Posted on 06/29/2025 9:10:30 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
THE Russian invasion of Ukraine has been advancing at an incredibly slow pace - with Kyiv's "dronegrinder" warfare miring Putin's summer offensive.
The rate at which Moscow is capturing land has been dubbed "slower than a snail" - all while the human cost of Russian casualties is sky high.
After 448 days of fighting inside Chasiv Yar in Donetsk Oblast, the Russians reportedly only managed to take control of 50 per cent of the city.
Which means the troops, on average, are only able to take 0.00629 square miles of land per day - which is a painfully low conversion rate.
Even snails, which have a speed of 0.03 miles per hour, can cover more land than what the Russians have gained in the region.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
“Russia is losing a thousand troops a day.”
Out of a pool of fifty thousand troops? Are they packed together like sardines? Can you cite a reliable source?
Stupid is as stupid does, so Putin then sent his orc army on a fool’s errand to take Ukraine, thus ending the rising tide of Russian prosperity.
As the tide of prosperity begin to recede from Russia, it financed and propelled Putin’s conquest of Ukraine forward, swiftly at first, but ever more slowly as the tide ran out, eventually leaving them stranded where they are.
Inevitably, the cycles of life repeat and so now the tide has begun to rise again and the Russian orc army will not be able to swim against it.
The tide that had carried them forward will now carry what’s left of them back to where they came from.
Can you cite a reliable source?
21 posted on 6/29/2025, 1:06:33 PM by odawg
“Russians are famous for a slow, grinding approach to war.”
LOL! Younshould go study history!
Will this be Putin’s Afghanistan?
Wiki:
The decade-long confrontation between the mujahideen and the Soviet and Afghan militaries inflicted grave destruction throughout Afghanistan and has also been cited by scholars as a significant factor that contributed to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991; it is for this reason that the conflict is sometimes referred to as “the Soviet Union’s Vietnam” in retrospective analyses.
With an near 80% dead to wounded loss rate, they will be a lot of Russians who will not make it off the battlefield.
Link please
Russian daily casualty rate:
2022 - 340
2023 - 693
2024 - 1180
2025 - 1286
Same for the Ukes.
“Can you cite a reliable source?
21 posted on 6/29/2025, 1:06:33 PM by odawg”
And your point is? Can you cite a reliable source. You are not one.
“I’m just watching the encirclement here.”
After advancing to Pokrovsk, Russian forces set their sights on encircling the city from the west, to sever its vital logistical lines, and forcing Ukrainian defenders to abandon it under threat of encirclement. The Russians hoped to avoid the brutal urban battles that had previously drained their forces in Bakhmut and now at Toretsk. The idea was to isolate Pokrovsk without having to storm it directly and achieve at least a less costly victory.
However, this plan soon fell apart. Ukrainian forces first managed to halt the Russian advance westward and then began a series of aggressive counterattacks to reclaim key positions. Ukrainian tactics were highly mobile and adaptive, using “thunder runs” with swift, small-unit assaults designed to shock and disorient entrenched Russian forces.
Let’s see....the Sun is.....Oh that’s right! Another British Tabloid. Shocker!
Can you admit that since Russia held 20% in 2022 and now holds 20% Evans they are bogged down and going broke financing this?
Russia has launched the biggest aerial attack since the start of the war, Ukraine says
“And your point is? “
Just noting that you didn’t provide a reliable source for your post.
Thank you for posting how inept Russia’s military is. From your link:
“Russia fired a total of 537 aerial weapons at Ukraine, including 477 drones and decoys and 60 missiles, Ukraine’s air force said. Of these, 249 were shot down and 226 were lost, likely having been electronically jammed.”
Evans?
They've made only minimal territorial gains since the initial phase, that is certainly true. I don't see that they're going broke financing this. I'd say they're under some financial pressure....so is the US and Western Europe on the other side. The question is who is going to break first? From everything I've read, Ukraine is running out of men which is hardly a surprise given their significantly smaller population.
At what cost to the Russians? How many soldiers are they losing per unit of ground? How much equipment is lost? Is the ground taken of strategic value?
In my opinion, those are the more important questions.
"Ukraine’s air force said one of its F-16 warplanes supplied by its Western partners crashed after sustaining damage while shooting down air targets. The pilot died."
Russia could be forced to end the war in Ukraine because it will run out of money to pay its troops, according to experts at the DC-based Institute for the Study of War.
The country has burned through roughly half of its $106 billion liquid sovereign-wealth fund, which is used to pay troops’ salaries and new recruits bonuses, experts said.
Moscow can likely only afford another 12 to 16 months of fighting at its current pace, with about 30, 000 to 45,000 Russian troops killed or injured in Ukraine each month since its 2022 invasion began, ISW’s Russia team lead George Barros told The Post.
Though Russia has other areas from which they can pull funding for its war aside from its dwindling sovereign wealth fund, it is the easiest place to find quick cash to finance the conflict, Barros said. Plus, “it would be a massive embarrassment” if Moscow depletes “this nest egg that they built for two decades,” possibly risking Russia’s domestic support for Putin and his war.
Moscow is currently suffering upwards of 1,200 casualties per day, a rate that began to increase late last year “as Russian forces made gradual, creeping advances in eastern Ukraine,” according to the ISW report.
Meanwhile, Ukraine — which relies on modern, live-preserving military technology instead of Russia’s soviet-era systems — has a loss rate of roughly one casualty per four Russian losses.
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