Posted on 05/14/2023 5:53:08 AM PDT by dennisw
Even conservative estimates suggest Russia has lost as many as 10,000 pieces of military hardware in Ukraine Analysts point to failure of Moscow's tactics and Ukraine 'outclassing' Kremlin's troops on the battlefield
Tuesday saw Vladimir Putin host Russia's annual Victory Day parade to mark 78 years since the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany.
But while recent years have seen ostentatious displays with dozens of the Kremlin's most sophisticated pieces of military hardware rolling through Moscow's famous Red Square, this year saw a significantly slimmed-down affair.
Some 8,000 troops took part in the parade - the lowest number since 2008. Even the procession in 2020, the year of the Covid-19 pandemic, featured some 13,000 soldiers, and last year, 11,000 troops took part.
What's more, there was no fly-over of military jets, and - as opposed to the columns of T-90 and state-of-the-art T-14 Armata tanks paraded in previous years - a lonesome Second World War-era T-34 trundled over the central Moscow cobblestones.
Russian dictator's forces have suffered losses that would have been unthinkable before he ordered his troops across the border on February 24, 2022.
Not only has Moscow lost tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of soldiers, it has also seen Kyiv's troops destroy thousands of Russian military vehicles including tanks, infantry transport vehicles, trucks, artillery, helicopters and jets.
While exact figures are unknown, the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine estimates Russian hardware losses to be over 25,000. Even the most conservative estimates suggest the figure is over 10,000.
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Say goodbye to about a billion dollars of US taxpayer money. The Chinese CCP are clapping madly. The Chinese motto - Have the Ukrainians use them over there so the Americans don't have them to use them over here . We are so F'n screwed.
Why die for Putin or the globohomopedos??!
Exactly.
I don’t understand these cowardly bloodlusters. They seem perfectly fine with the continued horrors that are being inflicted on both sides, as long as they don’t have to participate. Keyboard commandos are a disgusting lot.
And I’m pretty sure none of these bloodthirsty little yipyappers have ever been in a war zone.
I would recognize that mug anywhere. Allegra during your feminazi and anti-war salad days. Duped by the USSR infiltration of anti-war groups. Today, Vlad Putin duped.
“The Bear and the Dragon” are holding on line 2000
“The Bear and the Dragon” are holding on line 2000”
Tom Clancy/ I read that book. Xi needs to invade the stupid Rooosky’s Siberian gas and oil fields. Why pay for something that you can get for free? And that were your historic lands anyway.
Most of the “Russians” in Siberia are Chinese or half-Chinese . An easy score for China, while the Kremlin is focused westward, are bogged down in their war against Ukraine.
LOL - nice try. You people are like the women on The View, gleefully spreading lies about decent people, trying to harm their reputations in an attempt to assuage your own feelings of inadequacy.
Pretty much daily on FR, there’s a thread about some stupid, vicious thing Joy said, or Whoopi said or one of those other harridans said about one of their moral and intellectual betters.
You little ankle-nippers here are just like that, only instead of being old harridans, you’re a bunch of old eastern European lifelong underachievers, giggling like a gaggle of schoolboys.
You’re kind of funny, but you’re also sort of gross.
Just like the old harridans on The View.
That photo is not a lie. That is you at an anti-war protest, in the 1970s or 1980s.
You’re incapable of speaking the truth, aren’t you Denysov? Or should I call you Whoopi? As I said, funny,but kind of gross.
But I don’t expect any better from somebody who has been vocally supporting Biden’s open border policies and abortion policies.
I was pretty disgusted when I saw you cheering the end of Title 42 and fact that hundreds of thousands more people are crossing our borders now, just because there might be some Ukrainians in the bunch. Disgusted, but not surprised.
And your support for Planned Parenthood’s harvesting of organs is just pathetic. Is it because you’re getting a cut of the money? Gross, Denysov. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
As for your silly stock photo you’re posting: I was too young to be in any Vietnam anti-war protests and actually living in a NATO country during most of that as the daughter of a Navy pilot. We were far removed from that Summer of Love stuff and not even aware of it. The last vestiges of that were fading away and being gobbled up by Watergate when we came home to the U.S.
But I kind of enjoy that I kicked yours and your buddies Boryslav and Ptero’s grapes enough to drive you to such silly desperation. 😂😂
Again…funny, but kind of gross.
Allegra,
Agree.
I’ve told my sons that when WWIII erupts - through a false flag from the west - that it may be too late to make plans. They are all older than the traditional retirement age, but I suspect that age will be raised this time.
I told them to think carefully now, whether they are willing to die for Ukraine.
And that I’d support their decision no matter what.
I see no compelling threat to the USA from Russia’s incursion into Ukraine.
Surely you got the memo. If misplaced, here’s the memo:
1. It’s over when the Biden Crime Family says it’s over
2. The USA lost
Since the meeting was with Senor Bergoglio nd not anything that should be recognized as the pope — why bother with a suit? A red dress would be more appropriate for a face to face w the actual whore of Rome
And yes, I’m a lifelong Catholic who believes in the resurrection and foretold miracle on the first Easter Sunday.
I just recognize the agents of the Antagonist when they surface
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