For Those Who Might Be Wondering Why We Might Be In Ukraine

[ChloeTzang]

Ukraine’s Air Force is set to receive its first three Dassault Aviation Mirage 2000-5F fighter jets in January, according to a report by Avions Legendaires on Jan. 3. The outlet suggests the first three jets could arrive by Jan. 20, 2025, with some sources even speculating they are already in Ukraine and being used for training flights. These fighters, sourced from France’s Air and Space Force, have been upgraded and will bear Ukrainian markings. On Oct. 8, French Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu confirmed the delivery of Mirage 2000 jets to Ukraine by March 2025. According to Avions Legendaires, France plans to transfer up to 20 Mirage 2000-5F fighters in all, as part of its military aid package. France’s Air and Space Force have committed to training 26 Ukrainian military pilots over two years.

 

[Rightguide]

Putin knows he only needs to hold on until Trump takes office. Then American aid to Ukraine dries up.

As it should.

 

[Politruk]

As it should.

You do want Russia to lose this war, don't you?

 

[Rightguide]

You do want Russia to lose this war, don't you?

There is no ay Russia is going to lose the war, with or without our help. You don't understand what is happening, including our own military decline. There is no way Europe or the United States is ready for all out war in Europe. Not even close.

 

[Politruk]

There is no ay Russia is going to lose the war, with or without our help. You don't understand what is happening, including our own military decline. There is no way Europe or the United States is ready for all out war in Europe. Not even close.

It won't take all-out war in Europe to defeat Russia.

 

[Lazaran]

Oops…

https://kyivindependent.com/russian...e-severely-injured-in-russia-after-explosion/



Slava Ukraini.

 

[ChloeTzang]

 

[ChloeTzang]

Oops…

https://kyivindependent.com/russian...e-severely-injured-in-russia-after-explosion/



Slava Ukraini.

Nice hit. Ukraine taking the war home to Russia, one war criminal at a time.

 

[ChloeTzang]

A new monthly high for Russian takeout

 

[ChloeTzang]

Another war criminal taken out



One by one, they'll be tracked down and eliminated....

 

[ChloeTzang]

And more on the ongoing saga of the 155th Brigade

• According to Butusov, the president received a detailed report on the situation in the brigade. His primary concern involved reports of desertion by several dozen soldiers in France and the unauthorized departure of 1,700 troops during the brigade’s formation in Ukraine. Butusov said Zelenskyy ordered official reports from the Defense Ministry’s Main Inspectorate, the General Staff, the Ground Forces Command, the State Bureau of Investigation, and the Security Service of Ukraine.
• Ukraine’s top commander, Oleksandr Syrskyy, reportedly blamed the brigade’s leadership for the desertions, saying they “failed to communicate with the troops.” Syrskyy has already dismissed or is in the process of removing the brigade commander, chief of staff, all deputies, and several battalion commanders, Butusov added.
• Butusov also reported that Volodymyr Shvedyuk, commander of Operational Command West and responsible for forming the brigade, has been sent to oversee the situation and assist with management at both the 155th and 33rd brigades. “Shvedyuk remains in his position despite being responsible for the brigade’s staffing, chaotic troop movements, and sending undertrained soldiers to France,” Butusov wrote.
• At the brigade’s command post, inspections are ongoing, and officers are providing explanations to investigative commissions preparing detailed reports.
• Butusov noted that some of the brigade’s equipment, including modern 155mm Caesar howitzers, VAB armored vehicles, and Leopard tanks, has been reassigned to other units operating along the Pokrovsk front. Soldiers trained in France to operate Milan anti-tank missile systems are now being tasked with infantry duties, he added.

What a fuckup. And the officer primarily responsible, Volodymyr Shvedyuk, has been sent to"oversee" the situation? He's the first one that should have been fired. Seems maybe that Syrskyy needs replacing too if he can't take the necessary corrective action. Strikes me this is micro-management of the worst sort.

And the headline, "Zelensky takes control" is misleading. Zelensky has done no such thing. He's tasked the people who created this mess with investigating it....
https://english.nv.ua/russian-war/z...ndal-in-ukraine-s-155th-brigade-50479228.html

And an article from Tom Cooper (who is very good and strongly pro-Ukraine) on failures in ZSU command. His opinion is it's time for Syrskyy to be replaced.....

https://xxtomcooperxx.substack.com/p/ukraine-war-24-december-2024-incompetent

 

[Deleted member 6873114]

Your fucked-up thread title says it all, dumbass.

