Posted on 03/21/2023 5:39:12 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
welp being a doctor or medic in a war zone is a bad bad gig
my nephew went to Afghanistan as a medic, I said “you will never be the same” I was right
Yes it is. It takes a very heavy toll on them. They all have my full admiration and prayers.
Thank you for posting that.
VIDEOS
1. Once cut off, Wagner Group would be ‘easy to collapse’ | Maj. Gen. Chip Chapman
Times Radio
305K subscribers
Mar 21, 2023 3:30 p.m. DST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3O83r4VgJ4
“The difference really between the Russians and the Ukrainians is that Russia is still fighting an attritional war.”
2. Ukraine tested a mine detection system based on UAVs
Ukrinform TV
601K subscribers
Mar 21, 2023 10:30 a.m. DST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h8d1YZgcS0
[Fore English use closed caption/ select subtitle/ click on English]
You don’t seem to understand what we’ve done.
The M1A1 is also lighter than the M1A2 — may be helpful...
You must have posted that in connection with U.N. Peacekeepers.
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God Bless your nephew, and please thank him for his service.
My brother was in Vietnam '66-'67 with the 25th Infantry Division. He was a completely different person when he came home, mentally, and physically. He died in 1995 at the young age of 51 from a massive heart attack. Left a widow and four kids.
Bakhmut is encircled. All roads in and out of it are under Russian artillery fire.
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Meanwhile other encirclement has taken place in Avdiivka
Avdiivka is strongly fortified. Its coke plant is a strong-point. The Ukrainian army used the city to lob artillery into Donetsk city. But attempts to seize it were largely unsuccessful. Two week ago the situation suddenly changed. The Russian airforce started to bomb Avdiivka with heavy glide bombs. At the same time an operations was launched to envelope the city from two directions.
An east to west move north of Avdiivka cut the rail access to the city. Russian forces crossed the railroad and moved further west. Fighting is currently ongoing in Berdychi. South of Berdychi is Orlovka, a road crossing point (O0542, C015801, C015802) that is for now the only real supply route left for Avdiivka.
In the southwest of Avdiivka the Russian forces moved northward. They are currently trying to capture Siverne. The first progress there was stopped when on March 12 the Ukrainian 36th Marine Brigade was placed in the area.
Armed reconnaissance has also taken place into the southwest area of Avdiivka city which is made up of high rises.
The distance between the Russian positions in the southwest and in the northwest of Avdiivka is 8 kilometer (5 miles). That is sufficiently narrow for Russian artillery to interdict road traffic that goes through the area in between.
The landscape around Avdiivka is mostly featureless. There are a few slag hills that rise about 50 meter above their surrounding flatland. But they can be easily covered by artillery and are thus not really helpful for either side.
This is now the second Ukrainian held area on the Donetsk front that is in operational encirclement. In both areas the Russian follow Sun Tzu's advice to not completely close off an encirclement but to leave a route out. This prevents fanatical defenses by encircled troops or it may even lead the enemy to push more forces into a hopeless position.
If the Ukrainian military had plans to relieve Bakhmut with a counterattack it now has to think of the additional problem that the encirclement of Avdiivka brings. Should it start there? Should it split the forces it had accumulated and planned to use for the counterattack in Bakhmut and start a parallel one in Avdiivka? Should it give up on one or both cities? Those are difficult decisions.
I find it likely that the Russian attacks on Bakhmut were halted after the Avdiivka development succeeded to give the Ukraine military enough time to make an error.
I've been to three wars, one world fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and I can only guess at what that headline might mean, and the blatant stupidity of it cured me of all interest in watching the video.
DEFICIENT SOURCE: moonofalabama
“Moon of Alabama has become TOTALLY sympathetic toward Russia and the war in Ukraine while often citing misinformation.
Media credibility rater Newsguard has detailed an extensive list of false and misleading claims regarding Ukraine.
Generally, Moon of Alabama is a pro-Russian conspiracy website.”
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1. 21 Mar: FOOTAGE: Russians Decide to Hide in the Trees. REGRET IMMEDIATELY | War in Ukraine Explained
Reporting from Ukraine
207K subscribers
10:00 p.m. DST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYHHmbFnZGE
2. Prigozhin afraid of Ukrainian offensive in Bakhmut, asks Shoigu for help
Kanal13
1.49M subscribers
Mar 21, 2023 11:30 p.m. DST.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgUEFbKpH_w
Premiere in progress. Started 2 minutes ago
3. “Russians want to encircle Avdiivka, but we’re fighting back” Ukrainian MLRS in the Donetsk region
hromadske
897K subscribers
Mar 21, 2023 1:00 p.m. DST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCGEUC1MdHA
Russians are continuing their attempts to capture Avdiivka in Donetsk region. The Ukrainian military say that recently “the escalation has been felt” in this area. The Russians are trying to surround the city after a year of unsuccessful attempts to break through the Ukrainian defense.
