Give the Russians credit. They successfully changed tactics and are winning. Despite their fascination and commitment to armor, they stopped frontal attacks with tanks which the new technologies have made costly and ineffective. Yet they remembered that in WW II the majority of soldiers killed were from artillery barrages. They now concentrate on locating Ukrainian positions and pulverize them with concentrated artillery fire and aerial bombardment. The Ukrainians have not been able to direct effect counterfire, nor have they been able to significantly hinder or stop Russian resupply of ammunition. The Ukrainians are underestimating the Russian’s ability to locate Ukrainian concentrations by locating the origin of open and encrypted radio communications and other technologies.
Make no mistake. Putin made a catastrophic mistake invading Ukraine. Despite the money Russia still gets from its sale of oil, gas, coal and grain to world buyers, the progress Putin made in leading Russia out of the destruction of communism has been squandered. Tens of thousands of young Russians have been killed and forever maimed. families have been shattered Russia will never again be viewed as a conventional military juggernaut. It is a strategic reality that Russia will be hard pressed to defend its Siberian treasure house and its rich Far Eastern underpopulated Pacific possessions if China for whatever reason moved against them with serious intent. Russia is more isolated from the rest of Europe more than ever. Any win in Ukraine will be Pyrric.
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Moreover, Putin, who had done so much to bring about a revival of Russian Orthodox Christianity will have as his final legacy the launching of a war which was essential Orthodox Christian fratricide.
[Give the Russians credit. They successfully changed tactics and are winning. ]
As I pointed out earlier - Burisma = Putin. Vladimir the Greater has Biden by the short and curlies.
The Ukrainians are underestimating the Russian’s ability to locate Ukrainian concentrations by locating the origin of open and encrypted radio communications and other technologies.
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That may be, but the big problem for ZSU is they have no answer for the Orc artillery Orlon-10 drone - this drone is how the majority of Orc artillery strikes happen and how the fire is corrected; this system is described in detail in Attack on Europe postings over the past months.
The other problem is the trickle of foreign weapons - the ZSU fires 3000-5000 shells a day and the Orcs fire back 50,000. The amount of aid the US is giving is announced in dollar terms which make the public turn against the effort. At no other time did the US announce it military aid to a country at war in dollars; the items needed were simply send on the fastest possible transport directly to the country concerned. They need thousands of artillery pieces and millions of shells - as well as dedicated artillery drones now - not months from now as scheduled, not sitting in some warehouse in another country.