Russia's War Against Ukraine

[ArizonaTank]

Prigozhin (head of the Wagner Group), complains in an interview re-posted in the Moscow Times that city fighting is so hard...who knew?

Russian troops attacking the Ukrainian town of Bakhmut are bogged down because of a tenacious Ukrainian resistance and an extensive network of defensive fortifications, the head of Russia's mercenary company Wagner said Tuesday.

There is a "fortress in every house" in Bakhmut, Yevgeny Prigozhin said in an interview with state news agency RIA Novosti.

"The lads are fighting over every house, sometimes for more than a day. Sometimes it takes them weeks to capture a house. They take one house, they take another."
....

Prigozhin offered little reassurance that Bakhmut could be seized any time soon.

"They took one house this morning and broke through the defenses. But behind that house were new defensive lines — and not just one," he told RIA Novosti.

"And how many such defensive lines are there in Artemovsk [Bakhmut]? If we say 500 we probably won't be making a mistake. Every 10 meters there is a defensive line," he said.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russian-mercenary-chief-complains-it-takes-weeks-to-capture-a-house-in-ukraine/ar-AA15VQ4V?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=b8ddf2623e034cc292ec1d97b781f39a

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/01/03/russia-making-slow-progress-in-fortress-bakhmut-wagner-boss-prigozhin-a79866

[Sir Slash]

Uh Oh. Looks like SOME ONE's not getting a raise this year.  #:-)

[Gusington]

Maybe a raise up to the 50th floor of a skyscraper with an open window.

[Sir Slash]

I would NOT want to be his Food Taster.

[Crossroads]

"France to send tanks *) to Ukraine."  :hide:

Just realised that this lovely chart is suddenly newsworthy.

https://twitter.com/shashj/status/1610750511485190144


*) AMX-10 RCs that is.

Edit: also  ;D

Let's put our differences aside and all agree to call this thing a tank - at least in front of any senior SPD politicians

https://twitter.com/tobiaschneider/status/1610742064337289217

[Crossroads]

 :nerd:

So to summarise, there are tanks that are tanks and there are tanks that are not tanks, and some tanks are tanks according to an official document and some tanks are not tanks according to the annex of that document and another document says no one knows what a tank is anyway.

https://twitter.com/RikeFranke/status/1610959069887582208

[Gusington]

Heh 'Toyota Land Cruiser is a tank'

[Crossroads]

Heh 'Toyota Land Cruiser is a tank'

There was another meme that listed a 1980s Volvo SW as a tank. Can't argue with that!

[Gusington]

^I can vouch for the Volvos. I would like to have a Land Cruiser one day...not necessarily a technical but I won't rule anything out.

[ArizonaTank]

^I can vouch for the Volvos. I would like to have a Land Cruiser one day...not necessarily a technical but I won't rule anything out.

My vote is for Skoda pickups.

The lineage is there. Skoda built Jagdpanzer 38s (Hetzers) during the WW2.

[GDS_Starfury]

I dont think the Ukraine is going to care very much about putins christmas cease fire.

[ArizonaTank]

I dont think the Ukraine is going to care very much about putins christmas cease fire.

I don't think so either. But I am sure Putin will make some domestic propaganda points out of it when the Ukrainians keep fighting. That will play well with his domestic hard-liners.

[ArizonaTank]

Russian criminals, pardoned after fighting in Ukraine for the Wagner Group, are now being released back to Russia.

What could go wrong?

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-anger-wagner-group-prisoners-pardoned-prigozhin-1771477

[Sir Slash]

This is shocking and stunning. Russians are allowed to give their opinions?  :o

[Gusington]

No, only the prisoners...which is almost the entire country.