Russia - Ukraine Conflict 2022 (74 Viewers)

kappa96

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Jun 20, 2018
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Yep, these degenerates think that the Soviet Union saved the whole world and that there was no red communist plague from 1945 to 1993. They don't even know about the famine in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, resettlement of Chechens, Ingush, residents of the Baltic countries, repressions, executions and many justify Stalin and the NKVD, they say there was such a time, it had to be done :sergio:
I just hope that somehow and sometime in the future Russia changes for the better. I would have loved a democratic, NATO /EU member Russia.
A potential strong ally against China.
Now Russia gets only isolation.
 
Jun 16, 2020
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Russian forces have not abandoned efforts to reconstitute forces northwest of Kyiv to resume major offensive operations, and the commander of Russia’s Eastern Military District (EMD) may be personally commanding the operations. The Ukrainian General Staff reported that Russia’s 35th Combined Arms Army is rotating damaged units into Belarus and that Russian forces established a command post for all EMD forces operating around Kyiv in the Chernobyl area. Ongoing Russian efforts to replace combat losses in EMD units and deploy additional reinforcements forward are unlikely to enable Russia to successfully resume major operations around Kyiv in the near future. The increasingly static nature of the fighting around Kyiv reflects the incapacity of Russian forces rather than any shift in Russian objectives or efforts at this time.
Ukrainian forces continued to conduct limited counterattacks in several locations, recapturing territory east of Kyiv, in Sumy Oblast, and around Kharkiv in the past 24 hours. Ukrainian counterattacks are likely enabling Ukrainian forces to recapture key terrain and disrupt Russian efforts to resume major offensive operations. Likely escalating Ukrainian partisan operations around Kherson are additionally tying down Russian forces. Russian forces continue to make slow but steady progress in Mariupol, but Russian assaults largely failed elsewhere in the past 24 hours.
Key Takeaways

  • Russian Eastern Military District (EMD) Commander Colonel-General Alexander Chayko may be personally commanding efforts to regroup Russian forces in Belarus and resume operations to encircle Kyiv from the west. The Kremlin is highly unlikely to have abandoned its efforts to encircle Kyiv but will likely be unable to cohere the combat power necessary to resume major offensive operations in the near future.
  • Neither Russian nor Ukrainian forces conducted major operations northwest of Kyiv in the last 24 hours.
  • Ukrainian forces counterattacking east of Brovary since March 24 successfully retook territory late on March 26.
  • Ukrainian forces conducted limited counterattacks in Sumy Oblast on March 26-27.
  • Fighting continued around Izyum in the past 24 hours, with little territory changing hands.
  • Russian forces continued steady advances in Mariupol.
  • Ukrainian partisans around Kherson continue to tie down Rosgvardia units in the region, likely hindering Russian capabilities to resume offensive operations in the southern direction.

    The Ukrainian General Staff continued to report Russian difficulties to replace personnel and equipment losses. The General Staff reported on March 27 that Russian forces are increasingly using old and substandard ammunition, leading to a rise in the rate of accidents at Russian arsenals and depots, particularly highlighting the use of old munitions by the 35th Combined Arms Army’s 165th Artillery Brigade, operating northwest of Kyiv.[1] The General Staff additionally stated that Russia has deployed up to nine logistics battalions and up to five “main logistics centers” to Ukraine to solve ongoing supply challenges.[2]
    We do not report in detail on the deliberate Russian targeting of civilian infrastructure and attacks on unarmed civilians, which are war crimes, because those activities are well-covered in Western media and do not directly affect the military operations we are assessing and forecasting. We will continue to evaluate and report on the effects of these criminal activities on the Ukrainian military and population and specifically on combat in Ukrainian urban areas. We utterly condemn these Russian violations of the laws of armed conflict, Geneva Conventions, and humanity even though we do not describe them in these reports.
    Russian forces are engaged in four primary efforts at this time:
    • Main effort—Kyiv (comprised of three subordinate supporting efforts);
    • Supporting effort 1—Kharkiv;
      • Supporting effort 1a—Luhansk and Donetsk Oblasts;
    • Supporting effort 2—Mariupol; and
    • Supporting effort 3—Kherson and advances northward and westward.
  • Main effort—Kyiv axis: Russian operations on the Kyiv axis are aimed at encircling the city from the northwest, west, and east.
    Subordinate main effort along the west bank of the Dnipro

