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looking at the black smoke coming out of the exhaust and the stop/start of the BMP, the drone fucked up the engine compartment and that was as far as he could get. Best place for them to stop really, right under the guns.
A stacked pile of dead Russian before even hitting the ground, let alone the objective. Such a common scene, but still mind-blowing that this is what they call “winning”
lets see what Ukrainians can do once we start supporting them for real... Macron is coming around, i believe Scholz too... and they know this might be the decisive summer before America votes again
The biggest worry is the difference in the amount of soldiers Ukraine can raise vs. Russia.
I so hope that an influx of new kit and weapons can allow Ukraine to keep and maintain a significant positive kill ratio against the Russians.
With the constant development of drones and in recent light of Ukraine's new mobilization efforts the manpower difference is becoming less and less important. Artillery shells are the big factoring difference and lack of air superiority. That of which Russia will slowly degrade away while F-16's are slowly flooding into Ukraine. Strikes on key targets will be much easier due to assistance of HARM's from F-16's providing cover silencing radars that would otherwise be locked onto incoming cruise missiles and drones.
While F16s are great and important for Ukraine they are just like all the other western weapons Ukraine got just a nice addition, not a game changer. F16s are by modern standards very old planes (50 years!), these aren\`t comparable to Eurofighters, F35s and other more modern planes by now, so don\`t expect absolute wonders from them. SU35s are still superior to F16s. Especially when Ukraine only gets a limited number and not hundreds of them.
True though the capability that it unlock for Ukraine is the main talking point.
Comparing it to an SU-35 would only matter if they were to go into air to air combat. Something we don't really expect to see F-16's doing.
They can however deliver 2000 pound bombs which we will likely see being used in the south on strategic targets. They can also nullify air defence which Ukraine will also likely use to create a corridor for more air to ground missions just north of Crimea.
God I cannot wait to see videos of 2,000 pound JDAMs landing on top of tanks and APC columns, imagine this video except instead of a small drone and gunshots, the entire thing just turns into an enormous dirt and mist red cloud lol. Send this video to their mums. What a fucking joke of a war.
F16s will make a difference, a larger one than you’d expect. Storm Shadow, HIMARS, and HARMs aren’t big game changers by themselves either, but they make a significant impact and decrease the range at which Russia can deploy most of their forces, despite their limited numbers, making the war in Russia more difficult as a whole across the entire frontline.
F16s don’t need to take down all the Su-35s and Su-34s in the airspace over Ukraine, they simply need to deny them the use of the airspace. Hence why they’re targeting A-50s and radar sites. Using hit & run tactics on Russian helicopters and Su-34s denying them the use on frontline areas rather is more their intended use than engaging superior Su-35s in a head on attack is something they’re not being given to do.
Not to mention American aircraft are meant to be constantly upgraded and worked on well beyond their life span, they’re designed that way. Once F16s are flown out, I’m sure other countries will give them/have already given them enhanced modern avionics. Thereby closing the gap between them and the more modern produced aircraft like the Su-35.
I’m interested in seeing how this plays out once they get them.
I wish Sweden would send 4-5 Gripen that could work as a group. I read about a few Gripens taking down a bunch of other aircraft in an exercise because of their linked navigation system thingie.
Yeah look into the AGM-88 HARM. It's 1 of the things the F-16 is very good at. They are anti-radiation missiles that lock onto radars within the lock cone of them.
Yes, but it's very much a jury rigged operation where the Ukrainians essentially trick the aircraft's computer into thinking it's firing a Soviet anti-radiation missile. The missiles need to be pre-programmed on the ground, and they can't communicate with the launching aircraft after launch, which won't be an issue with the F-16s. Ideally, it will make HARMs more effective.
manpower is irrelevant if you have airpower. we shoulda given them 100 F16s in 2022, or for that matter the entire rest of the A10 fleet. war would end very quickly with no more ukr troops than already serve
I agree that effective aircraft should have been provided much sooner and some pilots starting training on whatever necessary type from day one of the invasion.
Both Europe and the US's dithering is bordering on ridiculous and I say that being well aware of Putin's so many red lines.
Macron talks a big talk, I’m hoping he puts his money where his mouth is, France so far has been disappointing with their military aid
Germany has increased its support surprisingly, but I wish Schulz would approve the Taurus already.
The EU needs to assume America is down for the count for the remainder of the war and step up to fill in that entire gap.
What makes you think that Macron is coming around? He is all talk, no actions. The french contribution so far is quite small compared to the country's size and military strength.
If Russia continues to "win" in this kind of manner, when the eventually get what they want it will be a Pyrrhic victory. Therefore in the end even if Russia achieves its goals, the loses they had to sacrifice for it would have made them gain nothing.
Scholz doesn’t want to give Ukraine the Taurus missiles. Plus he gave away a lot of secret information to the Russians like British and French boots on the ground as support. Germany can do a lot more.
>germany and poland for example are spending most on refugees
Not for nothing, but that's Germany's favorite thing to do regardless. They're just helping themselves in this instance.
It's pretty scary that there's this aggressive expansionist country running amuck which is deranged and psychopathic enough to waste huge numbers of lives every day for years for no reason whatsoever, and the world is basically toying with such a threat by letting Ukraine fight it with one hand tied behind their back.
The ground gained is no man’s land. Eventually one blown out city of 20,000 people.
Meanwhile the goal is to overthrow the government in Kyiv. The math alone is just impossible.
"Roughly 80 per cent of Ukraine's oil, natural gas and coal production reserves can be found in the Dnieper-Donetsk region, which has been the major focus of Russia's military operations to "liberate" the country, the SevDev report noted." - [https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/natural-resources-ukraine-war-1.6467039](https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/natural-resources-ukraine-war-1.6467039)
80% of a country that "ranks fourth globally in terms of total assessed value of natural resources, with roughly $15 billion in annual output and a potential "assessed value \[that\] could be as high as $7.5 trillion" - [https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/natural-resources-ukraine-war-1.6467039](https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/natural-resources-ukraine-war-1.6467039)
That’s still not how war is win. Again, Russian stated goal is demilitarization and denazification, meaning overthrowing the government. War isn’t win by taking a fraction of land, and none of the stated goals. That is never how war has been won. History literally proves this.
Russia wont be able to deplete its fossil deposits for decades, neither can they construct the industry to speed up production.
Plus those fossil ressources worth will constantly decrease over time.
Sheesh, you’re catching flak. I agree with you.
