Live Conflict Ukraine-Russia War

[FiReFTW]

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Unlike you,I pretend.

What is it,you don't want peace, you want the war to continue?

I want the war to be over, but the fact that you even bring into discussion that Ukraine will go to pre 2014 borders means you live in LULU delusional land.

 

[MaciekRS]

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I want the war to be over, but the fact that you even bring into discussion that Ukraine will go to pre 2014 borders means you live in LULU delusional land.

If we let russia win in Ukraine war wont be over, war will come to Europe and sooner rather then later.

 

[Relic]

Sweden announced a new military aid package for Ukraine today, valued at $300 million usd. The contents of the package include the following:

- 18 Archer 155mm howitzers
- 5 ARTHUR counter battery radars
- Spare parts
- Training
- Technical support

Sweden provides Ukraine with military aid package worth nearly $300M

Sweden will procure and donate an additional 18 Archer artillery systems and five ARTHUR artillery radars to Ukraine as part of its 18th military aid package, valued at approximately $300 million. — Ukrinform.

www.ukrinform.net

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[FiReFTW]

If we let russia win in Ukraine war wont be over, war will come to Europe and sooner rather then later.

Stop the warmongering you silly boy, Russia attacking NATO is in your fantasy land brain, it will never happen.

 

[Relic]

Interesting development. Fox is reporting that the Trump Government has imposed a significant change to a sanction on Russia (as leverage in negotiations) zthat few people understand, but that could actually have a substantial impact on Russian monetary liquidity.

USA has banned all foreign companies (under the penalty of sanction) from paying for any and all Russian energy resources through a Russian bank that is currently sanctioned.

What does that mean?

European, Indian and Chinese energy importers will now have to decide if they want to face sanction themselves by continuing pay for their energy purchases through sanctioned Russian banks, or instead, use only the Russian Banks that remain off the sanction list.

What impact could this have?

Russia's biggest banks, such as Sberbank, Gazprombank, Alpha Bank are all on USA's sanctioned list. Therefore, if huge energy importers choose not use their services under threat of sanction, it will eventually cause a massive foreign liquidity problem inside those banks. The Russian Ruble isn't worth anything. Russia demands USD, Yuan and Euros for energy payment because it needs those strong currencies flowing through their economy for the ability make international purchases. This sanction will slowly dry up the amount of foreign currency in Russia's big banks, deeply damaging Russia and the bank's ability to loan the Kremlin money to fund the war.

Of course, some companies (particularly in India) might choose to ignore the sanction, but others (especially the Europeans) won't want to risk their own business due to sanctions and will almost certainly stop injecting money into Russia's big banks.

These are the kind of boring, seemingly benign sanctions, that will slowly choke a Russian economy that is already being propped up by interest rates in the 17-21% range, while Russians are facing consistent 13-15% year-over-year inflation. The Kremlin is already taking on debt that will require insane levels of repayment due interest, but they're also setting the Russian people to deal with a generation's worth of crippling costs that will have them fall even further behind their Western counterparts. Watching the people of Russia have to quietly suffer from an enormous vacuum in their purchasing power, warms my heart.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1900267361573200086

 

[Relic]

Stop the warmongering you silly boy, Russia attacking NATO is in your fantasy land brain, it will never happen.

They are not attacking NATO, you're correct. If Article 5 was triggered and the West responded seriously, the Russian military would be obliterated in conventional war, leaving China with an enormous power advantage in the East and Europe with a significant military and economic advantage in Europe. The United States and EU would also slit their throat economically in any peace settlement that would get them out of a war with NATO to save face. Russians would be watching their children starve to death while the West would be bathing in their oil profits and paying historically low gas prices back at home. Putin and his generals know this. It's why they bully their smaller neighbours into submission who are not NATO members.

That said, it's costing me such a small percentage of my tax dollars to help the Ukrainians grind through the once vaunted Soviet stockpile, and more importantly, to watch Russia throw it's young men into a wood chipper while interest rates and inflation doom Russian families back at home. It's well worth it. The financial impact on the average Westerner has been virtually nothing in the grand scheme of things. If only Ukrainian men weren't dying and being injured by the thousands in the meantime, this would be an otherwise perfect misstep by Putin. That said, Ukraine wants to keep their own sovereignty, so I support them doing what they feel is neccessary to survive.