Gunners of the 110th Separate Mechanized Brigade are helping the infantry to repel these attacks.
At the beginning of February of 2023, hromadske filmed the unit that now uses the RM-70 Vampire multiple rocket launcher system, the Czechoslovakian analog of Soviet-made Grads. Gunners of the Brigade received this MLRS system as part of the help from Western allies.
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1. ‘I really feel great anger:’ Japanese PM visits Bucha
Kanal13
1.49M subscribers
Mar 21, 2023 1:30 p.m. DST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-AFDj6L6E8
2. Zelenskiy says he will join G7 summit, offered Ukraine peace plan to China
Kanal13
1.49M subscribers
Mar 21, 2023 5:30 p.m. DST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmHk7P7ABME&t=87s
Thanks for that EXCELLENT summary from the very credible Moon of Alabama!
ARTICLE
Ukrainska Pravda
Ukraine’s Armed Forces strike Russian warehouse and 2 anti-aircraft systems – General Staff report
Ukrainska Pravda
3-21-2024 12:24 PM
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/03/20/7394160/
Quote: “Over the course of the past 24 hours, Air Force of defence forces hit five clusters of invaders, and our Rocket Forces and Artillery units struck a warehouse, two anti-aircraft systems, a radar station and another important enemy target.”
Details: Russia continues its armed aggression against Ukraine, focusing its primary efforts on attempts to occupy Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts within the administrative borders completely. Russian forces continue to conduct offensive operations on the Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, Marinka, and Shakhtars’k fronts. The fiercest battles in and near Bakhmut and on the Avdiivka front continue.
The Russians continue to use their typical tactics of terrorising the civilian population, shelling residential areas and critical infrastructure targets.
Over the course of the past 24 hours, Russians carried out four missile and 24 air strikes and also launched over 30 strikes, using multiple launcher rocket systems.
Related video: Watch: Latest analysis of Ukraine war as Russia struggles to make tactical gains (Dailymotion)
No significant changes have been reported on theVolyn, Polissia, Sivershchyna and Slobozhanshchyna fronts; no Russian offensive groups have been detected.
The Russian leadership continues to use the infrastructure of Belarus to train its troops. The occupiers maintain a military presence in the border areas. During the day, Russians shelled the areas of Hrinivka and Mykhalchyna Sloboda settlements in Chernihiv Oblast; Atynske, Iskryskivshchyna, Volfyne, Pavlivka and Popivka in Sumy oblast; Basove, Kozacha Lopan, Strilecha, Hlyboke, Vovchansk and Velykyi Burluk in Kharkiv Oblast.
On the Kupiansk and Lyman fronts, Russian troops continue to try to break Ukraine’s defences. Occupiers led unsuccessful offensive operations near Masyutivka, Novoselivske, Bilohorivka, and Verkhnokamianske settlements. Invaders deployed artillery to shell near Krasne Pershe, Dvorichna, Kupiansk, Krokhmalne and Berestove settlements in Kharkiv Oblast; Nevske and Bilohorivka in Luhansk Oblast, as well as Torske, Spirne and Fedorivka in Donetsk Oblast.
On the Bakhmut front, Russian troops continue their offensive operations, losing the offensive potential.
The occupiers do not stop trying to capture the city,
losing a significant amount of manpower, weapons and military equipment.
Ukraine’s defenders are repelling numerous attacks by the occupiers around the clock near Orikhovo-Vasylivka, Hryhorivka and in the northern part of Bakhmut. In particular, Vasyukivka, Minkivka, Orikhovo-Vasylivka, Hryhorivka, Bakhmut, Ivanivske, Stupochky, Predtechyne, Chasiv Yar, Kurdyumivka, Ozaryanivka and Pivnichne in Donetsk Oblast came under Russian fire.
On the Avdiivka, Marinka and Shakhtars’k fronts, Russian troops had no success in carrying out offensive actions in the areas of settlements of Novobakhmutivka, Krasnohorivka, Avdiivka, Severne, Pervomaiske, Marinka and Pobeda. Areas of Lastochkyne, Berdychi, Avdiivka, Tonenke, Heorhiivka, Nevelske, Krasnohorivka, Marinka, and Vuhledar settlements in Donetsk Oblast came under Russian shelling.
On the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson fronts, Russian troops are in defensive positions. In particular, settlements near the contact line were shelled: Novopil in Donetsk region; Olhivske, Malynivka, Chervone, Charivne, Huliaipole, Mala Tokmachka, Novodanylivka and Novoandriivka in Zaporizhia Oblast, as well as Antonivka and the city of Kherson.
Despite the large number of victims, Russia does not give up the war of aggression and constantly takes measures to replenish its manpower. Thus, in one of the military units stationed in the Krasnodar Krai, military authorities force conscripts to sign contracts. Servicemen who agree to sign these are expected to go “on a trip” to Ukraine in August 2023.
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