VictortheMonarch
Victor the Crusader
Feel like this is heavily inflated. If only 300 have been made, then it is impossible to shoot down a thousand
Russian Invasion of Ukraine 2022
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That's the point.
Russia is inflating numbers of things to try and save face
High Precision Russian Missile Strike in the Odessa Oblast Struck a Moldovan Children's Rehabilitation Center
Ukrainian Motorcycle Troops.
Ukranian Troops with Lithuanian Anti-Drone Guns
Video of Ukranian Troops Training on MLRS and Light Artillery Systems in Britain.
Video from Battle Order Detailing Ukraines Tank Forces and Armored Units. One of the interesting bits is how Ukraine is Appy Forming a Brigade Equipped with Donated T-72M's and Dutch YPR-765 M113 Variants.
Ukrainian Motorcycle Troops.
Ukranian Troops with Lithuanian Anti-Drone Guns
Video of Ukranian Troops Training on MLRS and Light Artillery Systems in Britain.
Video from Battle Order Detailing Ukraines Tank Forces and Armored Units. One of the interesting bits is how Ukraine is Appy Forming a Brigade Equipped with Donated T-72M's and Dutch YPR-765 M113 Variants.
New Aid Package Reported from the United States. Includes Norwegian NASAMS 3 Air Defense and more HIMARS and 155mm Ammunition.
Fifteen Post Thread Briefly Detailing Some of the Anti War Movement in Russia.
Russian Air Force Launching Airstrikes On Snake Island, Presumably to Destroy Left Behind Equipment. Recorded by a Ukranian TB2.
Russian TIGR MRAP/IMV Destroyed by a Ukranian AT Mine but the Passengers are Reportedly Uninjured.
Some of the Targets of Russian Cruise Missile Strikes in the Odessa Oblast Recently.
Fifteen Post Thread Briefly Detailing Some of the Anti War Movement in Russia.
Russian Air Force Launching Airstrikes On Snake Island, Presumably to Destroy Left Behind Equipment. Recorded by a Ukranian TB2.
Russian TIGR MRAP/IMV Destroyed by a Ukranian AT Mine but the Passengers are Reportedly Uninjured.
Some of the Targets of Russian Cruise Missile Strikes in the Odessa Oblast Recently.
And look who turned out to not have the guts.
Bless fate! Lucky them!
I'm surprised that the DPR actually has its own criminal code, BTW. Impressive state-building!
History Learner
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TIME IS NOT ON KYIV’S SIDE: TRAINING, WEAPONS, AND ATTRITION IN UKRAINE
The battalion commander shrugged helplessly when we advised him that five days was a completely inadequate amount of time in which to train his soldiers. “This is all we have—they are needed on the front,” he replied with grim finality. A few days later, on a separate course that we were running for his medics, half of our class disappeared on the second day. “We have had casualties,” was the only explanation we received. Even in units that fall within the Ukrainian special operations command, most soldiers are sent to the front line with very little training. In one such unit, we estimated that just 20 percent had even fired a weapon before heading to combat.
On May 3, the Ukrainian parliament passed a law that allows territorial defense units—the country’s home guard—to be deployed to combat outside their home regions. These units are manned by local volunteers who typically have received very little preparation. We were soon swamped by requests for training courses. In the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, a town hall meeting to explain the new policy to local territorial defense volunteers was disrupted by wives alarmed at the prospect of their part-time soldier husbands deploying to the front.
Each anecdote by itself a data point, but together they tell a story that belies the relentless optimism that has pervaded Ukrainian representation of the war from the outset. After four months of grinding attrition, the Ukrainian army is facing a manpower shortage.
Every day in the current fighting, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said earlier this month, around sixty to one hundred Ukrainian soldiers are killed and another five hundred wounded in combat. A more recent New York Times article puts that figure much higher—at one hundred to two hundred deaths a day. To put that in context, during the 1968 Tet offensive in Vietnam, one of the bloodiest periods of the war, US deaths were roughly two hundred a week—and among a force almost twice the size of the Ukrainian army.