    Russian Eastern Military District (EMD) Commander Colonel-General Alexander Chayko may be personally commanding efforts to regroup Russian forces in Belarus and resume operations to encircle Kyiv from the west. The Ukrainian General Staff reported at midnight local time on March 26 that units of the 35th Combined Arms Army are being withdrawn to the Chernobyl area and further into Belarus to restore combat capabilities and added at noon local time on March 27 that Russian air and artillery strikes are intended to provide cover for withdrawing units.[3] The Ukrainian General Staff and the Chernihiv Regional Administration separately reported on March 27 that Russian forces established a command post to control the grouping of Russian forces from the Eastern Military District (EMD) near Chernobyl and are stockpiling munitions in the area.[4] Pro-Russian telegram channels previously shared unverified footage they claimed depicted Chayko northwest of Kyiv on March 23, which may have depicted this reported command post.[5] The Kremlin is highly unlikely to have abandoned its efforts to encircle Kyiv, though ISW continues to assess Russia will be unable to cohere the combat power necessary to resume major offensive operations in the near future.
    Neither Russian nor Ukrainian forces conducted major operations northwest of Kyiv in the last 24 hours. Kyiv Oblast civil authorities and the Ukrainian General Staff reported that Russian shelling concentrated on Bucha, Irpin, Hostomel, Borodyanka, and Makariv on March 27, though Russian forces do not appear to have conducted any ground attacks in the last 24 hours.[6] The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense additionally claimed that precision weapons fired by Russian warships destroyed a Ukrainian missile depot in Plesetske (southwest of Kyiv) on March 27, though we cannot independently verify this claim.[7]
    Subordinate supporting effort—Chernihiv and Sumy axis
    Ukrainian forces counterattacking east of Brovary successfully took territory late on March 26. The Ukrainian General Staff reported that Ukrainian forces recaptured Lukyanivka and Rudnytske, 40km east of Brovary, and forced units from Russia’s 30th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade to retreat.[8] Ukrainian forces began this counterattack on March 24.[9] Kyiv Oblast civilian authorities confirmed the presence of Russian forces in Baryshivska, Kalityanska, and Velykodymerska, tracking with previous ISW assessments of the extent of Russian advances.
    Local civil authorities confirmed on March 27 that Russian forces captured Slavutych, about 35 kilometers west of Chernihiv, on March 26. Slavutych Mayor Yuriy Fomichev confirmed on March 27 that only Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces defended the city March 25-26 after Russia successfully blocked the Ukrainian Armed Forces from reinforcing the town.[10] Fomichev stated the Ukrainian forces surrendered to preserve civilian lives, but that the city government refuses to cooperate with Russia. Numerous social media users shared footage of Ukrainian civilians confronting Russian forces in Slavutych on March 26-27.[11] The Ukrainian General Staff reported at midnight local time on March 26 that units from Russia’s 41st Combined Arms Army and 90th Tank Army continued operations to surround Chernihiv city.[12]
    The Ukrainian General Staff and local social media users reported that Ukrainian forces conducted limited counterattacks in Sumy Oblast on March 26-27, recapturing Trostyanets and Husarivka.[13] The Ukrainian General Staff reported Russian reinforcement columns moving in the direction of Velykui Sambir, Deptivka, and Holinka (in northeastern Ukraine between Chernihiv and Sumy) at midnight local time on March 26, though ISW cannot independently verify these reports.[14]

 

