Posted on 03/20/2022 4:32:35 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
Russian forces face mounting casualties among officers and increasingly frequent desertion and insubordination. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense reported on March 19 that “some [Russian] naval infantry units” (unspecified which, but likely referring to Eastern Military District units deployed to the fighting around Kyiv) have lost up to 90% of their personnel and cannot generate replacements.[4] The Ukrainian General Staff reported at noon local time on March 20 that Ukrainian forces wounded the commander of the 346th Independent Spetsnaz Brigade and claimed that Ukrainian forces killed the commanders of the 331st VDV Regiment, 247th VDV Regiment, and the 6th Tank Regiment (90th Tank Division, CMD) at unspecified times and locations.[5] The General Staff reported the Russian Black Sea Fleet is replacing 130 insubordinate soldiers in the 810th Naval Infantry Brigade with paratroopers from the 7th Airborne Assault Division – a measure highly likely to cause greater unit cohesion problems.[6] The General Staff additionally reported that Russian forces are increasingly using ”outdated and partially defective equipment” to replace combat losses.[7]
The Ukrainian MoD reported that forced mobilization in the DNR has demoralized Russian proxy forces, with many refusing to fight and accusing Russian leadership of forcing them into combat to find Ukrainian troop positions. The Ukrainian Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR) reported the number of insubordinate Russian personnel who are refusing combat orders is “sharply increasing” in the Kherson and Mykolayiv oblasts on March 20.[8] The Ukrainian General Staff reported the Russian military commandant office in Belgorod City is investigating 10 Russian servicemen of 138th Motor Rifle Brigade who refused to continue fighting in Kharkiv and agitated for other Russian servicemen to abandon their posts.[9]
(Excerpt) Read more at understandingwar.org ...
Military leaders and senior tsarist officials agreed before the war that Russia was a much stronger nation and had little to fear from the Empire of Japan. The fanatical zeal of the Japanese infantrymen astonished the Russians, who were dismayed by the apathy, backwardness, and defeatism of their own soldiers.[79] The defeats of the Army and Navy shook Russian confidence. Throughout 1905, the Imperial Russian government was rocked by revolution. The population was against escalation of the war. The empire was certainly capable of sending more troops but this would make little difference in the outcome due to the poor state of the economy, the embarrassing defeats of the Russian Army and Navy by the Japanese, and the relative unimportance to Russia of the disputed land made the war extremely unpopular.[80] Tsar Nicholas II elected to negotiate peace so he could concentrate on internal matters after the disaster of Bloody Sunday on 9 January 1905.
If Putin feels his reign to be threatened by internal rivals - including from his subordinates, he will likely withdraw to deal with them, one way or another, as Nicholas II did, successfully, until he was undone by the unanticipated disaster of WWI, where 2m Russian troops were killed.
I think Ukranians are getting help that is not being talked about. Their successes are too out-sized for the size of their military.
What successes? The successes the media tells you about?
Putin screwed up so badly.
MMM... can you say fragging boys and girls? Sure you can 🤣
The media lies about Biden.
The media lies about COVID.
The media lies about Ukraine.
The media lies about Russia.
What sort of person chooses to believe the lies?
There has been no significant losses that I’m aware of and I do make use of independent sites that are not MSM.
It is being talked about but not advertised.
Russians are getting help too. China is sending locations of Ukraine drone operators. The drones Ukraine is using are made in China.
Look, we’re about four days from four weeks in.
I don’t believe everything coming from the media, but Russia
does not have a victory yet.
This is Russia vs the Ukraine we’re talking about here.
How do you spin that as Russia really doing swell?
Bringing foreigners in, in big numbers, it just doesn’t
look good for Russia at all.
150 - 200 thousand troops, just not enough?
Just so everyone know the source:
This publication is Bill Kristol’s International Neocon Central.
The Institute for the Study of War is a front.
Nothing they say should be believed under any and all circumstances.
Never underestimate someone fighting for hearth and home. And it does not hurt that the Russians are so incompetent.
Are the buildings collapsing slower? May be there is some sort of anti-gravity magic supplied by NATO!
Every news video I see is shells hitting tall buildings converting them to unlivable wasteland like Detroit used to look when Auto manufacturing moved out.
My prediction, there’s gonna be a war soon in the United States.
“Never underestimate someone fighting for hearth and home.”
That’s a fact.
1 Million troops not enough for urban street by street fighting or fighting in rice fields with guerilla’s. The 3rd world North Vietnam whooped our azz good in Vietnam. And we turned tail in Afghanistan fighting the illiterate Taliban.
Russia could win this war in 7 minutes if it launched a few tactical nukes at the cities in Ukraine. But that would be inhumane, so it will be turning one building at a time into rubble. That takes much longer.
4 years ago I drove on I-10 across state of Texas. It took me 2 days of all day driving at speed limits to cross the state. Ukraine is the size of Texas. How many years did we fight in Afghanistan? Vietnam? Iraq? I guess it takes a engineer like me to know importance of magnitudes. War for 4 Weeks and Russia is losing? Laughable.
[My prediction, there’s gonna be a war soon in the United States.]
Lies ! Russia strong !!!!1
I've often thought the same thing.
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