Their official lie of 498 deaths was always ridiculous because they have admitted themselves that 6 of their generals have been killed.
The official numbers made a pretty wicked general:troop death ratio.
Can someone give me a link to these satellite photos?
There’s no way Russia would release such catastrophic numbers to their own press. Do better, Daily Mail.
“The news came as satellite photos showed further evidence that Putin’s forces were going on the defensive and digging in ahead of a ‘long war’. “
The siege of Kiev has not yet begun.
It will shock the world.
I tied to explain this two months ago to a Jewish friend who posted the Ukrainian flag on their profile. They were upset with me. At some point you just have to let people learn on their own. Historical patterns do repeat themselves, mostly due to the refusal to acknowledge facts contrary to their perceived reality.
So is this gonna be called fake news as well?
If you are infantry and are stationary for more the 24 hours, you always dig in and put out obstacles to include mines.
The media keeps saying this but where's the proof Russia said this?
Ivan isn’t doctrinally stupid. Arguably, Ivan is (institutionally) the current grand master at urban warfare. As the author David Drake points out, there is nothing worse than city fighting in someone else’s city.
Rule one of urban warfare: If you can avoid having to conduct urban warfare, do so. Laying siege and starving the occupants out where practical (especially if you let civilians leave) is usually a better idea and gets less people killed on both sides. They will likely surrender and if they don’t there will be fewer people you have to root out and kill.
AKA, a good start.
The siege is traditional Russian tactic of using massed guns. The tactic defeated the Wehrmacht.
This time though, the Ukranian drones can destroy the gunners unimpeded and thus create openings for the tank destroying rockets.
Daily Mail propaganda is always good for a laugh.
the first casualty of war is truth
Get out of Ukraine.
Russia fights it’s first NATO like country and gets it’s butt kicked
Digging in around a city does not mean you have admitted failure in taking it. It could just be you’ve decided the beat approach all round is siege. Why wreck a city? Why submit your soldiers to house-to-house? Look what happened to Stalingrad.
People who cite this as a sign of imminent defeat have no F**in clue.
Such interest about something so small. I remember the Brits suffered 60,000 casualties the first day of the Somme.