Ukraine 6

[BobfromWB]

Cats at The Front

Cats provide warning for UKR troops:
There are 17 cats in the Quick Death strike drone company of the Kharkiv Border Detachment
They’re the most sensitive sensors:as soon as the enemy launches a KAB bomb,the cats disappear into the dugouts with lightning speed.Their reaction is an unmistakable alarm signal. Cats also help relieve stress

46 second video with translation and kitties:
https://bsky.app/profile/antongerashchenko.bsky.social/post/3llqk7zhx4226

[mystery-ak]

Moscow orders another 160,000 servicemen to be conscripted - Russia's largest increase since war began in Ukraine - as Putin continues to delay ceasefire

By ED HOLT 17:06 31 Mar 2025, updated 17:24 31 Mar 2025

Russia has ordered the largest increase in conscription since the Ukraine war began as a further 160,000 servicemen are called up to the frontline.

The planned draft size has increased from 150,000 in 2024 and 134,500 in 2022, when Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine.

It comes as Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Russia to boost the size of its army to 1.5 million active servicemen - an increase of some 180,000 troops over three years.

This is despite growing efforts from the United States to bring forward a ceasefire to the three-year-old conflict with Putin being accused of delaying the peace process.

Despite the Kremlin's claim that those called-up are not linked to the war in Ukraine, Kyiv has said throughout the conflict that it has taken Russian conscripts captive and Putin previously admitted that some had been sent to fight by mistake.

Russian men are eligible to be drafted for mandatory military service through bi-annual call-ups.

Apart from its conscription drives, Russia has recruited hundreds of thousands of men for its offensive on Ukraine as paid contract soldiers, offering high salaries and massive sign-up bonuses.

Russia traditionally holds waves of conscription in spring and autumn, with men aged 18-30 eligible to be called up.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14555509/amp/Russia-largest-servicemen-conscripted-war-Ukraine.html

[kevindavis007]

Love this picture:

https://twitter.com/TylerBoliver/status/1906809668296757624

[MeganC]

Love this picture:

https://twitter.com/TylerBoliver/status/1906809668296757624

 

[Cyber Liberty]

I guess we have no other choice.  Impeach Trump.

[MeganC]

I guess we have no other choice.  Impeach Trump.

LOL, I support the President but I also think he's way out of his element thinking that Putin is going act by the rules of civilization. Putin is a sociopath who does not care about other people except to the extent that he can exploit them.

Pardon me if I confuse you with my views it's just that I'm not one of these idiots who adheres to one issue as a tenet of faith and can't abide anyone dissenting from that view.

I also apply my perspective on the forum and just because I may disagree with someone on one topic doesn't mean I'm so damned dense that I have to oppose them on other topics where in fact I agree with them or where in fact they are simply right.

[Cyber Liberty]

LOL, I support the President but I also think he's way out of his element thinking that Putin is going act by the rules of civilization. Putin is a sociopath who does not care about other people except to the extent that he can exploit them.

Pardon me if I confuse you with my views it's just that I'm not one of these idiots who adheres to one issue as a tenet of faith and can't abide anyone dissenting from that view.

I also apply my perspective on the forum and just because I may disagree with someone on one topic doesn't mean I'm so damned dense that I have to oppose them on other topics where in fact I agree with them or where in fact they are simply right.

I get testy at times.   

[MeganC]

I get testy at times.   

I do too. 

[Right_in_Virginia]

Love this picture:

https://twitter.com/TylerBoliver/status/1906809668296757624

If Reagan destroyed the USSR 40 years ago, why are so many around here so spooked by Russia today and demanding we bankrupt ourselves by helping the Borderland?   After all, Germany and Japan were destroyed 80 years ago, and they're still allies today. 

Did Reagan inflate his accomplishment and mislead the world?

[kevindavis007]

If Reagan destroyed the USSR 40 years ago, why are so many around here so spooked by Russia today and demanding we bankrupt ourselves by helping the Borderland?   After all, Germany and Japan were destroyed 80 years ago, and they're still allies today. 

Did Reagan inflate his accomplishment and mislead the world?

Cause there is a former KGB agent trying to bring back the Soviet Union.  Also, that said country is allied with China and Russia. Too bad Washington isn't with Reagan beating the snot out of Trump in that picture.

[MeganC]

If Reagan destroyed the USSR 40 years ago, why are so many around here so spooked by Russia today and demanding we bankrupt ourselves by helping the Borderland?   After all, Germany and Japan were destroyed 80 years ago, and they're still allies today. 

Did Reagan inflate his accomplishment and mislead the world?

Reagan defeated the USSR as a superpower and as an imperialistic regime. Rebuilding the US military to levels that the USSR could not compete with helped. This in hand with the Star Wars SDI program that was never deployed but which did produce some neat cartoons and sleight of hand Reagan bankrupted them.

