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A look at the battlefield from the perspective of a Russian soldier that explains why Ukraine loses.

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The advancing army always suffers multiple times greater losses. This is simply an axiom of military science, nothing can be done about it, it just needs to be taken into account.

When we hear that on the one hand there are such and such losses, and on the other hand such and such, then we should also clarify - under what circumstances, and if as a result of offensive actions, then - who attacked.

The ratio of attacking and defending forces (in people) in modern warfare is 11 to 1. This is because of automatic and precision weapons.

That is. If the attacking side has reached the goal of its offensive, and has suffered losses in the ratio of the defending 11 to 1, then this is considered an acceptable loss. Usually, the losses are much less.

The advancing army always suffers multiple times greater losses. This is simply an axiom of military science, nothing can be done about it, it just needs to be taken into account. When we hear that, on the one hand, there are such and such losses, and on the other, such and such losses, then we should also clarify - under what circumstances ...
But if we talk about losses, then I would like to give a few words to the opposite side.

The retreating Ukrainian army, with every onslaught of our troops, suffers serious losses. I will describe in general terms one major offensive operation that took place before my eyes, and the administrator has something to do with ensuring the success of this operation.

Before attacking Ukrainian positions, they are subjected to massive artillery fire. So massive that I’m not afraid to call it artillery terror. Even before the end of the artillery preparation, the forces of our infantry begin to advance in the direction of the enemy (to the line). At the end of the artillery preparation, the enemy, not yet having time to recover and sum up the damage suffered, is faced with an assault on his positions. If suddenly, the enemy finds the strength to provide at least relatively stubborn resistance, then our infantry does not attack, but retreats in an organized manner to the original one. And the artillery terror begins again. And again our infantry approaches.

This can be repeated 2, 3, 4 or even more times. Until the enemy finds himself in a position in which it is simply pointless to continue fighting: the losses in killed and wounded are large, the fortifications have been severely destroyed, equipment and warehouses have been destroyed.

Most often, the next attack of our infantry ends with the fact that we go to the positions that were broken and left by the enemy.

In one of these operations, I witnessed a radio conversation between the colonel and the company commander, where the colonel shouted with courage in “excitement”: - “have you managed to kill anyone at all?! Kill them all the f__k! You took their positions ?! Occupy and kill anyone who resists!

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crests are seriously depleted of resources. For example, the ratio of artillery activity at the beginning of the operation I described above was approximately 60/40. By the end, the tufted artillery was practically silent. Part of the artillery was knocked out by counter-battery work, part by aviation, but for the most part - the lack of ammunition.

It should be understood that as well as technical depletion, it is worth including human depletion as well. Khokhols, from the beginning of the conflict, do not consider losses. They simply do not keep any detailed statistics in principle. Mark my words: when the war ends and the time comes to collect the stones, the losses of the Ukrainian army will, in principle, be impossible to calculate even approximately.

crests have a lot of different foreign weapons. That’s just the use of these weapons is not enough. For you to understand, for us this is no longer any interesting trophies. Ukrainians are knocked out of their positions, and these various grenade launchers are lying around everywhere - from American to Turkish and German - and we continue to stomp on them, without any interest in them. We have nowhere to put our grenade launchers, and then there is this exotic rubbish. Well, they shot from them, for comparison, they realized that there was not much difference, and that’s it.
crests simply ran out of Soviet stocks along the borders, so they use imported ones, which are supplied to them in large volumes. And as you may have guessed, they generally do not help them much.

And in the beginning, such finds were considered trophies, they were given medals and paid according to the price list. Now if you drag a javelin to the CP, they will just send you the f__k) now you can get something for which you can still get something, you can only bring it with the help of an experienced driver or trawl)

We erase them into atoms - slowly, methodically, confidently. And they cannot make up for this with any imported fittings. And most importantly, what comes to them, albeit through a__ pain, that the human resource is exhausted. And even if no one keeps statistics there, but in real terms they see and understand that they end - literally and inevitably.
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Damn.... That is pretty much what I've been reading but that seems to be what the business looks like up close and personal. Your side is expending artgillery ammo which you have a 50-century supply of while the Ukrainians are expending human lives and the women in those towns and villages in the West are going crazy because Ukraine is being turned into the planet's one-stop shop for mail-order brides, i.e. therre aren't going to be any men of marriagable age left in the country. Zelensky and dthe Kiev Nazis plainly don't care about that. A recent article in a major UK military think tank notes that Ukraine has never had any shot in this "war" and that there is no excuse for western leaders to have been forcing "hohhols" to fight under such conditions. That is basically sinful in my view In past ages, God has destroyed entire nations for that kind of thing. My own writeup of the thing

Sounds more like WW1, cept the Russians are better trained, organized, equipped, and supplied compared to the NATO backed Uke’s