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2022-04-08 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Day 43 Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Big Battle About to start in East

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Posted by Lord Garth 2022-04-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 ...Wondering if the Russians aren't going to just say screw it and go all human wave...

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2022-04-08 10:21|| 2022-04-08 10:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Russians might want to lick their wounds and play defense for a while.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-04-08 11:31|| 2022-04-08 11:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Notice the salient near Lukansk in the Donbas? It looks like the ~~Soviets~~ Russians are transferring troops from the Kiev area to Izyum and drive south to pocket the Ukrainian troops.

Posted by magpie 2022-04-08 11:35|| 2022-04-08 11:35|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ So no 'human wave', rather I expect the idea is to bag a goodly part of the UA and then declare the "War One Against the Nazis!". Gobbling the the biggest chunk of eastern Ukraine and thinking about taking more in a year or so...

Posted by magpie 2022-04-08 11:38|| 2022-04-08 11:38|| Front Page Top

#5 /\...War Won..., autocorrect is not my friend

Posted by magpie 2022-04-08 11:39|| 2022-04-08 11:39|| Front Page Top

#6 In my opinion I would like to know Badanovs opinion being a gamer and very knowledgeable of historical Russian war efforts other than human wave idea. Putin is a tenacious Russian bear in my opinion. Ceasefire. Allow population to leave. Then rocket barge then attack is my opinion. Flatten the place to reduce Russian losses. Ukraine will claim all sorts of Russian offenses. That is a given.

Posted by Dale 2022-04-08 11:43|| 2022-04-08 11:43|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ #4 I agree. Putin has got the goodies.

Posted by Dale 2022-04-08 11:45|| 2022-04-08 11:45|| Front Page Top

#8 Why is this such a mystery? Putin's strategy is clearly to neuter Ukraine. He has destroyed the country's ability to produce and export anything. He's cut Ukraine in two and permanently blocked it off from access to the Black Sea.

Strategically, Ukraine is now worthless to the West. Negative worth, actually... an endless sinkhole for billions annually in Western aid.

Putin doesn't give a shit about morality or the world's opinion, least of all about his own conscripts. He wanted to permanently destroy Ukraine as a threat and hescachieved that.

Posted by Ho Chi Cholurt7079 2022-04-08 11:49|| 2022-04-08 11:49|| Front Page Top

#9 Negative worth, actually... an endless sinkhole for billions annually in Western aid.

Don't you know? There are committees formed just to look for such treasures.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-08 11:51|| 2022-04-08 11:51|| Front Page Top

#10 #2 Russians might want to lick their wounds and play defense for a while.

I doubt it. They are already pushing hard and now the Ukrainians have the long ass supply lines from Kiev and Poland. It is a race between how far the Russians can push before the new weapons and reinforcements get there to stop them.

It is looking like whoever gets the most stuff there fastest will win this battle and Russia has the edge here.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-04-08 12:18|| 2022-04-08 12:18|| Front Page Top

#11 Russia now controls the region's natural gas reserves as well. Ukraine has Europe's second-largest reserves of natural gas, along with significant biogas, hydrogen and biomethane energy potential.

The natural gas reserves are concentrated in the east, in the Dnieper-Dobets and Carpathian Basin. Should be obvious why the Russians never cared about Kyiv. The real prize is in Donbas and along the coast.

Posted by Ho Chi Cholurt7079 2022-04-08 12:31|| 2022-04-08 12:31|| Front Page Top

#12

Posted by Caligula 2022-04-08 14:29|| 2022-04-08 14:29|| Front Page Top

#13 Mods: clean-up on Aisle#12 --Troll Poo

Posted by magpie 2022-04-08 14:51|| 2022-04-08 14:51|| Front Page Top

#14 Russian "offensive" now means death to the cruel bastards that Russia forced to die for Putin's ego.

Vladimir, Just keep sending them into the grinder.

Posted by Omaing Stalag1261 2022-04-08 15:26|| 2022-04-08 15:26|| Front Page Top

#15 Ukraine's in the meat grinder. Disaster for everyone except the Chinese

Posted by Unomble Threck6021 2022-04-08 15:35|| 2022-04-08 15:35|| Front Page Top

#16 Re# 12, How are you going to take our guns when you can't get through the Ukraine?

Posted by Chris 2022-04-08 15:44|| 2022-04-08 15:44|| Front Page Top

#17 An Official Kremlin spokesman has admitted that Russia has suffered significant loses in men and material and that some operations were bungled.

https://www.the-sun.com/news/5074809/putin-spokesman-admits-significant-loss-russian-troops/

Posted by Lord Garth 2022-04-08 15:55|| 2022-04-08 15:55|| Front Page Top

#18
#13 Mods: clean-up on Aisle#12 --Troll Poo

I wanna leave it up.

Posted by badanov 2022-04-08 16:47|| 2022-04-08 16:47|| Front Page Top

#19 Whoops! Sorry, badanov — I spam copped him before seeing your above. Lesson learnt. :-(

Posted by trailing wife 2022-04-08 19:17|| 2022-04-08 19:17|| Front Page Top

#20 The troll post made me giggle

Posted by DarthVader 2022-04-08 22:10|| 2022-04-08 22:10|| Front Page Top

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