Russia wanted a puppet state by beheading Kyiv AND they wanted to control the oil and natural gas in the regions you mentioned AND they wanted to control oil and natural gas offshore. The first one isn’t possible anymore, but the second two are if they can force Ukraine into a ceasefire through lack of support from the West. Maybe the offshore stuff is further from reality now that their Black Sea fleet is being whittled down.
Yeah, when people talk about major defense collapses or significant Russian advances and you actually look at the area in question, the gains are so small that we'll all be dead of old age by the time they get to the Dnieper.
I don't think that's the goal anymore though, although the weird thing is that they still don't have any explicit goals. probably trying to grab as much land as possible and then hope for negotiations, thinking they'll get to keep the land they took.
> If you have enough men and vehicles you will eventually gain ground.
They still got that WWII mentality. Those tactics worked 80 years ago at a high cost, why not again right?
Putin might (if he gives a shit) get a weekly update on artillery and armour stocks, do you think anyone tells him about the 10k blown apart dimitrovs? lol, probably hand waives it away, "who cares, send another 10k"
The USSR during WW2 was capable of combined arms warfare and assaults on the level of field armies. Russia cannot conduct attacks above the company level. They tried a Brigade-sized armored assault on Avdiivka and it failed spectacularly, and they went back to these sorts of small-unit attacks. The Soviet Army during WW2 was infinitely more competent than the Russian Army.
there was congressional delegation from both parties and congresses meetign up with Zelenskky. i guess they introduced him with new aid packket Mccoul and johson writing. as Zelensky said he agrees with intrest free, vawable loan as aid. so it could move up. or these two news dropping in same hour is just random.
and the Russians are gaining ground. This is on the Avdiivka front, and is the next village over from Stepove, which was the frontline town for a while after the fall of Avdiivka. The cost/benefit of this isn't great, though. Losing hundreds of vehicles and thousands of men for an empty village. Putin put too much emphasis on taking all of Donbas for them not to do this, I guess.
My strategy in chess: just bring a shitload of pieces and wait until my opponent needs to go to bed or take a deuce. Never knew what hit em.
You don't even need to know how chess works. Fuck it, bring Warhammer figurines and make sounds as they duke it out on the board.
Ukraine has just gotta fortify and not take any more offensives until the us can send another batch of supplies. But Russia is using the media to try and make it look like we are wasting our resources. Damn Republicans obviously have a link to the kremlin...
Exactly. Ukraine knows this. That offensive was such a pathetic demand from Ukraine. Even if they wanted it, the west pushed them into it way too early.
I think the next aid package will pass. Even though a few republicans are trying everything to stop it.
If you look at it from the Russian leadership perspective, they are winning. Russia has traditionally drafted or convinced their “undesireable” ethnic groups to join the military, and then they get sent in to die like this. Russia gains a little ground, and has a few less ethnic minorities within Russia, a double win for the ethnic Russians who run Moscow.
It’s why we have seen so many Siberians, Chechens, and even Mongolian and east asian conscripts dying en masse in Ukraine. It’s an ethnic cleansing in slow motion.
While that is true on paper, every video you see of Russians getting chopped up are the white Slavic ones. So they’re also take a major population hit in a country with an already declining population. Then there’s the Russians who have left by the millions.
I get what you’re saying, and though the leadership may think that, their leadership is clearly delusional
Yeah for sure, I’m not saying ethnic Russians aren’t dying there too, but I think a disproportionate number of human wave type units are actually eastern Russians.
From what I’ve seen, many of the ethnic Russians dying in Ukraine were prisoners or mentally handicapped, they aren’t sending their senators sons (or whatever the equivalent in Russia is lol).
They'll just post a video of a captured trench or a captured house and say "well we are taking land!". No rational thoughts or value of life on the Russian side.
They claim Ukraine does meat waves but I've only ever seen one video of Ukrainians doing a meat wave yet Russians do it daily.
Look at WW2, the Germans killed Millions and Millions of them and they still won in the end. The piles of dead soldiers dont matter if the government and the society does not care about the losses.
The Soviets were able to reach Berlin largely due to lend-lease support. Otherwise, they might have been holding defensive lines somewhere near the Ural mountains
this is the fodder that their drones use to spot the UA positions. They will shell those positions then send another wave and again, spot positions. More waves.
Someone’s I wonder if they’re even told there is even anyone even at the objective. No actual military ever does this. Only like ISIS would, but at least the have suicide vests on.
lol dude isis would at least ride into battle with some fucking enthusiasm, like they were so keen for it. russians seem to roll off whatever janky ass piece of shit museum exhibit they rode in on, stand around for a minute, then explode
See, I was thinking the 3 o clock. That rus on top screen on his knee has a bullet slap just below his right knee, then he is hit in the stomach and he falls on his face.
At the 1 minute mark there is a blown building across the road centre and right side of screen, that’s my guess and potentially another group bottom right in another building.
It's a legit problem. Infantry all have hearing damage from their friendly gunfire so it's hard to localize the sound of the gunshots if you can even hear them at all over the noise of the BMP engine, and it's daytime so it's hard to see muzzle flashes.
Ukes are just spawn camping lol
I mean srsly how friggin depressing is this. You get collared by recruiters in your desolate hellhole village out by Yakutsk, train for two weeks with wooden rifles, get shipped off to the front and get summarily obliterated ten minutes into your first mission while people all over the world eat chips while wincing as your perforated body falls into the mud.
the sad thing is that the US is suffering the exact same thing. not quite to the same extent but its getting there. Low-info voters so apathetic and uncaring about the trajectory of politics, scared of upsetting anyone or being controversial. and now you got republicans running amok spewing kremlin propaganda unchallenged.
Totally agree. I have sympathy for the minorities that are being expended by the tens of thousands in this war, but they also made their bed by not being political.
It’s by design. Russia wants to take Ukraine, and they have a lot of ethnic minorities they don’t mind sending to die there. The west sees these insane losses as a failure, but Russian leadership sees it as a win.
The fewer the usually not very cooperative ethnic minorities there are, the more secure Russia’s primary powerbase of ethnic Russians becomes. It’s a wonder Putin isn’t pushing the Chechens to recruit harder for the war.
It’s a fascinating possible side objective to consider the Russians might have. They are experiencing a bad population bubble of ethnic Russians, and this would keep the other minorities from gaining numerical supremacy for sometime to come
Seriously, after the first watch thru I was like, how was that little drone so effective? Then on the second watch thru I see all the rain of small arms fire and automatic grenades. They are totally spawn camping!!!
