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    Putin’s war in Ukraine nearing possibly more dangerous phase

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine is approaching a new, potentially more dangerous phase after a month of fighting has left Russian forces stalled by an outnumbered foe. He is left with stark choices — how and where to replenish his spent ground forces, whether to attack the flow of Western arms to Ukrainian defenders, and at what cost he might escalate or widen the war.


    Despite failing to score a quick victory, Putin is not relenting in the face of mounting international pressure, including sanctions that have battered his economy. The Western world is aligned largely against Putin, but there have been no indications he is losing support from the majority of the Russian public that relies predominantly on state-controlled TV for information.

    Ukrainian defenders, outgunned but benefitting from years of American and NATO training and an accelerating influx of foreign arms and moral support, are showing new signs of confidence as the invading force struggles to regroup.

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    Long on Europe’s Fringe, Poland Takes Center Stage as War Rages in Ukraine

    WARSAW — After the White House announced this week that President Biden would visit Poland, the Kremlin let rip with a belligerent tirade: Polish leaders were a “vassal” of the United States, gripped by “pathological Russophobia,” and their country a “community of political imbeciles.”


    Instead of fearful jitters, however, the broadside by Dmitri A. Medvedev, deputy head of the Kremlin’s security council, stirred a burst of pride in Warsaw.

    “This is further proof that the Russians treat Poland seriously and see its growing importance in the West,” said Stanislaw Zaryn, director of the Department of National Security and spokesman for the coordinating minister for security.

    MORE Long on Europe’s Fringe, Poland Takes Center Stage as War Rages in Ukraine – DNyuz

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    Biden says U.S. would ‘respond’ to Russia if Putin uses chemical or biological weapons

    President Joe Biden said Thursday that NATO would respond “in kind” if Russia uses weapons of mass destruction in Ukraine.


    “We will respond if he uses it,” Biden said, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin. “The nature of the response depends on the nature of the use.”


    The president spoke after a marathon of summit meetings with the European Union, G-7 partners and NATO allies.


    Biden also said he would support an effort to expel Russia from the G-20 group of economies.


    The president declined to say whether the United States has evidence that China has helped Russia evade sanctions or sold American high tech equipment to Russia in violation of export bans.


    “I think that China understands that its economic futures much more closely tied to the West than it is to Russia,” said Biden. “And so I am hopeful that he does not get engaged,” Biden said, referring to Chinese President Xi Jinping.


    Biden said NATO leaders discussed the need for NATO and the EU to set up a system to review any sanctions violations and “where, when and how” Russia is able to buy banned products.

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    Russian troops attack own commanding officer after suffering heavy losses

    Russian troops reportedly attacked their own commanding officer by running him over with a tank after many in their brigade were killed amid the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

    Ukrainian journalist Roman Tsymbaliuk said in a post on Facebook that Russian Col. Yuri Medvedev was attacked after fighting in Ukraine left nearly half of the men in the 37th Motor Rifle Brigade dead, The Washington Post reported.

    Tsymbaliuk said the brigade injured both of Medvedev's legs by hitting him with a tank, causing him to be hospitalized, per the newspaper.

    The incident occurred roughly 30 miles from Kyiv in Makariv, Ukraine, according to the Post. The country reportedly retook the town this week after Russia gained control of it earlier in the war.

    A senior Western official told the newspaper he thinks Medvedev has died, saying the incident shows the low morale among the Russian troops in Ukraine.

    He was killed “as a consequence of the scale of the losses taken by his own brigade,” the official said, per the Post.

    NATO estimated earlier this week that as many as 15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed as Ukraine continues to mount fierce resistance against Moscow's assault.

    Several high-ranking officers are reported to be among the deceased, with Russian officials reportedly confirming Sunday that a navy commander had been killed and Russian state TV saying last week that one of the country's top commanders had died, among others.

