Russia invading Ukraine (NEWS/UPDATES) - Please put sensitive content behind a spoiler

Epping said:
I've just come back from turkey yesterday and there is distinct lack of Russians..

All th traders I spoke to said so.. they also said they missed the new money but dont miss the people
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Loads where we were epping. 1 big fat twat with putin tattooed on him anarl
 


elder said:
russians have already started building a pontoon across one of the damaged bridges in Kherson. it looks like it's already challenging to get larger vehicles across...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1551720878622244864
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the Ukrainians are probably waiting for the pontoon bridge to be completed with traffic on it before having a go at it. Two targets for the price of one.
 
Epping said:
I've just come back from turkey yesterday and there is distinct lack of Russians..

All th traders I spoke to said so.. they also said they missed the new money but dont miss the people
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Mate of mine has been going to Cuba regularly for years. He came back last week and said he hardly heard a single Russian accent in all the time he was there.... practically unheard of apparently.
 
SurreyMackem said:
Russian losses

https://twitter.com/x/status/1551824992924491778

Russian forces continued to fortify their positions in #Zaporizhia and #Kherson Oblasts in preparations for #Ukrainian counteroffensives.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1551739158317527041
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I think the main counteroffensive, when it comes, will be in Izyum.

They're trying to spook the Russians into abandoning their heavy weapons and retreating back across the Dnipro. UA could then fortify Kherson and blow the Antonivsky bridge, before moving most of their troops to the Donbass. I don't think Ukraine has enough battle ready forces to launch an offensive in the south while holding the line in the Donbass. Alternately, an outside punt may be to link up with the Moldovan army in Transnistria, but we're likely to have several months of build up there before anything happens, and UA won't want to be seen as the aggressors. Some of these neighbouring countries do need to step up to the mark and start resisting Putin, rather than letting Ukraine do all the heavy lifting. There was some PR BS about a Chechen uprising which has predictably come to nothing.
 
smoker said:
I think the main counteroffensive, when it comes, will be in Izyum.

They're trying to spook the Russians into abandoning their heavy weapons and retreating back across the Dnipro. UA could then fortify Kherson and blow the Antonivsky bridge, before moving most of their troops to the Donbass. I don't think Ukraine has enough battle ready forces to launch an offensive in the south while holding the line in the Donbass. Alternately, an outside punt may be to link up with the Moldovan army in Transnistria, but we're likely to have several months of build up there before anything happens, and UA won't want to be seen as the aggressors. Some of these neighbouring countries do need to step up to the mark and start resisting Putin, rather than letting Ukraine do all the heavy lifting. There was some PR BS about a Chechen uprising which has predictably come to nothing.
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I think the next decisive battle is Kherson.

The Russians simply can’t afford to lose it. They have gone all out that it’s a key part of their special operation and have planned their fake referendum for September.

Unlike Kiyv they won’t be able to claim this was part of the strategy if they have to withdraw.

This could play into Ukraine’s hands as with the immense political pressure to hold it the Russian command could act illogically - ie Not retreating even though the Ukrainians are destroying bridges in the rear and potentially boxing the Russians into a kill zone.

Not sure what Ukraine are doing with the bridges though. It’s either a brilliant trap to get more Russians across the river to reinforce and then they will destroy them and leave them stranded or the Ukrainian attempts have failed so far as although they have hit them they haven’t fully disabled them/left them repairable.

Either way I can’t see under any circumstances Russia retreating so if Ukraine play their cards right they could potentially trap a massive Russian contingent
 

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