Russia-Ukraine War - News, Discussions & Updates

[AZ_HighCountry]

Russia has suffered setbacks, it has not been defeated. And its objectives change as the situation changes. I admit that the Russians have suffered defeats, because unlike you and others here, even though I hope the war continues, after all, the longer Europe continues this war the better for Brazil, I am not a denier or propagandist.

Ukraine is already gone. Its infrastructure is destroyed. Millions have taken refuge. Millions have died, or are injured or have had their limbs amputated or are on the verge of being one of the three. The economy is destroyed. Demographics are collapsing.

Ukraine will never again be a threat to Russia, regardless of whoever wants it, but I believe that Europe, like the US, is comfortable seeing the Ukrainians fight against the Russians, after all, no American or European blood is being paid for in this war.

At this rate, all that will be left are women and children.

And Russia can take this much longer than Ukraine can. Unless NATO enters the war, Ukraine has already lost this war, even if Russia has already lost strategically, but Ukraine is finished as a country and a state. To deny this is to deny reality.

Ukraine was never a threat to Russia.

 

[Ё-МАЁ]

Then for what purpose did the Americans start building a military base in Ochakov, and the British - in Berdyansk?

 

[j_hungary]

Exactly, and I’ve been saying for the last year whether Russia takes the Donbass or not it doesn’t change the strategic outcomes of the war.

The fact people here still insist this war was over the Donbass minerals is absolutely hilarious. It’s cope lord levels of cope.

Russia has long since lost this war. For gods sake, Russia is fighting for the last year in the fields of Pokrovsk with 100K+ dead and wounded this year alone. It’s insanity, but Putin has this obsession with murdering and subjugating Ukrainians. I think deep down Putin knows he can no longer justify the war which is why he throws so many bodies at the front in hope of a breakthrough. And I have no doubt his military hierarchy are feeding him false reports about how great things are going.

What people can't see here is you need A LOT more troop and military power to stabilise and pacify a region than you go and assault and capture that region. That's why Operation Enduring Freedom didn't felt at the point we are attacking the Taliban, that felt apart at the seam when we trying to bunch the Afghan government together 20 years later.

You don't need to serve in the military to kno2w 2 things.

1.) If there are insurgency INSIDE Russia, you can bet dollar to donut there are going to be insurgency raised INSIDE occupied Donbas. That's just a no brainer.

2.) You can't fight and gain more territories and pacify a region at the same time, you don't have unlimited amount of troop, you can only do one but not the other, that's is why the progress had been slowing down gradually, and Russia itself is open for partisan attack, both in the Open (like when Ukraine invaded Kursk and then invaded Belgorod) and Covertly (like how they assassinate Russian General in Russia every few month)

At this point, Russia "Winning" by losing hundreds of thousand of troop and having destabilised their own border in ruin financially, and basically losing their sovereignty to the Chinese, making sure Ukraine is going to be hostile to Russia in the next couple of decade, all of that in exchange of what? At best they can look for is 20,000 square kilometers of Donbas, and that was the best case scenario. Do anyone still think Russia can pull a rugpull of Ukrainian leadership now?

 

[j_hungary]

Look who's back, the American fortune teller who only makes wrong predictions.

I challenge you to find a comment of mine saying that if Russia took Pokrovsk, Ukraine would collapse. In fact, I said the exact opposite of that almost two months ago:

Post in thread 'Russia-Ukraine War - News, Discussions & Updates'

Apr 3, 2025

Gen Cavoli also stated Ukraine is unlikely to collapse, they hold strong defensive positions today, and their ability to generate forces and reinforce those positions are improving weekly.

Ukraine will not collapse in the short term, because the Russians are still unable to suppress the Ukrainian Recon Fire Complex. The only thing that is keeping Ukraine standing is this, otherwise they would have collapsed already.

• Nuffle

You said the opposite NOW (Your post is from April this year)

and lol, again, i still get more than 70% of my prediction right, including the one I made last year for Pokrovsk, that's more than, A LOT more than someone here could, but then, who am I talking to? The dude who said Ukraine can't do NATO JTAC using F-16 when they are NATO JTAC certified.

It's a waste of my time talking to you. LOL

 

[Mobius]

Threat or no threat, Russia had it's red lines and NATO crossed them using Ukraine as the sacrificial lamb (to the last Ukrainian) using the Zionist clown of Kiev to do their dirty work. Now the chickens are coming home to roost as Russia is stronger and more resilient than ever before. Ukraine is depleted along with NATO stockpiles. Now Russia will pick up and continue to erode away Ukraine till it's capitulation. Russia has the manpower, alliances, resources to fight this war for another 100 years easy.
Pro-ukrainians are running low on the Ukropium supply......when it runs out they'll finally come back to reality and see the sorry state Ukraine is in now. Shame really as Europe could have been peaceful and collaborative had NATO not pigheadedly ignored Russian red lines.

