#Ukraine: The Ukrainian Air force is still alive- seen here are two Ukrainian Su-27 striking Russian facilities on the famous Snake Island in the Black Sea, in remarkable footage filmed by a TB-2 drone.

As we can observe, there is serious damage. pic.twitter.com/ogN3gOU8uJ

— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) May 7, 2022

https://www.reddit.com/r/RussianCircus/comments/ukpvb9/russian_navy_carefully_relocating_their_damaged/

Rossticus said:

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Russian Defense Ministry accuses the Ukrainian authorities of preparing attacks on Lviv and Volyn Oblasts on May 8 with Tochka-U missile system to allegedly blame the Russian Armed Forces, reports Russian mass media

— Hromadske Int. (@Hromadske) May 8, 2022

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…but why? The world is already on Ukraine's side, they don't need to bomb their own cities to make that happen.

After Russia lost sea superiority I think they want to use Snake Island to launch large missile systems from. Not a good plan without air superiority

Which is what is leading to the overall issue with Russian attrition and cannibalism BTGs. You need to know when to shift to defense, when to retrograde, and when to transition back to the offensive. You can not always be on the “offensive”

— The Intel Hub (@The_IntelHub) May 8, 2022

Russians still in complete denial.

Lol pro-Russian telegram channels (and idiots here) are claiming that the boats and helicopter destroyed on Snake Island was a Ukrainian landing attempt, and inadvertently are cheering on the deaths of tens of Russian soldiers.
Meanwhile Weagner groups say they were Russian SOF. pic.twitter.com/Hp7Jg6ua3i

— Nathan Ruser (@Nrg8000) May 8, 2022

It's interesting to read the Russian propaganda and then the source that they conveniently don't give a link to. They take a nugget of truth and twist it to suit themselves.

🇨🇦Canadian sniper Vali, praised by ukropropaganda, has escaped home and is giving interviews to the Canadian media
with might and main points.:
- this war is a complete deception;
- most of the mercenaries returned without ever having been to the front; pic.twitter.com/shcUHluVUO

— bigrussianshop🇷🇺 (@bigrussianshop) May 7, 2022

Actual Source
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/2022-05-06/retour-du-tireur-d-elite-wali/la-guerre-c-est-une-deception-terrible.php

US officials just returned to the embassy in Kyiv minutes ago….and right now there is an air raid alert in the city. Welcome back. https://t.co/RtnLiInO2w

— Nolan Peterson (@nolanwpeterson) May 8, 2022

MeatDr said:

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Ha!

⚡️In #Kherson, a local resident whistled from the balcony as if a shell was falling - the "liberators" below were notably frightened and fled. pic.twitter.com/84z4MHVVOZ

— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) May 8, 2022

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He is probably dead now.

MeatDr said:

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Russians still in complete denial.

Lol pro-Russian telegram channels (and idiots here) are claiming that the boats and helicopter destroyed on Snake Island was a Ukrainian landing attempt, and inadvertently are cheering on the deaths of tens of Russian soldiers.
Meanwhile Weagner groups say they were Russian SOF. pic.twitter.com/Hp7Jg6ua3i

— Nathan Ruser (@Nrg8000) May 8, 2022

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LOL as if suddenly Ukrainian helicopters are fast roping their guys onto Snake Island

Eliminatus said:

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Captain Positivity said:

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Snake Island, a Ukrainian TB-2 hits a Russian Mi-8 as troops are unloading pic.twitter.com/FJabRRBzCH

— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) May 8, 2022

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As long as Russia wants to keep feeding troops to an island with insufficient air cover, the Ukes need to keep killing them. Snake Island has become a living hell.

Russia's inability to gain total air superiority is the number one quantifiable reason IMO why they failed at the start and why they continue to fail. What a disaster for them. I love to see it! Disregard the garbage spewed by our board commies. This fight is still very much not decided.

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we should have a discussion along the board on this topic: every day that passes I believe is a win for Ukraine.

every day the Russian economy will take more hits from the sanctions, every day more Ukes can be trained in Western equipment, and every day the Russian forces will take more casualties.

on the other hand, every day in a war of attrition means it could be possible the Ukes are relatively suffering a higher percentage of casualties.

it really all depends on if Ukraine is able to conscript/draft or obtain thousands more volunteers each week.

in my mind, this is now a battle of manpower-

as the increased western equipment evens out the actual ability of both forces to reach near stalemate.

Russia bombs (another) school.

Envious of Ukraine's Turkish-made Bayraktar drones, Russia is desperately trying to keep up. They're crowdfunding purchases of drones for their troops and claim to be smuggling them in through Lviv, complaining about problems with getting stuff through their own customs. pic.twitter.com/iyNWBPZcGp

— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) May 8, 2022

…he was a civilian. There were 3 others in the cellar with him. Viktor told me he was beaten & brutalised

‘Talking to these soldiers, I realised that Russians really hate us,’ he told me

They kept saying they’d come to fight the Nazis

— Sarah Rainsford (@sarahrainsford) May 8, 2022

Ammo Can EFPs coming soon to Russian armor near you😁
Excuse my dirty foot haven't showered in two weeks. pic.twitter.com/MKiQql5wdo

— Ryan O'Leary (@RyanOLearyIA22) May 7, 2022

In the second part of the video, Zelensky talks about how we all saw the same murderous methods during WW2 and how most countries in Europe still remember what Nazi German soldiers did to their civilian population.

Part 2/2pic.twitter.com/gzqVPSkEmX

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) May 8, 2022

Just FYI, May 9th commemorates the victory over Nazi Germany in 1945. It was first inaugurated in the 15 republics of the Soviet Union, following the signing of the German Instrument of Surrender late in the evening on 8 May 1945.

Ukrainian WW2 veteran “thanks” the Russian Army for destroying his home.

