Comments by "Greg Greg" (@SlowhandGreg) on "TLDR News EU" channel.

The Ukrainians were using this strategy Defence in depth (also known as deep defence or elastic defence) is a military strategy that seeks to delay rather than prevent the advance of an attacker, buying time and causing additional casualties by yielding space. Rather than defeating an attacker with a single, strong defensive line, defence in depth relies on the tendency of an attack to lose momentum over time or as it covers a larger area. A defender can thus yield lightly defended territory in an effort to stress an attacker's logistics or spread out a numerically superior attacking force. Once an attacker has lost momentum or is forced to spread out to pacify a large area, defensive counter-attacks can be mounted on the attacker's weak points, with the goal being to cause attrition or drive the attacker back to its original starting position. An accepted ratio of attacking troops of 3-1 advantage to move forward and 5 -1 in Urban Areas is needed to break through this type of defence all things being equal. Ukraine had 150,000 troops available in Feb since mobilisation it now has 300,000 on numbers that would mean the Russians would need 900,000 minimum well armed and equipped troops with associated logistics to conquer most of the country. As the war goes on full mobilisation will mean additional Ukrainian troops becoming available and Russia is already 10 weeks behind in mobilising also they currently only produce 120 of the latest T18 tanks a year and current tank losses are nearly 1000. You'd have thought that the Kremlin could do the math but I guess they don't want to burst Putin's reality bubble in case they get a Novchok birthday surprise
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@anderskorsback4104 I listened to a podcast looking at military strategy they had a retired UK General on who was saying that this was the UK plan In WW2
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@srabonx with what? They have very little smart munitions left and conscripts are poorly armed equipped and trained with little to no motivation coupled with a huge exodus of military age men to surrounding countries They have been taking a kilometre a week using dumb artillery grind that levels the area in front uninhabitable while burning through conscripts like they were an endless swarm of zombies. How long can Putin keep this dumb shyte up is more to the question
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@staffan- To get the quantity to the front line armed and trained to actually do something takes logistics and planning, we know the Russians are incapable of the last 2 otherwise Ukraine would have fallen back in Feb / March. I dunno how many Russians will die of hypothermia alcohol abuse friendly fire but it will be more than the Ukrainians kill there is no discipline in the Russian army
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Yea brilliant can't wait Corrupt data mining needs to be put to the sword
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