Posted on 07/09/2023 4:58:05 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
ARTICLE
Russia is ‘accepting risks’ and dropping its guard against other threats to hold its ground in Ukraine, British military says
Christopher Woody
Jul 6, 2023, 10:50 AM EDT
https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-accepting-risks-across-eurasia-to-hold-in-ukraine-uk-2023-7?op=1
-Russia has committed forces from across its territory to fend off Ukraine’s counteroffensive.
-Shifting the bulk of its military to Ukraine has made Russia vulnerable elsewhere, experts say.
-Moscow’s acceptance of risk “across Eurasia” shows the war’s impact on its strategy, the UK says.
Russia has thrown forces from across its territory into the fight in Ukraine, showing Moscow’s willingness to accept risk elsewhere to thwart Ukraine’s advances, according to the British Ministry of Defense and other experts.
The war has become a nearly all-consuming effort for Russia’s military. Ben Wallace, the British minister of defense, said in February that 97% of the Russian army was estimated to be in Ukraine and was experiencing “First World War levels of attrition.”
Among the forces committed to the fight are elite Russian units and troops from important outposts along Russia’s long border.
Prior to the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Russia transferred some two-thirds of the combat forces assigned to its Eastern Military District from their bases in the Far East, roughly 6,200 miles away, to central and western Russia and southern Belarus. Most of the marines of Russia’s 61st Naval Infantry Brigade, which is stationed near the recently expanded border with NATO in northwestern Russia, are deployed to Ukraine, where they have taken heavy losses.
Units from across Russia are now “bearing the brunt” of the Ukrainian counteroffensive that kicked off in early June, the British Ministry of Defense said in an update published Thursday.
Russia’s 58th Combined Arms Army, which is normally assigned to the “volatile” Caucasus region, is now “defending heavily entrenched lines” in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, north of Crimea, the ministry said.
Russian positions around Velyka Novosilka, a front-line town in the Donetsk Oblast, are manned by the 5th Combined Arms Army and naval infantry units that are normally based some 4,300 miles away “as a balance to Chinese power,” the ministry said, adding that Russian defenses around Bakhmut are largely manned by airborne regiments usually stationed in western Russia, where they “act as an elite rapid reaction force in case of tensions with NATO.”
“The way Russia is accepting risks across Eurasia highlights how the war has dislocated Russia’s established national strategy,” the ministry said.
Experts have said Russia’s scramble to find troops and equipment for the war has emptied its domestic stockpiles and depleted its foreign outposts, leaving Moscow less able to wield influence and respond to crises. “Russia has really made itself vulnerable globally,” Dara Massicot, an expert on the Russian military at the Rand Corporation think tank, said in April.
Adm. Tony Radakin, chief of the British defense staff, told British lawmakers on Tuesday that Russia “is so weak that it does not have the strength for a significant counteroffensive” in Ukraine.
Russia’s military “has probably lost nearly 50% of the combat effectiveness of its army for very, very little gain,” Radakin added, noting that Russian forces have likely fired more than 10 million artillery shells and lost more than 2,000 tanks over the past year, while Russian industry is at best able to replace one-tenth of those amounts each year.
Despite its troop losses, Russia has called up hundreds of thousands of reservists and conscripts, and its ground forces are bigger than they were before the war, Gen. Christopher Cavoli, the head of US European Command, told US lawmakers in April.
Cavoli said that despite losing dozens of planes and helicopters, Russia still has hundreds of fighter aircraft and dozens of surface warships and submarines, the latter of which are “more active than we’ve seen them in years.”
While Russian leaders have not committed most of their airpower to Ukraine, they are “all-in” on the invasion, and their deployment of forces from other important areas belie claims of concern about NATO aggression, according to Justin Bronk, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a British think tank.
“Frankly, if they were actually worried about NATO — in terms of direct involvement outside of some sort of entanglement that was unintentional — they wouldn’t have drawn down their forces in Kaliningrad the way they have. They’d have protested more about Finland joining,” Bronk said during a podcast recorded in April.
Russian leaders likely fear an accidental war with NATO and a longer-term shift in the balance of power with the alliance, Bronk added, “but they’re not worried about escalation on their flank with NATO at this point, because if they were they wouldn’t have drawn down the forces the way they have.”
