Posted on 11/27/2022 6:30:56 AM PST by Timber Rattler
The Ukrainian army has deployed some of its best brigades to eastern Ukraine, including the 92nd and 93rd Mechanized Brigades and the 1st Presidential Brigade.
But these elite Ukrainian formations might not be the biggest killer of Russian troops in the east. Under-trained, under-supplied and ambivalently led, Russians in the region are freezing to death by the dozen.
Shocking videos that have circulated online in recent weeks tell a tragic story. The videos, shot by the Ukrainian brigades’ hovering drones, depict Russians in the late stages of hypothermia, so cold and sick that they barely react when the drones drop lethal improvised bombs on them.
Thomas Theiner, an ex-soldier who currently is a filmmaker in Kyiv, predicted winter “would kill more Russian soldiers than Ukraine ever could.” He may have been right.
Winters in Ukraine start wet and cold then get colder and drier. Eastern Ukraine still is in the wet-cold phase—and it’s brutal. Deep mud mires armored vehicles. Daytime temperatures hover around freezing, while nighttime temperates dip closer to zero degrees Fahrenheit.
With preparation, sound leadership and reliable logistics, the conditions are survivable. Soldiers bundle up, sleep in roofed, heated trenches with floors, frequently change their wet socks and eat twice as much as they would on warm days. When they get sick, they evacuate to the rear for rest.
The problem, for the Russian army, is that more and more of its troops are untrained draftees. Officers aren’t leading from the front. And Russian logistics are strained by nonstop Ukrainian bombardment. Starving draftees with no gloves or good boots are huddling in shallow, unheated trenches while their officers squat in abandoned houses potentially miles away, unaware or uncaring as their soldiers succumb to the elements.
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Why dont they just steal some blankets from Ukrainian babies?
This proves that if Russia had not stolen our nuclear secrets they would be a third world country!!
sorry but like most of what we hear—this is FAKE NEWS.
Russians do not freeze to death.
First the forget about the mud and then about winter: Russian command staff ... were they trained only with CoD?
All this crap may just be a lie.....
General Winter works both ways.
Those goofy Russians. Just like when you posted when they ran out of gas and ammo back in early March, they just forgot they had winter in Russia. The Ukes definitely have the advantage as the Russians have never fought a winter war. What a braying jackass to post this ridiculous nonsense.
No such thing as bad weather...just bad clothing choices.
I seem to recall that the Russian invasion of Finland in WWII failed because the Russians didn’t have adequate cold weather gear. Looks like history is repeating itself.
Excellent movie.
But..but... We are told a winter offensive will destroy Ukraine...
Jeez Louise, I thought the subtle shake in that photo was my eyes.
They did all the time in the Winter War with Finland in 1939-40. Due to being poorly equipped.
Oh yeah?
This generation, on both sides, has not fought a winter war.
Oh ok sure thing
They do, but then they're confiscated by the officers.
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