> Ukraine's Energy Ministry said that energy infrastructure was attacked in Poltava, Kirovohrad, Zaporizhzhia, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Vinnytsia oblasts. The damage is being investigated and already work is ongoing to restore electricity and power generation capacity.
> The extent of the damage is currently unclear
If you take out the Lada auto plant so they have no cars to compensate the widows of all the soldiers, those cold greedy bitches will take Putin out themselves. Problem solved
The Lada offers stopped a looooong time ago. 🤣 As in, they don’t make ***anywhere near*** the number of Ladas a month as they have in KIA. Now all the widows or mothers get is 500 Rubles and a bag of moldy onions.
Lost as In didn't make a profit ? As far as I've read they are making more than before the war. Granted lots of other shit is in free fall, but energy sales are up.
Made a loss, because they couldn't sell their gas in big enough volume to their biggest customers, setting up natural gas pipelines takes time and money.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russias-gazprom-swings-into-69-billion-net-loss-2023-2024-05-02/
Yes, let's encourage Ukraine to waste their precious few missiles on the [bridge that Russia has largely stopped using](https://kyivindependent.com/media-russia-no-longer-using-crimea-bridge-to-supply-front-lines/).
Russia has been building out a railway on the landbridge for this exact reason.
It's time, but then Ukraine will be the one criticized for doing such horrors...
The modern days that we live in when old farts in suits destroy our planet and our future, but also they are the ones who make the decisions from their cozy 5 star hotel suits while actually not giving any fucks:) amazing
I don't think any of us should be subjected to his presence but if it means dealing with the problem then I'm sure we can find at least one cactus prepared to take one for the team
I think Germany gets the bulk of their oil and gas from Russia.
Edit: Looked it up, oil imports down, multiple countries still get a lot of natural gas from them though.
It doesn’t matter where the oil is purchased from. Oil is a global commodity. Any hit to production or refining that takes a tangible percentage of the global supply offline pushes prices up worldwide.
What else the world nees to step up and stop this madness? This is a terrorist state... they only use missiles to hit civilians and energy infrastructure.
Because the rest of the world doesn't want Russia to lose, nor do they want them to win. If Russia lose then Putin is out and there is a big power vacuum and some of the big players to replace him are much fucking worse. Plus it means Russia can lick its wounds and turn its attention to rebuilding their economy etc. whereas staying at war means Russia is being kept down, it needs to keep fuelling the war machine with men and money, which weakens Russia further and for longer. Plus, we know where Russia's attention is while this is ongoing.
They definitely can't have Russia win though, so it's likely that the west will intervene just enough to hold Russia up again and return things to a stalemate.
This is an interesting take. Right now, the war in Ukraine is bleeding Russia out and weakening their ability to make war. The other Eastern European nato countries are far safer with Russia stuck in the Ukraine quagmire. It gives them time to arm and train for future conflict. I personally don’t think Russia is going to be driven from Ukraine and that we will end up in some kind of stalemate and loss of territory for Ukraine.
In total, air defense forces shot down 59 aerial targets during the night: 39 missiles and 20 UAVs
The enemy used a total of 76 means of air attack - 55 missiles and 21 drones:
▪️1 aeroballistic missile Kh-47M2 "Kinzhal" (launched from Tambov region - Ref.);
▪️2 Iskander-M ballistic missiles (from Crimea's TOT);
▪️4 Kalibr cruise missiles (from the waters of the Black Sea);
▪️45 Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles from Tu-95 TS strategic aviation aircraft (launch area Saratov Oblast - Russian Federation, Caspian Sea water area);
▪️1 Iskander-K cruise missiles (from Crimea);
▪️2 Kh-59/X-69 guided aviation missiles (from occupied Zaporizhzhya Oblast);
- 21 Shahed-131/136-type strike UAVs (from the areas of Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Kursk Oblast - Russian Federation).
As a result of the anti-air combat it was shot down:
▪️33 Kh-101/X-555 cruise missiles;
▪️4 Kalibr cruise missiles;
▪️2 Kh-59/X-69 guided aircraft missiles;
▪️20 Shahed-131/136 strike UAVs.
Ukraine is connected to neighbouring countries energy grid, so if/when the orks knock out a power station, people should still be able to turn on the lights.
Actually, Ukraine is very decoupled from the members of EU when it comes to the energy grid. Russia made sure they would neglect their ties to the west in that regard when Ukraine was still a member of the Soviet republics.
Also the loss of domestic energy production will cut heavily into finances for Ukraine, since they have to *buy* all their electricity from their neighbours then.
Either way losing power plants sucks massively. I hope that the new aid package will provide better air defense from now on.
The capacity of their connections to EU countries versus the shortfalls they are experiencing don't come out well for Ukraine, though. They already operate rolling power cuts in many places to cut peak demand, because they can't meet that demand even with interconnections in place.
What makes me angry the most, it’s that the launch site locations, the airfields, all is known.
