The Ukraine war thread

[Renauda]

Putin always chooses escalation:

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/09/29/putin-always-chooses-escalation-a78923

[George K]

There's been a fair amount of reporting of Russian casualties - KIA, wounded and others.

I haven't seen much about Ukrainian losses lately. Last time I saw anything, there was supposedly a 1:3 ratio between the two forces.

[George K]

Putin speaks (live):

Link to video

[Jolly]

Wonder what was able to be salvaged from all the abandoned or disabled Russian stuff?

[Jolly]

Ah, the John Deere Brigade...

https://news.yahoo.com/ukrainians-soldiers-are-refurbishing-abandoned-russian-tanks-and-trucks-191724346.html

[Mik]

@Renauda said in The Ukraine war thread:

Putin always chooses escalation:

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/09/29/putin-always-chooses-escalation-a78923

He's just a little guy.

[Renauda]

@George-K

Parsing the vitriol:

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putin-denounces-imperialism-while-annexing-large-swathes-of-ukraine/?mkt_tok=NjU5LVdaWC0wNzUAAAGHLohcyGbb_OlzJ7jTbk4Q9bTLv8zBRNtGKkP2KEDbkjWONS8hTranaaDZE477RNM5L69010ElevhMLwl9tRlVMbq2o6enAfb0FPJdpMDj7w

[Rainman]

Nice, short, scary article. Thanks for posting that, Renauda.

[George K]

Putin: takes Ukrainian territory, wants to claim attacks in annexed regions are attacks on Russia

Zelensky: applies to join NATO, wants to claim attacks on Ukraine would trigger article 5

[Renauda]

@George-K

Even funnier- Putin is yet still to figure it out that Russia is very much the junior partner to China in the New Cold War with the West.

[George K]

[bachophile]

damn, the city of Lyman was able to be Russian for just one day....

[George K]

@bachophile said in The Ukraine war thread:

damn, the city of Lyman was able to be Russian for just one day....

"Vladimir Putin is the only leader to annex territory while his troops are retreating."

Supposedly the Russian troops in Lyman want to withdraw, because they're surrounded, but the word from the top is "Nyet." There's 5000 of them.

[Jolly]

There'll be less. Give it time.

[George K]

[Mik]

@George-K said in The Ukraine war thread:

@bachophile said in The Ukraine war thread:

damn, the city of Lyman was able to be Russian for just one day....

"Vladimir Putin is the only leader to annex territory while his troops are retreating."

Supposedly the Russian troops in Lyman want to withdraw, because they're surrounded, but the word from the top is "Nyet." There's 5000 of them.

Might be 5,000 new Ukrainian soldiers soon.

[Renauda]

Putin’s fantasy doesn’t fit the reality:

https://samf.substack.com/p/putins-annexation-and-lymans-encirclement?r=17wfy3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

[bachophile]

That’s the danger when your army can’t fulfill your ideological goals. First rule of being a dictator. Only threaten what you can achieve.

[George K]

https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-10-01-22#h_d51cb295294b53ca8004e88aaefa385f

Russian troops have withdrawn from the town of Lyman in eastern Ukraine to avoid being surrounded by Ukraine’s army, the Russian Ministry of Defense said Saturday.

“In connection with the creation of a threat of encirclement, allied troops were withdrawn from the settlement of Krasny Liman to more advantageous lines,” the defense ministry said on social media platform Telegram.

The Russian name for the town of Lyman is Krasny Liman.

Russia state media reported that the reason for the withdrawal was due to Western-made artillery and intelligence..

[George K]

The last sentence: "Russia is expending strategically valuable militaryassets in attempts to achieve tactical advantage and in the process is killing civilians it now claims are its own citizens."