Russia-Ukraine War - News and Developments

[FairAndUnbiased]

Taiwan is part of mainland China. There is only one Chinese state at the UN. Comparing the Taiwan issue with Ukraine, could produces extremely erroneous results.

Testing Chinese resolve about this does not end well for anyone.

 

[Iron Shrappenel]

Unless Russia have real time intel on the movements of these weapons transport, there is nothing else the Russian army can do but wait to be on the receiving end of these weapons.

Most people do not realize how psychologically debilitating are the Stingers to low altitude helos, and it looks like the Russian army will be experience that trauma again, once from Afghanistan when the US armed the mujahedeens and and today in Ukraine when the US will arm the resistance fighters. There is no ejection seat in the helo. Auto rotation is your only possible, not probable, survival. The Stinger is supersonic and most helos are usually below 10K flight altitude, that mean if the missile have a lock, you essentially die. Each Stinger cost barely $40K so even if it took two misses per flares and one hit per helo, that is a bargain to let the enemy know he will be flying into a death trap the next time he return. Once it is known that the Ukrainians are Stinger armed, every Russian helo pilot will be on edge. People have no idea how you will be emotionally and physically drained at the end of a sortie. Then when there are less air cover from the helos, Russian tankers will be at risk from the Javelins.

KA-50S fo have ejection seat mechanisms though....

 

[dBSPL]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1497714138696589318

If Russia didn't get results quickly, it created another Syria of its own.

 

[RescueRanger]

Unexploded Ordinance in Kharkiv.

 

[dBSPL]

Testing Chinese resolve about this does not end well for anyone.

I try to look at the issue from a legal and historical perspective. I think China's thesis is also justified. Any foreign military presence in Taiwan is unacceptable. What I want to say is that it is extremely inconvenient for many media to try to draw parallels between Taiwan and Ukraine issues. First of all, it is not possible to talk about the principle of immutability of borders in Taiwan. Because Taiwan is part of China.

 

[Vergennes]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1497863204545961984

 

[RescueRanger]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1497854825316421633

https://twitter.com/x/status/1497863204545961984

Nothing impressive about a taking out a static bit of scrap metal that is either disabled to abandoned.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1497838210734567427

https://twitter.com/x/status/1497836700600573957

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

I try to look at the issue from a legal and historical perspective. I think China's thesis is also justified. Any foreign military presence in Taiwan is unacceptable. What I want to say is that it is extremely inconvenient for many media to try to draw parallels between Taiwan and Ukraine issues. First of all, it is not possible to talk about the principle of immutability of borders in Taiwan. Because Taiwan is part of China.

The problem with Ukraine is that Russia accepted Ukraine's independence in 1991. Meanwhile China has never accepted Taiwanese independence or primacy. The situation would be legally different if Russia never recognized Ukraine's independence, even if it took no further action at the time. then it would be classified as a civil war and not an invasion. of course, Russia in 1991 was completely demoralized and economically strained, while China in 1949, though poor, was already on an upward trajectory.

 

[Tomcats]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1497866293051109376

 

[RescueRanger]

The fighting in Bucha is intense, the town is 22.8 KM from the capital.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1497850068879253504

 

[beast89]

Now that Putin has invaded Ukraine, he now has to win at any cost. If that means losing lots of troops, then he'll do it. Putin failing to win and win well is a disaster for him. It's already looking bad; it will get worse. I hope Ukraine make them pay a heavy price.

How's it looking bad for Putin cos of twitter users ?

 

[alimobin memon]

Choppers near or in kiev is enough evidence that ukrainians are gonna get defeat. Cause without AD only can heli dare to enter enemy airspace.

 

[CAPRICORN-88]

Looks like the US, NATO and the west are depending on intense propaganda warfare to try to win this one.

They have just banned RT. This suggested to me they are losing the scripts.

From what I am seeing, Russia Military is systematically destroying Ukraine strategic target e.g. Oil Depot, Gas pipelines, Government offices, etc as planned.

Russia appears to be taking it slow and easy. They don't seem to be interested in capturing the cities.

Who is in charge of the military operation against Russia?

It is all so chaotic and disorganized. Those guys in military uniform don't appeared to be regular.

Looks more like thugs and mafia to me.

 

[dBSPL]

The problem with Ukraine is that Russia accepted Ukraine's independence in 1991. Meanwhile China has never accepted Taiwanese independence or primacy. The situation would be legally different if Russia never recognized Ukraine's independence, even if it took no further action at the time. then it would be classified as a civil war and not an invasion. of course, Russia in 1991 was completely demoralized and economically strained, while China in 1949, though poor, was already on an upward trajectory.

Dude, historically there was no such thing as a Taiwanese federation leaving the union. It's an incredibly detailed topic of course, but very briefly, isn't the status in Taiwan a result of the civil war in your country? The situation in Ukraine is very different indeed. Trying to establish analogies even in historical perspective seems to me a very forced effort.

 

[RescueRanger]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1497855023899979778