Yesterday, Ukraine suffered over 1,300 casualties. (MOD)
More than 100 Ukrainian servicemen and 12 units of military equipment were destroyed by rocket attacks
the enemy’s losses amounted to more than 200 military personnel, 320 wounded,
more than 240 Ukrainian servicemen were destroyed.
Russian troops destroyed 43 Ukrainian tanks, 89 units of other military equipment and over 400 Ukrainian servicemen.
According to updated data, as a result of a high-precision missile strike of the Russian Aerospace Forces on September 29 of this year. More than 35 SBU employees , including foreign advisers, were killed in the building of the Security Service of Ukraine in the city of Dnepropetrovsk . About forty employees of the SBU are missing.
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Andrew Faulkner:
I’m sure that most of these doomer idiots are just trolling, but perhaps some of them are sincere and don’t actually understand that an army which is in a defensive posture doesn’t TAKE territory, it either holds it or loses it — hopefully slowly, and at great cost to the enemy. That’s exactly what’s happening right now. These little land grabs by Ukraine are pyrrhic victories that will be paid for with interest once Russia begins its winter campaign. Had the AFU kept these reserves to hold and reinforce their own defensive lines, Russia’s job would have been much more difficult than it will be over the next few months when the mobilized Russian army of about 450,000 troops begins its winter offensive and starts moving into Nikolaev, Odessa, or Kharkov. Little piddling victories over an abandoned and strategically unimportant town like Krasny Liman won’t matter much then.
“Russia’s job would have been much more difficult than it will be over the next few months when the mobilized Russian army of about 450,000 troops begins its winter offensive”
Not enough troops. Ukraine has 1 million men currently under arms, and is heading towards 2 million.
Unless Russia can sustain an army much larger than proposed there is no path to victory.
The so-called “Doomers” come at this with a level of anaytical sophistication that resembles fans rooting for a sports team, and there is no evidence that they are critical consumers of “information”. Yesterday (Saturday), Mercouris, the Military Summary Channel, and The New Atlas did a good job of putting things into perspective in a environment of uncertainty regarding developments.
Holding territory during this phase is not the RF’s only objective. Demilitarization is also a key objective. Letting the AFU “run to the knife” has resulted in enormous AFU losses, and tactical retreats preserving Allied lives have also given the AFU what can only be considered pyrrhic victories. With additional troops, the RF should be able to radically increase the army’s operational tempo.
Wow, the same source that told us in August that Ukraine had lost 55% of its military.
For a depleted military, it sure is kicking your butt