What is fucked up about the tread title? It is a valid question.

 

[ChloeTzang]

 

[ChloeTzang]

Cougar MRAP in service with the 82nd Air Assault Brigade.

 

[Rightguide]

It won't take all-out war in Europe to defeat Russia.

Yes it will because Russia will use nuclear weapons against any perceived existential threat to its border or state.

 

[ll74]

Are we back to the threat of nuclear war? Did Putin give everyone another red line that we can't move past?

 

[ChloeTzang]

Yes it will because Russia will use nuclear weapons against any perceived existential threat to its border or state.

Russia is fucked. Ukraine is on the roll again.....there's a new Ukrainian offensive in the Kursk region with the change in weather..... after their initial offensive took the Russians by surprise, the Ukrainian Army has spent 4 months on the Defense. Since August, this direction has been prioritized by the Russians for reinforcements with people, equipment, and ammunition. By September, the Russian "North" Army had accumulated up to 55 thousand people in the Kursk region, to which, in October-November, a North Korean contingent was added (which began to take part in the hostilities only in mid-December).

Since September, the Russians have been attacking along the entire contact line, pushed the Ukrainian Army out of the Glushkovsky district, and attacking Zeleny Shlyakh, Novoivanovka, Dar'ino, Pogrebki, Plekhovo, and other villages, but stopped on the Ukrainian defense (which on the western flank ran along the line of #Russian fortifications). By December 14, when North Korean soldiers were involved in the fighting around Malaya Lokhnya and north of Plekhovo, the main strike forces of the Russian Armed Forces - the Marine and Airborne brigades, as well as the combined motorized rifle units - had managed to replace most of their personnel two and some even three times due to losses. According to the estimates of Russian army officers stationed in the Kursk region, only 3-3.5 thousand North Korean soldiers were there. By December 31, 1,200 to 1,500 of them were killed, wounded, or missing (that is, killed and left near Ukrainian positions or in the gray zone). This led to the fact that the Koreans were used in a limited way in early January, only in one section of the front line. There were rumors that a North Korean reinforcement of up to 5 thousand people would arrive on the 20th of January.

The intensity of fighting in this direction decreased as Ukrainian missile strikes were carried out on the headquarters and locations of #Russian troops in the rear: in Ivanovskoye, Rylsk, and Lgov. Since the beginning of 2025, part of the command and communications of the 810th Marine Brigade, the 76th Airborne Division, and the #Russian "North" Army headquarters have been bombed. No one in the #RussianArmy was ready to attack without orders from their superiors, and the superiors are not up to orders these days, after being bombed to hell (literally LOL).

Obituaries have been found for Airborne Lieutenant Colonels Pavel Maletsky and Valery Tereshchenko, who respectively held the positions of commander of the engineering battalion and chief of communications of the 76th Airborne Division, considered the elite of the #Russian Armed Forces. Considering that the 76th Division is located near Kursk, and the date of death is indicated as December 30, these Russian officers were almost certainly killed during a Storm Shadow missile strike on a bunker in Lgov. It is quite possible that there were other high-ranking officers in the bunker with them. Interestingly, Tereshchenko is already the second chief of communications of the 76th Division to be killed by the Ukrainians - his predecessor, Lieutenant Colonel Sergei Nikulin, was liquidated in November 2022.


The overall situation in Kursk Oblast is bleak for the Russians as of the night of January 4-5. The reinforcements do not cover the losses that the group has been constantly suffering throughout the fall and December, and the combat capability of the troops is rapidly declining. The Ukrainian Armed Forces conducted a series of minor operations at the end of December, pushing the Russian Armed Forces away from Kruglenky and northeast Malaya Lokhnya. The #Russians abandoned the offensive along the line, attacking only from Plekhovo and west and east of Malaya Lokhnya. And with much less intensity than before.

ZSU C-in-C Syrsky, after his short trip to Kursk Oblast on New Year's Eve, estimated Russian losses there from August to the end of December at 38 thousand people killed, wounded, and missing. His estimate is close to what the Russian military have given us - 39-41 thousand for five months of fighting. More or less trained (or well trained, as in the case of the Airborne Forces) soldiers were replaced by people who signed a contract a couple of weeks (!) ago, as well as yesterday's conscripts and mobilized. This allowed the Armed Forces of #Ukraine to switch from defense to offensive actions, which they have now. It is still impossible to say whether the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is a local operation to improve positions, a significant operation with strategic goals, or even a diversionary maneuver before events on another front.

