Posted on 03/18/2022 8:06:11 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
For weeks, Mykolaiv was on the front line. Russian tanks and infantry made incursions into the streets of the southern Ukrainian port city. Russian artillery blasted civilian neighborhoods. Now, with Ukrainian forces pressing a counteroffensive, the Russians have been pushed back and Mykolaiv’s 470,000 people are attempting a tentative return to normality.
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"The battles around Mykolaiv have been bloody, with heavy casualties on both sides. Every day, military ambulances and civilian vans marked “200”—the Soviet-era code name for killed in action—bring the mangled remains of Ukrainian soldiers to the regional morgue in Mykolaiv. The influx of Ukrainian fatalities has slowed somewhat now that some Russian units are on the run, and that the city no longer experiences constant shelling, said morgue attendant Volodymyr Afanasiev."
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BTW, Death to the Invaders!
Obviously, this is all a Spielberg movie set with millions of extras running around.
Interesting, because I have no doubt Ukraine has defended well, but do they have the ability to counterattack?
Probably not on a big scale, at least not yet.
Ukrainians seem to be getting more confident.
Russians overextended.
“Russia is weak, it’s feeble, I think it’s about time to put the hurt on Russia!”
If the Ukrainians were able to stop the russian Navy from landing troops and supplies into southeastern Ukraine from the Black Sea, the Russian position would be untenable. the Ukrainians need sophisticated stealthy drones armed with anti ship missiles.
“If the Ukrainians were able to stop the russian Navy from landing troops and supplies into southeastern Ukraine from the Black Sea, the Russian position would be untenable. the Ukrainians need sophisticated stealthy drones armed with anti ship missiles.”
Maybe they are in the pipeline. I know Turkey is supplying a lot of drones, and perhaps they can be armed with AS warheads.
Too much talk about Migs imno.
A few batteries of Harpoon anti-ship missiles could have changed everything.
In contrast, the Ukrainians enjoy interior lines of communication that make it much easier for them to shift and concentrate forces where needed. That makes it much easier for them to achieve local superiority for counter-attacks even if they are outnumbered overall.
The Russian battle plan only made sense if they were able to overwhelm and awe the Ukrainians into a quick surrender. Otherwise, dispersing their forces over that massive a linear front with exterior lines of communications was a terrible strategic mistake.
This has nothing to do with any Ukrainian propaganda or any news from the front. It is warfare 101 to anyone who has studied it, and is proven true simply by looking at a map.
In before the Pooty club says their champions meant to retreat like scaled dogs.
“Russians overextended.”
If that lasts for more than 4 weeks, they should call a medic.
Seems like Russian game plan was based on using 200,000 troops to achieve total capitulation and victory within 72 hrs. Needless to say, Plan A did not work, and they don’t appear to have intended on a Plan B, considering the complete stall on all fronts in which they now find themselves in. I dare say the Russians in Ukraine will bleed out first before the Ukes do.
National Anthem
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Yes I understand, I’m thinking about the Russians at Stalingrad. They were able eventually to surround the German army. But I was thinking the Ukrainians don’t have the manpower to pull that off.
I wonder if it’s possible. Maybe if Russian morale really collapsed. But the Russians are holding the Ukrainians down on multiple fronts, I don’t think the Ukrainians can break any major forces free to come to the rescue with counterattacks?
Putin was expecting the corrupt Ukrainian army of 2014. Instead he found a battle hardened Ukrainian army without the Putin stooge traitors that plagued Ukraine back then.
Reports the Russians have withdrawn troops from around Kyiv. I expect they will focus on stealing Kharkiv and Mariupol. Then freeze the conflict again while Putin shoots a few generals for a military blunder of historic proportions.
I think it’s a firepower issue more than manpower. Ukraine is just so heavily outgunned. In a straight up fight the Ukrainians would easily wipe the floor with Putin’s corrupt and hollow invading army.
The Russians certainly have had by far their largest successes in the South, by using Crimea as a base for invasion. But the Russians have not been able to take Mariopol, a port on the Sea of Akov (a bay on the Black Sea that comprises Ukraine’s Southeastern edge).
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