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To: Salohcin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WTHESzml70

- Crimean Bridge is back in operation - further repairs are required but road and rail traffic resumes;
- Western media notes the US is out of ammunition to send Ukraine and that US allies have even less;
- Nations like France have reached the limits of what they can send in terms of heavy weapons;
- Regional weather and subsequent mud is limiting the mobility of ground forces on both sides, giving the advantage to Russia which possess a larger air force, more drones, and long-range weapons indifferent to ground conditions;
- Ukrainian forces are losing ground in Bakhmut, indicating Ukrainian forces are already overextended - a situation that will only worsen in time;
- Russian forces are preserving their men and equipment and will soon be reinforced by an additional 300,000 troops;

12 posted on 10/09/2022 5:53:43 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Kazan
Why do you spam the same talking points in every Russo-Ukraine War thread? By my count you have cut and pasted this in at least 10 threads. We've already read these points of yours many times, you don't need to repeat them.

As you've been so insistent, I'll take the time to review each point:

- Crimean Bridge is back in operation - further repairs are required but road and rail traffic resumes;

Only one lane of the road bridge is in operation, and it is restricted to automobile traffic, no truck traffic, making it useless as a military supply line. It is unclear to what extent the railroad bridge was damaged, but it too appears to be operating at reduced capacity.

- Western media notes the US is out of ammunition to send Ukraine and that US allies have even less;

Do you really expect us to believe that Russia has an ammunition supply greater than the combined stocks of NATO? Or perhaps even Russia is starting to run out of ammunition.

- Nations like France have reached the limits of what they can send in terms of heavy weapons;

Weapons donations to Ukraine are continuing and the quality is a higher level than available to the Russians. On the other hand, Russia is resorting to reaching into its stocks of Soviet-era equipment, much of which is of questionable serviceability.

- Regional weather and subsequent mud is limiting the mobility of ground forces on both sides, giving the advantage to Russia which possess a larger air force, more drones, and long-range weapons indifferent to ground conditions;

In the eight months since the start of the war Russia hasn't been able to leverage the purported advantage of its vaunted "larger air force." What makes you believe that is going to change? Especially after Ukraine has received a large amount of Western air defense equipment.

- Ukrainian forces are losing ground in Bakhmut, indicating Ukrainian forces are already overextended - a situation that will only worsen in time;

If Ukraine losing a few hundred meters in Bakhmut is a sign that its forces is overextended, what does Russia losing tens of kilometers on the Kharkiv and Kherson fronts indicate?

- Russian forces are preserving their men and equipment and will soon be reinforced by an additional 300,000 troops;

You expect 300,000 ill equiped over-age and over-weight reservists who haven't had any military training since they left their mandatory service to change military balance? Good luck with that.
13 posted on 10/09/2022 7:38:07 PM PDT by Salohcin
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