    Russia has been accused by the U.S. of committing war crimes in the conflict, as Ukrainian officials say Moscow is targeting civilians and structures such as hospitals, schools, residential buildings and bomb shelters in Ukraine.


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    War in Ukraine causes German business morale to collapse

    German business morale plummeted in March as companies worried about rising energy prices, driver shortages and the stability of supply chains in the wake of the war in Ukraine, pointing to a possible future recession, a survey showed on Friday.

    The Ifo institute said its business climate index dropped to 90.8 in March from a downwardly revised 98.5 in February. A Reuters poll of analysts had pointed to a March reading of 94.2.

    "The message from Germany's most important economic barometer is clear: the German economy is very likely to slide into recession," said Thomas Gitzel, chief economist at VP Bank Group.

    The publication of the purchasing managers' index on Thursday gave some hope the German economy had so far been able to absorb the economic consequences of the war, but Friday's Ifo index "teaches us otherwise," Gitzel said.

    "The extreme divergence between the situation and expectations is typical. Even if not much has actually happened, uncertainty due to the war is very high," said Jens-Oliver Niklasch, senior economist at Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg.

    Ultimately, the uncertainty goes far beyond the Ukraine war, raising questions about the sustainability of Germany's business model, said Andreas Scheuerle at Decabank, pointing to the one-sided dependence of Europe's largest economy on supplier and customer countries


    According to Commerzbank's Joerg Kraemer, companies are particularly afraid of such risks as a Western boycott of Russian oil, which would lead leave the market considerably undersupplied and catapult the prices upwards.

    The index for business expectations also fell to 85.1 from 98.4, the sharpest plunge since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.
    At the moment, two-thirds of industrial companies want to raise their prices more than ever before and retailers are also looking to follow suit, Ifo economic expert Klaus Wohlrabe told Reuters.

    "This is a domino effect," he said.

    The service sector can initially rejoice at the easing of COVID-19 curbs, but trouble is looming on the horizon as filling up the car tank has become a burden and families will have to cut down on leisure activities, Gitzel said.

    At the same time, the relief package announced by the German government on Thursday is nowhere near enough to compensate for the increased costs, Gitzel said.

    War in Ukraine causes German business morale to collapse (msn.com)

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    Ukraine LIVE: Putin on brink of major RETREAT in Kyiv – Russia to 'scale back' invasion

    Moscow has suggested it will scale back its invasion in Ukraine to focus on "liberating" territory claimed by Russian-backed separatists after meeting fierce resistance in Kyiv. On Friday, the Russian army said the first phase of its military campaign was over and troops will now focus on the country's eastern Donbas region. Sergei Rudskoi, chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of Russia's armed forces, said: "The main tasks of the first stage of the operation have been completed. The combat potential of Ukraine's armed forces has been significantly reduced, which allows [us] - I emphasise once again - to focus our main efforts on achieving the main goal - the liberation of Donbas." The announcement comes after significant Russian losses, including 20 battalions.


    Ukraine LIVE: Putin on brink of major RETREAT in Kyiv – Russia to 'scale back' invasion | World | News | Express.co.uk

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    German business morale plummeted in March as companies worried about rising energy prices, driver shortages and the stability of supply chains in the wake of the war in Ukraine, pointing to a possible future recession, a survey showed on Friday.

    The Ifo institute said its business climate index dropped to 90.8 in March from a downwardly revised 98.5 in February. A Reuters poll of analysts had pointed to a March reading of 94.2.

    "The message from Germany's most important economic barometer is clear: the German economy is very likely to slide into recession," said Thomas Gitzel, chief economist at VP Bank Group.

    The publication of the purchasing managers' index on Thursday gave some hope the German economy had so far been able to absorb the economic consequences of the war, but Friday's Ifo index "teaches us otherwise," Gitzel said.

    "The extreme divergence between the situation and expectations is typical. Even if not much has actually happened, uncertainty due to the war is very high," said Jens-Oliver Niklasch, senior economist at Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg.

