Posted on 03/22/2023 8:31:57 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
6 more invader tanks lost!
Demilitarization, desatanization and denazification of RuZZia continues.
In 1 month.
“370 vehicles since the feb 28 update. It continues to blow my mind how much equipment russia is losing.”
https://twitter.com/Chris_Ryan_Sim/status/1638323524522614784
As marcusmaximus noted:
“#Russia appears to be bringing T-54s and T-55s out of storage for deployment in #Ukraine.”
https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/status/1638472120534458368
“Russia running out of obsolete T-62M, so what do they do? They send in the even more obsolete T-55.”
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1638500837159837696
Some ‘objects’ destroyed. Too funny.
“Heavy explosions reported from the harbor of Russian-occupied Sevastopol. Probably an Ukrainian strike by USV. The occupation even reports that an UAV was involved.”
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1638437501286207495
“Sevastopol suspends ferries after drone attack destroys three ‘objects’ in the port city, Russian-backed governor has said. Governor Mikhail Razvozhaev said a Ukrainian drone attack on Tuesday had been repelled, but some “objects” had been destroyed.”
https://twitter.com/jumpeyspyder/status/1638473148306714627
“Switchblade 300 loitering munition strikes by Ukrainian SSO on Russian soldiers.”
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1638556817914576899
“Destruction of the Russian air defense system “Strela-10” and the floating transporter PTS-2 in the southern direction by the forces of the Special Operations Forces of Ukraine.”
https://twitter.com/AlexRaptor94/status/1638511385469394945
“’ A Russian BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicle was destroyed by Ukrainian fire in the vicinity of Dolynka, #Zaporizhzhia Oblast.”
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1638463648648626177
“President Zelenskyy made a surprise visit in the Bakhmut area. He is personally issuing rewards forUkrainian soldiers.”
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1638511431183220738
“Xi has been playing a long game in Moscow & Putin doesn’t understand it. In a decade will own , its minerals, oil, factories, agriculture. They will have a monopoly for all their consumer goods & probably be able to dictate every move Putin’s heir makes. Putin’s legacy.”
https://twitter.com/oysteinbogen/status/1638383220017307648
McCaul in the lead. I was in Williams district but got switched to McCaul. Thank you, thank you.
“In US Congress, Republicans asked Biden to provide Ukraine with cluster munitions.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1638481433059639296
“The 53rd brigade destroyed a Russian column of heavy equipment, near Vodyane.“
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1638472395588599814
“Night hunting by the 35th marine brigade.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1638441375065690115
“The state concern “Ukroboronprom” presented the first 120-mm mortars of joint production with a country of the North Atlantic Alliance. The ammunition is solely manufactured for direct use by the Armed Foces of Ukraine.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1623738480080703490
RuZZia telling people in Crimea not to ‘panic’.
The Russian constitution, or the decrees of Vladimir Putin? Know the answer to that question.
“1/ A volunteer from Tatarstan’s Alga volunteer battalion has spoken out about his experiences fighting in Ukraine. He says his unit was ‘almost completely’ destroyed near Vuhledar. He is now facing criminal charges for leaving it and returning home after being injured.
2/ Tatarstan formed two volunteer battalions, Alga and Timer, last summer. The regional government advertised for volunteers and offered a relatively generous pay package – 260,000 rubles on joining, 170,000 per month when in combat and another 2,000 a day from Tatarstan.
3/ The Tatarstan government was also supposed to be paying for the cost of equipping the men. The thread below from
@RALee85
documents their recruitment and training, prior to their deployment to Ukraine’s Kherson region.
4/ A battalion member, whose name has not been disclosed, says that he suffered a traumatic brain injury during Ukraine’s successful offensive in the Kherson region in September–November 2022 when a projectile exploded near him. The battalion was badly mauled in the offensive.
5/ “We were standing 800 meters away from [the Ukrainians], holding the defence, so they wouldn’t go [forward]. We could not storm in by ourselves: they stood on the heights, we were below, they could see us as if in the palm of their hand.
6/ A lot of people [from the battalion] were killed. Maybe half of them.” He had previously served in the army during the Second Chechen War in 1999-2000, but found the Ukrainian war a far more difficult experience. “This war [in Ukraine] is certainly tougher. Drones work here.
