Comments by "" (@tomk3732) on "Ukraine counteroffensive: Tactics, progress, and the Russian response - BBC Newsnight" video.

  1. Cope. It is the main attack. It is going badly as they are loosing tons of troops and equipment. Probing attacks were in Spring. We are almost one month into the offensive now. They taken 8 villages. There will not be few months of this - they do not have the ammo or resources for few months. Their progress is slower than Russian progress at the beginning of 2023 - and Russians went against fortifications from 2014 - build over 8 years.
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  2. Not the bridges - the dam. In Kherson it was the dam. If they blew the dam they already attacked with Himars multiple times Russians would be totally cut off without supplies by massive flooding for weeks.
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  3. That is the plan. Once Ukraine bleeds out nicely Russian reserve armies being shuffled around will strike. Question is where. It could end the war!
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  4. And what will these do? Another magic weapon? They had dozens of MiG-29s given to them - all burning now. F-16s will join them late this year. Once ATCMS is delivered west will look into what - nukes? Looser always escalates.
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  5. Its cope. Once it failed to break through after a week it has failed.
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  6. Yeah Russians just used that near Kherson bridge. Mopped off a whole UA platoon! Big explosion on video and part of the bridge they were hiding under collapsed.
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  7. Russians are patiently waiting for Ukraine to bleed out. Once they have the all nice and white, Russians can go on counter offensive to try to end the war.
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  8. Actually, no, Russians advanced faster. So even if Ukraine advances as long as Russia did and then Russia repeats net result will be a loss for UA.
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  9.  @ad_astra468  Ah, yes, Ukraine after almost a month of fighting took a whopping 8 villages with population pre war of Under 2000. This implies a progress rate of around 2000 per month. So 12000 over 6 months - 6x 2000. During 6 months Russian army has liberated cities of Bakhmut and Soledar - with combined pre war population of over 81000. I will not mention dozens of villages Russia liberated in Donbass at the same time over these 6 months. So Russians move at around 8x the speed of Ukraine, maybe a bit more.
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  10. Ukrainians did rush in... and did get slaughtered. I wonder what did they do with all these probing operations in spring.
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  11. LOL!😄😄😄
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  12. Not really - many are paid by propaganda. A lot of US generals are comical.
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  13. Yep!
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  14. Sure, but Russians are also moving around 1000s of troops getting ready for a counter.
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  15. Oh, so Kosovo back to Serbia?
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  16.  @pedrorodrigues7285  More than Ukrainians in Crimea.
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  17.  @pedrorodrigues7285  Its Albanians not *Armenians*. Donbass and Crimea have majority Russian population. Part of the reason for the war is to prevent an Ukrainian massacre. After all, Ukrainian government made anything remotely Russian illegal - no books, no language, no culture. They allow or turn blind eye to any killings of ethnic Russians.
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  18.  @pedrorodrigues7285  Few things to note - Kosovo had mixed population of Serbs and Albanians for a long time. Since Ottoman invasion the Albanians were converted to Islam and since about that time each time one of the sides has upper hand they kill of the other. So, no, there is no historical strong precedent for Kosovo to be Albanian. Crimea did not have a Tatar majority for a very long time and was taken over by Russian empire at time of Catherine the Great. Tatars were part of the so called "white horde" before the time of takeover and were major contributor to killing and pillaging of Rusin land - i.e. they were main force that killed of Ukrainian people's ancestors. So I do not see them historically as "friends". These not killed were sold as slaves - one of the women taken did so well she was empress of Ottomans for few years (!) As for today, majority of Crimean people are Russians and want to be in Russia - something I respect as we should respect the will of the people. Either you respect will of all people regardless of ethnicity or you are a racist. Please state which one you are.
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  19.  @pedrorodrigues7285  Stalin did not give Crimea to Ukraine. Crimea was administratively transferred to Ukrainian SSR by Chruszczow. I.e. ethnic Ukrainian. UN did not recognize Crimea transfer as this was internal administrative thing of Soviet Union. UN also recognized sovereign territory of Serbia - which includes Kosovo - US as a permanent member of UN has to uphold UN laws and thus ... help Serbia recover Kosovo - no? This is not about Putin's Law. This is about UN law called "the right of people to determine their future". I.e. UN recognizes that it is a human right to chose you future. I.e. the people of Crimea have the right, as per UN, to decide their future. US as permanent member of the UN has a duty to assist people of Crimea in fulfilling their desire for the future - a future as part of Russia. So why is US not doing its duty?
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  20.  @pedrorodrigues7285  Crimea belongs to people of Crimea. People of Crimea, as per international law, decided to join Russia and left Ukraine. What is the problem? All legal. Or do you want to return Kosovo to Serbia?
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  21.  @pedrorodrigues7285  Where is this BS coming from? Donbass is de-populating like rest of Ukraine - who wants to live in a war zone. I.e. people are leaving Donbas and houses are empty. Most leave for Russia. We can do UN sponsored referendum with all people that were there before the war, would that make you happy?
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  22. Why would they not attack military targets? What do they have too many missiles?
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