[tlozo]

All the Russian POWs told a variation of the same story: They had been brought to the Ukrainian-Belarus border on military maneuvers and told to give up their passports and cellphones. Eventually they were told to march. They all claimed that they had only figured out that they were in Ukraine when they saw the Ukrainian troops who were shooting at them.

[Tallguy]

In 2014, Russian combat brigades were donating their best men & equipment to form a deployable battalion-size unit. Back then they were “picked men”. Do we suddenly think that they would be doing the opposite now? Especially when you consider that this is an ambitious offensive maneuver that seems a little bit like the march on Baghdad in GWII (minus the sand storms).

[Red Badger]

Sounds a lot like the Battle of Leningrad...............