International Russia/Ukraine Megathread V8

[Why did you]

 

[Dalarna3]

"Last mile delivery" is the bread and butter of logistics and its a complete different monster than bulk logistics, moving a plane, train or bus, full of supplies from distribution center A to distribution center B is hard but then unloading from bulk containers, putting them on small cars and delivering the correct package to hundreds of different addresses is a complete different monster on its own.


Now imagine trying to supply dozens of different groups that are moving forward through enemy territory.

If you honestly think loading soviet stocks is proof that Russian logistics are great you are being dellusional, its a complete different skillset required.

Their ability to provide thousands of shells to frontline artillery units shows that they can do both bulk and last mile delivery.

They had Rosgvardia on Izyum, i can't believe 6 months into the guard we are still seeing people push "Its not the real Russian army" BS.

That's exactly right, they were using militia tier troops to help hold a front. This is from both incompetence in command and a lack of professional troops in country.

Yes it has, it was reported in February that Russia had massed 200,000 forces in the border with Ukraine, this without counting the DPR/LPR irregular forces.

Ukraine army had like 125,000 active personnel, Ukraine outnumbers Russia because it has quickly mobilized its reserves while Russia has not been able to.

Your numbers are off for the Ukrainians. 125,000 is the quoted number for active army, not the whole military, reservists, and paramilitaries.

Yeah, i don't see how Russia turns this around.

Agreed.

Why? just because Russia sucks are supplying forward, advancing forces it doesn't means that rearguard forces are going to run out of supplies.

Your post said that the Russians ran out of supplies. That's a pretty broad statement. There is no way that they would continue to be able to fight if they were actually out of supplies.

 

[Rod1]

Crimea is a defensive dream. See the massive resources the nazis had to use to take it.

Nazis didn't had HIMARS or time for that matter.

Ukrainians don't need to storm Crimea, just make the position of the islands untenable in the long term, if they blow up Kerch bridge and keep attacking Sevastopols unloading operations, the whole Crimean peninsula becomes a whole Berlin blockade, how would Russia be able to supply the whole peninsula?

 

[IDGETKTFO]

I think we are past the end of the beginning.

 

[MTT]

Mobilization inc? Tactical nukes inc? Pure speculation

I am unsure if this video of an RU Su-25 crashing has been posted.

 

[PEB]

 

[PEB]

 

[MTT]

Another one

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...energy-sector-falls-overboard-death-boat.html

 

[PEB]

Volodymyr Zelensky said he was "surprised" that Donald Trump continued to praise Vladimir Putin as Russia was gearing up to invade Ukraine, while claiming he did so to promote his domestic policy

Speaking to CNN, the Ukrainian president said that Trump had "plenty of time" to know the type of person Putin is, and that he shouldn't have continued to speak highly of the Russian leader amid the February invasion.

"He [Trump] was sitting at such a high position where it's not even possible not to recognize that he [Putin] is the opponent in terms of values, your own people," Zelensky said. "He has all the might of this country — intelligence, data — to create a psychological profile.

https://www.newsweek.com/zelensky-cnn-trump-praise-putin-1741949

 

[PEB]

Another one

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...energy-sector-falls-overboard-death-boat.html

Putin doesn't even hide the fact he is human garbage.
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Vladimir Putin's point man for developing Russia's vast Arctic resources has died after 'falling overboard' while sailing off the country's Pacific coast.

Ivan Pechorin, 39, was managing director of Putin's Far East and Arctic Development Corporation and had recently attended a major conference hosted by the Kremlin warmonger in Vladivostok.

He is the latest in a long line of senior officials linked to Russia's energy sector and the Kremlin to die in suspicious circumstances in recent months.

Pechorin fell off the side of a boat in the waters close to Russky Island near Cape Ignatiev, said Russian daily Komsomolskaya Pravda.

His body was found after a search lasting more than a day."

If you speak in anyway against Putin policy in Ukraine you need to wear a diving suit or parachute.