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Hi.
What do you think about the Biden administration, EU allies and the U. N. arranging peace talks?
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Russia has ‘lost nearly half’ of its combat effectiveness since invading Ukraine, UK defense official says
Charles R. Davis
Business Insider
Jul 4, 2023, 4:07 PM EDT
https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-war-russia-lost-half-combat-effectiveness-tanks-counter-offensive-2023-7?inline-endstory-related-recommendations=
-Russia has “lost nearly half” its combat power since invading Ukraine, a UK defense official says.
-Admiral Sir Tony Radakin said Russia was now “so weak” that it couldn’t wage a counteroffensive.
-A classified US assessment said Russian forces might have suffered more than 200,000 casualties.
A top British defense official says Russia’s combat abilities have been slashed in half since last year’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, the formal head of the UK’s armed forces who is the chief military advisor to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, told a parliamentary hearing that Russia was now “so weak” that it could no longer wage a military counteroffensive of its own.
“Russia has lost nearly half the combat effectiveness of its army,” Radakin said, according to the Financial Times. “Last year, it fired 10 million artillery shells, but at best, can produce 1 million shells a year. It has lost 2,500 tanks and, at best, can produce 200 tanks a year.”
He then defended Ukraine’s counteroffensive, which has been criticized for not making enough progress.
Radakin said Kyiv’s strategy to “starve, stretch, and strike” was gradually eroding Russia’s defenses. However, he did acknowledge that Russian mines, Ukraine’s insufficient air defenses, and the lack of equipment Ukraine requested had weighed on operations.
“The question is, how do you take a front line that is more than a thousand kilometers long and turn it into more of a problem for Russia than for Ukraine?” he said. “That is why you are seeing multiple axes being probed and feints by Ukraine.”
Radakin’s statement about Russia’s combat losses in Ukraine was roughly in line with previous reporting.
In February, the open-source intelligence group Oryx said at least 1,000 Russian tanks had been destroyed in Ukraine — and another 500 captured. A classified US military assessment, leaked earlier this year, suggested that as many as 43,000 Russian soldiers had been killed and another 180,000 wounded since February last year.
When Russia invaded last year, PBS reported that it had more than 400,000 contract soldiers.
Experts said the losses had taken a huge toll, particularly on Russia’s elite infantry and armored fighting brigades.
“They’ve been decimated,” Jeffrey Edmonds, a Russia expert at the Center for Naval Analyses who is a former CIA military analyst, told Insider’s Jake Epstein earlier this year, describing it as a “blow to Russian’s ground force’s combat power.”
“Most important military airport of Russian army is burning like hell!”
WOW!
let it be just the beginning of putin’s latest woes
“There is a signal that there may be another uprising in Russia that many people will support.”
May it be so!
“What do you think aboutthink about the Biden administration, EU allies and the U. N. arranging peace talks”
I believe President Zelenskyy has been trying to have peace talks with Putin for over a yea! Putin wasn’t interested.
President Zelenskyy has openly spoken with his Western allies which will continue at
But, Zelenskyy has consistently stated that Ukraine would be ready for a diplomatic settlement of the war only when it reached the borders of 1991, and would not consider “peace” without Crimea a “victory.”
I personally believe the Ukrainian people have suffered, fought and died for their country. They have earned total freedom from Russia.
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Crisis in Russia: Russian Revolt Begins in Kaliningrad! Surprise from Poland to Putin!
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Jul 9, 2023 11:00 a.m. EDT
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Thank you
God bless Poland and the Polish people!
Wonderful that 70% of Kaliningrad do NOT want russian interference in their country.
May their wishes become reality.
You’re most welcome. I believe we can rise to the occasion :)
ARTICLE
Ukraine’s forces advance on Melitopol and Berdiansk fronts – General Staff report
Ukrainska Pravda
KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO
Sunday, 9 July 2023, 18:59
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/07/9/7410564/
The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to conduct an offensive operation on the Melitopol and Berdiansk fronts; they defend reconquered areas and carry out counterbattery measures.
