Posted on 03/14/2023 5:08:17 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Update from Ukraine | USA lost the Drone | Ruzzia wants escalation and pushes on Bakhmut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLYVqPJ8YQ0
https://www.instagram.com/denys_pilot/
****NEW SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here:
March 15, 2023 Invasion Day 384 – Summary The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-384-summary/
This is Militaryland Website recap of – February 2023 https://militaryland.net/news/website-recap-february-2023/
Update from Ukraine | USA lost the Drone | Ruzzia wants escalation and pushes on Bakhmut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLYVqPJ8YQ0
https://www.instagram.com/denys_pilot/
****NEW SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here:
March 15, 2023 Invasion Day 384 – Summary The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time).
https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-384-summary/
This is Militaryland Website recap of – February 2023 https://militaryland.net/news/website-recap-february-2023/
VIDEOS
Russian fighter jet forces down US drone over Black Sea after intercept
CNN
14.8M subscribers
597K 3-14-2023 2:03 P.M. DST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5arZznXG9yQ
ARTICLE
Russia’s war hawks say attrition has backfired in Ukraine: ‘We have no rounds’
by Joel Gehrke, Foreign Affairs Reporter |
March 13, 2023 06:54 PM
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/russia-attrition-backfired-no-rounds
Russia suffers from an ammunition shortage that extends beyond the Wagner Group mercenary forces, according to Russian complaints from the front that express anxiety about a Ukrainian counteroffensive.
“It’s not the issue of Wagnerites — the issue is about the whole front — everyone is lacking,” said YURI MEZINOVA, a pro-Kremlin political figure from a Russian border region. “There are no rounds, you understand? NONE.”
MEZINOVA voiced his dismay amid a bloody slog around Bakhmut that has exposed bitter disputes between Wagner Group leadership and the Russian Defense Ministry, as well as numerous public protests from conscripts sent on doomed assaults. Their frank complaints argue that the Moscow’s embrace of a war of attrition has backfired — a stunning assessment, for pro-Kremlin analysts, that runs contrary to Russia’s historical reputation for mustering overwhelming numbers of men and materiel in wartime.
“Our boys are dying in hundreds. Not just boys, but the best of my people, Russian people, their generation, their grandchildren and great grandchildren will never be,” said Mezinov, per the War Translated Project. “I saw a lad — today he is gone. Because he didn’t have enough artillery support. Along the whole front, we have a command to attack, we attack without fire support. Do we have problems with metal? Problems with metallurgists? Who can tell me? How is this possible?”
Russian forces have concentrated on Bakhmut for months in a protracted struggle that at times has caused Western officials to fear that Ukrainian military leaders had been sucked into a battle that would end in either defeat or a pyrrhic victory. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s team insists that they have turned the tables on Russian President Vladimir Putin, such that Russia is throwing away “a large part of its trained military personnel” through unrelenting attacks on well-defended positions.
“The REAL HEROS now are the defenders who hold the eastern front on their shoulders and, sparing neither themselves nor their enemies, inflict maximum losses on them,” Ukrainian Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi, commander of the Ukrainian military’s Ground Forces, said Saturday. “It is necessary to buy time to accumulate reserves and start a counteroffensive, which is not far off.”
That outlook breaks with conventional wisdom in Western security circles, even those most supportive of Ukraine’s war aims. Some of the most recent and dramatic initiatives to send military aid to Ukraine have been taken on the understanding that a longer war plays into Putin’s hands.
“This is the time if we want to bring this to a successful conclusion — and, of course, we should, and we do — we should look to bring it to a conclusion quickly,” British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said during a trip to Washington in January.
PARADOXICALLY, Russia’s struggles around Bakhmut have sparked a disagreement in militarist circles about whether Ukrainian forces will launch a counter-offensive — or whether such a campaign is even necessary.
“I’m almost confident that this is ‘misinformation’ — otherwise, the military leaders would not be announcing it to the whole world,” said Igor Girkin, a former Russian intelligence officer and commander in Russia’s initial invasion of Ukraine in 2014. “As part of the generally successful (for the enemy) conclusion of the ‘battle of attrition and gain of time’ that was deliberately carried out during the winter campaign by the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, no counteroffensives are needed.”
Prigozhin’s associates seem to fear an extensive attempt to sweep back Russian forces in eastern Ukraine.
“What is happening at the front really cannot but suggest that by accumulating forces along the entire line of contact ... and in the Donbas, the enemy is preparing something like a revanche,” assessed an author at Reverse Side of the Medal, a Telegram channel affiliated with the Wagner Group, according to the War Translated project. “The maneuvers carried out by the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with a high degree of probability, are evidence of Kyiv’s preparations for a large-scale offensive.”
That offensive, the author continued, could break the land bridge between Russia and the occupied Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea — the strategically crucial territory where the war began in 2014.
“The loss of control over the Kherson region will mean the enemy’s approach to the borders of Crimea,” the RSOTM writer said. “As a result, the peninsula may be cut off from land communications. In no case are we trying to cause panic, we are simply analyzing the facts that are available and must be taken into account in combat planning.”
Such an extensive assault would test Russia’s ability to provide adequate supplies to forces that reportedly are ill-equipped for assault.
“Along the whole front, we have a command to attack; we attack without fire support. Do we have problems with metal? Problems with metallurgists? Who can tell me? How is this possible? How is this limit possible?” MEZINOVA said. “We have a limit because we fired indiscriminately without air reconnaissance ... because someone didn’t think it through.”
