They do work, sadly in both ways. One trillion rubles is sixteen billion dollars. My country (Germany) is about to spend up to two hundred billion dollars on an energy price cap. A decent part of that money is going straight to Russia. Funny how that works.
Estimates say that $12B alone is because of the price increases that happened. $32B total.
Have you seen their "equipments"? More like 5 cents.
or in these times rinse and repeat....
It seems fishy but not entrirely implausible. Wagner are outside the normal chain of command and can pretty much do whatever they want as long as it does not shit on Wagner. And showing the enemy has some cool gear puts their failures into perspective, as well as pressuring the Russian armed forces into coming up with equally good stuff.
They can't be this stupid...
The second time he should've taken the 10 years Kamchatka gulag sentence for refusing military service.
Oh, I would believe it. VERY costly to have stocks of all war materiel for that long of a period of time, particularly if in a forward deployed position. Ammo, batteries, food, fuel, weather appropriate clothing, etc, EVERYONE struggles with this stuff even for an exercise, much less outright open conflict.
I think some of you guys tend to DRASTICALLY underestimate how hard it is to project power outside of your borders. If France, Canada, etc decided to send significant numbers of troops to the Ukraine I suspect they will be sucking wind on supplies within a few weeks just like the Russians. Consider the US spent MONTHS stockpiling stuff in prep to Gulf War 1 (Operation Desert Shield) and that whole thing was over pretty quickly. Sustained combat ops are logistic nightmares no matter who you are.
People lose interest over time, sadly. I wouldn't expect much media coverage until some more big stuff happens. Could also be that Ukraine is planning some big moves again and keeping radio silent to protect themselves.
he like a lot of people to be entertained is my guess .. that’s how the world works . It’s not going fast enough
Because the frontline is in blackout. So far reports coming Russians making strategic withdrawal. Which will take a while because they have to move equipment across a river without any bridges while using human shields for protection. Then will blow the dam.
Russia are fucking cunts for destroying critical infrastructure for human first needs , only because their army is in such a dire condition .. and we the west are just standing there .. I get a feeling we didn’t learn enough from the whole Hittler situation.
This is the impression that we have been getting so far, but obviously they can't retreat on their own, otherwise it would seem like they are just running away like a bunch of cowards, but by using this trick of "We care about people, so we need to evacuate them." we might as well evacuate ourselves because why the hell not. Obviously not everyone will be evacuated, I know personally people that will stay in Kherson no matter what, plus, they set up an evacuation busses in my town as well.. except that barely anybody is using them. My town is considered, at least by me, somewhat of a safe zone, it is located roughly 30+KM away from Kherson.
In Russia, missiles are chased by planes
commander sneaks away 