Only time will tell, but what we do know is the Ukrainians have now penetrated 15kms behind the contact line, Ukrainian forces are confirmed to be inside Berdin and Novosotnitskii in the Kursk region, and are in the Russian rear, and widening the breach. All those reinforcements (including all the North Koreans) that Putin has poured inti Kursk, and Russians still aeren't able to stop the Ukrainian Army launching another offensive and taking ground.

How embarrassing. According to Russian sources, 'nothing exciting' happened overnight. On the other hand, "Military expert" (whoever he is) Ivan Stupak suggests that the potential new Ukrainian offensive in the Kursk region could have dual objectives: 30% military and 70% political. On the military side, the goal would be to force Russia to relocate troops from areas like Pokrovsk and Kurakhove to Kursk, thereby creating a new pressure point. Politically, the offensive could aim to expose the weakness of Russian authorities and increase tension within Russian society.

 

[ChloeTzang]

In the next series of modifications to enhance capability, Ukrainian Strykers will see the addition of a drone launcher platform, with additional drones for tripping running Russian infantry to the Strykers can crush them without wasting ammo, along with an additional drone for filming and a third to offer a brochure of 'I Want To Live'.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Here's a new one. A Ukrainian sea-drone carried an air-drone into range, and then launched, it, after which it destroyed a Russian Pantsir SAM system.

Lots of lessons for everyone in this war, not least that EVERYTHING will need drone defenses. Lots of them. We now entered the age of every boat-drone with a starlink antenna being a drone tender able to engage air, sea & land targets. Now, think of a swarm....an autonomous swarm...targeting a naval port or a a commercial tanker port...taking out opposing naval forces, air defences and land targets....we're close

 

[ishtat]

Two small points. Ukraine is now making money from fees for demonstrating to friendly foreign military brass how they use drones, both strategically and tactically, in both attack and defense. I guess they are the world's experts.

Disturbingly for Ukraine they appear to be running out of Ukrainians (recruits) possibly faster than the Russians are experiencing the same problem. Difficult to be certain of facts on this issue.

 

[Politruk]

What is fucked up about the tread title? It is a valid question.

No, it isn't, because we are not in Ukraine.

Also, any support we're giving has nothing to do with Biden family business interests. But you knew that.

 

[ChloeTzang]

 

[HisArpy]

Look at the bills that Congress passed. Some of this is from the President's drawdown authority, the rest is funding that Congress approved way back end of last year I think it was when they were all busy squabbling over Ukraine Aid and Israel and all the rest of it. Those billions have been their all thru 2024, sad to say.....and no prep work done to haul Bradley's out of storage and get then ready to go......more wasted time. They could have done that without committing to sending them but no, just more fucking around.....

We have thousands of Strykers, Bradley's and Abrams sitting in storage. We have hundreds of F16's and A10's, We have Blackhawks that Biden is giving away but they won't even sell them to Ukraine. We have hundreds of old 155mm guns, the old M198's - we have 350 in storage, perfectly good guns that we will never use again. These could have been refurbished and handed over 2 years ago when Ukraine desperately needed more guns - and they still do. Criminal that nothing has been done to get these out of mothballs, refurbished and shipped out - or just handed over to Ukraine for them to fix up themselves.

No, the Biden Administration has not done a lot to actually help Ukraine win. What they have done is kept them on life support, stalling and prevaricating and making promises while delivering as little as possible and getting in the way of others who want to deliver. It's been a shameful performance all round. It'd be hard to make us look worse in fact. It's so appallingly bad that you have to think it's been deliberate right from the start. No-one could accidentally be this incompetent across the board.

It's not incompetence, it's a planned grift. The warmongers needed mo muneeee...

 

[HisArpy]

A...a....aaaaa....apolo....to....to Biden.....I'm sorry Laz, my nose hurts from snorting most of a mug of hot Columbian.....

No. Just, no. Never. Never in a million years. If Biden was burning in hell, I would donate gasoline.

I have an entire book of matches.

 

[Lazaran]

A...a....aaaaa....apolo....to....to Biden.....I'm sorry Laz, my nose hurts from snorting most of a mug of hot Columbian.....

No. Just, no. Never. Never in a million years. If Biden was burning in hell, I would donate gasoline.

I have an entire book of matches.

BDS



Derpy