Russia and Ukraine

[LinuxGal]

I have no doubt that Ukraine is ‘open to talks’. If Russia starts talking about getting the fuck out of Ukraine, I’m sure the Ukrainians will listen.

Boru

Yes. And why is he so psychotic anyway?
 
All world leaders are parading around him since February and now he is coming out with something like “Ok. I really want to talk”. What is it exactly he is willing to talk actually? İs this man completely insane or is it me actually?

Now that the occupied areas of Ukraine are officially and forever part of Mother Russia, per a free and fair election as Russia insists, there really is nothing to talk about.

[The Grand Nudger]

Shot themselves in the foot on that one. One is left to wonder why russia can't control russian airspace or move russian troops through russian territory. How are they supposed to beat the ukranian nazi-satanist-super soldiers if they can't even hold their own territory?

[Thumpalumpacus]

The leader of the Donbas NR forces (Khodakovsky) reports that up to 60% of all Russian casualties are a result of friendly fire.

[LinuxGal]

The leader of the Donbas NR forces (Khodakovsky) reports that up to 60% of all Russian casualties are a result of friendly fire.

So now they're to the point where they prefer unfriendly fire.

[Thumpalumpacus]

The leader of the Donbas NR forces (Khodakovsky) reports that up to 60% of all Russian casualties are a result of friendly fire.

So now they're to the point where they prefer unfriendly fire.

lol, I suspect this is a really, really weak attempt to avoid giving the Ukrainians credit for anything. No military leader worth any amount of salt would admit that fact publicly. Watch for an uptick in Ukrainian decoy/spec-ops missions to test this claim of his.

[Fake Messiah]

Russian priest who advised women to bear more children and send them to war dies in Ukraine

The website of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) reported that Archpriest Mikhail Vasiliev died on the morning of 6 November "in the area of ​​the special military operation in Ukraine while carrying out pastoral duties."

He was the archpriest of the church of St. Barbara the Great Martyr and the Venerable Ilya Muromets, the garrison church of the Strategic Rocket Forces of the Russian Armed Forces in Vlasikha, Moscow Oblast.

"The Lord has allowed each lady to give birth to many children. And if a lady, fulfilling this commandment to ‘be fruitful and multiply’, refused to use artificial pregnancy termination methods, in the widest sense, then obviously she would have more than one child. And therefore, she would not find it so painful and terrifying to part with her child, even for a while. The devil is not so terrible as he is painted. Whom God helps, nobody can harm," the Russian priest said.

https://news.yahoo.com/russian-priest-ad...52407.html

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Can you say ‘mutiny’?

Russian Troops Not Being Paid, Refuse To Fight

More than 100 soldiers at a training center in Russia have gone on strike for not getting paid their promised salary, according to multiple reports. 

Some of the draftees have also refused to attend training sessions, and the center has closed its weapons storage rooms, the Moscow Times and independent Russian news outlet Sota Wednesday.

(Bold mine)

This is the sort of thing that could spread.

Boru

[Thumpalumpacus]

KYIV, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu ordered his troops to withdraw from the west bank of the Dnipro River near the strategic southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, a significant setback for Moscow and potential turning point in the war.

Ukraine reacted with caution to Wednesday's announcement, saying some Russian forces were still in Kherson and additional Russian manpower was being sent to the region.

"Until the Ukrainian flag is flying over Kherson, it makes no sense to talk about a Russian withdrawal," Mykhailo Podolyak, a senior adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said in a statement to Reuters.

[...]

If Ukrainian forces take the entire west bank of the Dnipro, their U.S.-supplied long-range artillery and HIMARS multiple rocket launchers would be able to strike Russian logistics bases and positions on the east bank, according to military experts.

But the Ukrainians may face numerous booby traps and could be targeted by intense Russian artillery barrages.

[...]

Compounding the sense of Russian disarray in Kherson, Moscow's number two official there, Kirill Stremousov, was killed on Wednesday in what Moscow said was a car crash.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-...022-11-06/

A rear-guarded evacuation was probably the best option the Russians had available. Ukrainians report Russians still inside the city. Satellite images show Russian forces constructing new trenchworks east of the Dneipr. Their concern has to be safeguarding their big naval base at Sevastopol.

[LinuxGal]

A rear-guarded evacuation was probably the best option the Russians had available. Ukrainians report Russians still inside the city. Satellite images show Russian forces constructing new trenchworks east of the Dneipr. Their concern has to be safeguarding their big naval base at Sevastopol.

They've already pulled their ships back to the Azov sea, but they are entrenching in Crimea know, so that's their last stand.   And to think Putin could have kept Crimea if he never invaded on 2/24/22.   Now he's going to lose it all, and spend the rest of his life trying to hold the Russian Federation together with whatever military forces he has left.

[Fake Messiah]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...ining.html