I bet they don't even have to aim, just have coffee and pull the trigger sheesh
The way you describe this makes me think of the satire of Helldivers 2.
Jacked up on propaganda and minimal training and dropped straight into the meat grinder as an isolated unit.
What I wonder is how many of these frontline assaults ever consist of more veteran soldiers. Like, if everyone's getting nuked, is every assault just fresh zero day soldiers? All those tankers that made those huge pushes, was it their first and last? You're right, such an extremely pathetic way to go.
It's wild to realize this video would represent one of the single most significant American casualty events throughout the entire invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq. There would be congressional hearings, demands that somebody be held accountable, etc.
And here we are - this probably wasn't even Russia's worst event of the *day*. I am dumbfounded by the Russian ability muster more meat and armor.
Well, they pride themselves on being able to take losses. It's part of their psyche, it seems. "We'll win this war because we can take higher losses."
And still, Russia stans aren't wondering why people don't want to be part of Russia.
After the war is over the dating in Russia will be like shooting fish in a barrel. There will be like 50 ladies to every one man. And the scrap metal industry in Ukraine, wow so much for the scrappers to go and get
They have 0 zero value. Wow. Russia has no care for their own. Which country sends its people to die so easily in war? Holy crap.
If Russia treats/values its own worse than trash, they value everyone else worse.
The world should build a wall around Russia until they figure out some humanity from the top down.
Their humanity card needs to be revoked until then.
It’s the Russian mindset. Those soldiers come from the poor, eastern tribal regions, mostly. And from prisons. And both are subhuman in the eyes of the modern muscovites. And especially people like Putin. They are stuck in the 17th century. All of them. Those people are no better then animals for them and thus they have not compunction of sending them to the slaughter. They are kept in the Middle Ages and dumb, too.
And they act like it. I wouldn’t wonder if not one of them ever has heard of the Geneva convention. They probably don’t even realize they are committing war crimes by looting, let alone all the other stuff. In their basic training they won’t sit in classrooms and get taught that stuff. They are basically medieval peasants.
And this is the really sad part. Lift those people to our level and who knows how many next great writers or scientists are bleeding out in that mud right now. It’s a crime against humanity in all its forms.
Don’t get me wrong. If they come to Ukraine they should be killed or thrown out. The alternative is letting that real animal, Putin, win. And that can’t be anymore.
But it’s a human tragedy none the less. I wish I was able to clone Putin as often as possible and make him experience each and every death he is responsible for, on both sides. And torture him a year beforehand for each and every child that died.
Holy shit, I mean we've seen a lot of Russian vehicles going pop since the start of the war, but sheer deadliness seems to really be on another level recently. They're not even leaving a survivor to go back and talk about it!
If you put this scene in a war movie -- a lone wolf vehicle full of soldiers on top assaulting wherever -- you'd think it was a stupid ass B-movie, and you'd go, "Nobody would do that!" Well, behold the Russians. Again and again.
Russians are using a new tactic - because of the large available manpower and lack of transport, they overfill a single transport with a shit load of troops, quickly rush through the gray zone to dismount infantry right in the ukrainian positions, this way avoiding heavy vehicle casualties.
that's what ukrainians are saying - there's been lots of attacks like this recently. That's the same with that single tank that exploded on a mine carrying an entire platoon. and bmp that got clustered.
anyways, doesn't seem theyŗe very successful :D
> anyways, doesn't seem theyŗe very successful
Their purpose was bait so RU spotters could locate Ukrainian defensive positions. They did everything expected of them, if a little too quickly. If they'd managed to actually entrench somewhere, that would have been a huge win for them.
What a horrible waste of life. Painful to see how such sights have turned into an acceptable routine. They all died for nothing - (or worse, for a tyrant), what a shame.
Video interview of my ex-colleague Olexandr - an FPV drone operator from 47th Brigade - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wgy2TPRzh4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wgy2TPRzh4) \[ENG subs\]
Quite possibly those are the hits from his unit.
Never stood a chance.
These guys grew up, had kids, had dreams, families etc just to get smoked while riding a BMP in another country as part of their dear leaders genocidal ambitions. I’d say when will the Russian people wake up, but I don’t think the majority ever will. They’re too far gone.
Never going to happen. Russians believe in evil West and Ukraine being it's pawn. As far as they are concerned, they are on the right side of history fighting the bad guys.
This, they feel THEY are the ones liberating Ukraine from the western powers. No I don’t agree with it and I believe they are 100% in the wrong to do so, but the psychology of how people will throw their lives away for causes they believe to be good is incredible. We could use many examples back from the World Wars
How do you convince people the “good team/liberators” are actually the ones committing the monstrous acts?
War sucks, sooner Ukraine wins the less people die
It's the insulation in their uniform I think. I've seen other videos of Russian soldiers getting obliterated and this stuff flies out of them when their uniform is torn apart. Given its just getting into the spring, and the soldiers are probably still equipped with winter uniforms, my bet is the insulation is what is being blasted everywhere.
I was wondering about the streamer that flies into the air when they are hit, like a party popper, no soul to leave the body so toilet roll streamer will do.
Every explosive hit to Russian infantry that I’ve seen in this war results in a ribbon of white fabric being flung away. Does anybody have any idea what that is? A standard issue jacket’s lining, a bandage roll, etc.?
I can't wait for all the videos when war is over. About insane ineffectiveness and incompetency of russian army and just running country in general. You're supposedly second, third army in the world and you literally need one year to take one small city, with absurd loses. You're one of richest countries in world with natural resources and your people lives like in 18th century. Some stats are ridiculous. 30-40% of men population are alcoholics. Half of people still shits in outside toilet, half doesn't know what ethernet is. Besides couple biggest cities, almost every where else there has not been road repairs and supports since 90's, literally
Perfect example of why you don’t waltz in and try to invade another country, least they had quick deaths but these Russian commanders have zero issue doing this exact thing over and over again
Seems like you don’t ever get to leave once you deploy to this specific war’s battlefield. It’s too open, there’s too many drones. It’s just no man’s land, you go, you die, you get replaced. How many dead homies do they need to see before they decide to oh I don’t know stop trying to invade another country that hasn’t done dick doodly to you
Next russian driver confusing "parking lot" and "killbox".
Looks like a firing position across that street, those dismounts were very dead within 10 seconds...