Alen

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Apr 2, 2007
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1) Average Ivan is 100% dumber than average John, Frank, Michelle, Heinrich or Ciro just because russian school education is still living in 80s. Also you won't find even 1 russian university in the top200 of the world's best universities and it says a lot.
Take Ciro off that list because the Moscow state university is in top 100 and the best rated Italian university, Sapienza in Rome, is ranked between 151-200 :D
But I think you're right that Russian education leaves a lot to be desired. It's natural sciences, medical sciences and engineering which bring the biggest chunk of points in these rankings, and my contacts with Russian scholars over the years were mostly with people who work in humanities and social sciences, but I was shocked to realize how small the percentage of scholars who speak English is in those circles and how their way of thinking is much closer to my old professors who are now in their 70s or 80s, than to my generation. And I'm talking about Russian scholars of 35-45, which correspondents to what you've said about Russian education being stuck in the 1980s.
 

Elvin

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Nov 25, 2005
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Take Ciro off that list because the Moscow state university is in top 100 and the best rated Italian university, Sapienza in Rome, is ranked between 151-200 :D
But I think you're right that Russian education leaves a lot to be desired. It's natural sciences, medical sciences and engineering which bring the biggest chunk of points in these rankings, and my contacts with Russian scholars over the years were mostly with people who work in humanities and social sciences, but I was shocked to realize how small the percentage of scholars who speak English is in those circles and how their way of thinking is much closer to my old professors who are now in their 70s or 80s, than to my generation. And I'm talking about Russian scholars of 35-45, which correspondents to what you've said about Russian education being stuck in the 1980s.
The only thing that Russia is world class in is dubbing movies/shows. Everything else they do is meh.

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Very nice twitter thread, it's more or less how I see russia, only I hope they die asap on top of that
what's "jubilee"?
 
Mar 9, 2006
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Take Ciro off that list because the Moscow state university is in top 100 and the best rated Italian university, Sapienza in Rome, is ranked between 151-200 :D
But I think you're right that Russian education leaves a lot to be desired. It's natural sciences, medical sciences and engineering which bring the biggest chunk of points in these lists, and my contacts with Russian scholars over the years were mostly with people who work in humanities and social sciences, but I was shocked to realize how small the percentage of scholars who speak English is in those circles and how their way of thinking is much closer to my old professors who are now in their 70s or 80s, than to my generation. And I'm talking about Russian scholars of 35-45, which correspondents to what you've said about Russian education being stuck in the 1980s.
I've used this website and there is no MGU there in top 200 https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/rankings

:agree: and keep in mind that on the paper we have A LOT of hours for English lessons in school education program but in reality nobody cares about the quality of these lessons. History lessons are taught from the point of view of the leadership of the soviet union and modern russia, we were always right and never wrong lol
 

JuveJay

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Mar 6, 2007
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Take Ciro off that list because the Moscow state university is in top 100 and the best rated Italian university, Sapienza in Rome, is ranked between 151-200 :D
But I think you're right that Russian education leaves a lot to be desired. It's natural sciences, medical sciences and engineering which bring the biggest chunk of points in these rankings, and my contacts with Russian scholars over the years were mostly with people who work in humanities and social sciences, but I was shocked to realize how small the percentage of scholars who speak English is in those circles and how their way of thinking is much closer to my old professors who are now in their 70s or 80s, than to my generation. And I'm talking about Russian scholars of 35-45, which correspondents to what you've said about Russian education being stuck in the 1980s.
Using that metric English people are by far the most intelligent people in Europe lol.
 

JuveJay

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Mar 6, 2007
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I think its safe to say that the graduates of Oxford, Cambridge, etc generally are among the most intelligent people in Europe. Whether they make up a large portion of English population is another topic though.
My comment was off-the-cuff, but at those leading universities the number of international students is much higher than you have at Moscow or Sapienza. I think the top 2 are 45% now and LSU is something like 70% international students.
 

