Posted on 01/23/2023 3:33:52 AM PST by Timber Rattler
In the battle to keep warm, Ukrainian infantryman Kyrylo Molchanov has turned to “trench candles”—empty food cans packed with cardboard—to heat his front-line dugout.
With Russia and Ukraine fighting through the winter, keeping Ukrainian soldiers warm could become a competitive advantage for Kyiv.
For armies, winter weather affects everything from maneuverability to battery power. But the cold and wet can have a crushing effect on soldiers’ morale and ability to fight, while creating potential medical problems.
The U.S. and its allies have sent hundreds of thousands of pieces of winter clothing. Ukraine has supplemented those supplies from elsewhere, and the various items in Lt. Molchanov’s uniform come from several countries.
Some Russian soldiers seem to be arriving for battle less well kitted out, hindered in part by a hasty mobilization drive in the fall.
Ukraine’s armed forces are adapting, cutting wood from local forests, sourcing smaller barracks and using the trench candles, which volunteers and family send packed tight with rolls of cardboard.
“If you light it an hour or two before going to bed, it heats up more than you would expect,” Lt. Molchanov said from Ukraine’s southern front line.
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“Send tanks, jets and men! We’re winning!!!”
The German army held drives begging for coats during the Winter of 1941-42. They were supposed to have defeated Russia prior to winter.
It’s winter again in the Ukraine? Isn’t this where we came in?
War is hell. War under a snow cover is even more hell.
And yet, like two weary fighters in the ring, circling each other, neither able to land an effective punch to knock the other out, they shuffle, unwilling to quit or even make a truce of some kind.
BS
Those trench candles are much more effective when the cardboard is saturated with wax.
This is one of the silliest non-arguments in this discussion. Military commanders always want more of everything they need.
What commander says: "Stop sending me supplies and men. We are winning."?
Perhaps, it makes sense once the war is won.
I have been reading many claiming the Russians have already won, while simultaneously calling up more troops, sending more equipment and ammunition to the front, etc. etc.
Nazi apologia
Name calling is a sure sign of losing the argument.
Everybody knows the Russians suck at winter warfare.
The Germans know it especially well.
/sarc
Propaganda is the sign of losing an argument, vis a vis, “Putin has cancer and is dying”, Russia is out of ammunition”, “Soledar is in Ukraine hands”, “Joe Biden’s foreign policy isn’t a catastrophe”
No one cares what Canadian Liberals think.
When the Germans were being rolled up in WWII, the Army slowed down it’s equipment, and stopped sending men over. Instead, the moved men from administrative positions toward more forward positions.
agreed
good thing I’m not a Canadian Liberal
"A reckless liberal"
Drivel. Like Russians have never lived in the cold, but the ever resourceful Ukes know how to make fire in a ration can? Pure comedy. Let’s keep the powerful secret of making a fire in a ration can away from the Russians! Lol
Clownworld.
Meanwhile Pooty Poot has died and been resurrected 100 times....
Trench candles sent from relatives. Think these people can operate and maintain sensitive leopard tanks?
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