SOURCE: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook, information as of 18:00 on 9 July
DETAILS: During the day, the Russians inflicted 27 air strikes and 37 attacks from multiple-launch missile systems on the positions of Ukrainian troops and settlements. There are dead and wounded among the civilians; residential buildings and other civilian infrastructure were damaged.
The Russian units focus their main efforts on the Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Marinka fronts, heavy battles continue. During the day, there were 27 combat clashes.
On the VOLYN and POLISSIA fronts, the operational situation didn’t change significantly. No signs of the formation of offensive groups were recorded.
On the SIVERSHCHYNA and SLOBOZHANSHCHYNA fronts, during the day, the occupying forces carried out attacks from mortars and artillery, targeting 10 settlements. In particular, amongst them were Vyntorivka, Iskryskivshchyna, Yastrubyne in Sumy Oblast, as well as Udy, Veterynarne and Vovchansk in Kharkiv Oblast.
On the KUPIANSK front, Ukrainian soldiers hold their defence steadfastly. The Russians landed air strikes in the areas of Kolodiazne and Kyslivka, Kharkov Oblat. Krasne Pershe, Fyholivka, Dvorichne, Kupiansk and Kyslivka were subjected to artillery and mortar attacks of the Russians.
On the LUMAN front, the Russians conducted assault actions and tried to oust Ukrainian troops from their positions in the area west of Sprine, Donetsk Oblast, but had no success. They also delivered air strikes in the areas of Novosadova, Ivanivka, Serebrianka forest and Spirne in Donetsk Oblast. Over 10 settlements were subjected to artillery shelling, in particular Nevske, Bilohorivka in Luhansk Oblast, as well as Torske, Spirne, Berestove, Vesele in Donetsk Oblast.
On the BAKHMUT front, under the dense fire of Russian aircraft and artillery, Ukraine’s forces successfully repelled attacks near the village of Dubovo-Vasylivka, Donetsk Oblast. The Russians inflicted air strikes in the areas of the settlements of Oleksandro-Shultyne and Pivnichne. Over 10 settlements were affected by Russian artillery shelling, including Markove, Bohdanivka, Khromove and Ivanivske, Donetsk Oblast.
On the AVDIIVKA front, the Ukrainian troops continue to deter the offensive of Russian troops near the city of Avdiivka. Meanwhile, the Russians shelled more than 10 settlements, in particular, Novokalynove, Lastochkyne, Avdiivka, Sieverne, Pervomaiske and Nevelske in Donetsk Oblast.
On the MARINKA front, Ukrainian defenders repelled all Russian attacks in the area of the city of Marinka while being subjected to artillery attacks. The Russians launched an airstrike near Krasnohorivka. They shelled more than 10 settlements, including Krasnohorivka, Marinka, Heorhiivka, Maksymilianivka, Yelyzavetivka and Katerynivka in Donetsk Oblast.
On the SHAKHTARSK front, the Russians conducted unsuccessful offensive operations in the area of Novomykhailivka, Donetsk Oblast. They attacked more than 10 settlements, in particular, Novomykhailivka, Vuhledar, Novoukrainka, Prechystivka, Zolota Nyva, Shakhtarske and Velyka Novosilka in Donetsk Oblast.
On the ZAPORIZHZHIA and KHERSON fronts, the Russians focus their main efforts on preventing further advancement of Ukrainian troops. They inflicted air strikes in the areas of Rivnopil and Novodanylivka in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, as well as Kozatske in Kherson Oblast. They carried out artillery shelling of more than 20 settlements, including Temyrivka, Novodarivka, Chervone, Huliaipole, Zaliznychne, Orikhiv in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, as well as Beryslav, Vesele, Antonivka, Bilozerka in Kherson Oblast and the city of Kherson.
At the same time, the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to conduct an offensive operation on Melitopol and Berdiansk fronts, defending reconquered areas, and carrying out counterbattery measures.
During the day, the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine targeted one cluster of Russian personnel.
Units of Rocket Forces and Artillery hit two clusters of personnel, weapons and military equipment, two artillery systems in combat positions and two electronic warfare stations of the Russian invaders.
Berletic is a good source for understanding the messaging of the Russian military, and he also provides insight into the messaging of other left wing causes.
He has an interesting history.
Yes, he does.
I enjoy his focus on Eastern Asian affairs, also. Some good insights there.
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