Russia's War Against Ukraine

[GDS_Starfury]

Ukrainian Forces successfully conducted a counterattack and pushed Russian Forces out of the outskirts of Bakhmut.
almost 2 months of grinding advances reversed in less then 2 days.  O0

[FarAway Sooner]

Good news if it holds.  I'm not sure I can match the key to the map, though!

[ArizonaTank]

So the Russians have a new pop song celebrating the Satan 2 ICBM.

As I tried to watch it (only got about 30 seconds in before I had to stop for health reasons), I could only think that I really want to see a Ukrainian parody of this. Something along the lines of Country Joe's "fix'in to die rag."

https://taskandpurpose.com/culture/russia-military-pop-song-nuclear-icbm-denis-maidanov-video/

[GDS_Starfury]

Zelensky at the front in Bakhmut, god damn this guy has balls.

[Gusington]

Whenever I see him in public I wonder what kind of security details he has.

[Windigo]

Ukrainian Forces successfully conducted a counterattack and pushed Russian Forces out of the outskirts of Bakhmut.
almost 2 months of grinding advances reversed in less then 2 days.  O0

[Windigo]

Whenever I see him in public I wonder what kind of security details he has.

just his balls...

[Crossroads]

Zelensky at the front in Bakhmut, god damn this guy has balls.

Yet, a humble man. Here's his speech with subtitles.

20 December 2022. President Putin awards defenders of his regime in the Kremlin.

President Zelensky delivers a powerful speech to the defenders of the nation, at the most fierce sector of the frontline, in Bakhmut.

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1605237743885459456

[Gusington]

Two HUGE security details.

[Victor]

Not sure if it's been posted before, but the Wavell Room had some interesting articles on tactics (or lack thereof) in Bakhmut specifically.

https://wavellroom.com/2022/12/15/the-battle-for-bakhmut/

This other one is about failings in Russian comms and why it's nigh-impossible for them to commit more than groups of ~30 infantry at a time.

https://wavellroom.com/2022/12/19/russian-army-tactical-communications/

There's also this infographic from the article showing the notional comms setup with the stuff that doesn't actually exist because of corruption crossed off...

https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/kenigtiger/503961/949457/949457_original.jpg

[GDS_Starfury]

good articles.

[bobarossa]

Hope Germany didn't send any of these to Ukraine!
https://apnews.com/article/nato-technology-germany-d1206cb49d36f5fab1c9848fd99e67de?utm_source=ForYou&utm_medium=HomePage&utm_id=Taboola
Every one of 18 Pumas in an exercise failed.  They're readying decades old Marders to replace them in the NATO Very High Readiness Joint Task Force.

[Con]

Zelensky at the front in Bakhmut, god damn this guy has balls.

With this background this looks like a scene out of a dystopian Terminator or Aliens movie
Con

[FarAway Sooner]

Very Terminator.  Cameron used lots of imagery of factories and heavy machinery throughout that film.  It's one of the reasons why the original show in the series got such critical acclaim in some circles, despite being made on a cheap-ass budget with low-class special effects.

[Sir Slash]

Zelensky might be a Terminator. Or John Connor. Or John Connor might've been Zelensky.  :o