This is an excellent thread summarising the flaws and faults in the Russian military pertaining to the welfare and well being of the common boots-on-the-ground folk. Napoleon would be shaking his head - although he did fail logistics on his Russian campaign if I recall correctly.
Also came across this excellent point;
As a random aside, the windows really are a safety hazard in many of the hotels and high rises in Moscow - unlike most buildings in US, all floors of most buildings have tall windows that opened fully without restrictions, and it wasn't particularly uncommon to see Russian sitting on edge of open window smoking... wouldn't take a lot of "help" in many cases.If things keep going like this, maybe we will soon be waking up to news about Putin "accidentally" falling out of his hospital room window.
After all, those hospital windows seem to be major safety hazards over there (especially for Russians with an overinflated personal sense of being untouchable).....
Isnt there a vast amount of methods smuggling mines into the bay?There are enough ports and beaches on the southern side to resupply indefinitely by sea, largely out of range of Ukrainian weapons. Russian AD, drones, and rocket forces could concentrate on a relatively small area of Ukraine to defend against. It's doable though at a cost.
If the Kremlin continues the war as is however this might not be the case as their resources dwindle.
You sure about that ?That's not what I meant at all. Ukraine doesn't have the man power to invade Russia. By another push, I meant pushing south-east along the Russian border. The way I see it ending in favor of Ukraine is Ukraine taking all their land back and Russia realizing a frozen war isn't worth the sanctions.
You sure about that ?
No sanctions will put war criminals under the noose, only a military collapse.
Think about the incompetence and ineffectiveness of Russian forces. Moscow is a paper tiger, easy pickens for those who dare The US has to go with UKR on this or be seen as abandoning UKR and being left out of post ops altogether. The US has been pussyfooting all along.
The UKR advance on Moscow will force the US to continue their support all the way in.
These fascist vermin must be reformed and this may be the only chance to reform Russia top to bottom-democracy everywhere,-like Germany, like Japan post WWII
Of course the RU military may give up sooner than later saving lives golor as events show there is no samovar at the end of the tunnel
2) On warfront, dug in Russian pocket at Lyman is still fighting fiercely, but looks like it will be enveloped - appears Russians aren't even trying to hold the Oskil river, retreating entirely out of Kherson region other than a couple pockets of resistance or trapped forces.
Not falling for this again. They actually going to attack Kherson, right?Ukrainian forces have caught their breath after securing Kharkiv, now moving on to Luhansk.
Ukrainians still are counter-attacking at Kherson, but it is much better defended / dug in & Russia diverted majority of their professional forces reserves here ~ making advances tough and costly, as opposed to breaking the thinly held conscript lines around Kharkiv . Mostly have cut off new Russian supplies to Kherson with bridges all down, destroyed a lot of the ammo reserves, may be running the Russians out of fuel/ammo.Not falling for this again. They actually going to attack Kherson, right?
Ukrainians still are counter-attacking at Kherson, but it is much better defended / dug in & Russia diverted majority of their professional forces reserves here ~ making advances tough and costly, as opposed to breaking the thinly held conscript lines around Kharkiv . Mostly have cut off new Russian supplies to Kherson with bridges all down, destroyed a lot of the ammo reserves, may be running the Russians out of fuel/ammo.
The karma train for Mariupol is coming for them.Yeah the Ukrainian attack on Russian lines at Kherson has settled into an attritional fight. With the Russians stuck on the wrong side of a river with two busted bridges I would really not prefer to be them even if they have defensible positions. Likely just a matter of time.