 

[Relic]

Interesting update from Reuters (highly reputable), citing multiple sources). Ukraine will start receiving a large shipment of upgrade GLSDB from USA in the coming days. These ground launched, guided bombs have a range up to 163km.

If you remember correctly, GLSDB, which is Boeing product was initially sent to Ukraine in a small batch last fall. The GPS the weapon uses for accuracy was not strong enough in the test batch, however, and Russians proved capable of jamming the weapons signal, making it's navigation system unreliable and weapon barely effective.

Boeing didn't give up on the new weapon, however. Instead, they significantly upgraded the connection signal between the GLSDB and the GPS that guides it, making it far more resilient to Russian jamming efforts. According to two sources, 19 GLSDB units were recently sent to Ukraine to test their upgraded effectiveness. We don't know how many exactly were launched, or what they targeted, however, they were successful enough for Ukraine to greenlight a mass shipment of them starting immediately.

Ad I've been saying for three years, there are no conventional weapons that are silver bullets for Ukraine, but when you have a significant manpower disadvantage, range, accuracy and technological capability become imperative to your success. We recently found out that Ukraine has exhausted the U.S. supply of approximately 40 medium range ATACMS missiles. If the upgraded variant of GLSDB is effective, Ukraine now has access to a similar range standoff weapon that is being mass produced, is land launched (ideal for Ukraine), has already been paid for by the Biden regime, and costs a fraction (approximately 1/9th) of what an ATACMS missile does.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-long-range-bombs-headed-ukraine-atacms-supply-dwindles-2025-03-13/

 

[Spitfire9]

Stop the warmongering you silly boy, Russia attacking NATO is in your fantasy land brain, it will never happen.

It is not warmongering to say if Russia gets away with attacking Ukraine it is likely to attack Europe. Moldova is not in a position to defend itself. If Russia is in a position to attack it, I think it very likely that it will.

 

[Ryder]

I've just seen videos with Ukrainian POW's captured in Kursk,summarily executed by the Russians.

Peace deal with such horrible creatures....It disgusts me,in all honesty

The Russians also have a statue dedicated to Grigory Zass.

If anybody doesnt know who he is look him up.

A genocidal child rapist. Who suits the Russian mentality perfectly well.

 

[Soldier30]

Russian units using FPV drones "VT-40" showed the pursuit and attack of a drone on the Ukrainian self-propelled howitzer "Caesar". The video was filmed on the Rodinskoye-Pokrovsk highway in Donbass. The self-propelled howitzer "Caesar" came close to the front line and was immediately detected. The 155-mm wheeled self-propelled howitzer "Caesar" has been produced in France by Nexter since 2002. The firing range of the self-propelled howitzer is up to 55 km. As a result of the attack by the Russian FPV drone, the Ukrainian self-propelled howitzer "Caesar" was destroyed by fire.

 

[FiReFTW]

According to the Russian military since the start of the war the Russians destroyed:

657 aircraft,
283 helicopters,
46606 unmanned aerial vehicles,
601 anti-aircraft missile system,
22274 tanks and other armored combat vehicles,
1526 combat vehicles of multiple rocket launchers,
22570 Field artillery and mortars,
32874 units of special military vehicles..

And I was laughing my ass off at how Ukranians are overestimating and exaggerating the number of vehicles and soldiers they destroyed/killed.

This might be possible even worse lmao.

Some of these numbers are over 10 times the number Ukraine ever had, ridicilous.

I will seriously never understand why militaries always put absurdly laughable claims at how much they destroyed.

 

[Relic]

According to the Russian military since the start of the war the Russians destroyed:

657 aircraft,
283 helicopters,
46606 unmanned aerial vehicles,
601 anti-aircraft missile system,
22274 tanks and other armored combat vehicles,
1526 combat vehicles of multiple rocket launchers,
22570 Field artillery and mortars,
32874 units of special military vehicles..

And I was laughing my ass off at how Ukranians are overestimating and exaggerating the number of vehicles and soldiers they destroyed/killed.

This might be possible even worse lmao.

