Well they’re not - so it’s irrelevant to this thread and off topic - so jog on you insect
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I alluded to this a while ago. The UKA was targeting the Russians in a way to help limit and constrain, which will potentially make life very uncomfortable.
The Ukrainians will hope to encircle as @Mutzo Nutzo mentioned, but even if they force them into a pocket with limited supply it'll drain resources and moral.
davids
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You don't like any propaganda that's not from the Daily Mail do you.
davids
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The Dunning-Kruger mob will be on your case now,prepare yourself for an avalanche of acronyms.?
peteblue
Welcome back Wayne
I don’t like propaganda straight from Pravda….
Nothing to see here...
The chairman of Russian energy giant Lukoil has died after falling from a hospital window in Moscow, months after his company criticised Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Don't mess with Vlad
The chairman of Russian energy giant Lukoil has died after falling from a hospital window in Moscow, months after his company criticised Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Don't mess with Vlad
AndyC
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An interesting read I’ve ‘lifted’ from LinkedIn… if accurate, could lead to a distinct turn of fortunes…
By year end, #Russia will be running out of shells, artillery and armored vehicles in #Ukraine ?
? Days after February 24th,
It became clear the 'Blitzkrieg' tactics failed
? So Moscow switched tactics to long-term:
To starve Ukraine and the West into submission
Through trench warfare and man made famine,
Endless bombardments on civilian areas
? And restricting #grain and #gas abroad
But now it turns out Moscow can't wait that long
? They run out of weaponry faster than Ukraine is
Start of the war, dozens of missiles were launched every day
? Now they launch in singles every few days
To compensate, Russia now employs more artillery
But they are running low on artillery shells, too.
? And barrels of artillery cannons are melting from wear
To compensate, anti-air missiles are now used on ground targets
Even common tank engines cannot be replaced
?️ As the models are old and run on imported equipment
To compensate, Moscow tried (and failed) to produce new models
#Aviation is outdated and remains mostly unused
No full-scale air campaign has been launched since February.
That in itself is compensation.
? The ability to import replacements is limited
Thanks to #Sanctions from #US and #Europe
But the ability to produce ammo and shells locally is also
limited by sanctions - from ????
Following #MH17, western companies ceased to sell parts to #military factories in Russia - so production flat lined.
These current shortages are proof that Sanctions Work
? They just take time ?
And as the sanctions are a result of previous aggression,
It is a problem entirely of their own design ?
As Pavel Luzin writes:
"For an authoritarian system and for the command-administrative economic model, the path to self-isolation and inevitable self-destruction is predetermined."
Of course, these are estimates ?
Based on historic #data and educated guesses
But estimates are crucial in warfare, too.
And as we've learned
Moscow is error prone.
The invaders will run out of gear long before Ukraine
As long as we continue to #ArmUkraineNow
By year end, #Russia will be running out of shells, artillery and armored vehicles in #Ukraine ?
? Days after February 24th,
It became clear the 'Blitzkrieg' tactics failed
? So Moscow switched tactics to long-term:
To starve Ukraine and the West into submission
Through trench warfare and man made famine,
Endless bombardments on civilian areas
? And restricting #grain and #gas abroad
But now it turns out Moscow can't wait that long
? They run out of weaponry faster than Ukraine is
Start of the war, dozens of missiles were launched every day
? Now they launch in singles every few days
To compensate, Russia now employs more artillery
But they are running low on artillery shells, too.
? And barrels of artillery cannons are melting from wear
To compensate, anti-air missiles are now used on ground targets
Even common tank engines cannot be replaced
?️ As the models are old and run on imported equipment
To compensate, Moscow tried (and failed) to produce new models
#Aviation is outdated and remains mostly unused
No full-scale air campaign has been launched since February. That in itself is compensation.
? The ability to import replacements is limited
Thanks to #Sanctions from #US and #Europe
But the ability to produce ammo and shells locally is also
limited by sanctions - from ????
Following #MH17, western companies ceased to sell parts to #military factories in Russia - so production flat lined.
These current shortages are proof that Sanctions Work
? They just take time ?
And as the sanctions are a result of previous aggression,
It is a problem entirely of their own design ?
As Pavel Luzin writes:
"For an authoritarian system and for the command-administrative economic model, the path to self-isolation and inevitable self-destruction is predetermined."
Of course, these are estimates ?
Based on historic #data and educated guesses
But estimates are crucial in warfare, too.
And as we've learned
Moscow is error prone.
The invaders will run out of gear long before Ukraine
As long as we continue to #ArmUkraineNow
davids
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The story he quoted was not from a Russian source. It's from your beloved BBC?
Accidents etc
The chairman of Russia's Lukoil oil giant, Ravil Maganov, has died after falling from a hospital window in Moscow, reports say.
Maganov, 67, was being treated at the city's Central Clinical Hospital and died from his injuries, sources told Russian media.
He is the latest of a number of high-profile business executives to die in mysterious circumstances.
Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, Lukoil called for the war to end.
The chairman of Russia's Lukoil oil giant, Ravil Maganov, has died after falling from a hospital window in Moscow, reports say.
Maganov, 67, was being treated at the city's Central Clinical Hospital and died from his injuries, sources told Russian media.
He is the latest of a number of high-profile business executives to die in mysterious circumstances.
Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, Lukoil called for the war to end.
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peteblue
Welcome back Wayne
It’s not my beloved BBC…
davids
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I knew that? but it's certainly not Pravda.
Watching some of the videos coming from Kherson region, its so damn flat, like endless fields of green. Seeing tanks and infantry grouped up closely and advancing over open terrain, it kinda remainds me of the photos i seen of Battle of Kursk (though of course scale of that was just so much more enormous and hard to imagine).
tsubaki
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Indeed - I think I read once that at the height of the battle around Prokhorovka there were around a thousand tanks within a space of a few miles, with some of the fighting between tanks occuring at point-blank range. What the Red Army did that day almost defies comprehension.
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