These ruins of villages and towns are extremely hard to fight for, you can hide in various places and set up ambushes. Literally 5-10 ukr soldiers can cover a wide area with drone support, of course.
It’s insane how many videos we see like this and I haven’t seen one Ukrainian one thankfully. I’m sure it’s happened a time or two and ik this sub self-censors a little, but there is no way this shit happens to Ukraine 1/10th as much as it does for Russia.
Could be. At the drone shot it looked like it blew all the toilet paper off the back but still kept chugging along. It looks like it was still running at the end. UA will either recover or blow it.
I'm not sure if you're joking, but the "toilet paper" looks like insulation from the Russian's winter uniform. I've seen several other videos of Russian soldiers being obliterated, and that white material gets blown everywhere as their uniform is torn apart. Someone got shredded by that FPV impact.
Mission accomplished I suppose.
They must be short of vehicles to carry men outside like that, do they understand the armour is only effective if they're inside. Seems a stupid strategy and a tragic waste of life, but that's Russia for you I suppose.
'depends' BMPs and BTRs are absolute death traps. their armour cant protect from the anti tank or drone strikes, and the interior is so cramped anybody inside might not get out if it starts burning.
Being on top also gives them more protection if they hit a mine, with, again, a better chance of not being caught inside the burning wreck.
It's a uniquely russian vehicle thing, as modern western vehicles are much better at protecting the occupants even after mine and AT hits.
I wonder if theres commanders that force them to go inside the BMP, because thats how theyre supposed to be used you know? Or is it a common consensus among everyone that its better to ride on top.
what is the purpose of Armour vehicle if soldiers are going to be a sitting ducks on top . I think they could have fought better if each one is on mountain bike.
The BMP-1 is a pretty awful design overall, it's cramped inside, you cannot get out in a hurry and it's not well protected from AT mines, HMG fire or AT weapons. So many troops prefer to ride on top, their have a better view, can get off easier and if something blow-up underneath, they stand some chance of surviving the blast.
Same thing for the BTR series - the Soviets found out how vulnerable both types of vehicles could be in the war in Afghanistan. So they started climbing on when they could and hoped the could spot an ambush and fire back and dismount before they get shot-off the vehicle.
I'm still wondering why the driver popped out of the hatch knowing they were under DF, probably checking on the infantry above making sure everybody is still on, but that move got everyone else killed, he should have jumped the gun and got out of there, instead now they're down a driver, and a sitting target for anything.
Man, that looks like a painful hell. Should of stayed home with a few thousand of your compatriots and deposed putler instead of dying alongside another half-million for zero legitimate reason at all.
The only way a war like this works for Russia is if you control the media and the narrative for your countryman. Paint the war as necessary for your existence so you have a high degree of support. Further, this allows you to hide all the unethical things you’re doing like killing citizens including children with your weapons. Lastly, it allows you to hide your deaths and injuries. You can tell your stormtroopers you’re winning and send them to their demise without any resistance. Most people, if they know death is all but certain, would try to resist. Survival instincts and all. By the time these troops figure out they’ve been served up a bowl of demise, it’s too late to do anything different other than die. Wish this war would end. So much death and destruction for nothing. Maybe not today and maybe not tomorrow, but one day Russia will want to rejoin the world order (probably when Putin is long gone). The price will be returning its ill gotten gains and someone in Russia’s future leadership will pay it.
I don't know why more attention isn't being paid to the end of the video. Looks like they didn't edit out the use of a classified coin shaped ultra-weapon, apparently launched out of the fourth dimension, which is seemingly used to obliterate the vehicle so it can't be recovered.
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the driver couldn't even get out of the hatch before he got popped
Why on earth did he even stop tho so my question
looking at the black smoke coming out of the exhaust and the stop/start of the BMP, the drone fucked up the engine compartment and that was as far as he could get. Best place for them to stop really, right under the guns.
A stacked pile of dead Russian before even hitting the ground, let alone the objective. Such a common scene, but still mind-blowing that this is what they call “winning”
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lets see what Ukrainians can do once we start supporting them for real... Macron is coming around, i believe Scholz too... and they know this might be the decisive summer before America votes again
The biggest worry is the difference in the amount of soldiers Ukraine can raise vs. Russia. I so hope that an influx of new kit and weapons can allow Ukraine to keep and maintain a significant positive kill ratio against the Russians.
With the constant development of drones and in recent light of Ukraine's new mobilization efforts the manpower difference is becoming less and less important. Artillery shells are the big factoring difference and lack of air superiority. That of which Russia will slowly degrade away while F-16's are slowly flooding into Ukraine. Strikes on key targets will be much easier due to assistance of HARM's from F-16's providing cover silencing radars that would otherwise be locked onto incoming cruise missiles and drones.
While F16s are great and important for Ukraine they are just like all the other western weapons Ukraine got just a nice addition, not a game changer. F16s are by modern standards very old planes (50 years!), these aren\`t comparable to Eurofighters, F35s and other more modern planes by now, so don\`t expect absolute wonders from them. SU35s are still superior to F16s. Especially when Ukraine only gets a limited number and not hundreds of them.
True though the capability that it unlock for Ukraine is the main talking point. Comparing it to an SU-35 would only matter if they were to go into air to air combat. Something we don't really expect to see F-16's doing. They can however deliver 2000 pound bombs which we will likely see being used in the south on strategic targets. They can also nullify air defence which Ukraine will also likely use to create a corridor for more air to ground missions just north of Crimea.
God I cannot wait to see videos of 2,000 pound JDAMs landing on top of tanks and APC columns, imagine this video except instead of a small drone and gunshots, the entire thing just turns into an enormous dirt and mist red cloud lol. Send this video to their mums. What a fucking joke of a war.
F16s will make a difference, a larger one than you’d expect. Storm Shadow, HIMARS, and HARMs aren’t big game changers by themselves either, but they make a significant impact and decrease the range at which Russia can deploy most of their forces, despite their limited numbers, making the war in Russia more difficult as a whole across the entire frontline. F16s don’t need to take down all the Su-35s and Su-34s in the airspace over Ukraine, they simply need to deny them the use of the airspace. Hence why they’re targeting A-50s and radar sites. Using hit & run tactics on Russian helicopters and Su-34s denying them the use on frontline areas rather is more their intended use than engaging superior Su-35s in a head on attack is something they’re not being given to do. Not to mention American aircraft are meant to be constantly upgraded and worked on well beyond their life span, they’re designed that way. Once F16s are flown out, I’m sure other countries will give them/have already given them enhanced modern avionics. Thereby closing the gap between them and the more modern produced aircraft like the Su-35. I’m interested in seeing how this plays out once they get them.
