Posted on 05/19/2022 1:02:10 AM PDT by Cronos
But they have the death star....
This revelation comes after the appearance on You Tube of anj American Laser Beam weapon. Interesting
It also follows a You Tube video of the dissection of a downed Russian drone. The drone was small but not tiny and was purposed for observation. It had the ability to capture images of enemy facilities and troops using a removable package containing a camera.
The package was shown to be a very crude assemblage centered around an ordinary Canon digital camera. The camera was operated by a ginned up mechanical mechanism electronically triggered.
In short, the Russian technology was extremely crude and likened to that produced in a high school drone or robotics club. There was no mention of how the operator knew what he was photographing or if there was some video as well
In short........ The Russian drone/camera was rather backward
Perhaps the Azov brigade ARE Ukraine’s “fiercest fighters” - and they kept a massive Russian army tied down for nearly 1.5 months.
During that time, other Ukrainian forces (non-Azov) took the area around Kharkiv, defeated Russian encirclement movements in the Donbas and held the ground around Kherson.
Pooptin’s “laser weapon” is pure comedy
“Zelensky has told his people that he will constitute a million man force and get the heavy weapons from US/NATO in July and then go on the attack; but that right now they are just trying to defend.”
I’m not sure what sources you are looking at, but you need some new ones if they don’t show that Russia has lost about half its holdings in Ukraine in the last few weeks.
The Ukrainians are on the offensive now on almost all fronts, and each week they are retaking land.
“Russian adversaries”
That’s so depressing, those words. I’m not blaming you, I’m saying it is such a pity - in 1994 Russia should have been brought (and tried to bring itself) into line with the West.
The aim of Russia to “defeat the west” has made them an extractive, corrupt country with its people exploited by Putin and his coterie.
Russia should have been on the same side as the West - they have NO need for more territory (heck, they’re the largest country in the world), they have a muslim problem, they border China. They should have been united with the west.
Germany and Japan first tried to defeat the west militarily and failed. Then they realised they could propel themselves to the top by brains and economy. And they did!
But Putin decided against that. Yes, the west had failures, but Putin put things in a horrific path.
Putin’s rise will go down in history as one of the great “what if” tragedies - along with the 4th crusade.
hardly.
Pooptin first waned to behead the Ukrainian government - sent in his VDV paratroopers. They failed. Sent in his long trail of tanks - they failed and were destroyed. Tried to capture Kharkiv - they failed.
Then he said “oh it was a feint” and moved to take Donbas.
3 weeks on and they have actually lost ground and a battalion.
And suddenly Pooptin has a death star.
Wouldn’t you be sceptical?
Russians lie. They lie about everything to everyone. They lie when the truth would help them.
All of Russian society is based on lies. It has been for over a century. It’s ingrained in Russians to reflexively lie.
Russians have raised lying to an art form. If a Russian tells you it’s raining, walk outside and check for yourself.
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FYI...... Russia is actually losing gained territory in the east as they are unable to cross rivers and Ukraine is devouring the Russian northern flank.
It appears that there is a stalemate except that dug in Russian troops are being easily picked off by extremely accurate mini bombs (Grenades and Mortar rounds) delivered precisely on target by drones. The Russian guns are ineffective because the Ukraine artillery furnished by the west out ranges it. The U artillery is dead on accurate and is taking out the Russian guns.
The stalemate is actually a battle of Russian attrition over time
There are now long stretches of Russian border exposed. The world is watching to see if there will be Ukranian invasion of Russia to envelop the Russian effort in Ukraine
Okay, I understand. You have no evidence, no name of villages that Russia held and lost (except the Karkov villages we discussed that have been “re-liberated”.)
People are free to believe whatever “they want to believe.”
Just some friendly advice here and I mean friendly...prepare yourself for the reality.
Russia has now not just taken large amounts of territory. More surprising is that after Zelensky reneged on the initial beginnings of an agreement in Istanbul after Boris Johnson pressured him to...and offered huge sums of US/NATO money and heavy weapons Russia has publicly stated that they will remain there “forever.” Russian flags, license plates, passports, TV stations, school books, and, of course, switching cities to the ruble. This is the current reality.
If you get comfort believing what you told me, feel free to continue to believe it. Comfort is in short supply these days and I understand anyone wanting to hold on to it.
Personally, though, I am a “red pill” person. I value reality...:-)
“Russia has publicly stated that they will remain there “forever.” Russian”
If there is one lesson from this war it is that what Russian wants isn’t what Russia gets.
How exactly are they going to hold those territories? Ukraine is training 1 million men, and the USA just sent them $40 billion in supplies (more than the entire annual budget of the Russian army)
If Putin is rational he will agree to a face saving surrender in the next while. (Maybe Zelensky will be generous and let Russia keep Crimea). If Putin is not rational his soldiers are in for a very unpleasant few months.
Ministry of Defense of Russia
⚡️ Briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defense (05/18/2022)
◽️ The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue a special military operation in Ukraine.
