This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...
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I feel sorry for his wife and kids ----- for having a piece of shit, now dead traitor for a husband and father
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This current strategy of the Russians baffles me. They launch half-assed, doomed-to-fail mini-offensives on that front every day. All it does is lead to more KIA and equipment losses. Anyone have any theories on what they are even thinking about trying to accomplish?
This die hard Russian (I assume) just couldn't believe it would happen. EDIT-realized this was from October but still shows their mindset.
assuming there is strategy involved and not blind adherence to doctrine or commanders simply trying to earn bonuses, the only thing I can think of is rope a dope, hoping Ukraine will punch itself out.
What will Ukraine's strategy be? They do not have overwhelming forces so they have been cautious. It seems an immediate attack across the river might catch the Russians wrong footed-would that be the right move if they can pull it off?
My wife wants them to grab back the nuclear plant Russia stole. Unneeded forces from Kherson could be moved to that area while they hold their side of the river now?
My wife wants them to grab back the nuclear plant Russia stole. Unneeded forces from Kherson could be moved to that area while they hold their side of the river now?
This was shown on chart already posted but wanted to emphasize that Russia is bleeding badly these days.
At this rate this is the only way they get more aircraft.
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Well, yeah, sending around 100,000 of your young men to die -- and thousands others maimed or psychologically broken -- is going to significantly disrupt that plan you dumbass.
If Russians are trying to pull the wool over Ukraine's eyes, the eye of Sauron never rests and can see all equipment there, coming, and going.
Paywall brah. I think copyright law is suspended in this thread, so copy and paste away!
I know the Russian government struggles with things like truth and number but the US (and a lot of other countries) have been involved in the war and when Ukrainians aren't firing on Russians with Russian weapons they've been given, they're using western weapons that have been supplied.
Russia is going to learn an uncomfortable lesson here that if they want Ukraine to stop wiping out a generation of Russian men, they're going to have to rebuild Ukraine, be disarmed, and face tribunal for the war crimes they've committed.
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Putin’s War Escalation Is Hastening Demographic Crash for Russia
- Population is set for historic decline as fertility rate drops
- Economy also at risk from migration outflows, aging workforce
President Vladimir Putin spent years racing against Russia’s demographic clock, only to order an invasion of Ukraine that’s consigning his country’s population to a historic decline.Besides casualties in the thousands on the battlefield, the enlistment of 300,000 reservists to join the fight -- and an even bigger flight of men abroad -- is derailing Putin’s goals of starting to stabilize the population already this year.
Crippling disruptions from the war are converging with a population crisis rooted in the 1990s, a period of economic hardship after the Soviet breakup that sent fertility rates plunging. Independent demographer Alexei Raksha is calling it “a perfect storm.”
Russia Is Heading Toward Demographic Precipice
Number of births is plunging as mortality worsensSource: Federal Statistics Service
Note: Estimates for 2023-2024 from Gaidar Institute's Igor Efremov
Plans by Putin’s government had set the goal of starting to reverse the decline in the population in 2022 before growth should resume in 2030. Yet weeks before the mobilization was announced in September, an internal report drafted for a closed-door meeting showed officials were already concluding those targets were unrealistic.
Citing the consequences of the coronavirus and migration outflows, the report instead proposed a revision that envisaged a decrease of 416,700 people in 2030.
Should military operations continue in the coming months, as expected, Russia may see less than 1.2 million births next year, the lowest in modern history, according to Igor Efremov, a researcher and specialist in demographics at the Gaidar Institute in Moscow. Total deaths in Russia average close to 2 million annually, though the number increased during the pandemic and approached 2.5 million last year.
‘Chief Blow’
“The chief blow to the birth rate will be indirect, because most families will have their planning horizon completely destroyed as a result,” Efremov said. “And the impact will be stronger the longer the mobilization lasts.”A demographic reckoning has arrived for Russia, its economy starved of young employees and now at risk of stagnation or worse long after the war is over. Bloomberg Economics now estimates Russia’s potential growth rate at 0.5%, down two percentage points from before the war -- with demographics accounting for about a quarter of the downgrade.
Unfavorable demographics in the areas of Ukraine that Putin plans to annex is only likely to add to the challenges Russia faces from a growing population burden, Renaissance Capital economists said in a report this month.
While demographic traumas usually play out over decades, the fallout of the invasion is making the worst scenarios more likely -- and much sooner than expected.
The mobilization is upending families at perhaps the most fraught moment ever for Russian demographics, with the number of women of childbearing age down by about a third in the past decade. It’s also coinciding with one of the highest death rates in the world as well as a depleted and graying labor market, alongside immigration outflows and questions about Russia’s ability to attract workers from abroad.
For Putin, who just turned 70, Russian demography has long been an existential issue, and just last year he declared that “saving the people of Russia is our top national priority.” He’s presided over efforts to buy time with costly policies that contributed to a steep gain in longevity and ranged from lump payments for new mothers to mortgage relief for families.
But as Russia approached the invasion of Ukraine in February, it was coming off its deadliest year since World War II -- made worse by the pandemic -- with the population in decline since 2018. It reached 145.1 million on Aug. 1, a fall of 475,500 since the start of the year and down from 148.3 million in 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed.
The continuation of the military campaign and mobilization until the end of next spring would be “catastrophic,” according to Efremov, likely bringing births down to just 1 million in the 12 months to mid-2024. The fertility rate may reach 1.2 children per woman, he said, a level Russia saw only once in 1999-2000.
A fertility rate of 2.1 is needed to keep populations stable without migration.
They keep trying to tie their invasion to The Great Patriotic War.
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Russia begs other countries for MLRS rockets, and it uses them to commit war crimes by shelling more than a dozen high-rise and private buildings, premises belonging to two industrial businesses, a hospital, a school, a vocational training school, some cars and a gas pipeline.
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Ukrainian intelligence names countries assisting Russia’s full-scale war
Russia appealed to a number of nations to assist in their full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian military intelligence spokesperson Vadym Skibitsky said in an interview with Italian publication La Repubblica, published on Oct. 31.
Russians pound Nikopol with Uragan MLRS
Oleksandr Vilkul, Head of Kryvyi Rih Military Administration, has reported that the Russians shelled the city of Nikopol and two villages in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast with Uragan multiple-launch rocket systems in the afternoon and evening of 8 November.
Would make a nice Christmas present for your Ukraine supporter
It is the perfect gift for the man who has everything. I might order one for everyone in the family.
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Well the Russians will have their looted washing machines to sleep in, so it's basically a wash (pun intended)
