Live Conflict Ukraine-Russia War

[Spitfire9]

Ukraine's F-16s are mainly used for air defense for now. Russia's meanwhile are primarily used for launching glide bombs and missiles.

That's what I hoped F-16 would be used for - glide bomb and missile strikes into the next door country. Unfortunately that's not what Mr Biden wants. He prefers over border strikes in just one direction!

 

[Rooxbar]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1843695836582293741

 

[Afif]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1843695836582293741

Seriously? Petty thing to do for US & USN. But not unimaginable.

 

[Rooxbar]

Seriously? Petty thing to do for US & USN. But not unimaginable.

Don't know man, it's a mainstream Danish newspaper; I don't think they would make the whole thing up with the sailing and all that jazz.

 

[YeşilVatan]

Danes should be pretty pissed about the environmental aspect of nordstream being blown up.

 

[Soldier30]

South Korean Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun said in a speech in parliament that the DPRK could send troops to Ukraine to support Russia. According to him, "Since Russia and North Korea have signed a mutual treaty similar to a military alliance, the possibility of such a deployment is very likely." In September 2023, Vladimir Putin met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the Vostochny Cosmodrome; the meeting lasted more than five hours. After that, Western media reported that North Korean citizens could be recruited to participate in military operations in Ukraine. Earlier, Volodymyr Zelensky also accused Pyongyang of supporting Russia. The Russian and North Korean sides deny this information.

 

[Samba]

Russia's average daily casualty count hit 1,271 in September, the U.K. Ministry of Defence said on Monday

At the moment Russia is gaining on the ground in Ukraine but losing a larger number of soldiers in the process. How many of the 35,000+ killed or wounded in September will recover to be able to fight again or work again is not indicated.

I highly doubt these numbers are real. If these were real, Russia would have lost over 600 thousand soldiers/men from the start of the invasion. Even if you are Russia, losing 600.00 men would shake things..

 

[Deliorman]

600 000 dead and wounded would shake the things up in a normal country/society but not in a place like Russia where human lives have never ever been of any value- even to the ones who lose their lives. I know how cynical, barbaric and anti- human a lot of the Russians are. The voices of the decent people who are left there are repressed and they don't matter.

Russia is a pretty big country and have always been a highly centralized system- there is Moscow and St. Petersburg where all the economic and political power is concentrated and where the elite lives. Then you have a bunch of big cities where the local elites work for the Central Government and all the rest of the population is second class. And after that you have the rural parts of Russia, the rust belt towns, the Ethnic non- Russian Republics where the Third class citizens and serfs live. These people there hold no political and economic power... they are just a bunch of poor, uneducated, vodka drinking serfs whose lives are worthless.
For Vasya who lives in a dirty old apartment built in Khruschov's time and already drinks a lot like his father, to go to the SMO in Ukraine is the only chance to make some decent money. Even if he dies his momma/wife will get a compensation that is more than they could save in 3 lifetimes. For Vadim who spent most of his life in prison the SMO is a chance to be free again- to steal, kill and rape and be honored for it... if he survives. And when these guys die even if there is someone to shed a tear for them- who can they ask for help? The medias, the local governor, the Army? Nobody will even give a shit about them...

 

[Spitfire9]

I highly doubt these numbers are real. If these were real, Russia would have lost over 600 thousand soldiers/men from the start of the invasion. Even if you are Russia, losing 600.00 men would shake things..

I don't know the exact number. Nobody does but I think that the UK MOD tries to provide accurate information in its assessments of what is happening in Ukraine.

Half a million casualties in the Russian army does not strike me as unrealistic. The tactics employed by Russian commanders do not show much concern for casualties suffered by their their soldiers.

Russia is shaking from loss of manpower. Economists all seem to agree that it is a serious problem for Russia economically. Analysts see Putin trying to avoid mobilising manpower from Russia itself (rather than other areas of the Russian Federation) for political reasons. If troop losses were not high, Russia would not need to recruit so many troops. As far as I can make out, many are not released from service after a fixed period of service but are retained because they are needed. There are many signs that Russian casualties are high.

 

[SilverMachine]

Yeah, those numbers are questionable. You've gotta factor in the propaganda value in all of this too, neither side's all that open with everything. Ukraine was touting they've captured 200 Russians in Kursk, skip forward to now and Ukraine's saying 177 Ukrainians have died in Russian custody, meaning if 177 *died*, Russia took a shitload more Ukrainians total than 200.

As for the Nordstream, yeah, kinda figured from the start it was the U.S. and/or UK. Didn't some German general or colonel basically suggest that indirectly not long after? Not outright admitting it but kinda inferring it and expressing it openly? Can't recall the specifics of that story.

Spitfire, you *really* don't want former-U.S.-fleet F-16s striking Russians inside Russia. It sounds great, but trust me, you don't want it to start rolling that ball, it leads nowhere good. Intercepting Rooskie incomings is one thing, cool, but there's good reason they don't want to take that further.