OT: World Politics

[Wayward DP]

russkies may be culminating near Bakhmut

 

[Cojo]

Not sure what took them a year for this

 

[anne25]

I’m sure he will just quietly turn himself over to the court.

 

[thehabhater]

Pro tip... Serve the warrant on the ground floor.

 

[axlsalinger]

 

[LeafGm]

Would be nice if Tsar Vladimir’s next visit to his conquered lands was leaked to the Ukrainians, so they could shove a missile up his ass.

 

[thehabhater]

Or a well placed sniper

 

[Volcanologist]

dibs on the Sochi Bond villain lair

 

[lecoqsportif]

It seems a Uke drone blew up a Russian train carrying cruise missiles in Crimea.

 

[MindzEye]

Apparently the Russian military has abandoned the river crossing at nova Kakhovka across from Kherson. No one is sure why and I'm sure they've mined the hell of out it, but this might be a sign that they're choosing to cede ground they don't think they can defend to instead concentrate forces closer to Crimea.

 

[Wayward DP]

Apparently the Russian military has abandoned the river crossing at nova Kakhovka across from Kherson. No one is sure why and I'm sure they've mined the hell of out it, but this might be a sign that they're choosing to cede ground they don't think they can defend to instead concentrate forces closer to Crimea.

this is fascinating. the Gerasimov led-Russians though have yet to demonstrate really any degree of foresight in their tactical maneuvers. wouldn't surprise me if they were just throwing them into the Bakhmut meat grinder either...

 

[MindzEye]

this is fascinating. the Gerasimov led-Russians though have yet to demonstrate really any degree of foresight in their tactical maneuvers. wouldn't surprise me if they were just throwing them into the Bakhmut meat grinder either...

There's some conflicting stuff on Twitter now as well about this being troop rotation....but you don't rotate out big chunks at a time

 

[MindzEye]

A bunch of the osint guys are claiming it to be false, but legitimate ukie newspapers are reporting it as true.

 

[Wayward DP]

A bunch of the osint guys are claiming it to be false, but legitimate ukie newspapers are reporting it as true.

define 'legit ukie newspapers' ? is it in Kyiv Independent? they are cream of the crop for me (contrasted with New Voice of Ukraine)

 

[Wayward DP]

 

[MindzEye]

 

[Wayward DP]

 

[MindzEye]

Fwiw, I'm going to ride with the ukie newspapers and the MOD for now and not the osint "i just got off the phone with a person from nova kakhovka" gang.

 

[MindzEye]

There's generally a 3-4/1 defenders advantage in warfare and the Russians haven't had remotely that anywhere along the lines yet have been throwing 50-100 attacks at ukie defences per day...for fucking months now with nothing other than a few days of pause to re arm here and there.

They're going to exhaust themselves at some point and they haven't shown the competency for me to believe that they wouldn't do it right in time for the weather to favour a ukie offensive

 

[MindzEye]