Posted on 03/24/2023 5:41:43 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Update from Ukraine | It is time to run away for Wagner army | Ruzzia goes to full defense
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjKpPXON4uk
****NEW SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here:
Invasion Day 394 – Summary March 25, 2023 Jerome News
The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 25th March 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time).
https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-394-summary/
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Khartia unit joins Offensive Guard March 23, 2023 Jerome
“Ukrainian National Guard is being expanded by a new military brigade.” https://militaryland.net/news/khartia-unit-joins-offensive-guard/
Update from Ukraine | It is time to run away for Wagner army | Ruzzia goes to full defense
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjKpPXON4uk
****NEW SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here:
Invasion Day 394 – Summary March 25, 2023 Jerome News
The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 25th March 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time).
https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-394-summary/
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Khartia unit joins Offensive Guard
March 23, 2023 Jerome
“Ukrainian National Guard is being expanded by a new military brigade.”
https://militaryland.net/news/khartia-unit-joins-offensive-guard/
Russia Blew It
Brendan Cole
3/24/23 at 4:00 AM EDT
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-war-troops-losses-1789795
The strategic significance of Bakhmut may be questioned but Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky’s visit to the front line there on Wednesday showed how much the Donetsk city matters.
Zelensky’s appearance followed his insistence that Kyiv would continue the fight there against Moscow’s forces spearheaded by the Wagner mercenaries of Yevgeny Prigozhin. It was thought to only be a matter of time before Bakhmut would fall as Prigozhin claimed his troops had surrounded it on three sides but Kyiv’s forces continue to hold.
On the same day Zelensky pinned medals on his troops near the front and held a moment of silence to honor the fallen, U.K. defense officials said that Russia’s campaign in Bakhmut is probably losing momentum. It means after starting a much-anticipated offensive in late January, Russian forces are leaving the winter months with minimal gains and huge losses of men and equipment.
“The so-called Russian offensive was really just more of the same—pushing unlucky conscripts into the meat grinder and continuing to launch missiles against civilian targets,” said Ben Hodges, former commanding general of the United States Army Europe.
“They did none of the things you would have expected from a major offensive,” he told Newsweek. “There were no deep strikes by the Russian Air Force against the line of communication that brings equipment and ammunition from Poland into Ukraine.”
“The Navy did nothing except to sail out and launch missiles against apartment buildings. I think that the Russians really just don’t have anything left right now with which they could launch any kind of an offensive,” added Hodges, a senior advisor for Human Rights First. “They are probably now in the phase of solidifying what they have and hope that it gets to a negotiated settlement. I don’t get the sense there is much else they can do.”
Wagner troops
While he said that Wagner units had added depth to Russian forces and did have capable units at the start of the war, Hodges did not think they have helped Moscow’s war effort, describing them as “divisive and disruptive.”
Prigozhin, a businessman with close ties to Vladimir Putin, has repeatedly criticized the Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu and war commander Valery Gerasimov, lamenting that he was not being given enough ammunition.
“Prigozhin’s constant criticism of Shoigu and Gerasimov has demonstrated the really significant lack of cohesion inside the Russian General Staff and the joint command structure,” said Hodges.
Ukraine’s daily assessment of Russian losses in the war has indicated a trend of increasing casualties, even if the figures are far higher than Western estimates and have not been independently verified.
The bloody battle for Bakhmut looks to be driving that spike, with British diplomat Ian Stubbs saying on March 15 that up to 30,000 Wagner and regular Russian troops have been killed or injured—around 800 casualties for every kilometer gained during the offensive.
Ukrainian infantrymen told the Kyiv Independent this week that poorly trained battalions are being thrown into the front line with little support from armored vehicles, mortars, artillery, drones and tactical information.
“Who is now in the stronger position depends on how severely the Russian attacks have eroded Ukraine’s ability to launch a counteroffensive later this year,” said Paul D’Anieri, author of Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War. “We do not know exactly what Ukraine’s losses have been or how that will impact Ukraine’s ability to go on the offensive.”
“If the result of these attacks is that Ukraine cannot sustain a major offensive, and if Russia is satisfied with holding the territory it has, rather than seizing more, these battles might be seen as a strategic victory for Russia,” added D’Anieri, political science professor at the University of California, Riverside.
Mark Cancian, a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies said that instead of continuing to attack the Bakhmut area where it had achieved such little success in previous months, and where Ukrainians were strongest, “the Russians might have aimed at a point that was weaker.”
Bakhmut will fall. Here’s what Russia will do next
“It is still hard to believe that Bakhmut will hold out since it is nearly surrounded,” he told Newsweek. “Tactically, the fall of the city will produce only a minor victory for Russia. The Ukrainians will fall back a few miles and build a new defensive line.
“Psychologically, however, occupying the city would give Russia propaganda points as the first tangible success of its post-mobilization offensive.”
