Posted on 07/25/2022 9:57:06 PM PDT by devere
‘A DISTINCT TURNING POINT’: In Ukraine, the signs of a subtle battlefield shift are everywhere as President Volodymyr Zelensky announces the beginning of a counteroffensive in the south and Pentagon officials make plans to continue the flow of weapons for months to come.
“We are there for Ukraine for the long haul,” said a senior defense official in the latest Pentagon briefing, who described the Russian advances as stymied by effective Ukrainian tactics and newly arrived HIMARS precision rocket systems, which have forced Russian forces to dig in and hide high-value targets. “They're paying a high price for every inch of territory that they try to take or hold, and we're seeing very low morale from the Russian forces,” the official said.
The Washington-based Institute for the Study of War cites growing alarm in the “Russian nationalist information space,” noting Moscow Calling, a telegram channel, described the arrival of HIMARS as “a distinct turning point in the war” that has “changed everything.”
“Moscow Calling strongly insinuated that recent Ukrainian strikes on Russian warehouses, communication hubs, and rear bases are having a devastating and potentially irreversible impact on the development of future Russian offensives,” the ISW says. “Russian troops are being forced to engage in various HIMARS mitigation tactics on the battlefield, including camouflage measures and constantly changing the location of equipment groupings. These mitigation tactics are impeding Russian forces from conducting the massive artillery barrages that they have widely employed over the course of the war.”
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Has Russia run out of ammo yet? It’s been more than 3 days since March 4th. /s
YKnow, I don’t have a dog in this fight. Giving Putin a bloody nose is fine with me, but the Ukes don’t impress me as an independent nation. And This kind of press release reminds me exactly of the Government propaganda in the sixties re: VietNam: “There’s light at the end of the tunnel, our troops should be starting to come home by Christmas.” Thais was about 1966 or ‘67.
Like the Javelins did and the M777 howitzers did.
If Ukraine launches an offensive on any part of areas the Russians possess, they will be bombard from the air and sea. The Russians absolutely own both.
How much are those things per missile?
And how much longer till Russia has more HIMARs than the US does?
Just like us... Russia has ammo that makes mushroom clouds.
Uke civilians mostly in Donbass are paying the brunt of the price for your aggravating Putin lust and mostly at hands of their own Ukrop forces shelling them or in some cases murdering them outright
Not ok with me
Yes, the Russians own the sea, especially the bottom of the Black Sea where the Moskva rests. Russian trolls even tried to attack Ukraine over missile strikes hitting civilian areas in Alchevsk, but I had the true story from friends in the town that the missiles hit an abandoned brewery that was used as a munitions depot. Secondary explosions continued through the middle of the night and closed the Alchevsk to Lugansk road.
Got to keep that Western/US/Anglo media narrative going cause Lord knows its getting harder and harder given actual ground reports and media sources out side of those mentioned above.....
The Russians control many areas with large, wrecked apartment buildings usable as HIMARS shields.
Unless the HIMARS rockets can fly through such buildings, their arms stockpiles, command posts, etc. are safe.
Artillery pieces can be shielded using concrete, logs, berms, groves of trees, barrage balloons, or hidden within many fields of tents or sheet metal lookalikes.
So the tide is not turning then.
I remember those days bro. I was there. I tend to believe the government is lying to us, all the time.
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To be honest, I have to agree, I don’t really have a dog in this fight both ones are bad but I think Russia has a point that’s why I post things that try to tell the truth of the situation. There’s a hell of a lot of propaganda most of it coming from the west .most people don’t know Russia went to the United Nations and had a pretty good case that America was in there doing biological warfare stuff and they were hiding it by By using veterinary things to study human diseases and made it look like they were just studying animal stuff and Russia had a really good case. I think the US provoked this war and there certainly trying to push it into a big thing and I’m sorry about a lot of Ukrainians are gonna die and in the end I doubt very much that they’re going to win and we still have yet to have consequences from; Russia because they did promise consequences for anyone who sends weapons. Right now they’re engaged in a war but sooner or later they’re going to do something
Well, who does impress you?
Transnistria? Belarus?
They don't gotta "impress" you.
Regards,
I admire your passion in posting but you do not appear to have served in the military because you think there are viable Nazis still around or understand what a Nazi is -it isn’t just someone who disagrees with us or fights on the other side (anyone in the military knows Nazis have not been a force anywhere since WWII-mostly isolated skin head drop outs) you posted this earlier-see below.
Ok,They Russia/Ukraine are both bad actors and while you shun the pro Ukrainian propaganda (ok) you buy into the Russian propaganda, (children throwing flowers onto Russian tanks? please ) you are probably really young or not that involved with data information/analytics so I am probably being too harsh but you are really not helping your case when you post items like that.
You said:
“Mariupol basically liberated, couple of thousand die-hard bandera-Nazis still holed up in the underground shelters under the Azovstal factory, Putin says not worth the life of a single Russian soldier i.e. seal it and let them starve/die of thirst, one to three weeks, big celebrations, children throwing flowers onto Russian tanks.”
Ukraine certainly impresses me as an independent country. It is a beautiful place with lots of great people. And that one-time-zone country has fought valiantly against the eleven-time-zone country. Death to the invaders!
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