Half year of war. Short sum up:
1) Prior the 2022 war Russia controlled 7.4% of Ukraine territory (red color).
2) By mid of March Russia captured another 17% of Ukraine territory (orange and dark blue). So they controlled 24.4%.
3) In the end of March Russia retreated from dark blue areas so...
That's shame. Sevastopol is located 300 kms from frontlines. Crimea is literally packed with S-400. And simple commercial drone is passing through easily.
Well known Russian propagandist post about general situation. Some sum up:
1) There is huge manpower hunger in Russian army.
2) Entire companies are wiped out.
3) Often Russian artillery is suppressing Ukrainian positions, but there is not enough men to conduct attack.
4) The most effective...
What Russia is doing now in Ukraine is bloody war to grab territories and ethnocide/genocide of Ukrainian people.
US never did anything like that since 19th century.
* In 1991 US intervened to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi occupation.
* In 2002 US replaced dictator regime of Saddam with...
I decided to make a short review of the war so far.
1st Phase. 24 Feb - early March
During this phase Russians advanced swiftly along the roads. They also managed to capture 3 largest cities in south virtually without fight: Kherson (290 K), Melitopol (150K) and Berdyansk (110 K) + encircled...
Per open sources were identified 5185 Russians killed in Ukraine war:
https://zona.media/casualties
And I calculated per capita killed in regions compare to Moscow:
Tyva - 311 (means 311 times more killed per capita than in Moscow!)
Buryatia - 261
North Osetia - 169
Zabaykalski Krai - 137...
Russia planned fast defeat of Ukraine and turning it to its puppet state.
Then they would launch deukrainization and propaganda brain wash program in order to assimilate Ukrainian population into Russian.
This fast vistory would lead to boost of Russian army and power prestige. Russia could...
Russia - population 144 mln and rapidly shrinking.
Bangladesh - population 168 mln and rapidly growing.
Guess, which of these two countries feels that it has not enough territories?
I made a list of towns with pre war population captured by Russia in current war. Total pre war population of this area will be around 2 mln.
For comparison in 2014 they captured territories with total population of 6.2 mln.