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Re: news from Russo-Ukraine Front

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Post by Cult Icon » 08 Dec 2022, 17:08

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/opinions_209984.htm

NATO Secretary General General Jens Stoltenberg: " What we see now is Russia is actually trying to have some kind of ‘freeze’ of this war at least for a short period of time to they can regroup, repair, recover. And then try to launch a bigger offensive next spring."

There is a massing of Russian forces in Belarus (Western Military District). Eastern Military district did large scale maneuvers in the fall already (with a claimed 50,000 men 6,000 combat vehicles) IIRC around May 2022 Shoigu announced the creation of 20 new formations for the Western Military District.

The second invasion of Ukraine will be a much larger commitment of manpower than the first in Feb 24 2022. Ukraine has strengthened their forces around Kyiv and facing Belarus as a consequence.

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Re: news from Russo-Ukraine Front

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Post by Cult Icon » 08 Dec 2022, 18:17

Spetnaz training, Central Military District. They have a dramatically different battledress than the airborne and motorized/mechanized infantry:

https://rutube.ru/video/5ef1ce898934bec ... 344e81222/

Infantry and IFV training in a mock village, Western Military District- Belarus

https://rutube.ru/video/281de45c1d7f15b ... 041ddc53a/


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Re: news from Russo-Ukraine Front

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Post by dgfred » 08 Dec 2022, 22:52

I doubt morale could possibly be very high... more troops will just mean more killed by artillery from each side.

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Re: news from Russo-Ukraine Front

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Post by Gooner1 » 09 Dec 2022, 00:01

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08 Dec 2022, 17:01
Russian manpower in Ukraine has likely doubled since October (to 300,000 plus) and they have created extensive trench systems. They have at least 200,000 reservists/volunteers training in Russia and integrating with the army and a further 120,000 conscripts.

So they are getting stronger by the day, while Ukraine wore down their operational reserves and have an ammunition & equipment shortage. Russian defense expenditures for 2023 has increased by 50%. It also unlikely that NATO will be able to manufacture ammunition fast enough to support Ukraine's minimal needs. Russia maintains vast superiority in equipment and ammunition, and their air support has increased.

The Russian energy offensive seeks to damage Ukraine as a whole, both civilian and military. Perhaps by 2023 Ukraine's GDP per capita will fall to $1,000/per capita.

The US/UK media continues to be badly deluded.

Confident and bold statements and predictions. Would you care to point out where other predictions you have made on the Ukraine war and have turned out correct?
Wishful thinking on your part, I think.

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Re: news from Russo-Ukraine Front

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Post by Gooner1 » 09 Dec 2022, 00:12

Contracts imminent on the GLSDB

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From the Ukrainian point of view, there are problems with HIMARS. One is range. The GMLRS missiles delivered to Ukraine have a maximum range of 85 kilometers. Since the Russian air defense currently has no effective countermeasures against missiles that hit their target very precisely and arrive very quickly (the Russian air defense batteries could not even prevent the rendering of the Antonovsky bridge, which is crucial for the supply of Kherson and therefore tried to be defended with all possible means, to be unusable), this is currently the a distance beyond which the Russian command posts, repair plants, and ammunition depots can be located in relative safety. (Ukrainians have already launched attacks with some kind of weapons, in some way, against several targets located much further away in the Crimea and in Russia, but these were more isolated cases, not the continuous threat posed by HIMARS.)

Even this 85 kilometers put the Russian logistics system, which is basically based on rail transport, under tremendous pressure, among other things, depriving the Russian artillery of its ability to bomb Ukrainian positions practically non-stop for weeks on the front line. Now let’s imagine what would happen if this 85-kilometer “death zone” were suddenly to double, say, on the Russian side of the front. For a while, the Internet would again be full of footage of burning Russian ammunition depots, and after that the Russians would have to solve the problem of transporting supplies to the front with smaller, more flexible, harder-to-measure devices from twice the distance.

