Posted on 05/19/2023 9:17:10 AM PDT by JonPreston
In a valley far from the front lines last week, several men practiced dropping a half-full bottle of water from a small aerial drone, as though it were a grenade. Others fired rifles at targets 100 yards away. A third group set off for a trek through the surrounding hills, which burst with white and yellow flowers.
Almost none of them had military experience before last year. The Ukrainian military is racing to turn civilians into elite soldiers for the cutting edge of a critical summer offensive.
Kyiv has been holding some 20 brigades back from the fighting and training them to break through Russian lines and hold any ground taken. The hope in Kyiv is that when its offensive begins, Russian forces will be depleted from their assault on Bakhmut, while tens of thousands of Ukrainian troops will be fresh and well-equipped with Western battle tanks and other materiel.
“We got orders that we have to be ready to go
(Excerpt) Read more at michaelsavage.com ...
Where did the old one go??
All sorts of people can arm and fly a drone to its target. That means redefining the concept of a fighting force to fit the possibilities presented by 21st Century technologies.
Perhaps the Russians need to consider this idea. Or they can keep using failed Soviet tactics. Whatever.
No sharpshooters here.
Will this new army be equipped with drone-destroying tomato jars?
Looks like Z is wanting peace with the Ruskies.
Putin and Zelensky ‘agree to meet African leaders to discuss peace plan’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12090289/Putin-Zelensky-agree-meet-African-leaders-discuss-peace-plan.html
What an ignorant and silly question.
More name calling. That’s all you do.
LOL!!
More puffery dude. I criticized your remarks.
Obviously these new forces are in addition to those already fighting.
The article doesn’t say this group is in addition to others. It says it’s new.
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Ach. Sturmtruppen.
And the Kremlin's comment on that is actually what ?
- “Lies ! All be NATO mercenaries, that's why we can't take a friggin town !”
or
- “look, globohomos ! They need to train soldiers. We just take our mobiks and push them forward”.
Help us to understand.
Ukrainian started out with 600,000...
What Mariupol airport doink? Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
That’s right. 400k dead and/or wounded. It’s no wonder Zelensky is staying out of the country. Some say he’s at risk.
Then you’re an idiot.
It is new.
And is in addition to those already fighting.
Duh.
See? More names. I suppose it’s difficult defending Biden while watching the Ukes get drop kicked.
More stupidity from a Russian propagandist.
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