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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Damn, Jo Jo needs to see if Zelenskyyyyy and his boyzzzz would go kick the Red Chinese Army’s ass for a couple more billion when they are finished with the lowlife Russkis.
At some point, we’ll find out the truth.
I don’t think either side it telling the truth.
“I don’t think either side it telling the truth.”
You’re right.
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Reports are Ukraine lost up to 12k soldiers taking an area no bigger than Rhode Island.
Fail.
10 thousand million tanks destroyed...
Leaked Ukrainian documents from a while back show why Ukraine has had to go all in on the offensive, but the MIC Biden regime doesn’t care as he and Obama supported the 2014 coup in Ukraine of a legally elected president:
From one of a gazillion reports on this:
Unconfirmed leaked data from the Armed Forces of Ukraine General Staff:
- The AFU are only 43-48% complete;
- medical workers at the limit of their strength: the seriously wounded are transported to Europe;
- small arms and bulletproof vests are not enough;
https://twitter.com/Russ_Warrior/status/1555546218608365568
This is backed up by other reports.
And Ukraine reportedly lost 12k in the last week taking an area the size of Rhode Island while Russia has taken more land recently in Southern Ukraine.
Ukraine has lost at least 50% of its regular, trained people, and had no choice but to go all-in on an offensive attack.
Ukrainians throwing their lives away for the Biden regime and neocon McCainiac, “To the last Ukrainian” warmongers:
The Guardian, Democracy Now, and others reported yesterday that 1,000 square kilometers were retaken by Ukraine, not Zel’s claimed 6000 sq km.
The BBC reported today and yesterday that about 1/5 of Ukraine has been conquered by Russia. So retaking 1k to 6k square kilometers of 1/5 of Ukraine turns out to be a paltry percentage (less than 1% to around 5% of what Russia has conquered) and especially paltry given that Russia has made recent advancements into other areas of southern Ukraine.
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Fox8
Zelensky to headline US defense industry conference
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And it seems NATO may be there:
The Dive With Jackson Hinkle
Zelensky is hiding the truth in Ukraine
English-speaking NATO troops in Kharkiv?
The justification for this by neocons, if true, would be “Putin mean, Russia bad” akin to Clinton saying “Slobo mean, Serbia bad” or Obama saying “Gaddafi mean, Libya bad” to justify NATO involvement in those countries, which was against their defensive charter they attacking offensively and especially so since neither Serbia nor Libya attacked a NATO member.
People fighting an existential threat to their homeland, versus a much more heavily armed but poorly led and poorly trained larger military oppomemt.
Are tanks obsolete? A thousand in 6 months is pretty expensive. That plus all the other armor destroyed. Who’s want to operate one?
Reports on Ukrainian casualties say ‘light’, even ‘extremely light’.
Their entire force may have been composed of just 9000 soldiers.
So 12k casualties is a made up number.
“10 thousand million tanks destroyed...”
Nope. 100 in 100 hours.
1100 over 6.5 months.
What will strike you as the most plausible spin from the Kremlin for losing Kherson? Was the move over the Dnepr just a feint here too? Will it be a goodwill gesture on the part of the invader to leave, or do you suspect the Kremlin will order a ‘regrouping’ south of the Dnepr?
What would you buy for an excuse instead of acknowledging it as another Russians retreat in this war?
Tanks are OBSOLETE as weapon of war......................
In war, truth is the first casualty.
The first casualty of any war is ‘TRUTH’...................
and for a few billion more they’ll retake all of the middle east once they’re don’t killing Russia. God bless American money.
Round numbers are usually a fabrication.
TTIWWP.
This thread is worthless without pictures.
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