Official Russia vs Ukraine War Thread

There is no proof from Ukraine's side. Just propaganda. At best Nazi state Ukraine can only state the obvious, but which Russia can claim as well.

Russia has not reached its goals for victory nor has Ukraine. It's a wash.

So who is really winning? Since 2014 / 2022 Russia has grown in size. Ukraine has shrunk. Russia is winning this war.

Here's the fundraising spin from Ukraine's Nazi regime, which fails to address reality:

"More than a year after the big war began, it’s obvious that Russia hasn’t reached its strategic goals, which means Ukraine is winning."

politico.eu

Ukraine is winning — and it is changing

We have shown the whole world how bravely we can fight. Now, we will show how we can reform and modernize.

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Another day of Ukrainian gains as hundreds of RussoNazi invaders are turned into meat puddles. Russia should just accept that they’re NATO’s little b*tch before the country collapses completely. Russia is truly a vile, Nazi-infested sh*thole and it’s hysterical listening to Putin throw a tantrum every day like a child that got dropped on his head too many times.

Ukraine Nazis started the war. Nazi Ukraine is getting smaller in size as a result. The world can thank Russia. There are no articles about Nazi uniforms on Russia's front line, government workers. Those articles are reserved for Ukraine, the only Nazi government in the world.

news.yahoo.com

Nazi Symbols on Ukraine’s Front Lines Highlight Thorny Issues of History

KYIV, Ukraine — Since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Ukrainian government and NATO allies have posted, then quietly deleted, three seemingly innocuous photographs from their social media feeds: a s...

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Wars for territory are gauged by land lost or won. This is Ukraine's goal and how they are measuring this war. Ukraine losing land is the best way to measure this war. It's their own metric.

how can you possibly be this stupid

No, Trollstoy is correct. Their comment stands.

How it started:

"Ukraine’s territorial integrity must be restored to its original 2014 borders—meaning a Russian exit from the Crimean peninsula."

How it's going:

en.wikipedia.org

Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine

Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine are areas of Ukraine that are currently controlled by Russia in the course of the Russo-Ukrainian War. In Ukrainian law, they are defined as the "temporarily occupied territories of Ukr...

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I hope the good guys win but I also know the bad guys have a chance to win if they hang in there and the West gives up. CNN has a good article (!). Bold parts for emphasis.

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Ukraine's counteroffensive has been brutal and slow. But Kyiv has many cards left to play | CNN

The footage is grainy and disturbing. A Ukrainian soldier from the 73rd Naval Special Operations Center fights his way through a trench, apparently on the southern front, shooting Russian soldiers repeatedly at point-blank ra...

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To keep Russian forces guessing yet still, Ukrainian gains are regularly trumpeted around Bakhmut, a city of minimal strategic significance whose center was captured by Russia at enormous cost last month. Moscow can hardly afford the loss of face of a reversal of fortune here. Finally, there are repeated reports of clashes to its north, around Kupyansk and Kreminna – yet another possible angle for a better-prepared Ukrainian force to advance. The aim is to force Russia into uncomfortable choices about where to send reinforcements.
Ukraine’s top commander, General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, may not yet know where he will sink the bulk of his newly trained and equipped forces. Some estimates suggest only a quarter of Ukraine’s fresh units, bolstered by NATO training and supplies, are now in the fight. Zalyuzhnyi has said nothing about his plans yet. He may be waiting to see where ammunition and resupply worsens first, or where Russia appears unwilling to sink extra reserves.
The wait is not without political cost. Kyiv needs to cement a change in the frontlines to validate the huge investment in its forces made by NATO. It should be acutely aware that elections in several countries over the next two years will likely alter the West’s appetite to bankroll Ukraine’s defense, regardless of how unwavering the West’s public commitments are. There is a risk that the background rumble of peace talks comes to the fore in winter, and Ukraine finds itself settling into a stalemate of the boundaries established by this November.
President Zelensky addressed this concern in his BBC interview. “Some want some sort of Hollywood movie but things don’t really happen that way,” he said.
Yet there is reason for optimism in Ukraine’s capital. Last summer, silence and gridlock eventually turned into a Russian collapse around Kharkiv. The withdrawal from Kherson showed too that Moscow was still then able to recognize realities and react to them. Putin’s top brass will have learned from last year’s defeats, and he likely will be enormously emotional about the fate of Crimea.
But, as the world has seen in graphic detail, the Russian military’s failings are abundant and losses horrific – and any steep tactical learning curve will not have been matched by a similar improvement in training and equipment. Russia has one option, to endure and hope this winter cements the survival of its current occupation. Ukraine has many choices ahead of it, and a significant surplus of resources to pounce on opportunities, even as the clock is now loudly ticking.

Did you know Ukraine started the war? They are the bad guys.

jacobin.com

A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War

In 2014 Ukraine, great power gamesmanship, righteous anger at a corrupt status quo, and opportunistic far-right extremists toppled the government in the Maidan Revolution. Today’s crisis in Ukraine can’t be understood without...

