Posted on 05/09/2023 7:29:03 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
I sent her a link to the Onyx Ukrainian count.
Yep
I see it now
At work and busy so I just skimmed the headline
they are documenting both sides
Twitter is filled with what seems like only the Russian count ,
At the start of the “Special Military Operation” more than a year ago, the Ukrainian Army outnumbered the Russians by a factor of three. Even with their advantage in numbers, the Ukrainian defenses failed to stop the numerically inferior Russian force and failed to expel the Russians from the Luhansk and Donetsk territories.
We now are being enticed to believe that Ukraine, with a numerically inferior force compared to Russia’s current troop deployment, is going to mount an offensive, despite a severe lack of tanks, armored vehicles, mobile artillery and air cover, that will drive the Russians from fortifications erected during the last six months.
Ukrainian officials persist in making wild claims about Russian defeats, low morale and catastrophic casualties. There is a very simple test you can do to evaluate the Ukrainian claim about Russia’s losses — find the social media and count the photos and videos. If Russia had suffered the number of killed and wounded cited by Ukrainian and Western officials and pundits, then it would be impossible to hide those photos and videos. Social media and smart phones are ubiquitous and grieving wives, girl friends, parents and friends are not easy to corral.
Images and videos like the following are widely available on Ukrainian Telegram channels. The opposite is true when it comes to finding comparable material on Russian channels. There are a few photos of newly dug graves in a Russian military cemetery, but nothing like the quantity of images recording Ukraine losses.
What Saldo doink?
Kazan is the name of a city in RuZZia.
Is that where you live?
“DoJ reveals it has disabled a “sophisticated” malware network used by #Russia FSB for two decades to spy in 50 countries including a #NATO ally.”
https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/1655979673468141581
Getting your post count in hope that keeps you off the front
Prigozhin released another video today, complaining he was "deceived" by Valery Gerasimov, and was only given 10% of the ammo he demanded "or we will pull out". He also claims he has been threatened with treason charges.
"We received a combat order, where it was said that withdrawal from the positions would be considered high treason. This, first of all, was aimed at us ..."He said the Wagnerites were allocated 10% of what they demanded: "We were deceived". Prigozhin said that Valery Gerasimov, chief of the General Staff of the Russian Federation, personally reduced the number of weapons they wanted to allocate to the Wagner Group.
At the same time, Prigozhin said that his mercenaries would remain on the Bakhmut front: "We will fight, and then we will figure it out".
Then he blasted Russia's 72nd brigade for surrendering land that he (claims he) lost 500 men capturing.
Instead of fighting, we [Russian forces – ed.] are constantly having intrigues. We have a Ministry of Intrigue instead of the Ministry of Defence, so our army is running away. It’s running because the 72nd brigade today [on 9 May – ed.] lost 3 square kilometres, on which I lost about 500 people because it was a strategic foothold. They just ran away...".
Prigozhin uses these video for political gain, and tends to be dramatic and exaggerate, so take his claims with a grain of salt. The 72nd brigade did get pushed back significantly today, but it's actually a crime for Prigozhin to say so, at least in the way he did.
“ At the start of the “Special Military Operation” more than a year ago, the Ukrainian Army outnumbered the Russians by a factor of three”
So you are saying that Russia did not have one of the largest Armies in the world before last year? That the Ukrainian Army was three times the size of Russia’s?
That would mean that Ukraine had the biggest Army in the world. Everyone would have expected a quick Ukrainian victory, if their Army was three times the size.
No grain of salt - rather, totally worthless and can be disregarded in the context.
These are political statements by Prigozhin to Putin, Shiogu et al. not meant to be taken as operational strategies.
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