Mamoulian War

And that was my point as well. Also, Ukrainian MoD denied, that it was Ukraine army which performed this operation. But the claim, that this was a false flag attack, together with the ammo warehouse blown up day or two before, is as ridiculous as Lavrov's claims. On the other hand The Ukrainian MoD said, that it might be a work of Russian inside sabotage, which might be their propaganda as well. We never know how it happen for sure

Today, I was so unlucky to find some reports from E40 Highway, and town of Bucha, not gonna link it, but feel free to search for it on Google and youtube. And then tell me again with a straight face, that Russians are trying to avoid civilian casualties, and are not doing it deliberately as a part of their tactics... As an example, in Bucha, Ukrainian Territorial Defenses found a yard with a lot civilian remains, with tied hands behind their backs which were shot. On E40, the short walk of the news reporter showed 11 burned civilian cars and close to them burned remains of civilians with at least one child, all hidden under pile of tires and plastic sheets... These cars were shot with Tank hidden in the trench near the road.

She is 19, she is from Doneck Oblast, and city close to Kramatorsk. Pretty close to People's Republic "borders". Their city is pretty safe so far, but according to current army movement, it looks like, that will change sooner or later . She studied acting in Kyiv, and she managed to travel by bus from Kyiv to Chop and then by railways to my homecity, where a guy from Mariupol living here introduced her to us. And the situation in Mariupol seen from the videos, which the guy showed us, it looked even worse, than from the news reporting... Especially, when he said "On this street, I was walking almost every day. Do you see this window with a flames lashing out of the window? It is my good friend's apartment, where I was visiting him often"...

@Malcador Lavrov or Peskov or MoD have released official statement two or three weeks ago, that Ukrainian air force has been destroyed IIRC. @BruceVC Me and my wife have taken one Ukrainian refugee to our house, so I am spending less time with my PC now. But I am still trying to read a little bit here and there. An interesting reportage about the "disappearance" of one of the most elite brigades in Russia during Hostomel fights, and how the people are slowly getting the correct information through the extreme news embargo in Russia through Telegram and are confronted with the notion, that state media cannot lie.

Thea 2: Shattering giveaway on GOG for the next few hours.

As I've said, I would not posted about it, if there were not reports about some IATA personnel talking about russians running around Red Forest few days ago.

Also if we count that Russians are leaving Kyiv, which is pretty doubtful, and all of the villages in the region there are liberated, due to their withdrawal, during today, a lot of villages and towns were liberated in Kherson region. Which is also pretty big Russian fail, when thinking that just few days ago, they planned to do "referendum" to create people's republic of Kherson. (In total 10+ in the Kherson region and another 10+ in Kyiv and Chernihiv region not counting Bucha and Hostomel yet).

@Darkpriest About the Gas and the Russia, today was very interesting program on our radio. There was an information that 70% of income for Russian gas is currently coming from EU, and that any Gas from West Siberia can be exported only to EU through Jamal/Yamal pipeline, because there was never build any pipelines from Siberia to anywhere in the World. So if I correctly understood it, if Russia will stop the Gas flow to EU, they will lose much more than EU. just because of infrastructure, which never existed. Also: Chinese rhethoric might say something different, but they are still quietly imposing some sanctions on Russia as well. https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/as-china-quietly-joins-sanctions-against-russia-xi-might-be-too-rational-to-risk-arming-putin-20220316-p5a54j.html @Zoraptor A little bit of what is happening to Tatars after Crimea annexation. If you are interested in that topic, feel free to run these links through Google Translate https://www.amnesty.sk/krym-od-anexie-uz-uplynul-rok-ti-co-ju-kritizovali-su-prenasledovani-umlciavani-a-celia-utokom/ https://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element/bwmeta1.element.desklight-3185910f-c682-4602-a991-3446c9469fac/c/PolRev2015-1pp31-63.pdf Both in Slovak Language Anyhow about the video, which is in breach of ToS, if you want to see an Ukrainian explanation as opposing view on Russian explanation, you can watch this video. Keep in mind, there might be a lot of Ukrainian propaganda involved as well, but I have not seen anyone to post any rebuttal of that video (excluding that anonymous tweet). Make your own conclusion. Video is under spoiler Tag: And the another addition to the "How incompetent Russian army commanders can be" is the news about Russians digging trenches in Red Forest and running around there completely unprotected (also keep in mind, this is news from UNIAN, but IIRC some IATA personnel has previously claimed same things.)

