Russian Invasion of Ukraine 2022

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Turns Out the Pacific Fleet Naval Brigades that Led the Costly Assaults on Vuhledar Weren't All Naval Infantry/Marine equivalents, but many were just sailors and crewmen from Pacific Fleet ships that were used as replacements to reconstitute the shattered Naval Infantry formations.



Ukrainian Armored Forces Using Iranian 125mm Tank Shells that are apparently compatible with many of the Tanks they operate.



A Texas based company Ace Aeronautics apparently refurbished a Blackhawk helicopter for use by Ukrainian Military Intelligence, the GUR. The UH-60A might be the first and only Blackhawk helicopter in government service.



Russian VDV/Airborne Troops Using Heavier BMP variants instead of the traditional BMD Airborne Vehicles during the Fighting West of Kreminna.



Someone made a tabulation thread of the Russian and Ukrainian vehicle losses during the February-March 2022 Fighting that took place Northwest of Kyiv during the opening stages of the War.

 
Scooby Doo said:
Sometimes I wonder if the ratio is as lopsided as the reports say, I just find it very difficult to believe the Ukraine are taking hardly any losses at all.
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Ukrainian losses are very high as Oryx has documented wrt equipment and as even the Ukrainian government has admitted to on occasion, such as when the Russians were overwhelming the eastern front with their artillery advantage before HIMARS.
 
Husky_Khan said:
Turns Out the Pacific Fleet Naval Brigades that Led the Costly Assaults on Vuhledar Weren't All Naval Infantry/Marine equivalents, but many were just sailors and crewmen from Pacific Fleet ships that were used as replacements to reconstitute the shattered Naval Infantry formations.

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Reminds me of the Germans in 1945 when they were utilizing Kreigsmarine sailors as infantry.

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2nd Marine Division (Wehrmacht) - Wikipedia

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Scooby Doo said:
Sometimes I wonder if the ratio is as lopsided as the reports say, I just find it very difficult to believe the Ukraine are taking hardly any losses at all.
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Ukrainian commanders admitted that those offensives of theirs resulted in extremely heavy losses although the government downplayed it later for obvious reasons
 
Both sides are flooding new military vehicles to Ukraine.

Another US Military Aid Package Announced. This one seems to be coming with a lot of drones.



The long expected PT-91 Twardys from Poland will apparently be arriving in Ukraine in the coming days.



Poland also delivered the first four of their Leopard 2 Tanks to Ukraine as well.



Sweden and Germany Will be Sending More Leopard 2 Tanks as well.



A Chinese Form, Bingo Aviation Technologies Will Reportedly Supply Russia with prototype ZT-180 Drones and give Russia the capability of manufacturing their own.



Meanwhile Russia is Reportedly taking BTR-50's out of storage and bringing them to Ukraine as well.

 
Some of this Scant Combat Footage Escaping the Front Showing a Ukrainian BMP-2 Ripping into a Wagner PMC Occupied House in the Bakhmut Area. :p



Czech Company Provides Ukraine a few dozen inflatable models of HIMARS and M270's MLRS systems monthly.



Bayraktar Drone Lost In the Kharkiv Oblast, Potentially Due to Friendly Fire. First Documented Loss of One of these Drones in a While IIRC.



One Year Later the United Nations Voted on a Resolution for Russia to Withdraw from Ukraine.



Rumors that China and Russia are Negotiating to Supply the Latter With Artillery Shells.

 
Outside of the wildly unconfirmed reports of a massive UAF counterattack from sketchy sources, it looks like the final withdrawal from Bakhmut will have to happen sooner rather than later.

The idea that the Russians will capture many Ukrainian troops is probably as much of a pipe dream as the Ukrainians capturing thousands / tens of thousands of troops in the Kherson / Izium offensives though since AFAICT the only mass surrender of troops on either side was in Mariupol when they were completely out of supply and a hundred miles behind the front line.
 
lloyd007 said:
Outside of the wildly unconfirmed reports of a massive UAF counterattack from sketchy sources, it looks like the final withdrawal from Bakhmut will have to happen sooner rather than later.

The idea that the Russians will capture many Ukrainian troops is probably as much of a pipe dream as the Ukrainians capturing thousands / tens of thousands of troops in the Kherson / Izium offensives though since AFAICT the only mass surrender of troops on either side was in Mariupol when they were completely out of supply and a hundred miles behind the front line.
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I have not heard about this from any of my channels.
And some of those channels include people who have actively been in the conflict.
Will look into this


So here is this

And then not kuch later this.
 
Zachowon said:
So here is this

And then not kuch later this.
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When even the Ukraine subredditors call Chuck sketchy and trot out examples like apparently he was tweeting Kremmina and Svatove were abandoned and the UAF was on the verge of retaking Lysychansk during the Izium offensive... well... I'm not gonna give much credence to his claims.
 
lloyd007 said:
When even the Ukraine subredditors call Chuck sketchy and trot out examples like apparently he was tweeting Kremmina and Svatove were abandoned and the UAF was on the verge of retaking Lysychansk during the Izium offensive... well... I'm not gonna give much credence to his claims.
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Oh inunderstand.
Apperently there is word from people out there of the counter offensive.
Either way. It won't be over quickly..and Bakhmut is worth nothing really.

So we will have to see what happens either way.
Won't be as bad as Mariupol length wise due to no steel mill, but fucking hell who ever wins will have ruins
 
Zachowon said:
Oh inunderstand.
Apperently there is word from people out there of the counter offensive.
Either way. It won't be over quickly..and Bakhmut is worth nothing really.

So we will have to see what happens either way.
Won't be as bad as Mariupol length wise due to no steel mill, but fucking hell who ever wins will have ruins
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Bakhmut is important because both sides have deemed it important. It's honestly likely the six month and counting battle for this small city of little strategic value to either side makes up the largest percentage of casualties for both sides.

It's Verdun 2022-23.
 
lloyd007 said:
Bakhmut is important because both sides have deemed it important. It's honestly likely the six month and counting battle for this small city of little strategic value to either side makes up the largest percentage of casualties for both sides.

It's Verdun 2022-23.
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Ukraine was using it to bleed Russia and so fsr ot had worked
 
Zachowon said:
Ukraine was using it to bleed Russia and so fsr ot had worked
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Problem is they've been losing a metric butt ton of troops as well since the Russians are much better with close in urban meat grinder fighting than the utterly catastrophic complete wastes of men and material they experienced trying to assault Vuhledar.

The UAF might've much better served doing what they're doing around Vuhledar in giving up the city and letting the Russians charge across those open fields to the west of it again and again while they just rain artillery and replace mines... because if Vuhledar is any evidence, the Russians would do just that. They'd lose less men and thus be in a better position to counterattack into the city when they'd truly exhausted the Russians.
 
lloyd007 said:
Problem is they've been losing a metric butt ton of troops as well since the Russians are much better with close in urban meat grinder fighting than the utterly catastrophic complete wastes of men and material they experienced trying to assault Vuhledar.

The UAF might've much better served doing what they're doing around Vuhledar in giving up the city and letting the Russians charge across those open fields to the west of it again and again while they just rain artillery and replace mines... because if Vuhledar is any evidence, the Russians would do just that. They'd lose less men and thus be in a better position to counterattack into the city when they'd truly exhausted the Russians.
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Do you not understand just how brutal trying to assault a city or town is?
 
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