Posted on 05/15/2022 1:25:57 PM PDT by nuconvert
United Kingdom military intelligence said Sunday that Russia has lost around one-third of the ground combat forces it deployed when the invasion began in February, Reuters and Al Jazeera report.
U.K. intelligence also concluded that Russia's offensive in the Donbas had "lost momentum and fallen significantly behind schedule" and that units engaged in the offensive were suffering from "low morale and reduced combat effectiveness."
Russian forces, the assessment concluded, are "unlikely to dramatically accelerate [their] rate of advance over the next 30 days."
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
“I got a relative who fell from the horse in WWI and broke bunch of bones.”
There was a very good movie about the US Cavalry post-WWI. It was called “In Pursuit of Honor,” with Don Johnson and Rod Steiger.
It all could have been avoided if only Ukraine had done the right thing and surrendered.
Fake news!
And the ship, it’s doing just fine!
Or if zelensky took Trump’s advice in 2019.
Bingo
The shirtless Vlad crew adores the check is Russian until agencies
That’s exactly what Hitler said about those that fought him
A lot of dead rapists, looters, torturers and murderers. If you need to dispense sympathy, dispense it to the Ukrainian women and children that has been raped and murdered by these animals. Sheltering in a theater, clearly marked with the word “children” (in Russian) and they bombed it anyway, burying hundreds of them alive. The more of theese katsaps that die, the better.
Maybe...maybe not. Hard to believe anything now.
The diminishing appetite for Conquest, as they lost their combat capability:
If their average loss is 30%, some capabilities will be more, and others less - some things will break first, before the overall average gets to 50%. Whether it is precision guided missiles, helicopters, Artillery or tank unit Generals; some spot shortages of critical capabilities will be the early ones to break. Shouldn't be much longer, in the big picture.
What you say is more grounded in reality. However, my bet is that the original claim is even more grounded in reality—that one third of the units have been rendered ineffective.
If the number of dead and wounded in a unit reach a high enough number, the remainder is useless as a fighting force.
I saw this explained in an earlier article when the estimate reached one-quarter.
Spot on.
If memory serves, it was the UK who compiled that ridiculous, slanderous dossier on President Trump.
Christopher Steele was the culprit’s name, if I recall.
True enough. And just as no right-thinking person would have expected any of those nations to have acquiesced in its rape and conquest, neither should anyone expect Ukraine to do the same.
“This is good news, though, we don’t have to borrow to send $40 billion after all........”
Sorry, them presses have been running since long before the bill was introduced.
A Russian analyst, Igor Danchenko, was the main source for Christopher Steele’s dossier on Donald Trump and Moscow has been arrested by US authorities, the justice department said on Thursday.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/04/trump-russia-steele-dossier-igor-danchenko
If the UK Intelligence is anything like the US Intelligence then they’re off by a third.
Ukraine is starting to look a lot like Afghanistan was to him in 1983. Perhaps Putin thought he would avoid the same pitfalls that the Soviets ran into there, but behold, their economy is being destroyed and the morale of their troops is waning fast. Beware of the wounded bear!
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That’s exactly who it is.
This will still be going on a decade from now, because there’s money in it.
There’s no one to oppose it in the Ruling class.
” UK Intelligence “ ? Talk about an oxymoron ...
No, a 33 percent loss is bad and not good.
If that number is accurate, the Russians are spent unless they have fresh reserves they can commit without having to worry about border security with some longtime adversary like, say, Red China.
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