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Whack https://www.yahoo.com/news/special-operations-forces-destroy-expensive-153703526.html

Or not. The targets could be in rear areas responsible for moving material across the front if needed. This would hit Russia’s ability to respond to a breakthrough in any area of the front. The actual target area may not become noticeable till literally right beforehand. (And could be a feint) Limit the Russian ability to shift in response. The first hint that the UA is getting ready would be I would think a concerted effort to degrade whatever iSR Russia still has.

Ruh roh may have to delay the next terror bombing https://news.yahoo.com/massive-explosion-crimea-destroyed-russian-132308393.html

Yes he did. I bow to superior response abilities. My excuse is I am sitting at the airport waiting for them to replace our plane. And here it comes from the hanger. Damn this one looks crappy. Needs a paint job for sure and I’m a bit nervous about the more important components. Maybe I’ll see if they can get some African swallows to help it gain lift.

It is neither. Just a couple guys banging coconuts ninja’d by yet. Good job my man.

This meeting should be interesting, it is the first and likely only meeting where Putin is clearly not the alpha dog and also can't play any of his antagonistic mind games. Xi is in the driver's seat and Putin will need to basically follow Xi's direction or risk complete isolation. This has to be extremely uncomfortable for a person of his temperament. Good thing that table is so long, maybe Xi won't see him squirming.

one thing that kind of catches me in the last few dozen pages or more (okay a lot more at how fast this thread grows) is how laser focused we are on the frontline battles in a few locations trying to analyze force loss ratios etc and watching videos of folks at the squad level and how intense the fighting is. From that we seem to be trying to extrapolate a whole strategic scenario. This seems to be a pretty poor way to try and build a picture knowing as we do that Ukraine has been given a lot of long-distance strike capability to target Russian logistics, command infrastructure and critical nodes for defensive capabilities (AD, EW, comms etc). The reporting on this would have to come from higher level sources which to credit the UA are very quiet. If Kharkiv taught us anything it should be that the UA is not going to telegraph their real plans. Personally, I am more of the mind to be patient, not try and analyze how each and every individual squad size confrontation has gone or how many inches of progress the Russians might have made today. We likely have a couple of months for both the weather and UA preparations to reach a point they feel they are ready. in the meantime, they'll continue to hit RA critical infrastructure degrading the RA capability to respond when an offensive does get launched. While China may be looking to provide the RA with military supplies, as @The_Captkeeps pointing out, the ability to integrate a lot of the technical stuff simply doesn't exist within the current Russian forces. Yeah they might impact some local capability, but if and when the UA dislodges the front, I don't expect that to help RA do much more than what they did in Kharkiv- run for the border. Trying to organize those mobiks in a counteroffensive seems to be really far-fetched.

speaking from personal experience?

posted that a few pages back. It sucks but it isn't the first time, won't be the last. They had it back in Feb 2022.

this was too funny not to post Russia's Wagner army is recruiting fighters on Pornhub in a desperate attempt to strengthen troops, report says (yahoo.com)

Bil is gonna have to correct you again and it isn't dinner time.

I was referring to the Russian plane getting shot down. I don't think they'd get close enough to the AWACS.

Deadly explosion rips through spy agency building in Russia (yahoo.com)

pretty much. Not sure how we went from a drone over the black sea to an attack on NATO aircraft in NATO airspace in a single breath. First off I doubt Russian aircraft would even get to take one down. They'd get shot down and then Russia could complain about how an accidental overflight blah blah blah.

can't he just wait for a Russian AFV to come trundling along? Safer (for UA) that way.

time to provide them a fighter escort.

The Danger of Russia Becoming President of the U.N. Security Council (yahoo.com)

as @The_Capt said "all roads lead to CMCW"

somehow, I think that meme of kids saying, "are we there yet?" originated from your parents.

who knew CMCW might become the game to depict 2023 fighting. Leo 1 and T62s

can't we just deport this guy to Russia? He can then sit down with Shoigu and plan the great offensive.

The Russians are too busy New Russian army unit sent to find soldiers lost in chaos of faltering offensive (yahoo.com)

Sorry I was referring to the folks heading back to Russia.

@Haiduk you hear anything on this topic? Outskirts of Bakhmut littered with corpses of Russians, and collaborators are fleeing to Russia – Ukrainian official (yahoo.com) Oleksii Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC), has said that the outskirts of Bakhmut are littered with corpses of Russian invaders, and no one takes them away.