Current Affairs Ukraine

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peteblue said:
The attacks from tanks and vehicles will also be be closely observed by satellite to identify mine free areas for counter attacks…Russia will get battered here…..
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The Ukrainians have been using US supplied RAAM munitions (Remote Anti-Armour Mine) to great effect. They're launched from US supplied 155mm howitzers.

In layman's terms, they lob these rounds onto an area and it scatters lots of anti-armour mines, which are then partly buried. It means they can be reactive.
 
don't know if anyone else watches his stuff on youtube, but Maxim Katz has a heartwarming tale about the survival of four Soviet sailors (Russians and Ukrainians) in 1960, cast adrift on the ocean:

 


Wallace: 97% of entire Russian army in Ukraine​

We're hearing from UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace again now, who is in Brussels for today's Nato meeting on how the military alliance can further help Ukraine.
He begins by discussing Moscow's offensive strategy, saying that Russia has not been able to amass a single force "to punch through" Ukraine's defences. Rather, "we've just seen an effort to advance".
He tells BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "That has come at a huge cost to the Russian army. We now estimate 97% of the Russian army, the whole Russian army, is in Ukraine."
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I had to actually check the validity of the tweet as it's an outstanding number, but Wallace was quoted saying this to NATO. It's a massive number.

I can only suspect he is referring to 97% of the army committed to the war in Ukraine rather than being in Ukraine, and maybe a % of the original standing army.

Before this, the Russian army (not their entire armed forces) was above 300,000 men, with the surge in mobilisation pushing this figure way, way north of that.
 
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I had to actually check the validity of the tweet as it's an outstanding number, but Wallace was quoted saying this to NATO. It's a massive number.

I can only suspect he is referring to 97% of the army committed to the war in Ukraine rather than being in Ukraine, and maybe a % of the original standing army.

Before this, the Russian army (not their entire armed forces) was above 300,000 men, with the surge in mobilisation pushing this figure way, way north of that.
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The 97% number, and the assertion that Putin will continue past Ukraine and invade all of Europe if he isn't stopped now, can't both be true.
 
PhilM said:



I had to actually check the validity of the tweet as it's an outstanding number, but Wallace was quoted saying this to NATO. It's a massive number.

I can only suspect he is referring to 97% of the army committed to the war in Ukraine rather than being in Ukraine, and maybe a % of the original standing army.

Before this, the Russian army (not their entire armed forces) was above 300,000 men, with the surge in mobilisation pushing this figure way, way north of that.
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Nah it’s gen. They have stripped all regions of regulars and shipped them to Ukraine, Crimea and Belarus.

Their losses are massive - they are now relying on conscripts to backfill. You could literally drive unopposed from Northern Finland to Murmansk.

Only their Navy and strategic bomber forces are anywhere near being a credible threat.

Another 8 months of war in Ukraine will finish them for good ( dependent on NATO sorting out their Ammunition production and supply problems).
 
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