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Russia has been 'forced to merge depleted units into new battalions in Ukraine after up to 25,000 soldiers were killed in failed advance on Kiev', UK says
Daily Mail ^ | 4/30/2022 | Chris Pleasance

Posted on 04/30/2022 7:33:55 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

Russia has been forced to merge and redeploy depleted and disparate units from failed advances in northeast Ukraine, a British military update said on Saturday.

'Shortcomings in Russian tactical coordination remain. A lack of unit-level skills and inconsistent air support have left Russia unable to fully leverage its combat mass, despite localised improvements,' the military tweeted.

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Ukraine continues to carry out attacks behind Russian lines to cut off vital supply routes, with a fuel dump in the Donetsk region catching fire today.

Kyiv has not acknowledged carrying out any of the attacks - which have also hit railway bridges and ammo dumps - but is widely thought to be orchestrating them.

Russia is pouring troops into the battle in Donbass in an effort to force a bloody victory having been defeated in its initial aim to storm in Kyiv, topple the government, and install a puppet regime loyal to Moscow.

After it became apparent they did not have sufficient force to take the capital, Russia's generals yanked their units out, patched them up as best they could, and then threw them back into the fight in Donbas.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agitprop; chrispleasance; clownworld; globohomoagitprop; justaketheirword4it; maximumagitprop; mi6agitprop; noevidence; putin; russia; theirwordalone; ukraine; war
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To: marcusmaximus
Russia is going to OWN the entire Black Sea by the time this is done.

I'll be waiting for your desperate attempt to try to spin that into a win for the Biden regime. It will be very amusing to watch.

61 posted on 04/30/2022 9:48:17 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: Kazan

62 posted on 04/30/2022 9:50:17 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: Kazan
Russia is going to OWN the entire Black Sea by the time this is done.

Really?

63 posted on 04/30/2022 9:51:39 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: ought-six
This fight is going to last longer than most thought. And, if Russia DOES ultimately prevail

Not going to happen unless Russia mobilizes for war. They will have to call all their reserves. I haven't seen any indications that they are going to do that.

64 posted on 04/30/2022 9:53:14 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: ought-six

It’s good to be a tyrant.🤔


65 posted on 04/30/2022 9:53:55 AM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
They'll own the bottom of the black sea.


66 posted on 04/30/2022 9:55:57 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

Cartoons are sad substitute for a coherent argument.


67 posted on 04/30/2022 10:01:49 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: Kazan

The juvenile mind set and immaturity is telling isn’t it?


68 posted on 04/30/2022 10:04:40 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: marcusmaximus

Good Lord. That has to be terrifying from the receiving end. Frags from nowhere.


69 posted on 04/30/2022 10:30:58 AM PDT by The Pack Knight
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To: PIF

Thanks for taking time to build this informative post. It contained a lot of useful information.

Aside from dealing with immediate battlefield threats, the UA would be smart to prowl the Russian rear areas with its drones to locate and destroy Russian soft skinned vehicles.

Such vehicles are normally associated with combat support and combat service support functions, especially supply, maintenance, and communications. They tend to be produced in smaller numbers and are often operated by specialist troops. So they (the specially configured vehicles and the technically trained soldiers) are not easily replaced. Knocking out…say, a motor vehicle maintenance unit may be more damaging in the long term than destroying a similar number of combat vehicles since the former unit is needed to keep the latter operating. Ditto for food, water, fuel, ammunition. The consumption rates on these commodities are significant and resupply must be continuous. Any interruption …

Of course, the same applies to the UA and there have been reports of Russian attacks on manufacturing plants, as well. Occasionally, the Russians even hit what they are actually targeting.


70 posted on 04/30/2022 10:44:29 AM PDT by Captain Rhino (Determined effort today forges tomorrow. )
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To: Sarcazmo

Compared to similar sized wars since 1945 the aid getting to Ukraine is rather small. Compare to, for instance, what the US sent to Israel in 1973. A few thousand ATGM amd Manpads, and 10,000-odd antitank rocket launchers, plus apparently a few thousand small arms.

