I legit heard analysts talking about how this was a brilliant move...by Ukraine. Not even fucking kidding. They also used the saying "lost the battle but won the war" to try to imply that losing battles is a necessary step toward winning a war. Also, by losing territory, they're taking a breather, and by Russia taking territory, they're tiring their troops. Russia is totes about to get slaughtered for real this time, because Ukraine was clever and lost territory.
Germans look at Polish and see incomprehensible series of consonants. While to the east, Polish sounds so strange to Russians that they even have a verb for Poles speaking their language: pshekat. To top it off, Czechs think Poles sound like Czech children with a speech disorder.
What makes Polish sound so uniquely challenging? While most individual sounds are known to English-speakers ‒ read our listen-along Foreigner’s Guide to the Polish Alphabet if you don’t believe us ‒ things go downhill once they’re lumped together into actual words.
The most troublesome feature of Polish orthography is what linguists call complex consonant clusters ‒ series of consonants without any vowels. They occur in many languages, including English; for example, in the word ‘shrug’, the letters shr form a consonant cluster. But while English usually draws the line at three consonants, Polish sometimes joins as many as five consonants, a phenomenon called the Polish syllable structure, which is allegedly surpassed only by Georgian in terms of complexity.
The Russians are losing quite a bit in certain areas they thought they had won, and I am loving it. Using old T-62s because they are losing so many tanks is the cherry on top.
How old are you? If you've just started using the internet due to being so young, then that could be considered a valid excuse for not knowing, but it's no excuse for spewing an opinion out of ignorance.
(Yes, they are, and they post the videos to boast about it.)
The only thing Zelensky has done that I disagree with is telling men they can't leave.
That's just a complete fuck you to any man in Ukraine who doesn't deem Ukraine's increasing westernization to be something they are willing to die for.
In the first days there were just extremely long queues to the volunteer recruitment centers. It looked like that, selecting people and refusing many: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8YTBsbaZ87E
Russia also has no problem with volunteers actually. For various reasons including good money (for Russian provincional standards).
Besides, they're also finally integrating various previously independent ultranationalist militias into regular forces. Right Sector Volunteer Corps are being turned into regular formations. Azov is now a brigade after the creation of new regiments in Kharkiv and Dnipro from the local "Freikorps" RWDS. This is obviously purely volunteer driven efforts as well, in addition to the massive Territorial Defense and such.
There were similar scenes in 2014 specifically for Donbas and Donbas only. That's how so many volunteer battalions sprung up within weeks to accommodate them, in addition to independent militias who didn't even try to join any regular forces, including for the reasons you mentioned (and supplying themselves through crowdfunding, instead of relying on state or even sponsorship by oligarchs).
"Late in the evening of March 1, I went with my wife and child to Uzhgorod, on the border with Slovakia. In my naiveté, I also went along because I thought I was not fit for military service. On the temporary certificate that was issued to me as a replacement for my military ID card, it said "unfit in peacetime, limited fitness for military service." When I inquired, I immediately received a summons to the draft board. I was told to call a cab and drive to the enlistment office in the middle of the night. Although I had done nothing illegal - I had neither offered a bribe nor tried to cross the border secretly, I had simply asked - I knew from the way they spoke to me that I would never get out of there."
Excerpt from this (translated with deepl.com). The whole thing is worth a read.
I legit heard analysts talking about how this was a brilliant move...by Ukraine. Not even fucking kidding. They also used the saying "lost the battle but won the war" to try to imply that losing battles is a necessary step toward winning a war. Also, by losing territory, they're taking a breather, and by Russia taking territory, they're tiring their troops. Russia is totes about to get slaughtered for real this time, because Ukraine was clever and lost territory.
I wish I was making that up.
6D chess
From what I heard yesterday, the evacuation was enabled by the HIMARS "barrage" (mass precise strike) on the Russian artillery units.