Aside from Zelenskyy’s admission, the Ukrainian government has been largely reticent about releasing casualty figures and Western governments have offered few of their own assessments, but grim reports from the front line indicate that Ukrainian casualties are high—and perhaps in the long term unsustainable. “My friend’s son is in a company with just thirty soldiers left,” down from the 120 personnel typically in a company, one senior Ukrainian officer told me.
Every day last week, while evacuating civilians from areas in the east under bombardment by the Russians, as we drove to the front we passed a succession of ambulances going the other way. As they passed, my interpreter read aloud the signs displayed on their front bumpers: “three times 300s” or “four times 200s,” using the Ukrainian military terms for wounded and dead. By the end of the week, the figures in their aggregate, for just one section of the front we observed, seemed staggeringly high.
Of course, the Russians continue to take even higher casualties, but with their vastly greater pool of manpower, it is unlikely that these losses will have a significant impact—at least not in the short term.
And as news of the war slides from prominence in the news cycle, the way it is being fought has changed significantly. Ukraine’s troops now face a Russian force that has shifted strategy from the hasty, single-axis attacks that characterized the early weeks of the war. Now there are no more attempts at pincer movements but instead slow but inexorable advances, preceded by massive artillery bombardments—a few kilometers every day all along the front from Izyum in the north to Zaporizhzhia in the south, tightening the noose on a fragile Ukrainian salient protecting the road network that links Kyiv to the east.
In between artillery barrages, the Russians probe Ukrainian lines with small packets of armored vehicles accompanied by infantry and supported by vehicle-mounted heavy machine guns. All the while, artillery shells are launched at regular intervals in the general direction of Ukrainian forces and along their supply routes, a technique known in the US military as harassment and interdiction fire. The Russians are also practicing movement to contact—a form of reconnaissance in which the idea is to identify Ukrainian positions by drawing fire, thus enabling Russian artillery to pound new targets with precision.
Amnesty International Released a Conclusive Report on the Mariupol Theater Strike and Russia's Responsibility Regarding it.
Another Russian Ammunition Depot, this one located in Popasna on the Southern Edge of the Severodonestsk Donbass Pocket, Reportedly Goes Kaboom. Latest of several Depot strikes on rearward Russian positions.
Reportedly an Artillery Launched Top Attack Munition Used to take out a Russian Pantsir SAM.
Allegations of Increased Partisan Activity in Southern Ukraine According to US Intelligence.
Ukraine Requests that Turkey Detain a Russian Cargo Vessels Reportedly Loaded with Looted Ukrainian Grain.
Amnesty International said:
Another Russian Ammunition Depot, this one located in Popasna on the Southern Edge of the Severodonestsk Donbass Pocket, Reportedly Goes Kaboom. Latest of several Depot strikes on rearward Russian positions.
Reportedly an Artillery Launched Top Attack Munition Used to take out a Russian Pantsir SAM.
Allegations of Increased Partisan Activity in Southern Ukraine According to US Intelligence.
Ukraine Requests that Turkey Detain a Russian Cargo Vessels Reportedly Loaded with Looted Ukrainian Grain.
Soviet Forces Have Captured Lysychansk after Ukrainian Forces Withdrew From the Attempted Encirclement.
Russia Raises the Landing Ships Saratov which was Sunk Weeks Ago by a Ukranian Tochka Missile Strike Whilst it was in the Captured Port of Berdyansk.
Mortar Towing Station Wagon In Ukranian Service.
Ukrainian Soldier Fires a Javelin ATGM From the Back of a Pickup Truck, Presumably Hitting It's Target.
Russia Raises the Landing Ships Saratov which was Sunk Weeks Ago by a Ukranian Tochka Missile Strike Whilst it was in the Captured Port of Berdyansk.
Mortar Towing Station Wagon In Ukranian Service.
Ukrainian Soldier Fires a Javelin ATGM From the Back of a Pickup Truck, Presumably Hitting It's Target.
Putin’s Invasion Was Immoral but Not Irrational
Many experts have characterized Putin's decision to invade Ukraine as irrational and doomed to fail. However, considering what was known before the invasion, Putin's decision was rational, though risky. To avoid future surprises, analysts need to learn from that.
