Sorry, I've been asleep for the past week. Did the Ukraine counter-offensive happen or not? What did they achieve?
Sorry, I've been asleep for the past week. Did the Ukraine counter-offensive happen or not? What did they achieve?
Sorry, I've been asleep for the past week. Did the Ukraine counter-offensive happen or not? What did they achieve?
Something happened. A fair amount of ukie vehicles got Mercd, a lot of Russian troops got mercd, ukies got stalled in multiple places and penetrated significant amounts in multiple places
Like said, Ukraine is advancing significantly in some areas, not so much in others. They're taking notable losses, such as a failed mechanized assault that resulted in several destroyed Bradleys and I think the going tally is 3 or 4 Leopards, 2 of them 2A6s.
The Russians are somewhere between holding and panic depending on the part of front, and more broadly beyond the front they seem to be opting to try and drown out any news whatsoever with the destroyed Western equipment. I don't know how much more mileage they'll get out of that just based on goldfish memory and we're heading into a new week. Not to mention the prospect of further potential Ukrainian gains robbing that win of further oxygen.
tl;dr the offensive's started like 4 or 5 days ago and has achieved tepid to good progress, as of what's confirmed, while the Russians are standing and fighting on most of the major axes and not doing as well on others.
I think the key axis to listen out for is Tokmak. It's a major railhub and a lynchpin to Russian logistics in the south and through to Crimea.
You mean, "murked?" "Merc'd" has never been a word, ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHn-XYCiLyY
Probably meant to use "merked": to defeat overwhelmingly, beat up, kill, or eliminate
Non-meme answer: It's ongoing and nobody has a fricking clue what's going on due to media blackout. The only action footage so far was released by Russia: a Ukrainian mechanized column getting fricked by mines and possible ATGM spam, and a Leo getting hit by a drone. But considering the scope of the offensive if this is all Russia can show for itself so far I'd assume Ukraine's doing OK.
Go back to bed and see what spicy memes reveal themselves next week.
There's been a couple Ukrainian videos posted, including a POV from that column, one of what seems to be a small team of Ukrainians probing and mortaring a village, and webm related of a Grad getting absolutely annihilated, though.
There are definitely GoPros scattered around the formations so they'll presumably start showing up once the filming soldiers get pulled off the line and have time to upload. I suspect that's why we mostly have drone footage and stuff from units that aren't currently fighting for whatever reason.
Don't forget that in THAT destroyed column, all the ccrews managed to escape too. So all they have is destroyed hardware, part of which was recovered and is under repair so even that success is... phyrric at best.
>all the ccrews managed to escape too
That's an assumption. I understand why you mke that assumption and its a pretty valid one. Its still just an assumption though, let's not present it as fact.
If the crew were killed or captured then we've seen no proof. All photos show the vehicles empty.
>merked
You're right, assuming they were killed is also an assumption. We simply don't have enough info to say with certainty one way or the other. All I said was frame your assumptions as assumptions and not facts. It shouldn't be a big ask, hell you shouldn't need to be asked at all.
I don't know, I have not and am not interested in speculating at the moment.
Where is your humility?
Oh frick off. Post bodies.
You're an idiot titliting at windmills. Good day.
Nah moron. We have footage of at least one full load of dismounts leisurely walking from one bradley to another. If you have evidence that one of the vehicles suffered a partial or full crew kill, post it, otherwise stop spreading FUD by insinuating that half of the crews are dead.
Seriously you dumb fricks were claiming all of the crews were dead until that video came out. Don't act like we can't tell who you are.
>insinuating that half of the crews are dead.
tilting
at
windmills
Then where are the bodies
Ukrainians fricked up so hard in just 3 days that the shilling on /k/ stopped.
Ukrainians did attack and are still at it, probing russian lines, Ruskies panicked at the start and blew up a dam that the Ukranians might have used to cross a river, but (as usual) it backfired, flooding out many of their own riverside towns and cities. Lots of people died, lots of companies made money selling arms to both sides. Business as usual really.
The Ukrainians were the ones that blew up the dam
If Putin gassed a kid's concert, you'd Black folk would be out here saying
>"the concert was a chemical weapons plant, it just sprung a containment leak."
To ruin their potential axis of advance? Sure that's the only logical conclusion.
>R*ssians admitted to mining the dam last year
>R*ssian state TV repeatdly played around with the idea of blowing it up
>R*ssia passes a law just days before the explosion that allows them to forego the usually mandatory inspection and assessment of damage to damns from military action or acts of terrorism
>R*ssia's own infosphere says some dipshit drunk general ordered it
>R*ssian state TV accidentally has an expert on who, not knowing why he's being asked the question, says that this dam blowing up couldn't have been feasibly done remotely (without dropping many multi-ton bombs on it) and would've required manual mining on site
Yes, yes, it was those damnable Ukrops though blowing up their own infrastructure for no apparent reason, destroying their homes, agriculture, people and preventing their troops from marching on Crimea through the shortest route for the foreseeable future.
*repeatedly
Also, here's the law in question:
http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/document/0001202305310067
>Russian Government Decree No. 873
>Until January 1, 2028, the technical investigation of accidents at hazardous production facilities and accidents at hydraulic structures, which occurred as a result of military actions, sabotage and terrorist acts, shall not be carried out
Everyone is meming but nobody knows what is actually happening. Come back in a couple weeks.
Looks bad for Russia in places.
media-blackout
we're know only after it's over
ukr is smarter than using unsecured mobile phones for communication