Posted on 02/09/2023 9:16:17 AM PST by Mariner
Ukraine is bracing for a grisly Russian offensive in the Donbas. Moscow has concentrated hundreds of thousands of troops in the country’s east, using brute-force tactics and human waves in a bid to chip away at the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ defenses.
Amid a recent surge in fighting, many military analysts believe the long-awaited Russian offensive is already underway and is expected to accelerate as the first anniversary of the invasion approaches.
“Something is brewing in the east,” said Jonatan Vseviov, secretary-general of the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “More and more Russian soldiers are arriving on the front,” he said.
Ukrainian officials estimate that Russian forces inside the country have surpassed the 300,000 mark following a recent mobilization effort that began in September of last year. Military analysts believe the figure may be slightly lower, but even more conservative estimates of Russia’s presence in Ukraine are significantly higher than the invading force that Russian President Vladimir Putin used to invade the country last February—and this time, they are highly concentrated in eastern Ukraine.
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Russia has also begun arming up and digging in for a coming offensive. The Ukrainian military estimates that Russia already has 1,800 tanks, 3,950 armored vehicles, 2,700 artillery systems, 810 Soviet-era multiple-rocket-launch systems such as Grad and Smerch, 400 fighter jets, and 300 helicopters ready for the new wave of attacks, the official said.
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Unfortunately they are leaving their undermanned forces to die like in Soledar and Bakhmut, instead of either adding reinforcements or retreating to a defendable position. Russia has the manpower to fight the way they are fighting. Ukraine doesnt have the manpower to fight the way they are fighting, but continue to do it until troops fro other countries come in at force.
Its good to see others like you with a grasp on reality. Thank you for not being a sucker of the MSM.
Why not? Helping wounded soldiers is always a good thing.
You are absolutely correct. The real horror in Ukraine war is we are BORROWING money to send to Ukraine and padding our already obscenely high national debt. This will severely hurt our own children and grand children’s lives.
But the war mongers and neocons do not care a whit about American young people. They are either stooges of the military industrial complex or just plain uninformed low IQ people.
“Ukraine doesnt have the manpower to fight the way they are fighting...”
Yet, they’ve been pretty successful, all things considered.
“...but continue to do it until troops fro other countries come in at force.”
That’s not going to happen and Ukraine knows it. And, I suspect, so do you.
Im not sure how many “contractors” are available to operate technical equipment in Ukraine. If they could get operators for all the advanced weapons NATO is willing to send, it may make a difference.
we’re done here...
“Im not sure how many “contractors” are available to operate technical equipment in Ukraine. If they could get operators for all the advanced weapons NATO is willing to send, it may make a difference.”
If the contracts are lucrative enough, there will be contractors taking the jobs.
British pilots too?
Actually, I have. Not as a combatant. And not any wars where Americans were combatants. But, oh yeah, I sure have. And seen horrors you and 99.9999% of Americans cannot imagine.
It’s true that soldiers and medics (from whatever country or faction) do their best to help their wounded, often acting heroically. But, and here I quote, so it’s not just little old me saying it:
“Tragically, the medics often had to make the decision of which wounded soldiers were beyond help, and move on to the next wounded man.”
As you can imagine, this takes quite a toll on the medics. At least it did on the ones I knew.
Now, that said, I was overly harsh on you and for that I apologize. I was was very upset with FR that day, between the callous comments about the earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria (some were actually sick-minded) and the continued cheerleading for the carnage of the war in Ukraine (both factions)
When I got to your post, I thought “finally, someone smart and humane” but remembered how things actually go in the wars I witnessed up close and personal, and how ghastly it really is. So I very unfairly took out on you my frustration and outrage at how heart-rending all the terrible and crazy deaths you see in wars are. Not at all your fault! I do apologize and hope we can make up.
I decided to take a break from FR for some days, given that the callous comments about the earthquake and war were getting to me, and therefore my apology is sadly belated.
Finally, your question really was a good one. Where do they get medics? (Which is a different question from what the poor medics have to do on the battlefield.)
to the point of losing good men in the process.
your mileage may very
We are famous for that and it helps build morale.
I helped recover bodies of American servicemen from the Vietnam War in the Bay of Thailand and elsewhere in Cambodia decades after that that conflict was over
Sometimes, it simply is not possible and has to wait. Reality.
are you intentionally obtuse???
the “Russians” leave them as on the field as a matter of course!!!
we’re done here
Yeah, I guess we are done here. You are basically a jerk as anyone can see. Bye.
BTW, I hoped for better from you. Disappointed.
And it’s QUiTE obvious to all you have never near the “sharp end” as you put it. All of us who have, that is.
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