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Russia invading Ukraine (NEWS/UPDATES)

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Kevsgreat said:
Early days there was a lot of footage on Twitter etc. that either took hours to hit the news channels or just didn't. It is important that everything is checked, there's a few videos done the rounds before being flagged as fake, or from years ago, or from somewhere else. You don't want that kind of stuff going out, there's already a lack of trust as it is.
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That’s it aye. There’s loads of videos on Reddit and I can’t make my mind up about them. None of them I’ve seen have made it to tv so this is good. Nice to know those who don’t do a lot of research themselves aren’t being subjected to fear mongering for no good reason. I’m impressed with tv coverage so far.
 

box2box said:
Fascinating watching flight radar , quite abit of activity near the ukraine and Belarusian boarder with nato, polish, us and uk planes buzzing around quite near the boarder

I wonder if Putin really wants the nato supplied planes to get involved so to fuel his justifications ….?
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I wonder how many aircraft are buzzing around without their IFF switched on
 
Epping said:
No point destroying . Use them against the Russians if can get them fuelled and out of mud
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Might be able to with some of the more basic tanks if the Ukraine military find them and are familiar.

But if it’s more complex or if civilians find them clearly that’s not an option so surely best just to destroy it? That SAM system it’s doubtful the Ukrainians could work quickly as they apparently don’t Operate them so surely just get rid and stop the Russians coming back and getting it?
 
Guitar Man said:
As Russias plans are proceding very slow with lots of resistance i think Putin will get frustrated and start with the big attacks big bombs/ missiles even on residential areas,he doesnt want this going on for months and he knows Nato's hands are tied and if they do do something its WW3 so he will just flatten Ukraine ,the man is a maniac .
The slim hope is we get a lot more arms and weapons to the Ukraine and the sanctions start to hurt ,but i'm afraid all i can see atm is Ukraine being flattened and major casualties.( I pray for a miracle and this not to happen).

If it was army v army/ airforce v airforce the U.K alone could take the Russians out but its the Russian Nuclear weapons that are the problem.
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Looking at the way Russia are hanging this I don’t know why we were ever worried (except nukes) they seem to be disorganized and random as fuck.
They’re all over the place trying to take everything with no real plan.
Even basics combat tactics we would ruin these lot.

However, being nuked would sting
 
safcforever said:
Looking at the way Russia are hanging this I don’t know why we were ever worried (except nukes) they seem to be disorganized and random as fuck.
They’re all over the place trying to take everything with no real plan.
Even basics combat tactics we would ruin these lot.

However, being nuked would sting
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I agree with this. Strategically it looks a farce. They look very beatable but then they will never really face nato or the US so it doesn’t really matter. It’s all about threats of nukes.
 
safcforever said:
Looking at the way Russia are hanging this I don’t know why we were ever worried (except nukes) they seem to be disorganized and random as fuck.
They’re all over the place trying to take everything with no real plan.
Even basics combat tactics we would ruin these lot.

However, being nuked would sting
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I get the impression the might of their military has been built along the lines of Potemkin's villages
 
Botchie said:
Trying to get my head around the fact there's a 40 mile long military convoy on it's way to capture a modern European City. Mental.
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The article I posted earlier (from last year), basically said Russia has 96 hours from the launch of an attack to capture all of its main objectives before they’d be fucked due to logistics/supply issues.

That particular article was about them attacking Baltic states, but same theories apply.
 
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