Bakhmut 2023-04-25
Posted on 04/25/2023 7:22:42 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
“40 of these GBU-62s costs the same as 1 RU ALCM.”
Bombs Away!
Send more Artillery, but send more huge honking JDAMs as well!
Bakhmut 2023-04-25
@DarthPutinKGB 13h
Day 426 of my 3 day war. To defend against Ukraine’s counterattack my army will have to multitask when it cannot unitask.
Everything it going according to plan. Anyone who says otherwise will be arrested.
I remain a master strategist
ISW:
Key Takeaways, 25 April 2023
Senior US and EU officials assess that Russian President Vladimir Putin would remain unwilling to negotiate in response to a successful Ukrainian counteroffensive.
A Ukrainian military official claimed on April 25 that Ukrainian forces are achieving “impressive results” in counter-battery combat against Russian forces on the Russian-occupied eastern (left) bank of the Dnipro River.
Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin denied ISW’s April 22 assessment about limited improvements in Wagner’s relations with the Russian military command ahead of the planned Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Russian ultranationalists continue to advocate for the Kremlin to adopt Stalinist repression measures.
The Kremlin continues to avoid adopting overtly repressive measures likely out of concern for the stability of Putin’s regime.
Russian civil rights groups OVD-Info, Memorial, and Rus Sidyashchaya (Russia Behind Bars) issued a legal challenge to the Russian censorship law against discrediting the Russian military on April 25.
Russian sources claimed that Russian forces conducted limited ground attacks on the Svatove-Kremmina line.
Russian forces continued to conduct ground attacks in and around Bakhmut and along the Avdiivka-Donetsk City frontline.
Russian milbloggers continued to issue vehement denials that Ukrainian forces established sustained positions on east (left) bank Kherson Oblast.
The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) is attempting to financially incentivize Russian prisoners to fight in Ukraine, offering them compensation equivalent to that of Russian volunteers.
The Ukrainian Resistance Center reported that Ukrainian partisans detonated a Russian military checkpoint near Oleshky.
Key Takeaways, 24 April
Russian milbloggers speculated that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered additional military command changes on April 20.
Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin has launched an information operation to undermine the credibility of Russian state-affiliated private military groups (PMCs).
Kremlin authorities proposed equalizing pay between mobilized personnel and volunteers, likely in an attempt to incentivize military service.
Saratov Oblast Investigative Committee detained a former Wagner Group commander who told Russian human rights organization Gulagu.net about Wagner’s murder of children and other civilians in Bakhmut.
Ukrainian forces likely conducted a naval drone attack against the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s (BSF) base in Sevastopol in the early morning of April 24.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in New York City on April 24 to chair a session of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on April 24 that Russian ships are ferrying Iranian ammunition across the Caspian Sea to resupply Russian troops fighting in Ukraine.
Krasnoyarsk Krai deputy Konstantin Senchenko resigned on April 24 following the resignation of Krasnoyarsk Krai Governor Aleksandr Uss on April 20.
Ukrainian forces have made marginal gains south of Kreminna as of April 24 and continue to target Russian logistics nodes in rear areas of Luhansk Oblast.
Russian forces continued ground attacks in and around Bakhmut and along the Avdiivka-Donetsk City frontline.
Some Russian sources denied claims from other Russian milbloggers that Ukrainian forces established enduring positions in east (left) bank Kherson Oblast.
The Kremlin continues crypto-mobilization efforts likely in an attempt to avoid a second wave of formal mobilization.
The Wagner Group may be attempting to fill law enforcement roles in occupied territories.
According to several Russian articles I've sween, it was.
Think about it. The Russian goal has not been territory or destruction of buildings, they could have just flattened Bakhmut from the air. The stated goal has been denazification, which means killing lots of nazisl. Surovikin noticed hohos wanting to pour into Bakhmut and leftthe roads into the place open....
“Think about it. The Russian goal has not been territory”
Their goal has obviously been to conquer territory.
They have done their worst to do so, short of nuclear and chemical weapons.
Most modern Militaries around the world teach doctrine based on the writings of Prussian Major General Clausewitz. In the USA and most of our Allies, we teach nine principles of war: objective, offensive, mass, economy of force, maneuver, unity of command, security, surprise, and simplicity.
In Russia, as in the Soviet Union, they add a tenth, which translates to something like “annihilation”, and concerns purging opposition in the population, to consolidate control after occupying an area. That is what “de-nazification” refers to.
It is explicitly a war crime under the Geneva and Hague Conventions, and a violation of the UN Charter, but remains a tenet of Russian thinking and practice to this day.
In fact I can almost understand the appeal nazism would have for northern europeans where you have the kalergi plan and Barbara Spector et al abd the scheme to totallly redo the genetic basis of Europe, but I hae a harder time seeing what appeal it would have for hohos, i.e. too much water over the dam since communism and the holodomor. The only conclusion I see is that that hohos are basically just messed up and stupid.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.