Posted on 04/09/2023 7:17:15 AM PDT by Mariner
The classified documents apparently leaked last week detail the weaknesses in the Ukrainian army, specifically shortfalls of ammunition and air defense, according to reports.
The Washington Post reported that one of the leaked Pentagon documents detailed that Ukraine’s air defense may not be able to protect the front lines through the end of May. One of the documents included an assessment from February from the Defense Department’s Joint Staff, which said Ukraine’s “ability to provide medium range air defense to protect the [front lines] will be completely reduced by May 23,” according to the Post.
The reported classified document also says once Ukraine’s first layer of defense munitions run out, the “2nd and 3rd Layer expenditure rates will increase, reducing the ability to defend against Russian aerial attacks from all altitudes.”
Both the Justice Department and the Defense Department are investigating the apparent leak of classified documents after Russian sources posted them to online websites, like Twitter. The documents are dated from March or earlier of this year, and appear to include information on Ukrainian training, munition expenditures and estimated casualties from both Ukraine and Russia. The documents do not appear to have plans for a Ukrainian counter offensive expected for this spring.
The Post also reported that another document shows how quickly the Ukraine’s air defense projectiles will deplete, saying that SA-11 systems will be depleted by April 13, NASAMs, made by the U.S., will be expended by April 15 and SA-8s will be gone by May. Another chart appears to suggest that Ukrainian air defense focus on Russian jets and helicopters and ignore smaller threats, like drones, in light of the expected shortfalls, according to the Post.
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1. Russia's strategy with the cheap Iranian drones was a major winner. They ate air defense and did so cheaply.
2. The world has been lied to. As big and complete a lie as "this man is a woman".
These leaks bolster everything the antiwar faction on tFR have been saying for 13 months. It’s over.
Okay
It also points out a simple answer: Another chart appears to suggest that Ukrainian air defense focus on Russian jets and helicopters and ignore smaller threats, like drones, in light of the expected shortfalls, according to the Post.
“The Man Who Never Was”
“13 months”
It was supposed to be over in ten days.
The Biden globalists are delighted that white Christians are decimating each other in this ongoing meat grinder. Also the new technologies (AI, pinpoint surveillance, drones etc) even in the limited extent they were deployed in this war , has demonstrated to observers that the nature of warfare is forever changed, Armored land vehicles, naval surface combatants, helicopters and even fixed wing aircraft cannot survive on a modern battlefield if the opponents have even a modicum of technological sophistication.
The Lies are having less effect as the future unfolds.
It also demonstrates that the supposedly Ukraine-friendly DOD leaks like a sieve to Ukraine’s detriment.
“It’s over.”
Not quite.
The cracks will manifest as total collapse once every last defender of Bhakmut is dead. That’s when uniformed Ukrainians will start running for the hills.
And once that starts, it cannot be stopped.
One document discussed the number of HIMARS and 155 artillery the Ukes are firing per day. HIMARS is almost nothing, and 155 artillery is a low figure of about 1500 rounds per day.
It backs up the “out of ammo” comments we have been hearing from the MSM recently.
Always read the state-controlled media, Pravda, People’s Daily, NY Times, Washington Post. In their lies, there will be glaring contradictions, and in those, sometimes you can find truth.
“Another chart appears to suggest that Ukrainian air defense focus on Russian jets and helicopters and ignore smaller threats, like drones, in light of the expected shortfalls, according to the Post.”
Armenia did that in their latest war against Azerbaijan...didn’t work out too well.
I know that it hurts when you realize that everything your government has been telling you is a lie or, that the lies you have been telling have been exposed.
Schadenfreude.
Maybe the documents are faked or leaked on purpose. Who knows
Putin hoped it would. They went for a decapitation strike early on, which failed. The Azov regime held on, and that allowed time for NATO to bring their resources to bear. So now Russia needs to fight a long war, potentially against NATO itself, so they have been gearing up for that.
And they will do it.
It would have been over in 13 hours without your hero Biden piling 500 Billion on national debt to send to Ukraine.
You idiot neocons learned nothing from Vietnam fiasco.
Learned nothing again from Iraq fiasco. Learned nothing from Afghan fiasco either. And you will learn nothing from Ukraine fiasco.
Are the documents legitimate? I have no idea - I’d have to see the original documents in the Pentagon or Joint Chiefs - which isn’t happening.
Most of it is covered in a War Zone article - but they are unlike the classified documents of my day; these are printed in terrible colors and then photoed in a crumbled state with no attempt to smooth or straighten them.
That’s all I can say other than, if they are real, the printing standards are somewhere below amateur and into grade school levels. Not what one would expect from today’s services, unless they are hiring grade schoolers to do document formatting and printing.
My 2cents
And after years of nuclear threats and Russia making cowardly sneak attacks on its neighbors NATO is adding new members and preparing for war with Russia and Belarus.
The news this morning showed Ukrainian pilots learning to fly A-10 Warthogs...looked like Mountain Home AFB.
And what is this about? Putin wants to restore the USSR and retake control of Eastern Europe.
That cannot be allowed to happen.
This is the sideshow - the False Flag - the Misdirection - of the real destruction caused by Bush-Obama-Biden Forever War policies.
The death of the Petrodollar is the Golden Ring for the Globalists-
(”Three Days of the Condor” anyone?)
China chatting with Commie Lulu
China-Russian trade
India srceweling it up too
BRICS + Middle East Oil means goodbye USA
Wait til the Malaca Straits ChiCom “Toll” is implemented.
Maybe Jimmy Rogers picked the wrong place after all?
Awww, poor widdle Russia wasn’t allowed to conquer Ukraine! Waaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!!!
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