Ukraine War Watch Thread

[weatheriscool]

[weatheriscool]

[firestar464]

that was nonsense

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/fr ... 024-03-14/

(also see the community notes added)

[Powers]

[raklian]

[weatheriscool]

[Time_Traveller]

I did wonder how long Ukraine would eventually hit Moscow even if they are drones.

[wjfox]

I don't see anything about this in the mainstream media, and this account has previously spread fake news.

[firestar464]

yeah should stop posting from that dude

[firestar464]

Though it's been confirmed now.

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-drone-s ... ne-1880040

[weatheriscool]

go Ukraine! bomb the shit out of them!

[firestar464]

I can't find anything about this; only stuff about them evacuating children from the area

[Tadasuke]

I think that Putin is trying to get back what belonged to Russia for many hundreds of years --> the area of Ukraine to the east of river Dnieper. He has never seriously thought or spoke about conquering Europe or the rest of the World - that's only scaremongering from Ukrainians and others to the west of Ukraine. He's no Stalin. Although, he is undemocratic.

Historically, that was the case - those stretches were parts of Russia. The area to the west of river Dnieper belonged to Litva, Poland and Hungary. There used to be signs and texts in Latvian, Polish and Hungarian not that long ago. I know people who can attest to that.

If you went back 200 years, people would tell you there is none and there has been no such a country as Ukraine.

Putin is unfortunately correct about (some) Ukrainians celebrating and glorifying murderers, who were killing both Poles and Russians and collaborated with the Nazis. It's the truth. Just because Putin sometimes lies, doesn't mean he lies about everything.

Of course, I don't mean it justifies what Russia or Putin does. I'm just stating some facts. War is still bad, obviously.

[firestar464]

It's worth noting Ukrainians see the Cossacks under Bohdan Khmelnitsky as the precursor to Ukraine. Regardless, Putin continues to deny their existence as a separate culture.

I'd also recommend that you read the ISW to get a better understanding of Putin's efforts to undermine the sovereignty of other countries that he perceives as part of the "Russian world." Russia's also threatened Denmark

[Time_Traveller]

Ukraine war: Blackouts hit across country after wave of Russian strikes

58 minutes ago



Large areas of Ukraine are suffering blackouts after Russian missiles targeted energy infrastructure.

Fifteen blasts were reported in the second-largest city, Kharkiv, said the mayor, while more than 53,000 households in Odesa were without power.

Ukraine's energy minister, German Galushchenko, accused Russia of trying to provoke "a large-scale failure of the country's energy system".

A power line feeding the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant had been cut, he added.

Regional governor Ivan Fedorov said the power station was "on the verge of a blackout", adding that seven buildings in the region had been destroyed and 35 others damaged.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68634444

[weatheriscool]

[Powers]

Is this new in the war?

[firestar464]

More on that:

https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/secur ... d-violated

A missile apparently crossed into Poland's airspace bruh

[weatheriscool]

[caltrek]

Russia Exhausts Soviet-Era Arms Storage Bases
by Pavel Luzin
March 25, 2024

Introduction:

(Eurasia Review) In recent weeks, Russian President Vladimir Putin has outlined the Kremlin’s negotiation proposal. He has proposed conducting strategic arms and space negotiations in exchange for pausing the fighting in Ukraine. The nuclear blackmail toward the United States and its allies is a part of this framework.

Other Russian officials and experts loyal to the Kremlin are playing good cop/bad cop in outlining these negotiations. The harsher officials insist on the capitulation of Ukraine, while the softer ones are promoting a so-called “Korean Scenario.” The latter describes a ceasefire–or at least decreasing the intensity of warfare–and keeping all the occupied territories in Russian hands.

One possible explanation for why the Kremlin is pushing the “Korean Scenario” is a consistent exhaustion of the arms storage bases that Russia inherited from the Soviet Union. This exhaustion is still in process, but Russia may lose its offensive potential by 2025 as these stores are used up (Kremlin.ru, February 20; blocked, February 23;Kremlin.ru, February 29; Kremlin.ru, March 1; blocked_telegram, March 14 – see linked article for these hyperlinked sources).

Soviet-era arms storage bases are one of the primary sources that still allow the Russian armed forces to fight despite massive losses on the battlefield. Russia has been removing supplies of tanks, armored vehicles, and artillery from these storage bases since 2022. The arms produced in the 1940s–1960s—many of which were decommissioned many years or decades ago—have returned to the battlefield. The stored arms are also massively cannibalized for spare parts, which Russian arms factories and hundreds of field arms repair facilities utilize (The Moscow Times, August 7, 2023; TASS, November 22, 2023; Vedomosti, December 30, 2023; Interfax, January 31; TASS, February 20- see linked article for these hyperlinked sources).

These storage bases are not endless despite Russia keeping thousands of tanks and howitzers after 1991. Moreover, Russia cannot replenish these arms and material. If Ukraine can maintain a high level of combat intensity and the mounting level of Russian losses continues in 2024, it will be much harder for the Russian army to maintain its military power for offensive operations in 2025. That means the conventional Russian military threat to states other than Ukraine will become much more limited.

Read more here: https://www.eurasiareview.com/25032024 ... nalysis/