re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Interesting thread on possible Russian response to sanctions

Feels like we have talked about this much after no initial response of major weight. Putin respond after the eventual fall of Kyiv/Ukraine? Seems highly unlikely there’s no response greater than what we’ve seen so far.

do floor shine shoes still be good

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5 min video report from the front lines - City of Kharkiv

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Wow, that’s powerful. Thank God that we have oceans to protect us from that Hell on Earth.

looks like vlad might start taking a little heat back in the motherland

dailymail.co.uk

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Putin’s war on freedom of expression in Russia appeared to be fraying at the edges on Thursday after guests on Kremlin-backed TV defied Moscow and openly criticised the brutal conflict in Ukraine, calling the invasion ‘even worse than Afghanistan’.

Guests have refused to support the narrative pushed through by television hosts on Putin’s request that Russia has been conducting a ‘special operation’ to ‘demilitarise’ and ‘de-Nazify’ Ukraine – claims dismissed as baseless pretexts by Kyiv and her partners in the West.

One who appeared on one of Russia 1’s prime time talk show rebelled by referring to the USSR’s disastrous invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 which ended in withdrawal ten years later.

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Mason Clark, George Barros, and Kateryna Stepanenko

March 10, 4:00 pm EST

The likelihood is increasing that Ukrainian forces could fight to a standstill the Russian ground forces attempting to encircle and take Kyiv. Russian forces also appear to be largely stalemated around Kharkiv and distracted from efforts to seize that city. Russian advances in the south around Mykolayiv and toward Zaporizhya and in the east around Donetsk and Luhansk made little progress as well in the last 24 hours. Russia likely retains much greater combat power in the south and east and will probably renew more effective offensive operations in the coming days, but the effective reach and speed of such operations is questionable given the general performance of the Russian military to date. There are as yet no indications that the Russian military is reorganizing, reforming, learning lessons, or taking other measures that would lead to a sudden change in the pace or success of its operations, although the numerical disparities between Russia and Ukraine leave open the possibility that Moscow will be able to restore rapid mobility or effective urban warfare to the battlefield.

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Much more here. LINK

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As biased as you are?

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In what way am I biased? Do you understand the definition of that word?

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He shows his sources.

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If and when I submit information I provide sources. But normally I just provide expert commentary.

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Please get yourself banned again.

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See sig quote. I’m sure you won’t have to wait long.

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war against Russia

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Unique way of putting the events of the last two weeks. Not grounded in reality,but unique.

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Russian military convoy northwest of Kyiv has dispersed, redeployed -Maxar

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They're planning a seige.. cut off the power and water, consolidate positions in the east, shell daily, wait them out. If they follow same tactics as Chechnya and that seems to be what they're doing in Mariupol, destroy most of the infrastructure from shelling, get the civilians to flee, in a few months go door to door. Awful.

Business Insider

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A US official told the outlet Thursday that while Russia's troops are in a position to completely circle Kyiv in the coming week or two, the fight to take total control of the capital will likely take much longer.

The same official said US intelligence believes the battle to take Kyiv could take another four-to-six weeks, though the official acknowledged that the US' assessment is fluid and frequently changing.

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