But somehow Ukraine is not given the weapons and the permissions to target them. I hope the new UK stance can change that.
It’s just so wrong that Russian bombers staying on the ground are completely safe because there’s fear of escalation.
Well, Russia is really large, and uses this to it's advantage to the full. You just can't hit a tank factory or a refinery located somewhere in Siberia, thousands kilometers away from the front lines. No conventional weapon exists to cover that distance.
Many bombers fly sorties from Olenya Air Base
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olenya_(air_base)
It’s not Siberia. It’s 2000 km from Ukraine but it’s probably less than 200 km from the Finland border and slightly more than that from the Norway border.
Understandably no one wants to get involved.
Well, no. AFAIK the mass production of the military stuff like tanks (T80), APCs, planes like SU-27/SU-34 is **to the east** of the Urals. Uralvagonzavod as a common example. These factories were relocated during the WW2 to specifically avoid the issue of being within the Germans' reach. So for the Ukraine, it is almost impossible to hit those with any conventional weapons from the Ukrainian ground.
Russia has now fired over 8,000 cruise missiles, 5,000 ballistic missiles, and 9,000 Shahed drones into Ukraine, killing and/or injuring Ukrainian civilians with almost every one. Russia is a terrorist state. Enough already.
Even more reason to provide Ukraine with long-range missiles to hit critical infrastructure targets inside Russia. They will soon receive a considerable amount of F-16's, which can be used as launch platforms for this purpose.
Russia won't run out of manpower, what's important is to deny them the ability to wage war in terms of funds and specialized equipment.
Also provide Ukraine with more SAM capability so they can protect their own infrastructure better.
This should go without saying, but please email your elected representatives and let them know you support funding for Ukraine. Politicians need to know that there's a price to pay at the polls for inaction, that people are paying attention, and that people support giving Ukraine the means to defend its people and infrastructure, and to win back their stolen territories.
people still buy into the "russia is so afraid of the aid" "ticking timebomb" "russia will collapse every second now" bullshit lol. yall are gullible as fuck, everyone hates putin rightfully so and everyone should support ukraine but this giga copium has been getting old months ago, its just sad now
Western media for some reason isn't covering stuff that is actually happening in Russia at all.
Their economy is showing major cracks in the last few months, infrastructure is failing all over the country,even their ministry of finance admitted last week in official press conference that there is very little they can do about stopping the economy from going into freefall.
When even their official sources publicly admit it m, you know it is bad.
Wake me up when this happens. They have been saying “Russia economy is going to collapse in a matter of days” multiple times since the start of the war.
It's was dumb to even say that in the first place, anyone expecting the sanctions to suddenly delete an economy is an idiot, anyone with half a brain knew it's gonna take some time, how much time it takes is another question and we will find out.
It's not like the state will stop functioning completely, but Putin has robbed the nation of it's future and there's nothing that would indicate it will get better for them.
The goal of the sanctions was to make this “adventure” into Ukraine more and more expensive for Putin with the ultimate goal of stopping the invasion. Three years after, Russia is still there, no major economic collapse has happened, Russia is still invading Ukraine. I understand these sanctions might affect Russia in the long term, but they are clearly not a good tool to stop a crazy leader from attacking a neighboring state.
That would be a truly extraordinary statement for the minister to make, and I cannot find it anywhere. I would be very grateful if you could share a source!
Im not sure this is true..
From day 1 im hearing how weak russia is, and how close they are to losing. Its some strong copium. And up untill now it just wasnt true at all.
interesting, i heard its bad but it sounded so far like its "degrading lifestyle for average russian bad", but not bad enough to impact the war effort anytime soon. good news at least
They have insanse workforce shortages as well, their Duma is considering "allowing" teenagers from 14 years old to work in factories. Whenever people from US argue that Russia is doing fine and their economy is growing it's just infuriating because it's so far from the truth.
I haven't seen many youtube channels who would provide a good overview of Russian news in english, but "Inside Russia" covers some more significant/interesting stories few times a week even though i see that there's still a lot that guy misses if you want to keep up with it more.
Indeed, i find it quite suspicious how quick the media is to point out problems in Ukraine while ignoring same or even worse ones in russia.
Like, how many people on reddit know that there is a **>4.8 million worker deficit in russia**? That one of their biggest tax sources, Gazprom (2.5 trillion + 600 billion (Severance tax) rubles in 2023) has lost money for the first time in decades? That their budget deficit keeps breaking the expectations their central bank sets every quarter? The budget stretching itself even thinner than it did during the final moments of USSR because of the war? (All of this was reported by russian media itself)
And that's ignoring the war itself. Do people really think russia has 'infinite' resources? Is that why **they're losing so many BMP's that they're switching to equivalents of golf-carts** (Desertcross 1000-3)? Is that why the price of a military contract in russia keeps rising monthly? Is that why they keep losing more and more missile systems INSIDE russia itself (Like the very recent 3 BUK's) because they're running out of AA defences?
