Putin ‘purges’ 150 FSB agents in response to Russia’s botched war with Ukraine

Re:Putin ‘purges’ 150 FSB agents in response to Russia’s bot... by sharken on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @05:55AM (#31000557)

Another point is that Ukraine might now have enough weapons to destroy all Russian tanks, planes and helicopters operating in Ukraine.

But even though things look hopeful, there really is no countermove to Putin bombing every major Ukrainian city.

So it looks like a stalemate unless Putin successfully conquers Donbas, at which point he might negotiate some kind of peace.

But with heavy vehicles such as tanks starting to arrive for the Ukrainians, a quick resolution to the invasion seems a long way off.

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Re:Putin ‘purges’ 150 FSB agents in response to Russia’s bot... by _kbh_ on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @06:28AM (#31000763)

Theres anecdotal evidence that Russia is also running out of missiles, which would make it a lot harder to bomb the Ukrainian cities into rubble, not that they aren't doing that already anyway.

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Re:Putin ‘purges’ 150 FSB agents in response to Russia’s bot... by sharken on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @06:54AM (#31000913)

That would be very good news if true.

It also looks like Russia will have to spend Dollars from sale of gas and oil on debt payments.

If that happens it will be even harder to manufacture more missiles.

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Re:Putin ‘purges’ 150 FSB agents in response to Russia’s bot... by tim333 on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @12:53PM (#31005195)

Amusingly it seems they can't make cruise missiles because the engines are made in Ukraine.

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Re:Putin ‘purges’ 150 FSB agents in response to Russia’s bot... by tim333 on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @12:48PM (#31005124)

>there really is no countermove to Putin bombing every major Ukrainian city

So far shooting down the planes works. (eg see https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2022/03/29/the-russian... )

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