BornGinger

Doesn't Krasnoyartsev mean "Someone from Krasnoyar (or possibly Krasnoyarsk)"?

It was very much the same during WW2 as it is now. The flight officer was pointing with his stick on a map and told the bomber crew that they should bomb this or that city after which the bomber crew went into their plane. The one that was keeping an eye on the ground below waited until he saw what he was waiting for and when they were over the lit up city he told the boss that it was time to open the belly of the plane to let the iron rain fall down to kill. So it was just as much murder then as it is now. And the bomber crew wanted to give the "damned crauts" what they thought the "crauts" deserved.

There are free programs that work similarly to Powerpoint they can use. I have one on my computer. I unfortunately don't remember what it's called at the moment.

You do know about the saying which goes "A lie, a damned lie and statistics". It seems that the "research" done by this so called Research Group Russian Field isn't correct. They have apparently asked 2000 individuals by the use of the phone which isn't a correctly done research. And it wouldn't surprise me if they have talked to 2000 individuals that don't really know anything about what is happening in Ukraine or have asked other especially chosen 2000 individuals. If they had asked at least 500 000 from different parts of Russia and of different ages the result of people supporting the war would most likely have been much less. So this "research" is Russian propaganda which only those Ukrainians believe is true that want to find proof that Russians hate them.

Your swear words didn't offend me. I was just joking. I don't care about which words people use here.

Mind your language. Too ugly hoodies and stickers on that page. I rather use my money to buy stuff which are being sent to the refugees in Poland which we have done through work.

It's much likely that certain officers knew about this in good time. But that doesn't have to mean that ordinary privates were aware of what was about to happen. As many Russian soldiers have surrendered to the defenders and some have abandoned their vehicles could mean that they understood a bit late what they had been sent to do and decided that "No way that I'm going to fight the ukrainians" We'll find out when this is all over and Russian soldiers have been interviewed by Ukrainian officers and non-Russian journalists.

To see those Kadyrovci walk by like that in the video reminded me of the orcs walking around in Mordor in the film The return of the king. They're just as ugly and walk in a similar way.

There have been demonstrations against leaders in many countries and politicians have done what they can to remove the leader they don't like. That is all according to the law. If later on USA or Russia, or another country, is removing the leader in a non-lawful way just to put their puppet on the throne won't make things better. And even if the people would revolt and imprison or kill the hated leader and put a loved new leader in the office, there's always the possibility that bankers and businessmen will "convince" him to go back to the former way of leading the country. Just look at what has happened in history where there was a revolt and the bad leader was removed. The new one(s) didn't make life better for the people.

These pictures of the Z on Russian vehicles make me think of the character Zorglub in the comics about Spirou. The picture below shows Zorglub and his men.

You can say this about many countries. People vote for a leader who is promising something, and maybe even has good intentions, and later on that leader, and his government, is "convinced" by business men and bankers to follow another way in how to lead the country. Or people are voting for A but B is using certain methods to make sure he wins. So that Putin has been the Russian president for almost 20 years, except for the short time when he was a Prime, and later on decided that he should be leader for life, or whatever decision that was made some years ago, and politicians were bribed or threatened to allow that can't be blaimed on the common drab in the country.

Kremlin minister tells disarmament conference Russia was forced to invade Ukraine to 'stop them getting nuclear weapons' Russia is almost 20 years late with their talk about weapons of mass destruction and should have understood that just as no one believed USA when they used that week reason for their attack on Iraq no one would believe Russia today for attacking Ukraine of that same reason. Especially week is this claim after Putin's words, if the attack had resulted in a quick victory, have gone public in which he says that the reasons for the attack was the unifying of Belorussia, Russia and Ukraine in a slavic Grand Russia.

I wonder how much one of these molotov cocktail bottles from the Pravda Brewery in Lviv will go for on Ebay after this war is over? As most of them are being thrown on Russian armoured vehicles there will probably not be many left when this is all over. Maybe those of you who live fairly close to Lviv should take a trip just to get some of those bottles and keep them somewhere safe for a few years before putting them up for sale? Read about them here.

So it's much cheaper for the rest of us to be tourists in St. Petersburg, Moscow and other places in Russia when this war is over of course. Those who import Russian women to get a beautiful wife which is prepared to wash his clothes and prepare his food while he watches sport on the telly won't have to worry about going to the gym or having a shower every so often. He could probably import a whole harem while he's at it while the innocent civilians in Russia are suffering from a bad economy and sanctions from USA, EU and different countries.

