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

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Mr Jack said:
That was at the height of the pandemic though. Putin will have the finest quality mRNA vaccines in him now.
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Полторы дюжины главных пропагандистов войны отсидели недельный карантин ради встречи с Путиным - Русская служба The Moscow Times

Кремль заставил полтора десятка российских «военкоров» отсидеть неделю на карантине перед встречей с президентом РФ Владимиром Путиным.
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Jono8 said:
I do hate all the doubles stuff and think it is most likely nonsense.

I mean, the second picture here, if genuine, does make him look a lot younger and thinner in the face, but angles, lighting, exposure, focal length etc etc can all make such a difference to how someone looks that it is difficult to make any decent conclusion from two random pictures.
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It's almost as if people have never done online dating..
 
Wasn't the Wagner rebellion mostly about Prigozhin wanting revenge on Shoigu for him bombing Wagner troops? I haven't seen anything suggesting Prigozhin wanted to kill Putin and take over Russia, I think if that was the case he wouldn't be allowed to live in Belarus.
 
Roar87 said:
Wasn't the Wagner rebellion mostly about Prigozhin wanting revenge on Shoigu for him bombing Wagner troops? I haven't seen anything suggesting Prigozhin wanted to kill Putin and take over Russia, I think if that was the case he wouldn't be allowed to live in Belarus.
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After Putin came put with a statement about Prigozhin, Prigozhin said that Putin had chosen the wrong side and there would be a new president soon.
 
Roar87 said:
Wasn't the Wagner rebellion mostly about Prigozhin wanting revenge on Shoigu for him bombing Wagner troops?
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That and the forced conscription of Wagner troops into the Russian Army from July 1st

Roar87 said:
I haven't seen anything suggesting Prigozhin wanted to kill Putin and take over Russia, I think if that was the case he wouldn't be allowed to live in Belarus.
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I said the same at the start of this. The rebellion wasn't about Prigozhin himself taking over from Putin (he doesn't have the political connections to be able to successfully depose Putin and then rule) though I would imagine if the machinations had resulted in Putins overthrow, Prig would have probably wanted Shoigu's job for his efforts.
 
Jono8 said:
I do hate all the doubles stuff and think it is most likely nonsense.

I mean, the second picture here, if genuine, does make him look a lot younger and thinner in the face, but angles, lighting, exposure, focal length etc etc can all make such a difference to how someone looks that it is difficult to make any decent conclusion from two random pictures.
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What about when they're at different places at the same time....

 
Rroff said:
VDV aren't special forces (SOF or Spetznaz, etc.) as such though they may operate as special forces support. Though they've lost many of the most experienced ones which will act as a multiplier for the effect of the losses they've "only" lost about 40% of the total pre-war special forces manpower through death or injury so far (which is also mirrored by the likes of the VDV and other airmobile/airborne forces).
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Not the information I read, the west said they were gutted by 90 to 95% of their forces and as they take 4 years to train they are not getting replaced anytime soon.

The presentation suggested the 22nd and two other special forces brigades were gutted by 90 to 95 per cent. The bold bit has come from the pentagon.

www.telegraph.co.uk

Moscow's special forces 'gutted' by fighting

Russia’s elite spetsnaz forces have been “extremely depleted” by the war in Ukraine and will take years to rebuild, according to documents in the leaked trove of Pentagon files.
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bris said:
Not the information I read, the west said they were gutted by 90 to 95% of their forces and as they take 4 years to train they are not getting replaced anytime soon.

The presentation suggested the 22nd and two other special forces brigades were gutted by 90 to 95 per cent. The bold bit has come from the pentagon.

www.telegraph.co.uk

Moscow's special forces 'gutted' by fighting

Russia’s elite spetsnaz forces have been “extremely depleted” by the war in Ukraine and will take years to rebuild, according to documents in the leaked trove of Pentagon files.
www.telegraph.co.uk www.telegraph.co.uk
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Of the forces sent into Ukraine yes some brigades were seeing losses in the 90s of percent but they didn't send 100% of their special forces or airborne and other light assault forces into Ukraine.

Kind of related to that I think the bars for % destroyed from total on this image give a better representation of Russian losses in Ukraine albeit doesn't show it for personnel:


Though I don't think that entirely illustrates it as tanks and artillery for instance doesn't really illustrate that a certain amount was pulled out of reserve and used rather than active stuff and in reality a certain amount of that reserve stock will be unusable or no longer exists.
 
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The `problem` with any total for reserve equipment - its just a guess, some more educated than others but still a guess.

Heres just 1 video using satellite comparrions

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How Many of Each Type of Tank Does Russia Have In Storage?

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cross referenced with ground images, many of those `reserves` are literal scrap.
 
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