silvoclaira:
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obedience4:
Just few days to mark first year anniversary of Putin senseless invasion of Ukraine.
I have come to reflect on the mighty 35km convoy of the Russian military 😂
I vividly remember how Putin's military commanders in Nairaland were hyping such moves,
When I and some commentators were educating them that this ain't ww2, pilling up military vehicles without first achieving air superiority and taking out the enemies ability to use it's artillery was suicidal. .
Even some foolishly gave Ukraine two days to surrender.. 😁😁😁😁😁


Putin has failed to take over keiv
Putin has failed to remove zelenzky from power
Putin has failed to break up the west
Putin has failed to drive NATO from its backyard, Sweden and Finland to join.
Putin has failed to use gas as a weapon against the world.
Putin has failed to break up the west and break their resolve in supporting Ukraine, instead more tanks and weapons even sanctions are coming later today.
Putin has failed it nation, the economy of Russia has contracted a record 2.2%
Putin has failed himself, he is now isolated and become a pariah in world politics..

atmy1:


Keep yapping. What Putin has not failed to do is killing almost 200 thousand Ukrainian militants and isolating the western block. Russia continues to trade with India, China, Brazil and several countries. The Russian economy defied sanctions and is now in a better shape than Germany and UK. The Russians are now compelled to reinvest their wealth at home, giving a boost to local economy. Also, a wartime economy is about to spring up leasing to a new boom as Russia ramps up weapon production. More western elites are taking the red pill and asking serious questions from their governments even as the petrodollar continues to weaken. Turkey, India , saudi, SA and latin countries are amongst the ones now trading withy the dollar. Let the west continue to make the noise. Let Russia continue to win. Amen!!

Hotice085:


You brain is a jaundiced one, Russia should be grateful they are fighting Ukraine because that long convoy back then American would have blown all of em in one swipe
Instead of you to shut up ya mouth and weep over your fisbrain war strategy with ordinary small Ukraine, you are here running your lose mouth
Ukraine with smaller army, fewer ammunitions is dealing with POOtin you de talking like a crab you are
Their economy is good yet that can't kit their army instead they are using them like potatoes, if China has the balls let them dare sell to sell lethal weapon to Russia
Are you seeing the Germans or British running away from their country like the way Russian are fleeing to other countries, Russian running to USA has gone up over 430% since the start of the war, they run outside to give birth yet Russian wannabes rats like you keep lying like anything
German economy is s larger and bigger than Russia, only the Oligarchs who invest mainly in the west are living like humans in Russia others like you basically live in rations and you de talk of economy
This is one year that is suppose to be 2weeks Russia is dead and looking for ways to save her face

Hotice085:


You brain is a jaundiced one, Russia should be grateful they are fighting Ukraine because that long convoy back then American would have blown all of em in one swipe
Instead of you to shut up ya mouth and weep over your fisbrain war strategy with ordinary small Ukraine, you are here running your lose mouth
Ukraine with smaller army, fewer ammunitions is dealing with POOtin you de talking like a crab you are
Their economy is good yet that can't kit their army instead they are using them like potatoes, if China has the balls let them dare sell to sell lethal weapon to Russia
Are you seeing the Germans or British running away from their country like the way Russian are fleeing to other countries, Russian running to USA has gone up over 430% since the start of the war, they run outside to give birth yet Russian wannabes rats like you keep lying like anything
German economy is s larger and bigger than Russia, only the Oligarchs who invest mainly in the west are living like humans in Russia others like you basically live in rations and you de talk of economy
This is one year that is suppose to be 2weeks Russia is dead and looking for ways to save her face

atmy1:


Mumu.

atmy1:


Keep believing what the western media is throwing into your dumb brain. Russia is a highly prosperous economy. After a year of fighting in Ukraine, Russia has climbed up into the top 10 economies in the world. I am not the one that said it, it's the so-called western media you love so much. UK economy is on a downward spiral, Germany is in shambles and Americans are dealing with record inflation and paying exorbitant gas fees. Ukraine economy literarily doesn't exist.

But the most delightful part of the whole thing is how the Ukronazis are dieing like flies based on the wrong choice of a cocaine addict president. In Soledar, Wagner packed 20 trucks filled with Ukrainian bodies.

Slava Cocaine!

