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810th Separate Naval Infantry Brigade was stationed in Crimea as per treaty with Ukraine as Russia made an agreement with the legitimate government of Ukraine before Maidan to continue their lease over Sevastapol.
Russia stated that the formation of the illegitimate government threatened military infrastructure in Crimea which they rightfully owned due to an agreement with the previous government so Russia conducted in support of 810th, an air assault on Crimea.
This invasion happened after Maidan movement seized the government and started mentioning that they will revoke the Sevastopol port license.
The unrest also gave Russia a nice excuse to also annex region.
In the end, most in Crimea accepted this, most of the Ukrainian military defected to Russia without a shot being fired, and Russian troops enjoyed their sausages.
Had they not, Ukraine likely would have conducted massacres in Crimea like they did in Mariupol.
How to prevent annexation of Crimea? Not have neo-Nazis overthrow the semi-democratic government.
Perhaps Zelenskyy should have implemented Minsk as was expected of him. The war would have not had happened if he lived up to his campaign promises instead of capitulating to neo-Nazis.
You never answered my question.
Do you believe that the man who had his hands up and on his knees deserved to be shot by the Azovites, do you believe that the machine gunner firing shots towards a crowd was a nice idea, and do you think that shooting at ambulances is the best way to defend democracy?
We can toast to this.
But you still did not answer my question. Do you believe that the man who had his hands up and on his knees deserved to be shot by the Azovites, do you believe that the machine gunner firing shots towards a crowd was a nice idea, and do you think that shooting at ambulances is the best way to defend democracy?
Please answer my question. It is a very specific question that needs to be answered.
You still did not answer my question. Please answer it. Yes or no. Do you believe that those protestors deserved to be massacred by the Ukrainian government? And after you answer this question. I have a few more questions.
And I consider those invalid answers.
Ok, and?
Localized entirely within Sudzha region? May I see it? No.
Claims of DPRK troops are often made but often with little evidence, here is a list of all such claims many of which contradict each other.
Following the liberation of Kursk Oblast, Telegram channels have been flooded with images and videos of civilians in Kursk Oblast who were massacred by the Ukrainians. Even before the liberation of Kursk Oblast, there were leaked videos of Ukrainian soldiers loading civilians onto trucks and sending them to mass graves. There has been a large amount of evidence of mass murder and torture of civilians.
This is similar to what happened in 2014 where Ukraine gunned down crowds. Should Russia let another Mariupol or another Kursk Oblast happen in the Donbas? In Crimea? Why or why not? I want valid answers to my valid questions.
Bucha is a horrible war crime that should never have happened. But Ukraine has been doing their own massacres since 2014 which is why this war started.
Perhaps Zelenskyy should have implemented Minsk.
Then provide videos. Closest thing are prisoners recruited by Wagner but even they were given weapons.
Link me those videos since it is so easy to find.
Motorcycles have been found to be extremely effective as slower vehicles are often destroyed by drones if they lack proper support. They are also extremely cheap which matters because the majority of Russian forces are volunteers from regional volunteer formations. Meanwhile most of the actual Russian Armed Forces stayed in Russia. These volunteer formations are mostly funded by regional governments not by the federal government. But that does not mean Russia does not provide them with the essentials.
TLDR: there is some truth that these forces are poorly equipped but not to the extent that you are saying.
When Russia deployed actual professionals into the Kharkiv region, Ukraine had to send entire force of 30,000 soldiers backed by armored vehicles to halt the advance of 2,000-8,000 light infantry. Ukraine has not yet pushed this force with Vovchansk being turned into a literal parking lot by Russian military.
Ukraine sent up to 100K of their most elite troops into Kursk backed by 500 armored vehicles and a thousand pieces of equipment in total not including those which were not destroyed or whose destruction was not recorded on video. Russia claimed 3K pieces of equipment which seems reasonable considering the amount of recorded losses. 100K would be a quarter of all combat troops. This force recently got destroyed.
As for your last paragraph? Average age of a Russian soldier in Ukraine is around 50.
I thought you had many videos of meat waves running towards trenches without guns. Did you just lie to me? You make me cry.
Donkeys are being used because of mud season. Vehicles cannot be used during the mud season. Even tanks cannot operate in this mud. Donkeys have been used for transportation in heavily wooded areas during the mud season. The video you provided did not show any cavalry charge. The headline seems to be click bait and the channel is a known pro-UA propaganda outlet. The German Armed Forces still uses donkeys for transporting equipment in rugged terrain. The German Army even issues an entire handbook for the use of donkeys in combat. The US also used them in Afghanistan due to the rugged terrain.
I have seen entire groups of Ukrainians surrender to a single drone:
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1gd02h9/ru_povukrainian_soldiers_surrenders_to_a_russian/
11 Ukrainians being taken prisoner by 4 Russian soldiers:
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/16ex23t/ru_pov_11_ukrainian_soldiers_surrendering_to_4/
10 Ukrainian soldiers surrendering:
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1cr3tsh/ru_pov_10_ukrainian_soldiers_decided_to_surrender/
Russian stormtroopers capturing a position and taking Ukrainians as prisoners:
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/199mcvf/ru_pov_russian_forces_captures_a_ukrainian/
An entire Ukrainian platoon surrendering:
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/147yfky/ru_pov_ukrainian_platoon_of_110_ombr_surrenders/
Stormtroopers taking prisoners:
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1itqyj0/ru_pov_stormtrooper_assault_group_took_an_enemy/
Ukrainian soldiers abuse one of their own who has down syndrome (Ukraine is becoming desperate for troops) just like how the Ukrainians back in WWII tortured people with disabilities in support for Bandera:
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/18tofjg/ua_pov_ukrainian_soldier_mocks_a_ukrainian/
So for transport? Would you rather walk? It ain’t stupid if it works.