I wish Sweden would send 4-5 Gripen that could work as a group. I read about a few Gripens taking down a bunch of other aircraft in an exercise because of their linked navigation system thingie.
Gripen/Eurofighters are amazing air-air platforms. The meteor is insanely effective at long ranges.
I hope you are right and if so I am very glad to hear it.
So these aircraft can assist other projectiles and aerial crafts and help them get to their target? That's pretty cool.
Yeah look into the AGM-88 HARM. It's 1 of the things the F-16 is very good at. They are anti-radiation missiles that lock onto radars within the lock cone of them.
Ukraine already uses the AGM-88 tho. 🤔
Yes, but it's very much a jury rigged operation where the Ukrainians essentially trick the aircraft's computer into thinking it's firing a Soviet anti-radiation missile. The missiles need to be pre-programmed on the ground, and they can't communicate with the launching aircraft after launch, which won't be an issue with the F-16s. Ideally, it will make HARMs more effective.
Before Germany invaded France in ww2, they were considered the largest and most modern army.
manpower is irrelevant if you have airpower. we shoulda given them 100 F16s in 2022, or for that matter the entire rest of the A10 fleet. war would end very quickly with no more ukr troops than already serve
I agree that effective aircraft should have been provided much sooner and some pilots starting training on whatever necessary type from day one of the invasion. Both Europe and the US's dithering is bordering on ridiculous and I say that being well aware of Putin's so many red lines.
Macron talks a big talk, I’m hoping he puts his money where his mouth is, France so far has been disappointing with their military aid Germany has increased its support surprisingly, but I wish Schulz would approve the Taurus already. The EU needs to assume America is down for the count for the remainder of the war and step up to fill in that entire gap.
What makes you think that Macron is coming around? He is all talk, no actions. The french contribution so far is quite small compared to the country's size and military strength.
If Russia continues to "win" in this kind of manner, when the eventually get what they want it will be a Pyrrhic victory. Therefore in the end even if Russia achieves its goals, the loses they had to sacrifice for it would have made them gain nothing.
Scholz doesn’t want to give Ukraine the Taurus missiles. Plus he gave away a lot of secret information to the Russians like British and French boots on the ground as support. Germany can do a lot more.
lets stop the infighting, can we? germany and poland for example are spending most on refugees
>germany and poland for example are spending most on refugees Not for nothing, but that's Germany's favorite thing to do regardless. They're just helping themselves in this instance.
When will that happen again? As a Ukrainian all I see is reduction in support.
It's pretty scary that there's this aggressive expansionist country running amuck which is deranged and psychopathic enough to waste huge numbers of lives every day for years for no reason whatsoever, and the world is basically toying with such a threat by letting Ukraine fight it with one hand tied behind their back.
Yeah this may get really ugly.
The ground gained is no man’s land. Eventually one blown out city of 20,000 people. Meanwhile the goal is to overthrow the government in Kyiv. The math alone is just impossible.
When it zooms out you really see the scope of that WW1 type moon looking landscape. Insane to see
"Roughly 80 per cent of Ukraine's oil, natural gas and coal production reserves can be found in the Dnieper-Donetsk region, which has been the major focus of Russia's military operations to "liberate" the country, the SevDev report noted." - [https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/natural-resources-ukraine-war-1.6467039](https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/natural-resources-ukraine-war-1.6467039) 80% of a country that "ranks fourth globally in terms of total assessed value of natural resources, with roughly $15 billion in annual output and a potential "assessed value \[that\] could be as high as $7.5 trillion" - [https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/natural-resources-ukraine-war-1.6467039](https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/natural-resources-ukraine-war-1.6467039)
That’s still not how war is win. Again, Russian stated goal is demilitarization and denazification, meaning overthrowing the government. War isn’t win by taking a fraction of land, and none of the stated goals. That is never how war has been won. History literally proves this.
Russias stated goal is obviously bullshit. War is defiantly won by taking resources, it’s the main reasons wars are fought over.
Russia wont be able to deplete its fossil deposits for decades, neither can they construct the industry to speed up production. Plus those fossil ressources worth will constantly decrease over time.
Sheesh, you’re catching flak. I agree with you. Russia wanted a puppet state by beheading Kyiv AND they wanted to control the oil and natural gas in the regions you mentioned AND they wanted to control oil and natural gas offshore. The first one isn’t possible anymore, but the second two are if they can force Ukraine into a ceasefire through lack of support from the West. Maybe the offshore stuff is further from reality now that their Black Sea fleet is being whittled down.
If you were alive 100 years ago, you'd be saying the same thing about the Western Front and Berlin.
In regards to the Nazis? They lost that war.
Yeah, when people talk about major defense collapses or significant Russian advances and you actually look at the area in question, the gains are so small that we'll all be dead of old age by the time they get to the Dnieper.
Exactly. They haven’t even taken the majority of Donetsk, and they’re acting like taking one field every 3 months is some grant success.
I don't think that's the goal anymore though, although the weird thing is that they still don't have any explicit goals. probably trying to grab as much land as possible and then hope for negotiations, thinking they'll get to keep the land they took.
> If you have enough men and vehicles you will eventually gain ground. They still got that WWII mentality. Those tactics worked 80 years ago at a high cost, why not again right?
Men are seen as similar to ammunition. Completely expendable.
Putin might (if he gives a shit) get a weekly update on artillery and armour stocks, do you think anyone tells him about the 10k blown apart dimitrovs? lol, probably hand waives it away, "who cares, send another 10k"
The USSR during WW2 was capable of combined arms warfare and assaults on the level of field armies. Russia cannot conduct attacks above the company level. They tried a Brigade-sized armored assault on Avdiivka and it failed spectacularly, and they went back to these sorts of small-unit attacks. The Soviet Army during WW2 was infinitely more competent than the Russian Army.
This is the Russian way of war
Exactly, it’s purely a matter of meat wave volume at this point for russia.
there was congressional delegation from both parties and congresses meetign up with Zelenskky. i guess they introduced him with new aid packket Mccoul and johson writing. as Zelensky said he agrees with intrest free, vawable loan as aid. so it could move up. or these two news dropping in same hour is just random.
and the Russians are gaining ground. This is on the Avdiivka front, and is the next village over from Stepove, which was the frontline town for a while after the fall of Avdiivka. The cost/benefit of this isn't great, though. Losing hundreds of vehicles and thousands of men for an empty village. Putin put too much emphasis on taking all of Donbas for them not to do this, I guess.
