Another big counterpunch against Russia could cost more lives than Kyiv's forces can afford to lose, a Ukrainian senior official warns

Business Insider via Yahoo ^ | March 14th, 2023 | Chris Panella

[Mariner]

With One Piece at a Time they built that fancy new Armored Brigade Combat Team.

Now that team will have to win the whole war.

[delta7]

From the article, “ The official said he’s not sure how Ukraine can mount an effective counterattack this spring. “I’m looking at the resources and asking, ‘With what?’”

The truth is emerging, and from a western MSM outlet. Surprise, Surprise.

[ClearCase_guy]

“Steiner’s assault will bring the situation under control.”

[Rdct29]

I've been seeing more truth coming out over the last few days. The battle in and around Bahkmut is a real violent fight that is killing men on both sides. I think Russia can absorb losses better then Ukraine right now. I heard a Ukrainian soldier talking about how lucky he was to survive a direct hit from a tank shell on the bunker he was in. The guys with him didn't survive. The numbers of dead and wounded in his area was extremely high according to him. I guess we will know the outcome in Bahkmut pretty soon.

[McGruff]

Winning!

[Zhang Fei]

Ukraine ping

Ukraine might be trying to get Russia’s guard down. When Putin moved large numbers of Russian troops around Kharkov to Kherson, he left the road open for Ukrainians to retake ~12,000 square miles, a chunk of land the size of Maryland. The Ukrainian official is saying that the army being assembled from a mishmash of near sell-by-date equipment from NATO’s junkyards needs to be complete before a general offensive - that there’s no point in penny packet attacks that will simply get whittled down.

At that point, we will discover whether Western armor really is capable of defeating superior numbers of Russian armor without the benefit of air power. During Desert Storm, the Russians argued that air power made the difference for the Western armored units that curb-stomped their quantitatively-superior Russian-armed Iraqi counterparts. In addition, they claimed that the armor provided to Iraq consisted of inferior export models. The tanks the Russians are using in Ukraine are presumably not export models.

[struggle]

>I guess we will know the outcome in Bahkmut pretty soon.

They’re just waiting until the Russians hit a treeline without Ukrainians behind it. Then, once that surge happens, the Ukrainians will shuffle and other areas will be left open. It turns into a slow bleed that gets faster and faster.

All the death is happening with Wagner.

[McGruff]

Mom, they want to ship me to the front lines!

[wildcard_redneck]

"Ukraine might be trying to get Russia’s guard down. When Putin moved large numbers of Russian troops around Kharkov to Kherson, he left the road open for Ukrainians to retake ~12,000 square miles, a chunk of land the size of Maryland."

Hopium is a helluva drug Zhang Fei.

[delta7]

I guess we will know the outcome in Bahkmut pretty soon.
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As we speak, Avdika is also being encircled….another key Ukie defensive position…..as an Ivan General states…we draw them in, encircle, establish the cauldron, then start Boiling it….over, and over again.

….and that’s that.

[hardspunned]

There is no way Ukraine has more cannon fodder than Russia. The Ukes absolutely will run out first. The only way to avoid this is the introduction of NATO cannon fodder into the equation.

[House Atreides]

“I’ve been seeing more truth coming out over the last few days. The battle in and around Bahkmut is a real violent fight that is killing men on both sides. I think Russia can absorb losses better then Ukraine right now. I heard a Ukrainian soldier talking about how lucky he was to survive a direct hit from a tank shell on the bunker he was in. The guys with him didn’t survive. The numbers of dead and wounded in his area was extremely high according to him….”
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It is a very deadly and dangerous place for Ukrainian conscripts. Some who decide they’d prefer to be POWs rather than dead or maimed end up being machine gunned in the back by their “friends” while trying to surrender to the Russians. Of course many become POWs. The guys in this video were unsuccessful L

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv2U7ETFDo8

[woodpusher]

All the death is happening with Wagner.

Wagner has the artillery and shells to go with it. All the death occurs on the receiving end.

[airborne]

According to this post, Ukraine has plenty of fighting age men who are performing in drag - maybe to get out of fighting???
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In Kiev, Drag Queens Perform to Forget The War — And to Defy Putin

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4138196/posts

[realcleanguy]

This article is preparing us for Biden to order the use of American troops in Ukraine. We already have 3 divisions worth of equipment placed forward in Poland. It’s coming. Joe and the Neocons and the MIC want this war.

[ansel12]

Poland is where Trump ordered V Corps European headquarters to be moved to when he reactivated V Corps, of course, we keep troops and equipment there.

[Obadiah]

Concur. Send Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell.

[familyop]

Ukraine's Security Council refutes statements that counteroffensive may be in danger due to losses at front
Ukrainska Pravda
TETIANA LOZOVENKO — TUESDAY, 14 MARCH 2023

The National Security Council refutes the information of The Washington Post about the deterioration of the quality of the Ukrainian army due to the loss of skilled fighters, which endangers the spring counteroffensive.

Source: Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, on air of the national 24/7

Quote: "We read these newspapers cautiously before 24 February, when they all unanimously told us there would be trouble. All this is not true.

Today is the beginning of a new phase, and I would like it not to be supported by our media. What they say is not valid. Yes, there is a problematic situation. We have been waging war against a larger country for a year, but not larger in reason. We knew it would be difficult for us. But now to shake up the situation by providing information that does not correspond to reality is not very pleasant.

I would like to point out that there are no surnames – they have some sources. And they are now starting such a game."

Background:

On 13 March, The Washington Post published an article alleging that the quality of the Ukrainian military had deteriorated due to battlefield losses of many of its most experienced fighters, prompting some Ukrainian officials to question Kyiv's readiness for the long-awaited spring offensive.

[familyop]

"The tanks the Russians are using in Ukraine are presumably not export models."

True. The Russians recently bragged that they're sending 200 T-90s with their latest modifications.

[PIF]

Its not going to be tank on tank battle, except in very rare instances - mostly western tanks will fall just like any other tank - to artillery fire.