Official Russia vs Ukraine War Thread

British defense minister tipped to be new British prime minister. Russia sh*tting itself.

Shouldn't be UK sh*tting themselves?

Russian won't be so kind forever to instigators

Your successes in blowing up innocent Ukrainian citizens has gone to your head, Ivan. Russia's days are numbered, and there is nothing that is going to stop that now. The mass, energy and momentum is too much. History shows that. Allied soldiers WILL be on the streets of Moscow and the rest of your miserable, third world cities in 7-10 years. Hopefully you will meet a few.

Careful what you wish for. Lots of trigger fingers in the Baltics and Eastern Europe getting itchy to invoke Article 5. Payback for 45-70 years of brutal oppression can be surprisingly energetic.

If this happens this war will definitely come to the continental US first. How will that be received? Don’t worry… “NATO knows that Russia has used 10 to 20 hypersonic missiles in the Ukraine.” Why the range you wonder? Why aren’t they saying “17 hypersonic missiles”? Because they can’t actually see them on radar and can only guess after the fact that an explosion was caused by such a missile. Missiles that travel 2 miles per second scare the $hit out of me. I do not care enough about the Ukraine to find out what they can do to my neighborhood. You traitorous war hawks need to be rounded up and put in Gitmo.

Future Russian governments will conduct their own prosecution of Russian war criminals, just like the Germans did for Nazi war criminals. It’s their only ticket back to being part of Europe again.

You seem very easily scared. It’s a good thing you live in your mommy’s basement where the scary Russians can’t get you. Out hear in the real world, Russia has proved its military got most of its training from the Moscow State Clown College.

It’s almost like for the last four months people have been claiming Russian forces were committing war crimes by shooting civilians in Ukraine and certain posters were adamant that all the evidence was staged.

Nah.

First four months spent with people repeating CIA lie that Russia was getting it's butt kicked.

While many still are doing so, it has become so obvious that Russia is rolling up Ukraine, the lie has now focused in Russia is shooting civilians

By Sasha Petrova, Federica Marsi and Usaid Siddiqui
Published On 7 Jul 20227 Jul 2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin warns Kyiv and its Western allies that Moscow has not yet started its military campaign in Ukraine “in earnest”.
The cities of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region have been targeted in Russian raids, according to Ukraine.
The Ukrainian army claims it has regained control of the symbolic Snake Island in the Black Sea.
Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong asks China to exert its influence on Russia to halt the war in Ukraine.

Oh, if Putin says so, then it must be true. You fall for Russian propaganda so easily Carmine.

When Putin says he’s just getting started in Ukraine, it means he’s running out of equipment and troops and can only sustain the war another month.

Russia's Duma just passed a law allowing the government to force domestic industries to supply the defense sector with goods and services and to compel workers to put in overtime for defense production. Russia has clearly burnt through its inventory of military equipment and arms and is having to put production into overdrive to maintain the war effort in Ukraine. This follows reports of Russia pulling mothballed tanks and equipment out of storage as losses in Ukraine mount.

The big problem for Russia moving forward is that gaining territory comes at a cost. Russia will have to keep a significant number of its forces in captured territory while at the same time fighting Ukraine counterattacks and continuing the campaign to take Donbas.

There are lots of dead civilians in Bucha whose cause of death is a bullet to the head. Bodies found with arms zip-tied behind them, then shot. There are lots of towns just like Bucha in Ukraine. Wherever the Russian army goes, it has left executed civilians behind. There's eyewitness testimony, pictures, video, recorded audio and videotaped confessions.

Just another reminder that C9 isn't just a poorly-informed analyst of current events. He's also a cheerleader for the worst kinds of war crimes.

Here's an article about it from Al Jazeera, the same site that C9 quoted in his last post.

aljazeera.com

Inside Ukraine’s war crimes investigations

Nils Adler

As families confront the horror of loved ones killed by Russian forces, investigators grapple with thousands of cases.

Link:www.aljazeera.com/features/2022/6/21/i...

The Ukraine has not regained control over Snake Island. It's no-mans land. It will sit ungarrisoned while there are active hostilities.

As soon as the Ukraine side sent a few men over for a propaganda photo-op, Russia bombed the island.

Ukraine is at War and fighting nearly all out. They are losing men and equipment faster than can be replaced.

Russia is conducting a limited military action - in actuality, not euphemistic phrasing. They have applied less than 10% of their capability and can pile on resources as needed.

Talk about the Ukraine reclaiming Crimea, the Donbas region, Mariupol, and Kherson is deluded or blowing smoke.

This is not what many want to hear. And this not Russian cheer leading. It is telling it like it is. Western officials and governments privately and publicly have reached the same conclusion.

The only way Russia gets knocked back or out of the Ukraine is with direct NATO intervention. That is foreseeably improbable.

I would agree Russian soldiers have killed bound captives in Bucha and probably elsewhere.

In Bucha, I would expect some casualties attributed to Russia were un-lifed by Ukraine militia/forces - captured Russian soldiers or Ukraine civilians deemed to be collaborators.

Both sides are committing war crimes.

We have seen videos of Ukraine soldiers torturing, wounding, and also executing bound prisoners. Irrefutable video evidence, taken and shared by the Ukraine side themselves.

All you can argue about is numbers and ratios.

The fact that many here singularly bemoan Russian atrocity indicates cognitive bias and non-impartial agenda.