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

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MattTheTall77 said:
I wish they would get more numbers though. 50 isn’t much, and 25k rounds is only 500 per vehicle, I imagine they’ll get through that quite quickly.

The same for artillery, when you see videos there doesn’t seem to be much saturation, just one or two in action.

And hopefully someone somewhere is working on a défense against the lancet loitering drones, too many videos of those recently taking out Ukrainian artillery.
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I think it's just a start, like how they first sent 2 HIMARS launchers and then 2 became 20. The DoD says it will take up to 2 months to full train the Ukrainians on the Bradley's, so there is plenty time to deliver more should they prove competent with the vehicle and it is useful for this battlefield. The US has several thousand Bradleys in stock
 
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Why are western nations commiting to send a lot of tanks in all of a sudden? Presumably the Russians can take them out easily also
 
rumple9 said:
Why are western nations commiting to send a lot of tanks in all of a sudden? Presumably the Russians can take them out easily also
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Probably the realisation that Russia intends to keep pushing on, iteratively if slowly going to fuller levels of mobilisation to keep the war going. I think a lot of countries were still hoping Russia would concede once they'd expended a certain level of man power and equipment.

The way tanks are used heavily influences how easily they are lost as well - for instance Russia often favours recon by combat using a single tank supported by around 3 armoured fighting vehicles, with the slow reverse speed of their tanks they tend to be sitting ducks when used like that.
 
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Twitter is a hoot sometimes - pro-Russian bot claiming a video is of 100s of T-90 tanks about to enter Ukraine to take Kyiv... video is of a few dozen T-80 tanks of the 4th Guards from 2 days before the war started - of which about 90% of those tanks were scrap months ago LOL.
 
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Kremlin announces extra taxes for businesses. It's also looking to cut spending to the tune of several billion in non military areas and Putin says there is no limit to how much he will cut spending in other areas such as health or education in order to fund the war

www.bloomberg.com

Russia Looks to Press Big Firms for More Cash as War Costs Mount

Russia is planning to wrest more money from some commodity producers and state companies and trim non-defense spending, as the costs of the invasion of Ukraine mount.
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Grim5 said:
Kremlin announces extra taxes for businesses. It's also looking to cut spending to the tune of several billion in non military areas and Putin says there is no limit to how much he will cut spending in other areas such as health or education in order to fund the war

www.bloomberg.com

Russia Looks to Press Big Firms for More Cash as War Costs Mount

Russia is planning to wrest more money from some commodity producers and state companies and trim non-defense spending, as the costs of the invasion of Ukraine mount.
www.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com

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I think this is how this war will end. Decimate the Russian economy until there's nothing left.
 
Russian Defence Ministry:
- Its Forces in Ukraine Will Maintain Self-Declared Ceasefire Until Midnight on Saturday Despite Taking Fire
- Russian Military Repelled Four Attacks From Ukrainian Forces in Last 24 Hours
- Russian Forces Returned Fire When Fired Upon by Ukrainian Forces
- Accuses Ukraine of Shelling Civilian Areas During Russian-Declared Ceasefire
 
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Rroff said:
Not looking good for Bakhmut - to the north Soledar and Pidhorodne pretty much gone, Wagner forces have made a renewed push in the industrial area to the east. Without some heavy artillery reinforcement Ukraine is going to find the situation in Bakhmut untenable before long. (Though I'm not sure how long Russia can sustain the progress either).
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With Russia’s population, a lot longer than Ukraine and that’s the biggest problem.

I do wonder how much if it is part of the plan though, make the enemy bleed for every inch through lines of traps and then just easily push them back. It’s exactly what happened at soledar salt mine recently.

The new equipment can’t come soon enough. The west has wasted too much time.
 
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I think the Ukrainians are bleeding them and getting ready for the next offensive.
Many months ago someone linked to a blog type thing thats posted by a guy in communication with an ex US (he specifically doesnt say but mentions US battlefields so he certainly is) guy serving over there.
It gets mildly edited but from his accounts you can get the jist of whats going on right now. To me the ukrainians are 100% setting the Russians up.

A decent chunk of his past post (dated 31 dec), changed the font to make it clear its just a cut and paste. The city mentioned below is Kreminna per a link.

"Just woke-up. Actually slept through the night – a rarity.

Came in for a rest and resupply. We went deeper in this time than ever, could see the lights of the city. Moved around a lot of Russians who were also either moving or prepared to move. We did notice they are less static in the forested area, and are trying to keep their elements in positions where they can be mobile. It is a good tactic, and reduces their vulnerability to artillery.

I suspect it is also because they are concerned that we are making feinting moves to get them to commit reinforcements to a particular area. They are right. Command always assumed they would try to break-up into smaller units and increase their mobility, and it was part of our job to influence where they went. It seems to have worked to some degree.

All the time we spent ———— has influenced their movements, or so we are told. Once they do commit to a position, it is our job to make sure the support elements are located and can be hammered as they struggle to now supply mobile units, mostly by roads, roads which have to be scanned for mines.

In some areas wheeled trucks have issues with the mud, but I don’t see the lack of frozen ground causing a change in our plan or hindering planned activity much. My thought is, if the ground was frozen, the plan would be much the same…although, I am not privy to top-level planning, nor should I be.

