Funnily enough, about 5 years back I did an " Introduction to archery " day out in the Ashdown Forest with Mrs V ...never used a bow before. The guy teaching was brilliant, lots of information on archery, tips and history.....we ended up shooting 25/30 yards at rubber animal targets....I hit...
Of course it is a good military solution. Take back Mariupol and heavily fortify just East of it, then trap the Russians in Crimea. Ukraine needs the ports for their exports. The Ukrainians are big on symbolism. It's there way of saying "we are not going away, we are not going down without a...
I think they want to retake Mariupol for the symbolism, so many lives lost defending Azvostal. They want to take back what was theirs and control the Eastern ports and the coastal highway. I'm sure I read somewhere that the millionaire ( possibly billionaire ) that owned the enormous site at...
I'd like to think that this as part of a rapid land grab before the autumn. Putin has to move troops to the Kursk region leaving Russian forces weakened in SE Ukraine. I really don't think that Ukraine want to keep that chunk of Russia, they want Crimea back. As has been stated above, this...
It used to be Russia that were masters of asymmetric warfare. Since the "invasion "of Crimea and the subsequent Russian annexations of Ukrainian territory the Ukrainians have learned some hard lessons. Now its payback time. Russia has to move forces to try to halt the advances in the Kursk...