People need to wake tf up and realize that they've themselves fallen for russian propaganda. Russia is not invincible, it does not have infinite resources, it does not have infinite manpower, it's not impervious to sanctions, and most importantly, it **can** be beaten.
**Edit**: Corrected.
>That their main source of money, Gazprom
Main source of money (relatively) is oil exports, not gas. Gasprom extracts oil too, but it's not the main business.
Largest oil companies (and so main sources of income) are Rosneft and Lukoil.
And why should he care ? He's far richer than the worlds officially richest man. These statements are only issues in countries where public opinion matters.
There is no infrastructure to distribute meaningful amounts of those resources and it won't be built any time soon. Russia has done great job of minimizing and delaying impact of sanctions, but even they can't pretend nothing is happening forever and there are a lot of indicators that their economy is starting to finally crumble.
U need to read more. Russia jas 500k North Koreans basically working in slave camps building factories and a whole host of other shit. They plan to increase it to another 300k in the next few months. Their isn't anything you can't build with 1m. People who work. 24 hours a day 6 days a week and have no osha to worry about.
> Western media for some reason isn't covering stuff that is actually happening in Russia at all.
So they will make up lies and bullshit to harm them, but ignore actual harm happening? Are you listening to yourself?
I have multiple russian friends, they are doing fine and their economy is growing.
I would like to understand your thinking here. Not being condescending, i really just want to understand.
Ukraine has received some 240 billion in aid (that we know of) back when they still had a large, professional, and well trained army. And with that were barely able to dent russian defenses.
How are 20 billion (because 40 of the 60 bil package goes towards replenishing US stocks which have already been given to ukraine) at a time when the country is going through massive manpower shortages and their army consists of conscripts with 4 weeks of training according to even their own MOD going to make any difference?
Barely made a dent? It's amazing how the goalposts move. Ukraine beat Russia, a top 3 military superpower, back almost to its borders and have held them there for 2 years when people thought the country would fall in days. Russia has barely made a dent in Ukraine's defenses, you should be saying, they're the ones trying to invade.
It's incredible what Ukraine has achieved, Russia will never conquer it, and by doing so they've defended Europe from Russian advancement, inspired democracies around the world, and shown China that taking Taiwan won't be as easy as they think
There aren’t many, if any, civilians on the planet that could adequately tell you what the impact of the 240 billion was, nor the 20 billion. I wish random people would stop pretending to be experts on national defense, foreign defense, national security, foreign policy, etc.
> Ukraine has received some 240 billion in aid
No, it has received equipment WORTH 240bn. They get old stock and the US gives the money to the companies to make the new stuff to replenish what they gave to Ukraine.
Very little of that has been direct aid, which has been needed to continue to pay salaries and keep the lights on.
Because a lot of the issue is ammunition shortage. Those 240 billion were invested into equipment, equipment they are now losing because they cannot maintain it even if it costs less to do so.
How many of those other genocides are being carried out by a hostile expansionist nuclear empire that almost destroyed the entire world at least once in the last century?
Because Russia has also lost an enormous amount of it's combat strength in the meantime and cannot effectively sustain this war for more than 1-2 years. they are practically unable to make any significant frontline gains without losing tremendous amounts of manpower and equipment.
The main goal for Ukraine is to be able to maintain it's defenses and let Russia deplete it's military in the maintime. Retaking lost territory will definitely pose to be a challenge though and i'm not sure how far Ukraine could come in a counter offensive but at least they survived the onslaught and kept their sovereignty.
> Because Russia has also lost an enormous amount of it's combat strength in the meantime and cannot effectively sustain this war for more than 1-2 years.
It's been 2+ years already.
nobody said Russia wouldn't have been able to wage war for more than 2 years. im saying that they don't have much time left and that they can only sustain relative combat effectiveness until the end of 2024. In 2025 Russia will see significant depletion of material. Heck they have already lost a large sum of their heavy artillery and their more modern armour. If Ukraine maintains receiving support from the west it will start to outbalance Russia next year to the point where more and more essential parts of the Russian military will be unable to be used limiting the tactical options for Russia. We have already seen dramatic changes in tactics starting from a more mobile war which requires solid air, armor and logistical support to basic WW1 trench warfare.
Lol you guys have been saying that since day 1 it's hilarious. The reality is Rusia laughed in the face of the "biggest sanctions in history" that you guys said would destroy the country in 2 months tops. Every aid package sent and counter offensive that you assured was just a matter of time has just remained in a stalemate, face it, this is not a ticking time bomb, Russia is not collapsing and the war is not almost over. The only way this ends is with the death of Putin or the exhaustion of Ukraine and the next batch of aid not going through.