Must be embarrassing considering that Russia is winning with donkeys, what does that say about Ukrainian peoples’ will to fight?
Oh wait the Ukrainians also use animals:
Ukrainians using horse sleds as transport
Ukrainians riding on bicycles and horse carriages
Ukrainians using horse carriage
Ukraine transporting supplies via horses
Ukrainian Inmates with military experience including a bunch of rapists and murderers from Tornado batallion, were released in February 2022, long before Prigozin was allowed to recruit Russian convicts into Wagner.
More recently in 2024, President Zelenskyy signed a bill permitting convicts to join the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Convicted Females joining Ukrainian Armed Forces
Ukraine had a stronger military compared to Germany, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom combined.
Ukraine had a thousand tanks at the start of the war. At least half of them were modernized. The T-64BV Model 2017 has third generation thermal, new gun stabilizer, new autoloader, same fire suppression system as T-84 Oplot-M, digital communications, satellite navigation, and other improvements. They also upgraded their T-80s to T-80BV Model 2018 which brings it up to T-64BV Model 2017 standard. There is also T-64BM and T-64BM2 which are similar to the T-64BV Model 2017 but with a more modern fire control system. These tanks are not really much worst than say a Leopard 2.
Germany, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom have less than a thousand tanks combined.
Ukraine had two thousand MT-LBs which are fairly decent APCs (Russia had 3,000). They also had hundreds of modern BTR-4s and BTR-3s supplemented by hundreds of BTR-70s and BTR-80s.
Ukraine had far more artillery guns compared to these countries combined. This includes the 500 2S3s they had at the start of the war which is Soviet counterpart to M109. They also had plenty of 2S1s and 2S19s. Even if you include only the 2S3s (which again are comparable to the M109), this is roughly the same amount of M109s that the US has.
Ukraine has almost five times the amount of multiple launch rocket systems as France, Germany, Italy, and the UK combined. They are also the largest user of HIMARS and M270 outside of the US with them having more than France and Germany combined.
Ukraine has also received over a hundred modern tanks (roughly the same amount the UK has) and over half a thousand of modern artillery guns from the West which is more artillery guns than the amount that France, German, Italy, and the UK have combined. This has helped replace their losses with their fleet of 2S3s which for example dwindled down to 140.
Ukrainian military was also being trained by NATO since 2015 and also received MILES gear.
The UK practically sent their entire stockpile of SPGs to Ukraine and begged to Sweden to replace their fleet and Poland thrown half of their stockpile of SPGs to Ukraine. Almost every European country has complained about massive shortages of ammunition due to it all being given to Ukraine. France stated they could only fight Russia for a few weeks before running out of ammo.
Ukraine literally has a stronger military than France, Germany, Italy, and the UK combined. There is a reason why these countries state a Ukrainian defeat would be the end of Europe although in my opinion Russia has no plans to invade more countries outside of maybe the Baltics.
All of this despite most of the Russian Armed Forces not even being in Ukraine, majority of forces in Ukraine again are from irregular volunteer formations recruited from regions across Russia.
You mean the several failed Belgorod incursions?
Or you mean when Ukraine thrown up to a quarter of all their combat troops including their most elite into a small area in Kursk Oblast which got destroyed recently? Russia has 500K soldiers in the Ground Forces not including logistics which is part of its own branch. 100K of these are conscripts and Russia will not use them even in Kursk due to public pressure. So this leaves 400K soldiers. But most of those soldiers are being used to guard the country against NATO. This left 100K on Ukraine's border (not including the 100K in Belarus) with 50K of which fighting in Kursk. Ukraine essentially concentrated 100K of their most elite forces and captured a very small portion of Kursk before being halted by 50K troops. These 50K troops recently destroyed this force utterly. When the chance of US intervention ceased with the Putin-Trump talks, Russia immediately launched a large-scale offensive with the air being crowded with aircraft and entire Ukrainian units surrendering. They liberated 28 settlements in a single week and captured multiple western tanks and pieces of equipment.
Yet the Russian economy keeps growing.
Most countries still use cold-war era equipment including Russia.
Russia however produced more T-90Ms (a very good tank mind you) last year than the amount of tanks the entire German military has. Production was 20-30 per month last year but this has likely since doubled. Losses for T-90Ms have been low as per Oryx with production massively outpacing losses (one to two months of production last year was enough to replace yearly T-90M losses).
Before you talk about T-54/55s, they are being sent to volunteer formations that use them as SPGs for hotter zones as they are better protected from artillery fire than most other SPGs (including western) which is often just armoured against bullets. It is also beneficial as they were the last Soviet tank produced to ever have indirect fire instructions in the manual.
Russian SPG losses significantly reduced since the T-54 appeared.
Regular army has priority when it comes to receiving modern equipment, unlike the Volunteer formations in Ukraine.
Yes corruption exists, but Russia has been cracking down on it.
Where is your proof of this?
Russia's last partial mobilisation happened in 2022. Russia over the past couple of years has seen a massive surge in volunteers with around 430,000 recruited in 2024 compared to 300,000 being recruited in 2023. That seems to contradict your idea of noone else wanting to go.
Told to him by relatives? Hearsay?
Soviet and Russian troops have traditionally used portyanki and only switched to socks in 2013.
Some troops are complaining about being issued foot wraps despite it not only being previously standard issue not so long ago but dry faster than socks and with many wearing tarpaulin boots, foot wraps is better for them anyways.
Meanwhile, the Finnish had to knit over 20,000 pairs of socks for Ukrainian soldiers.
Video of portyanki.
Yeah, 'little' Ukraine. A country with a stronger military force compared to Germany, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom combined.