Posted on 08/05/2022 11:11:08 AM PDT by dennisw
Ukraine continues to escalate its bombardment of Russian supply lines in southern Ukraine. But it might not matter that much in the end. Emphasis on might.
Before dawn on Sunday, Ukrainian forces—perhaps a battery of American-made High-Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems—reportedly struck a 40-car train carrying ammunition from supply dumps in occupied Crimea to Russian forces in Kherson Oblast.
The train exploded, killing as many as 80 Russians. Video reportedly depicting the blaze circulated online on Wednesday.
The artillery raid in Brylivka, 20 miles southeast of Kherson, reportedly wrecked the train and the rails. It was the fourth time the Ukrainians have destroyed a Russian supply train.
“As a result of a Ukrainian strike against a Russian ammunition train in Kherson Oblast, southern Ukraine, it is highly unlikely the rail link connecting Kherson with Crimea remains operational,” the U.K. Defense Ministry stated.
That’s a problem for the Russian army, which never had enough trucks and thus heavily relies on trains to shift supplies to front-line forces. The Ukrainian army for weeks now systematically has been severing Russian supply lines in southern Ukraine—blowing up ammo dumps, poking holes in bridges.
The train strike compounds the destruction and deepens the supply woes for Russia’s 49th Combined Arms Army, which oversees most of the 30 or so battalion tactical groups gathering in and around Kherson.
The Russians can patch bridges and unbend rails, but that takes time. And with every day that passes, the 49th CAA draws down its existing supplies.
It’s apparent the 49th CAA is in trouble. It’s less apparent the supply crunch will be decisive as the Ukrainian army puts more weight behind its slow counteroffensive aimed at liberating Kherson with its strategic port and pre-war population of 300,000.
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Having expended most of its combat power—first trying and failing to capture Kyiv and then trying and succeeding in capturing the twin cities of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region—the Russian army is tired.
It has buried at least 15,000 of its best troops. A frantic recruitment drive is raising a few new battalions, but the recruits are heading to the front with outdated weapons and just 30 days of training.
A victory for gay marriage.
Are they [still] fighting? I don’t hear about this anymore.
Once the price of oil dropped Biden and his minions don’t mention it anymore....It’s no longer “Putin’s price hike”
How much of this is Russia gonna tolerate ? Bombs, made in USA most likely.
This song dedicated to Bad Vlad, Sergei Shoigu, and the dunces of the Rooskie army>>>>>>>
Life Sucks and Then You Die
(by Ray Jessel)
When things are dark and gloomy
I don’t let the dark get to me
But instead I hold my head up high
I don’t wallow in self-pity
I just sing this little ditty
Life sucks, and then you die.
Hard knocks have bumped and thumped you
Your sweetheart’s gone and dumped you
For some clown
Well don’t break down and cry
Go get stinko
Go get blotto
And then just repeat this motto
Life sucks, and then you die.
Failures first, then unhappyness
And then, you’re dead.
Expect the worst
And anything less
You’re ahead!
Life hurts, and there’s no ointment
Hope just means disappointment
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They got nothing to complain about.
Yes because every country that is not perfect must be invaded and destroyed by much more evil people.
No country is great.
Vlad got himself into this mess. Let the fighting continue until they both get tired. Russia broke it-they now own it. Heard it somewhere.
A 3rd party can then negotiate an end to this mess-only when both sides have had enough-no sooner. I’ve said it here before. We’ll take in a million EUROPEAN immigrants. Put them in Purple states. The rats are doing the same with their preferred immigrants. I’d fly theirs to LAX. The state is lost.
It has been quiet because the Russians have had their ammo dumps and ammo supply trains obliterated by the Ukie guerilla forces. No boom boom for the Russians. Meanwhile, back in Moscow Putin is being treated for very high blood pressure, the dude might stroke out.
The train exploded, killing as many as 80 Russians.
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I guess we havn’t ‘leaked’ Insensitive Muntions technology to Putin yet.
ouch! for sure an apocalyptic logistics fail if they were really transferring munitions early 20th century style!
I can understand not supporting Russia. What baffles me is why anyone supports the Ukraine. It is not our friend anymore than Russia is.
You are more right than you know. Russian military logistics are not palletized. They must transfer their munitions man to man. https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1554931707257786368 (ours are palletized)
Gust 5th, 2022 and Ukraine is still losing the conflict. Please inform ZelenskyyIdiot that he needs to plan his escape to his villa in some country other than Ukraine. Maybe that is what the idiot was seeking in trying to contact the Chinese. Damn.
Wonder how long before Ukraine totally takes over all of Russia.
Same argument can be made WRT France in 1940.
My grandfather (a doctor in a small town) was a French Jews and rounded up by the French police with great joy. One of the cops was delivered by my grandfather and treated him up until about two weeks before the arrest.
France was corrupt, full of Nazi sympathizers, and seldom a reliable friend to England or America.
But the Nazis invaded and were far worse.
It’s not exactly the same, but still the same.
Victims of crimes and invasions are seldom squeaky clean. Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do the right thing when the time comes.
(And here the right thing appears to be help, not troops.)
Off topic: but the conundrum hits hard in Israel. We have tons of Ukrainian and Russian immigrants, fairly recent. It’s not uncommon for one Israeli family to have cousins as soldiers on each side of this war. Very heartbreaking.
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