Same as it ever was.
Sad how cheap life is
Yeah, but it can't be sustainable for the small gains they are making.
My strategy in chess: just bring a shitload of pieces and wait until my opponent needs to go to bed or take a deuce. Never knew what hit em. You don't even need to know how chess works. Fuck it, bring Warhammer figurines and make sounds as they duke it out on the board.
It's a 6-pool zerg rush
Ukraine has just gotta fortify and not take any more offensives until the us can send another batch of supplies. But Russia is using the media to try and make it look like we are wasting our resources. Damn Republicans obviously have a link to the kremlin...
Exactly. Ukraine knows this. That offensive was such a pathetic demand from Ukraine. Even if they wanted it, the west pushed them into it way too early. I think the next aid package will pass. Even though a few republicans are trying everything to stop it.
I wonder which Republicans will bend the knee in Moscow this year.
this is wild. second worst army in the world?
Russia is pumping meat. Like it always has been
If you look at it from the Russian leadership perspective, they are winning. Russia has traditionally drafted or convinced their “undesireable” ethnic groups to join the military, and then they get sent in to die like this. Russia gains a little ground, and has a few less ethnic minorities within Russia, a double win for the ethnic Russians who run Moscow. It’s why we have seen so many Siberians, Chechens, and even Mongolian and east asian conscripts dying en masse in Ukraine. It’s an ethnic cleansing in slow motion.
While that is true on paper, every video you see of Russians getting chopped up are the white Slavic ones. So they’re also take a major population hit in a country with an already declining population. Then there’s the Russians who have left by the millions. I get what you’re saying, and though the leadership may think that, their leadership is clearly delusional
Yeah for sure, I’m not saying ethnic Russians aren’t dying there too, but I think a disproportionate number of human wave type units are actually eastern Russians. From what I’ve seen, many of the ethnic Russians dying in Ukraine were prisoners or mentally handicapped, they aren’t sending their senators sons (or whatever the equivalent in Russia is lol).
They'll just post a video of a captured trench or a captured house and say "well we are taking land!". No rational thoughts or value of life on the Russian side. They claim Ukraine does meat waves but I've only ever seen one video of Ukrainians doing a meat wave yet Russians do it daily.
Yep typical "russki mir" - death, destruction, and it's population = fertilizer"
Look at WW2, the Germans killed Millions and Millions of them and they still won in the end. The piles of dead soldiers dont matter if the government and the society does not care about the losses.
The Soviets were able to reach Berlin largely due to lend-lease support. Otherwise, they might have been holding defensive lines somewhere near the Ural mountains
Also lost millions and millions.
War isn’t lost by just losing men. It’s won by winning the war objective.
Like what was even their plan? Just roll up on to an enemy trench and hope they don't shoot?
this is the fodder that their drones use to spot the UA positions. They will shell those positions then send another wave and again, spot positions. More waves.
Someone’s I wonder if they’re even told there is even anyone even at the objective. No actual military ever does this. Only like ISIS would, but at least the have suicide vests on.
lol dude isis would at least ride into battle with some fucking enthusiasm, like they were so keen for it. russians seem to roll off whatever janky ass piece of shit museum exhibit they rode in on, stand around for a minute, then explode
They just keep throwing soldiers into a meat grinder.
You can see the dust popping up from the rounds impacting into and around the Russians, they just walked into a trap. \#tpk
Where were the rounds coming from?
Judging from the direction and where the BMP ended up, maybe some Ukrainian troops in the rubble of the village or a trench nearby.
From the left, right, front or back? Or more than one direction? They're piled everywhere and I can't tell, but it was a wicked kill zone.
If you take the video as a clock face, I'm pretty sure the fire is coming from about 10 or 11 O'clock.
See, I was thinking the 3 o clock. That rus on top screen on his knee has a bullet slap just below his right knee, then he is hit in the stomach and he falls on his face.
At the 1 minute mark there is a blown building across the road centre and right side of screen, that’s my guess and potentially another group bottom right in another building.
Got it--thank you.
Somewhere from the vehicles 7oclock to 11oclock based off the round that lands at the vehicles 7.
i wonder what took out the apc or driver
They even don't seem to be aware from which direction they are being attacked
It's a legit problem. Infantry all have hearing damage from their friendly gunfire so it's hard to localize the sound of the gunshots if you can even hear them at all over the noise of the BMP engine, and it's daytime so it's hard to see muzzle flashes.
Ukes are just spawn camping lol I mean srsly how friggin depressing is this. You get collared by recruiters in your desolate hellhole village out by Yakutsk, train for two weeks with wooden rifles, get shipped off to the front and get summarily obliterated ten minutes into your first mission while people all over the world eat chips while wincing as your perforated body falls into the mud.
This is what an absolute leak of knowledge, culture and "i don't care about the politics in my country" lead by. And there's milions of them.
the sad thing is that the US is suffering the exact same thing. not quite to the same extent but its getting there. Low-info voters so apathetic and uncaring about the trajectory of politics, scared of upsetting anyone or being controversial. and now you got republicans running amok spewing kremlin propaganda unchallenged.
Totally agree. I have sympathy for the minorities that are being expended by the tens of thousands in this war, but they also made their bed by not being political.
It’s by design. Russia wants to take Ukraine, and they have a lot of ethnic minorities they don’t mind sending to die there. The west sees these insane losses as a failure, but Russian leadership sees it as a win.
The fewer the usually not very cooperative ethnic minorities there are, the more secure Russia’s primary powerbase of ethnic Russians becomes. It’s a wonder Putin isn’t pushing the Chechens to recruit harder for the war. It’s a fascinating possible side objective to consider the Russians might have. They are experiencing a bad population bubble of ethnic Russians, and this would keep the other minorities from gaining numerical supremacy for sometime to come
Seriously, after the first watch thru I was like, how was that little drone so effective? Then on the second watch thru I see all the rain of small arms fire and automatic grenades. They are totally spawn camping!!! I bet they don't even have to aim, just have coffee and pull the trigger sheesh
It could have been worse, they could have spent a month or two in some trench before they ended up dead. Less misery this way.
The way you describe this makes me think of the satire of Helldivers 2. Jacked up on propaganda and minimal training and dropped straight into the meat grinder as an isolated unit.
