Ukraine war thread

[vitalyo]

^^^ I just noticed at the end of the video Ukrainian and "Right Sector" beside each other. F... g nazis. 

[Jimmy Hoffa]

I hope the Ukrainian troops are enjoying the menthol cigarettes Joe sent them.

Better and more efficient to just send them direct stimmy checks to buy baby formula and gasoline too...

[vitalyo]

Tennis WTA-singles Berlin. That was yesterday. Daria Kasatkina helps Ukrainian player Anhelina Kalinina by bringing an ice. 

Hungary boxing intl championship. Ukranian chick puts out Azov flag. What's the point? By now the whole world knows these guys are nazis. Put out your country flag, stupid naizi donkey. 

Daria Kasatkina 

[mikeman]

 

[mikeman]

Wagner group systematically dismantling Ukrainian defenses.

[mikeman]

[vitalyo]

37 minutes ago, mikeman said:

 

Reinforcements on its way, those guys Ukrainian military picked off the beach. 

[mikeman]

13 minutes ago, vitalyo said:

Reinforcements on its way, those guys Ukrainian military picked off the beach. 

Those sad sack over the hill recruits will either run or surrender when the first bullet flies by.

[vitalyo]

F@@ed up video. Turkish solders executing Kurdish women. 

[mikeman]

7 hours ago, vitalyo said:

F@@ed up video. Turkish solders executing Kurdish women. 

Interesting that this doesn't make the news here huh? Our media blows a fuse if a cop slaps a criminal but Nato allies can do that but all we hear is russia, russia, russia.

[mikeman]

[mikeman]

Thousands more lost. And these are the "good" troops.

[mikeman]

More videos of ukraine literally chasing men down the street to enlist them - yea, they'll make great soldiers.

 

[mikeman]

 

[mikeman]

Ukraine blowing their wad in the east.

[xyz]

Zelensky told Obiden.

 

White House expected to announce around $1 billion of weapons for Ukraine - sources

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House is expected as soon as Wednesday to begin announcing around $1 billion worth of new weapons aid for Ukraine, including anti-ship rocket systems, artillery rockets, and rounds for howitzers, people familiar with the packages said.

The aid packages, which come as U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is meeting with allies in Brussels, could be split into two categories: transfer of excess defense articles from U.S. stocks and other weapons being funded by the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), a separate congressionally authorized program.

[redstripe]

30 minutes ago, xyz said:

Zelensky told Obiden.

 

White House expected to announce around $1 billion of weapons for Ukraine - sources

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House is expected as soon as Wednesday to begin announcing around $1 billion worth of new weapons aid for Ukraine, including anti-ship rocket systems, artillery rockets, and rounds for howitzers, people familiar with the packages said.

The aid packages, which come as U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is meeting with allies in Brussels, could be split into two categories: transfer of excess defense articles from U.S. stocks and other weapons being funded by the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), a separate congressionally authorized program.

As usual obiden has missed the window. 

[xyz]

1 hour ago, redstripe said:

As usual obiden has missed the window. 

Worst president in world history right there, Joe Barry Obiden.

[vitalyo]

5 hours ago, mikeman said:

 

[vitalyo]

[vitalyo]

 

[shooterman]

Two American mercenaries soon to be executed.

[mikeman]

16 minutes ago, shooterman said:

Two American mercenaries soon to be executed.

i guess a 3rd one was captured, what I dont understand is why they allowed themselves to be captured? Shouldn't they have gone out firing?

[shooterman]

I have to believe that when you are hiding in a hole taking endless artillery with no ammo, food, or water, the thought of being tied to a pole with a blindfold, knowing the shooters are all aiming at your hear,t is not the worst option.  

[Bigrunner]

 

‘Russia is failing’ in Ukraine and has already ‘strategically lost’ the war, says the head of Britain’s armed forces

Chloe Taylor

Fri, June 17, 2022, 7:46 AM

 

 

Russia has already “strategically lost” the war in Ukraine and is a “more diminished power” on the world stage as a result of the invasion, according to the U.K.’s defense chief.

Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, who heads up the British armed forces, told PA Media in an interview published Friday that Russian President had used 25% of his country’s army but achieved only “tiny” gains.

“This is a dreadful mistake by Russia,” he said. “Russia will never take control of Ukraine. Russia has strategically lost already.”

Radakin explained that Moscow had been forced to abandon its objectives of seizing control of most Ukrainian cities, noting that Russian forces were vulnerable because they were running out of people and military hardware.

“Any notion that this is a success for Russia is nonsense. Russia is failing,” he told PA.

"It might be getting some tactical successes over the last few weeks, and those might continue for the next few weeks—but Russia is losing strategically."

‘A disaster for Putin’

Dr. Chris Tuck, a reader in strategic studies at King’s College London, told Fortune that although Russian forces were having some tactical successes in limited areas, such as the eastern city of Severodonetsk, strategically the invasion of Ukraine has been “a disaster for Putin and Russia.”

Radakin’s comments, he said, were intended to separate Moscow’s limited successes from the bigger picture of what had been happening in Ukraine.

“Russia has categorically failed to achieve any of the objectives it set out to achieve in the initial stage of the invasion,” Tuck said in a phone call on Friday. “It obviously intended to try and regain control of Ukraine, and of course that hasn’t happened—if anything it’s pushed Ukraine further away.”

He noted that many of Moscow’s other objectives—like the weakening of NATO and the demonstration of Russia’s military power—had also been counterproductive.

One of Russia’s key demands as it amassed thousands of troops at the border it shares with Ukraine before invading its neighbor was that Ukraine should never be permitted to join NATO, the world’s most powerful military alliance.

NATO and the U.S. both said that such a request could not be accommodated, and since the invasion of Ukraine in late February, the alliance has stepped up its presence in eastern Europe while both Sweden and Finland have taken steps to join the organization.