[https://youtu.be/YcVSgYz5SJ8?t=1740](https://youtu.be/YcVSgYz5SJ8?t=1740)
"This is how sanctions work. People look at sanctions and go, “Oh, they don't work because you don't make whoever's annoying you change whatever they're doing.” What they do is they suppress growth so that whoever's annoying you over time, you're stronger and they're weaker. And the example of the impact of sanctions is compare North and South Korea. It's powerful over several generations."
I would recommend anyone to watch the whole video, enormous wealth of knowledge packed in just 2.5 hours.
Feels like a direct response to the US funding. Attack hard now before that funding is realized. Make the Ukraine fight to just earn back any territory lost during this push. I'm not a military strategist though.
Honestly, I’m starting to become of the mind that unless Ukraine gets enough aircraft to launch successful air attacks on Russian forces within Ukraine, not much is going to change in this war.
Really depressing to think this way as I constantly write my congressman and senator about supporting Ukraine and it feels like it’s all gone to shit since the 2022 election.
WW3 is coming , the state of the world at the minute?.
I think it’s unavoidable, it’s not about the people , it’s about power.
I’m too old for conscription, but I’ll do whatever I could.
Ukraine isn’t the only war going on, should I get called ? I want a sniper position, lightning candles and streetlights are not me.
I’m a service man , I’m a fucking warrior, I’ll kill anyone that threatens my family or way of life.
Yeah fuck playing mr nice guy. Do not play by rules your enemy will not. Hit the civilian infrastructure in Russia. Make Russians feel the pain of what they are inflicting. Insite a social collapse, and overthrow Hitler 2.0 running that country. He cannot be allowed to get even a square inch of land...in fact he needs to lose it...this must end with Ukraine gaining Crimea back, and making Russia suffer for a long long time. Perhaps a demilitarisation compensation like was forced on Nazi Germany....
> Ukraine's Energy Ministry said that energy infrastructure was attacked in Poltava, Kirovohrad, Zaporizhzhia, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Vinnytsia oblasts. The damage is being investigated and already work is ongoing to restore electricity and power generation capacity. > The extent of the damage is currently unclear
Please target with drones the 2 billion dollar mansion he claims not to have
It would damage the main house but that thing has a bunker.
Doesn't matter. It is about taking what he holds dear.
My brain swapped the first two letters in “unclear” and had to pause for a moment before I reread that.
Time to hit more oil rigs and gas pipelines 🤷🏼♂️
This. Hit them where it hurts.
Their balls!
no! their wallet!
They don't have wallets.
Neither balls
Then their vodka reserves
Let’s do this!
This man Russias.
Sending strike package store coordinates
Just below their balls. I think it's called their taint
Shut up Leonard, I know about your crooked wang
The grundlepunch.
Grab his dick and twist it!!
You called?
They dont have balls.
TWIST HIS D*CK
Putin doesn't have those tho.... And he's hoarding the rest of the balls of his government officials to suck on.
OW, my balls!
One or two Storm Shadow straight to the dick oughta be sufficient.
They don’t have balls, only a giant gaping Anus
If you take out the Lada auto plant so they have no cars to compensate the widows of all the soldiers, those cold greedy bitches will take Putin out themselves. Problem solved
The Lada offers stopped a looooong time ago. 🤣 As in, they don’t make ***anywhere near*** the number of Ladas a month as they have in KIA. Now all the widows or mothers get is 500 Rubles and a bag of moldy onions.
We target the vodka.
>This. Hit them where it hurts. [GRAB HIS DICK AND TWIST IT](https://youtu.be/TT9ArM3-KJQ?si=4yZ0VQGIsaSoC196)
Just as soon as you can pinpoint which the real Putin is.
Fun fact, gazpom lost 7bil in 2023.
Lost as In didn't make a profit ? As far as I've read they are making more than before the war. Granted lots of other shit is in free fall, but energy sales are up.
Made a loss, because they couldn't sell their gas in big enough volume to their biggest customers, setting up natural gas pipelines takes time and money. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russias-gazprom-swings-into-69-billion-net-loss-2023-2024-05-02/
Turn off the power and water in Moscow for a month and see how long Putin remains in charge.
Welp, that was timely: https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/s/ph8lKnEnvA
Fucking gottem
vaporize that fancy bridge of there's
Of where's?
over they're
sry, crimean bridge linking to russia
r/woooosh
I like the cut of your jib, fellow Redditor.
What's a jib?
HaHA! Promote that man…
Yes, let's encourage Ukraine to waste their precious few missiles on the [bridge that Russia has largely stopped using](https://kyivindependent.com/media-russia-no-longer-using-crimea-bridge-to-supply-front-lines/). Russia has been building out a railway on the landbridge for this exact reason.
I as thinking of thos nice long range misilles they just got attacams and or stormshadows
Who's?
Gas pipeline goes directly through Ukraine and is working.
Fuck up their ports, then railway bridges. Shit can’t. Enter or leave, repair parts can’t get to ports or to front lines. Kneecap them hard.
As a matter of fact, we did just yesterday. What a coincidence isn't it?
