▶Latest >Ukrainian forces recapture Makariv, west of the capital, after successful counter-attack >Russian & proxy forces conduct several unsuccessful assaults in Donetsk & Luhansk Oblasts in past 24 hours - ISW >Russian missile hits closed shopping mall in capital, killing 8. Site being used to store military vehicles. >Ukrainian forces in Mariupol refuse Russian offer to surrender >The US pledges to support its NATO allies if they put troops in Ukraine, but rules out troop deployments >"Russian campaign to seize Ukraine’s capital & major cities & force regime change has failed, - >War will likely descend into phase of bloody stalemate that could last for months." ISW say >Andrey Paliy, Deputy Commander of the Black Sea Fleet, killed by Ukrainian forces in Mariupol >Russia claims to have used a Kinzhal hypersonic missile >Commander of the Russian 8th Combined Army, Lt General Andrey Mordvichev KIA at Kherson Airport >This is the 5th Russian General KIA (worst loss of senior command since ww2) >Dozens killed in missile strike on Ukrainian forces barracks near Mykolaiv >Azov battalion kill Mjr General Oleg Mityaev, commander of the 150th motor rifle div, in Mariupol >150th Motor Rifle Division is Russia’s principal maneuver unit in Donbas, a major blow >Attack on Kherson airport (15/03) destroys dozens of Russian helicopters & vehicles.
>Ukrainian armed forces claim that they have cut the Russian supply lines to Bucha, Irpin and Hostomel near Kyiv - major development if confirmed (and if Ukrainian forces can hold their position) twitter.com/michaelh992/status/1506256037443219461
Cameron Anderson
Hello /cvg/ comrades This time I can feel it in my feefees, we're gonna win for sure. Long live animu coronachan and the mighty, oh mighty Ghost of Kiev
To assert that no one in Ukraine will defend the regime signifies practically a complete lack of knowledge about the military-political situation and moods of the broad masses in the neighboring state. And the degree of hatred (which, as is well-known, is the most effective fuel for armed conflict) in the neighboring republic toward Moscow is plainly underestimated. No one in Ukraine will meet the Russian army with bread, salt and flowers. It seems events in south-east Ukraine in 2014 didn’t teach anyone anything. Then they also figured that the entire left-bank Ukraine in one fell swoop and ticked-off seconds would turn into Novorossiya. They already drew the maps, thought out the personnel contingent for the future city and regional administrations, worked out state flags.
But even the Russian-speaking population of this part of Ukraine (including also cities like Kharkov, Zaporozhe, Dnepropetrovsk, Mariupol) didn’t support similar thoughts by a huge majority. The “Novorossiya” project somehow imperceptibly deflated and quietly died.
In a word, a liberation crusade in 2022 in the form and likeness of 1939 won’t work in any way.1 In this instance the words of Soviet literature classic Arkadiy Gaydar are true as never before: “It’s obvious that now we won’t have an easy battle, but a hard campaign.”
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Alexander Torres
To this it’s certainly necessary to add that supplies of prospective and highly-accurate weapons in the VS RF5 don’t bear any kind of unlimited character. “Tsirkon” hypersonic missiles still aren’t in the armory. And the quantity of “Kalibrs” (sea-based cruise missiles), “Kinzhals,” Kh-101 (air-launched cruise missiles) and missiles for “Iskanders” in the very best case number in the hundreds (dozens in the case of “Kinzhals”). This arsenal is completely insufficient to wipe a state on the scale of France with a population of more than 40 million from the face of the earth. And Ukraine is characterized by exactly these parameters.
Sometimes in the Russian expert community it’s asserted (by the followers of Douhet’s doctrine6) that since hypothetical combat operations in Ukraine will be conducted in conditions of full Russian air superiority the war will be extremely brief and will end in the shortest time.
But it’s somehow forgotten that the armed formations of the Afghan opposition in the conflict of 1979-1989 didn’t have a single aircraft or combat helicopter. And the war in that country stretched out for a full 10 years. Chechen fighters didn’t have a single airplane. And the fight with them continued several years and cost federal forces a great deal of blood and victims.