◽️Over the past 24 hours, 771 militants of the Azov nationalist unit surrendered at the blocked Azovstal metallurgical plant in Mariupol . A total of 1,730 militants have surrendered since May 16, including 80 wounded . All those in need of inpatient treatment receive assistance in medical institutions of the Donetsk People’s Republic in Novoazovsk and Donetsk .
💥During the day , high-precision air-based missiles of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit seven command posts, including the command posts of the 24th motorized infantry brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the village of Nikolaevka and the 104th territorial defense brigade in the village of Konstantinovka, as well as 11 warehouses of missile and artillery weapons and ammunition in the areas of the settlements of Bakhmut, Konstantinovka, Ilyinka and Minkovka of the Donetsk People’s Republic and 26 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Destroyed : a division of S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems in the Bolshie Lomzaki region of the Nikolaev region and a division of the Buk-M1 air defense system in the Slavyanogorsk region of the Donetsk People’s Republic.
💥 Operational-tactical and army aviation hit two command posts, as well as 58 areas of concentration of manpower and Ukrainian military equipment. In total, as a result of air strikes, more than 340 nationalists were killed, 62 units of military equipment were disabled .
💥 Rocket troops and artillery hit six command posts, 295 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 43 Ukrainian artillery and mortar units in firing positions, and two electronic warfare stations.
💥 15 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles, including one Bayraktar-TB2 UAV, were destroyed by Russian air defense systems in the areas of the settlements of Volchiy Yar, Borshchevka, Velikiye Khutora, Malye Prokhody, Snezhkovka and Petrivske in the Kharkiv region, Chernobaevka and Novaya Kakhovka in the Kherson region .
▫️In addition, in the areas of the settlements of Topolskoe, Malaya Kamyshevakha, Semenovka, Shpakovka, Glinskoe, Snezhkovka, Kharkiv region and Chernobaevka, Kherson region, 12 Ukrainian rockets of the Smerch multiple launch rocket system were intercepted.
📊 In total , since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 172 aircraft, 125 helicopters, 942 unmanned aerial vehicles, 313 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3158 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 395 multiple rocket launchers, 1562 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 3026 units of special military vehicles.
#Ministry of Defense #Russia #Ukraine @mod_russia
“Russia has publicly stated that they will remain there “forever.” Russian”
If there is one lesson from this war it is that what Russian wants isn’t what Russia gets.
“How exactly are they going to hold those territories? Ukraine is training 1 million men, and the USA just sent them $40 billion in supplies (more than the entire annual budget of the Russian army)
If Putin is rational he will agree to a face saving surrender in the next while. (Maybe Zelensky will be generous and let Russia keep Crimea). If Putin is not rational his soldiers are in for a very unpleasant few months.”
Please watch this video from a 2015 interview on Ukranian Tv.
https://twitter.com/Ukraine66251776/status/1518074286929588224
“A Ukrainian Nazi reveals the regime plan on Tv 2015 - says #Donbass is overly populated with people nobody has any use for (useless people) and sitting on rich resources and in order to exploit those resources 1.5 million #Donbas people have to be exterminated.”
Also watch this interview
https://twitter.com/politblogme
https://t.me/politblogme
The French medic who went to Ukraine to help the Ukrainians was shocked at all the war crimes he personally saw the Ukrainians commit. He is personally putting himself in danger by reporting this. He even covers the shelling at Bucca and indicates it came from the Ukrainians.
He personally watched and filmed the Ukrainians taking Russian POWs from vans carrying 3 or 4 at a time...asking them if they were officers. If they said no they were shot in the knee. If they said yes they were shot in the head.
And as far as Zelensky’s claim about the new army he is going to raise most experts find that amusing. After all, 200,000 conscripts left immediately when Russia invaded. Though Ukraine did shoot any man between 18-60 that they could find who was trying to leave and has publicly stated since that should they come back there will be investigations to determine how they managed to leave.
Furthermore,
“Russia is still using essentially the same military grouping that it used in the beginning, reinforced with a few additional battlegroups to take on Ukraine’ toughest positions in Donbass. Ukraine is on the 4th wave of mobilization, with rampant enforced conscription, and untrained volkssturm and territorial defence battalions—which expected to sit the war out in Galicia, but are now increasingly thrown to the front—being deployed into the meat grinder in the Izyum theatre, where some of the most seasoned Allied troops are breaking through the Ukrainian ranks. Despite protestations of the Western experts that Russia was about to declare general mobilization, not even a partial one was announced, and Putin explicitly refused the idea. Even the covert mobilization of volunteers is ongoing primarily (if not only) through the organizing channels in Chechnya (where volunteers from all over Russia and the post-Soviet space are gathering). The city of Mariupol was assaulted and taken (not including the forces on the perimeter, enforcing the city’s encirclement) with initially fewer troops than the Ukrainian defenders had. Ukraine was unable to even conceive of attempting to deblockade its units—because Russia had pinned the Ukrainian forces throughout the north, in Kharkov, Sumy, Chernigov, and Kiev.”