But in any case, the experts see it as possible that the first series-produced GLSDBs will be ready as early as the spring of 2023, and then the American leadership will only have to decide whether to start delivering the weapon to Ukraine in larger numbers, which is even compared to the achievements of HIMARS so far. could create a new situation on the Ukrainian front lines – and up to 150 kilometers away from them.
https://hungary.postsen.com/trends/1013 ... eadly.html

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Re: news from Russo-Ukraine Front

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Post by Cult Icon » 09 Dec 2022, 01:57

dgfred wrote:
08 Dec 2022, 22:52
I doubt morale could possibly be very high... more troops will just mean more killed by artillery from each side.
explosives don't differentiate between varying levels of morale

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Re: news from Russo-Ukraine Front

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Post by Tom Peters » 09 Dec 2022, 05:22

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07 Dec 2022, 02:54
or analyze the successes of how Russia was to deceive the idiot West about their intent to invade and at the same time, was able to sanction-proof their economy with import substitution and their friends including China, Iran, North Korea, etc.. :lol:

Or how wishful thinking and poor intelligence took over the Western media and they confused the beginning of the war with the 'beginning of the end' :lol:
The US predicted the day of invasion within a few days, IIRC.

The RU civilian economy is plummeting. Oil prices are down again. RU lost their biggest customers. 700,000 RU left their country, mostly young military age males.

Who is the idiot ?

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Re: news from Russo-Ukraine Front

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Post by Tom Peters » 09 Dec 2022, 05:35

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08 Dec 2022, 16:44
VanillaNuns wrote:
08 Dec 2022, 15:54
Russian advances into the Donbass back in the spring and summer were swift. But recent events remind me more of this old Blackadder sketch: :idea:

It's not going well. Has Putin even managed to capture 17 square feet of Ukrainian territory over the last few months? :| :lol:
You and several posters in this thread are not well informed..

Russia performed covert mobilizations and recruitment of volunteers in the summer-spring.

Most of the Russian army withdrew in July-August, to rebuild and train this 'new army'. At the same time they expanded the DPR/LPR forces and turned them into a replicate Russian army. What the media is not telling you is that Ukraine's successes were against a skeleton crew.

The NATO Secretary-General apparently agreed with me yesterday that the Russia will relaunch the offensive in spring 2023, spending the entire winter training.
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RU got spanked hard in Izyum. There was no planned withdrawl, and enough RU equipment was captured at yard sale prices (free) that indicates there were plenty of RU there (before they ran).

The supposed second best army in the world isnt even second best in UKR. What a clown show.

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Re: news from Russo-Ukraine Front

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Post by ljadw » 09 Dec 2022, 13:36

There is no such thing as the second best, or best army in the world : it is only an invention from the CIA media .
Best , second best, third best, are only childish meaningless notions .

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Re: news from Russo-Ukraine Front

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Post by Tom Peters » 09 Dec 2022, 15:15

ljadw wrote:
09 Dec 2022, 13:36
There is no such thing as the second best, or best army in the world : it is only an invention from the CIA media .
Best , second best, third best, are only childish meaningless notions .
Not so meaningless when you are actually second best in a struggle. That means you are losing. The RU army is a paragon of incompetence. That certainly doesnt help their goals.

Look over there ljadw ! Its the CIA ! Behind that tree ! Its the Mossad ! Look out, I just saw the Global Illuminati !

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Post by Gooner1 » 09 Dec 2022, 15:17

Russian missile wreckage from Kharkiv


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Very little would have been fired at military targets

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Post by Cult Icon » 09 Dec 2022, 15:20

https://vk.com/milinfolive?z=video-1235 ... -123538639

Wagner PMC instructors train militias from Kursk and Belgorod. The Wagner PMC has also been helping to train reservists. Some of the theories that Wagner is just another branch of the Russian army may hold some validity. This might be for the 'territorial defense' units being set up in areas of Russia that have seen some Ukranian strikes.

