Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar

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On the one hand that would be a terrible idea from Georgia... But on the other hand I love the idea of the little guy getting their own back and slicing off a bit of Russia to see how they like it. Maybe Finland can grab some land back too :p

Also, link re Russian counterattack?
 
GreatAuk said:
On the one hand that would be a terrible idea from Georgia... But on the other hand I love the idea of the little guy getting their own back and slicing off a bit of Russia to see how they like it. Maybe Finland can grab some land back too :p

Also, link re Russian counterattack?
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That’s what I’m waiting for as well, as they really don’t have the capability to counterattack now. They remind me of Germany in early 45, purely defensive now.
 
Grim5 said:
Ruling party in Georgia's government wants a referendum to see if it should attack Russia

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If they are going to do it then now is the time. It’s going to get a lot tougher for Russia. We’ll see more countries doing it.

Iraklis F.C. said:
russian counter offensive began, two cities re captured. I feel sorry for those caught in the middle of this, the front movement back and forth will leave nothing but a trail of absolute destruction
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They have to break the Ukrainian momentum and then create their own. I have a feeling they have not done this yet.
 
Can't link to it due to swearing but a few more instance of barrel malfunctions on Russian artillery starting to show up online.

Minusorange said:
Best is really subjective, it seem it's all junk but they still have large amounts for defending the motherland still, although they don't really need any of it when they have nukes as the ultimate defence

It's quite scary to think that when this is all over Russia will be left with no military but it will still have nukes
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For some reason Western intelligence agencies, maybe hoping for a demoralising effect, hugely overstate the degraded state of Russian military divisions - some of the elite guards divisions for instance have had individual regiments and units decimated in Ukraine but they are only a subset of the whole structure. There are many Russian military units represented in Ukraine only utilising around 1/3rd their [available] actual standing strength (their actual standing strength often being somewhat less than their on paper standing strength).

People often like to embrace the idea of desperation, I can only assume because it is what they want to see, where Russia is emptying out hardware which was going to waste anyhow to use in Ukraine when it isn't always desperation. Though even that can be a tricky one - with the T-80 tanks for instance they were initially using a mix of active stock and retired stock put back into service from deep reserves, when they started to turn to their [maintained] reserves they found they'd been raided for parts due to corruption - but at the same time I think people vastly underestimate the scale of Russian hardware reserves and how little their maintained reserves have been touched so far with Ukraine - even with the condition a lot of it is in there is still large amounts of serviceable hardware.

Same with the talk of shortages of ammunition - yet Russia continued to fire off large amounts and with this Kharkiv attack they've uncovered large stores of it - the bigger issue being the man power to use it and the logistics to get it where it needs to be.

All the talk around Russian tank production/maintenance and yes it is in a woeful situation but they still managed for instance at one facility to modernise and put into service ~45 T-62 tanks in the last month and a half but the way people talk it is if they'd struggle to do 1-2. (EDIT: When I say modernise I'm still talking a late 1970s, early 1980s spec tank :cry:).
 
Rroff said:
Can't link to it due to swearing but a few more instance of barrel malfunctions on Russian artillery starting to show up online.



For some reason Western intelligence agencies, maybe hoping for a demoralising effect, hugely overstate the degraded state of Russian military divisions - some of the elite guards divisions for instance have had individual regiments and units decimated in Ukraine but they are only a subset of the whole structure. There are many Russian military units represented in Ukraine only utilising around 1/3rd their [available] actual standing strength (their actual standing strength often being somewhat less than their on paper standing strength).

People often like to embrace the idea of desperation, I can only assume because it is what they want to see, where Russia is emptying out hardware which was going to waste anyhow to use in Ukraine when it isn't always desperation. Though even that can be a tricky one - with the T-80 tanks for instance they were initially using a mix of active stock and retired stock put back into service from deep reserves, when they started to turn to their [maintained] reserves they found they'd been raided for parts due to corruption - but at the same time I think people vastly underestimate the scale of Russian hardware reserves and how little their maintained reserves have been touched so far with Ukraine - even with the condition a lot of it is in there is still large amounts of serviceable hardware.

Same with the talk of shortages of ammunition - yet Russia continued to fire off large amounts and with this Kharkiv attack they've uncovered large stores of it - the bigger issue being the man power to use it and the logistics to get it where it needs to be.

All the talk around Russian tank production/maintenance and yes it is in a woeful situation but they still managed for instance at one facility to modernise and put into service ~45 T-62 tanks in the last month and a half but the way people talk it is if they'd struggle to do 1-2. (EDIT: When I say modernise I'm still talking a late 1970s, early 1980s spec tank :cry:).
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45 refurbished T62s a month doesn’t really cut it when Russia is losing 10-15 tanks a day
 
woppy101 said:
45 refurbished T62s a month doesn’t really cut it when Russia is losing 10-15 tanks a day
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That is just one facility which people were able to get information on - not a representation of their overall capability. They will be struggling though to deal with the production and maintenance logistics of this war but doesn't mean that it is as unsurmountable for them as people seem to want to believe - a lot will depend on the scale of mobilisation.

Malevolence said:
I very much doubt that, Wagner couldn't liberate themselves from a wet paper bag let alone take and hold a couple of towns/cities.
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Those aren't part of the Kharkiv operation anyhow - and potentially Ukraine may have pulled forces back in the south to push into Izium/Lyman from the south and south east.

EDIT: According to Military Land:

  • Russian forces captured Ukrainian fortified positions west of Kodema, confirming the settlement is also under Russian control.
  • Russian troops attempted to advance towards Mayorsk, Kurdyumivka and Mykolaivka Druha. Neither of these attempts was successful.
  • Due to the reported Russian attack in the direction of Kurdyumivka, Dacha settlement is very likely under Russian control.
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Minusorange said:
It's hard to tell what's propaganda and what is truth

If things were so bad I doubt they'd be sending their pontoon bridges towards Kherson on the M14, long way to drive though from Mariupol to Kherson region though
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Eh? Why not?

Surely the opposite is the case, if things were going great they'd not need pontoon bridges... the reason they need pontoon bridges is because things aren't going well at all, the actual bridges to Kherson have been bombed and the Russian troops on the other side of the river are in desperate need for supplies, some units negotiating surrender etc..
 
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