Exactly what I meant.
Sigh... I'm too old to compete with you in this kind of trolling. Who knows, perhaps five or ten years ago... and now let's just drop it.
Exactly what I meant.
Sigh... I'm too old to compete with you in this kind of trolling. Who knows, perhaps five or ten years ago... and now let's just drop it.
I mean this is in Donetsk not Kherson so doesn't change anything I said about the situation there. I'm pretty sure the Ukrainians are straightening and consolidating their defences near Slovyansk and Kramatorsk anyways so that is where the real Ukrainian defensive line in the Donbas is anyways. The fact that Siverts and Bakhmut haven't fallen yet is more of an indication of Russian ineptness than strength.Certain Russian user wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 6:37 pmYeah, that's exactly the reason I love to re-visit this thread from time to time...Xyls wrote: ↑Sun Jul 24, 2022 2:34 pm Ukraine is confident that it will retake Kherson by September. The Russians are in an extremely poor position here. There are only two bridges crossing the Dniper river and Ukraine is consistently making them unusable with HIMAR systems to where the can't restock and reposition troops. There is a high likelihood that Russia will have to cede massive amounts of terrain or suffer massive losses to the Ukrainians here.
Meanwhile, today Russian "musicians" completely took control of the Uglegorsk TPP. This was the difficult task since ukrops were well prepared for defence, and infrastructure had to be preserved (so, no missiles or artillery). Nevertheless, mission accomplished:
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In general, this month after the liberation of Lysychansk was rather "calm". The daily missile strikes, as always, were bearing fruit: one can easily recruit another 10,000 conscripts to replace the dead, but this is not so easy to replace even 100 killed officers. Artillery did a great job, tactical successes here or there... and still, no large-scale offensive. The keyword of this month was "consolidation", rather even political than military: strengthening of new administrations in the liberated territories, rapid housing construction in Mariupol (winter is coming, and people need housing), preparation for accession referendums (so far, scheduled for september, but I'm not so sure). From what I learned from the media (never stated directly, but a lot of hints here and there, obvious for those reading "between the lines"), this "calm phase" should soon end.
Therefore, let's watch (as long as we don't have to participate).
KYIV, Ukraine—Missiles and rockets rained down on northern Ukraine on Thursday morning, marking the first time in weeks that the Kyiv region, far from the fighting in the country’s east and south, has been hit.
A Kalibr cruise missile struck a military base in the Vyshgorod area, north of Kyiv, early Thursday morning, according to military officials. At least 20 rockets were fired from Belarus into northern Ukraine, according to Ukrainian officials. Nine hit the Chernihiv region, while air-defense systems took out others. Shells also hit the Kharkiv and Mykolaiv regions overnight, in Ukraine’s northeast and south respectively.
“Restless morning. Rocket terror again,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on Telegram on Thursday morning. “We will not be intimidated. Ukraine is an independent, free, indivisible state.”
Russian and Belarusian officials didn’t immediately comment on the strikes in northern Ukraine on Thursday.
So, where is the link?, where can we see all those interviews?, in what newspapers am I going to get detailed information about it?Exactly what I meant.
I don't think that fact-checking -let's call it information about those facts from different sources- has anything to do with age, maybe a bit with the scientific method.I'm too old to...
I just discovered this news story was false. The obese "General Pavel" was actually a retired Russian border guard named "Ivan Ivanovich Turchin," and the infamous photo of him was taken during a border guard ceremony.funkervogt wrote: ↑Sun Jun 26, 2022 2:40 pm Putin has recalled a morbidly obese, 67-year-old general from retirement, named "General Pavel," to command special operations troops in Ukraine after another general was seriously wounded.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world- ... d-27326346“Most of his best and battle-hardened senior commanders have been killed or injured fighting in Ukraine so he is resorting to sending second rate officers to the front who don’t last very long.
“He is now dragging generals out of retirement and one of those is General Pavel.
“Putin is like a mafia boss who no one can refuse to obey. If a retired general gets a message from Putin saying mother Russia needs you to fight in Ukraine there is not much you can do. There is now escape from Russia thanks to the sanctions.”