Some of these numbers are over 10 times the number Ukraine ever had, ridicilous.

I will seriously never understand why militaries always put absurdly laughable claims at how much they destroyed.

It's for their own population. The average Russian is a deeply impoverished, woefully uniformed (due to government controls on information) de facto peasant. The overwhelming majority don't know what to believe other than what Putin and his cronies tell them. They have almost no critical thinking skills because they've never been allowed to use and develop them, and their research / investigation into their own Government's corruption leads to them falling out of windows.

Russia isn't quite North korean levels of pathetic, but their people are kind of an orc'ish cast of degenerates, drunks, poor people, sycophants and indentured servants. Having visited Russia several times pre-war, it's an extremely sad, dark, cynical culture. If you meet Russians internationally, the few that have the means to travel, they are almost universally disliked travelers, with an unnecessary chip on their shoulder.

Frankly, it's a soothing fact that the Russian life expectancy for their men in particular is so low (65 years old), because the less time they spend on this planet, the better off the rest of us are in truth. The fact that their country is dying off rapidly due to plumeting birth rates, is wonderful. Sadly, I won't live long enough to see their population spiral start to overwhelm them (we're still a century away), but it's coming and that brings me sincere joy.

 

[Soldier30]

An episode with a Ukrainian M777 howitzer abandoned in the Kursk region of Russia. The howitzer will be used by the Akhmat units, it is operational and almost like new. 155-mm howitzers have been produced in the United States since 2005, its firing range of the M982 Excalibur active-reactive projectile is up to 40 kilometers. The Ukrainian army received about 197 M777 howitzers from the United States. Now about 100 M777 howitzers have been destroyed, mainly by Lancet drones, some fell into the hands of the Russian army.

 

[Perun]

It's for their own population. The average Russian is a deeply impoverished, woefully uniformed (due to government controls on information) de facto peasant. The overwhelming majority don't know what to believe other than what Putin and his cronies tell them. They have almost no critical thinking skills because they've never been allowed to use and develop them, and their research / investigation into their own Government's corruption leads to them falling out of windows.

Russia isn't quite North korean levels of pathetic, but their people are kind of an orc'ish cast of degenerates, drunks, poor people, sycophants and indentured servants. Having visited Russia several times pre-war, it's an extremely sad, dark, cynical culture. If you meet Russians internationally, the few that have the means to travel, they are almost universally disliked travelers, with an unnecessary chip on their shoulder.

Frankly, it's a soothing fact that the Russian life expectancy for their men in particular is so low (65 years old), because the less time they spend on this planet, the better off the rest of us are in truth. The fact that their country is dying off rapidly due to plumeting birth rates, is wonderful. Sadly, I won't live long enough to see their population spiral start to overwhelm them (we're still a century away), but it's coming and that brings me sincere joy.

Please could you share your sources about status of Russian peoples, did you ever been in Russia, how many Russians do you know...

 

[Relic]

Please could you share your sources about status of Russian peoples, did you ever been in Russia, how many Russians do you know...

I've been to Russia numerous times on business (pre-war). I've also (unfortunately) interacted with Russian people countless times on international business, and the wealthier Russians who travel for vacation to places like Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia, the way us North Americans travel to the Carribean.

I maintain my opinion that it's an orc'like culture of sycophants, drunks, neurologically "unexercised" (I'm being kind) unhealthy people, many of whom live in woeful poverty that they brought onto themselves. They have horrendous life expectancy (especially their men) compared to their Western counterparts, largely due to their horrible diets, alcoholism and lack of available healthcare (again, their fault). The minority in the country, that does realize that they live in a shithole, have no power to speak out, or they actually end up dying in comedic ways that you'd only otherwise see in a movie or read in a book. Who falls down a flight of stairs, through a 4th storey window, after committing suicide via multiple gunshots? It's actually laughable.

Do you know what the most telling fact is surrounding Russia and the truth of it being a shithole that the people of Russia are responsible for creating?... All of their best athletes that play international sports and many of their top business people live elsewhere. Places like USA, Canada, France, Germany, UK, Italy, Dubai, etc. Those that are lucky enough to make it out rarely go back other than to visit family.