That's why they bombed the Mariupol Theater with children inside and killed 300 people right? Or I forgot, it was not Russian army, it was Ukrainian nazis... You are even more silly than Lavrov, who is whining like an 3 year old girl...

Because Lviv is very close to Poland/Eu/NATO

Also: The balls are strong with these ones... Ukrainian civilians in occupied cities are playing Bayraktar song to Russian "liberators".

Russians have destroyed that concrete in the first week of operations. So water flows for now. First thing performed by Russian administration in decades, which makes the lives of ordinary Russians less miserable...

This one will be really interesting to watch, how it will unfold. When you see, that Greece and Turkey are willing to cooperate, this shows very strong message what they do feel about situation in Mariupol and Russian presence there...

IIRC Russia have 3000-5000 tanks in the army, and they are sending loads of them to Ukraine as well. So the consumption of all AT weapons is indeed high...

Well, the latest estimates are 40k Russian soldiers either dead, injured, captured or deserted. I do not know how plausible it is (again IIRC info from UK and US intelligence), but even if it is half true, that is ****ing crazy number for 4 weeks of warfare...

Also in other news, the energy exit plan for Putin is slowly starting to crumble. Chinese state-run companies are starting to suspend from future business in petrochemical and gas ventures in Russia. Looks like China really did some proper math, and probably even them start to feel very uncomfortable on the thoughts of being in any way connected to Russian childkillers.

Reading this official statement of Russian Ministry of Defense, it looks like, that inflating Ukrainian victories is underestimating the real status of the war. Allow me to translate it from Russian false speak to proper English. "We ****ed up so much in the north and north east Ukraine, that we decided to retreat to the Donbass region, hoping, we will mange at least one small victory, so we can run away from Ukraine as we did from Afghanistan, while declaring it as a decisive victory."

Latest report by US should be few days old, and yes, I know that they are not independent party, but compared to Ukrainian estimate of 15000, and Russian estimate of 498, their number seems to me the most plausible. Also the latest numbers from Ukraine are now out. And Their soldier casualties are probably underestimated as well, but we will probably never know by how much and comparison of Russian casualties by Ukraine sources. (which are as you say probably inflated by some %) Also in other news, looks like Russian army NW of Kyiv will have very hard time in the next days/week. Belarusian saboteurs did a tremendous job of cutting of their possibilities of resupplying the troops. (google translate of local news) https://tvnoviny-sk.translate.goog/zahranicne/clanok/152533-bieloruske-sabotaze?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp

Reportedly this incident has been confirmed by Kadyrovs.

The losses of Russians even by the estimates of US intelligence are around 10000.

If someone incompetence is the main cause of 750 dead buddies of yours, it might break your nerves in a pretty unbelievable way

Not sure, how legit it is, but according to ISW, which I a reading once in a while, it might be very close to the reality. Look especially on the yellow color in the south, which are areas retaken by Ukrainian counteroffensive. I've seen also one more video allegedly from Ukrainian General Stuff, which has shown even more recaptured areas between Sumy and Chernihiv.

I would not be sure about that, as things like this are starting to emerge more and more on Russian side And with the ships being taken down today ad Berdyansk, Ukraine did made a pretty big blow to Russian supply lines in South. Not to mention, that Ukraine is slowly getting Russians away from their positions between Mykolaiv and Kherson... And as I mentioned earlier, no more tahnks are being made in Russia, so they are bleeding already a lot...

Another big blow to Russian "special operations" Allegedly their biggest tank manufacturer, who is also a biggest tank manufacturer in the world, has become victim of western "special economic operations" and had to stop manufacturing tanks, due to lack of tech parts required to build them. https://defence--ua-com.translate.goog/news/jedinij_u_rf_virobnik_tankiv_uralvagonzavod_zupiniv_robotu_cherez_brak_komplektujuchih-6556.html?fbclid=IwAR09GfZH-VnHWXiTGEgQQaDHXhxAseotNG46Tg8NrZpZvRY14Gtlfwwdw7s&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

That is absolutely understandable. But as Wali goes, he has required army experience to be a valid asset in defense of Ukraine. And not all people went to Ukraine to fight Russia. I've seen many volunteers who went there to volunteer as Medics close to front lines, to help civilians.