The tide turns against the "special military operation"

[worldstarcountry]

The videos in the following page tracks a handful of French, Brazilian and Colombian mercenary casualties and captures. Another clip shows some internal conflict between mercenary groups. It looks pretty hopeless, perhaps the sooner Kiev falls the better for everyone. Someone is trying to explain that the guy who was assaulted was on of their best marksman from Bakhmut. He claims to have been killed, but he is still breathing and I do not see any pools of blood so I am not exactly certain what happened there.

[andy06shake]

Times of India video starts with some of the videos released plus the same one I posted with the MoD at the halfway.
[Video: https://youtu.be/opc_ifxoVus]
The other video is focused on what comes next, Kramatorsk and Slavyansk.
[Video: https://youtu.be/fAk94S_jj6o]

Despite these successful strikes by Ukraine, and they are getting some good ones in, it does not seem to be able to prevent the horde from moving in and capturing more land. 
Videos and testimony show several groupings surrendering and offering testimony to a lack of intelligence sharing with units being ordered to front lines to positions that were already captured, as well as attempts by other Ukrainian units to kill off those who were surrendering using drone strikes.
Maybe another round of F-16's and Abrams tanks will turn the tide??

I think the Abrams is a very capable tank.

But the conditions in Ukraine have limited many of its advantages.

As to the F-16's, they need trained, skilled, competent pilots, to fly them.

Which is as much of an issue as the lack of numbers of planes.

The Russians will move forward simply because they are a horde...

More drones are the answer, along with the surveillance and targeting information required to do their thing.

Freedom to Ukraine and down with the Russians, who are in the wrong postcode...

[worldstarcountry]

I think the Abrams is a very capable tank.

But the conditions in Ukraine have limited many of its advantages.

As to the F-16's, they need trained, skilled, competent pilots, to fly them.

Which is as much of an issue as the lack of numbers of planes.

The Russians will move forward simply because they are a horde...

More drones are the answer, along with the surveillance and targeting information required to do their thing.

The Abrams did some amazing work in Kursk, I posted many of those videos on ATS too. It just is not enough. Language barriers and a lack of capable and competent soldiers to even field these systems effectively has already shown its limits. The sensible thing would have been to try and settle a peace prior to the increasingly confiscated land which has decimated the industrial potential and drained Ukraine of its man power. But Belgium will order the government to keep kidnapping single fathers and older uncles and order them to die in vain due to the insultingly short training and poor equipment fielding for the grunt. I cannot imagine foreign mercenaries will continue to sign-up for a lost cause when they are now turning on each other.

Sorry chap, the Russians are going to take their Donbass, and more if the madness from Brussels does not see reason soon. I do not need to imagine it, we are watching it every week and every day happen right  before our eye. But at least Europe will be flooded with desperate women and girls seeking work, and I am sure the pervert Epstein class on your side of the pond will at least see that as a silver lining. The organ harvesting of the nameless and faceless would be another caveat I suppose.

What a fucked up world we apes have made for ourselves.

[Oldcarpy2]

The Abrams did some amazing work in Kursk, I posted many of those videos on ATS too. It just is not enough. Language barriers and a lack of capable and competent soldiers to even field these systems effectively has already shown its limits. The sensible thing would have been to try and settle a peace prior to the increasingly confiscated land which has decimated the industrial potential and drained Ukraine of its man power. But Belgium will order the government to keep kidnapping single fathers and older uncles and order them to die in vain due to the insultingly short training and poor equipment fielding for the grunt. I cannot imagine foreign mercenaries will continue to sign-up for a lost cause when they are now turning on each other.

Sorry chap, the Russians are going to take their Donbass, and more if the madness from Brussels does not see reason soon. I do not need to imagine it, we are watching it every week and every day happen right  before our eye. But at least Europe will be flooded with desperate women and girls seeking work, and I am sure the pervert Epstein class on your side of the pond will at least see that as a silver lining. The organ harvesting of the nameless and faceless would be another caveat I suppose.

What a fucked up world we apes have made for ourselves.

This is delusional.

Seek help.

[andy06shake]

The Abrams did some amazing work in Kursk, I posted many of those videos on ATS too. It just is not enough. Language barriers and a lack of capable and competent soldiers to even field these systems effectively has already shown its limits. The sensible thing would have been to try and settle a peace prior to the increasingly confiscated land which has decimated the industrial potential and drained Ukraine of its man power. But Belgium will order the government to keep kidnapping single fathers and older uncles and order them to die in vain due to the insultingly short training and poor equipment fielding for the grunt. I cannot imagine foreign mercenaries will continue to sign-up for a lost cause when they are now turning on each other.

Sorry chap, the Russians are going to take their Donbass, and more if the madness from Brussels does not see reason soon. I do not need to imagine it, we are watching it every week and every day happen right  before our eye. But at least Europe will be flooded with desperate women and girls seeking work, and I am sure the pervert Epstein class on your side of the pond will at least see that as a silver lining. The organ harvesting of the nameless and faceless would be another caveat I suppose.

What a fucked up world we apes have made for ourselves.

Sounds like of talking points stitched together with very little evidence...

Ukraine's mobilisation has been messy, but every country fighting for survival conscripts.

And that includes Russia.

Claims that Belgium or Brussels are ordering Ukraine to kidnap people are fiction WorldStar.

Ukraine makes its own mobilisation laws.

The Abrams was never going to be a war-winning weapon on its own.

I don't imagine anybody serious claimed they would be.

It would be silly to suggest that Russia has not made gains.

But at enormous cost in men and equipment.

And the front remains contested as we speak.

The "organ harvesting" nonsense, and im apt to ponder is nothing more than some sort of QAnon recycled conspiracy theory.

Let's stick to verifiable facts.

And the fact is, Ukraine is not up for any sort of capitulation...

Because the cost will be the end of the place as a sovereign nation.

[Oldcarpy2]

Meanwhile, in the real World, Ukraine is striking actual proper targets deep inside Russia and causing petrol shortages in Russia and hurting their economy.

Whereas Russia continues to target civilians.

War crimes.

[fwki]

Russia has made gains but not this year.  "Russia’s territorial control in Ukraine shrank in the spring of 2026, with a net loss of roughly 400 square kilometers in April and May. The Russia-Ukraine casualty rate has likely risen to nearly 8:1 in the first half of 2026, up from between 2:1 and 3:1 for much of the war, in large part due to Ukraine’s use of drones—including AI-enabled drones—as part of its aggressive air interdiction campaign. Russia’s ground offensive has largely stalled, with an average rate of advance of approximately 50 meters per day around Kostiantynivka, 70 meters per day around Pokrovsk, and 90 meters per day around Sloviansk. These are among the slowest rates of advance in any war over the last century."
Nobody's going anywhere fast.

Edit to add source... https://www.csis.org/analysis/russian-bl...putins-war

[andy06shake]

The problem is that Mad Vlads the invader.

A persistent bastard, no doubt.

As long as he's wasting other people's lives.

Let's face it, his own people are nothing more than cannon fodder in his eyes.

Expendable useful idiots...

[worldstarcountry]

Russia has made gains but not this year.  "Russia’s territorial control in Ukraine shrank in the spring of 2026

Wow, and you call me delusional?? Ok, lets just keep playing pretend I guess. Carry on gentlemen, I would rather not put a damper on this party.

[fwki]

Wow, and you call me delusional?? Ok, lets just keep playing pretend I guess. Carry on gentlemen, I would rather not put a damper on this party.

I think you have me confused with someone else or maybe just plain confused.