Mezinov, a pre-offensive enthusiast for the war who claimed to be driving through a town in the Russian-occupied territory of Luhansk, predicted that the Russian conscripts would collapse in the absence of better-trained and equipped fighters.
“If our boys get shredded, I’m confident the mobiks standing behind them won’t cope; they won’t do anything,” the Rostov businessman said. “This happens along the whole front. In the most metal-rich country, with grand metallurgic cities — we have no rounds.”
It comments to itself......
PRAY THAT RUSSIA WILL STOP THE INVASION OF UKRAINE AND RETURN HOME
I hope that your hero Biden loses the 2024 election and that America withdraws support from the Ukraine and that it collapses.
I pray that Ukraine will be neutral and survive. But if it won’t be, it won’t.
VIDEOS
1. Inside Russia’s Crackdown on Protesters
VICE News
8.46M subscribers
Mar 14, 2023 12:15 P.M. DST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjhqETDDPOk
2. 6000 Russians killed in just one week of the offensive attempt in Donbas
UATV English
383K subscribers
Mar 14, 2023 6:20 p.m. DST
Astrakhan, Yamalo-Nenetsk, Bashkorkostan – these are Russian regions with the largest number of casualties suffered. The least casualties are in the Moscow and St. Petersburg regions accordingly. But the conscripts seem to end in the occupying army and the arrival of Western tanks to Ukraine is not far away. Our correspondents will tell you more about the state of affairs at the front line.
Probably some tranny flying that drone, had an itch in it’s crotch, and lost control of it.
VIDEO
1. 14 Mar: Ukrainians Snipers DESTROY AN ELITE WAGNER COMMANDO UNIT | War in Ukraine Explained
Reporting from Ukraine
202K subscribers
3-14-2023 8:00 p.m. DST
https://freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=4138209%2C10
2. UKRAINE READIES COUNTEROFFENSIVE AS RUSSIA IS STUCK IN BAKHMUT || 2023
Warthog Defense
477K subscribers
3-14-2023 6:15 p.m. DST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK8lTPR_ZGE
PING!!!!!
“I do hope that your hero Biden loses the 2024 election.”
I do hope that your hero Biden loses the 2024 election.
I also hope Donald Trump will win Presidency & DeSantis will be V.P.
ARTICLE
Feud between mercenaries and Russian government nears ‘boiling point’ in Bakhmut
Mike Brest, Defense Reporter
March 13, 2023 11:26 AM
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/wagner-group-bakhmut-boiling-point
The Russian Ministry of Defense appears to be capitalizing on the Wagner Group’s inability to seize Bakhmut in Ukraine by making its leaders the SCAPEGOATS.
The Wagner Group, a Russian mercenary outfit founded by Yevgeny Prigozhin, has unsuccessfully attempted to capture the strategically insignificant city of Bakhmut for months. This comes after Russian forces piled up a series of losses in the war, and over the course of the paramilitary group’s efforts, Prigozhin has criticized the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the Russian General Staff Gen. Valery Gerasimov are now likely trying deliberately to expend Wagner forces in Bakhmut to hamper Prigozhin’s efforts to expand his influence in the Kremlin as the two sides have “likely reached a boiling point over Bakhmut,” the Institute for the Study of War said in its Sunday rundown of the latest events in the war.
Both sides are incurring heavy losses in the battle in Bakhmut, and while Russian troops are making incremental advancements, the fighting is proving to be more difficult as they approach the city center.
“The closer we are to the city center, the harder the battles, the more artillery works against us, and the more tanks,” Prigozhin said in a video message posted Sunday on Telegram, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his Sunday night address that since March 6, they managed to kill 1,100 Russian soldiers and another 1,500 were seriously wounded in Bakhmut alone.
The Wagner Group leader urged Zelensky and Ukrainian military leaders to withdraw their troops from Bakhmut earlier this month, but Ukrainian forces have continued to fight even as the enemy has taken over much of the city.
Last month, Prigozhin accused Gerasimov and Shoigu of “treason” for supposedly intentionally providing his troops with fewer resources, leading to unnecessary deaths. While Prigozhin had publicly criticized the military’s performance in the war, this marked a new level of the feud.
He was able to garner Russian President Vladimir Putin’s support last year following Ukraine’s successful counteroffensive in the Kharkiv oblast and in Lyman, in Donetsk oblast, amid the turbulent reserve mobilization in September-October 2022. But Russian military leadership is now likely “attempting to avenge itself on Prigozhin for a conflict that he initiated,” the ISW said in its report.
“Putin and the Russian MoD may use Prigozhin as a scapegoat for the costly drive on Bakhmut once the offensive culminates. ISW assessed on February 5 that Putin relies on a group of scapegoats to publicly take risks in his place and shoulder the blame for Russian military failures and unpopular policies,” it concluded. “Putin will likely use Wagner’s high casualties, reports about poor morale, and war crimes to deflect from likely equal or possibly worse problems within the Russian Armed Forces.
Kremlin-affiliated milbloggers have ambushed Prigozhin with interviews that exposed numerous Wagner controversies regarding the ineffectiveness and mistreatment of the Wagner convict force — likely in an effort to set conditions in the Russian information space to discredit Wagner.”
The word for it is spam
Let Europe handle it.
It’s a chatbot.
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