Russia-Ukraine War - News and Developments

[Oldman1]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1500909737721876483

https://twitter.com/x/status/1500948151489892355

Corridor to Belarus and Russia is dumb, the Ukrainians won't be able to come back after the war if they go there.

They can take Odessa from the inside which is a major twist

They could but they haven't.

 

[Madni Bappa]

Nato can't just annex Klaniningrad?

 

[TheSolution]

Am an Air Force guy, so I try to focus on the air force side of this war. Back in Desert Storm, our airpower went in on the first day and we went in hard and fast. From the start of this war, I have been generous to the Russian Air Force because am looking for some tactics that we have not seen before. But 12 days without the kind of airpower we expects from the Russia is puzzling. We are not seeing anything overwhelming. Ukrainian fighter losses should not have came from a combination of air and ground losses. ALL of them should have been ground destroyed. Instead, Ukrainian fighters continues to sortie and make damages. The Russian Air Force is essentially taking potshots at Ukraine. This is unacceptable.

Air Dominance. The ability of an air force to compel other air forces to rearray themselves, usually into subordinate postures.

Air Superiority. The ability of an air force to achieve tactical control of contested airspace and repeat when necessary. If there are losses, those losses would not be a statistical deterrence to that ability.

Air Supremacy. He flies, he dies.

The Russian Air Force is failing all of the above. The Ukrainian Air Force should not be fearful of SAM because Russian SAM sites can be taken out by combined air and ground troops forces. The Ukrainian Air Force should be fearful of the Russian Air Force, and that is not happening. Any more air losses by the Russian Air Force and it WILL be the opposite. The US is determined that our ground troops will not face enemy air force and the last time that happened was in WW II. If the Russian Air Force is even weakened, not yet removed, from Ukrainian airspace, the ground war will turn in favor of the Ukrainians, even if they are outnumbered. That supply convoy have not moved in days. That convoy cannot be defended. It must move to survive and serve a purpose. The Ukrainian Air Force do not need to destroy it. If the Ukrainian Air Force managed to get a hold of that convoy, we will see Russian troops abandoning their trucks. Trying to survive air attacks is demoralizing, tiring, and stressful beyond belief. Ask the Iraqis and the Taliban.

Here is my horrible suspicion...

I believe the Russians will trap Ukrainian civilians in order to try to keep the Ukrainian Air Force busy. Defending your fellow countrymen, especially if the bulk of them are women, children, and the elderly will be highest priority. If Ukrainian fighters are busy attacking Russian ground forces in trying to protect civilians, they have to descent to below 5000 ft and STAY there and that will leave them vulnerable to SAM and Russian fighters. If this scenario plays out, Russia can drag this war out for weeks even if they take more losses in tanks, trucks, and soldiers.

But why do you think they are failing at all of those things stated?

Considering their fleet, shouldn't they be able to achieve that?

 

[Oldman1]

But why do you think they are failing at all of those things stated?

Considering their fleet, shouldn't they be able to achieve that?

If they are having problems with logistics and not maintaining their vehicles, I suspect they are having the same problem with the aircraft they sent into this operation. I mean they have a vast army personnel, million strong, but only 200k were sent for this operation alone. Same thing, they can't send all their aircraft in this theater because they are assigned somewhere else.

 

[8888888888888]

Putin probably wants to drag this war on ? Killing as much as anti Russian Ukrainians as they can ?

 

[Oldman1]

Putin probably wants to drag this war on ? Killing as much as anti Russian Ukrainians as they can ?

LOL why? Nope, he lost the initiative. Tried to tell the Ukrainian government to unconditional surrender and Ukrainian military to overthrow the government on the 2nd day of the war. That all failed.

 

[kingQamaR]

To quote: "Moscow claims that 'humanitarian corridors' are being opened out of Mariupol, Kharkiv, Sumy and Kyiv this morning to allow hundreds of thousands of civilians to evacuate" "Important detail - the routes go into either Belarus or Russia." Said the spider to the fly.

 

[Hassan Al-Somal]

Another abandoned Ukrainian base

 

[Oldman1]

To quote: "Moscow claims that 'humanitarian corridors' are being opened out of Mariupol, Kharkiv, Sumy and Kyiv this morning to allow hundreds of thousands of civilians to evacuate" "Important detail - the routes go into either Belarus or Russia." Said the spider to the fly.

Not to mention bringing in his own people to replace them.

 

[kingQamaR]

Russians were just to over optimistic on Ukraine

Stalin policies of 19th century forced displacing of locals with Russians added with fake history of Russian past

 

[Microsoft]

They will protest and overthrow Putin's installed government if it ever came to that, and then he will have to invade Ukraine again!

Most seemed happy to be leaving their country so much so they had to enforce a ban on men aged 18-60. so they would have some people to defend the cities. Then the media can call them civilian casualties.

 

[sammuel]

Such an evil people. May Russia destroy the whole Ukrain to the ground. What is wrong with these people? It is like humanity escaped them.

Wishing a country with 40 million people to be destroyed : " destroy the whole Ukrain to the ground " and than speak about " humanity " in the same sentence.

Just WOW.


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[Oldman1]

Most seemed happy to be leaving their country so much so they had to enforce a ban on men aged 18-60. so they would have some people to defend the cities. Then the media can call them civilian casualties.

Only at the beginning of the war, but now you have tens of thousands of Ukrainians that were outside when it happened rushing to get back in, not to mention many volunteers who are veterans or trained.

 

[kingQamaR]

Most seemed happy to be leaving their country so much so they had to enforce a ban on men aged 18-60. so they would have some people to defend the cities. Then the media can call them civilian casualties.

Did all the afghans remained in Afghanistan to fight or did we not get millions entering Pakistan to be safe. War is not for everyone people behave differently in crisis

 

[srshkmr]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1501012167902040067

Good knowing everyone here. Green is not my color. I prefer blue