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not a fair game yet
the russians hide Iskander launchers far behind the front line. they target Ukraine without suffering any pain.
at the moment Ukraine can reach 300km with loading Atacms into Himars launcher.
but wait, the US is developing a 500km long range “precision strike missile PrSM” for the Himars launcher.
I think few times from now the russians and ukrainens will just fire missiles on each other until their cities and people are destroyed and killed.
there is nothing religious.
most wars are all about gabbing lands, people and resources.
what differs Putin and Hitler?
nothing
except their justifications
Trump plans to grab Canada, Panama, Greenland and Gaza. and most likely he wants more.
what Trump’s justification?
Hamartia Antidote
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This just gives a glimpse of how dangerous it will be on future battlefields
Again even if you spot a drone it is incredibly difficult to get a bead on it and shoot it down. Now imagine 10 coming at you.
Again even if you spot a drone it is incredibly difficult to get a bead on it and shoot it down. Now imagine 10 coming at you.
160 F16 fighter jets
25 Patriot missile batteries
then Ukraine can defend itself against russian aggression.
- Zelinskki
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25 Patriot missile batteries
then Ukraine can defend itself against russian aggression.
- Zelinskki
Zelenskyy at Munich: With Over 150 F-16s and 25 Patriot Systems, Ukraine Can Defend Itself
Zelenskyy asserts Ukraine's readiness to defend itself with proper military support, outlining the importance of arms and strategic assistance from allies.
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BHAN85
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what differs Zelensky and Hitler?
Hitler had more popular support.
hussain0216
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This is some victory by the Russians
They took on a multi state alliance of 30 or so nations including the U.S and is now pushing for the win in Ukraine, whilst the U.S as usual tucks tail and runs and the Europeans are in panic mode
Go Russia, take as much land as possible and kill as many Ukes as possible
let do a comparison.
at the end 65 countries declared war on Hitler Germany.
the Ukraine support group with the NATO more than 50 countries declare support for Ukraine, putting sanctions on Putin’s Russia.
Zelinskki’s Ukraine just has 1 enemy: Russia.
BHAN85
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Iran manufactures Shahed drones to attack Ukraine.
So, Ukraine has more than 1 enemy.
Anyway, it's ridiculous these nazi germany comparisons.
Goldwin law.
Godwin's law - Wikipedia
F-22Raptor
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Russia’s Advance in Ukraine Is Slowing. Here’s What’s Happening and Why.
KYIV, Ukraine—The Russian army’s advance in Ukraine is slowing, just as President Trump is pressing for talks.
The slowdown comes at a critical time for both sides. Russia wants to trade gains on the battlefield—and the impression that further advances are inevitable—for a favorable deal in peace talks proposed by Trump. Ukraine, meanwhile, wants to show that it can still fend off its giant neighbor.
In the first month of 2025, Russia was taking on average nearly six days to occupy an area the size of Manhattan, according to data from DeepState, a Ukrainian group that monitors the front lines. That is more than twice as long as in November. Gains in February have slowed further.
The heavy losses for small geographical gains set up the brutal arm-wrestle that will most likely characterize Russia’s war in Ukraine this year: Can the Russians sustain or even accelerate their assaults and gain enough ground to force Ukraine, struggling with a lack of manpower, and its allies to seek an accommodation? Or will the offensives peter out in the face of Ukraine’s dogged resistance?
These five maps and charts show where Russia has gained momentum on the battlefield, but how it could struggle to sustain it.
HOW RUSSIA IS PUSHING IN UKRAINE’S EAST
Russian forces are persistently pressing forward at several points along the front line, taking advantage of superior resources, especially manpower. After heavy aerial bombs and artillery blast a path, Russian troops scurry forward house by house taking heavy losses.
Ukraine, short on infantry, relies mostly on explosive drones to pick off the soldiers as they seek to advance. Kyiv and its Western allies said Russian daily casualties increased every month in the last five months of 2024.
So far, the Russians are still nibbling forward.