    Ultimately, the uncertainty goes far beyond the Ukraine war, raising questions about the sustainability of Germany's business model, said Andreas Scheuerle at Decabank, pointing to the one-sided dependence of Europe's largest economy on supplier and customer countries


    According to Commerzbank's Joerg Kraemer, companies are particularly afraid of such risks as a Western boycott of Russian oil, which would lead leave the market considerably undersupplied and catapult the prices upwards.

    The index for business expectations also fell to 85.1 from 98.4, the sharpest plunge since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.
    At the moment, two-thirds of industrial companies want to raise their prices more than ever before and retailers are also looking to follow suit, Ifo economic expert Klaus Wohlrabe told Reuters.

    "This is a domino effect," he said.

    The service sector can initially rejoice at the easing of COVID-19 curbs, but trouble is looming on the horizon as filling up the car tank has become a burden and families will have to cut down on leisure activities, Gitzel said.

    At the same time, the relief package announced by the German government on Thursday is nowhere near enough to compensate for the increased costs, Gitzel said.

    War in Ukraine causes German business morale to collapse (msn.com)
    Still, looking on the bright side, it is nothing like the financial armegeddon awaiting Russia.

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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    Moscow has suggested it will scale back its invasion in Ukraine to focus on "liberating" territory claimed by Russian-backed separatists after meeting fierce resistance in Kyiv.
    Would still be a win for Puffy Putin. Someone needs to top him.

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    Deputy Commander Of Russia's Black Sea Fleet Reportedly Killed In Action

    When the Ukrainians sunk that big amphibious ship, seems like they got the deputy commander of the Black Sea fleet as well...

    The deputy commander of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet has been killed in battle near the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, the Kremlin-installed governor of the Russia-occupied city of Sevastopol said.

    "Captain 1st Rank Andrei Nikolayevich Paly was killed in the fighting [near Mariupol]," Mikhail Razvozhayev said on his Telegram channel.
    Reports said the general was 51 years old.

    The Russian Navy did not respond to a request for comment.

    Sevastopol, a port city on the Crimea Peninsula, is the base of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. Crimea was seized and annexed by Russia in 2014.

    If confirmed, it would mark the latest fatality among Russia’s top military officers following reports of several being killed in action during the invasion of Ukraine.

    On March 19, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy claimed that the commander of the Russian Eighth Army, Lieutenant General Andrei Mordvichev, had been killed at the Chornobaivka airfield near the city of Kherson.

    The Ukrainian Presidency at the time said the general was the fifth top-ranking officer killed since the invasion began on February 24, an unprecedented number of fatalities among a military leadership in such a short period of time.

    The claims could not be independently confirmed.

    Deputy Commander Of Russia's Black Sea Fleet Reportedly Killed In Action

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    Quote Originally Posted by bsnub View Post
    Deputy Commander Of Russia's Black Sea Fleet Reportedly Killed In Action
    Now it simply requires the death of someone a few rungs higher up . . . some ex-KGB dufus who inhaled too much second-hand Novichok

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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    On Friday, the Russian army said the first phase of its military campaign was over and troops will now focus on the country's eastern Donbas region.
    Hard to imagine as it is, this is just the beginning of a total defeat of the Russian military on all fronts. They have been badly beaten at Kyiv, can't take Mariupol, and their botched attempts on taking Odessa from the sea. They will be routed in the Donbas region too. Maybe, just maybe, they can hold on to Crimea.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Takeovers View Post
    Hard to imagine as it is, this is just the beginning of a total defeat of the Russian military on all fronts.
    I would agree. The reason that statement was made is that they realize they will never be able to take Kyiv. Reports on Twitter are that the Ukrainians have retaken Irpin and are currently pushing the Russians north.

    My fear now in the embarrassment of all this that Putin will resort to some kind of nuclear attack.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bsnub View Post
    My fear now in the embarrassment of all this that Putin will resort to some kind of nuclear attack.
    Won't happen. He's got a big enough problem with trying to sell this to the Russian people and will need some territorial gain, he'll risk that if he draws NATO into this and going down the CBRN route is a sure way to achieve this.