The HIMARS (all 4 of them) just arrived 1 day earlier. (The crews have been already trained.)
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1540621721178365952?
Anyway the Ukrainian situation on the Luhansk front remains absolutely critical right now.
Didn't you move to the EU after it happened?
I thought you went to France.
It's really easy words. Try some ours: https://theculturetrip.com/europe/poland/articles/the-10-most-difficult-polish-towns-to-pronounce/ (they're not hard at all if you grew up here, and these Englishy pronouciations in the article aren't even remotely correct ironically)
Vid related: https://youtube.com/watch?v=AfKZclMWS1U
https://culture.pl/en/article/the-9-most-unpronounceable-words-in-polish
Georgia just applied to the EU btw (and it's already approved).
Lysychansk had already went for many weeks and is apparently over (for) now.
https://southfront.org/breaking-russia-win-battle-for-severodonetsk-fighting-began-in-lisichansk-videos/
Details and videos.
At the very least it is buying the Ukrainians some time to retake Kherson. As they liberated all settlements leading to Kherson.
The Russians are losing quite a bit in certain areas they thought they had won, and I am loving it. Using old T-62s because they are losing so many tanks is the cherry on top.
You love ordinary people being tortured and murdered and burned to death by the Ukrainian 'nazis'?
Are they?
If you have to ask, you're clearly in a topic you know little about.
If you can't answer, then you are simply virtue signaling.
How old are you? If you've just started using the internet due to being so young, then that could be considered a valid excuse for not knowing, but it's no excuse for spewing an opinion out of ignorance.
(Yes, they are, and they post the videos to boast about it.)
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Good, it is good to question things. But what I said is true. Check the lines around kherson and the T-62s in battle.
So when the Ukraine has to surrender or offer de facto, are you going to post here to apologize to the rest of us?
Apologize for what? Are you Russian and coming after me for saying that it is fun to see the overglorified Russian army fail?
The one with facts.
The only thing Zelensky has done that I disagree with is telling men they can't leave.
That's just a complete fuck you to any man in Ukraine who doesn't deem Ukraine's increasing westernization to be something they are willing to die for.
Ukrainian fighters are mostly enthusiastic volunteers.
The separatists nowadays are mostly conscripts, aged from 18 to over 80 (the elderly go to police style forces).
In the first days there were just extremely long queues to the volunteer recruitment centers. It looked like that, selecting people and refusing many: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8YTBsbaZ87E
Russia also has no problem with volunteers actually. For various reasons including good money (for Russian provincional standards).
Besides, they're also finally integrating various previously independent ultranationalist militias into regular forces. Right Sector Volunteer Corps are being turned into regular formations. Azov is now a brigade after the creation of new regiments in Kharkiv and Dnipro from the local "Freikorps" RWDS. This is obviously purely volunteer driven efforts as well, in addition to the massive Territorial Defense and such.
I'm sure they are stoked to be undersupplied underpaid and under corrupt leadership. I bet they are just seething in order to fight in the donbass.
There were similar scenes in 2014 specifically for Donbas and Donbas only. That's how so many volunteer battalions sprung up within weeks to accommodate them, in addition to independent militias who didn't even try to join any regular forces, including for the reasons you mentioned (and supplying themselves through crowdfunding, instead of relying on state or even sponsorship by oligarchs).
"Late in the evening of March 1, I went with my wife and child to Uzhgorod, on the border with Slovakia. In my naiveté, I also went along because I thought I was not fit for military service. On the temporary certificate that was issued to me as a replacement for my military ID card, it said "unfit in peacetime, limited fitness for military service." When I inquired, I immediately received a summons to the draft board. I was told to call a cab and drive to the enlistment office in the middle of the night. Although I had done nothing illegal - I had neither offered a bribe nor tried to cross the border secretly, I had simply asked - I knew from the way they spoke to me that I would never get out of there."
Excerpt from this (translated with deepl.com). The whole thing is worth a read.