Posted on 07/12/2024 6:34:22 AM PDT by dennisw
Havrylyuk said that people were seen as expendable by Putin in his mission to conquer Ukraine, but economic issues and problems supplying its troops with ammunition and equipment could soon blunt its campaign.
The ISW said that high casualties were part of Russian President Vladimir Putin's strategy to grind out a victory in Ukraine through a war of attrition.
"The recent increase in reports of entire Russian units becoming combat ineffective due to losses highlights the tactics on which Russian forces are relying on to pursue Putin's theory of a slow, gradual, grinding victory in Ukraine," it said.
Vladimir Putin is seeking to grind out a victory in Ukraine. But its coming at a massive cost in casualties. A Ukrainian officer said Russia lost 5,000 troops in battles for a district. Russia's war of attrition in Ukraine is coming at a huge cost in killed and injured troops, with a Ukrainian official claiming Russia suffered 5,000 casualties in battles for one neighborhood alone.
Ukrainian defense official Lieutenant General Ivan Havrylyuk, in an essay published in Ukrainian outlet NV on July 9, discussed the possibility of a new Ukrainian counteroffensive to drive back Russian forces occupying territory in the south and east of Ukraine.
In the article, Havrylyuk claimed that Russia would likely have trouble sustaining the initiative in the conflict using its manpower and equipment advantages. Havrylyuk pointed to massive Russian casualties he said its military was sustaining, claiming that 5,000 Russian troops were killed or injured in battles for control of a single district in the strategically vital town of Chasiv Yar in Donetsk, east Ukraine.
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Clown go see a competent shrink who will tell you how to sooth your raw endings.
“ You follow this war closely where??? Please reveal your top three sources.”
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I have no intention of engaging with your quibbling and going tit-for-tat with a gullible, low-IQ globalist.. You allege Russian “meat wave” assaults, you should be willing to post videos of same.
Go put your psychiatrist on blast. Tell him that you want to tone down the psychedelic meds For Ptsd.
Lying zeeper!
Clown off down the road and see a psychiatrist. Free Republic is not your psychiatrist
Gulags have been preserved in Russia to remind Russians citizens of Stalin's atrocities.
Russia's tax code is far less communist than ours and Putin has spent billions building churches in Russia.
We're the ones with rigged elections and political prisoners.
Gulags have been preserved in Russia to remind Russians citizens of Stalin's atrocities.
Russia's tax code is far less communist than ours and Putin has spent billions building churches in Russia.
We're the ones with rigged elections and political prisoners.
Clown you will never set foot in your mother Russia. There is a gulag work camp waiting for you. You spout your Putin loving garbage here as you live in a nice European nation. Or might be y ass is in Canada/ — ESAD!
ESAD for Vlad Putin
You said
“Suffering huge losses of manpower and equipment while achieving only incremental territorial gains = Russian ‘winning’ “
“Only in Russia! lol”
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The thing is, that actually is winning. Basic Soviet doctrine was that a commander would be given a force, and an objective. It’s OK to lose all but one of his soldiers, as long as the one survivor is standing on the objective. President Putin regards the Soviet Union as “the good old days”, and largely follows Soviet doctrine.
The Soviet army regarded soldiers much the way the US Army regards ammunition: Something to be hurled into the face of the enemy. You don’t want to run out, but, as long as you have more, it’s OK to use them up.
On of the things that made communist dictators (of which Putin considers himself one) so dangerous is their willingness to use up their citizenry in pursuit of imperial gains. To gain ground, by losing people, actually is success as they see it. This is one of the reasons it is so important to oppose them, and try to minimize the human soldier ants they can call on.
But by destroying 1 in 250 of the Russian male population while behind the front lines his economy has withered to nothingness, Putin has killed rather than save Mother Russia.
Lying zeeper!
Another principle of Soviet doctrine is that the purpose of the economy is to support imperial conquest. Soviet peacetime military expenditure was a terrible burden on the economy, and in wartime, the peasants would just have to find something to eat on their own.
Also, I have little trust in any casualty numbers I’ve seen. Both nations have long been showing signs of severe strain. But I have to figure that essentially everything Russia says is a lie, most of the things Ukraine says are lies, most of what the Biden administration says are lies, and most of what the institutional press says are lies. I find it hard to get any sort of solid information. What do you have to back up the 1/250 number? I tend to place some faith in reports of where fighting is taking place, but very little faith in reports of how it’s going. I would be grateful if you can point me toward something solid.
Take a hike clown!
Lying zeeper!
We're the ones with rigged elections and political prisoners.
Those would be the same rigged elections that gave us control of the House and the political prisoners whose median prison sentence was 60 days, correct?
Wake me when the J6ers get the Navalny treatment.
That you're denying it was rigged tells me exactly what you are.
And, peaceful J6 prisoners and 75-year old disable pro-lifers are absolutely political prisoners. It's disgrace anyone here would disagree.
That you're denying it was rigged tells me exactly what you are.
And, peaceful J6 prisoners and 75-year old disable pro-lifers are absolutely political prisoners. It's disgrace anyone here would disagree.
The one where Trump won 18 of 19 bellwether counties that had voted with the winner since 1980
Elections are not determined by who wins 19 bellwether counties. Elections are determined by who wins the Electoral College, and Trump did not win that.
You didn't answer my question: if the Rats rigged the presidential election of 2020 why didn't they also rig the Senate and Congressional elections to give Biden (or whoever really runs the show) a filibuster-proof majority? And how did they get Trump himself to say he didn't win the 2020 election in an interview?
Trump discusses 2020 election loss with historians
And, peaceful J6 prisoners and 75-year old disable pro-lifers are absolutely political prisoners. It's disgrace anyone here would disagree.
What's disgraceful is that any Freeper would describe rioters who assaulted police officers as "peaceful", no different than CNN describing the George Floyd riots as "mostly peaceful". I've been a law-abiding citizen all my life. I don't defend criminals, even if they claim to be MAGA.
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