We saw quite a bit of activity, a lot of-hit-and-run stuff from roving forward teams that take out a vehicle, then move away. Most of that was on the way out, as we worked our way back through the leftovers of combat. Only five of us made this trip, and we spent a lot of time hunkered-down in the day, and moving slowly at night. As we got closer to the city, we found and pinned several fixed supply sites, and one forward command center. By now they have been hammered.

On the way back we ran across a lot of dead Russians. I counted 34 in all, mostly scattered in groups of a handful or so. Only one was barely alive, and there was nothing at all we could do for him. His lower jaw had been shot off and he seemed to be paralyzed below the waist. His eyes were glassy and his breathing was rattling. He would never survived being hauled out, and it was impossible for us to haul him anyway. I covered him with a poncho and we left.

One thing you notice, after some time, in this cooler weather, if you get close to a corpse they smell like a stale boiled egg.

Right now there is pretty heavy combat going on where we came from. The Russians tried a rolling barrage of artillery to get troops and vehicles moving, but counterbattery fire either smashed them or they were forced to fold-up and move.

Lots of drones up – ours, theirs – hard to tell the difference. One of the advantages of drones, especially small ones, is you can get a dynamic picture of your overhead space so you can construct a hide that is more difficult to discover from above, and indeed check your setup after constructing it. Obviously the use of a drone is a detection risk in itself, so you have to be smart about it. How it works is you get a view of what is natural, and try to keep with that as best you can. Some bad things are typically linear elements that do not match the ground conditions, sharp-edge trenches and holes, tree limbs regularly or unnaturally stacked, and so on.

Obviously if you are faced with thermal detection then life becomes more difficult. You just have to find the best cover you can, and then cover up as best you can.

Also on the way out we got word that a large flanking attack was coming from north of our position, and we had to divert west a bit. I have no idea yet what happened there, but we never saw anything of it. Since they knew where they were in relation to us, they probably hammered the **** out of them.

We are in for a short time, then are going back out with a larger group, at least until we get to some point where we may be required to split-off. Things seem to be moving a bit quick, so are in a dynamic state.

Earlier one of the guys was talking about the info that is on the web about troop positions. “It seems a handful of people produce this stuff, then everybody repeats it, and it becomes sort of the truth, whether it has any basis in fact or not.” C— laughed, “command is leaking out misinformation on the location of recon units, as well as troops.”

“It is more for Russian consumption than anything else,” I added. Would be interesting to know for sure if this is true, but hey, that is fine, I would do it too.

The good things is, we spent a lot of time in that forest obtaining targeting coordinates on their behind-the-line positions, setting up — —, setting explosive deadfalls on secondary retreat routes, and harassing and killing their smaller units, and it all seems to be paying-off a bit, maybe not a huge deal, but possibly hollowing-out their tactical plans.

One note…not a lot of paved roads where we go, but we did find-out that a quart of pavement resurfacing paint works wonders hiding mines in paved roads. Either find a pothole, or make one, insert mine, fill with dirt, and paint over….almost invisible.

I have to go get my head checked by the quack, so does C—, then we are going to lollygag around for a while, resupply, eat, get an uncomfortable shower, then sleep and wait for the call-up to go out again.

We are all doing well, nobody has the shakes, talks in tongues or mopes around. Coming in after being highly stressed for so long, non-stop, takes a bit to get over. C— sleeps, I read, listen to tunes, write and eat. The other guys have their own things as well…just little things that gets your head back on an even keel. It seems we are not going to have much decompression time this rotation…but, at least we are not out in constant combat. Of course, if C— is right, and he smiles when he says it, that may be fixing to end. Later."

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A lot of snippets he drops in tend to end up being obvious later on.
 
bingham67 said:
Amazing amount of sacrifice Putin willing to take to achieve his fantasy.
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Sacrificing others for his fantasy is easy.

I do wish the Russians weren't so passive about it all and would start asking relevant questions about who sent them there and who doesn't care how many he Russian conscripts he kills in the process.

Although the last time the consequences of being sent to the slaughter ended up with a regime change in Russia it didn't end up too well for many.
 
I'm always reminded of this quote in Iain Banks book Use of Weapons

“Zakalwe, in all human societies we have ever reviewed, in every age and every state, there has seldom if ever been a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots.”
 
Colonel_Klinck said:
I'm always reminded of this quote in Iain Banks book Use of Weapons

“Zakalwe, in all human societies we have ever reviewed, in every age and every state, there has seldom if ever been a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots.”
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Surely if there wasn’t a scarcity of idiots Putin wouldn’t have had to resort to forced conscription?
 
bingham67 said:
Anyone seen the picture on Ukrainewarvideoreport showing dead bodies circled in orange on Reddit from Bakhmut?

Amazing amount of sacrifice Putin willing to take to achieve his fantasy.
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I guess if you look at it from a western lens it's staggering but it's not all that surprising if your Russian given their history. It's been said that Stalin would have put every man, women and child between him and the Wehrmacht if that's what it took to stop the Nazi's, there's no reason to believe Putin would be all that different (he's already shown he's willing to kill the Russian economy to achieve he's aims).
 
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