Obagofixxy:



We for Don de smile

No be lie o..

KingOfAmebo:


"Don't believe everything you read online, the same tool used to brainwash you about Russia is the same tool used to brainwash you thinking Ukraine is powerful...If indeed Ukraine is this strong why is Zelebobo begging up and down from one pailament to another seeking help...

The Ukrainians are winning online but loosing heavily on the battlefield...the fact already presented itself by the consistent begging of their President?". Village People Spokesperson

You can't compared Ukraine and Russia military.
He is only seeking weapons. and guess What it is working for him. The more he speak the more the world knows about the war.. War is not just fought in the field. You have to wiped up Semitism to your favour..
Just yesterday after the NATO summit.. Members agreed to send more weapons to Ukraine..
Read about world war two..
Information is key.

MadamVanessa:




Let me be very candid, I never believed that Ukraine can be this powerful at Initial stage of the war. Even though I supported them, I was still doubting their ability to withstand Russia because I believe all the Russia hyped I read online that Russia have this , Russia have that, they're this and they're that, little did I know that all that was just a mere lies and propaganda done by Putin's puppet.


Russia is nothing believe me.

Putin is overrated, this war has really exposed who Putin really is.

those Iranian and some foolish Nigerians can hype them

Let peace reign, war can never be the solution

Igbofam:


https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2022/03/24/the-ukrainian-army-has-captured-enough-russian-tanks-to-make-good-all-its-own-losses-and-then-some/amp/

You guys are just typing rubish here... Yesterday, you guys said Russian armies were dying and their ship bombed. But in the news on Ajezera and BBCW it was not so.

Am tired of reading your fake news here.

#IstandwithUkraine

USA would always be greater than Russia anyway anytime. The American were in Iraq, Vietnam, Libya etc and there was no story of fuel shortage but just imagine this comedians that ran out of fuel even when they are in their neighborhood...

Videour:
just see your life. What is tank compared to the demage that has been done to Ukraine, the lost of life, you are here talking about tanker. I doubt Ukraine will ever recover from this.

They will. That is why you have the international community, the world bank and the IMF..
Funds will be available for Ukraine to rebuild..

The only advantage Russia has is their missile

It's more difficult using soldiers to conquer enemy territory
Men to men Ukraine has the advantage cos it's a home ground except Russia goes with full military force

Does that make up for lost lives and destroyed cities?

So funny. Now tanks are now more valuable than loss of lives, ruins of a country at the brink of extinction, endangered males (18 to 60years), over 4 million citizens now refugees in scattered places.......?

This is not football that we choose clubs for mere entertainment. This is war and people are dying, husbands and sons are in war fronts not knowing their fate in their own country, etc. And here some are comparing these serious issues with tanks....smh

We don't knw if his nuclear warheads self nah China made Hopefully, it go bouncr and destroy Moscow instead

FERNANDEZISBACK:
It's a gift from Putin's hunters..
Most of them abadoned their vehicle due to gas shortage and the rest...

It's a shame on Putin's puppet that the same army(Russia) that everyone believe could stand USA is nothing but an overhyped nonsense..this war really exposed Putin's weakness..
Poor coordination..conscripted 19 year old kids driving 1970s vehicles with few spare parts...
Putin expected Ukraine to disarm and surrender..something that ain't gonna happen..

obedience4:


They will. That is why you have the international community, the world bank and the IMF..
Funds will be available for Ukraine to rebuild..

just like that and what happened to Syria?

Propaganda, it will just take 1 Satan 2 to flatten Ukraine

FERNANDEZISBACK:
It's a gift from Putin's hunters..
Most of them abadoned their vehicle due to gas shortage and the rest...

It's a shame on Putin's puppet that the same army(Russia) that everyone believe could stand USA is nothing but an overhyped nonsense..this war really exposed Putin's weakness..
Poor coordination..conscripted 19 year old kids driving 1970s vehicles with few spare parts...
Putin expected Ukraine to disarm and surrender..something that ain't gonna happen..

Videour:
just like that and what happened to Syria?

Syria and asad are not ally of the west??

Tanks are outdated weapon system,the Armenia war should have been a lesson for Russia. The adoption of Turkish drones is a game changer for the Ukrenian military. The Russians need to update their drones.
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RUSSIA-UKRAINE CONFLICT
Why are Ukraine’s cheap, slow drones so successful against Russian targets?
“It is literally a World War I aircraft, in terms of performance,” said one expert. "It is not stealthy. It is not supersonic. It’s a clay pigeon — a real easy target.”

