Posted on 12/28/2022 4:03:24 AM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans
Russian fighter Topaz on artillery shell hunger and discipline of the mobilised
Posted on 28 December 2022
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WarTranslated: The Russian volunteer Topaz, who is a member of the nazi Rusich unit along with his friend Aleksey Milchakov, is active on Telegram. On 27 December he posted a text describing the serious shell hunger in the Russian forces and made a conclusion that the situation is becoming critical if measures are not taken to cope with the lack of shells.
He also points the attention of readers to the fact that the mobilisation program has not gone as expected as 4 out of 5 mobilised are not combat-ready, and in fact, often sabotage the combat tasks by faking radio interactions.
Find the translation of the post below:
TOPAZ: You know that I try to refrain from loud predictions and insiders, especially negative ones. This is due to the fact that during the war, information is often more destructive than thousands of mines and shells. I especially prefer silence during informational hunger, it is better to post a couple of funny texts than to suck “insiders” and “forecasts” out of your finger. But now I consider it my duty to shed light on the real situation in the SMO zone. So, in summary:
• The Russian army is experiencing a serious shortage of ammunition against the backdrop of active supplies of ammunition to our enemy, this problem is turning from serious to critical. If nothing changes, in the near future the enemy will begin to gain artillery dominance at the frontline.
To understand the depth of the problem, it is necessary to realise the fact that absolutely all the successes of our army, both offensive and defensive, are the result of the superiority of our artillery. There are several options for the development of events, in my opinion:
1. Our side is negotiating the supply of ammunition with one of the few allied countries.
2. We are trying to freeze the conflict on the most shameful terms in order to have time to build up production capacity that will cover the deficit.
3. We decide on a risky, absolutely adventurous tank breakthrough aimed at ensuring that most of the troops can gain a foothold in settlements, and not stand in the open steppe under mines and shells.
•Mobilisation has completely failed. It should be understood that the vast majority – 70-80% of the mobilised military personnel turned out to be unfit for combat for several reasons:
1. Lack of quality military training. Here I don’t see the point in ranting, I can only say that if yesterday’s cashier from the grocery store is driven around in a tank at the training ground for 2 weeks, then he obviously won’t become a good tankman.
2. The lack of ideological motivation of the mobilised due to the lack of clear goals of the SMO, which should be broadcast by the authorities and the media.
Yesterday’s factory worker has no idea what denazification and demilitarization of brotherly Ukraine is (I don’t quite understand either). Obviously, these magical and abstract expressions are not the reason why a hard worker will go to war for the denazification of brotherly Ukraine with a smile on his face and the blessing of his wife.
3. As a result of the previous paragraph, there is a large-scale intentional and unintentional sabotage of hostilities by the mobilised. For example, men learned to play “radio games”, that is, to simulate the performance of a combat mission on the radio while sitting in a comfortable and safe dugout. With all the resulting victorious exclamations and panicked cries. I’m not even talking about the rampant drunkenness and the complete absence of at least some security measures of countering the enemy’s sabotage activity.
4. After the previous paragraph, a logical question arises – where are the senior comrades, hardened by experience and disciplined, who should restore order and counteract sabotage in the ranks of the mobilised? They are not there, they are fighting in other positions, because some fabulous idiot decided to staff separate, very responsible and important areas only with the mobilised. As a result, we get hundreds dead and wounded in the battle for a pigsty occupied by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which has no value. And when the mobilised begin to gain the upper hand, the enemy will calmly and orderly retreat covered by an artillery wall, which is becoming easier and easier to implement (see the beginning of the text), and then they will shell the newly occupied positions with HIMARS.
I still have a lot to say about idiots and traitors who will forever burn in hell for every drop of the spilled blood of a Russian soldier, but I think that this is enough to understand the big picture.
What to do? Do not lose faith, unity, and honor. Fight to the end, because the Russian people and our homes are behind us.
We will definitely withstand it.
Glory to Russia!
Bkmk
“...artillery shell hunger and discipline of the mobilised...”
Need more coffee.
It’s a Pro-Russian source (if you bothered to read it)
It’s pretty clear they are also posting here on FR.
Obviously.
Posting?
Hell,they got your picture on their desk.
Progressive, Liberal, Bernie Fan, Lee Hu Fang who goes by the name Lee Fang? Who is a contributing writer at The Nation and a writer at progressive outlet the Republic Report? Okay
Fang has been described as a "liberal" by The New York Times, and as both "liberal" and "progressive" by Salon. Liberal commentator Jonathan Chait described Fang as "left-wing" and wrote "Like many Bernie Sanders supporters, Fang often lacerates mainstream liberals both for insufficient populist zeal and, on occasion, for excessive focus on identity at the expense of class. His views on economics put him well to the left of the Democratic Party, while his views on race and gender would sit comfortably in the middle of it, and often put him at odds with fellow leftists."
According to Fang, "I like hanging out with fully grassroots Tea Party activists because, for the most part, whatever their motivations are, they're just upset about society and they want to do something about it which, at the core, I respect even though I pretty much disagree with their worldview."
Meanwhile, many Freepers have joined the farcical Russian de-Nazification effort and work mightily to hide the Russian failure.
