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S.Peelman on 15 February 2023
Ryuu96 said:

(..)

Sweden is a lot more uncertain, again, Erdogan is being a twat. I think it may be best for Sweden and Finland to join separately, at least if Finland is in NATO, Sweden would have the safety barrier of a NATO country being between them and Russia.

(..)

Erdogan knows this all too well, so he can afford to make some demands to get Sweden in.



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KiigelHeart on 16 February 2023
crissindahouse said:

So, since Germany allows to send Leopard tanks to Ukraine, where are all those countries which were supposed to send some? I find it kinda weird that countries like Finland talked about it but now they are like "nahhh".

And I think Germany should try much more as they do with equipment but Germany still does more than most others (especially for air defense) and yet most others complain about Germany not doing enough lol. 

Nonsense, Finland is still very much on board with sending Leopards, other countries as well I believe. We've said weeks ago we can't send a huge number, for reasons which should be obvious. And like majority of our military aid, numbers won't be public.



crissindahouse on 17 February 2023
KiigelHeart said:
crissindahouse said:

So, since Germany allows to send Leopard tanks to Ukraine, where are all those countries which were supposed to send some? I find it kinda weird that countries like Finland talked about it but now they are like "nahhh".

And I think Germany should try much more as they do with equipment but Germany still does more than most others (especially for air defense) and yet most others complain about Germany not doing enough lol. 

Nonsense, Finland is still very much on board with sending Leopards, other countries as well I believe. We've said weeks ago we can't send a huge number, for reasons which should be obvious. And like majority of our military aid, numbers won't be public.

Doesn't sound like everyone is still on board looking at the Munich safety conference, though. I really hope everything will work as planned but they don't mention problems for no reason



Ryuu96 on 17 February 2023

Womp.

Saw speculation from other military analysts as well that Russia's "offensive" has already begun...And it's literally just throwing more bodies at the situation, not a huge country wide attack on Eastern/Northern Ukraine like some expected and barely progressing.

Lets hope it remains true.

Ukraine just needs to maintain their positions as well as they can, until the heavy equipment arrives, no point going on the offensive yet.

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Ryuu96 on 17 February 2023

Death by Window.



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Ryuu96 on 18 February 2023

Love it.

It isn't confirmed to be Storm Shadow though, that is just a little speculation going around.



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Bofferbrauer2 on 18 February 2023
Ryuu96 said:

How many APCs and IFV does Russia has left? At this rate, there can't be many more that they can pull from storages anymore, can they?



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Ryuu96 on 18 February 2023
Bofferbrauer2 said:
Ryuu96 said:

How many APCs and IFV does Russia has left? At this rate, there can't be many more that they can pull from storages anymore, can they?

Honestly. Probably thousands.

Just cause they have them though, doesn't mean they're in a useable condition, doubly so given the state of their military.

Really...It's hard to say.



drkohler on 18 February 2023
Bofferbrauer2 said:

How many APCs and IFV does Russia has left? At this rate, there can't be many more that they can pull from storages anymore, can they?

That is not the problem. They have s*ttons of vehicles. The problem is finding people to drive those vehicles. Recently, there was a clip of a tank driver circling around a few Bmps, but forgetting to turn the turret away. So the gun barrel essentially destroyed a Bmp (and probably killed/seriously injured a few soldiers. Next problem is specialists that salvage the damaged vehicles. The Russians just don't have the logistics and trained personnel to do that. Ukranians should continue to concentrate on those "special units", essentially trucks that bring/shlepp stuff back and forth.

It's probably random truck drivers driving the tanks now so the results are predictable once these juniors go into battle.