    There is already rumour his forces are starting to pull back to the territories he is looking to secure, given they aren't yet secure i suspect this may be true as he needs to focus his attention on these.

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    Admission they are going to confine themselves to the east? If so and a deal is signed i expect the major sticking point will be between Ukraine wanting to maintain a fighting force to defend from future incursions and Russia wanting Ukraine to be "De-militarised".

    Russia targets east Ukraine, says first phase over

    Russia says it will focus its invasion of Ukraine on "liberating" the east, signalling a possible shift in its strategy.

    The defence ministry said that the initial aims of the war were complete, and that Russia had reduced the combat capacity of Ukraine.

    Russia's invasion appeared aimed at swiftly capturing major cities and toppling the government.

    But it has stalled in the face of fierce Ukrainian resistance.

    "The main tasks of the first stage of the operation have been carried out," said Sergei Rudskoy, head of the General Staff's main operations administration.

    "The combat capabilities of the Ukrainian armed forces have been substantially reduced, which allows us to concentrate our main efforts on achieving the main goal: the liberation of Donbas," he added, referring to an area in eastern Ukraine largely in the hands of Russian-backed separatists.

    Russia's military has been bombarding and trying to encircle key Ukrainian cities such as the capital Kyiv, which Gen Rudskoy characterised as an attempt to tie down Ukraine's forces elsewhere in the country while Russia focuses on the east.

    Ukraine's President, Volodymyr Zelensky, said his troops had landed "powerful blows" on Russia and called on Moscow to recognise the need for serious peace talks.

    "By restraining Russia's actions, our defenders are leading the Russian leadership to a simple and logical idea: talk is necessary. Meaningful. Urgent. Fair. For the sake of the result, not for the sake of the delay," he said.

    More: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60872358

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    Nice to hear. I'm sure a few armchair generals will be asking Putin- why so many forces concentrated around Kiev, when the real action and focus of the war was elsewhere?

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    Quote Originally Posted by malmomike77 View Post
    Russia's invasion appeared aimed at swiftly capturing major cities and toppling the government.

    But it has stalled in the face of fierce Ukrainian resistance.
    The use of the word "appeared" show the average bbc propaganda. The Rooskies were quite clear from the offset exactly what their mission was. As for the fierce Ukrainian resistance - I wonder if they will post up some more computer game videos claiming a great win?

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    Russia, Losing Ground in Kyiv, Now Says 'Main Goal' to Free Eastern Ukraine

    Russian troops are looking to reconvene in eastern Ukraine as they continue to lose ground in the capital of Kyiv.


    General Sergey Rudskoy, the head of the main operational directorate of the Russian General Staff, said during a Friday briefing that the military will be shifting its focus onto the eastern regions of Ukraine.He said that Russia will no longer try to claim other cities in the country but will attempt to "liberate" the east—particularly the separatist region of Donbas. He also claimed that the "first phase" of this new plan was already complete and that Ukraine's "combat capabilities have been significantly reduced."


    Donbas contains the two separatist republics of Ukraine, the Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics. According to Rudskoy, 93 percent of the Luhansk Republic has been liberated already, while 54 percent of the Donetsk Republic has had a similar fate.

    "Initially, we did not plan to storm them in order to prevent destruction and minimize losses among personnel and civilians," explained Rudskoy, "and although we do not rule out such a possibility, however, as individual groups complete their tasks, and they are being solved successfully, our forces and means will concentrate on the main thing—the complete liberation of Donbas."

    The change in plans is something that the U.S. has been aware of and has monitored closely. According to an anonymous senior U.S. defense official who spoke with ABC News, airstrikes are still targeting the city of Kyiv, but they believe that the Russian army will be moving elsewhere for cities to claim. Specifically, they appear to be eyeing the eastern Ukraine separatist region of Donbas as their next big target.

