Posted on 09/14/2022 10:26:26 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
The Ukrainian army’s counteroffensive around the city of Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine starting on Sept. 6 destroyed half of the best tank division in the best tank army in the Russian armed forces.
A hundred wrecked or captured tanks in a hundred furious hours. That’s how much destruction the Ukrainians inflicted on the Russian 4th Guards Tank Division, part of the elite 1st Guards Tank Army, the Russian army’s best armor formation.
Now the 1st GTA is retreating north in order to preserve what remains of its front-line divisions. But the damage the tank army has suffered could have lasting implications—and not just for Russia’s 200-day-old wider war in Ukraine.
The 1st GTA “had been one of the most prestigious of Russia’s armies, allocated for the defense of Moscow, and intended to lead counterattacks in the case of a war with NATO,” the U.K. Defense Ministry explained. “It will likely take years for Russia to rebuild this capability.”
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Wrong.
Just as I listed reports from the BBC, Democracy Now, and the Guardian and even gave Zel’s saying Ukraine took 6k square miles and DN and the Guardian saying otherwise, reports are that up to 12k (others have lower figures) Ukrainian soldiers died in a failure of taking an area no bigger than Rhode Island.
You and others agreeing with you can come back with better Biden regime propaganda later.
NATO, if involved like some report they are, could work wonders, but how sustainable would up to 12k Ukrainian soldiers dead be to retake an area no bigger than Rhode Island?
Amazing how “Ukraine” (AKA US/Soros proxy warriors) can do nothing wrong, and Hillary’s hated enemy RUSSIA COLLUSION RUSSIA COLLUSION RUSSIA COLLUSION can do nothing right.
It’s almost as if it is nothing but all propaganda, all the time.
What reports? Russian reports?
Burned out Russian tanks warm my heart.
My guess is that the tanks and their crews would be alive today if they stayed in Russia.
No, it was just a clever Russian ploy, the tanks were just decoys to make Ukraine waste all of their ammunition!
/putinista
The Guardian is reporting 8,000 sq km retaken.
“Zelenskiy said about 8,000 sq km (3,100 square miles) have been liberated so far, apparently all in the north-eastern region of Kharkiv. “Stabilisation measures” had been completed in about half of that territory, Zelenskiy said, “and across a liberated area of about the same size, stabilisation measures are still ongoing”. Ukraine now has set its sights on freeing all territory occupied by invading Russian forces.”
The BBC reporting.
“In a late evening address on Tuesday, Mr Zelensky said his forces were fortifying their hold over 8,000 sq km (3,088 sq miles) of retaken territory in the Kharkiv region.
Last Thursday, President Zelensky said Ukrainian forces had retaken 1,000 sq km. By Sunday, that stated figure had tripled to 3,000 sq km, before rising again to 6,000 sq km.”
RuZZians dropped their guns and fled.
You don’t take heavy casualties when the enemy runs away.
Must be true! I read it on FR!
“RUSSIA COLLUSION RUSSIA COLLUSION RUSSIA COLLUSION can do nothing right.”
RuZZia being RuZZia.
You have shown a penchant for having no substantive retorts so you pass it all off as Russian reports just like MSNBC and Rachel Maddow would.
Anyone still playing that game you play is a liberal amd supports the Biden regime and has no solid retorts.
Being able to parade around does not mean the people parading around are a good army.
Well, they’re probably not obsolete when used properly, with sufficient support, and in the right circumstances.
But as a “one size fits all” tool to just throw in mass quantities at the enemy, no matter the situation, well, that’s been a poor strategy for many decades before this.
When the other side is getting clobbered, it's the truth. When your side is getting clobbered, nobody can tell.
There are way more than two sides to this.
They’re all lying to us.
All of his posts are made up, he suddenly decided he is going to become FR’s big troll and spam every thread with all kinds of made-up, discredited, outdated AND discredited, “reports of” nonsense, who knows what makes someone on the internet into a childish troll.
Whenever I read news of this war I am struck by the numbers of units each army seems to have. I cannot even begin to list them but it’s like resding the order of battle before Kursk. Makes me suspicious of everything I read and hesr
“Just as I listed reports from the BBC, Democracy Now, and the Guardian...”
Far left sources that all the pro-Russia crowd around here routinely rejects out of hand unless whatever they say happens to fit the pro-Russian narrative of the day.
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