7/ “We also have them, [Tatarstan] bought very expensive drones for us. But in the end [the Ukrainians] brought them down. We should come up with a way to prevent their drones from reaching us as well.
8/ “As it turned out, we shoot down a drone with a machine gun, and literally within three seconds artillery, mortars, or rockets start coming [at us]. You can’t attack or take cover, because thermal imaging cameras are operating. It is very hard to fight.”
9/ The volunteer was paid 147,000 rubles by the Russian Ministry of Defence and was given a lump sum of 185–195,000 rubles when he volunteered, plus additional payments that brought his salary to over 200,000 ($2,589) per month.
10/ However, he had to buy all his equipment himself, including clothes, gloves, helmets, boots and so on, which cost around 60-70,000 rubles.
11/ The Tatarstan government seemingly didn’t fulfil its promise to equip the volunteers, who have also complained that they received less money than the 250,000 a month they were promised. Their weapons they were given were also inadequate, antiquated and unreliable.
12/ “The guns were also problematic: they would start shooting and then would jam until you cleaned them. The [combat] equipment was made in 1973, 1978, 1964, it didn’t even fire.
13/ “When we entered [the Kherson region], we had ten pieces [of equipment], five pieces didn’t even arrive. The rest broke down within a week, one [combat vehicle] more or less went back and forth and eventually stopped too.”
14/ After retreating across the Dnipro, the volunteer received medical treatment for his concussion, but experienced ongoing health effects that left him unable to continue fighting. He and around 15 other volunteers decided to resign their contracts and go home.
15/ Although he says that, as volunteers, they were entitled to resign, the military treated them evasively. “The chief of staff took one copy of the report for himself, removed it, put another one in, and the report was sort of “lost”.”
16/ Ever since, they have been trying to find out why their discharge order has not been signed. They are in a kind of limbo: “We don’t get paid, and we don’t get dismissed. We have no status.” Some returned to the front lines. Others were listed as deserters and investigated.
17/ The volunteer was lucky to have missed the Russian ‘human wave’ offensive against Vuhledar in early 2023, which he says has virtually destroyed the Alga battalion and its counterparts from Bashkortostan and Orenburg. He says
18/ “When I watch TV now I feel like spitting. They don’t talk about it on TV, but on 6 February [during the offensive] towards Vuhledar, the Alga battalion was put down almost completely.
19/ “After that they put down the Orenburg battalion, the Bashkir battalion, where they were all volunteers. My comrade, who is in hospital now, says that there was no reconnaissance, there was no reconnaissance shelling.
20/ There were eight to ten men in each APC, and once they went [on the offensive], some didn’t even realise what had happened [when they were attacked].”
21/ The disastrous attack was documented in the thread below by
@Tatarigami_UA
. Many Alga soldiers were captured by the Ukrainians. Relatives say at least two companies – which would mean 250-300 men – were killed.
22/ The volunteers attempting to resign from their contracts now face criminal prosecution, as the Russian state says that Putin’s mobilisation order of last September overrides the expiry of their four-month contracts.
23/ “In this case,” argues a representative of the Union of Paratroopers, “the contract of volunteers is extended for an indefinite period. Most likely, until the end of the special military operation.”
24/ The volunteers and their lawyers dispute this, as they say it contradicts Russian federal law: “The presidential decree [on mobilisation], according to the Constitution, cannot be higher than the federal law.”
25/ The case may provide an important test of what remains of the rule of law in Russia. Which will be the deciding factor – the Russian constitution, or the decrees of Vladimir Putin? /end”
It comments to itself.
“Xi has been playing a long game in Moscow & Putin doesn’t understand it. In a decade will own , its minerals, oil, factories, agriculture. They will have a monopoly for all their consumer goods & probably be able to dictate every move Putin’s heir makes. Putin’s legacy.”
https://twitter.com/oysteinbogen/status/1638383220017307648
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yeah this is the downside of this war. I don’t think its something to rejoice about that Russia will become a client state of China.
I see your point regarding RuZZia becoming a vassal of China.
However, I do think its necessary to separate RuZZia from Europe.
Germany and Italy have been to cozy with RuZZia.
I’ll predict in 2-3 decades, RuZZia seeks to join NATO as their demographic crisis reaches an inflection point.
This war will last years and contribute mightily to RuZZia ecoonomic decline and population decline.
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