 

[PEB]

 

[Badr Hari]

A russian from the front writes in his Telegram:

The Armed Forces of Ukraine, just don’t laugh, successfully crossed the Seversky Donets near Belogorovka, flanking the positions of the 2nd Army Corps of the LPR NM, facing the Seversk-Artemovsk highway and to the rear of the allied forces of the Kuban Cossacks and Lugansk reservists, still heroically defending the forester’s hut under Krasny Liman. At night, judging by the sounds, after a long break in Kherson and Slobozhanshchina, "Haymarsy" were working again in the Luhansk region.

The ingenious, impeccably planned by the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces, the operation to lure the Armed Forces of Ukraine into the territory of the LPR is entering its exciting endgame.

Working environment, stressful.

 

[GhostZ06]

I like the idea giving them Abrams and Bradly's

 

[Dalarna3]

Nazis didn't had HIMARS or time for that matter.

Ukrainians don't need to storm Crimea, just make the position of the islands untenable in the long term, if they blow up Kerch bridge and keep attacking Sevastopols unloading operations, the whole Crimean peninsula becomes a whole Berlin blockade, how would Russia be able to supply the whole peninsula?

It took the Nazis eight months to take Crimea. That's a long time in modern warfare. Also, while the HIMARS is a good system, it is not a wunderwaffe. Bridges are notoriously hard to destroy. If they do destroy the Kerch bridge and establish naval/missile superiority to where Russia's Black Sea Fleet can't do anything, then yes, the Russians will lose Crimea. Of course, in this scenario, Russia would be totally defeated anyway.

 

[Rod1]

Their ability to provide thousands of shells to frontline artillery units shows that they can do both bulk and last mile delivery.

Really man? have you been living in a cave these last 2 months? Russian mass firepower doctrine was turned into shit once HIMARS came into the scene, they certainly can't do "last mile delivery" properly, which is why they had to bring bulk ammo to the frontline and why we got those massive explosion back in July-August.

That's exactly right, they were using militia tier troops to help hold a front. This is from both incompetence in command and a lack of professional troops in country.

Im sure the REAL Russian army is right around the corner, pretty soon we will see it.

Got to wait a little more

Your numbers are off for the Ukrainians. 125,000 is the quoted number for active army, not the whole military, reservists, and paramilitaries.

Exactly ACTIVE forces in Ukraine were 125,000 the rest were not battle ready.

Your post said that the Russians ran out of supplies. That's a pretty broad statement. There is no way that they would continue to be able to fight if they were actually out of supplies.

At the front, it seems to me like you fail to grasp such a basic concept supplies on the back are not the same as supplies on the front.

 

[Rod1]

It took the Nazis eight months to take Crimea.

Yes, they were racing against time, unlike Ukraine.

That's a long time in modern warfare.

Cool, that doesn't changes the fact that Ukraine can wipe out in days what it took Russia months to achieve. Crimea isn't under risk of an Ukranian blitzkrieg indeed, but it extremely vulnerable to attritition warfare.

Also, while the HIMARS is a good system, it is not a wunderwaffe. Bridges are notoriously hard to destroy.

You don't have to destroy a bridge to render it unusable to heavy traffic, the point is to make holding the peninsula be unsustainable.

If they do destroy the Kerch bridge and establish naval/missile superiority to where Russia's Black Sea Fleet can't do anything, then yes, the Russians will lose Crimea. Of course, in this scenario, Russia would be totally defeated anyway.

All in due time, it has been what 8 years since the Ukrainians lost it, it could easily take 8 years to take it back, just make Russia spend billions upon billions on that piece of land.

 

[GhostZ06]

Mobilization inc? Tactical nukes inc? Pure speculation

I am unsure if this video of an RU Su-25 crashing has been posted.

looks like the engine cut out or flamed out?

 

[Rod1]

@Dalarna3

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/01/1083...talled-on-its-way-to-kyiv-a-u-s-official-says

 

[Blayt7hh]

Mobilization inc? Tactical nukes inc? Pure speculation

I am unsure if this video of an RU Su-25 crashing has been posted.

Holy crap. That looked like a mechanical failure

 

[SandisLL]

All the brave Chechens died defending their homeland against Russia, Kadyrov's people are just traitors who keep order in Chechnya and serve as hitmen/enforcers for Putin. In the battlefield they are basically Soviet commissars in order to "motivate" troops to not retreat.

this.