Interesting that Rus population during WW2 was 200 mil, while since 1991 they're stuck at 150 mil. One crazy fact tho, they were willing to sacrifice 8 mil people back then. Yet the age group of men 18 to 59 y.o was around 60 mil. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1260605/soviet-population-changes-wwii-gender-age/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1009271/population-size-russia/
"russia" - or whatever you like to call it - is a failed state, a slowly rotting populace, ... basically all they know is alcohol and violence ... stuck between megalomania and inferioritiy complex. "russia" cannot survive.
The future of warfare... Drones have taken over the war in Ukraine, sometimes fighting each other and running supplies like soldiers https://news.yahoo.com/drones-taken-over-war-ukraine-110001605.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall Both Russia and Ukraine are employing drones in new and destructive ways. One video captures a Ukrainian drone attacking a Russian ground drone carrying ammo to a unit. Another video shows Ukraine testing a small ground vehicle to assist in mine-clearing operations. The drone war in Ukraine is heating up as both sides find innovative ways to use them to protect their troops and target their enemy's across the largely deadlocked battle lines. It's a sign of just how effective drones have been for Ukraine and Russia and speaks to continued investment in making them more useful and fearsome on the battlefield. This week, video shared by the Ukrainian Ground Forces showed a rather peculiar interaction between an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) near Avdiivka. Під Авдіївкою український FPV- дрон знищив наземний безпілотник Російської Федерації, який доставляв боєприпаси. Про це повідомляють Сухопутних військ Збройних сил України.https://t.co/mp611QDjHQ pic.twitter.com/Sv8M7JLki6 — Громадське радіо (@HromadskeRadio) December 9, 2023 In the footage, a Russian UGV is seen driving on a snowy road. Ukraine said the drone was delivering ammunition to a nearby Russian unit, a tactic that spares troops in a vehicle from going on a dangerous resupply mission. Russian forces have been fighting in Avdiivka for months now, and are attempting a renewed offensive against Ukrainian defenses there. But before the UGV can get ammo to Russian troops, a Ukrainian exploding drone flies out of nowhere, soaring down and slamming directly into it. The UGV promptly explodes. Although there have been many other instances of drone-on-drone combat, this one highlights just how reliant Russian and Ukraine have become on unmanned vehicles, in this case using them as both a logistical tool and a piloted weapon. Another recent video speaks to that development as well. On Friday, footage of a Ukrainian UGV participating in de-mining operations was shared online. Interesting video of a Ukrainian small UGV platform for demining ops - it stretches out the UZP-77 hose-like, mine-clearing line charge assembly that explodes and detonates mines along its path. Obviously, this was not a live fire test - Ukrainians wanted to see if UZP can be… pic.twitter.com/0WIWuk2GJs — Samuel Bendett (@sambendett) December 15, 2023 In the video, the drone drives forward in a field, pulling along a mine-clearing line charge that resembles a hose. The Russian-made device detonates the mines nearby and along its path, saving individual sappers from the dangerous and difficult job of clearing an initial mine-free path. The footage shows that a UGV could potentially be used to pull these line charges and maneuver them into place, giving the drone another potential job for Ukraine. Both cases — the drone combat in Avdiivka and the mine-clearance operation — are not necessarily all that new but instead indicate continued innovation and sophistication in the use of unmanned vehicles. They also link with recent advanced and violent use of drones on the battlefield, where nothing and no one is safe from these weapons. Graphic videos shared online have documented some attacks over the past few months were drones flew inside open hatches of tanks or followed Russian soldiers back to bunkers. As one Ukrainian soldier said in a recent video, "This is the future of warfare: shooting drones at each other rather than bullets or shells." Read the original article on Business Insider
Hahahahaha, I wonder what Winston Churchill would have to say about this. ---> Note I highlighted the last part for emphasis. Khan’s decision to block cars for Ukraine scheme ‘gobsmacking’ Sadiq Khan British politician, Mayor of London The Mayor of London has said he will not allow the vehicles to be sent to Ukraine in a letter obtained by The Telegraph - Jordan Pettitt Sadiq Khan has blocked a plan to send cars to Ukraine that would otherwise be scrapped under Ulez. In a letter obtained by The Telegraph, the Mayor of London has said he will not allow the vehicles, which tend to be 4x4s and pick-up trucks, to be sent to the war zone, where they are desperately needed on the front line. Under the London Ulez scheme, motorists are able to claim a one-off payment of £2,000 if they scrap a vehicle that does not comply with the controversial pollution levy. If they instead keep their non-compliant vehicles – most diesel cars registered before September 2015 and petrol cars registered before January 2006 – they must pay a daily charge of £12.50. In September, Vitali Klitschko, the mayor of Kyiv, wrote to Mr Khan after noting the UK’s scrappage scheme, proposing that some of the vehicles be donated to Ukraine. He said the move would have “enormous potential” and be used in a “variety of life-saving and transport roles”. Vitali Klitschko spotted the potential of the scrappage scheme to help Ukraine’s war effort - Oleksii Samsonov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images But this week, Mr Khan wrote to Mr Klitschko to say he would not allow the proposal because it did not meet the “legal threshold” that requires the Ulez scrappage scheme to benefit Londoners from an “economic, social and environmental perspective”.
An individual like this or prime minister of Hungary, should not hold that much power, over such decisions. Politics.
Any basic critical thinking around events like forceful mobilization in Ukraine, recruiting women etc. would tell you Ukrainian loses much higher than Russian, extremely higher. I'm not going to give odds or numbers but Ukraine mobilizes every month 20000 people and their army doesn't increase Hell just look at Ukraine military cemetery in google Now you can of course believe in propaganda you quoted in this case you will just join imbeciles ranks. Russia winning anyway no matter what you believe