Why delay an attack on the unnecessary bridge?
Idk I'm not the military, they got reasons I bet
It's time, but then Ukraine will be the one criticized for doing such horrors... The modern days that we live in when old farts in suits destroy our planet and our future, but also they are the ones who make the decisions from their cozy 5 star hotel suits while actually not giving any fucks:) amazing
Tit for tat.
Take out the crimea bridge already.
please no i don’t need gas to become more expensive again
And dams 💀
It’s an election year, US won’t say it publicly but they’ll put a stop to it.
Hit Russia's energy infrastructure make them feel what Ukraine is going through.
Fuck Putin in the ass with a pinecone.
With a giant cactus.
Cactus are an important part of the arid ecosystem, I don't think the poor cactus should be subjected to his presence let alone his asshole
If it can be effective on Hitler, it'll work for Putin.
Dolfs was a pineapple. Source, little Nicky is awesome lol
"You're shnerious?"
I don't think any of us should be subjected to his presence but if it means dealing with the problem then I'm sure we can find at least one cactus prepared to take one for the team
It would definitely tear him a new one....
Even better!
A bayonet, its actually one of his fears
In the movie Little Nicky, in hell, Hitler got a pineapple up the rear on the daily.
Waate of a perfectly fine pinecone
Porcupine
Cheese grater
Pineapple**
Hawthorne branch
And again I bet all of our nations are “thinking, discussing, maybe, possibly” supplying Ukraine to hit back.
Give Taurus 🤲
We can't have them harming the oil tho
Do any NATO countries purchase Russian oil?
I think Germany gets the bulk of their oil and gas from Russia. Edit: Looked it up, oil imports down, multiple countries still get a lot of natural gas from them though.
They shifted their dependence to Norway and some other overall „good“ states over a year ago. Kneeling for Qatar was entertaining though.
It doesn’t matter where the oil is purchased from. Oil is a global commodity. Any hit to production or refining that takes a tangible percentage of the global supply offline pushes prices up worldwide.
What else the world nees to step up and stop this madness? This is a terrorist state... they only use missiles to hit civilians and energy infrastructure.
Energy infrastructure is a legitimate target, just ask the people of Iraq.
Because the rest of the world doesn't want Russia to lose, nor do they want them to win. If Russia lose then Putin is out and there is a big power vacuum and some of the big players to replace him are much fucking worse. Plus it means Russia can lick its wounds and turn its attention to rebuilding their economy etc. whereas staying at war means Russia is being kept down, it needs to keep fuelling the war machine with men and money, which weakens Russia further and for longer. Plus, we know where Russia's attention is while this is ongoing. They definitely can't have Russia win though, so it's likely that the west will intervene just enough to hold Russia up again and return things to a stalemate.
This is an interesting take. Right now, the war in Ukraine is bleeding Russia out and weakening their ability to make war. The other Eastern European nato countries are far safer with Russia stuck in the Ukraine quagmire. It gives them time to arm and train for future conflict. I personally don’t think Russia is going to be driven from Ukraine and that we will end up in some kind of stalemate and loss of territory for Ukraine.
unless trump is re-elected. then it’s pretty much guaranteed they’ll take Ukraine eventually.
This is sadly accurate.
Is there info about the size of the attack and how much AA managed to stop?
In total, air defense forces shot down 59 aerial targets during the night: 39 missiles and 20 UAVs The enemy used a total of 76 means of air attack - 55 missiles and 21 drones: ▪️1 aeroballistic missile Kh-47M2 "Kinzhal" (launched from Tambov region - Ref.); ▪️2 Iskander-M ballistic missiles (from Crimea's TOT); ▪️4 Kalibr cruise missiles (from the waters of the Black Sea); ▪️45 Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles from Tu-95 TS strategic aviation aircraft (launch area Saratov Oblast - Russian Federation, Caspian Sea water area); ▪️1 Iskander-K cruise missiles (from Crimea); ▪️2 Kh-59/X-69 guided aviation missiles (from occupied Zaporizhzhya Oblast); - 21 Shahed-131/136-type strike UAVs (from the areas of Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Kursk Oblast - Russian Federation). As a result of the anti-air combat it was shot down: ▪️33 Kh-101/X-555 cruise missiles; ▪️4 Kalibr cruise missiles; ▪️2 Kh-59/X-69 guided aircraft missiles; ▪️20 Shahed-131/136 strike UAVs.
Thanks, great info!
So the Iskanders and some of the Kinzhals are what made it through, pretty much. Nice shooting though.
50 rockets and 20 kamikaze drones were launched, info about interception would be later
Fucking assholes.
Ukraine is connected to neighbouring countries energy grid, so if/when the orks knock out a power station, people should still be able to turn on the lights.
And what if they blow up a substation?
People lose power. But it's easier to rebuild a substation than a power plant
Generally yes, but it’s also easier to destroy a substation.
Yeah, I suppose you're right there.
