[Berlin_Freeper]

An elite Russian brigade of 5,000 soldiers has been destroyed and reformed as many as 8 times after heavy losses

[canuck_conservative]

coming soon -



"Putin visits the Hague"

[FlyingEagle]

Blessed are the peacemakers.

[Its All Over Except ...]

The US is apparently dropping its woke recruitment ads featuring woke, trash recruits in favor of more traditional ads featuring what you would expect: fit people, not crazy, unbalanced people, storming the beaches at Normandy, etc.

[Reeses]

But if Vladimir Putin truly grows desperate and suspects he could lose this war entirely, would he take things to a worst-case scenario?

There's at least a 0.04% chance, the same percentage as CO2 in China's air. The precautionary principle requires proceeding under the doomsday scenario. Pessimism is most appropriate when the cost of failure is unimaginably high.

[McGruff]

Doesn't say how much or if it pays.

[PIF]

“What they’re running short of are soldiers. Moscow doesn’t publish precise figures, but one recent estimate puts the Russian death toll in Ukraine at more than 70,000. Others suspect that the true figure is closer to 100,000. And then there are the tens of thousands who survived but were too grievously injured to return to combat.”
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Figures above must have been compiled back in late 2022.

Current number is over 170,000 with >1,000 soldier lost per DAY.

[Kazan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDJdp1WPTGs

Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for March 27, 2023;

- Russian forces are not only encircling the fortified cities of Bakhmut and Avdeevka, it is increasingly utilizing its military aviation to bomb fortified positions;

- Increased use of Russian military aviation may indicate an irreversible deterioration of Ukrainian air defense networks and may continue to expand, accelerating the demilitarization of Ukraine;

- Ukraine's offensive may be directed toward the south or east, however, Russia has created extensive defense networks in both directions;

- Because of the West's dwindling stockpiles of weapons and ammunition, Ukraine's offensive, no matter how successful, will end with Ukraine unable to sustain military operations or maintain territorial gains;

- Russia bringing in older tanks and makeshift mobile gun platforms may be used to eliminate weaknesses in Russian defenses, saturating the battlefield with additional firepower to prevent Ukrainian forces from making it through zones of fire;

- Russian military industrial output is greater than Ukraine's Western sponsors, and therefore gives Russia the advantage in shaping the conflict after Ukraine's offensive ends;