Panserjeger

Well, none of the reasons Putin gave for invading makes much sense to us in the West, but it seems to resonate at home..

OFFICIAL ANSWER OF UKRAINE ON FT INFORMATION
This is a draft of Russian side wishes. No more. We have own position. 
 
Looks like Russian information pressure. 
 
 

"something something russian was ambushed" several times a day - journos seem to be painting that map red with a wrong kind of paint, if you know what I mean

@John Kettler, you asked for resources for ID'ing Russian equipment. I found a good resource on tanks here:
https://tankrecognition.blogspot.com/2022/03/ukrainian-conflict-tank-recognition.html
This is the video that the website summarizes:
EDIT: A Twitter thread on how to ID AD assets:
Regards,
Pål 

@John Kettler, you asked for resources for ID'ing Russian equipment. I found a good resource on tanks here:
https://tankrecognition.blogspot.com/2022/03/ukrainian-conflict-tank-recognition.html
This is the video that the website summarizes:
EDIT: A Twitter thread on how to ID AD assets:
Regards,
Pål 

@John Kettler, you asked for resources for ID'ing Russian equipment. I found a good resource on tanks here:
https://tankrecognition.blogspot.com/2022/03/ukrainian-conflict-tank-recognition.html
This is the video that the website summarizes:
EDIT: A Twitter thread on how to ID AD assets:
Regards,
Pål 

GODDAMMIT SBURKE STFU!  yes, Kettler double posts.  he is older and in ill health.  WTF is your excuse for posting about every double post he does?  Do you see how that immediately doubles the wasted space?  then kettler responds, tripling the pointlessness.   Do you not have a the ability to ignore or skim past something you've already see?  Jeebus, get a f-ing grip.  (And then I respond here, adding to the wasted space ) 
How about if someone double posts we all just ignore because we've already seen it?  Instead of adding more useless BS to what is otherwise the best source of UKR war info around.  And remember that folks are in different time zones and might have 5 pages to skim through from the night before.  So folks might miss stuff.

North (let's put both Kyiv and Kharkiv in here) was a priority target for russians - because in their imagination taking Kyiv or taking the "capital" of the original faux "people's republic" russians created in 1918 and bringing back Yanukovich would heavily demoralize and break whatever small pockets of resistance there would be, while mobilizing those imaginary millions of pro-russian collaborators waiting for Russia to come and save them.
Hence the North was chosen to be the most heavily defended and rightfully so - most elite russian troops died there. So because of it being the most defended - russians are regularly routed in there.
In Donbass region army was to hold off an attack, which it did generally well.
South is mostly steppe, no forests, very hard to defend and was not a top priority - mostly national guard and territorial defense was there, not so much an army - even then russians won only pyrrhic victories - as a result their push to Odessa failed and seems to be off the table atm and they ran out of breath at Mariupol as well when they encountered a veteran army for the first time (Azov) - where they hope to just break it by going fully genocidal.
Kherson thus far is the only regional center they gained any control of (out of 21, Luhansk and Donetsk being obvious excluded) - even so - the local populace refuses to accept them and it's a very "light" occupation right now, they don't have enough holding force there.
So I'd say take an overall strategic picture into consideration - was it worth taking Kherson by losing 5000-6000 men dead, 15-18k wounded, half a hundred combat planes, hundreds of tanks, more than a thousand APCs and either broken or heavily fatigued invasion force in most directions, as well as economical and political disaster?
Also going by western stats they basically lost 12%-15% of the whole invasion force in two weeks, vast majority of losses are the best units they had. Traded for a city that holds no political value.

The memes keep on coming 🙂
 
 

No one expects the Spanish Instalanza.

Chinese, american and russian travel on a train.

Chinese pulls out an iphone13, plays with it for a bit then throws it out of the window. 
Everybody else: but why?
Chinese: meh, I have lots of this **** at home.

American then drinks half of his Starbucks cup of coffee and throws the rest out of the window.
Everybody else: but why?
American: meh, I have lots of this **** at home.

Russian then silently throws out of a window:
Personnel - 12000
Combat airplanes - 49
Helicopters - 81
Tanks - 335
APCs - 1107
Air defence pcs - 61
Artillery pcs - 120
Transport vehicles - 544

Nothing wrong with Ukrainian morale though
 

It also resembles the psychological advantage the Germans had over Allied armour in WW2. The rumours of the top-down attack of the Javelin might explain why so many Russian tanks are seemingly abandoned by their crews. There are several videos of a couple of knocked-out tanks together with other undamaged but abandoned tanks. Along with potentially running of of fuel of course.

Nothing wrong with Ukrainian morale though
 

Nothing wrong with Ukrainian morale though
 

Nothing wrong with Ukrainian morale though
 

Nothing wrong with Ukrainian morale though
 

Nothing wrong with Ukrainian morale though
 

This is one thing - so called "Russian great-state chauvinism". Russian ideology (in Russian Empire times, or in modern Russia) rejects any thought that Ukrainians are separate nation with own hystory, language and culture. Any ideas about Ukranian statehood, independent from Russian influence summons in Russia the flow of angry. Russian ideology confess a conception of "Trynity nation of Holy Rus" - Great Russians or "Velikorosy" (Russians), Minor-Russians or "Malorosy" (Ukrainians) and Belorussians (Belarusian). Russians recognized some diffrences between them, but like minor details. For example, Ukrainian languge for them is just "rural southern Russian dialect, junked with Polonisms". So, since 17th century, Moscovian tsars, Russian emperors, Soviet leaders always opressed Ukranians, trying to turn them into Russians or later in some sort of denationalized "Soviet people". They denied Ukrainan language, repressed our cultural figures, we had many wars with Moscovia since 14 century and three in last 100 years, including the current. 
They consider independent, pro-western Ukraine as direct threat to Russia and their "trinity nation ideology". Russia consider itself like a heir of Ancient Rus' (but Rus' is not a Russia!), but there is one big problem. Hystorical core of Ancient Rus' is Ukraine - Kyiv, Chernihiv. From Kyiv the Rus' was baptized. Kyiv alredy existed, when on the place of the Moscow there was a swamps. Without Ukraine Russian conception is flawed. 
From there are weird theories, that "Ukraine ideology was invented by Austo-Hugarians (like variant by Poles) to destroy unite Russian nation". Putin tells almost the same - as if the West created modern Ukraine like "anti-Russia project"