Russia-Ukraine war and related tensions Megathread

[Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom]

https://twitter.com/USEmbassyKyiv/status/1637067122709807104

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

Maybe these T-54s are being moved for other reasons, but the presumption is that Russia is preparing to use them for the war in Ukraine.

https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1638473462975954945
It's better than no tank, but the T-54 (first adopted in 1948) would be the oldest tank to serve in this conflict. It's worth noting that most estimates of Russian reserves in recent years either discounted the T-54/55s entirely or estimated that they had ~500, but the latter set of estimates sat within a context of a clear overestimate of ~13,000 tanks total.

I've stated before that Russia will have problems with other kinds of equipment, such as protected mobility, before they have problems fielding their preferred numbers of tanks, and I stand by that. However, if T-54s are deployed, that's definitely a harbinger of problems fielding the preferred number of tanks.

[Hindsight was 2020]

https://mobile.twitter.com/Tendar/status/1638511431183220738
https://mobile.twitter.com/PhillipsPOBrien/status/1638511535067635713
Chad Zelenskyy vs Virgin Putin

[CumbrianLefty]

We're going to go into April with Bakhmut *still* not fully captured by Russia, aren't we?

[Hindsight was 2020]

We're going to go into April with Bakhmut *still* not fully captured by Russia, aren't we?

Very likely considering all the recent intelligence rumblings and Wagner openly stating that Russia is on the verge of offensive exhaustion and won’t be able to do any encirclement of the city. But don’t worry Woodbury will still make sure to annoy us all with “it’s going to fall any day. Oh man Ukraine is in trouble” posts

[Storr]

Maybe these T-54s are being moved for other reasons, but the presumption is that Russia is preparing to use them for the war in Ukraine.

https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1638473462975954945
It's better than no tank, but the T-54 (first adopted in 1948) would be the oldest tank to serve in this conflict. It's worth noting that most estimates of Russian reserves in recent years either discounted the T-54/55s entirely or estimated that they had ~500, but the latter set of estimates sat within a context of a clear overestimate of ~13,000 tanks total.

I've stated before that Russia will have problems with other kinds of equipment, such as protected mobility, before they have problems fielding their preferred numbers of tanks, and I stand by that. However, if T-54s are deployed, that's definitely a harbinger of problems fielding the preferred number of tanks.

https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss/status/1638537838667939840?s=20

[Storr]

https://twitter.com/BBCWillVernon/status/1637704204985815042?s=20

[Storr]

Putin visiting Mariupol, inspecting the reconstruction:
[snip]

How is Ukrainian media taking all this?

Most likely

I highly doubt the "it was here where Hitler realized the war was lost" claim. But yeah, pretty much:

https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1637384877254270976?s=20

[Virginiá]

https://twitter.com/jonnytickle/status/1638644855575310338

https://twitter.com/sranysovok/status/1638609243740811264

[GoTfan]

Maybe these T-54s are being moved for other reasons, but the presumption is that Russia is preparing to use them for the war in Ukraine.

https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1638473462975954945
It's better than no tank, but the T-54 (first adopted in 1948) would be the oldest tank to serve in this conflict. It's worth noting that most estimates of Russian reserves in recent years either discounted the T-54/55s entirely or estimated that they had ~500, but the latter set of estimates sat within a context of a clear overestimate of ~13,000 tanks total.

I've stated before that Russia will have problems with other kinds of equipment, such as protected mobility, before they have problems fielding their preferred numbers of tanks, and I stand by that. However, if T-54s are deployed, that's definitely a harbinger of problems fielding the preferred number of tanks.

Waiting for the inevitable Lazerpig Loop argument from Woodbury on this.

https://twitter.com/akbullpup/status/1636093994525442051

That's not a meme, by the way. That's a real thing

[Storr]

rest of tweet: "...surpass the Germans in recklessness."

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1637903563136401412?s=20

[Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom]

Putin drives himself in Mariupol.  I am impressed.
https://twitter.com/WarMonitors/status/1637406543896346625

Wow, the dictator in charge of a Chinese-owned gas station with nukes drove a car.

I too am impressed by the extremely rare skill called "driving".  Ukraine is now doomed.

[dead0man]

Almost two thirds of the city is under Russian Army control. Bakhmut is going to be Artyomovsk again.

https://twitter.com/War_cube_/status/1637955376904654848?cxt=HHwWgMC-5ZXvl7stAAA...

thanks Bakhmut Bob

[CanadianDemocrat]

Maybe these T-54s are being moved for other reasons, but the presumption is that Russia is preparing to use them for the war in Ukraine.

https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1638473462975954945
It's better than no tank, but the T-54 (first adopted in 1948) would be the oldest tank to serve in this conflict. It's worth noting that most estimates of Russian reserves in recent years either discounted the T-54/55s entirely or estimated that they had ~500, but the latter set of estimates sat within a context of a clear overestimate of ~13,000 tanks total.

I've stated before that Russia will have problems with other kinds of equipment, such as protected mobility, before they have problems fielding their preferred numbers of tanks, and I stand by that. However, if T-54s are deployed, that's definitely a harbinger of problems fielding the preferred number of tanks.

