Comments by "Kasumi Rina" (@KasumiRINA) on "Russia takes Bakhmut — but the battle continues" video.

  1. His math with losses is all wack too, he claims a very low WiA/KiA rate (1 to 1), and then says Ukraine lost X times more and his casualty rate for Ukrainians doesn't correspond to his own figures. The "20k dead russians" is the only thing that's consistent with other reports, but even that can be sus because he claimed half of them were prisoners and half professional, mercs, they should not have 50/50 rate anyway as ones were used as cannon fodder. Basically for him it is profitable to exaggerate losses of both but then again, his verall casualty rate for russians is at 40k (half wounded) which might be close to truth if we ONLY count Wagner and not the rest of the army. Anyway, DO NOT BELIEVE PRIGOZHIN, his main career is running a disinformation network. Like people fell for his markers on the wall where he put one onto some islands near New Zealand, come on!
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  2. Marinka, too, is completely razed. Avdiivka also. They are the frontline since 2014. Almost a decade of shelling them, though, obviously, intensifying in last year.
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  3. The "this is not phosphorus this is thermite" should be repeated like a mantra. We don't want misinformation on something this basic which doesn't even discredit them more or something. Zero reason to keep mislabeling thermite as phosphorus, it is VERY OBVIOUSLY one and not the other, even visually. Phosphorus leaves "trails" hard to mistake them for anything.
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  4. Extrapolating this to the rest of Ukraine, they'd need double the russian population to take Ukraine by 3025 or something.
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  5. 3:1 ratio isn't assessment of losses, but the average amount attacking army needs to succeed in assault without taking other factors into account. Casualties are not one to three, in Bakhmut it was way worse for russians at first, and not as bad in the end. It varied. In the end 100k russians are no more for a pile of rubble. " I really really don’t believe the side that pushed the weapons of mass destruction & the media that helped us into that little war " You mean the russians threatening to nuke the West every other day? Yes, nobody should believe them. Not sure what MEDIA has to do with war, all media said that "russia is going to invade Ukraine in February 2022" and it was a fact, despite russians lying that they won't invade.
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  6.  @anderspuck  please read articles on legality of White Phosphorus, I was surprised there's almost zero treaties limiting it. In fact, the thermite russians use (it doesn't leave white smoke trails characteristic to WP) is worse. Does it count as incendiary munitions?
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  7. Yes it's just every loss is painful, and when media sees Ukrainians crying over every life as a tragedy they get a feel that entire front is collapsing. Soldiers will ALWAYS pain a bleak picture because their life depends on it. It's normal for people on frontlines always complain about not having enough shells etc., that's what saves lives.
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  8. Ah yes, the Economist, top military analysts, from the 2-3 days to take Kyiv to Ukrainians will need 16 months to learn to use white people equipment to Ukrainian counter-offensive will never take back Kherson fame.
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  9. Looks out of the window... I don't think driving is an option now. We need, boats, for moving through the city. Hence the lost Humvees.
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  10. A lot of memes just putting Bakhmut near Berlin or DC on maps, because the way media reports on it seems like it's literally the last bastion of defense and not a medium sized town in the middle of Donestk oblast'.
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  11. Yeah you aren't supposed to use it over cities. It is also thermite not phosphorus.
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  12. Many in Ukraine were actually MAD at our genshtab continuing to defend Bakhmut, it was literally the most questionable decision by them since the start of the war, it's horrible to defend.
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  13. Austrian general is a joke, how the hell would he see what's in Donbass when all Austria's government does is stage waltz with putin? NONE of new Ukrainian brigades on western equipment even STARTED to take part in a fight. None. SOME elite units were eventually sent into Bakhmut but majority of casualties, unfortunately, were common guys, TDF and armed force.
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  14. Static lines of contact don't mean the battle is over, I mean russians haven't moved in Marinka for a year, does that mean the battle is over? No, it's ongoing without major changes to report on. Also it's a war crime to use ANYTHING against civilians tho, with incendiary weapons or other imprecise/cluster stuff you aren't supposed to use it in populated areas in general because hard to avoid civilian casualties. Anyway russians use thermite not phosphorus. They made many actual war crimes like bombing of hospital in Dnipro TODAY, so people should focus on documenting and preventing those instead of repeating the nonsense about banned phosphorus (which they don't use anyway). No, shelling a theater with CHILDREN on it with half-a-ton bomb isn't much better because it didn't glow in the night.
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  15. Ah yes, pushed back. Now look at the map. If a snail was advancing on the pace russia is, it would be ALREADY in Kyiv. But they're slower. Taking a minor city with 100k population over 10 months, means that russians would need 200 MILLIONS casualties to take entire Ukraine by 3025. Seriously. Look at the map! Ukraine retook more land in a few days of Kharkiv counter-offensives that russians took in a YEAR.
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  16. Cluster munitions aren't banned by Geneva, but only by treaty against cluster munitions, which neither USA, nor Ukraine or russia signed. Is it wrong to use them in civilian areas? Kinda. Both russia and Ukraine have them though. Israel does a lot of war crimey stuff, but it's not about WHAT they fire but WHERE they fire. The russians use thermite, same used by Azerbaijan, IIRC Israel used white phosphorus which is not banned, attacking civilians (with anything) is. Depleted Uranium isn't radioactive. It's just a dense metal. Hence, depleted. Correct me if there's proof they leave fallout, but the "depleted uranium is war crime" is the narrative russians are pushing trying to stop shells and tanks from coming into Ukraine. Heroiam Slava!
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  17. Beavis and Bolek.
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  18. When you see Leopards, Bradleys or other new tech in battle, not before that. None of newly formed units are fighting yet.
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  19. It can't. Man is literally running Kremlin troll factory. The BIGGEST disinformation campaign in the WORLD. His assessments of russian casualties can be used to troll russians though and even then he's inconsistent within himself too.
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  20. Nah, he's rather neutral in objectivity (being pro-Ukraine defending itself is a neutral position BTW, lobbying for more active help is the pro-Ukrainian position). This segment is just bad. All of it. White Phosphoros IS a chemical (as is gunpowder, or water) but saying it like that might misinform people that it's a chemical weapon (not classified as such), or that it's banned (it's not). OR that russians use it, which also isn't true in Ukraine at least. People (including soldiers) just mistake 9M22S incendiary thermite bombs with WP... They're actually, arguably, even worse. Daily Mail of all things has a good article that's on top of search results if I Google "thermite incendiary munitions". It shows examples and explains use and legality (including graphs on launchers). Don't like people keep talking about white phosphorus because it doesn't show russia as more inhumane, as the truth isn't better, while discrediting people who claim it for no good reason.
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  21. It's not white phosphorus and white phosphorus isn't illegal at all. There's whole articles debunking that, WP is dramatic but ZERO treaties relate to it, it isn't a chemical or incendiary weapon. Thermite that russians use might actually be classified as incendiary so more restrained by treaties than Wiley Pete.
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  22. And long range attacks on supply depots, it's part of staging.
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  23. The russians bombing Ukrainian homes with anything is illegal, it's a war crime killing Ukraine's civilian population whether by thermite (it's not white phosphorus, THAT is legal, russia isn't using it though, we need to get some and dump it on moscow), or artillery. Today russian missiles were shot into Dnipro's hospital. That is a war crime. It doesn't matter that missiles didn't glow in the dark.
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