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[geckotheglorious] 11/1/2024 09:33

LoganAir

Yep Tusk is a right c*nt. Poles were foolish to vote for him (and did you notice how money/aid for Poland was being held up prior to the election - now it's flowing once again now that Tusk is PM.

Funny that.

And yet Remoaners still are oblivious to EU dictatorial predilections.

[loganair] 11/1/2024 08:01

If any poster on this thread would like to see a real Dictator at work then have to look no further then Donald Tusk the new Prime Minister of Poland (ex President of the European Council) and see what he is doing in Poland and he's only been PM for 1 month.

I always thought Tusk was a nasty bit of work and can never be trusted, this just proves it.

This shows just how Dictatorial the upper echelons of the EU really are.

[xxxxxy] 10/1/2024 16:02

Investment in Russia and Russian is deader than dead.Learn the lessons. Never invest in Russia again.Russia has left Civilisation.Compensation is all that is left you.

[xxxxxy] 10/1/2024 15:59

Like Stalin, Putin has an insatiable ego and a desire for greatness at whatever the cost. Those in the West who believe that a ceasefire could be followed by a return to "normality" are utter fools. Nobody with any understanding of the Kremlin believes that it is a certainty that Putin will stop his westwards march. The drift towards militarisation of the Russian state and the surging calls for a greater offensive must serve as a warning that the West needs to wake up before he acts. We must fully support and arm Ukraine. If we don't, as predicted by the Polish Chief of Security, NATO will be at war with Moscow within a few years.... Daily Telegraph

[31337 c0d3r] 09/1/2024 17:11

The real problem there is that when the hopeless convicts have completed a tour of duty, international war criminal and child abducting weirdo Putin lets them straight back into society. As if the culture wasn't violent and corrupt enough already!

In line with global trends, the Russian homicide rate had been consistently falling year after year. However, since releasing convicts to fight international war criminal and child abducting weirdo Putin's illegal invasion of Ukraine, that trend is in tatters and the Russian murder rate is skyrocketing.

[31337 c0d3r] 09/1/2024 12:41

Not as desperate as Russia releasing dangerous convicts to send to the front line.

[loganair] 09/1/2024 11:44

It looks like in the not too distant future the Ukraine are going to call up 50,000 women, shows the desperate shortage of men the Ukraine now has.

[xxxxxy] 09/1/2024 09:24

Russia STINKS.Of corruption and murder.Just for starters.Remember.Never invest in Russia again.

[1917again] 08/1/2024 10:21

Russian under-takers having a boom

Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧
@DefenceHQ

The average daily number of Russian casualties in Ukraine has risen by almost 300 during the course of 2023.

If the numbers continue at the current rate over the next year, Russia will have lost over half a million personnel in Ukraine.

[loganair] 07/1/2024 16:30

The figures I use are from the BBC Russian Service who report somewhere around 65,000 Russian dead since the start of the conflict in February 2022, which tally closely to those being given by the Russian government and other independent sources.

I understand the ratio is 1 dead to 1 so severely wounded that they're so disabled they'll never be able to fight again and with a further 4 wounded to various decree and will be able to return to combat duty.

Therefore 650,000 Ukrainian dead suggests a further 650,000 so severely wounded that they'll never fight again or take any further active productive roll in the Ukraine again. I've heard and read reports that there are as many as 1 million Ukrainians wounded who are too disabled to return to the military = over 1.5mln Ukrainians are now either killed or out of the fight for good.

However, even with a simple bullet wound will take several weeks until able to return to active front line service then need to take into account many are in their 50's and 60's and therefore will take quite some time for their bodies to repair.

I'm in my 50's and today I can only with stand maybe a 1/4 of the hardship I could when I was 20 and it's bloody hard being in freezing wet trenches full of freezing water even for a 20 year old let a lone for some one in their 50s or 60s, many of who are not fit in the first place.

And unlike the Russians, for the most part the Ukrainians are unable to get their wounded out from the frontlines and are just left there to slowly die of their wounds.

Also many Ukrainian front line troops have been in continual combat for several months with no rest, unlike the Russian who continually rotate troops from the front lines into rest areas and therefore are far more rested.

Finally how many men do the Ukraine have left to call upon?

After all those that left has left the population down to around 20 million people. It seems to me reasonable to say half are male and half are Female = 10 million males. 3 million are children with at least 4 million being elderly = 3 million men for active service - 1.5 million dead or now out of the fight which leaves just 1.5 million men for active service, of which around 500,000 plus are already on active service on or near the front lines or protecting the cites like Kiev etc, no wonder why Ukraine now need to call up women to fight on the front lines.