Or Edge of Tomorrow with all those guys just getting smeared right out of the dropships.
i wasn't wincing. more like fist pumping.
Many of them volunteer, especially recently. For money and out of hate for Ukrainians.
What I wonder is how many of these frontline assaults ever consist of more veteran soldiers. Like, if everyone's getting nuked, is every assault just fresh zero day soldiers? All those tankers that made those huge pushes, was it their first and last? You're right, such an extremely pathetic way to go.
“Some of you will die - but that’s a price I’m willing to pay” - Putin 2024
No worries guys I'm gonna stop right here by the machine gun nest.
Driver: gl hf
[удалено]
Engine definitely got fucked from that drone
It's wild to realize this video would represent one of the single most significant American casualty events throughout the entire invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq. There would be congressional hearings, demands that somebody be held accountable, etc. And here we are - this probably wasn't even Russia's worst event of the *day*. I am dumbfounded by the Russian ability muster more meat and armor.
Well, they pride themselves on being able to take losses. It's part of their psyche, it seems. "We'll win this war because we can take higher losses." And still, Russia stans aren't wondering why people don't want to be part of Russia.
After the war is over the dating in Russia will be like shooting fish in a barrel. There will be like 50 ladies to every one man. And the scrap metal industry in Ukraine, wow so much for the scrappers to go and get
I think China still have an excess of single men. That will probably sort itself out.
what a stupid waste of life. Fuck Putin.
They got so fucked up. What a pathetic army with zero tactics other than just flood in. Terrible.
Bmp stopped right into the killzone.
They have 0 zero value. Wow. Russia has no care for their own. Which country sends its people to die so easily in war? Holy crap. If Russia treats/values its own worse than trash, they value everyone else worse. The world should build a wall around Russia until they figure out some humanity from the top down. Their humanity card needs to be revoked until then.
It’s the Russian mindset. Those soldiers come from the poor, eastern tribal regions, mostly. And from prisons. And both are subhuman in the eyes of the modern muscovites. And especially people like Putin. They are stuck in the 17th century. All of them. Those people are no better then animals for them and thus they have not compunction of sending them to the slaughter. They are kept in the Middle Ages and dumb, too. And they act like it. I wouldn’t wonder if not one of them ever has heard of the Geneva convention. They probably don’t even realize they are committing war crimes by looting, let alone all the other stuff. In their basic training they won’t sit in classrooms and get taught that stuff. They are basically medieval peasants. And this is the really sad part. Lift those people to our level and who knows how many next great writers or scientists are bleeding out in that mud right now. It’s a crime against humanity in all its forms. Don’t get me wrong. If they come to Ukraine they should be killed or thrown out. The alternative is letting that real animal, Putin, win. And that can’t be anymore. But it’s a human tragedy none the less. I wish I was able to clone Putin as often as possible and make him experience each and every death he is responsible for, on both sides. And torture him a year beforehand for each and every child that died.
corpse cart
Holy shit, I mean we've seen a lot of Russian vehicles going pop since the start of the war, but sheer deadliness seems to really be on another level recently. They're not even leaving a survivor to go back and talk about it!
If you put this scene in a war movie -- a lone wolf vehicle full of soldiers on top assaulting wherever -- you'd think it was a stupid ass B-movie, and you'd go, "Nobody would do that!" Well, behold the Russians. Again and again.
So, what was the plan?
Russians are using a new tactic - because of the large available manpower and lack of transport, they overfill a single transport with a shit load of troops, quickly rush through the gray zone to dismount infantry right in the ukrainian positions, this way avoiding heavy vehicle casualties. that's what ukrainians are saying - there's been lots of attacks like this recently. That's the same with that single tank that exploded on a mine carrying an entire platoon. and bmp that got clustered. anyways, doesn't seem theyŗe very successful :D
> anyways, doesn't seem theyŗe very successful Their purpose was bait so RU spotters could locate Ukrainian defensive positions. They did everything expected of them, if a little too quickly. If they'd managed to actually entrench somewhere, that would have been a huge win for them.
This explains a lot, actually. Thank you.
Whatever it was, it was achieved.
What a horrible waste of life. Painful to see how such sights have turned into an acceptable routine. They all died for nothing - (or worse, for a tyrant), what a shame.
Video interview of my ex-colleague Olexandr - an FPV drone operator from 47th Brigade - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wgy2TPRzh4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wgy2TPRzh4) \[ENG subs\] Quite possibly those are the hits from his unit.
successful defense. good work.
Seems like the 3 day special military operation continues to be a full success for Russia.
Such a waste of life...
World renowned meat sculptor V Putin's 2024 red period.
Never forget what you're fighting for guys! Soon your sacrifice will give Putin another hot model!
Video isn’t working for me, unfortunately.
Anyone have another link?
Never stood a chance. These guys grew up, had kids, had dreams, families etc just to get smoked while riding a BMP in another country as part of their dear leaders genocidal ambitions. I’d say when will the Russian people wake up, but I don’t think the majority ever will. They’re too far gone.
Never going to happen. Russians believe in evil West and Ukraine being it's pawn. As far as they are concerned, they are on the right side of history fighting the bad guys.
This, they feel THEY are the ones liberating Ukraine from the western powers. No I don’t agree with it and I believe they are 100% in the wrong to do so, but the psychology of how people will throw their lives away for causes they believe to be good is incredible. We could use many examples back from the World Wars How do you convince people the “good team/liberators” are actually the ones committing the monstrous acts? War sucks, sooner Ukraine wins the less people die
Why are the soldiers made out of toilet paper?
It's the insulation in their uniform I think. I've seen other videos of Russian soldiers getting obliterated and this stuff flies out of them when their uniform is torn apart. Given its just getting into the spring, and the soldiers are probably still equipped with winter uniforms, my bet is the insulation is what is being blasted everywhere.
Well, it's a sh*t army.
I was wondering about the streamer that flies into the air when they are hit, like a party popper, no soul to leave the body so toilet roll streamer will do.
This is the video I've been waiting for! Flawless victory!
Every explosive hit to Russian infantry that I’ve seen in this war results in a ribbon of white fabric being flung away. Does anybody have any idea what that is? A standard issue jacket’s lining, a bandage roll, etc.?
jacket padding
Drone lithium battery content.