That would not be a good decision. If NATO is sending in troops to keep a route open to ensure that military equipment reaches Ukraine they are also actively supporting Ukraine in this war with soldiers. Although UN hasn't been very good in their so called "peace keeping" missions, it's probably their duty to be a buffert, or what it's called, between two waring parties. But they too can't of course make sure that the military equipment arrive safely as that would be the same as picking a side and they are supposed to be a neutral buffert, or wedge, between the two parties. I would think that the volunteers from different countris enters Ukraine from Poland and might have the duty to make this route as safe as possible. It seems that the game Black Sea needs to have Belorussia as the ally to Russia in a new module. Ukraine already has USA as its ally in the game so it's only fair, and as we now know correct, that Russia has Belorussia as their ally.

I wonder what old Finnish veterans from the 1939-1940 Winter War has to say about this conflict? It seems a bit that the Russian soldiers in this conflict are having the same result as the Soviet-Russian troops had in the beginning of the Winter War and that the Ukrainians are fighting with a similar "Sisu" (fighting spirit) as the Finnish soldiers had.

It's correct that the Soviet-Russian soldiers managed to reach Berlin and other parts of Germany. But I watched a documentary about the war in which Soviet veterans, now old geezers, talked about how they despised the Soviet-Russian generals (and Soviet-Ukrainian generals too) for how they used the common soldier as their chess pieces so they could send a successful report to the Stavka. In the Chechnya war in the '90s the Russian generals used the same tactics when they tried to storm Groznyi, the capital of Chechnya, with the result of many dead and wounded Russian soldiers. If I remember correctly they assaulted Groznyi twice or three times with great losses. I don't know much about the Soviet tactics in the Afghan war, but it was probably the same kind of assaults used in that war. When I lived in Estonia in the late '90s early 21 century I talked to some veterans from that war and they were almost always talking badly about their officers. So, yes, they got results but I don't think they have a good reason to be really proud about the tactics used. So it doesn't surprise me if they use the same Soviet-type tactics today.

So what Putin in his statement is talking about as the reason for this conflict is a fantasy to restore the "Belorussian-Russian-Ukrainian-Slavic" people's unity as one nation and one people and restore the core of the Russian people into one large Great Russia. This could be compared to what Hitler and the German government of the '30s wanted to do and actually did when they annexed parts of Czechoslovakia, Sudetenland, and made Austria the south-eastern part of the German Reich. The difference is that many Germans and German speaking people in those areas actually wanted to be a part of Germany. What I understand from what I have read about the conflict in Ukraine, many Russians living in Ukraine don't want to belong to Russia but want Ukraine to be an independent state and Ukrainians definitelly want to be independent from Russia. Some Russians in Ukraine want to belong to Russia or be an independent small state of Russians in the south-east corner of Ukraine (like a mini ukraine to Ukraine - based on that the name Ukraine comes from the word "krai" which in Russian means "corner"). But that is of course not reason enough to copy what Germany did in the '30s and try to force the rest of the country to become a part of a Great Russia. I wonder how many people that were used to write that statement in an attempt to have the Russian citisens "ok" this conflict.

That could be the subject for a homemade scenario for this game by one of you fellows that owns it. Russian troops try to stop the delivery of weapons and other equipment from Rzeszow to Lviv and the Ukrainians need to keep the route open. C'mon now, folks, you can do it.

Battlefront was the first game company about this kind of conflict. I suspect that others will follow. Maybe we'll se something like "Call of Duty - Project Conflict in Ukraine" and "Battlefield 2022 - Defence of Kyiv".

I wonder whether one of the reasons to the success of the Ukrainian defenders can be that many Russian soldiers don't really want to be there and shoot at defenders that can be viewed as almost the same people as themselves. The report in media about Russian soldiers that avoid shooting at Ukrainian defenders in Kyiv and prefer to run away when they spot them could maybe be based on that some of the Russian soldiers feel that they shouldn't be there although they as soldiers try to do what they are expected to do. It will be interesting to hear what Russian soldiers say about this conflict after a couple of days or weeks when it hopefully has ended.

Russia loves to produce films about the Second World War and they have also made some about the Afghan and Chechen wars. I wonder how many Russian films there will be made about this war? Ukraine has at least a former Miss Ukraine that can be the subject of their next war film which probably would be a popular one.

Seems a bit like a repetition of the German Winter offensive to take Antwerp in December 1944. It goes quite well in the beginning but dies out after a while because of problems with the lack of fuel for the tanks and the roads in the Ardenner region of Belgium not really good for the King Tiger tanks.

Triggers don't work in QBs. QBs only use occupy territory. So all painted areas will become occupy territory when the QB scenario starts. Except for the "face towards" green painted areas and "shoot at" red painted areas.

If you are making a QB yourself you can make the troops face the correct direction on the map by giving each AI-group the Alt-Left Click point in the first AI-order. That should make them turn around and face the Alt-Left Click green point on the map in the start of the QB-scenario. Quick Battles only use occupy territory areas, so all triggers become occupy territory areas or are ignored.