Ukraine under fire. All while leaving Ukrainian military infrastructure all but untouched meaning all they’ve achieved is wasting missiles and giving a force that’s already kicking arse more motivation to kick harder.
Russian command is baffling to say the least. After 8 months of this one would think they’ve learned a bit but no, they still think we’re in 1944
I would be cautious to accept Ukrainian numbers when it comes to downing missiles. There is usually an element of info war for purposes of morale. The attack today is still going on and is extremely brutal.
When I looked at the still of that video it almost looked like Putin had a swastika carved on his forehead 
Why doesn’t Ukraine respond in kind? Fear of losing the moral high ground and potentially some western support? Hope that the Orcs and peasants will suddenly come to the realisation that their country is now a terrorist state and they have to take responsibility for electing and continuing to support their endorsed madman? Well when does the time come that this excuse no longer washes? In WWII the allies didn’t shed many tears for German citizens who were carpet bombed - Russians are arguably more culpable than their German WW2 counterparts as modern media gives them more ready access to the atrocities carried out by their government. I wonder at what point UKR will consider retaliation?
It wastes arms and achieves nothing. The most likely response from Russia would be commit more atrocities. There is little point in trading atrocities. Putin obviously doesn’t give a damn about his own people but he can ill afford any more losses to his military. If they are suitable demotivated they may discover that AK47’s can be pointed in either direction.
Firing what appears to be 50+ missiles at largely ‘terror’ targets are a demonstration that the Russians don’t see a way to restore their fortunes. Ukraine probably should start considering reciprocal attacks on energy infrastructure, but not departing from what they have been doing. The Russians don’t have the arsenal to sustain this tempo for long.
I think they might well be in the ball park when quoting figures. MANPADS have intercepted some as shown here. With reliable missile tracking, I think this sort of action is probably more common than we see. Hopefully.
https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1579433935075147777?s=20&t=8VQg2x3ZM05sUO52BXsV8w
Lad saved lives there, good on him.
Ukr appear to be rotating troops out in both their areas of recent advances. Quite striking that the Russians have basically not rotated at all throughout this conflict, many of those formations must have essentially no attacking capacity at all.
I suspect the next major Ukrainian attack is going to be to cut the Russian position in half, south of Zaporizhzhia. That sector of the front has seen reserves reallocated both north and south.
That usage is not exactly in the instruction manual, Raytheon will be sending a bill to the Pentagon…
Stumbled on a thread going into detail about what air defenses exists, against what kind of attacks, and the limits of an air defense system to cover for a huge country with lots of potential targets.
Things are afoot in Belarus again. Let’s see what reports come up in the next couple of days.
Hard agree. Before today, Germany would deliver Iris within months or weeks, difficult to understand why and how delivery time is decreased because of this attack. Why did this change of Russian attack regime need to happen to speed up delivery ? If it’s true that delivery can now be hastened, that’s just very bad. My opinion.
On the disgraceful Israeli position where is cowtows to Russia (Israel is only strong when it comes to bomb and shell weak Arabs guerillas and a completely broken Syrian army):
EXACTLY ! Words are useless now, have no effect; and only weapons and increased support can change Russian calculus:
It’s hard to find the right words here.