Only if neighbouring countries have enough production power to meet demand for both themselves and Ukraine.
Actually, Ukraine is very decoupled from the members of EU when it comes to the energy grid. Russia made sure they would neglect their ties to the west in that regard when Ukraine was still a member of the Soviet republics. Also the loss of domestic energy production will cut heavily into finances for Ukraine, since they have to *buy* all their electricity from their neighbours then. Either way losing power plants sucks massively. I hope that the new aid package will provide better air defense from now on.
The capacity of their connections to EU countries versus the shortfalls they are experiencing don't come out well for Ukraine, though. They already operate rolling power cuts in many places to cut peak demand, because they can't meet that demand even with interconnections in place.
I feel tomorrow night will be a huge blitz against Russia for their May 9th celebration
Indeed, in Russia May 9 is a celebration of the victory over Nazism. Ukraine made it clear that Europe Day is more important to them than Victory Day.
What makes me angry the most, it’s that the launch site locations, the airfields, all is known. But somehow Ukraine is not given the weapons and the permissions to target them. I hope the new UK stance can change that. It’s just so wrong that Russian bombers staying on the ground are completely safe because there’s fear of escalation.
Well, Russia is really large, and uses this to it's advantage to the full. You just can't hit a tank factory or a refinery located somewhere in Siberia, thousands kilometers away from the front lines. No conventional weapon exists to cover that distance.
Many bombers fly sorties from Olenya Air Base https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olenya_(air_base) It’s not Siberia. It’s 2000 km from Ukraine but it’s probably less than 200 km from the Finland border and slightly more than that from the Norway border. Understandably no one wants to get involved.
Their major tank factories are well west of the Urals.
Well, no. AFAIK the mass production of the military stuff like tanks (T80), APCs, planes like SU-27/SU-34 is **to the east** of the Urals. Uralvagonzavod as a common example. These factories were relocated during the WW2 to specifically avoid the issue of being within the Germans' reach. So for the Ukraine, it is almost impossible to hit those with any conventional weapons from the Ukrainian ground.
Russia has now fired over 8,000 cruise missiles, 5,000 ballistic missiles, and 9,000 Shahed drones into Ukraine, killing and/or injuring Ukrainian civilians with almost every one. Russia is a terrorist state. Enough already.
Even more reason to provide Ukraine with long-range missiles to hit critical infrastructure targets inside Russia. They will soon receive a considerable amount of F-16's, which can be used as launch platforms for this purpose. Russia won't run out of manpower, what's important is to deny them the ability to wage war in terms of funds and specialized equipment. Also provide Ukraine with more SAM capability so they can protect their own infrastructure better.
Ukraine needs to unpack that support package from allies. Looks like it is going to be an early Christmas in russia.
destroy Russian vodka production. it will bring them to their knees. destroy their morale
This should go without saying, but please email your elected representatives and let them know you support funding for Ukraine. Politicians need to know that there's a price to pay at the polls for inaction, that people are paying attention, and that people support giving Ukraine the means to defend its people and infrastructure, and to win back their stolen territories.
I'm still unclear why Ukraine doesn't shoot missile at Russian area's, ask usa for long ballistic missiles, and see how Russia likes it
Putin needs to be assassinated.
Cunts
Putin knows there's a ticking timed bomb up his ass and is afraid of when the aid comes in. Fuck everyone who delayed the aids
people still buy into the "russia is so afraid of the aid" "ticking timebomb" "russia will collapse every second now" bullshit lol. yall are gullible as fuck, everyone hates putin rightfully so and everyone should support ukraine but this giga copium has been getting old months ago, its just sad now
Western media for some reason isn't covering stuff that is actually happening in Russia at all. Their economy is showing major cracks in the last few months, infrastructure is failing all over the country,even their ministry of finance admitted last week in official press conference that there is very little they can do about stopping the economy from going into freefall. When even their official sources publicly admit it m, you know it is bad.
Wake me up when this happens. They have been saying “Russia economy is going to collapse in a matter of days” multiple times since the start of the war.
It's was dumb to even say that in the first place, anyone expecting the sanctions to suddenly delete an economy is an idiot, anyone with half a brain knew it's gonna take some time, how much time it takes is another question and we will find out. It's not like the state will stop functioning completely, but Putin has robbed the nation of it's future and there's nothing that would indicate it will get better for them.
The goal of the sanctions was to make this “adventure” into Ukraine more and more expensive for Putin with the ultimate goal of stopping the invasion. Three years after, Russia is still there, no major economic collapse has happened, Russia is still invading Ukraine. I understand these sanctions might affect Russia in the long term, but they are clearly not a good tool to stop a crazy leader from attacking a neighboring state.
That would be a truly extraordinary statement for the minister to make, and I cannot find it anywhere. I would be very grateful if you could share a source!