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By Ken Dilanian and Courtney Kube
The video shows a Russian missile launcher sitting in the open. Suddenly, it is enveloped in a huge fireball.

Ukrainian officials say what looked like a video game was actually the work of a small, relatively cheap Turkish-made drone that has had a surprisingly lethal impact on Russia forces.

A U.S. defense official said Monday that Ukraine has made “terrific” use of Turkish Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicles, which can loiter over tanks and artillery and destroy them with devastatingly accurate missile fire. The official said the U.S. is working to help keep the drones flying.


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Ukraine received a new shipment of the drones this month, Ukraine’s defense minister said on Facebook. He didn’t say how many. It’s unclear whether the U.S. has made efforts to facilitate the supply of the Turkish drone or other similar systems to Ukraine, in addition to the Javelin anti-tank and Stinger anti-aircraft missiles it is providing.

Before the war began, military experts predicted that Russian forces would have little trouble dealing with Ukraine’s complement of as many as 20 Turkish drones. With a price tag in the single-digit millions, the Bayraktars are far cheaper than drones like the U.S. Reaper but also much slower and smaller, with a wingspan of 39 feet.

As so often has been the case in this war, however, the experts misjudged the competence of the Russian military.

“It’s quite startling to see all these videos of Bayraktars apparently knocking out Russian surface-to-air missile batteries, which are exactly the kind of system that’s equipped to shoot them down,” said David Hambling, a London-based drone expert.

That is confounding, Hambling said, because the drones should be easy for the Russians to blow out of the sky — or disable with electronic jamming.

“It is literally a World War I aircraft, in terms of performance,” he said. “It’s got a 110-horsepower engine. It is not stealthy. It is not supersonic. It’s a clay pigeon — a real easy target.”


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If nothing else, the Russians should be able to down the drones with fighter jets, Hambling said. But without air superiority, Russia hasn’t been flying regular combat air patrols. As for electronic jamming, one of the mysteries of the Ukraine invasion is why the Russians haven’t made more use of what experts believe is their advanced electronic warfare capability.

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The bottom line is that the Turkish drones continue to star in videos shared across Twitter and other social media platforms that feature them blowing Russian vehicles to smithereens. Ukrainians have even praised them in song. It’s unclear how many have been shot down, but some, at least, remain effective, U.S. officials said.

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“It is puzzling,” Hambling said. “It may be massive incompetence by the Russians. It may be that the Ukrainians have discovered some sneaky tactics they can use.”

It’s hardly the first time the Bayraktar has played an important role in an armed conflict.

Azerbaijan used small Turkish-made drones to devastating effect against the Armenian military in 2020, bringing a decisive end to a stalemate over a disputed enclave that had gone on for years.

Video released by Azerbaijan shows the drones pummeling artillery, tank and troop emplacements surrounded by trenches that offered no protection whatsoever from the fiery death raining down from above.

The Turkish drones also had a significant impact in battles against Russian-made military gear in Libya and Syria.

The drones are manufactured by Baykar Technology, whose chief technology officer, Selçuk Bayraktar, is a son-in-law of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

“I’m sure it’s going to be selling extremely well,” Hambling said.

Many experts have argued that another type of unmanned weapons system would be even more helpful to Ukrainian forces: a so-called kamikaze drone, a vehicle packed with explosives that is essentially a smart guided missile launched miles away from a target. Two Israeli companies make versions of those drones, the Harop and the Hero. The U.S. military fields a system called the Switchblade, the larger version of which can destroy tanks. That weapon isn’t approved for export except to the U.K.

Turkey, which has sought to maintain friendly relations with both Russia and the West, was sanctioned by the U.S. in December 2020 over its purchase of Russian S-400 missile defense systems. Erdoğan declined to say Monday whether Turkey would buy more Russian weapons.

“Under the current circumstances, it would be premature to talk about what the future shows right now,” he said Monday during a visit to Germany, according to Reuters. “We have to see what the conditions bring. We have to maintain our friendship with Mr. Zelenskyy and Mr. Putin.”


Ken Dilanian
Ken Dilanian is the intelligence and national security correspondent for NBC News, based in Washington. He reports for NBC Nightly News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC News Now and NBCNews.com. Before coming to NBC, he spent 25 years in print journalism, most recently covering national security for the Associated Press, the Los Angeles Times and USA TODAY. He covered the war in Iraq for the Philadelphia Inquirer from 2003-2005, including time embedded with U.S. troops.


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Courtney Kube is a correspondent covering national security and the military for the NBC News Investigative Unit.

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EMAXIM:
Meanwhile, Mariupol has fallen.
Nairaland comedians

Nairaland MARIUPOL ABI ?

obedience4:


Syria and asad are not ally of the west??

so the IMF is now for only the west and it ally?

promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world.