 

[Ё-МАЁ]

Night arrivals in the port of Odessa on ships with Western weapons.
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[Soldier35]

Footage of the attack of the Russian drone "Orion" on the Ukrainian 155-mm self-propelled howitzer "Bogdana". The video was filmed in the vicinity of the village of Petrovskoye, Sumy region of Ukraine. The self-propelled howitzer "Bogdana" is currently one of the most common in the Ukrainian army, it is produced in Ukraine and is mounted on many different chassis. Technical information about the UAV "Orion" in the link to the video in the comments to the video. The strike on the self-propelled howitzer "Bogdana" was carried out by the Russian missile "X-UPLA", as a result of which the Ukrainian howitzer "Bogdana" was destroyed.

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[Nuffle]

Ukraine was never a threat to Russia.

It was. They were anti-Russian even before the invasion. If they had joined NATO, the Ukrainians would be even more confident.

 

[Nuffle]

You said the opposite NOW (Your post is from April this year)

What is the opposite of what I said just now? Are you still having trouble interpreting? I want to know where I said that if Pokrovsk fell, the Ukrainian line would have collapsed? Isn't that what you said I said? Prove your claim.

Dude, you were talking to some one who last year said Ukrainian line will collapse once Russia roll over Pokrovsk, and then the entire Ukrainian line would collapse.

Prove your claim.

and lol, again, i still get more than 70% of my prediction right, including the one I made last year for Pokrovsk, that's more than, A LOT more than someone here could, but then, who am I talking to?

You got most of your predictions wrong. What you said about Bakhmut deserves a special mention, it was so funny to read that I had to hold back here.

The dude who said Ukraine can't do NATO JTAC using F-16 when they are NATO JTAC certified.

This again? In addition to the lack of text interpretation, you still continue to use the straw man fallacy. I never said that Ukraine could not do JTAC. I said that Ukraine would have extreme difficulty in dealing with airspace deconfliction, as well as dealing with CAS efficiently because they do not have the appropriate tools for this, not to mention that they cannot even approach the line of contact, time is showing that I was right. Everything I said here is already being backed up by reality.

It's a waste of my time talking to you. LOL

I say the same about you. Dude, you took a document from 2012 using it as "proof" that the JTAC necessarily needs to be a pilot when in reality this is no longer a requirement since 2019. I already refuted you here: https://defencepk.com/forums/threads/f-16-officially-in-ukrainian-service.11488/page-6#post-294154

You have no argument to say anything about me but keep dealing with this. The fact that you keep repeating this when it was never true considering your lack of text interpretation is all very funny to me, you just show me how fragile your ego is man.

Turn the page, man. Pull yourself together. How embarrassing!!!!

 

[j_hungary]

What is the opposite of what I said just now? Are you still having trouble interpreting? I want to know where I said that if Pokrovsk fell, the Ukrainian line would have collapsed? Isn't that what you said I said? Prove your claim.

Prove your claim.

This is funny and rich coming from a man that claim I have had most of my prediction wrong. When In fact in that little piece of screen cap you posted can already see I have 4 out of 7 of my prediction come true.

You got most of your predictions wrong. What you said about Bakhmut deserves a special mention, it was so funny to read that I had to hold back here.

Maybe it's time to post that 7 prediction screen cap and let's count it again how many of them are wrong?

This again? In addition to the lack of text interpretation, you still continue to use the straw man fallacy. I never said that Ukraine could not do JTAC. I said that Ukraine would have extreme difficulty in dealing with airspace deconfliction, as well as dealing with CAS efficiently because they do not have the appropriate tools for this, not to mention that they cannot even approach the line of contact, time is showing that I was right. Everything I said here is already being backed up by reality.

First of all, that is not what you said at all.



I don't know what is your English level, but asking or strictly speaking, "implying" Ukraine does NOT have all, again, SPECIFCALLY ALL those capabilities means they can't perform CAS, period, now the question of whether they process enough capability to actually call on one effectively is another issue, I know for a personal fact that on what I have done with my own TACP when I was in Iraq and Afghanistan and what I have personally see in Ukraine is that, while they are not the same league on US TACP team, they have the basic resource to call on CAS, that's how this is going

But the core of the issue is, you didn't say they cannot call CAS effectively or efficiency, you doubt they have ALL the capability to conduct CAS.

And in fact time is showing you that YOU WERE WRONG, because if they can effectively call in FPV drone strike, they can technically be effectively call in CAS, that's what we did in Afghanistan post 2014, that's basically the same thing, yes, you don't call 9 line on a drone strike but virutally, you are directing a joint ground air attack just the same.

I say the same about you. Dude, you took a document from 2012 using it as "proof" that the JTAC necessarily needs to be a pilot when in reality this is no longer a requirement since 2019. I already refuted you here: https://defencepk.com/forums/threads/f-16-officially-in-ukrainian-service.11488/page-6#post-294154

You have no argument to say anything about me but keep dealing with this. The fact that you keep repeating this when it was never true considering your lack of text interpretation is all very funny to me, you just show me how fragile your ego is man.

Turn the page, man. Pull yourself together. How embarrassing!!!!

First of all, JTAC needs to be pilot that's back in when I served, also when I served women are not allowed in combat position, and they are now. Just because they change it up and let it loose does not mean that was not true, that's number 1.