Hotice085:


Maggots, fowl shit, goat 🐐 shit brain "western this, western that ", remains the only constant vocabulary you piece of Russian hungry dogs know
You can't quote from any Russian sources but the west, that is to tell how infinitely useless both you and your ancient masters are

A very useless Russified monkey 🐒 like you that can't show us or use any invention of Russia origin, instead your use everything the west has provided for you to run that gutter rat mouth of yours
From this internet you are using to your useless daily life tell me one thing of Russia origin this you use daily, thunder fire your backward life
Russia that the most remote town in Germany is more economic prosperous than is what you wanna compare to, ordinary war their army are stealing Ukrainians pots of soups, washing machines and other gadgets yet it is Wagner that uses criminals as body shields displaying their bodies that you a good for nothing He-goat is calling Ukrainians soldiers
You are a very dumb living being only fit for the wilderness of Siberia

Hotice085:


Maggots, fowl shit, goat 🐐 shit brain "western this, western that ", remains the only constant vocabulary you piece of Russian hungry dogs know
You can't quote from any Russian sources but the west, that is to tell how infinitely useless both you and your ancient masters are

A very useless Russified monkey 🐒 like you that can't show us or use any invention of Russia origin, instead your use everything the west has provided for you to run that gutter rat mouth of yours
From this internet you are using to your useless daily life tell me one thing of Russia origin this you use daily, thunder fire your backward life
Russia that the most remote town in Germany is more economic prosperous than is what you wanna compare to, ordinary war their army are stealing Ukrainians pots of soups, washing machines and other gadgets yet it is Wagner that uses criminals as body shields displaying their bodies that you a good for nothing He-goat is calling Ukrainians soldiers
You are a very dumb living being only fit for the wilderness of Siberia

Fimly:

Type "Russian inventions" on Google and see how idiotic you sound. Even your almighty US uses Russian inventions and technology, especially in her space program.

Fimly:

Type "Russian inventions" on Google and see how idiotic you sound. Even your almighty US uses Russian inventions and technology, especially in her space program.

atmy1:


Ode. Russia and China have their own versions of everything in the west but since we are colonised by western powers we are exposed to western versions of things just like many other developing countries. This hegemony is being broken. For instance, three African countries have booted out FRANCE and brought in Russia. Bros, it only gets better for Russia from here but the western empire of lies is on a steady decline and no amount of money, weapons and lies on Ukraine will save them.

obedience4:
Three days into Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a huge 10-mile (15.5km) line of armoured vehicles was spotted by a satellite in the north of the country. The very same morning in Bucha, just outside Kyiv, 67-year-old Volodymyr Scherbynyn was standing outside his local supermarket when more than a hundred Russian military vehicles rolled into town. Both Volodymyr and the satellite were witnesses to a key part of President Vladimir Putin's plan for a quick and overwhelming victory. They were also witnesses to its failure

The western media called it a convoy. In reality, it was a traffic jam and a major tactical blunder. Forty-eight hours after that first satellite photograph, on 28 February 2022, the line of vehicles had grown to a colossal 35 miles (56 km) long. The vehicles were stalled for weeks. Then finally they retreated, and seemingly disappeared overnight

What happened? Why did such a massive force fail to reach Kyiv?
A BBC team spoke to dozens of witnesses; including military personnel, national and international intelligence services, civilians, veterans, and the territorial defence, all of whom came into contact with the convoy. It also gained access to Russian maps and documents that shed light on what the plan actually was, and why it went so spectacularly wrong



THE FIRST HOURS

The story starts on the first day of the war, in the north of Ukraine at its border with Belarus.
Stepping outside for his first cigarette of the day, 23-year-old Vladyslav from Ukraine's 80th Air Assault Brigade saw a flurry of bright lights in the night sky.
"I remember watching the lights emerge from the whole forest. At first I thought they were car headlights. But then I realised they were Grads [self-propelled multiple missile launchers]. They were firing at us

Camped deep within the forest of the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Vladyslav's unit was on patrol when the first Russian vehicles crossed into Ukraine.
"The whole earth was shaking. Have you ever been in a tank? There's no other sound like it. It's a powerful thing."
As planned in the event of any attack, Vladyslav and the rest of the 80th brigade blew up the bridge connecting Chernobyl to the next big town, Ivankiv.
The Russians would be forced to waste time building a replacement pontoon bridge, giving Vladyslav and his unit time to pull back to Kyiv
"At first I was surprised, why didn't we stop them there in Chernobyl? But we needed to learn about our enemy. So that's what we did."
This close to the Belarus border, the Ukrainians could not afford to open fire and risk starting another conflict. Their priority was to first understand Russia's battle plan, before sending their troops into the line of fire.