The “absolutely adventurous tank breakthrough” is a delusional Russian version of Hitler’s Battle of the Bulge. Except Putin has no eastern front troops and armor left to make the assault. Having shot his wad, Putin has no ability to mount “absolutely adventurous tank breakthrough”
“… where are the senior comrades, hardened by experience and disciplined, who should restore order and counteract sabotage in the ranks of the mobilised? They are not there, they are fighting in other positions, because some fabulous idiot decided to staff separate, very responsible and important areas only with the mobilised…”
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If Russian generals are doing that, it’s stupid. You should never have a bunch of NOOBIES off by themselves without a liberal sprinkling of experienced soldiers, non-coms and officers to add discipline and “backbone” during their OJT combat.
“… where are the senior comrades”
They are dead.
Being poorly led and militarily inferior, they were killed on the battlefield by the well led and superior Ukranian forces
Sounds just like Palestinian efforts to smear Israel; take piccies of kids killed across town and advertise them as killings by Jewish defense force in latest AlJazeera “expose’ “.
88 is a call sign meaning “ Heil Hitler”
Used in many Uke Nationalist call-signs
They are proud of it
After all, their national hero Stepan Bandera and his Uke nationalist followers were murderous nazi collaborators in WW2
To say that a pro-Russian poster is posing with an “88” or Russian unit is operating as a “ nazi unit”….should be beyond belief to anyone following this war and Uke history
The beginning of the history of the Rusich group was laid in 2009, when a training base for military training was founded. The founder Alexey Milchakov is a neo-Nazi from Saint Petersburg, who had the nickname "Fritz" before being sent to the Donbas (there he changed to the call sign "Serb"). He took part in the Partizan paramilitary training program at the Novorossiya Aid Coordination Center (KCPN) run by the Imperial Legion, a combat arm of the Russian Imperial Movement.
In 2022, the detachment and its commanders Alexey Milchakov and Yan Petrovsky were included in the US sanctions list for their "special cruelty" in the battles in the Kharkiv Oblast
Rusich emblem featuring a combination of the Kolovrat swastika, the Black Sun, the Algiz rune, the Týr rune, the ribbon of Saint George and the black-yellow-white flag of the Russian Empire.
Mobilisation has completely failed. It should be understood that the vast majority – 70-80% of the mobilised military personnel turned out to be unfit for combat
This is why Lavrov is demanding Ukraine surrender and give in to Moscow's demands. Both sides are no where near to starting on wartime production and have limits on what they can provide and how fast they can provide it. The nations supporting Ukraine have seven times the population and thirty times the GDP of Russia at the minimum. The US commitment represents less than 5% of our annual defense budget. Meanwhile sanctions have hurt Russian arms production so much Russia is cutting deals with Iran to trade Migs for drones and missiles at a huge discount for Iran.
What is finally happening is Moscow has to face the limits of how much war it can support, and is running into those limits faster than Ukraine. Its just took this long to get here.
Production numbers across Russia’s vast, mostly state-owned military industrial complex remain elusive, but based on how Russia’s stockpiles were created specifically for large-scale, intense, and protracted military conflict and how Russia’s military has likewise been configured to conduct such military conflict, it is highly likely extensive preparations were also made years in advance for Russia’s military industrial complex to produce what is necessary for such military conflict.
Only time will tell just how prepared Russia was and is to sustain combat operations against the combined resources of the US and its NATO allies. What is certain is that Ukraine’s fall offensives have ground to a halt while Russian forces are now once again inching across the battlefield.
It is worth mentioning that General Zaluzhny during his Economist interview would say:
I get what I get, but it is less than what I need. It is not yet time to appeal to Ukrainian soldiers in the way that Mannerheim appealed to Finnish soldiers. We can and should take a lot more territory.
General Zaluzhny may not think it’s time to appeal to Ukrainian troops regarding their surrender to Russia as Mannerheim did to Finnish soldiers while capitulating to the Soviet Union, in the hopes that the West will provide what Zaluzhny thinks he needs to win, but it is clear that the West neither has what he needs to win, nor is making any serious preparations to acquire it.
The only hope – it appears – rests with the notion that Russia will run out of weapons and ammunition before Ukraine’s dwindling supplies are finally exhausted. It is a hope that is shaken each time a new Russian cruise missile or drone strikes Ukrainian infrastructure across the country, or each time a brand new T-90 main battle tank rumbles into the Donbass region.
Well that's a gigantic lie. Russia has tons of Nazis involved in this war. The "separatist" leaders were all Neo-Nazis, or extreme nationalists who were OK with anti-semitism. Then there's Wagner, which is also perfectly OK with anti-semitism and is named after Hitler's favorite composure. Their leader has swastikas and SS symbols tattooed on his body, and they're fighting in Bakhmut right now with Russian supplied tanks, air support, and artillery (and dying in huge numbers).
“To say that a pro-Russian poster is posing with an “88” or Russian unit is operating as a “ nazi unit”….should be beyond belief ...”
Except for the well known fact that there are explicitly Nazi units in the Russian military, such as the Sparta battalion, or the Wagner group.
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