A sunk cost fallacy and a reluctance not to give the other side a PR edge could be driving the continued fight for the city. But heading into spring, both sides are waiting for factors to change—Russia with more mobilized troops and Ukraine with Western arms.
Zelensky says his troops will continue to fight for Bakhmut because if it fell, Russian forces could head to Kramatorsk, Sloviansk and other towns in the Donetsk oblast.
In any case, the spoils of a Russian victory in Bakhmut are likely to be minimal.
“The city does not have the infrastructure to support an occupying force because the Russians have reduced it to rubble,” said Mark Temnycky, a Ukrainian-American who is a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center.
“Russia has lost a lot of manpower and military equipment in an area where they have failed to make significant advances in over six months,” he told Newsweek. “It will take time for Russia to rebuild from these losses, and they do not have time.”
VIDEOS
1. An interview with a Russian volunteer: I hope my son won’t ask me about this war!
Lviv.Media
367K subscribers
3-24-2023 12:30 P.M. DST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IM9rub-VMY
2. A TANK DUEL BETWEEN UKRANIAN CREW AND RUSSIAN ANTI-TANKERS ENDED FATALLY THE AGRESSORS || 2023
Warthog Defense
481K subscribers
3-24-2023 8:00 P.M. DST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-S-FPXPn0s
Tens of Billions for Ukraine.
Let’s not forget a few dollars to support Free Republic:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4140533/posts
It is a proxy war being conducted by the United States Feral Government for fun and profit and 10% for The Big Guy.
ARTICLE
European Union supports international mechanism for documenting, punishing Russian crimes
The Kyiv Independent news desk
March 24, 2023 2:09 pm
https://kyivindependent.com/news-feed/eu-international-mechanism-for-documenting-russian-crimes
The EU supports the idea of establishing an international mechanism to document and punish Russian war crimes, according to a statement released by the European Council on March 23.
In its statement, the EU declared that such a mechanism was “of concern to the international community as a whole” and praised the steps taken by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to hold Russian war criminals accountable.
“The European Council welcomes the upcoming negotiations on a new Convention on international cooperation in the investigation and prosecution of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and other international crimes,” the statement read.
The ICC issued an arrest warrant for Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, the Russian official allegedly overseeing the forced deportations of Ukrainian children to Russia, on March 17.
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin met with European Parliament President Roberta Metsola in Brussels on March 22 to discuss the means by which those responsible for war crimes in Ukraine can be held accountable. They “agreed on further coordinated efforts to ensure accountability for every crime committed,” according to the Prosecutor General’s Office.
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/W6kqMk1QoMU
Wagner loses too many people and that hurts Russian morale too much.
Wagner will get replaced by Russian regulars I believe.
VIDEOS
1. Russian Forces Shocked! German Marder IFVs Secretly Arrive in Ukraine
U.S. Defense News
91.1K subscribers
Mar 24, 2023 Mar 24, 2023 5:00 p.m. EST
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said the Marder infantry fighting vehicles (IFV) Berlin announced in January are already on their way to Ukraine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_pnhcUCEQ0
After France’s move earlier this week, Germany announced on Thursday that it will supply Marder Infantry Fighting Vehicles (IFV) to Ukraine to help drive out Russian forces.
2. THE FIRST MIG-29 ARE SENT TO UKRAINE, AND MISTERIOUS FIRES ARE RAVAGING RUSSIA || 2023
Warthog Defense
481K subscribers
Mar 24, 2023 3:00 p.m. EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbrFFk5xzJk
“I think that the Russians really just don’t have anything left right now with which they could launch any kind of an offensive,”
The Russian weapons have proven to be second and third rate. They will be replaced in the future.
LOL!
ARTICLE
1. Ukraine Flag Raised in Crimea as Resistance Grows to Russian Rule
Isabel van Brugen
Newsweek
3/24/23 at 7:09 AM EDT
https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-flag-raised-crimea-resistance-russian-rule-1790083
A Ukrainian flag was raised on a communications tower in Crimea this week, according to an official. He said resistance to Russian rule is growing in the Black Sea peninsula that was illegally annexed by President Vladimir Putin in 2014.
Colonel Vladislav Nazarov, the spokesman for the Operational Command South of the Ukrainian Army, posted a video on his Telegram on Wednesday. He said the footage shows Ukraine’s flag being raised in the village of Hrushivka, in Crimea’s Sudak district, earlier this week.
Tensions have been rising in recent weeks as Ukraine has signaled it intends to recapture Crimea. In February, a Ukrainian official said that his country is preparing “assault brigades” to take back its occupied territories, including Crimea. Such a move would be a red line for Russia, it is feared, and Putin may use his country’s nuclear capabilities to defend the territory.
“The national flag of Ukraine appeared on a mobile-phone tower yesterday,” Nazarov said. “Very soon, such events will no longer surprise Ukrainians, because blue and yellow will calmly float over every building of the peaceful and free Ukrainian peninsula.”
“Wagner loses too many people and that hurts Russian morale too much.”
TOTALLY agree.
