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On a side note, Russia has also been unable to prevent NATO from sharing real time intelligence with the Ukrainian military about Russian advances, and Russia seems to no even be trying to prevent it. As soon as something happens, the Ukrainians seem to know about it, which also explains how so many Russian sabotage teams keep getting caught entering cities, and why Ukrainian defenses seem to be so effective at repelling Russian offensives.
They have hardly used their military or airforce
Thus far their progress has been fine
Another Pantsir-S1
The vehicle is undamaged, abandoned because it got stuck in mud. If they're selling, let's raise money together and buy it.
Seems quite rapid to me…Day 5.
All focused on Kiev, the capital and largest city. But the most important thing is happening in the Donbass. Mariupol, to the south, is practically surrounded, the same happens in Kramatorsk/Sloviansk and also Severodonetsk/Lysichansk.
Notice there are two pockets forming in the south forget the Mariupol one but if the upper pocket forms then ''Novorossiya'' Is a reality not a theory anymore
They look weak. Child soldiers, heavy losses.
Russia already had difficulties in modernizing its military systems for a long time with the post-Soviet collapse. Russia is traditionally the world's largest land army. So the inventory is huge in every sense... This was not a problem that could be solved in 3-5 years. In terms of the necessary machinery and looms, and for some products, the technology had difficulty in competing.Russia's two major purely military capability problems seem to be...
1) old equipment requiring heavy maintenance.
2) lack of logistical support.
It's very clear that what Russia lacks is not attack systems, but the logistics required to operate them effectively over long distances. The fact that Russian convoys are running out of food and fuel is a major problem that needs to be addressed on an urgent basis, which is not gonna happen due to a now severe lack of cash.
their over reliance on trains for transport of troops and goods ended up being useless in Ukraine, as the Ukrainians quickly destroyed all lines connecting the two nations very early on in the war. This explains why they ended up having to use Ukrainian roads to transport their old legacy armour, effective turning entire convoys into death traps which Ukrainians ambushed using Javelins and NLAWs, or drone struck using TB-2s.
Also, the Ukrainians are using old Soviet systems to shoot down Russian aircrafts and old Soviet artillery to destroy incoming convoys shows just how vintage Russian armour actually is, and how weak Russian air force actually is (old Ukrainian migs were literally shooting down Russia's latest and heavily upgraded fighters).
On a side note, Russia has also been unable to prevent NATO from sharing real time intelligence with the Ukrainian military about Russian advances, and Russia seems to no even be trying to prevent it. As soon as something happens, the Ukrainians seem to know about it, which also explains how so many Russian sabotage teams keep getting caught entering cities, and why Ukrainian defenses seem to be so effective at repelling Russian offensives.
The Russians expected this to be quick and easy, and if they were the USSR, it would have been.The Russians seem to have severely underestimated the Ukrainians and their ability to be resupplied.
Or they are going slow, to avoid loss of civilian life, and to be cautious as much as possible with the equipment and men
Considering the Indians were trained by and large by the Russian, I hope we are working with Turkey (that has assets in Ukraine and in the Black Sea) to really keep an laser focused eye on how Russia is prosecuting this war.Today's Russian war strategy is still 2nd world war style
Now all the Ukrainians need is a massive resupply of longer range air defense systems (like the Sa-6) and dozens of ex-soviet fighters (mig-29) from mothball in Germany, Poland and other Eastern European nations.The Russians expected this to be quick and easy, and if they were the USSR, it would have been.
Russia overestimated itself, which allowed the Ukrainians to regroup and put up strong defenses. This gave time for the Ukrainians to launch a diplomatic offensive in Europe. With Europe convinced that Ukraine was not gonna get quickly overrun, they could now seriously consider, and commit to supporting Ukrainian financially, militarily, and humanitarianly as well.
Kharkiv is a university city with 300,000 students.Another video of Indian students trapped in Ukraine