This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...
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I’m a hard pass on watching dogs get drowned.
I didn't watch it either and hope it is fake. It is hard to believe they would want something like this getting out even if they are crazy.
Why would they even have that stuff in storage?
I have always thought and I think we will see it confirmed post war that Bakhmut was a honeypot designed to bait and weaken Russia during the winter months.
That’s a solid birthday present for me today. Thanks @Tenacious E
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It took the vaunted Russian Army a year to secure one city about the size of Dubuque and to do so they had to destroy it beyond any practical use and lost tens of thousands of men, hundreds of tanks and artillery pieces to do so.Coming from Wagner so take it for what it's worth...
CHASIV YAR, Ukraine, March 3 (Reuters) - Russian troops and mercenaries were closing off the last access routes to the besieged Ukrainian city of Bakhmut on Friday, on the cusp of Moscow's first major victory in half a year after the bloodiest fighting of the war.
The head of Russia's Wagner private army said the city, which has been blasted to ruins, was now almost completely surrounded, with only one route out left open for Ukraine's troops.
Russian mercenary boss says Bakhmut practically surrounded
Russian troops and mercenaries were closing off the last access routes to the besieged Ukrainian city of Bakhmut on Friday, on the cusp of Moscow's first major victory in half a year after the bloodiest fighting of the war.www.reuters.com
Some “victory” 😂
I remember when US losses in Fallujah were considered “catastrophic.” They were:
95 killed
560 wounded
A pretty stark contrast right there.
It seems to be a Pyrrhic victory...
I just hope the Ukrainian casualties and their depletion of things like artillery ammunition don't limit a spring offensive.
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Well they have enough troops to be having thousands getting trained in the UK and other spots in Europe. I presume those NATO-level trained, fresh guys will be the spearhead of the coming counteroffensives.
The $64,000 question. I think the answer will be known fairly soon when the counter offensive is actually launched far to the SW to divide the frontline and break up landbridge on Sea of Azov. I think they will go after Melitopol to Mariupol area.
True.
After the spring thaw I think we're going to see some kind of major Ukrainian effort. The guys on the Battleground Ukraine podcast think it's gonna be a major effort to cut the land bridge to Crimea FWIW. They seem to be pretty locked in with their info...
That number could spike way beyond that if Russia misplays its hand with Moldova and Transnistria and involves NATO in a more direct or supportive fashion. It is kind of like Ukraine and Russia are two gladiators in the Coliseum, and there are tigers and bears chambered underneath on platforms waiting to be raised up and enter into the fray.
We'll probably have to wait till April to see it. The spring thaw "Rasputitsa" won't be done till then...
Rainy day fund, and there have been 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
I hope so. I have read that it is actually a rather critical plot of land for Russia to secure logistics in the area.
Let’s start with the F35s probably need to unload those money pits. It’s to bad Ukraine didn’t have A10s for those original huge Russia convoys.
We're all friends in this thread (except for the Russians) and this isn't a jab, but for future use, if you have occasion to use the term in written format, it is Pyrrhic.
The silver lining in them not having A-10s is that when all of those tanks/vehicles ran out of fuel, they were easy to harvest with tractors to add to Ukraine's fleet.
Russians panic on social media after overnight explosion near Moscow
Reports of a powerful blast in Kolomna, Moscow Oblast, a small town where Russian Iskander missile systems are built, triggered an explosion of panic on Russian social media on March 2.
There's been quite a few articles about the Ukrainian ammunition shortage...155mm ect. They've had to ration rounds.
Hopefully...they've been rationing deliberately to build up stocks for the spring. I think there's no question that there's an issue here overall...but if the Ukrainian's are over playing it for Russian consumption while stockpiling it'd make me a happy camper.
Hopefully...they've been rationing deliberately to build up stocks for the spring. I think there's no question that there's an issue here overall...but if the Ukrainian's are over playing it for Russian consumption while stockpiling it'd make me a happy camper.
I don't like this. At all. Hopefully if it is not a bluff, they get the hell out of there while they can and don't become Mariupol 2.0.
www.yahoo.com
Ukrainian commander says there are more Russians attacking the city of Bakhmut than there is ammo to kill them
Volodymyr Nazarenko, a deputy commander in the National Guard of Ukraine, called the situation in Bakhmut "critical."
More video of the shoot down.
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I don't like this. At all. Hopefully if it is not a bluff, they get the hell out of there while they can and don't become Mariupol 2.0.
Ukrainian commander says there are more Russians attacking the city of Bakhmut than there is ammo to kill them
Volodymyr Nazarenko, a deputy commander in the National Guard of Ukraine, called the situation in Bakhmut "critical."
Holy shit.
“A retired US Marine fighting alongside Ukrainian forces said a fighter's life expectancy on the front lines in Bakhmut was around 4 hours.”
Hopefully that was for Russians. That is no way to conduct sustained operations if that was Ukraine.
This is how Crimea gets re-taken.
And Russia is going to go all-in to protect that land bridge access. Not sure what they actually have left in armor/munitions to do it, and if Ukraine gets longer-range precision-guided stuff, it will be a matter of time before the Russians run out of shit and cannot re-arm anymore. Only thing that will prevent this is shutting down those supplies to Ukraine.
Russia can send waves and waves of men at BMPs and tanks; it'll be like the 1800s and the colonial powers mowing down the natives in Africa with machine guns...
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Please do not post animals getting (or being) killed. Thank you!
I saw that the original post had been edited and wondered who the Pyrrhic purist was.
Russian corpses flying from an APC that got hit by a Javelin, cool. Dogs being tortured, hard pass.
I guess it does show who the GQP, Nat, 97, and Abby are standing with.