PUTIN MASTER PLAN

Vladyslav saw were the first vehicles of what would become the convoy.
Contrary to many media reports at the time, the 35 mile-long (56 km) column was in fact 10 separate Russian tactical battalion units, according to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The Russian army also attacked Ukraine in the east and south, but the mission for these 10 units was specific - enter Ukraine from Belarus, overthrow Ukraine's capital city and remove the government. In military terms: a decapitation attack

One Russian document, seen by the BBC, shows a timetable for the plan. After the first battalion crossed into Ukraine at 04:00 am on 24 February, their orders were to advance straight to Kyiv arriving by 14:55.
Several of the battalions were to advance to Hostomel, just north of Kyiv, to back up the troops who'd been airlifted in to secure the airport.
The rest were to head straight into the centre of Kyiv.
The assault heavily relied on two elements - secrecy and speed.
According to the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) (a UK-based security think tank) by keeping plans about an attack on the capital under wraps, Russian soldiers could outnumber the Ukrainian forces by 12 to one in the north of Kyiv.
However, Putin's secrecy came at a cost. So successful was his deception, even most of his commanders did not receive their orders until 24 hours before the invasion.

On a tactical level, this left them vulnerable. They lacked food, fuel and maps. They were without proper communication tools. They had insufficient ammunition. They were even ill-prepared for the winter weather.

Kitted out with the wrong tyres and surrounded by snow, the Russians drove straight into a mud bath. Civilians close to Ivankiv describe Russian soldiers telling Ukrainian farmers to help pull their tanks out of the sludge.
Unable to progress, the Russian vehicles needed to divert to paved roads in order to avoid soft ground, forcing thousands to group into a single column.
But with limited communication between the battalions, they almost immediately converged into one almighty traffic jam.
As one military expert on the ground put it: "You don't ever travel into hostile territory in a long convoy. Ever."
Based on witness testimony and intelligence from the Ukrainian military, we were able to map the ground the convoy covered in the time between the outbreak of war and the end of March. By avoiding travelling across fields, vehicles ended up on most of the main roads north of Kyiv

By the time the column had grown as long as 35 miles (56 km) it included up to 1,000 tanks, 2,400 mechanised infantry vehicles and 10,000 personnel, as well as dozens of supply trucks carrying food, fuel, oil and ammunition.
Stalled north of Kyiv and running out of food and fuel, the Russians had also underestimated their adversary .


OUTDATED TACTICS

In stark contrast to the Ukrainians, the Russian forces repeatedly exposed their inability to make dynamic decisions on the ground

The Russians were all carrying large metal boxes marked 'secret'," says Vladyslav from the 80th Brigade. "We seized one during an ambush. We found their maps marked with their entire route. After that we knew their whole strategy."
Their navigation tools were also woefully out of date. In the year since the invasion, the BBC has continued to find maps left behind by Russian troops that date back to the 1960s and 70s. Whole towns exist now that were not on the maps that they were using to navigate. We also found semaphore flags, a vastly outdated way to communicate between units.
One successful tactic by the Ukrainian resistance was to blow up bridges and dams ahead of the convoy, thus forcing the Russians to reroute. Reliant on old maps and with limited communications back to their high command, the Russian units frequently became paralysed by indecision

Several satellite images show the Russian vehicles literally driving round and around in circles


Occupation


Under pressure from Ukrainian air strikes and artillery, the Russian convoy was finally brought to a standstill just outside of Kyiv's city boundary. For thousands of civilians living close to the stalled troops, the experience was horrendous.
"They robbed everything from everywhere. They emptied the shops," says Vladyslav. "They also used civilians as human shields

What happened in many villages and towns to the north and west of Kyiv is still being investigated by numerous authorities, including the International Criminal Court

After four long weeks the Russians finally started to withdraw.
Two of the largest remaining battalions were defeated close to Hostomel airport. Another 370 tented army trucks, seemingly abandoned in Zdvizhivka village, were destroyed by artillery.
The Ukrainian military kept on pushing them back until 19 March, after which the Russians began to retreat from Kyiv Oblast


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64664944

atmy1:

Russia has climbed up into the top 10 economies in the world.

Fimly:

Type "Russian inventions" on Google and see how idiotic you sound. Even your almighty US uses Russian inventions and technology, especially in her space program.