And as far as the $40 billion is concerned it is expected to be divied up appropriately...this is Ukraine, after all, rated as the 4th most corrupt nation.
And even the weapons they receive (the ones that get through Russia’s defenses) many will be sold to the black market the way much of the javelins and other munitions have already been. Our own defense department has said that Ukraine is going through ammunition in a day what should last them for a week. Maybe they just shoot a lot...:-)
RusVesna Reports: There is a mass surrender of Ukrainian soldiers in the LNR against the backdrop of the surrender of the Azov militants from Azovstal: “We want to live,” says a serviceman of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Facing 8 years for leaving his position to survive at any cost, the POW of the 1st battalion of the 79th Ukrainian Brigade nonetheless chose to preserve hailife.
A prisoner of war born in 2002, who surrendered to the allied forces, says that he had been in Severodonetsk since February 24, and that on March 8 they were transferred to Severskoye: “Where [we] took up defense in a children’s camp.”
As a result, after some time they ended up in Drobyshevo, where after three weeks they were sent to go on the offensive, despite the fact that the commanders had already fled, abandoning their subordinate soldiers. The remaining Ukrainian servicemen surrendered because they “wanted to live”.
t.me/rusvesnasu
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Slavyangrad - Gleb Bazov
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Aleksandr Kots reporting from the positions abandoned by Ukrainian troops outside Severodonetsk, as they retreat into the residential districts of the city in the face of the Russian offensive.
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Slavyangrad - Gleb Bazov
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FLASH: Denis Kulaga, iz.ru military correspondent, is reporting that the allied forces have begun their assault on the city of Zolotoye northeast of Popasnaya.
The liberation of this city in the Pervomaisky district of the LPR will allow access to Lisichansk, where a large group of Ukrainian militants is concentrated, reports the correspondent. iz.ru, Denis Kulaga, directly from the frontlines, initially as close as 500 metres from the settlement, and later, right next to an active clash.
[GB: As I am not sure which way the attack is proceeding, I drew out all the possibilities, though something tells me that the assault is coming either from the west or the south.]
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Why isn’t the war over by now?
There are a lot of pundits who have asserted that Russia would defeat Ukraine in a week. But, apparently they didn’t have access to Putin’s plan...:-)
Russia does not wage “shock & awe” wars like we do. They wage maneuver wars...they shape the battle field...they fix their opponents in places in order to prevent them from entering the main battle, then they try to grind down their opponents, etc.
Shaping the battle field takes time. One of the American DOD people stated a couple days ago that Russia “was two weeks or more behind schedule.”
How humorous to think that we knew what Putin’s schedule was if he even had a time schedule. Just a lot of useless speculation from people trying to appear “in the know.”
An additional thing to keep in mind is that with the Donbass having an unusual situation of opponent forces and fortifications in place for years prior to this conflict it was always going to be a time consuming process to “eliminate” them.
“Russia does not wage “shock & awe” wars like we do. They wage maneuver wars...they shape the battle field...they fix their opponents in places in order to prevent them from entering the main battle, then they try to grind down their opponents, etc.”
They don’t seem to be doing a very good job of it. So far, “Putin’s plan” is more like “slapstick & humiliation,” and he will be fortunate to not become a casualty himself.
I’m skeptical about all of it. So why has Russia only committed 10% to 15% of their forces. If they are loosing, would they not bring in more? The western press... Goebbels turned to who, to learn how to do propaganda, the US.
They haven't committed 10% to 15% of their forces.
They sent in 200,000 troops out of a THEORETICAL 900,000 -- that's 25% of the theoretical but really more like 80% of their combat ready troops
The Russian military, in whole- air force, navy, army, border foces, etc- is about 900k active men. What you would think of as their field army is about 280k men, broken down into 12 “combined arms Armies” with sundry other elements being held in separate corps. For all intents and purposes, those CAAs are the real “go to war” parts of the Russian army, and are deployed across the entirety of Russia.
Right now, a well educated guess is that 10 or so of those CAAs are committed, having been assembled from pretty much everywhere. There's about 2 of them that aren't in, representing the last strategic reserve for anything else Russia might have to deal with. As far as the Russian army is concerned, just about everything is in the pot right now.
Now, there are ways to rapidly swell those numbers. Best estimates are that there are 2M reservists who could be called to duty, and the nation drafts about 270k conscripts a year. Those come with a military cost - low training, low morale, pulling some very old equipment out of mothballs,, etc
Firstly - Putin has tried to bring in mercenaries. He can't bring more troops because he doesn't have any
he can't bring in conscripts because as per the Russian constitution, conscripts can't be sent to wars outside Russian borders - and Putin said this was not a war
The fact is, the Ukrainian army that existed before February 24th, 2022, no longer exists.
Outside of those reduced units still pinned down in the Donbass, it’s mostly barely-trained militia, untrained draftees, and members of the (formerly) inactive reserve, with a thin superstructure of cadre.
Yes, some of them really want to fight, and will. (Some don’t, and won’t.)
But the professional army outside of the Donbass, no longer exists, as such.
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