Quote from article from Comment #3:
“The bloody battle for Bakhmut looks to be driving that spike, with British diplomat Ian Stubbs saying on March 15 that up to 30,000 Wagner and regular Russian troops have been killed or injured—around 800 casualties for every kilometer gained during the offensive.”
It is a proxy war being conducted by the United States Feral Government for fun and profit and 10% for The Big Guy.
Oh, really? So if we stop helping the Ukrainians defending themselves against the Russian invasion, the Russians will just go home?
VIDEO
24 Mar: Russians DESPERATELY PLUGGING HOLES WITH 76-YEAR-OLD TANKS | War in Ukraine Explained
Reporting from Ukraine
209K subscribers
Mar 24, 2023 9:00 p.m. EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Zk1QFBJs8
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“I am a Ukrainian. My country has been invaded by Russia. In this video I will tell you what happened on the three hundred and ninety fourth day of the war.
DAY 394: MARCH 24
Last time I told you that Russian forces failed to develop their initial success in the village of Stepove and encircle Avdiivka because they did not reinforce their assault units on time. I also told you that Ukrainians eliminated the Russian bridgehead completely and forced them to retreat across the rails.
The freshest reports finally gave more details about the situation in this part of the region. As a result of the counterattack, Ukrainians reestablished control over the railway station and used it to counter Russian attempts to get close to the rails. Russian forces are reportedly conducting attacks by first approaching this hamlet north of the tree line and then trying to hit Ukrainians from the flank. But as of now, the intensity of their attacks here has decreased, and the situation here stabilized.
However, Ukrainian General Staff reported that Russians once again switched to attacking Novokalynove and Novobakhmutivka. Some Russian sources also claimed that Russian forces successfully distracted Ukrainians with their attacks on Stepove, which allowed them to breach 2 out of 3 remaining Ukrainian positions in Novobakhmutivka. For context, the Battle for Novobakhmutivka started on 3rd April last year, and Ukrainians have been holding off Russian advances here for 355 days. So, Novobakhmutivka is a very powerful fortification, and it is possible that Russians would make such a costly move to try to breach the Ukrainian defense here.
When it comes to the southern part of the region, today also, more information became available on the previous Russian attack from Vodiane. It turns out that Russians used at least twice as many tanks and armored vehicles in their failed attempt. As seen from the newly available footage, Ukrainian forces started destroying Russian tank unit with their ATGMs when Russians barely managed to exit Vodiane. The first tank got destroyed in front of the last buildings in the northern part of Vodiane. At least 4 vehicles managed to cross the field and start moving toward the hill. But they were destroyed so quickly that by the time the fourth vehicle arrived, two tanks were already destroyed, and the third started retreating. However, it was too late, the vehicle got damaged, and the crew ran away seconds before the shells inside the tank detonated.
Interestingly, Russian forces started deploying 76-year-old World War 2 Era T-54 and T-55 tanks from long-term storage to compensate for significant armored vehicle losses. These tanks lack the armor capabilities of modern armored equipment, have a smaller gun, no stabilization, no fire control system, and no panoramic sight. Although some sources said that they underwent a process of modernization and were at least equipped with thermal cameras. Some argued that the goal might be to achieve a preferable attrition rate by dropping the cost of the tanks below the costs of the anti-tank guided missiles, but the prospect seems highly doubtful.
Simultaneously, Russian forces are introducing some structural changes. Russian command reformed 9th Separate Marine Assault Regiment into the 9th Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade. The Russian military is also reactivating brigades from the World War II era, such as the Red Army‘s Motorized Rifle Brigades. Such force generation methods suggest that the Russian military command is prioritizing the formation of motorized infantry units as opposed to reconstituting full tank units. This is a clear indicator that the Russian military lacks the tanks needed to rebuild tank units.
Overall, the failure of the Russian forces to conduct maneuver warfare properly and provide sufficient artillery support to suppress Ukrainian firing points and provide sufficient engineering reconnaissance continues to lead to substantial losses in tanks and armored vehicles. Due to the sheer lack of available equipment, the Russian military is forced to form motorized infantry units instead of tank units because they require fewer tanks to meet the standard. The deployment of the World War 2 Era tanks will further degrade Russian forces and will put significant limitations on Russian offensive capabilities.”
Wagner are encircling Bakhmut and Aviiwhatever and Russia’s waiting for the spring offensive. Once china or turkey sits Russia and Ukraine down in a month or two the US will try to run interference, but it will be too late. Plus it looks like we’re getting hit in Syria now.
>So if we stop helping the Ukrainians
Eight years ago we helped overthrow a Ukrainian president and started funding neo Nazis, but okay
Yes. And how dare Xi try to negotiate a ceasefire. A ceasefire is nothing but unacceptable in the eyes of our very own John Kirby:
https://noagendaassets.com/enc/1679607584.391_johnkirbydeclaresthatanycallforaceasefireinukraineisunacceptable.mp3
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