Posted on 05/13/2022 5:52:25 AM PDT by GonzoII
Official Ukrainian statements, independent news reports, local social media, and RF state-controlled news platforms on Friday said UAF advance elements had closed on Ukraine’s border with Russia at multiple locations, Fighting according to those reports was in progress for the Ukraine-side border villages of Lipsy, Vesele, Kozacha Lopan’, Pitomik and Russki Tishy, all to Kharkiv’s north.….snip Video images made public by the RF state-controlled news platform Readovka on May 13 showed scattered mortar or artillery strikes purportedly hitting fields and homes near the Solokhi, some 10 km inside Russia. There was no outside confirmation of the bombardment, but both UAF-associated social media and RF-associated news platforms repeated reports that UAF infantry and light vehicles had reached the Russian border in the vicinity.
Another UAF advance to Kharkiv’s north-west, along the right bank of the Seviersky Donets river, was on Friday per multiple reports pushing infantry into the village Rubizhne, against moderate RF resistance. If captured, the village would give the Ukrainians control of a tactically-important bridge across the river, and potentially threaten an RF logistics and supply center less than 10 km distant….
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Point taken; as a percentage of forces used, the VDV weren't that many, though. Also, I'd argue in retrospect that due to their structure the VDV, even with better training than your average contracti, was woefully undermanned in combat power. Take away the mechanization, and a VDV company has fewer dismounts (boots on the ground)than a US mech inf. platoon.
That's one of the things I find interesting. This whole affair has proven what a bad idea the Russian combat structure is. From the VDV TOE, to the use of their Btl Combat Groups, to their logs train, it's all been proven to be ineffective and poorly thought out; great on paper, terrible in application. All the way down to their cheap Chinese tires that can't handle the tempo of modern combat, the Russians have a lot to fix; if they can.
You say it like that and you completely dismiss the culpability of the West and the globalist Great Reset crowd. I would argue that they are just as guilty, if not more so, as Putin in all this.
Maybe he really is dying and thought it is now or never?
Canada said they are providing Excalibur shells. Depending on the version 25mi to 40mi range and 4m CEP.
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