Posted on 08/27/2023 8:55:08 PM PDT by Cronos
The Kremlin is rushing reinforcements to southern Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Oblast. It’s a desperate bid to prevent a major Ukrainian breakthrough along a critical axis.
The reinforcements are from the 76th Guards Air Assault Division, which is “arguably Russia’s best division and is relatively fresh,” according to Rob Lee, an analyst with the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia. The division most recently went on the attack early this year around Kreminna, where the Russians still are sustaining a limited offensive.
That the Russians are redeploying the 76th GAAD speaks to the growing momentum of the Ukrainians’ 2023 counteroffensive, which kicked off with simultaneous armored assaults along several axes in southern and eastern Ukraine.
In just the last couple of weeks, the Ukrainian army and independent air-assault force have liberated Robotyne in Zaporizhzhia, while the Ukrainian marine corps has ejected Russian troops from Urozhaine, 60 miles east of Robotyne in the Mokri Yaly River Valley.
The twin Ukrainian victories bring Kyiv’s forces a few miles closer to their two main objectives in southern Ukraine.
...“According to Russian military doctrine, at least on paper, 76th Division is a part of their strategic reserves, underscoring the seriousness of the move,”
...The implication is obvious. If the Ukrainians can maintain their momentum in the south, they might force the Russians to make a hard choice: to hold in the south or hold in the east. They probably wouldn’t be able to do both.
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Such a brave patriot! You know Zelensky takes all volunteers, even chickensh!t expat Americans with Polish fetish. You comment like a lion but you act like a sheep. When you look in the mirror you know that you are looking at a coward with a big mouth and a tiny penis.
I won't volunteer to fight for Russia because I don't give 2 cents about them. I care about America and Americans.
Uhm, because I am an American living in America and not some expat d- bag living in a foreign country? Do I get a prize for the right answer?
You don't have stones do you? Keep typing armchair warrior. If the Russians ever did invade Poland I'm certain that you would use your American citizenship to get your yourself back here as fast as you could ecause you are all mouth and no stones. If you really believed what you type daily then you would volunteer yesterday or commit suicide out of shame. Pathetic.
How can you live with yourself just typing out comments when Ukrainians are dying by the hundreds every day? Why aren’t you there with your brothers and sisters fighting the orcs? Shame.
False.
That’s not true.
People who believe Russian propaganda will believe anything. In brief, Putin’s government is hoping they can get the West to abandon the fight in Ukraine. That will enable Russia to salvage something out of the disaster they created for themselves.
You write just like a Russian who speaks bad English. For those writing from foreign countries, insults are not permitted on FR.
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People who believe Biden’s state media will believe anything.
CNN is calling you.
You are disturbed. I spoke fluent Russian almost 20 years ago and have retained quite a bit.
There is nothing Russian like in that post, not even remotely.
You speak just like a Biden follower however. Be careful visiting Obama. Don’t go out on a paddleboard.
Sure poop...
I have dealt with you before Pops and your comments are as dumb and paranoid as ever. Go, volunteer for Zelensky, be a hero.
Of course you won’t. You anre just another lip-flappin’, effeminate neocon.
And Zelinskey just bought a luxury mansion in Egypt through his mother-in-law using US relief funds.
Simplistic response, there is no doubt that the 76th has had its combat capability degraded through loss of equipment and trained personnel being reconstituted with mobiks and conscripts
To say they are one of the best left and still severely degraded are not mutually exclusive ideas.
Curious red, what is your military back ground
Even if there was a breakthrough (which high unlikely), there is ZERO chance Ukraine could maintain any gains. Russia has 750,000 men in reserve.
How many more Ukrainians have to die so you get off on your Russian bloodlust fantasies?
So you think anyone who does not back this diabolical and grifting neocon genocidal project a red communist, do you? I am not the one sucking up to Marxist Biden and his posse of communist flying monkeys like you are.
Your hero George Washington Zelensky said he will not hold elections unless we, the American taxpayer, pay for them. What a guy! Maybe if we sent him another $100 billion the rat-like midget will reopen the churches he closed down annd allow opposition parties again. What do you think? You are just a sad, little, projecting tyrant and a 2-bit crypto leftist. ESAD Butts128.
The 76th Guards (Chernogov Red Banner) Air Assault Division (VDV) has been deployed in the Kremmina region and fighting there for months. The 234th, 237th and maybe the 104th are being redeployed in the Robotnye direction; they serve as a rapid reaction force going from one hot spot to another.
Most of the original VDV regiments were wiped out in the first months of the war, and have now been reconstituted from contract troops and survivors consolidated from other destroyed VDV units. There are several VDV units fighting in Ukraine. The 76th is just one of them.
The 234th Regiment of the 76th is suspected to be the regiment behind the massacres at Bucha.
There is nothing strategic about the division. Perhaps prior to 2022 they were, but now, the unit is just a pale shadow of what it once was on paper.
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