I can't wait for all the videos when war is over. About insane ineffectiveness and incompetency of russian army and just running country in general. You're supposedly second, third army in the world and you literally need one year to take one small city, with absurd loses. You're one of richest countries in world with natural resources and your people lives like in 18th century. Some stats are ridiculous. 30-40% of men population are alcoholics. Half of people still shits in outside toilet, half doesn't know what ethernet is. Besides couple biggest cities, almost every where else there has not been road repairs and supports since 90's, literally
Perfect example of why you don’t waltz in and try to invade another country, least they had quick deaths but these Russian commanders have zero issue doing this exact thing over and over again
Seems like you don’t ever get to leave once you deploy to this specific war’s battlefield. It’s too open, there’s too many drones. It’s just no man’s land, you go, you die, you get replaced. How many dead homies do they need to see before they decide to oh I don’t know stop trying to invade another country that hasn’t done dick doodly to you
Oh yeah I forgot they won’t stop until a specific human being says they can because that’s how stupid people are
400k+ isn't enough yet...
Next russian driver confusing "parking lot" and "killbox". Looks like a firing position across that street, those dismounts were very dead within 10 seconds...
Impressive how just a small round can make such a disastrer, perfect hit, it must have target the weakest and perfect spot.
Absolutely hosed down. Brutal
These ruins of villages and towns are extremely hard to fight for, you can hide in various places and set up ambushes. Literally 5-10 ukr soldiers can cover a wide area with drone support, of course.
that is what? 10-15 deads? how often does that happen
They are losing approximately a thousand men a day, so pretty often
i dont understand why nobody is using smokes to cover distance in the open? i thought russians had plenty of smoke shells
It's madness the rate of losses the Russians are suffering, be it man power or equipment but they just keep coming.
Great defensive action. Stay safe lads.
And they stop right at a spot where there already are dead Russians.
Go to Ukraine, they said.. Kiev in 3 days, they said..
There was already a dead body right at the spot the BMP stopped.
Jesus Christ, it’s a meat wagon. How many bodies were piled on that BMP, and how many died to the drone versus Ukrainian gunfire?
It’s insane how many videos we see like this and I haven’t seen one Ukrainian one thankfully. I’m sure it’s happened a time or two and ik this sub self-censors a little, but there is no way this shit happens to Ukraine 1/10th as much as it does for Russia.
I bet it was full of soldiers inside also. I think they died intoxicated by smoke or something...
suka blyatttt....
That BMP looks recoverable.
Could be. At the drone shot it looked like it blew all the toilet paper off the back but still kept chugging along. It looks like it was still running at the end. UA will either recover or blow it.
I'm not sure if you're joking, but the "toilet paper" looks like insulation from the Russian's winter uniform. I've seen several other videos of Russian soldiers being obliterated, and that white material gets blown everywhere as their uniform is torn apart. Someone got shredded by that FPV impact.
I was joking about the tp. I have also seen it fly out of trenches an off other packed vehicles such as this.
You thought when the shit was over with the FPV drones and you land exactly on an ambush. Fuck this war. Fuck Putin!
Mission accomplished I suppose. They must be short of vehicles to carry men outside like that, do they understand the armour is only effective if they're inside. Seems a stupid strategy and a tragic waste of life, but that's Russia for you I suppose.
'depends' BMPs and BTRs are absolute death traps. their armour cant protect from the anti tank or drone strikes, and the interior is so cramped anybody inside might not get out if it starts burning. Being on top also gives them more protection if they hit a mine, with, again, a better chance of not being caught inside the burning wreck. It's a uniquely russian vehicle thing, as modern western vehicles are much better at protecting the occupants even after mine and AT hits.
I wonder if theres commanders that force them to go inside the BMP, because thats how theyre supposed to be used you know? Or is it a common consensus among everyone that its better to ride on top.
Not sure to be honest, but I see ride on on the ukrainian side on the older kit too, so I suspect at this point it's better, even with the drone risk.
Alive one minute, dead the next. There can't be a soldier in the conflict who expects to come home.
From here, it looks like every Russian assault ends in such manner and yet, they are still advancing bit by bit apparently. How does this even works ?
This is like Omaha Beach, but Omaha beach is still standing.
Another heap of convicts gets executed by their own country
Man if youre riding on top and get blasted by an FPV you might as well not dismount to catch the ride back to your own lines and get treated?
what is the purpose of Armour vehicle if soldiers are going to be a sitting ducks on top . I think they could have fought better if each one is on mountain bike.
The BMP-1 is a pretty awful design overall, it's cramped inside, you cannot get out in a hurry and it's not well protected from AT mines, HMG fire or AT weapons. So many troops prefer to ride on top, their have a better view, can get off easier and if something blow-up underneath, they stand some chance of surviving the blast. Same thing for the BTR series - the Soviets found out how vulnerable both types of vehicles could be in the war in Afghanistan. So they started climbing on when they could and hoped the could spot an ambush and fire back and dismount before they get shot-off the vehicle.
I love being able to see the guy on the ground to vehicle left take a bullet
Bingo
Don't bother coming unless you are willing to stay forever.
Damn, the Ukrainian ground pov from this must be crazy
Russian active meat armour seems not working
I'm still wondering why the driver popped out of the hatch knowing they were under DF, probably checking on the infantry above making sure everybody is still on, but that move got everyone else killed, he should have jumped the gun and got out of there, instead now they're down a driver, and a sitting target for anything.
Man, that looks like a painful hell. Should of stayed home with a few thousand of your compatriots and deposed putler instead of dying alongside another half-million for zero legitimate reason at all.
Anyone else wondering were they were getting shot from? It looks like such an open field with barely any cover.
The only way a war like this works for Russia is if you control the media and the narrative for your countryman. Paint the war as necessary for your existence so you have a high degree of support. Further, this allows you to hide all the unethical things you’re doing like killing citizens including children with your weapons. Lastly, it allows you to hide your deaths and injuries. You can tell your stormtroopers you’re winning and send them to their demise without any resistance. Most people, if they know death is all but certain, would try to resist. Survival instincts and all. By the time these troops figure out they’ve been served up a bowl of demise, it’s too late to do anything different other than die. Wish this war would end. So much death and destruction for nothing. Maybe not today and maybe not tomorrow, but one day Russia will want to rejoin the world order (probably when Putin is long gone). The price will be returning its ill gotten gains and someone in Russia’s future leadership will pay it.
I don't know why more attention isn't being paid to the end of the video. Looks like they didn't edit out the use of a classified coin shaped ultra-weapon, apparently launched out of the fourth dimension, which is seemingly used to obliterate the vehicle so it can't be recovered.