Disclaimer: I'm a simple Ukrainian citizen who resides in Kharkiv. My only source of information is what is going on around me, what my friends in Lviv, Kyiv, and Herson tell me, as well as Telegram channels and YouTube.
I'll answer the most upvoted questions as Edits to the original post.
Here are some popular questions that I've seen in this Sub:
Is war real? Most definitely. The nearly constant sounds of shelling (or tank/artillery fire) outside are a clear indication of that. Aside from that my parents' apartment building roof has been obliterated. A group of people who wanted to buy some food has been massacred by a cluster bomb 20 meters from my house (google "Pyatihatki" and you'll be able to see the result). The war is around me DESPITE the fact that I live in a "quiet" part of Kharkiv.
Why is there so little footage despite the fact that everyone has a smartphone? Yes. Everyone has a smartphone. But unlike in movies, you have no fucking idea how scary it is to have air bombs or artillery fire at you. Even if the "action" is about 1 KM from your house, your whole house is shaking from the explosions, the sound is overpowering. To actually be near a window (the most dangerous place of all) and film anything is absolute Insanity. Whoever records live footage is incredibly brave and stupid to do it.
Do Russians shell/air bomb indiscriminately? No. They specifically target certain objects. Sometimes it’s military structures, most of the time it’s civilian structures, which is why civilian casualties are a lot greater than military casualties at this moment. In my district, Russians have specifically targeted our research institute that has no strategic significance, except the fact that it had our centralized heating station. Now we have no centralized heating while it's about -10 C at night outside.
Why are Russians failing so miserably to capture a small country like Ukraine? Overconfidence. They thought that they would go in guns blazing, catch everyone with their pants down and Ukraine would quickly surrender. This is why they sent many young soldiers who were in training just as a show of force. They never thought that they would have to use them to fight. But our military viciously resisted and was able to halt the Russian advance. This is the reason why the casualties among Russian soldiers are so horrific. Most of the Russian soldiers are horribly unprepared, never knew that they were going into war, and are now used as cannon fodder.
Weren't you a native American a month or two ago?
Yet the only people showing me anything from Ukraine are the ones who have been wrong about literally everything I've the last 5 years
put out your flag or you are a RACIST!!! Dx
Russians are trying to keep civilian casualties low. If they wanted to do in Ukraine, what they did when they came back East last time this happened, they'd have the entire country by now.
Most likely, yes. The reason Americans tend to level cities to the ground in their wars, is because they have no interest in permanently settling in the region. Here, however, we're seeing the kind of siege tactics that usually precipitate annexation - destruction of strategic wartime resources and buildings, avoidance of actual urban warfare in favor of tactical strikes, and the use of low level troops, foreign skirmishers and de facto mercenaries instead of going in with the regular army. In short, the Russians are moving in to stay.
For specific tactics, I suspect the strikes on civilian buildings are either meant to enforce the siege - like the above hit on a heating station, that provides incentive for a region to surrender or face the frost - or are a response to the Ukrainian irregulars with RPGs deployed inside - which itself is also a war crime, no matter how heroic it looks in pictures.
Moreover, if what Coach Red Pill says is true, Zelensky has effectively granted the local mob thugs free reign on the big cities, with military-grade firepower at that, and they're now settling scores among themselves. This is a classic "scorched earth" tactic used when abandoning a soon-to-be-captured region, since the approaching forces will be busy clearing up the criminal element. Thing is, it's also not very ethical to inflict on your own citizens.
All things considered, it looks like Russia will take a major bite out of Ukraine, but it's doing it in a way that would leave most of the infrastructure intact. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian combat effort is focused more on inconveniencing the incoming forces, even at the expense of its own citizens, than on organizing a concerted resistance.
They let all the prisoners with military experience out of prison and gave them guns, and pointed them toward Russians. Some people I know were like "wow, go Ukraine!" It's like they didn't think it might not be a good idea.
Tell me about it. Picture this in your head:
"Hey, Serhey, now that we're free and armed and all, why should we actually go fight the Russians, since the Zelensky regime is likely to round us up even if we survive anyway?"
"No worries, Nykolay, we'll fire a couple of rockets at an empty tank, then hightail it to Poland and claim refugee status. Nothing left to steal or rape here anyway."
"Good plan."
Admittedly, my first thought was "this is like the Dirty Dozen movie", which is a WWII movie where prisoners are given reprieves if they go on a daring behind enemy lines raid. It's admittedly a good flick, which must be why it popped in my head. But my second thought was pretty much akin to yours.
So where did you get your Ukraine/Russia expertise from?
Background? Oh, you projected the NSA. Is that correct?
So tell me, how do secret societies play into play this "war"?
You cant annex what is already yours.
Wow, you are an expert on Ukraine/Russia AND an expert on calendars!
What a genius!
Lol, great find.
Who says it's dying. It's just fine the way it is.
Maybe for now.
go to sitescroll as well. great forum! lots of information outed. if this goes away? there ARE alternatives
Lmao...sure you are from Ukraine...sure. and you just showed up before the Ukraine conflict on this forum.....wow....no offense...but your posts have been a bit odd since you started here. I doubt you story unless you have something a bit more trustworthy
Do you doubt them now? That's okay with me. I'm about to resign.
So...how come your Ukrainian level of slang is so similar to a US person? Is Ukraine's first language English?
Cue** bad spelling with accent on purpose
You're asking the interesting questions.
I sense you may be a perpetual liar. Not your fault...but one of those people who just lies and lies ans lies and doesn't back down because they don't even notice that it is really really sad...
I was the quietest in high school because I hate lies.
also you could have put that this is a fucking gay reddit thread which makes me believe it even less.
I like your comment very much.
And then what?
Just see what happens when NATO mysteriously backstabs Ukraine.
An Embargo of funds as I call it.
This board will never die because they keep sending NSA agents like forinfren there. LOL
https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/tdbk4y/ukraine_conspiracies_answered/