Ukrainian Forces Reportedly Struck Logistical Hubs in Belgorod and Kursk in Russia and in Russian Occupied Melitopol, reportedly detailing an armored munitions train.
Imagery from the Strikes on Russian Forces on Snake Island and Their Withdrawal. It appears a Grad MLRS was Destroyed on the Jetty recently and a Pantsir SAM and a radar left behind on the Island as some personnel were withdrawn by helicopter.
Belarus military formations operating on the Border of Ukraine again in military exercises.
Imagery from the Strikes on Russian Forces on Snake Island and Their Withdrawal. It appears a Grad MLRS was Destroyed on the Jetty recently and a Pantsir SAM and a radar left behind on the Island as some personnel were withdrawn by helicopter.
Belarus military formations operating on the Border of Ukraine again in military exercises.
Belarus is pretty much already fighting Ukraine. Now they're upset they got shot at.
a. 54.4%, with an additional 10.6% undecided. That's 65.0% in total who are not outright opposed to this.
b. Yep. Though for some reason, it appears to have made very limited headway in the rest of Ukraine. Even in the rest of eastern Ukraine, almost 75% of people supported a unitary Ukraine even back in May 2014, according to this poll.
c. Yep, Russia certainly promised them much more than it was actually willing to deliver. I think that Strelkov (Igor Girkin) himself was likewise disappointed by Russia, with him initially hoping that Russia would repeat its Crimean experience in the Donbass. It really is sad for the Donbass people. At the very least, Russia should make it up to them right now. Though that's harder to do due to the war and sanctions, no doubt.
Update on where the new Frontline of fighting will likely take place in the Wake of Ukranian withdrawal from Severodonestsk and Lysychansk.
And Russian Forces crossing that River which seperated the Sister cities.
Australia Will Be Sending Ukraine Twenty More Bushmaster IMV's and a number of Modernized M113AS4 APC's.
Video and Aftermath of a Russian Missile Strike on a Ukrainian Bridge a few days ago.
Turkey apparently seized the Russian Ship Ukraine Requested they detained for alleged smuggling of Ukranian Grain.
And Russian Forces crossing that River which seperated the Sister cities.
Australia Will Be Sending Ukraine Twenty More Bushmaster IMV's and a number of Modernized M113AS4 APC's.
Video and Aftermath of a Russian Missile Strike on a Ukrainian Bridge a few days ago.
Turkey apparently seized the Russian Ship Ukraine Requested they detained for alleged smuggling of Ukranian Grain.
VictortheMonarch
Victor the Crusader
Is this near the recent Russian Counter to the counteroffensive? if so then that could be shitty luck for the Ukrainian soldiers ALREADY on the run.
Megadeath
Well-known member
Looks like it only took out the rail line, which I'd imagine has much more bearing on resupply than than retreat.
History Learner
Well-known member
No it was a bridge in the center of Ukraine. South of Kyiv.
Slovakia Closer To Sending Ukraine around Ten MiG-29 Fighters and More Tanks. They had just recently delivered four Mi-17 Helicopters to Ukraine.
Another Russian Army Depot Goes Kaboom in Donbass.
Drone Corrected Russian Artillery Fire Eliminates a NATO Supplied M777 Howitzers of the Ukrainian Forces in the Mykolaiv-Kherson Area.
Ukrainian Children Allegedly Being Coerced to go to Russian Schools or Face Family Seperation in Melitopol.
Russian Drone Crashes into Russian Residence near Rostov in Russian Territory. Unknown if Accident, Treason or Ex-Wifes Chechen Boyfriend.
Another Russian Army Depot Goes Kaboom in Donbass.
Drone Corrected Russian Artillery Fire Eliminates a NATO Supplied M777 Howitzers of the Ukrainian Forces in the Mykolaiv-Kherson Area.
Ukrainian Children Allegedly Being Coerced to go to Russian Schools or Face Family Seperation in Melitopol.
Russian Drone Crashes into Russian Residence near Rostov in Russian Territory. Unknown if Accident, Treason or Ex-Wifes Chechen Boyfriend.
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