They have taken the small cities of Kurakhove and Selydove, both with prewar populations of around 20,000, and swept around the south and west of the city of Pokrovsk, a key target in the east. They are also pressing in other cities, such as the high point of Chasiv Yar, and, reinforced by North Korean shock troops, battling to take back territory in their own Kursk region occupied by Ukraine since last summer.
WHY RUSSIAN GAINS ARE SLOWING
Russia’s gains accelerated last fall, particularly in areas to the west of the occupied regional capital of Donetsk. But they have slowed over winter, in part because a lack of foliage makes infantry easy to spot and target with aerial drones, but possibly because of growing exhaustion on the Russian side, analysts said.
It took the last half-year for Russian forces to seize Ukrainian territory equivalent to the land area of Rhode Island, at the cost of tens of thousands of troops. Recruitment is getting tougher, and Russia is having to increase payments to attract volunteers, including those from prisons.
In October last year, a senior U.S. defense official said that Russia had suffered some 600,000 casualties since the start of the war in February 2022, and that the accelerated advance was increasing losses. Ukraine’s top military commander, Gen. Oleksandr Syrskiy, said Russia lost as many people last year as in the first two years of the war.
RUSSIA’S BIG PUSH TO ENCIRCLE ONE CITY
Russia’s most significant advance has come to the south of the eastern city of Pokrovsk. The city was long on a major supply route for Ukrainian forces in the east via a highway and railroad. But Russia has swept through villages and towns to the south and is approaching the road on the city’s east and west flanks.
A senior U.S. military official said that Russia had concentrated tens of thousands of troops in a very small area, advancing by sheer force of numbers while creating easy pickings for Ukrainian troops. A small counterattack by Ukraine recently regained one village.
RUSSIA STRIKES BACK ON ITS OWN TERRITORY
A key Russian goal is to eliminate the Ukrainian military presence in Russia’s Kursk province. Russian counterattacks, together with the front-line deployment of thousands of North Korean troops, has shrunk the territory Ukraine holds to around half its greatest extent.But Ukraine is clinging on by deploying some of its best-equipped units to the area.
Ukraine’s leaders say they want to hold part of Kursk as a buffer zone and as a bargaining chip in any future peace negotiations. Critics of that approach say it has sucked in troops sorely needed elsewhere on the front line.
WHAT’S HAPPENING WITH RUSSIA’S TANKS?
After three years of war, Russia has burned through about half of its vast stocks of mostly Soviet-era tanks and armored vehicles—and many of the rest are older models in poor shape, according to an analysis by a group of open-source intelligence analysts who examine satellite images of Russian stores.
The huge losses show the cost of Russia’s advances, and how difficult they will be to sustain. With stocks of armored vehicles ebbing, Russia has used civilian vehicles and motorbikes in assaults, but mostly is relying on unprotected infantry, which have taken heavy casualties.
At the current tempo, Russia will run critically low on battle tanks and armored personnel carriers by late 2025, said George Barros, an analyst at the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank. However, Russia’s partners, especially North Korea, could help by providing armored vehicles from their own stockpiles, he said.
F-22Raptor
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Kicked out?
Russia is so weakened the US is shifting focus to the Pacific.
Russia has been absolutely pulverized and lost this war at Hostomel.
F-22Raptor
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This is some victory by the Russians
They took on a multi state alliance of 30 or so nations including the U.S and is now pushing for the win in Ukraine, whilst the U.S as usual tucks tail and runs and the Europeans are in panic mode
Go Russia, take as much land as possible and kill as many Ukes as possible
Meanwhile back in reality…
Russians get obliterated today on the Kursk front.
F-22Raptor
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K2RULEZ
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France will host European leaders' summit on Ukraine as US and Russia prepare for peace talks
Donald Trump said earlier this week he and Russian President Vladimir Putin had agreed talks could start "immediately".
Each going their separate way. A divided world.
Donald Trump said earlier this week he and Russian President Vladimir Putin had agreed talks could start "immediately".
Ukraine not attending US-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia, government source tells BBC
Elsewhere, European leaders are preparing for an emergency summit in France as the continent responds to US moves on Ukraine.
www.bbc.com
Each going their separate way. A divided world.
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