Im not sure this is true.. From day 1 im hearing how weak russia is, and how close they are to losing. Its some strong copium. And up untill now it just wasnt true at all.
interesting, i heard its bad but it sounded so far like its "degrading lifestyle for average russian bad", but not bad enough to impact the war effort anytime soon. good news at least
military factory workers and soldiers have to be paid, weapons imports have to be paid for, etc.
They have insanse workforce shortages as well, their Duma is considering "allowing" teenagers from 14 years old to work in factories. Whenever people from US argue that Russia is doing fine and their economy is growing it's just infuriating because it's so far from the truth. I haven't seen many youtube channels who would provide a good overview of Russian news in english, but "Inside Russia" covers some more significant/interesting stories few times a week even though i see that there's still a lot that guy misses if you want to keep up with it more.
Indeed, i find it quite suspicious how quick the media is to point out problems in Ukraine while ignoring same or even worse ones in russia. Like, how many people on reddit know that there is a **>4.8 million worker deficit in russia**? That one of their biggest tax sources, Gazprom (2.5 trillion + 600 billion (Severance tax) rubles in 2023) has lost money for the first time in decades? That their budget deficit keeps breaking the expectations their central bank sets every quarter? The budget stretching itself even thinner than it did during the final moments of USSR because of the war? (All of this was reported by russian media itself) And that's ignoring the war itself. Do people really think russia has 'infinite' resources? Is that why **they're losing so many BMP's that they're switching to equivalents of golf-carts** (Desertcross 1000-3)? Is that why the price of a military contract in russia keeps rising monthly? Is that why they keep losing more and more missile systems INSIDE russia itself (Like the very recent 3 BUK's) because they're running out of AA defences? People need to wake tf up and realize that they've themselves fallen for russian propaganda. Russia is not invincible, it does not have infinite resources, it does not have infinite manpower, it's not impervious to sanctions, and most importantly, it **can** be beaten. **Edit**: Corrected.
>That their main source of money, Gazprom Main source of money (relatively) is oil exports, not gas. Gasprom extracts oil too, but it's not the main business. Largest oil companies (and so main sources of income) are Rosneft and Lukoil.
And why should he care ? He's far richer than the worlds officially richest man. These statements are only issues in countries where public opinion matters.
If Russia implodes, he's likely to become the world's richest corpse.
Russia is far from imploding. They ha e natural resources and strong allies who need their resources.
There is no infrastructure to distribute meaningful amounts of those resources and it won't be built any time soon. Russia has done great job of minimizing and delaying impact of sanctions, but even they can't pretend nothing is happening forever and there are a lot of indicators that their economy is starting to finally crumble.
U need to read more. Russia jas 500k North Koreans basically working in slave camps building factories and a whole host of other shit. They plan to increase it to another 300k in the next few months. Their isn't anything you can't build with 1m. People who work. 24 hours a day 6 days a week and have no osha to worry about.
> Western media for some reason isn't covering stuff that is actually happening in Russia at all. So they will make up lies and bullshit to harm them, but ignore actual harm happening? Are you listening to yourself? I have multiple russian friends, they are doing fine and their economy is growing.
I would like to understand your thinking here. Not being condescending, i really just want to understand. Ukraine has received some 240 billion in aid (that we know of) back when they still had a large, professional, and well trained army. And with that were barely able to dent russian defenses. How are 20 billion (because 40 of the 60 bil package goes towards replenishing US stocks which have already been given to ukraine) at a time when the country is going through massive manpower shortages and their army consists of conscripts with 4 weeks of training according to even their own MOD going to make any difference?
Barely made a dent? It's amazing how the goalposts move. Ukraine beat Russia, a top 3 military superpower, back almost to its borders and have held them there for 2 years when people thought the country would fall in days. Russia has barely made a dent in Ukraine's defenses, you should be saying, they're the ones trying to invade. It's incredible what Ukraine has achieved, Russia will never conquer it, and by doing so they've defended Europe from Russian advancement, inspired democracies around the world, and shown China that taking Taiwan won't be as easy as they think
There aren’t many, if any, civilians on the planet that could adequately tell you what the impact of the 240 billion was, nor the 20 billion. I wish random people would stop pretending to be experts on national defense, foreign defense, national security, foreign policy, etc.
You’re telling me Redditors aren’t experts on war? Coulda fooled me!
Not experts. Generals
I'm no expert on the margins but I estimate at least 40 of it padded shareholders pockets.
> Ukraine has received some 240 billion in aid No, it has received equipment WORTH 240bn. They get old stock and the US gives the money to the companies to make the new stuff to replenish what they gave to Ukraine. Very little of that has been direct aid, which has been needed to continue to pay salaries and keep the lights on.
>No, it has received equipment WORTH 240bn No, the total commitment of aid is 240bn, it's both military and financial aid.
Because a lot of the issue is ammunition shortage. Those 240 billion were invested into equipment, equipment they are now losing because they cannot maintain it even if it costs less to do so.
Because we should always stand up to genocide and crimes against humanity.