He says “if I just had the strength, I would be the first to go and fight at the frontlines now”.pic.twitter.com/xoJbMMZrsW

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) May 8, 2022

97-year-old WW2 veteran Ivan Zalyzhnyy saying:

“I wanted to celebrate Victory Day this year with my grandson, a lieutenant of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, but he was killed in battle defending his motherland.”

Ivan was 24 years old.pic.twitter.com/QDcZj9MV4C

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) May 8, 2022

Kharkiv City Mayor addressing Ukrainian WW2 veterans in the city's metro: "You could not even imagine in a nightmare that the grandchildren of those people who, together with you, fought fascism 77 years ago, would come to kill us today. But we will win." pic.twitter.com/XUYY1Gw35H

— UkraineWorld (@ukraine_world) May 8, 2022

When Putin said that Russia did not intend to occupy Ukraine, he simply meant that they would use some other word to describe what they're doing. Here it is: a protectorate.#RussiaLies pic.twitter.com/eoZ9yaoagz

— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) May 8, 2022

‘My men have had some vodka. Now they want some entertainment …’ Chilling words and truly a story I wish i didn’t have to write. Just hope this time - for once - these brave survivors get justice #ukrainehttps://t.co/C8cGr8wFIG

— christinalamb (@christinalamb) May 8, 2022

https://www.scribblemaps.com/maps/view/The-War-in-Ukraine/091194

Assuming one more location gets pushed east by UKR like what is happening at Kharkiv, we may see putin declare special operation is over and begin to act as if they have freed the east and will move to de-escalation talks demanding that everything they have taken is now back in russian control just like it was supposed to be.

Hopefully Zelensky and the rest of the world tell putin to go **** himself and that UKR forces will continue eastward until all russian forces have been removed from pre 2014 UKR territory, ALL kidnapped citizens are returned, and a mechanism for reparations is established.

Discussions for reductions in sanctions can begin shortly after that to include nuke by back and other various security agreements (not that they ever follow them anyway)

CondensedFoggyAggie said:

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Rossticus said:

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Senior military expert on Russian state TV argued that mobilization wouldn't accomplish a whole lot, since outdated weaponry can't easily compete with NATO-supplied weapons and equipment in Ukraine's hands and replenishing Russia's military arsenal will be neither fast nor easy. pic.twitter.com/jzkU7RiZFz

— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) May 7, 2022

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Well, off to the gulag for you

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This military expert is Mikhail Khodarenok, a former colonel of the Russian army. He published an article couple weeks before the invasion, that turned out to be a brilliantly accurate prediction of the difficulties the Russians would face - https://russiandefpolicy.com/2022/02/07/mass-fire-strike-on-ukraine/

Highly recommend reading it all. Some excerpts:

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Like a cherry on top different analysts point to the fact that no one in Ukraine will defend the "Kiev regime."

To assert that no one in Ukraine will defend the regime signifies practically a complete lack of knowledge about the military-political situation and moods of the broad masses in the neighboring state. And the degree of hatred (which, as is well-known, is the most effective fuel for armed conflict) in the neighboring republic toward Moscow is plainly underestimated. No one in Ukraine will meet the Russian army with bread, salt and flowers.
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Now about "Russia's powerful fire strike," by which "practically all surveillance and communications systems, artillery and tank formations of the Ukrainian army" will supposedly be destroyed.

Only in this single expression it's apparent that only political workers could say such a thing. ...... Our arsenal is completely insufficient to wipe a state on the scale of France with a population of more than 40 million from the face of the earth. And Ukraine is characterized by exactly these parameters.

If the Ukrainian army represented fragments of the Soviet Army until 2014, then over the last seven years a qualitatively different army has been created in Ukraine, on a completely different ideological foundation and largely on NATO standards. And very modern arms and equipment are coming and continue to come to Ukraine from many countries of the North Atlantic alliance.

...in the event of a Russian invasion massive assistance to the Ukraine from the collective West with the most varied types of arms and military equipment and large volume supplies of all kinds of materiel. In this regard the West has already exhibited an unprecedented consolidated position, which, it seems, was not expected in Moscow.

One shouldn't doubt that some reincarnated lend-lease in the form and likeness of the Second World War from the USA and countries of the North Atlantic alliance will begin. Even the flow of volunteers from the West of which there could be very many can't be excluded.


Generally, there won't be any kind of Ukrainian blitzkrieg. Utterances by some experts of the type "The Russian Army will destroy the greater part of VSU sub-units11 in 30-40 minutes," "Russia is capable of destroying Ukraine in 10 minutes in a full-scale war," "Russia will destroy Ukraine in eight minutes" don't have a serious basis.

And finally, most important. Armed conflict with Ukraine now fundamentally doesn't meet Russia's national interests. Therefore it's best for some overexcited Russian experts to forget their hat-tossing fantasies. And, with the aim of preventing further reputational damage, never again to recall them.

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Good and bad thing is they probably will not listen to him. They still don't fully comprehend that their masses of human waves would have accomplished little in ww2 if they did not have the logistical and industrial input from allies like they did then. Who will give them that materiel support and the expertise of keeping logistics lined out?

This is who supports Russia and LNR/DNR. He's also Californian.

John Parker, a communist party candidate for U.S. President in 2004 (he got 1,330 votes), showed up in occupied Rubizhne, Luhansk region to give support to Russian imperialists invading Ukraine.

This image is all over Ukrainian social media, with appropriate ridicule. pic.twitter.com/aAVPon1dOP

— Michael MacKay (@mhmck) May 8, 2022

In order to get to Rubizhne, John Parker travelled to the Russian Federation and crossed illegally into Ukraine. He came onto Ukrainian territory without the permission of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, which is a crime.

— Michael MacKay (@mhmck) May 8, 2022