Hotice085:


Three African countries and tell me one just one country in the world that Russia has made any cultural, economic and scientific impact in this universe?
Even China the number one copycat in the world will forever be grateful for the knowledge America and the West impacted in their society
Everything the Chinese have become not from Russia did they learn but America the west and Japan
Russia is only good for Russified 🐒 monkeys like you that have brain filled with urine and shit

1stGenAmerican:


Russia invented so many magical inventions yet they can’t manufacture pharmaceuticals and common antibiotics to serve their population? And before you mention their Covid vaccine, that was a failure.
Russia, a country that is now manufacturing cars and trucks without seatbelts, airbags, and other basic safety features is suddenly the home of inventions and technology?
I can look all around my home and office all day and not find one thing that says MADE IN RUSSIA. The Google results that you suggested we look up are an absolute joke—unless you take Tetris into consideration.
Please stop the madness, Sir.

atmy1:


You must be sick. The Russians were the first people in space and up till now, they still help the Americans with their space technology. In weapons technology, several countries in the world are using their products. In the arts, they have several artists and writers, athletes and opera maestros. Leave haters, let them continue to hate. Below are some Russian inventors that have changed everyday lives:

Igor Sikorsky, the helicopter.
Alexander Popov, the radio.
Sergei Lebedev, synthetic rubber.
Alexey Pajitnov, Tetris.
Nikolay Pirogov, anesthesia in field surgery.
Fyodor Pirotsky, the electric tram.
Aleksandr Stoletov, the solar cell.
Dmitry Zagryazhsky, Caterpillar tracks.

atmy1:


Keep yapping. What Putin has not failed to do is killing almost 200 thousand Ukrainian militants and isolating the western block. Russia continues to trade with India, China, Brazil and several countries. The Russian economy defied sanctions and is now in a better shape than Germany and UK. The Russians are now compelled to reinvest their wealth at home, giving a boost to local economy. Also, a wartime economy is about to spring up leasing to a new boom as Russia ramps up weapon production. More western elites are taking the red pill and asking serious questions from their governments even as the petrodollar continues to weaken. Turkey, India , saudi, SA and latin countries are amongst the ones now trading withy the dollar. Let the west continue to make the noise. Let Russia continue to win. Amen!!

1stGenAmerican:


Russia invented so many magical inventions yet they can’t manufacture pharmaceuticals and common antibiotics to serve their population? And before you mention their Covid vaccine, that was a failure.
Russia, a country that is now manufacturing cars and trucks without seatbelts, airbags, and other basic safety features is suddenly the home of inventions and technology?
I can look all around my home and office all day and not find one thing that says MADE IN RUSSIA. The Google results that you suggested we look up are an absolute joke—unless you take Tetris into consideration.
Please stop the madness, Sir.

atmy1:

You want me to use an anti-Russian product to win an argument in favour of Russia. Do you know pro russian ads are banned on Google Facebook and youtube? Have you heard what they call shadow banning?

For your info, Russians have their own version of GPS that is why US is so frustrated they cannot spy on them easily. Russia has Yandex like Facebook and China has weibo. The Russians under Putin have grown their economy from the shambles after being destroyed by the Americans in the 90s, to bring one of the most prosperous countries on earth. GDP and per capita has more than tripled under Putin. These are undeniable facts. You can lie nd whine from now till tomorrow, Russia remains prosperous and impregnable. The west can't do Russia nothing. They have imposed 11,000 sanctions already and instead they are now hurting themselves. I pray they continue the sections so they ruin Europe's economy completely.

Hotice085:


God punish the day you came to this world, useless animal I say u should mention one in your miserable daily life you use you asking me to use Google an American innovations
What a useless human being you are

atmy1:


Keep yapping. What Putin has not failed to do is killing almost 200 thousand Ukrainian militants and isolating the western block. Russia continues to trade with India, China, Brazil and several countries. The Russian economy defied sanctions and is now in a better shape than Germany and UK. The Russians are now compelled to reinvest their wealth at home, giving a boost to local economy. Also, a wartime economy is about to spring up leasing to a new boom as Russia ramps up weapon production. More western elites are taking the red pill and asking serious questions from their governments even as the petrodollar continues to weaken. Turkey, India , saudi, SA and latin countries are amongst the ones now trading withy the dollar. Let the west continue to make the noise. Let Russia continue to win. Amen!!

Fimly:

You see why you are an incorrigible dunce. If I should direct you to Russian search engine, the same you will shout Russian propaganda. Btw, what should we brand US that uses Russian technology

You inconsequential piece of sh1t with cotton wool for a brain.