In place of that firepower advantage, they have increasingly had to rely on Light Infantry to achieve what little combat effect they have been able to achieve. That produces higher casualty ratios, and that trend is likely to continue.
Posted on 03/03/2024 3:53:33 PM PST by Apparatchik
Russian forces suffered an average of 983 casualties per day in Ukraine in February, the highest since the war began, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) said in an intelligence update on Sunday.
The UK department said the increase in casualties, which included both killed and wounded soldiers, was likely due to "Russia's commitment to mass and attritional warfare."
In February, Russia finally captured the embattled Ukrainian town of Avdiivka, which sits just north of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.
War analysts have noted that Russia's tactics to take Avdiivka often involved "human wave" assaults, attempting to overwhelm Ukrainian positions with large numbers of Russian soldiers on foot.
One Ukrainian commander said in January that they could kill 40 to 70 Russian soldiers per day, but they would just send another wave the next day.
"Assault after assault, non-stop," he said.
The UK department said that Russia's tactics were "costly in terms of human life," but it noted that they had increased pressure on Ukrainian positions on the front lines.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has previously suggested that Russian commanders do not value the lives of their men and that they "conscript corpses."
Russia has likely had 355,000 personnel killed and wounded during the war, the MoD noted.
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In place of that firepower advantage, they have increasingly had to rely on Light Infantry to achieve what little combat effect they have been able to achieve. That produces higher casualty ratios, and that trend is likely to continue.
Excellent analogy.
No western nation has any interest in invading Russia. NATO is only an "existential threat" if you grant Moscow the right to annex all of Europe and the Balkans, not to mention Finland, a "Putin's Brain" has said they must do.
QUOTES: (via Wikipedia)
"Germany should be offered the de facto political dominance over most Protestant and Catholic states located within Central and Eastern Europe. Kaliningrad Oblast could be given back to Germany. The book uses the term "Moscow–Berlin axis".[9]"
"France should be encouraged to form a bloc with Germany, as they both have a "firm anti-Atlanticist tradition".[9]"
"The United Kingdom, merely described as an "extraterritorial floating base of the U.S.", should be cut off from Europe.[9]"
"Finland should be absorbed into Russia. Southern Finland will be combined with the Republic of Karelia and northern Finland will be "donated to Murmansk Oblast".[9] "Estonia should be given to Germany's sphere of influence.[9]"
"Latvia and Lithuania should be given a "special status" in the Eurasian–Russian sphere, although he later writes that they should be integrated into Russia rather than obtaining national independence."[9] "Belarus and Moldova are to become part of Russia, not independent."[9]
"Poland should be granted a "special status" in the Eurasian sphere. This may involve splitting Poland between German and Russian spheres of influence.[9]
"Romania, North Macedonia, Serbia, "Serbian Bosnia" and Greece – "Orthodox Christian collectivist East" – will unite with "Moscow the Third Rome" and reject the "rational-individualistic West"."[9]
"Ukraine (except Western Ukraine) should be annexed by Russia because "Ukraine as a state has no geopolitical meaning, no particular cultural import or universal significance, no geographic uniqueness, no ethnic exclusiveness, its certain territorial ambitions represents an enormous danger for all of Eurasia and, without resolving the Ukrainian problem, it is in general senseless to speak about continental politics". Ukraine should not be allowed to remain independent, unless it is cordon sanitaire, which would be inadmissible according to Western political standards. As mentioned, Western Ukraine (compromising of Volynia, Galicia, and Transcarpathia), considering its Catholic-majority population, are permitted to form an independent federation of Western Ukraine but should not be under Atlanticist control."[9]
That's just for starters. Complete world domination is the ultimate goal. (Unfortunately the book excerpted appears to be out of print, so I'll be researching alternatives tonight.)
“Russia is never going to leave.”
They left Kherson. They left Snake Island. They left Kyiv oblast, and Chernihiv, and Sumy and Kharkiv.
Perhaps when Putin is dead, they will leave the rest.
If the Ukrainians are doing this well, they don’t anymore money from US taxpayers!
Update: Russia is never going to leave Ukraine while Putin is running the show.
I can just imagine
The difficulty
Of the Russian soldiers
Climbing through
The shell shocked trenches
Of babbling uughhkkkkiiiess
Just like
Zeeppers with cocaine brain
Same sex genital retardation
Gog whacko dem usa
MaGog whacko dem nato - un - Vatican
Rev 13
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Trump collusion dosier anyone?
Well, if a fourth of those were Jon Carry purple heart award level wounds, would you find it more believable?
Believe? he is a paid agent to spout this gibberish. He is a laughing stock font of disinfo. He clearly has a catalog of CIA/MI6 facts and figures to spout whenever challenged and its alwasy the same garbage. It's like the dire warnigns of Tokyo Rose 3 years in long after the collapse of the American empire came and went and still going strong.
It's like the Google AI machine, totally detached from the reality of time and space.
“And why we need to keep supporting Ukraine”
I don’t trust a single player in that fiasco and the US is bankrupt. I’d opt out if I had a choice.
“Update: Russia is never going to leave Ukraine while Putin is running the show.”
Update: They left Kherson, while Putin was running the show. They left Snake Island, while Putin was running the show. They left Kyiv oblast, and Chernihiv, and Sumy and Kharkiv, while Putin was running the show.
13 Nations have chosen to join NATO, while Putin was running the show.
Russia has become the most heavily sanctioned country on Earth, while Putin was running the show.
Putin has become a wanted fugitive from the World Court, with a warrant issued for his arrest, while Putin was running the show.
Russia has suffered its worst Military defeats and greatest Military losses since WWII, while Putin was running the show.
They’re extra entertaining today. 😁
When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars.
You know, the dawning of the age of Zelensky.
—> They’re extra entertaining today.
Emotional gymnastics!
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