Think so?
Posted on 08/29/2022 1:58:12 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
Photos that appeared online over the weekend, depicting Russian army armored vehicles on trains rolling out of the army training base Mulino, 200 miles east of Moscow, are a potentially ominous sign.
The Russian army’s newest grouping, the 3rd Army Corps, is on the move–toward eastern Ukraine. The 3rd Army Corps is the first big new formation to take shape as a result of the Kremlin’s urgent initiative, beginning this summer, to recruit new soldiers and stand up new units in order to replace the tens of thousands of troops it has lost in the six months since it widened its war in Ukraine.
The 3rd AC will, to some extent, boost the fighting strength of the battered Russian army in Ukraine. But it’s unclear just how effective the corps might be in combat with battle-hardened Ukrainian battalions. While the 3rd AC has drawn relatively modern equipment, its recruits–middle-aged men, mostly–are indicative of the Russian army’s broader manpower challenge.
Aging Russia doesn’t have a lot of highly motivated, fit young men to spare. And that means the 3rd AC could roll into battle at a disadvantage.
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It’s not for no reason that Russian President Vladimir Putin in May signed a law removing the 40-year age limit on new recruits. And it’s not for no reason the 3rd AC’s ranks feature a lot of gray hair, weathered faces and paunchy midsections. “Images of the 3rd Army Corps elements have shown the volunteers to be physically unfit and old,” the Institute for the Study of War in Washington, D.C. noted.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
I found out why they’re getting away with it.
Better shape and better equipped than their opponents.
—”Truth is, they will likely do a decent job on defense, and that’s how they will be used. That could free up better units.”
They used to talk about the Tooth to Tale ratio (T3R)
This might be a bit more like Denture to tail...
That said they could be well used in support.
Welp, that’s about the least credible source you can find…Victoria Nuland’s family and relatives in a money guzzling think tank. Check the credentials of these Institute warriors who study war….
“Images of the 3rd Army Corps elements have shown the volunteers to be physically unfit and old,” the Institute for the Study of War in Washington, D.C. noted”
As I read the 3d Corp is made up of volunteers ( motivated, many have prior military service) …rolling into Crimea fresh for an upcoming battle on the Southern Front and the massive security and humanitarian missions in the newly occupied territories that vote to join Russia as well as in Crimea.
Meanwhile
You realize Ukraine has raised conscription age to 70, eliminated exemptions for disability, and is drafting women 18+ starting in October?
Uke men and women eligible fir draft may not leave Ukraine. Kiev is leaning on ambassadors abroad to find and return “ refugees” that meet conscription criteria
huw ya’ll enjoying Izyum?????
5/15/2022, 2:52:27 PM · 87 of 125
Greetings_Puny_Humans to CarolinaReaganFan
There are already reports that the Russians are preparing to withdraw from Izyum since they lost Kharkiv.The Ukrainians are also planning to re-take Izyum in the very near future
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So how’s that recapture of Izyum working out for ya??
almost as good as Z’s successful evacuation of Mariupol ..
Think so?
See the Russians are reduced to sending old men, empty the nursing homes for more cannon fodder to throw at the invincible hero-Ukrainian soldiers! It will not stop the wave of the Million Man army that’s coming. The end is coming! Next you will see the Russians sending boys and young women to fill his depleted ranks. Human wave attacks on well defended trenches show how Russia lost WW I. No, All The propaganda in the world can not stop the truth of the ultimate Ukraine Victory! It will be over in a month, two as best. Once the offensive starts—nothing will stop the roll up of Russian conscript army—They are as nothing compared to Patriotic people defending their homeland from invaders. end more Billions and more wonder weapons—they are winning the war!
...who are fat old men wanting the money.
This is the old dudes battalion. Bad Vlad is running out of young men who are foolish enough to sign up for the meat grinder. Some for large bonuses, like the pint size Buryat Mongolian terrors. I like them because they took on Putin’s Chechnyan thugs in at least one gun battle. Over who got to keep what was looted from Ukrainian homes.
I suppose last night, Tucker Carlson must have been a possessed Russian mouthpiece when he openly stated on his show that Ukraine was losing the conflict and losing it badly, huh?
No such challenge was ever made. As it happened, there were retreats in Eastern Ukraine, where currently Russia has had no progress since July 10th, whereas your side stated that Ukraine was losing massively every single day and would soon lose all of the Donbass, which has not happened.
Your "challenges" and promises of imminent Russian victory have all failed, over and over again.
We need evidence, which of course you cannot provide despite all these tales of massive Ukrainian defeat going on.
Not my fault you utterly fail at research.
Pictures easily found via any search engine.
But don’t worry yourself, children and the clueless like pictures too, Nazi supporter.
You’ve taken unhinged rage and illogical argumentation to a whole new level. But at least you haven’t reached the point of telling female FReepers you want them to be gang raped and die of aids like Max Americana yet.
Crf “So how’s that recapture of Izyum working out for ya??”
Pretty well, Кароліна, pretty well
Cranked “still kicking Ukrainian asses”
Really? Around Izium?
Yeah, some pictures.
You can see Russian tanks fleeing, getting destroyed, Russian troops fleeing izium etc.
Then the fact that it is day 200 and not only is Putin’s army retreating but the Ukrainian air force is still flying
So you say that Soros and Putin are buddies?
Putin started tye war and Putin is the only one keeping the war going. If Putin withdrew, the war ends.
So you are saying Putin is in league with Soros
So you say that a country with a Jewish President and Jewish prime minister is a “Ukrainian nazi regime “????
Catherine the great was German.
It was, before Catherine, a Greek founded city.
And, as of 2015 it was 68% Ukrainian speaking, and even among the Russian speakers, the majority felt Ukrainian.
You know like Zelensky and his predecessor, Poroshenko, are both native Russian speakers but feel Ukrainian
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