroyed enemy equipment, kills etc. I clearly remember almost every Western expert acknowledging earlier in the war that these were no doubt inflated, to be taken with a pinch of salt etc. (albeit, confirming that yes, the Russians were suffering very heavy losses). Nobody - literally nobody on here - takes issue with the continued posting of the Ukrainian updates as fact. Nobody says "you better have sources for those 976 kills yesterday".

Maybe go back and look at the tweet in question and see if there's anything a miss with what the tweet said and what the poster said. Blatant lies should always be called out.

Most people have the decency to admit when they are wrong.

Again, as a fellow internet pleb, appreciate the very reasoned reply. I'm the exact same - just come here for updates and hope them to be positive.

I'd disagree about the poster you reference. From reading the thread over the past few weeks I'd say the majority of his posts are pro-Ukrainian/ laughing at Russian incompetence. Maybe there's some historic bad-feeling going back to the early days of the thread, but he's one of the few posters to attempt to engage in discussion on various issues of the day. From my perspective, most of the scutter on the thread is from posters whose only contributions (again, not speaking about you here) are to act as pseudo forum moderators, throwing out personalised digs while they're at it. Just press the ignore button.

Russians freezing

Ingenious

Another report from Adiivka claiming the tunneling moskovytes were not as effective at breaking the defensive lines of the armed forces of Ukraine as some have said:

"The Russian tunnelers according to the TV report surfaced well short of Ukrainian fortifications, which were intact..."

What is the real situation in the Russian economy now? I see a lot of news talking about collapse and the Ruble imploding. But is that actually the reality? Hard to get genuine news on things because western media obviously wants to talk up ideas of collapse. To be clear I hope it's true but I've been hearing of Russia's economic collapse for over a year and it hasn't happened yet.