Igbofam:


Putin can basically only brag with long range missiles but when it comes to preparedness, manpower skill and planning he is zero.

This war has really exposed him and he must be hurting real bad behind the scenes which was why he sacked 1000 of his closest aides and why many are afraid that he may out of frustration just push go all out and release biological or nuclear weapons against Ukraine or a NATO country just to end it all.

Afterall he once said and I quote "There can be no world if there is no Russia" in other words if Russia goes down so will the entire world with it. He is ready to risk it all just to save face

Can Russia's 6000 nukes finish off the whole world. Nigeria alone has about 2 or 3 big towns per state and I wonder how many towns Putin can obliterate before he runs out of nukes. The guy is a comedian forcing people not to laugh by pointing 6000 nukes at them.

FERNANDEZISBACK:
It's a gift from Putin's hunters..
Most of them abadoned their vehicle due to gas shortage and the rest...

It's a shame on Putin's puppet that the same army(Russia) that everyone believe could stand USA is nothing but an overhyped nonsense..this war really exposed Putin's weakness..
Poor coordination..conscripted 19 year old kids driving 1970s vehicles with few spare parts...
Putin expected Ukraine to disarm and surrender..something that ain't gonna happen..

Now he is trying to explore nuclear warfare. That one too will fail him

007Marvel:
Fools will say is propaganda because Russia is at the receiving end! Go to YouTube Warleak to be precise and see Hard evidence! The Russian military is actually the 4th best military in Ukraine right now! First position goes to the Ukrainian Military, second position goes to the civilian resistance and the third position goes to the farmers! Those farmers are specialists in towing Russian tanks

Wow you also view warleak..?
Great that's the best place to stay updated as far as I am concerned..

With what I heard from the American President this morning,I can't but say Russia is gone.
Their soldiers are ill prepared and most of them are newly recruited without experience.

In fact,the Russians insisted that their oil is going to be paid for by their local currency and now,America is saying they are going to start supplying vast amount of oil to the European market which hurt the Russians economy badly.

Russia will certainly not come out of this crisis victoriously but in shame and embarrassment.

Only the Antichrist and it's army can overcome Europe and that would be after the Rapture, not until then no one can achieve that.

After several years without opportunity to simulate the happenings in real war breakout, Russia is using Ukraine to practice in . Do not write-off Russia yet as it is Ruthless.

Igbofam:


Christmas came early in Ukraine

Thank you Santa Putin

Mariupol is d most bombed city in d world since ww2, 80% of mariupol has been leveled, why is ukraine evacuating aircraft yesterday in kiev

Videour:
so the IMF is now for only the west and it ally?

promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world.

Well. Yeah. That is world international polities for you

greatness77:
Mariupol is d most bombed city in d world since ww2, 80% of mariupol has been leveled, why is ukraine evacuating aircraft yesterday in kiev

The OP is not about Mariupol. Create your own post about this and your questions will be attended to there

phorget:
USA would always be greater than Russia anyway anytime. The American were in Iraq, Vietnam, Libya etc and there was no story of fuel shortage but just imagine this comedians that ran out of fuel even when they are in their neighborhood...

Can usa go to war alone without nato and UN forces?

Believe western propaganda at your own peril.

What is there to really celebrate? Two of past Soviet leaders were Ukrainians. The West and the US in their quest to extend their hegemony are engineering the destruction of Ukraine to get at Russia. Two previous brothers.

MadamVanessa:




Let me be very candid, I never believed that Ukraine can be this powerful at Initial stage of the war. Even though I supported them, I was still doubting their ability to withstand Russia because I believe all the Russia hyped I read online that Russia have this , Russia have that, they're this and they're that, little did I know that all that was just a mere lies and propaganda done by Putin's puppet.


Russia is nothing believe me.

Putin is overrated, this war has really exposed who Putin really is.

this is why you should be worried because of the possibility of Putin escalating the war using chemical or nuclear weapons

Igbofam:


https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2022/03/24/the-ukrainian-army-has-captured-enough-russian-tanks-to-make-good-all-its-own-losses-and-then-some/amp/

Las las Putin and Russia will forever regret this war just the way the US regretted the Vietnam War.

greatness77:
Can usa go to war alone without nato and UN forces?

Hyenas hunt in packs, if you want to go fast then you'll have to walk alone but if you want to go far then you walk in companies.

A wise man would rather not stand alone but surround himself with like minds and the American are doing that successfully. It's a shame the Russian think they can stand alone though.