[1knocker] 07/1/2024 15:40

Logan, where both sides are faily evenly matched and there is broadly a stalemate, it is a fair assumption that losses on either side will be pretty similar. In all wars moreover the ratio of dead to wounded runs about 1:2.5. The ratio varies a bit from country to country, because of differences in the way the records are calculated (dead is dead, but some do not count anyone wounded unless out of active service for a specified period, while others keep a daily tally of those admitted to casualty centres, for example).

[loganair] 07/1/2024 12:01

BBC Russian Service, "between 15 December 2023 and 29 December 2023 Russia has suffered 1,100 casualties" = 78 per day.

While the Ukrainians are losing between 600 and 800 KIA each and every day and on some days losing over 1,000 in just one day.

This means the Ukrainian loses are running at circa 8 to 1 compared to Russian losses.

[loganair] 07/1/2024 11:54

Even after over a year, I'm still surprised at how many posters still believe the absolute lies and propaganda being continually pushed out by the Western media and United Stated and UK governments when it comes to the conflict in the Ukraine.

One of the few Western media services that I still listen to and take heed of is the BBC Russian Service, the BBC World Service isn't too bad either and often worth listening too.

I'm still astonished at the difference in news being put out by the BBC and BBC Russian Service, would have thought they are two completely different organisations on opposing sides when it comes to the conflict in the Ukraine and what's happening in both the Ukraine and Russia.

[loganair] 07/1/2024 11:49

1knocker - We've heard quite a lot about the tanks given to the Ukraine...some they returned because did not worked and could not get them to work, many are now Unserviceable after several months of operations and circa 25% have been knocked out by the Russians leaving maybe no more than 25% or less still operational.


Just look at the RAF, even with all their maintenance facilities and most of their aircraft not on combat duty, usually no more then 50% of their aircraft are operational at any one time.

[31337 c0d3r] 07/1/2024 11:47

logliar, it seems to me that for the past few weeks you and your team have been struggling to give good reasons why the West shouldn't bother sending fighter jets to Ukraine?

It's always nice to read between the lines and see what the Kremlin fears most, even though it's by trawling through the pointless drivel of their propaganda troll farm.

PS. Those jets are coming whether you like it or not.

[1knocker] 07/1/2024 11:44

Fighter jets are expensive to buy, and also expensive to maintain in operational condition.It makes sense to give old and obsolescent aircraft to Ukraine. It makes no sense to give them new, state of the art planes.

We have not heard much about the tanks Ukraine so badly wanted, which it said would win the war, and which were ultimately given to them. Presumably most have been knocked out, or are now worn out or otherwise unservicable.It will be the same, in spades, with any fighters given to them. Maintaining them in operational condition is a much more sophisticated business even than doing so for tanks.

[loganair] 07/1/2024 11:15

What I can see happening is every 6 months the West will give the Ukraine circa 12 F16s.

At the end of the 6 months these F16s will either have been shot down or become unserviceable due to their age leaving the Ukraine with no F16s at the end of this period.

Wash and spin every 6 months meaning the Ukraine will never have more then a dozen F16s operational during any 6 month period up against 1,000 Russian aircraft - seems rather a miss match to me.

[loganair] 07/1/2024 11:07

The delivery of the first six Danish F-16 jets to Ukraine, which was expected to take place around the end of 2023, has been postponed until the second quarter of 2024, Danish newspaper Berlingske reported on Jan. 6, citing the country's Defense Ministry.

The delivery terms for eight more Danish F-16s previously scheduled for 2024 and five more in 2025, remain unknown at this time.

Denmark is the only country to have announced exact delivery dates for the F-16s, while Norway and Belgium have not disclosed details of their planned transfers.

In August, the Netherlands and Denmark promised to provide Ukraine with 61 aircraft — 42 and 19, respectively. Later, Norway confirmed its intention to supply F-16s. Belgium will also give Ukraine F-16s starting in 2025.

Western F-16 fighters may be "less helpful" next year as Russia has improved its weapons and air defense system, Ukrainian Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi said in an interview with UK news magazine The Economist.

[loganair] 06/1/2024 18:52

So many posts on ADVFN read as though they've been written by unknowledgeable, ignorant young children who are narrow mined and blinkered to what is really going on in the outside world.

[masergt] 06/1/2024 13:45

Better add three more to that list.

[loganair] 06/1/2024 08:58

lunar 26 - your replies show a complete lack of knowledge when it comes to what happens when aircraft are put into storage.

Most aircraft that are put into storage are just flown to a desert and just left there. Unless an aircraft has been expensively and properly put into storage, is looked after on a weekly basis then another 2 months to bring out of storage, after a year any modern aircraft is completely knackered, even more so military aircraft as they have high stress levels put on them when combat flying.

The only use nearly all aircraft have after being put into storage is for spare parts.