Russia: "We're going to build SIXTEEN HUNDRED tanks this year!"
Also Russia: <Loses 2000 tanks in a year>
We're not laughing with you, we're laughing at you.
Your attrition dot connecting is broken, Adolf. But supporting a literal government neo-nazi state that started this war will get your morality back. Yup.
Vladimir Putin has stated that arms supplies to Ukraine pose a threat to Russia and claimed that the country will produce three times as much ammunition and tanks as the AFU will receive from Western partners
"Vladimir Putin has stated that arms supplies to Ukraine pose a threat to Russia and claimed that the country will produce three times as much ammunition and tanks as the AFU will receive from Western partners"
Nobody joined your Euromaidan date change attempt from November 2013 to July 2013. Nobody joined your "american healthcare is better than Japan's" lie either. None of your bs ever passes a smell test. You concede points before anyone even checks them.
get it? I've never liked Putin or Russians. Every time we go to Phuket we are reminded of this. Some of the beaches are Little Moscow.
Also, Russia is correct, regardless of my feelings. Welcome to the world of evidence.
Can you tell us why the Ukraine government is a nazi state but the Russian government is not?
Stepan Bandera was a Ukrainian nationalist who joined forces with the German Nazis during World War II because he believed that they would help his country gain independence from the now defunct Soviet Union.
Even neighboring Poland, a staunch ally of Kiev in the ongoing war with Russia, has criticized the Verkhovna Rada's Jan. 1 celebration of the birthday of Stepan Bandera. By Peoples Dispatch Ukraine’s support for neo-Nazi grou...
Why are there kids in Ukraine holding machine guns on the streets in a war zone? A war which Ukraine's neo-nazis started on November 24th 2013. Kids killed as enemy combatants = morality?
Don't care about 2013, coudn't care less about Nazi's, all that really matters right now is Russia is taking a beating and will lose this war.
So much of this out there.
Should go without saying that such steep losses could undermine Russia’s ability to sustain current operations—to say nothing of launching a new offensive. The New York Times last week quoted U.S. officials estimating Russian casualties as “approaching 200,000.” But the analysts at the Conflict Intelligence Team believe Russian losses could be closer to 270,000. CIT scrutinized media reports—in particular, the BBC’s own analysis of Russian obituaries—and concluded that Russian families since February 2022 have buried as many as 33,000 soldiers. Next, CIT estimated the number of Russian troops who are missing in action by applying the MIA ratio that the Russian 1st Tank Army reported in documents the Ukrainians captured last spring
Russians simply can't fight , it's......blow up building......anything more complex than that and they are whipped.
A lot of the "discussion" here seems to center on who are nazis and who aren't. Most analysts seem to agree the war is about Russian reaction to nato expansionism and the prevalent Russian narrative that Ukraine was never a "real" country and thus its "borders" don't really mean anything.
The neo nazi thing seems widely regarded as a red herring/excuse (except on this thread).
Pretty sure there are nazis in both countries (and in the us, France, etc), and we have all seen the evidence of them in e.g. Wagner, Azov.. but that's not why this war is really happening, it's just an emotive excuse to help gain domestic support.
As a European who has been to both countries via work, this war is depressing as hell and takes over the mind. I found Ukraine in particular very friendly and chilled place to visit and full of really smart people (in the IT sector). My own 2cs after much reflection is that Russia clearly in the wrong but seem hell bent on winning and fully prepared to wreck Ukraine and kill hundreds of thousands of people on both sides.
It is like we are watching a big scary ahole beat on his wife in a subway and we just look at our feet in case he turns on us. Sadly (and I hate saying this), often the bad guys win and I have this sense of dread that the fight is unwinnable for Ukraine. Putin and cronies clearly amoral, don't want to lose and have weapons factories and if all else fails, nukes.
"Vladimir Putin has stated that arms supplies to Ukraine pose a threat to Russia and claimed that the country will produce three times as much ammunition and tanks as the AFU will receive from Western partners"
Gee, if Putin said it, it must be true!
Here's a ton of Russian tanks passing by on a train.. Looks like they are well on their way to 1,500 tanks this year.
While Ukraine is waiting for tanks, Russia is shipping hundreds to Ukraine.
How does a train load of 60 year of T-62s indicate Russia is going to produce a single new tank this year? In fact, if Russia were able to produce 1500 modern tanks this year, they wouldn't need to be sending so many 60 year of T-62s to Ukraine. The only ones scared of their arrival are the Russian tank crews forced to use them.
Even before the war, Russia had fewer T-90Ms than the number of modern tanks that the West is giving to Ukraine this year. Not to mention that Russia has already lost some 15 T90-Ms (and dozens of other T-90 variants).
It's not really even clear when or where the photo in your post was taken. What is clear is that Russia is now sending a lot more 75 year old T-54s and T-55s to Ukraine than T-90Ms.