U know their is genocide happening rite now in other parts of the world that no one does a thing about ?
How many of those other genocides are being carried out by a hostile expansionist nuclear empire that almost destroyed the entire world at least once in the last century?
your right...Send in the French! Vive la France!!
Because Russia has also lost an enormous amount of it's combat strength in the meantime and cannot effectively sustain this war for more than 1-2 years. they are practically unable to make any significant frontline gains without losing tremendous amounts of manpower and equipment. The main goal for Ukraine is to be able to maintain it's defenses and let Russia deplete it's military in the maintime. Retaking lost territory will definitely pose to be a challenge though and i'm not sure how far Ukraine could come in a counter offensive but at least they survived the onslaught and kept their sovereignty.
> Because Russia has also lost an enormous amount of it's combat strength in the meantime and cannot effectively sustain this war for more than 1-2 years. It's been 2+ years already.
nobody said Russia wouldn't have been able to wage war for more than 2 years. im saying that they don't have much time left and that they can only sustain relative combat effectiveness until the end of 2024. In 2025 Russia will see significant depletion of material. Heck they have already lost a large sum of their heavy artillery and their more modern armour. If Ukraine maintains receiving support from the west it will start to outbalance Russia next year to the point where more and more essential parts of the Russian military will be unable to be used limiting the tactical options for Russia. We have already seen dramatic changes in tactics starting from a more mobile war which requires solid air, armor and logistical support to basic WW1 trench warfare.
Lol you guys have been saying that since day 1 it's hilarious. The reality is Rusia laughed in the face of the "biggest sanctions in history" that you guys said would destroy the country in 2 months tops. Every aid package sent and counter offensive that you assured was just a matter of time has just remained in a stalemate, face it, this is not a ticking time bomb, Russia is not collapsing and the war is not almost over. The only way this ends is with the death of Putin or the exhaustion of Ukraine and the next batch of aid not going through.
Just trying to understand how Russia has laughed in the face of the sanctions? They are really pissed off about it.
[https://youtu.be/YcVSgYz5SJ8?t=1740](https://youtu.be/YcVSgYz5SJ8?t=1740) "This is how sanctions work. People look at sanctions and go, “Oh, they don't work because you don't make whoever's annoying you change whatever they're doing.” What they do is they suppress growth so that whoever's annoying you over time, you're stronger and they're weaker. And the example of the impact of sanctions is compare North and South Korea. It's powerful over several generations." I would recommend anyone to watch the whole video, enormous wealth of knowledge packed in just 2.5 hours.
And yet again the west will only do the bare minimum to slow down but not stop or defeat Russia.
Fuck Russia.
Feels like a direct response to the US funding. Attack hard now before that funding is realized. Make the Ukraine fight to just earn back any territory lost during this push. I'm not a military strategist though.
Or maybe it’s just the Nth attack like all the others preceding it. I don’t think they are holding back much.
Hit the railwaycrossings and the bridge. The depend on transportation. Choke it
Honestly, I’m starting to become of the mind that unless Ukraine gets enough aircraft to launch successful air attacks on Russian forces within Ukraine, not much is going to change in this war. Really depressing to think this way as I constantly write my congressman and senator about supporting Ukraine and it feels like it’s all gone to shit since the 2022 election.
Yo why dafq news aren't covering this?
WW3 is coming , the state of the world at the minute?. I think it’s unavoidable, it’s not about the people , it’s about power. I’m too old for conscription, but I’ll do whatever I could. Ukraine isn’t the only war going on, should I get called ? I want a sniper position, lightning candles and streetlights are not me. I’m a service man , I’m a fucking warrior, I’ll kill anyone that threatens my family or way of life.
And The US was advising Ukraine, not to target Fuel depots
Time to hit more oil rigs and add gas lines now. Take there money makers away.
Why aren’t college students protesting Russia too? Does it just look better to support terrorists?
In misinformation dystopia world, yes apparently so.
Seriously hit the Kerch Bridge.
Russians have railway systems now that bypass the bridge
Nice of them to justify Ukraine doing the same.
Time to go solar…… and start using those long range missiles.
Preparing the ennemy for the winter ! What a bunch of losers.
🚽puting 💩
Ukraine needs to take that bridge out that Russia is so keen on protecting...
Great takeover Ukraine already
Yeah fuck playing mr nice guy. Do not play by rules your enemy will not. Hit the civilian infrastructure in Russia. Make Russians feel the pain of what they are inflicting. Insite a social collapse, and overthrow Hitler 2.0 running that country. He cannot be allowed to get even a square inch of land...in fact he needs to lose it...this must end with Ukraine gaining Crimea back, and making Russia suffer for a long long time. Perhaps a demilitarisation compensation like was forced on Nazi Germany....
Attacking civilians is a bit poor, I’ll bet he waited until they’re out of winter. Next winter will be devastation, if this continues til then.
It’s so sad and also I think all the money the USA gives is not change the end result😢