The fact to the matter is, I don't spend time with wannabe, and that's why I wasn't quoting you on that post, you quote me first, so you are wasting my time, not the other way around. And that's beside all the inaccuracies you made.

Now run along now, nothing to see here. What a giant dump

 

[Soldier35]

We publish an episode of a battle between a Russian assault group and two Ukrainian FPV drones, the location of the shooting is not reported. As a result of the battle, both drones were shot down. Some sources report that there was only one drone.

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one of the largest volunteer units in Ukraine is leaving Ukraine entirely after 39 months

 

[Nuffle]

This is funny and rich coming from a man that claim I have had most of my prediction wrong. When In fact in that little piece of screen cap you posted can already see I have 4 out of 7 of my prediction come true.

Maybe it's time to post that 7 prediction screen cap and let's count it again how many of them are wrong?

I've already taken several of your erroneous statements and posted them here. I don't need to do it again to prove my point, because it's already been proven. Besides, man, I'm not like you who keeps repeating the same old argument, that's something that comes from someone who has nothing better to do, you've already repeated the same old story dozens of times. That's childish behavior, man, you're on an online discussion forum. Keep your composure.

How old are you? Four?

First of all, that is not what you said at all.

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I don't know what is your English level, but asking or strictly speaking, "implying" Ukraine does NOT have all, again, SPECIFCALLY ALL those capabilities means they can't perform CAS, period, now the question of whether they process enough capability to actually call on one effectively is another issue, I know for a personal fact that on what I have done with my own TACP when I was in Iraq and Afghanistan and what I have personally see in Ukraine is that, while they are not the same league on US TACP team, they have the basic resource to call on CAS, that's how this is going

But the core of the issue is, you didn't say they cannot call CAS effectively or efficiency, you doubt they have ALL the capability to conduct CAS.

And in fact time is showing you that YOU WERE WRONG, because if they can effectively call in FPV drone strike, they can technically be effectively call in CAS, that's what we did in Afghanistan post 2014, that's basically the same thing, yes, you don't call 9 line on a drone strike but virutally, you are directing a joint ground air attack just the same.


First of all, JTAC needs to be pilot that's back in when I served, also when I served women are not allowed in combat position, and they are now. Just because they change it up and let it loose does not mean that was not true, that's number 1.

The fact to the matter is, I don't spend time with wannabe, and that's why I wasn't quoting you on that post, you quote me first, so you are wasting my time, not the other way around. And that's beside all the inaccuracies you made.

Now run along now, nothing to see here. What a giant dump

And it doesn't. The reality of the ineffectiveness of Ukrainian CAS is proof of this. In fact, CAS is one of the last things that Ukrainians do to support ground forces, considering that drones and then artillery have been providing support for ground forces. Furthermore, I reiterate that Ukraine does not have all the conditions and capabilities to support CAS on equal terms as the Russians have been doing, or as the Americans could do. They simply do not have this capability and this is a reality, I am still surprised by your insistence on this narrative.

Another thing, my entire argument remains valid, the Ukrainians are still incapable of effectively coordinating the CAS effort, there is no point in you marking a simple question and invalidating the entire subsequent argument, the airspace is congested with drones, the Ukrainians fly at low altitude, a nightmare to deal with when Ukrainian drones and also Russian drones are in the area of operations, the Russians almost lost a fighter that almost hit a drone at low altitude while it was doing CAS. The Ukrainians, who until now were superior to the Russians in the use of drones, in addition to the congested environment, make it a nightmare to deal with the entire CAS effort. Yes, everything I said remains valid and therefore, I was right all along.

Furthermore, your argument that I am wrong using as an argument that they can call an FPV attack is utter idiocy. Dude, I'm not even going to respond to this, considering that this is probably a bait, because if you think that calling and coordinating an FPV attack against the entire CAS effort is the same thing, you are even more lost and getting yourself even more tangled up in this senseless and wrong argument.

And, since you complained that I responded to you this time, I'll stop here. I only have one thing to say to you:

Dude, you were talking to some one who last year said Ukrainian line will collapse once Russia roll over Pokrovsk, and then the entire Ukrainian line would collapse.

Prove your claim.

 

[Nuffle]

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one of the largest volunteer units in Ukraine is leaving Ukraine entirely after 39 months

This PMC was led by Swedish military veteran Edvard Selander Patrignani until his death in combat on July 18, 2022.

This PMC fought in the failed Ukrainian counteroffensive (which was actually a true strategic offensive) of 2023.

In October 2024, the unit joined the 49th Special Purpose Detachment of the Ukrainian Security Service (the same one that was hit by an Iskander missile last week in Shostka, Sumy region).

They have also been involved in war crimes. In 2024, German medical officer Caspar Grosse told the New York Times about three incidents in which members of the Chosen Company killed Russian prisoners of war.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/06/world/europe/ukraine-russia-killings-us.html

The New York Times reported that all of Grosse’s allegations were supported by his notes, video footage and text messages exchanged with members of the unit and independently reviewed by the newspaper.