Comments by "harmless" (@harmless6813) on "Russia is running out of soldiers" video.

  1. For individual units it's somewhere between 10% and 30%, depending on unit type. The Russians are constantly refreshing and rebuilding units. The question is what is the training level of newly deployed Russian soldiers? From what I can gather, it's abysmal.
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  2.  @jamesedwards6173  A very simple reason: He is being paid to do so.
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  3. Russia has nothing left to escalate - except nukes maybe, but that would lead to the West doubling down and directly interfering in the fighting.
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  4.  @maurorossi8708  When the front line contracts, Ukraine can also concentrate more forces in one spot. So, no, Russia will not be able to hold anything.
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  5. That's true. But somehow I doubt you can quietly mobilize several hundred thousand soldiers. So the numbers of newly mobilized are likely not high enough to account for the attrition.
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  6.  @briandoherty2728  I pity you. You are either completely lost or you have to shill for Putin for money. Both are terrible conditions.
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  7. Well, the mobilization never really stopped. But the number of mobilized can't be very high or we would hear more about it.
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  8.  @MA-oj8zk  So it's the last 30k of 500k. Not really an improvement for Russia.
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  9.  @JMAssainatorz  I'm not sure breaking the RF will help ...
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  10.  @JMAssainatorz  Russian Federation
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  11. They seem to try to push the conscripts to sign contracts. I have no idea how successful they are in doing so. The conscripts themselves are by law not allowed to fight outside the country. (Though I think they are trying to change the law. We will see what happens.)
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  12. You must have made a really gargantuan effort to avoid all the information saying the exact opposite.
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  13. Russian trolls hate it!
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  14. Since conscripts are not legally allowed to be sent to Ukraine, it should have no direct effect on troop numbers. As for volunteers, are those numbers high enough to even matter? I don't see any reports of Russians lining up at recruitment centers.
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  15.  @driekeijlders281  No, it actually wasn't. The newly annexed regions are explicitly excluded.
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  16.  @MA-oj8zk  Jeebus, that is dark. I don't expect anyone on Crimea to die from hunger. I mean, why would they instead of just giving up?
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  17. He explained why the Ukrainian losses are not particularly important at the moment. Did you miss it? (In short: because Ukraine has constantly been mobilizing new soldiers since the beginning of the invasion.)
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  18.  @lockbert99  They have several million. And they fight for their country, their lives and their freedom.
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  19.  @lockbert99  They don't have an army of several million right now because they don't have the equipment for so many men. And of course Ukraine will get all their territory back. And we here will keep supplying them until they do. You are welcome.
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  20.  @lockbert99  I agree that the West's aim seems to be to weaken Russia. And it's working. I do not agree that Ukraine is running out of men. You should diversify your sources. Or just wait and see.
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  21. Another Russian shill, just trying to be more subtle about it. Won't help Russia. 🤷‍♂
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  22. As soon as the Kerch bridge is in HIMARS range, it's gone. Note that Ukraine has - or will shortly have - ammo for HIMARS with 150km range.
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  23. I don't think anyone has enough data to attempt an estimate that one could consider both legitimate and useful. I'd say one per vehicle destroyed could be a somewhat plausible lower boundary. But it's really just a wild guess.
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  24. Seems much too low, for various reasons. Maybe if you exclude LPR+DPR+Wagner.
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