Mokku

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Apr 17, 2019
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I think its safe to say that the graduates of Oxford, Cambridge, etc generally are among the most intelligent people in Europe. Whether they make up a large portion of English population is another topic though.
Disagree, Oxford and Cambridge graduates have extended reach into politics for example but I wouldn't say they're smarter. I teach medical students who often score 100% in their exams but when required to do some critical thinking, they'll dumber than shit on a biscuit. Different types of intelligence I guess but reputation takes you a long way. We have a senior lecturer from Cambridge who hasn't published an article in 9 years - complete dickhead as well.
 

Strickland

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May 17, 2019
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Disagree, Oxford and Cambridge graduates have extended reach into politics for example but I wouldn't say they're smarter. I teach medical students who often score 100% in their exams but when required to do some critical thinking, they'll dumber than shit on a biscuit. Different types of intelligence I guess but reputation takes you a long way. We have a senior lecturer from Cambridge who hasn't published an article in 9 years - complete dickhead as well.
In my line of work I've supervised some social studies on perception of crime, vulnerability to crime and better educated respondents always outperform people with lesser degrees. Of course not every single one of masters or doctors is smart and not every single one who hasn't got even a high school diploma is dumb, but imo education matters. I believe its the same with worse/better universities and it also applies to other themes like critical thinking, vulnerability to fake news and propaganda, etc.

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My comment was off-the-cuff, but at those leading universities the number of international students is much higher than you have at Moscow or Sapienza. I think the top 2 are 45% now and LSU is something like 70% international students.
Of course

Back on topic - I read that one possible way out of the whole Donbas/Crimea problem would be to "loan" the territories of disputes to Russia for a concrete period of time and basically postpone dealing with the problem. If it's for a reasonable period of time (not 50 or 100 years), that sounds like a decent solution.
 
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Tomice

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Mar 25, 2009
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Back on topic - I read that one possible way out of the whole Donbas/Crimea problem would be to "loan" the territories of disputes to Russia for a concrete period of time and basically postpone dealing with the problem. If it's for a reasonable period of time (not 50 or 100 years), that sounds like a decent solution.
The moment Russia have control there, they will flood it with Russians, do a referendum where 90% will vote to cede from Ukraine and they will never leave after that.
It's not really postponing, in effect this is ceding the territories outright.
 
Mar 9, 2006
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Now these cunts will pretend that they've achieved what they wanted :rofl: you ate a very big fat Ukrainian dick, fuck off, cunts

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From "we will conquer Kiev in 96 hours" :rofl: "the Ukraine will fall" to "we've achieved everything we wanted" :rofl:

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"we are not against Ukraine joining the European Union"
Bruh, at this rate they will give back Crimea sooner than later :rofl:
 
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Strickland

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May 17, 2019
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The moment Russia have control there, they will flood it with Russians, do a referendum where 90% will vote to cede from Ukraine and they will never leave after that.
It's not really postponing, in effect this is ceding the territories outright.
Well they didnt have control of those territories prior to feb 24th either, it has been a shitfest for years now. And for sure loaning cannot include referendums during the loan period, that kind of defeats the purpose of it all :D Of course its a solution that still sucks for Ukraine, but at one point you have to find a compromise with the devil.
 

GordoDeCentral

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Apr 14, 2005
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Well they didnt have control of those territories prior to feb 24th either, it has been a shitfest for years now. And for sure loaning cannot include referendums during the loan period, that kind of defeats the purpose of it all :D Of course its a solution that still sucks for Ukraine, but at one point you have to find a compromise with the devil.

It's a way to save face for everyone.
 

Tomice

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Mar 25, 2009
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Well they didnt have control of those territories prior to feb 24th either, it has been a shitfest for years now. And for sure loaning cannot include referendums during the loan period, that kind of defeats the purpose of it all :D Of course its a solution that still sucks for Ukraine, but at one point you have to find a compromise with the devil.
Not sure you can enforce not doing a referendum otherwise I agree
 

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