Posted on 05/05/2022 7:02:49 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Russia's Victory Day parade on Moscow's Red Square on May 9 is set to be considerably scaled back compared to last year, according to data from the Russian Ministry of Defense.
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But this year, amid Putin's invasion of Ukraine, fewer people and less military equipment will be at the 2022 Victory Day parade, data published by the Defense Ministry on April 29 shows.
The ministry said 129 units of military equipment will cross Red Square on May 9, while last year, 191 military vehicles took part.
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Russian authorities have not specified why this year's Victory Parade is being scaled down. Newsweek has contacted Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on April 29 that this year foreign leaders—including Putin's Belarusian ally, Alexander Lukashenko—have not been invited to celebrate Victory Day.
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Heck, they have any tanks left? They seem to like to blow up.
Reminds me of the canvas ones the USA made during WW II.
Hard to celebrate a victory when it hasn’t happened and likely never will.
Victory Day in Moscow: no tanks.
Victory Day in Kyiv: Tractors pull Russian tanks.
Victory Day in DC: Defense contractors light cigars with $1,000 bills.
Seventy six bags of bones led the big parade,
With a hundred & ten dead generals close at hand.
They were followed by rows and rows,
Of the dead soldiers photos,
Their weeping mothers oh so sad.
Seventy six bags of bones caught the morning sun,
With a hundred & ten dead generals right behind.
There were over a thousand Nazi Swedes,
Springing up like weeds,
There were twisted wrecks of every shape & size.
There were burned out tanks in the guards platoons,
Burning and smoking all along the way.
Double eagle flags and officer’s spittoons,
Each spittoon filling up throughout the day.
There were fifty mounted canons in the battery,
Thundering, thundering, louder than before.
Chechens of every shape and size,
And trumpets who’d improvise
A full octave higher than the score!
Seventy six bags of bones hit the counterpoint,
While a hundred and ten dead generals rotted away.
To the rhythm of Harch! Harch! Harch!
All the kids began to march,
And they’re marching to the gates of hell today!
Isn’t the victory supposed to come before the parade?
L
Would it be a legitimate act of war for Ukraine to sneak a few drones into Moscow and destroy a half dozen Russian tanks and a couple more generals near the main observation stand?
—”Reminds me of the canvas ones the USA made during WW II.”
Not just canvas tanks.
Long ago I had a physics instructor, a former OSS Officer WWII, and a wiry little guy.
They wanted a massive show for the liberation of Paris but most of the equipment had been pushed past the limit to get this far.
He had been selected to lay next to the engine holding a pot to catch the oil pouring past the seals.
Then hand the pot to another to pour back into the engine...
Just to make it down the parade route.
Question: What are the reasons for their Afghanistan withdrawal?
1) Stinger missles.
2) 15k dead.
3) 10 years of drip, drip.
4) RR as POTUS.
Any more?
That's my guess.
Also, I read that soldiers weren't getting leave OR pay for WAY too long. The ones who did get back home brought their opium addiction and the ‘trafficking business’ with them!
It was a no win situation that had to end.
For the last few weeks, the fronts in eastern Kharkov and the northern Donbass have been functionally merging, and now these areas cannot be viewed separately.
As I’ve described previously, Russia’s strategy differs greatly from the rapid-advance, “leave as many enemy behind us as possible” days of late February and early March.
It’s now one of very slow, deliberate grinding down of Ukrainian forces through massed artillery, aerial bombing, ground and sea-based missile attacks, nighttime commando raids, and occasional tank raids against weakened positions.
The Ukrainians bring up forces, they get wasted, they bring up more, get wasted, and slowly Russia (and the Donetsk forces further east) move in.
There is clearly no hurry to advance; the main goal is to wear out the Ukraine’s human resources—and then, ultimately, there will come a breaking point, and everything will take care of itself.
Based on extensive prisoner accounts, today, we may confidently say that the majority, perhaps SIZEABLE majority, of Ukrainian forces deployed to the northern sector—with fighting primarily between Kharkov city and the Russian border, and then Izium southeast to Yampol’—were NOT in uniform as of February.
They are mobilized inactive-reservists, draftees, or (deployed from their home regions, in violation of their contracts) Territorial Defense militia.
What this tells you, is that the regular army has taken very substantial losses (likely including through desertion.)
I previously estimated that casualties in the northern sector since early April have been at least 3:1 in Russia’s favor. I now believe it’s more like 4:1.
It is telling that the Ukraine has failed to document even just one new Russian prisoner in the last few weeks (unless I missed something—but I don’t miss much.)
Many Ukrainian bodies will never be recovered—for example, those hit directly with an Iskander tactical ballistic missile (see below for demonstration purposes only), of which Russia continues to shoot at least several per day, each and every day, at Ukrainian sector command posts and platoon or company-sized strongpoints.
You can be sure, that and some other surprises are being planned.
That’s pretty good.
That’s a nice parade youse got there, be a shame if something happened to it.
Victory Day in Mariupol: Crowd of old men, women and children, told to cheer or die.
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