Ukraine claims their winning streak in the skies continues:
https://t.me/MykolaOleshchuk/210
Another Su-34 went down.
Ukraine claims their winning streak in the skies continues:
https://t.me/MykolaOleshchuk/210
Another Su-34 went down.
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One of the reasons Russia wants Odessa and the surrounding areas is to create a land route to Transistrinia, a self-proclaimed breakawayregion of Moldova with Russian colonist population. It's predicted to be the next step in Russia's imperialistic plans if west allows Russia to win the war
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The problem currently is that due to western inaction and Ukraine's own issues with passing their mobilization laws, Russia has the initiative currently and is progressing on multiple fronts in what could be considered meaningful fashion compared to the brutal slog they have done in the past year around Bahkmut and Avdviika and in north near Kupiansk.
The bad thing about these current problems is that would things worked out they'd be fixing the problems Ukraine faces today (ammunition shortages, loss of localized areal control of air and troop refreshment/rotation & training of new elements) but as it stands, even if everything gets passed for today, we'll see the effects months down the line due to logistics and training.
Russia is bleeding but right now they have better support than Ukraine from rogue states like Iran and North Korea, they are skirting sanctions with Kazakshtan, Kirgystan and other Soviet ex-countries and that allows them to keep upper hand at least for the spring, if not summer. The real question is whetever west can get it's collective shit together and start providing the aid that was needed 3-4 months ago already while they themselves work out the mobilization issues.
Last edited by Wilian; 2024-02-27 at 01:49 PM.
Modern gaming apologist: I once tasted diarrhea so shit is fine.
"People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an excercise of power, are barbarians" - George Lucas 1988
They are practically already there with Transnistria. It is a typical Russian hack breakaway republic to keep countries in check.
Heck, know why Moldova's constitution has a neutrality clause? Precisely because of Transnistria - they already had an armed conflict back in 90s and this was the compromise to end it.
Russia can't directly reinforce Transnistria, but as other poster mentioned - Moldova is not exactly a powerhouse either and has little appetite for this kind of trouble.
2008.
And it was not merely a matter of Georgia getting cheeky (as in, they wanted control of their own internationally recognised territory, gee), but there was serious planning and preparation for a natural gas pipeline from Central Asia to the Black Sea through Georgia, bypassing Russia's stranglehold of such pipelines. That was too much for him, I believe.
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All this trouble is also the reason there are noises in Moldova about rejoining the mother country, Romania. After all, it was Romanian land until Russia rolled in and said "my clay".
Where are you two seeing this?
Naturally "cheeky" was more of a metaphor or however it's called in English.
Obviously, nothing wrong for a sovereign state deciding on what they do with their resources or infrastructure. The problem is, naturally, that Russia does not see it this way and when something happens, they consider one step too far - there is a proven track record of them fucking shit up in what amounts to state level gangster shakedown.
Nobody wants to deal with that shit - or rather the risk vs reward equation is not returning favorable results.
Nobody really dogfights nowadays, last I heard of something close to that was in Syria and it was more of an oddity.
It's a game of long range AA missiles VS interception or destruction of the AA batteries.
I usually start here and then go look for the stuff reported:
https://liveuamap.com/
First one:
https://kyivindependent.com/air-forc...u-34-aircraft/
Second one:
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/ukra...709043185.html
So i get 9 replies of cope, u guys were salivating about this n that game-changer weapon,, but zelensky is still loosing
So what's the next town that is superimportant to hold n once it falls it really wasn't? Let me guess, zelensky will loose 10 guys n the Russians 500000000?
The best part of this whole war in the clown world department when ukr claimed they shot down more missiles than AA missiles that were used...or when ukr babuskis destroyed Russian missiles by throwing pickle jars at them...
There will be more cope to come when kharkiv n odessa falls no doubts
You've got it backwards. It's vatniks who were crying over these "super weapons" being handed over to Ukraine and how it crossed the millionth red line. Fuck that noise. And it's not surprising a vatnik would salivate over another mass massacare by a beloved dear leader Putin and his army of rapists.
Modern gaming apologist: I once tasted diarrhea so shit is fine.
"People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an excercise of power, are barbarians" - George Lucas 1988
Ignoring all the valid criticism and inventing some outrage. I think that's a dozen turnips earned today.
Modern gaming apologist: I once tasted diarrhea so shit is fine.
"People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an excercise of power, are barbarians" - George Lucas 1988