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Sure looks like RU will blow up the big nuke plant if it doesn't get its way in UKR. What a complete sh;tshow of a nation.

better than 50% odds that plant has a big hole in it before this ends.

Sure looks like you support Ukraine Nazis that started this war, making nuke comments EVEN POSSIBLE.

The stupid denial from you post-2022-only, selective-memory Nazi pumpers is terrifying.

Nazi Ukraine / NATO can’t remove Russia from Nazi Ukraine or Crimea. Russia is stronger.

Just another day at your local neighborhood Ukraine Nazi cafe.

jta.org

Owners of Ukrainian cafe housed in a former synagogue say logo resembling Nazi symbol was a 'font gone wrong' mistake - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Cnaan Liphshiz

Cafe Escobar said it waded inadvertently into a political landmine by adding two lightning bolts symbolizing energy to promote its coffee.

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Isn't that a good thing? You leftists hate nuclear power.

It do be dirty though. Mining rock is 24/7/365 to extract uranium. Using fossil fuels to move and break the rock every day forever. Nuclear energy is very dirty because the front end, not the back end waste. Total footprint is atrocious.

Ukraine: Could do a better job of running a politically correct armed forces and root out dual use symbols that have connections to Ukrainians independence fighters but also are shared with Nazi symbols.

Russia: Bombs civilian targets at will and with no military objective other than to deplete and divert air defenses. Blows a dam in order to stop UA counteroffensive around Kherson in order to free forces to shore up defensive positions in the east and then bombs rescue boats and refuses to allow UN access to disaster victims. Refuses to provide Red Cross access to POWs (Ukraine does allow Red Cross access to RU POWs) and has a systematic policy of torture, starvation, denial of medical care and summary executions of UA POWs. Appears to be planning to use tactical nuclear weapons if it loses ground against UA's counter offensive. Threatens Moldova with invasion for having a government that is wanting to join the West. Has a private military contractor raiding natural resources from African nations in order to fund sending a prisoner army to certain death in "meat waves" to capture a small city on the front lines in east Ukraine. But if this stops Ukrainian soldiers from wearing badges with an iron cross, then I guess as a famous Russian once said, "the ends justify the means".

bbc.com

Kherson flooding: Ukraine evacuation boat attacked by Russia, killing three

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Hundreds of people have been trapped on the Russia-held eastern bank of the Dnipro River.

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nytimes.com

‘They Expected Me to Die on My Own’: Life as a Ukrainian P.O.W.

By Carlotta Gall and Daniel Berehulak

Ukrainian captives released in prisoner exchanges say that beatings were common, and that they suffered from woefully inadequate health care and food.

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apnews.com

Rescuers are braving snipers as they rush to ferry Ukrainians from Russia-occupied flood zones

Major flooding from the destruction of a huge dam has devastated towns along the lower Dnieper River in Ukraine and forced many civilians to flee to rooftops, attics and higher ground. Ukrainian rescuers have been carrying ou...

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cbc.ca

Ukraine's dam collapse region too risky for UN aid workers, Kremlin says | CBC News

UN aid workers who want to visit areas ravaged by the recent Kakhovka dam collapse in southern Ukraine can't go there because fighting in the war makes it unsafe, the Kremlin's spokesperson said Monday.

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Ukraine is a Nazi state. It's insanely ironic how libs call Trump supporters 'Nazis' and overlook Ukraine

Russia is a Nazi state (more Nazis than EVERY OTHER COUNTRY COMBINED!) because Putin embraced Nazism in Russia for more than 25 years. It's insanely ironic how Putin calls Ukrainians 'Nazis' and overlooks Russia, the biggest Nazi-infested sh*thole on planet earth. Every dead Russian soldier is step closer to global peace. Good thing Ukraine is doing God's work and turning Russian soldiers into meat puddles every single day.

Few commenters seem to realize that Russia hasn't even started using its airforce and navy seriously. Let alone hit some big soft targets to work the Ukrainian moral a bit. Stricyly strategic targets, although the trick of placing artillery in apartment buildings and malls was no longer rewarded with sparing those positions.

Imagine Russia would make it a goal to do to Ukraine what Ukraine did to its "own" seperatist cities. Air raids, maximum carnage, level as many residential buildings as possible... Would it be complex or hard for the Russian airforce to level the governmental bits of Kiev, if they actually wanted to draw that blood and take delivery of the city without its admin in place?

It's all taking so long because Russia wants to spare lives. Meanwhile, NATO does all they can to hide the obvious nazi ideologies keeping the UKR efforts going (and get things started in 2014), and makes it all about nuclear war, the last thing Russia wants. NATO already under "Nobel PEace Prize" Obama, in his own words, promoted the idea of a pre-emptive strike. Nuke the heck out of all soft targets in Russia, and then daw up a rocket shield to laugh at the silly Russians who'd try to retaliate. Good luck with that "shield" when those hypersonic missiles get taken out of storage... No need for nukes to be on board anyway.

Has any "agressor" ever been as peaceful and calm as Russia's been? If adding Ukraine to Russia were the prime objective, does anyone think they'd be so soft about it, spare every cute nazi's life?

Russia is so whipped, Putin goofed.