Russian Invasion of Ukraine |
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Het-field
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So might Russia understanding and accepting that sovereign states be sovereign?
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Deane
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Nato to stop expanding to its border might help. |
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Het-field
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Ukraine to be a neutered vassal state, having surrendered tranches of land back to Russia. Negotiation basically means giving Ukraine nothing other than Russia temporarily shelling its citizens, and in return Russia influencing it geopolitically, and unilaterally redrawing the map, in its favour. Russia of course would be back again under some other bogus pretence before the end of the twenties.
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irish_major
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If there's about to be a negotiation what does Putin actually want?
Scary to think this is the 'cleanest' end to the war. The fact that it's been drawn out so long surely has damaged the Russian military on the plus side.
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Here we go again
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Deane
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70 Ukranian fighters were killed in Belgorod in Russia. Western Military equipment left behind or destroyed.
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eireland
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It's been full occupied now. Only took them 9 months to take the 56th largest city in Ukraine. Somebody worked out at the rate of attrition they'd need over a billion Russians to die to fully take Ukraine. Crazy stuff. In other news reports of a Russian separatist battalion fighting in Belgorod after crossing the border from Ukraine.
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Deane
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Now there are lots of news reports denying it is occupied. Typical circus in the media. Plenty of videos of Russians on top of all the high-rise buildings flying Russia and Wagner flags.
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Deane
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Zelensky acknowledged the loss of Bakhmut (Artemovsk)
The President of Ukraine was asked whether Bakhmut is still in the hands of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. “I think not,” Zelensky replied. |
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irishmufc
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Wings? They're only the band The Beatles could have been.
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9fingers
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new signing Himar has been banging them in
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Artie Ziff
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It's like your talking about a new season of football
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It would damage this forums' reputation
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eireland
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I made this post in January and my wishes are coming true. They didn't get ATACMS for their HIMARS but instead they got long range missiles from the UK, Storm Shadow. The French rumoured to send their version. But there's been a lot of F16 chatter this week. Officially training will begin. Unofficially it's looking increasingly likely a coalition of countries will donate F16's at some point in future. 4 months was touted but personally I'm thinking the winter. This will be around the time they'll receive Abram's tanks. If Ukraine can make some gains this summer they'll be going into winter knowing they'll be even stronger come the following summer. A good boost for Ukraine's long term prospects. |
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eireland
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Judging by the constant footage of trenches filled with dead Russians and in comparison the Russians rarely releasing anything similar and considering Russia's tactics of throwing wave's of badly trained mobilised into attacks I'd say the ratio is firmly in Ukraine's favour.
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Deane
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To be honest its hard to know what figures are accurate. Both sides will be downplay their loses and over exaggerate the losses of their enemies so I wouldn't believe anything reported in the press. European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen said back in November that 100k Ukrainian soldiers had died so far as well as 20k civilians. She later said that was a mistake but I believe it was more than likely the truth.
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Roberto_Carlow
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Did they? I only remember the bit about estimated 15k Ukraine dead and 43k Russian dead since beginning of conflict. Russia, and Wagner in particular have paid a heavy price for what now looks like nothing.
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Deane
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Ukraine have paid a heavy price. 7 Ukrainian soldiers are dead for every 1 Russian according to the documents that were leaked in the US. It will be interesting to see what comes of this summer offensive but I wouldn't be optimistic for Ukraine.
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Roberto_Carlow
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After a failed winter offensive in Bakhmut, it looks likely the Russians are about to suffer a humiliation there. Counter offensive last summer was a success and Ukraine now has a 12 month build up of mew advanced weapons and additional soldiers trained.
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eireland
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The fact they went all out blaming Washington proves it.
They know they're lying, Washington knows they're lying. Moscow knows Washington knows they're lying. Behind the scenes there's no doubt or tension as they all know. It's a publicity stunt to rally Russian support, give an excuse why they can't host large victory day parades and then justify terrorist strikes on Ukraine.
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