Comments by "the truth hurts" (@thetruthhurts7675) on "Ukraine's battlefield gains: Putin under pressure? | To The Point" video.
-
10
-
9
-
9
-
2
-
@RedRider1600 However Russia has around 375,000 ground forces in it's army those used to fight land wars. For this operation they sent 150,000 troops (Russian figures not western by the way, and just under a half of the entire ground forces of Russia) into Ukraine, reports (admitedly western, and Ukrainian) say there have been around 48,000 Russian deaths, and possibly even higher wounded numbers, wounded numbers are always higher than dead by the way. Even allowing for half of those, which is somewhere between what Russia admits, and Ukraine claims. That still means 50,000 dead or wounded, with thousands of prisoners. Mobilizing now for war won't work. Russia has to fill the gaps today. To train even cannon fodder like Russia and China do takes 3 months, so there is nothing Russia can do presently. Claiming Russia was just playing around means you are not as clever as the Russian military, who actually declared the number of troops on their "special operation." With those figures, and the extra 50,000 Putin announced almost straight away isn't playing around by any stretch of the immagination. Russia may have called it a "special Operation, but that is for people like you, and the foolish public in Russia!!
Do read this it is where I get my figures from for the ground forces, yes the Russian army is larger than that, but they have so many jobs to do :
"The CIA World Factbook also gives figures of 200,000 to 250,000 Federal National Guard (ie reservists) and 850,000 full-time military personnel, which it breaks down into 375,000 ground troops, of which 40,000 are airborne; 150,000 in the Russian Navy; 160,000 Aerospace Forces; 160,000 Strategic Rocket Forces and approximately 90,000 other uniformed forces, including 20,000 special operations forces."
Like just about every other person here I am gobsmacked by the lack of the Russian ability to prosecute successfully this war, and did indeed think Russia would take Ukraine in the same amount of time germany took Kyiv in WW2, roughly 5 weeks. I am shocked at how badly Russia has prepared for this "cakewalk," and just how bad the Russian military really is. This perhaps has been the biggest underestimation of your enemy since the war of 1812 between the USA, and the UK, where the UK burned the capitol and most of Washington to the ground, whilst fighting Napoleon, and his allies around the globe!!
1
-
1
-
1