Russian Invasion Of Ukraine

3 days in and not a single Russian boot has entered Kyiv. If even a small percentage of reports are accurate then the Ukrainians are largely ignoring the initial advance and targeting the supply convoys following behind and inflicting heavy damage.

Lots of images of Russian APCs parked up at the roadside after running out of fuel. The Ukrainian MOD have set up a hotline so Families can speak to captured & injured Russian troops. A very clever move, it's not so easy to hide the prisoners & body bags these days.

USAF E-8 JSTARS, RAF EC-135s & NATO E-3 AWACS have all been orbiting over Poland & Romania with their transponders on ( they show up on tracking sites) and it would appear that we're supplying the Ukrainians with intelligence on Russian movements.

RAF Typhoons & Voyager Tankers have also been visible on tracking sites coming back across the North Sea after taking part in the 24 hour Combat Air Patrol over Poland & Romania.

Poland is moving a lot of weapons to the Border to keep the Ukrainians supplied. A Polish Air Force C-130 came into RAF Brize Norton last night and picked something up, possibly more Javelin Missiles.

Ukraine Webcams (not the sort you get on MFC Wink. )

https://youtu.be/iUkfhlIvvKQ

https://youtu.be/CLs90jfVDSI


https://youtu.be/qy39oo6PcTU


Some of them occasionally go offline so don't read too much into it if you get a black screen.

https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-...-supplies/

germany seeing a little sense allowing movement of Arms into Ukraine via a third party mainly netherlands including 400 anti tank systems hopefully this means more in the long run

For anyone watching the BBC footage of Ukrainian Women making Molotov Cocktails and wondering why they're using polystyrene...


When it burns it melts & sticks. Pound shop Napalm.

Air raid Sirens sounding in Kyiv.

(26-02-2022 14:27 )The Silent Majority Wrote:  I know a couple of guys who served in the 1st gulf war. They are of the opinion this isn't going well for Putin.

Not well at all. Certainly not according to plan. I think Putin expected it to be all over by now.

(26-02-2022 14:27 )The Silent Majority Wrote:  Trying to take Kyiv is a big mistake. They should've bypassed it, cut it off, and carried on.

Very debatable. Without knowing Putin's exact aims it's hard to know what the correct strategy would be. If his priority was to quickly topple the Ukraine government then trying to take Kyiv would make sense.

I mean if they bypassed Kyiv and carried on where would they have carried on to? Ukraine's a pretty big place with a population of 44 million. It's going to be tough for Russian forces to occupy the whole country.

(26-02-2022 14:27 )The Silent Majority Wrote:  This isn't going to be over any time soon, whichever way it goes.

I concur with this assessment.

(27-02-2022 02:54 )CIA Snooper Wrote:  

(26-02-2022 14:27 )The Silent Majority Wrote:  Trying to take Kyiv is a big mistake. They should've bypassed it, cut it off, and carried on.

Very debatable. Without knowing Putin's exact aims it's hard to know what the correct strategy would be. If his priority was to quickly topple the Ukraine government then trying to take Kyiv would make sense.

I mean if they bypassed Kyiv and carried on where would they have carried on to? Ukraine's a pretty big place with a population of 44 million. It's going to be tough for Russian forces to occupy the whole country.

Well yes. But it hasn't happened so it is starting to look like a mistake.

They wouldn't need to go that far. Create a 50 mile exclusion radius and wait for the food to run out.
That wouldn't look at all good either, especially back home in Russia, but that's looking at it from a purely strategic viewpoint.

Internet access has been blocked in areas of the Ukraine.
So Elon Musk has now announced that he has activated the Starlink satellite internet service over Ukraine.

When asked about fleeing Ukrainians wishing to come to England, Kevin Foster the Governments Immigration Minister said on a tweet that they can apply for the UK’s seasonal worker scheme (e.g. vegetable picking) to qualify for a visa.

He has since removed the tweet.

(26-02-2022 11:10 )William H Bonney Wrote:  It was Russia that blocked Pornhub

I can still get Pornhub, and I live 18 miles from Moscow

You'd better hope the Americans put the right Moscow into the satnav on the ballistic missiles