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Putin awarded 12 men "Hero of Russia", the modernized version of "Hero of the Soviet Union".

"Yesterday, in the St. George Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace, the ceremony of awarding the golden stars of the Heroes of Russia took place. The highest awards were received by servicemen of various military formations of the Armed Forces, Rosgvardia, as well as two test cosmonauts.

Among the twelve awardees, four represented Airborne troops. The titles of Heroes of Russia were awarded to Major Boris Dudko and Corporal David Malykin (both representing the 76th Guards), Lieutenant Colonel Sergei Ishtuganov (Zamkombrig of the 31st Brigade), and Lieutenant Denis Skakunovsky (56th DShP).

Thus, based on open data during the special military operation, the title of Heroes of Russia was awarded to 26 servicemen of the Airborne Forces of Russia. Of these, 19 were awarded this title posthumously."

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Re: news from Russo-Ukraine Front

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Post by Cult Icon » 09 Dec 2022, 15:35

The New York Times Bakhmut article reported that the Ukrainians had 240 new injured to the hospital on 11/24. 50 the day afterwards. 240 appears to approx. the maximal figure of injured being processed in the city.

This LPR claim of daily Ukrainian losses conflicts with the low figures claimed by the LPR/DPR (under 150 Ukrainian casualties a day in the Donbass) in November. If this many people are coming in it across as reinforcement/build up.

https://tass.com/defense/1547959
The Ukrainian armed forces send 360-500 new fighters to the Artyomovsk direction every day to compensate for losses, Andrey Marochko, an officer of the People's Militia of the Lugansk People's Republic, said on the air of Radio Russia on Thursday.

"We note daily arrival of company tactical groups, battalion tactical groups there (in the Artyomovsk direction - TASS). The total number is also approximately 360-500 people. Naturally, they are thrown in to make up for the losses," he said.

According to Marochko, many Ukrainian recruits have a low level of training or are completely untrained, while experienced fighters, including those trained in NATO countries, are in short supply. "The figures of total losses of the Ukrainian army are colossal," he added.
Perhaps a more conservative estimate is that the PMC and separatists inflict up to 300 casualties a day in the Bakhmut/Artyomovsk area, largely by leveraging their artillery superiority. Maybe a few dozen casualties on 'quiet' days.

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Re: news from Russo-Ukraine Front

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Post by Cult Icon » 09 Dec 2022, 15:59

Russian forces attacked 12/7 and created a 'bulge' towards Lyman with elements of 144th Guards Motorized Rifle Division of the 20th Guards Combined Arms Army. This is marked orange, north of Siversk.

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Re: news from Russo-Ukraine Front

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Post by ljadw » 09 Dec 2022, 16:09

Tom Peters wrote:
09 Dec 2022, 15:15
ljadw wrote:
09 Dec 2022, 13:36
There is no such thing as the second best, or best army in the world : it is only an invention from the CIA media .
Best , second best, third best, are only childish meaningless notions .
Not so meaningless when you are actually second best in a struggle. That means you are losing. The RU army is a paragon of incompetence. That certainly doesnt help their goals.

Look over there ljadw ! Its the CIA ! Behind that tree ! Its the Mossad ! Look out, I just saw the Global Illuminati !

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That the RA is losing does not prove the incompetence of the Russian military leaders,but it proves the quantitative superiority of the Ukrainians . The notions best, better are meaningless words .A US attack against Ukraine would not have better results .
And it is a public knowledge that the Western media receive their information from Langley : the journalists of The Economist, WAPO, Die Welt ,etc are too stupid to know the difference between a drone and a missile,between a brigade and a battalion,....
Reports by CBS correspondents to the CBS HQ were monitored by the CIA .
Think on the story of Saddam's MDW : who told this to the media ?
Think on the story that Russia payed the Taliban bounties for each killed US soldier .
Who told these stories to the media ?
And why did the media publish them ?

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