    "We think they are trying to not only secure some sort of, more substantial gains there as a potential negotiating tactic at the table," said the official, "but also to cut off Ukrainian forces in the eastern part of the country."


    The official also gave an update to the southern city of Kherson, which previously was claimed by Russian forces. That victory might be short-lived, the official claimed, as the army's influence doesn't appear to be as stable as it was originally. This instability is due to Kherson's status as a port city. While protecting all parts of Ukraine is important, the reclamation of Kherson will be extremely important as it will help restabilize the Ukrainian economy. With Ukrainian forces most likely already preparing for a reclamation, Russia's army could be stuck.

    Russia, Losing Ground in Kyiv, Now Says 'Main Goal' to Free Eastern Ukraine

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Nice to hear. I'm sure a few armchair generals will be asking Putin- why so many forces concentrated around Kiev, when the real action and focus of the war was elsewhere?
    Too late. Your reputation and credibility are already tarnished beyond help. Despite your feeble attempts to back pedal, you have put down too many pro Russian and pro Putin markers to survive this change of tactics by the tyrant.
    He will be lucky to save face, and his job. You however, already turned to dust.

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    Putin will soon have 'no choice' but to stop his invasion of Ukraine, former US general says


    Russian President Vladimir Putin will likely be forced to bring his failing monthlong war against Ukraine to a halt, a retired US general and Russia specialist told Insider — a scenario that may happen within weeks after Russian forces have sustained heavy losses and subjected Ukraine's cities to indiscriminate attacks.

    Retired US Army Brig. Gen. Kevin Ryan said he believed this to be the "most likely scenario" to play out, as Putin has already "failed to accomplish" his "main military goals" in Ukraine — a lightning strike to seize Kyiv, Ukraine's capital, and other big cities and remove their elected leaders — and Russia's economy continues to be decimated by sweeping Western sanctions over its war with the Eastern European country.

    "Putin will have to halt his war in Ukraine sooner or later and probably in a matter of weeks," Ryan, who served as the defense attaché to Russia for the US, among numerous other roles, told Insider on Thursday.

    "The reason is not because he wants to halt his military operation but because he has no choice," Ryan, 67, said. "He has basically reached the capacity of what his military can do for him in Ukraine."

    Ukraine's armed forces, aided by civilians, have been greatly outnumbered and outgunned by Russian troops since Russia launched its attack in late February, but Ukrainians have managed to put up a fierce resistance, which has resulted in a mounting Russian death toll and an essentially stalled invasion.

    An assessment from the Institute for the Study of War found that Ukrainian forces had forced Russian troops into defensive positions, while Putin's forces had "continued to settle in for a protracted and stalemated conflict."

    Ryan said the Russian army "has a huge personnel problem."

    "There is no significant military unit left in Russia outside of Ukraine. They are all in the fight," he said.

    "There is almost no part of the Russian military that's not dedicated, committed to Ukraine, so if he has to escalate, how does he escalate?" he added, referring to Putin.

    At this point, Ryan said it would be "impossible" for Russia to take control of all Ukraine like Putin hoped to.

    "He does not have the military forces to take all of Ukraine and occupy it," Ryan said, adding: "Russian leadership overestimated what their military was capable of."

    Ryan called this "a great achievement by Ukrainian people to have prevented an overthrow of their government and a total seizure of all their land."

    Russian troops invaded Ukraine on February 24, and in the weeks since, they have surrounded and shelled several towns across the Eastern European country, hitting multiple civilian targets, including residential buildings, hospitals, and a theater.

    But British intelligence said on Friday that thanks to Ukrainian counterattacks, Ukraine had retaken some areas around Kyiv it lost earlier in the war.

    Ryan, a senior fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, said he believed Ukraine would see "an increase in violence" by Russian forces "in the near future" until Putin was forced to halt his military operation.