Russia being desperate enough to bring out a tank from the Korean War era, is deeply humiliating for a 'military superpower'. It would be like if the US lost over half of it's M1A1 Abrams tanks in Iraq and decided to bring out of retirement the Korean War era M48 Patton tank.

In the 1990 Gulf War, Iraq used the T-54/T-55 tanks which were annihilated by Western tanks without one Western tank lost in combat.

[Hindsight was 2020]

https://mobile.twitter.com/KyivPost/status/1638824510567899136
More and more positive assessments of the situation in Bakmut. This might actually be the Stalingrad of this war. If Ukraine can somehow actually win this battle, Putin might actually start purging his high command

[Dereich]

A few hundred pages back Torie said that he could measure how well the war was going for each side by seeing who was posting the most in this thread. By that measure the past week must have been especially dire for the Russians.

[Logical]

There really isn't much to say as it is mud season. Just like WWII, combat is mostly paused from mid March to early April as the logistics do not allow it.

[oldtimer]

https://mobile.twitter.com/KyivPost/status/1638824510567899136
More and more positive assessments of the situation in Bakmut. This might actually be the Stalingrad of this war. If Ukraine can somehow actually win this battle, Putin might actually start purging his high command

I doubt he will purge his incompetent pals Shoigu and Gerasimov.

Putin and his government did nothing after their historic defeats in March of 2022, did nothing after they lost their fleet , did nothing after they lost their airforce, only did a partial mobilization after another historic defeat in Septermber of 2022, did nothing after their defeat in Khershon, did nothing after they started bombing Russia.

So even if the Ukrainian army captures the Kremlin it's likely that Putin will still do nothing.

Never in recorded history has a leader been seen to be so apathetic and lazy.

[Hindsight was 2020]

https://mobile.twitter.com/KyivPost/status/1638824510567899136
More and more positive assessments of the situation in Bakmut. This might actually be the Stalingrad of this war. If Ukraine can somehow actually win this battle, Putin might actually start purging his high command

I doubt he will purge his incompetent pals Shoigu and Gerasimov.

Putin and his government did nothing after their historic defeats in March of 2022, did nothing after they lost their fleet , did nothing after they lost their airforce, only did a partial mobilization after another historic defeat in Septermber of 2022, did nothing after their defeat in Khershon, did nothing after they started bombing Russia.

So even if the Ukrainian army captures the Kremlin it's likely that Putin will still do nothing.

Never in recorded history has a leader been seen to be so apathetic and lazy.

Yeah his two doofus lapdogs might get a pass but generals below them might be on the chopping block and with the way things have gone with Wagner I wouldn’t be shocked if Prigozhin gets blown up in a mysterious car bombing that Putin will try to pin on Ukraine

[Woody]

A few hundred pages back Torie said that he could measure how well the war was going for each side by seeing who was posting the most in this thread. By that measure the past week must have been especially dire for the Russians.

Sounds like cope. Ukraine hasn't won any territory since mobilization.

[Hindsight was 2020]

A few hundred pages back Torie said that he could measure how well the war was going for each side by seeing who was posting the most in this thread. By that measure the past week must have been especially dire for the Russians.

Sounds like cope. Ukraine hasn't won any territory since mobilization.

Ukraine retook Kherson after Putin ordered the first round and the second happened during winter and Ukraine has been waiting for spring weather to take advantage of the western tanks they got 🤷‍♂️

[Buffalo Mayor Young Kim]

A few hundred pages back Torie said that he could measure how well the war was going for each side by seeing who was posting the most in this thread. By that measure the past week must have been especially dire for the Russians.

Sounds like cope. Ukraine hasn't won any territory since mobilization.

They drove Russia from all of Kharkiv oblast and
In the same timeframe that your glorious Russian masturbatory aide has failed to take a minor city 2.5km from the front.

Someone’s coping alright

[Storr]

On Google Chrome you can read the article by opening it in an incognito window or tab:

https://twitter.com/hallbenjamin/status/1638506183144112131?s=20

[Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom]

The Global South is much more united than previously anticipated. While a few Euro dumbf@cks on Twitter have been hoping for less aid to Ukraine, those in the Global South are investigating if Russian PMCs murdered Chinese workers in an African country they exploited:

L for GLOBAL SOUTH enjoyers

[Woody]

A few hundred pages back Torie said that he could measure how well the war was going for each side by seeing who was posting the most in this thread. By that measure the past week must have been especially dire for the Russians.

Sounds like cope. Ukraine hasn't won any territory since mobilization.

They drove Russia from all of Kharkiv oblast and
In the same timeframe that your glorious Russian masturbatory aide has failed to take a minor city 2.5km from the front.

Someone’s coping alright

Kharkiv was before mobilization. And during Kherson the mobiks were still in training fields.

It's a 100% fact that Ukrainians have never had a successful offensive against Russian forces with the same or more ratio of troops (Kharkiv/North/Kherson) has either been unmanned or withdrawned. Mobilization has addressed these issues, and that's precisely why Ukrainians will never push Russia out of the country.