Posted on 03/04/2023 8:29:17 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
He was withdraw from within the city - destination unknown, but Team Magyar may have joined the massing UA forces on the heights west of Bakhmut.
“Russia has been unable to replace its lost armor because the Russian Federation is unable to establish the production of high-tech defense systems on an industrial scale, according to the U.K. Defense Intelligence Directorate.”
“The footage shows that Ukrainians destroy with artillery fire one mini convoy of armored vehicles after another.”
This highlights what may turn out to be the bottom line of this war (and Speedy’s daily thread): Russia could run out of the old Soviet stockpile, and ultimately be overwhelmed by the the productive power of the free world.
We are watching it in slow motion, from day to day - tank by tank, and plane by plane.
I wonder if Kadyrov may have fried his own metabolism and kidneys, by using drugs - including performance enhancing drugs, like Com-Block athletes have long been famous for abusing.
His machismo and interest in mixed martial arts (including the high position of his “right hand man” Abdul-Kerim Edilov, an MMA fighter who had been cited for illegal use of such drugs), indicate that he would have awareness and access to all those types of drugs.
On the other hand, he could just have gained weight.
Oryx thinking about cutting over to a new way of tracking - what Russia has left to destroy, rather than what has been destroyed so far.
Counting Down: List Of Russian Army Equipment Not Yet Destroyed In Ukraine,March 2, 2023 (https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2023/03/counting-down-list-of-russian-army.html )
We are likely nearing, or starting to see, the point where Russia can no longer maintain the same pace of Operations with their remaining fleets of combat systems, as they enjoyed initially.
Cruise missile attacks just don’t seem to be what they once were. The 1st Guards Tank (Guard of Moscow) still is not fully reconstituted from its losses in Kharkiv last September. Artillery and Aviation assets continue to be expended and attritted much faster than they can be produced (if at all).
I think that we are into the lesser half of what can be made operational out of the old stockpiles, and their combat power will start to sputter over the coming months, as long as Western support stays firm.
“he (Kadyrov) could just have gained weight.”
He clearly ballooned in weight over the last year. Maybe he got some organ damage from a blood clot, or induced some diabetes or something. He has clearly gone to pot.
I ballooned out when I ate too much pizza and potatoes an looked like that, sans any drugs. Again pointing to the ‘Putin is dying of cancer’ for the past number of years and we are still waiting.
Prigozhin just had another meltdown at at Russian MOD and is threatening to pull his Wagner troops from the Bakhmut area.
Good. When they retreat, have the regular army shoot the lot.
Bakhmut is of course of strategic value. It is covering the crossing of three major train lines and four major roads (M-03, M-32, T-13-02, T-05-13). As such it is the linchpin of the whole Donbas region. Besides that it also has some valuable mineral mines.
That is why the Ukrainian government has send ten thousands of its troops to fight and die for that city.
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Russian source report death per week at a lower rate than Ukrainian death per day. The ratio is again about 10 Ukrainians for 1 Russian.
I have said for a while that Bakhmut was in operational encirclement. Russian artillery could reach its last roads in and out. Since three days ago Bakhmut is in tactical encirclement. Russian direct fire, i.e. tank guns and hand held anti-tank missiles, can now cover all of Bakhmut's supply routes. They will shot at any car that attempts to drive there. Its one reason why the reported deaths have harshly increased.
Should the Ukraine decide to order its soldiers to stay in Bakhmut the city will be physically encircled. All roads will be blocked not only by fire but by heavily armed Russian checkpoints. The Ukrainian soldiers in Bakhmut, several thousands still seem to be there, will then be left with only two options: surrender or die.
The ratio is again about 10 Ukrainians for 1 Russian.
What prevented the Russians from defeating the Ukrainians then?
Whatever makes you fell better BoBo.
Boy, that was a clever response. You sure told him.
“pointing to the ‘Putin is dying of cancer’ for the past number of years and we are still waiting.”
Why won’t he just get on with it?
“Whatever makes you fell better”
It is not about how it makes me fell, or how it makes me feel - it is just the objective financial facts of Russia’s collapsing Government revenues, as reported by the Russian Government itself.
It is an historic disaster for Russia.
Putin did that.
Putin en route to Sochi for his cancer treatments right now. Sochi in range of Ukrainian drones.
Putin arriving in Sochi for his cancer treatments shortly.
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