In doing so Reagan freed Eastern Europe from the parasitic Russians. For a time he also freed the Russians from being parasites and instead they started to produce things again. Putin reversed most of this in Russia because Putin loved the Soviet Union and he wants to restore the fallen Soviet Empire.

There are valid comparisons here between defeating the USSR and defeating the German Reich of World War One. The Reich fell but then an attempt at resurrecting a German Empire was carried out by the Austrian fellow. Had that resurrection been stopped when the price to do so was low then that would have saved millions of lives.

The USSR fell and we are now seeing an attempt to resurrect a Russian empire by the diminutive gangster. And we can stop him now when the price is low or we can stop him after he thinks he can get away with starting a major war.

At which point the cost in blood and flesh will be high.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Cause there is a former KGB agent trying to bring back the Soviet Union.  Also, that said country is allied with China and Russia. Too bad Washington isn't with Reagan beating the snot out of Trump in that picture.

Japan hasn't had a Kamikaze pilot roaming the skies and Germany hasn't had a nazi running its government in 80 years.  I guess if the KGB is still alive and well after 40 years, Reagan fell short of destroying the USSR ---- bless his heart. 

[kevindavis007]

Japan hasn't had a Kamikaze pilot roaming the skies and Germany hasn't had a nazi running its government in 80 years.  I guess if the KGB is still alive and well after 40 years, Reagan fell short of destroying the USSR ---- bless his heart. 

Japan has been our friend. Not Russia your favorite country run by Trumps puppet master

[FtrPilot]

https://twitter.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1907133549167456311

[FtrPilot]

https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1907131119360721397

[FtrPilot]

https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1907158304385867895

[FtrPilot]

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1907136164483731872

[BobfromWB]

Reporting From Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/@RFU/videos

Today [ Apr 01, 8 pm ], there are a lot of interesting updates from the Kursk direction. Russians launched a new offensive into Ukrainian territory, trying to cut off the remaining Ukrainian forces in Kursk. However, as their fallen soldiers piled up along the border, it quickly became clear that any hope for the Russians to launch their own incursion was too far-fetched ... the Russians suffered from a massive drawback; catastrophic losses sustained in Kursk severely undermined their ability to launch a follow-up offensive into Ukrainian territories. According to various estimates, Russian forces suffered up to 55,000 casualties during the seven-and-a-half months of intense fighting and multiple failed counteroffensive attempts in Kursk.

Ukrainian sources also report that Russians have lost up to 2,100 vehicles in Kursk, including over 750 armored personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles, and tanks, resulting in a significant deficit in the Russian forces' armored reserve at Kursk ... it is clear they do not have the ability to launch their follow-up offensive to encircle even a part of the Ukrainian Kursk forces

Despite the lack of proper vehicles, Russians sent forth a continuous wave of assaults, hoping to overwhelm Ukrainians and accomplish their objectives through sheer numbers. Unfortunately for the Russians, the unarmored nature of the vehicles Russians used allowed Ukrainians to leverage their artillery to inflict even more devastating losses on the Russian attacks.  The devolving nature of Russian military capabilities in one of their most important sectors that is Kursk, highlights the desperate conditions the Russian military finds itself in.

However, as dead Russian infantry pile up on the approaches and forests leading into Sumy, the prospect of any large-scale Russian offensive into Ukrainian territory becomes increasingly unfeasible.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Tl3lM1Wlo

[MeganC]

"Despite the lack of proper vehicles, Russians sent forth a continuous wave of assaults"

I've been seeing video on Rumble of Russian troops trying to run assaults with civilian vehicles. It looks like something from Mad Max, not something from a one-time superpower.

[Hoodat]

I guess if the KGB is still alive and well after 40 years,  .  .  .

No one here said that.  No one.

(See:  Logical fallacies - Strawman argument)

[Hoodat]

why are so many around here so spooked by Russia today and demanding we bankrupt ourselves by helping the Borderland?

No one here is demanding we bankrupt ourselves.  No one.

(See:  Logical fallacies - Strawman argument)

[Hoodat]

In addition, Finland intends to increase defense expenditure to 3% of the GDP by 2029.

That would be a higher percentage than the US spends.

[Hoodat]

WarTranslated
@wartranslated
Latvia will send another batch of 1,500 drones to Ukraine.

According to the country's Minister of Defense, two Latvian companies will deliver a total of 12,000 UAVs to Ukraine in the first half of this year, worth €17 million.

For that original $40 billion that Biden handed to Anthony Blinken and Samantha Power in 2022, Ukraine could have had over 26 million UAVs instead.

[Hoodat]

I hope you realize that Russia and China is joined at the hip.

https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1907137024546730303

[Hoodat]

from r/UkraineWarVideoReport

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1jp5vmg/that_is_my_biggest_motivation/