PM'd. Unfortunately, it seems like no one managed to survive.

More like Orban is on the same Kremlin gravy train.

More like the EU has completely lost it. All members have the right to vote and being pressured like this shows how easily democracy goes out of the window just like in Russia where politicians fall out of windows.

So much for EU "values" I guess, lol




Meanwhile the UK enjoys it's first oligarch prime minister

Can't make this shit up

Thanks for the vid. I recant my previous statement; Abrams made out of cardboard confirmed. It's Allright though, ukraine still has sea kings and tactical led lamps.

So a big point to bear in mind is that Russia appears to be sweeping over front line fortifications and trenches. They're not in an all-out breakout, like we can see as they've had recon units probing right up to the next cities like Chasiv Yar, but they're not trying to storm them yet, just move up artillery and bombard them. Once these front lines are falling, what happens next? What will stand between a Russian breakout and major targets in the Donbas like Kramatorsk? Without the border villages and trenchwork, its just a whole bunch of flat farmlands until the major cities. What kind of defense in depth could UA forces cobble together?

Translation, buy wheat futures.

A resident of Transcarpathia “purchased” a third child in order to go abroad - State Border Guard Service

The 27-year-old man showed three birth certificates at the Tisa checkpoint - however, after double-checking the documents against the database, the border guards confirmed the presence of only two.

After interrogation, the father admitted that he bought a fake child’s birth certificate on the Internet for $2,000.

The front can be reset though, I mean it's not as if Ukraine can't fortify strongholds that aren't at the front but they may expect one day to be. What's evident though is any city/industrial area becomes a really good place to set up defenses. There is a belt of cities from Sloviansk to Kostiantynvka that would be hard to break and another belt from Oleksandrivka down behind that, but if those get broken that probably means much of everything east of Dnieper is up for taking.

I think the million dollar question is if Russia goes for these belts and breaks them, then it's an objective loss for Ukraine, no amount of spin doctoring changes that. If Ukraine at least can hold these belts and basically broker a peace with current lines then at least they still hold some of the industrialized parts of the Donbass.

They really should have sat down and ironed something out in the summer of 2022. Tens of billions per years isn't saving them and there's no real reason to believe something will change.

This post was edited by ofthevoid on Feb 27 2024 02:08pm

They will get a shot at Kramatorsk if they want it badly enough. Can they do large scale manoeuvre more effectively than they did in 2022? Remains to be seen.
Russians have definitely improved their joint arms operation and using air power more deliberately at the front; 9 fast jets shot down in 10 days and another A-50, suggest they are taking more risk with their jets.
Will it be enough to fully remove Ukrainian forces from the cities of western/northern Donbas? Only guessing at this point.

Allegedly 60 F-16s are expected in 2024. Whether Ukraine can get 100 trained and able pilots is another question.
But even 50 F-16s now being part of the equation is not something Russia can simply overlook.

After Tsar Vlad's Potemkin re-election there could easily be another round of mobilisation which would also effect the balance of force.

This post was edited by Prox1m1ty on Feb 27 2024 02:18pm

At bold, if this did occur one thing would have been certain, it would set a dangerous precedent for forcing territorial concessions at the barrel of a tank. Remember when they appeased Hitler over Austria? Sudetenland?

"At Munich, Chamberlain got an international agreement that Hitler should have the Sudetenland in exchange for Germany making no further demands for land in Europe. Chamberlain said it was 'Peace for our time'. Hitler said he had 'No more territorial demands to make in Europe."

This post was edited by Prox1m1ty on Feb 27 2024 02:21pm