Only just now are heavy weapons showing up - 200 Polish tanks, 50 German flakpanzers and @100 US/Canadian howitzers. Given what the Ukrainians already had thats nice but fairly minor, as the Ukes already had 1000+ tanks (active and reserve) etc, etc.

Its probable that the most important assistance anyone has yet provided the Ukes is information.

You need more historical depth in order to judge these things.


71 posted on 04/30/2022 11:02:24 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: BenLurkin

Exactly, Putin’s plan was all the while to have half the guys in each battalion killed, in order the merge the two in one battle-hardened battalion.

More Putin genius:

1. Have thousands of armored vehicles destroyed in order to sink Ukraine!

Remember the ... the ... you know, that ship!

2. Give militias of the People’s Republic of Donetsk vintage weapons worth thousands of dollars to collectors.

Can Putin help it if the Donetsk fighters aren’t aware of the value of these things on eBay?

3. Exhaust the limited supplies of western anti-tank guided missiles by sending obsolete T-72s into Ukraine.

Now what does NATO have to stop the 14 Armata tanks? I mean, the Armata-14 tanks?

4. Send an entire army of Russians into Ukraine to drink all the vodka.

What, no vodka? Quick, let’s join back to Russia. Who can stand German beer or - my God! - French wine?

5. Cut off gas sales to western Europe.

You can stop buying gas from us! We are stopping sales of gas to you.


72 posted on 04/30/2022 11:03:25 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: Reeses
That's effectively Brandon declaring war against WWII ally Russia.

Please, its a proxy war with a united civilized West arming Ukraine. ' WWII ally Russia' has been at war with the US for a long time.

73 posted on 04/30/2022 11:15:33 AM PDT by tlozo (Trump-the Russian invasion of Ukraine is " truly a crime against humanity")
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To: Kazan; All

Another Russian general sent to hell in Izyum yesterday! Boom!


74 posted on 04/30/2022 11:23:52 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Wait til China sends in ten Million Troops for massive Human Wave attacks —with hardened European hating Chinese who will kill all they find—all sick with Covid! Things could be alot worse.


75 posted on 04/30/2022 11:25:15 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade ( ALWAYS GO FORWARD AND NEVER GO BACK.)
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To: Cathi

thanks Cathi,good stuff


76 posted on 04/30/2022 11:39:35 AM PDT by CarolinaReaganFan
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To: Captain Rhino

The UA is employing buggies with ATMs on them for hit and run raids - is article about that on the War Zone.

Russians have deployed combat dolphins at their sub pens in Sevastopol where they load Kalibr missiles on subs. The total combined smart missile launches are about 30 a day. How long can they sustain that rate?

UA is using rockets and drones to hit military and energy infrastructure inside Russia - someone even sabotaged a big electrical power plant in the Far East.


77 posted on 04/30/2022 11:51:59 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: marcusmaximus

It seems when bureaucrats steel money meant for defense the military becomes inept....we should be weary of this with our own military.....especially when Democrats are in charge!!!!!!


78 posted on 04/30/2022 12:44:57 PM PDT by ontap
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To: buwaya

Looks like the Russian sortis were heavy today. Any weaponry the west is sending in it’s getting destroyed immediately. Biden’s latest 33 billion will be wiped out in a matter of weeks.

https://liveuamap.com/en/2022/30-april-houses-kindergarten-church-destroyed-or-damaged


79 posted on 04/30/2022 1:24:27 PM PDT by blackberry1
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To: buwaya

Looks like the Russian sorties were heavy today. Any weaponry the west is sending in it’s getting destroyed immediately. Biden’s latest 33 billion will be wiped out in a matter of weeks.

https://liveuamap.com/en/2022/30-april-houses-kindergarten-church-destroyed-or-damaged


80 posted on 04/30/2022 1:25:22 PM PDT by blackberry1
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