Of the countries I mentioned above, how many of their most successful people call Russia their home? The number is near zero. Why? Because we are home to far better places to live than among the degenerate majority that forms the Russian populous.

 

[Tabmachine]

The Russians also have a statue dedicated to Grigory Zass.

If anybody doesnt know who he is look him up.

A genocidal child rapist. Who suits the Russian mentality perfectly well.

Reading about this guy was depressing af, but it led me to this guy who was a proper G: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imam_Shamil

So thanks but no thanks Mr. Ryder.

 

[Relic]

Big news out of Germany that will have a lasting impact on the war in Ukraine.

Incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz has cut a deal with the Green Party to create a coalition that will allow Merz to bypass the "debt brake" that Germany currently has in place. They key components of the deal include the following:

1. Military spending will no longer be subject to the debt brake, allowing the German government to defecit spend essentially an unlimited amount to revamp their military and significantly up the amount of military aid they send to Ukraine. Expect Germany to immediately announce an extra 3 Billion Euros in 2025 to fund military aid to Ukraine that is in the pipeline, but requires additional funding.

2. Germany will create 500 Billion Euros infrastructure fund (over 12 years), some of which will include military infrastructure. In return, the Greens have secured 100 Billion Euros in "Green infrastructure" spending in return for their vote.

Germany has an economy more than twice the size of Russia. They're finally going to wakeup and join France as military leaders inside the EU. This will serve the benefit Ukraine now and into the future. German defense contractors such as Rheinmetall are seeing their stock skyrocket after this announcement was made. Don't be surprised if Germany alone spends 300+ Billion additional Euros over the next 5 years, growing and completely reshaping their current military strength.

Germany is back, says Merz after historic deal on defence and spending

Germany's conservative leader clinches an major financial agreement ahead of a crunch vote in parliament.

www.bbc.com

 

[Perun]

I've been to Russia numerous times on business (pre-war). I've also (unfortunately) interacted with Russian people countless times on international business, and the wealthier Russians who travel for vacation to places like Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia, the way us North Americans travel to the Carribean.

I maintain my opinion that it's an orc'like culture of sycophants, drunks, neurologically "unexercised" (I'm being kind) unhealthy people, many of whom live in woeful poverty that they brought onto themselves. They have horrendous life expectancy (especially their men) compared to their Western counterparts, largely due to their horrible diets, alcoholism and lack of available healthcare (again, their fault). The minority in the country, that does realize that they live in a shithole, have no power to speak out, or they actually end up dying in comedic ways that you'd only otherwise see in a movie or read in a book. Who falls down a flight of stairs, through a 4th storey window, after committing suicide via multiple gunshots? It's actually laughable.

Do you know what the most telling fact is surrounding Russia and the truth of it being a shithole that the people of Russia are responsible for creating?... All of their best athletes that play international sports and many of their top business people live elsewhere. Places like USA, Canada, France, Germany, UK, Italy, Dubai, etc. Those that are lucky enough to make it out rarely go back other than to visit family.

Of the countries I mentioned above, how many of their most successful people call Russia their home? The number is near zero. Why? Because we are home to far better places to live than among the degenerate majority that forms the Russian populous.

I totally disagree with you, in all aspects of your theory. My experience tells me a different story

 

[Relic]

I totally disagree with you, in all aspects of your theory. My experience tells me a different story

That's fine. You're entitled to your own opinion and free to express it.

Good thing you don't live in Russia or you wouldn't be!

And for the record, parts of my "theory" are actually just straight up factual. For example, it is objectively true that many wealthy, powerful Russians choose to live abroad, in far better (in almost every way) countries. Where as almost all of our wealthy and powerful people avoid Russia like the plague. That isn't by accident.

Also, their life expectancy is objectively deplorable. Especially their men. Just as an example...

Like expancy for men...
Canada : 79.4 years
Russia : 67.5 years

Life expectancy for women...
Canada : 81.3 years
Russia : 77.7 years

Average salary....
Canada : $46,000 usd
Russia : $14,770 usd

Two countries, with near identical GDP's, climates, access to natural resources, etc, etc... The Russians have completely squandered so much of it. They live considerably shorter, poorer lives than we do. Those are just two metrics. I could basically go on forever.