And the Armed Forces of Ukraine have some combat aviation. As well as air defense means.
In fact, Ukrainian crews of surface-to-air missile troops (scarcely Georgian) substantially stung the Russian VVS7 in the course of the 2008 conflict.8 After the first day of combat operations the Russian VVS leadership was obviously shocked by the losses sustained. And it wouldn’t do to forget about this.
Now on the thesis “The Armed Forces of Ukraine are in a pathetic state.” Naturally, the VSU have problems with aviation and modern PVO9 means. However, we have to recognize the following. If the VSU represented fragments of the Soviet Army until 2014, then over the last seven years a qualitatively different army has been created in Ukraine, on a completely different ideological foundation and largely on NATO standards. And very modern arms and equipment are coming and continue to come to Ukraine from many countries of the North Atlantic alliance.
As concerns the VSU’s weakest spot — Air Forces. It’s not possible to exclude that the collective West could supply Kiev with fighters in a sufficiently short time, as they say, from what their armed forces have — speaking simply, used ones. However those second-hand ones will be fully comparable with the majority of aircraft in the Russian inventory.
Of course, today the VSU significantly lag the VS RF in combat and operational potentials. No one doubts this — not in the East or in the West.
But you can’t treat this army lightly. In this regard it’s necessary always to remember Aleksandr Suvorov’s precept: “Never scorn your enemy, don’t consider him dumber and weaker than yourself.”
Now as concerns assertions that western countries won’t send a single soldier to die for Ukraine.
We have to note that most likely this will be the case. However this hardly excludes in the event of a Russian invasion massive assistance to the VSU from the collective West with the most varied types of arms and military equipment and large volume supplies of all kinds of materiel. In this regard the West has already exhibited an unprecedented consolidated position, which, it seems, was not expected in Moscow.
Leo Evans
I never though Walli is really dead. It's just fog of war there are fake reports of deaths on both sides.
One shouldn’t doubt that some reincarnated lend-lease in the form and likeness of the Second World War from the USA and countries of the North Atlantic alliance will begin. Even the flow of volunteers from the West of which there could be very many can’t be excluded.
But in Ukraine there are more than enough big cities, including ones with a million in population. So the Russian Army could meet far from a single Stalingrad or Groznyy in the course of a hypothetical war with Ukraine.
Generally, there won’t be any kind of Ukrainian blitzkrieg. Utterances by some experts of the type “The Russian Army will destroy the greater part of VSU sub-units11 in 30-40 minutes,” “Russia is capable of destroying Ukraine in 10 minutes in a full-scale war,” “Russia will destroy Ukraine in eight minutes” don’t have a serious basis.
And finally, most important. Armed conflict with Ukraine now fundamentally doesn’t meet Russia’s national interests. Therefore it’s best for some overexcited Russian experts to forget their hat-tossing fantasies. And, with the aim of preventing further reputational damage, never again to recall them.
regardless, i doubt professionals of war are going to come out with tiktok videos saying they're alive and what they've been up to
smarter option would be to abandon all devices connected to the internet and just do your thing
Bentley Diaz
Wait until Belarusan soldier accidentaly crosses the border to Poland
Jose Rivera
Wanna ask Poles and Romanians - Are Ukrainians cheaper to hire than local workforce? I know Romanians can hire Basarabians for cheap labor but is there a demand for Ukrainian laborers?
Wyatt Martinez
>Armed conflict with Ukraine now fundamentally doesn’t meet Russia’s national interests ah if only everyone understood that
Colton Thompson
>Russia's going to stall out before Odessa can have its D-Day I know it's objectively a good thing, but I still wanted to see them break the assault over their collective knee.
>Why do the pole people always have green-painted faces? i get, you are "retarded questions" troll ok retarded troll this shit stays for long on their face (it is cheap antiseptic) so people will know not to trust them
