Current Affairs Ukraine

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April 19,

Key Takeaways

  • The next phase of the Russian offensive in Ukraine’s east has reportedly begun, largely with artillery and air bombardments supporting a few small-scale ground offensives.
  • Russian officials and media are likely preparing to declare victory in Mariupol in the coming days, possibly before Ukrainian forces in the Azovstal facility have been fully defeated.
  • The Russians may be attempting a single wide encirclement of Ukrainian forces from Izyum to Donetsk City or a series of smaller encirclements within that arc. It is too soon to assess the intended Russian scheme of maneuver.
  • Russian operations continue to proceed hastily, as if President Vladimir Putin has set an arbitrary date by which they must succeed. Putin may have decided that he will announce a Russian success and the completion of the operation on Victory Day, May 9. The haste with which Russian forces are moving may compromise the success of their operations.
 
Do you believe what the Russians say ?….
I really don't know what to believe anymore. I really believed in Ukraine and still do but what looked or seemed like Ukraine was winning is turning into a nightmare now. Mariupol is gone, we're in big trouble in Donbass and the East. It now just seems that Russia will take all of the east and all of the South including Odessa.

Just think that the Ukranian leadership along with our media have just been spouting a lot of war rubbish about us winning. I've been sucked into believing it and so has most the posters on here too, it seems.

The cold hard reality is that it simply doesn't look good
 
I really don't know what to believe anymore. I really believed in Ukraine and still do but what looked or seemed like Ukraine was winning is turning into a nightmare now. Mariupol is gone, we're in big trouble in Donbass and the East. It now just seems that Russia will take all of the east and all of the South including Odessa.

Just think that the Ukranian leadership along with our media have just been spouting a lot of war rubbish about us winning. I've been sucked into believing it and so has most the posters on here too, it seems.

The cold hard reality is that it simply doesn't look good

Who's this "Us"?
 

Sickening - we are watching a country being destroyed
It'd be a legal minefield but it would be pleasing on a certain level to see world powers that have seized Russian assets making it clear to Russia that they will use these assets to pay for the defensive military equipment being sent to Ukraine and said assets will also be used to pay to repair the damage that Russia's invasion is causing to Ukrainian infrastructure and lives/compensation.
 
I really don't know what to believe anymore. I really believed in Ukraine and still do but what looked or seemed like Ukraine was winning is turning into a nightmare now. Mariupol is gone, we're in big trouble in Donbass and the East. It now just seems that Russia will take all of the east and all of the South including Odessa.

Just think that the Ukranian leadership along with our media have just been spouting a lot of war rubbish about us winning. I've been sucked into believing it and so has most the posters on here too, it seems.

The cold hard reality is that it simply doesn't look good
Do you think we'll win tonight, Robert, because that's definitely your name.
 
I really don't know what to believe anymore. I really believed in Ukraine and still do but what looked or seemed like Ukraine was winning is turning into a nightmare now. Mariupol is gone, we're in big trouble in Donbass and the East. It now just seems that Russia will take all of the east and all of the South including Odessa.

Just think that the Ukranian leadership along with our media have just been spouting a lot of war rubbish about us winning. I've been sucked into believing it and so has most the posters on here too, it seems.

The cold hard reality is that it simply doesn't look good
So I think its safe to say "we" wont be retaking Crimea at this point?
 
So I think its safe to say "we" wont be retaking Crimea at this point?
Doesn't at all look like it. I really believed the Ukrainians could take Crimea from what everything I read on news, lbc on way to and back from work as well as on here because the theme was Ukraine was winning
 
I really don't know what to believe anymore. I really believed in Ukraine and still do but what looked or seemed like Ukraine was winning is turning into a nightmare now. Mariupol is gone, we're in big trouble in Donbass and the East. It now just seems that Russia will take all of the east and all of the South including Odessa.

Just think that the Ukranian leadership along with our media have just been spouting a lot of war rubbish about us winning. I've been sucked into believing it and so has most the posters on here too, it seems.

The cold hard reality is that it simply doesn't look good
They won’t take Odessa and the Ukrainians will hold the line in the east. I agree Mariupol is gone.

Now it’s a case of pinning down the Russians and malleting them with switchblade and TB2 drones. Attrition rates will be high and hopefully the Ukes will establish a stronger negotiating position in any future talks.
 
They won’t take Odessa and the Ukrainians will hold the line in the east. I agree Mariupol is gone.

Now it’s a case of pinning down the Russians and malleting them with switchblade and TB2 drones. Attrition rates will be high and hopefully the Ukes will establish a stronger negotiating position in any future talks.
I bloody hope so they don't take Odesa or else the war is completely over.

Meanwhile the UN is suggesting a four day ceasefire to allow urgent humanitarian aid to get through

 
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