    Putin "can increase the violence and do more damage and destruction in Ukraine," Ryan said.

    "He can try to find and encircle and destroy the Ukrainian military, which is smaller than his," he added. "But even if he does all of those things, he cannot strategically do much more with his military."

    Ryan said: "They're out of troops, they're out of units, they are fully committed to doing just what they are now."

    But he said an end to the war in Ukraine wouldn't "necessarily mean a halt in violence."

    "Violence can continue even during the time of negotiations between the sides," Ryan said, adding that the halting of the invasion would likely be "indefinite" until Putin "gets enough concessions from Ukraine" and even from the West regarding the severe sanctions on Russia.

    "So until he gets enough concessions," Ryan said of Putin, "I think he would want to stay in that kind of no man's land of a halted military operation — one that could be restarted at any time.

    "That would be the threat."

    https://www.businessinsider.com/puti...general-2022-3
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    I find it difficult to believe Ryan’s idea that Putin has been allowed to utilize all active Russian military units. Russian MOD must have reserves, unless they are all conscripts deployed to far flung outposts of Russian borders?
    Even if Ryan is only half correct in his assumptions, the chance of Putin forces digging in and waiting seems utterly pointless given the Russian logistic difficulties.

    The withdrawal to the East makes much more sense. Smaller battlefield with easier logistic support from home, and an opportunity to use long range indiscriminate attacks in central and western Ukraine, with no Russian troops in harms way. It also puts Ukraine on the back foot.
    It almost makes the tyrant Putin seem more reasonable.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Switch View Post
    Russian MOD must have reserves, unless they are all conscripts deployed to far flung outposts of Russian borders?
    They were said to be calling up reserves two weeks ago, so where are they? The fact remains that none appear to have arrived on the scene to alleviate this quagmire the Russians are currently stuck in. So that would IMHO validate what the General is saying.

    Quote Originally Posted by Switch View Post
    The withdrawal to the East makes much more sense.
    They can not simply withdraw across the country, as they do not control it. The northern Army group came in via Belarus, and it will have to exit that way, as they do not have the logistical capability to do anything else. Just finding the gas to retreat at this point is probably a challenge, which is why they are taking defensive positions.

    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Last I heard, about 20% Of Russian military in Ukraine.
    Absurd and completely clueless. You are about as correct as you were, blathering on about how this war would never happen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bsnub View Post
    Absurd and completely clueless. You are about as correct as you were, blathering on about how this war would never happen.
    He's right snubbie, but akin to a broken clock though.

    There's about 200K in Ukraine out of a total of 1 million.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pickel View Post
    There's about 200K in Ukraine out of a total of 1 million.
    Do you think that every soldier in a modern army is a frontline combat troop? Do you really think that all of those men can just go to the frontline and start fighting? If you do, you would be wrong. The point the General was making in the article I posted is that there are no more combat forces for Putin to deploy, they are already there.

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    Finland's president says joining NATO would be beneficial, but would "increase tensions with Russia"

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    A NATO membership "would permanently increase tensions with Russia" along Finland’s border with Russia, President Sauli Niinistö said Saturday in an interview with the country’s public broadcaster Yle TV1.

    Niinistö said the greatest benefit of a NATO membership would be "gaining a preventive effect," but there would also be a risk for various types of Russian retaliation, including hybrid threats.

    The president also said that the benefits of being part of NATO would outweigh the negative ramifications, and that it is most important to find solutions to increase his country’s security.

    "Sufficient security is where Finns can feel that there is no emergency and there won't be one," he said, while also adding that being part of the alliance would provide the "most sufficient" security.

    Since Russian’s invasion of Ukraine, Finland has been considering joining the military alliance, Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto told CNN's Becky Anderson earlier this month.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bsnub View Post
    Do you think that every soldier in a modern army is a frontline combat troop?
    Do you think every Russian soldier in Ukraine is a combat soldier? They do need people in the supply lines too.

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