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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Russians don’t freeze because there’s a lot of vodka in them.
I don’t believe Vlad will be visiting the troops at Christmas time.
Cold in Ukraine effect only Russian Soldiers. Ukraine soldiers are immune from cold and death.
Lol - Russian soldiers have been dealing with bitter cold for 800 years. They suddenly forgot how?
It is a fake news that Russia stole nuclear secrets from anybody. BTW British and French did developed it themselves or also stole? Or today north Koreans and Iranians for this matter?
Posted on 11/27/2022, 12:23:36 PM by SoConPubbie
Headline from 1943?
How did the Soviets get the secrets to the bomb?
Who was convicted of giving US atomic secrets to the Soviet Union?
In one of the most sensational trials in American history, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of espionage for their role in passing atomic secrets to the Soviets during and after World War II. The husband and wife were later sentenced to death and were executed in 1953.
Well duh. We have no proof what anyone is supplied with.
We do know that Ukraine is being shipped a lot of military winter gear from advanced countries and all indications are that the Russians are short of military winter gear and some of the other winter needs such as food, heaters, good leadership and supply systems, and such.
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