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  1. Russian trap feels legit. Playing with fire a bit. But its open fields, no where to hide, Russians have huge artillery advantage and can send in dozens of helicopters to mow down Ukrainians. The longer they stay there and the more reinforcements idiot Z sends, the better. More reduction. I expect this to last another week and Ukraine to loose around 10k troops and 100s of armored vehicles. Then Russians can reinforce and go on an offensive aimed at Nikolaiv. This was a huge gift to Russia.
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  2. DPR guys should remind them that they helped them to liberate LPR so it would be nice if LRP forces returned the favor!
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  3. 13:25 - fully agree - it is supposedly a disaster made by Mr. Z himself - his general staff said that they NEED to retreat. But he said No, bad PR. I swear, someone needs to help me write a book "Zielinski, strategy of defeat".
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  4.  @Viewable11  Well, not really - we are talking about something like 20k troops. Its not like 1 or 2 or 3 trucks. Its 100s of trucks. Per day! This would not only be slow, not only would use massive amounts of fuel but also would not be that safe due to getting stuck & drones could ID traffic jams of these slow trucks. I bet some stuff is moved with MT-LB tracked. But then again, this is not enough. Russians could not supply around 12,000 troops via single road through Chernobyl that was NOT under artillery fire. And was paved. Oh and if you needed say 500 trucks before, now you need like 1500 trucks.
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  5. Congrats to Wagner and Russia for their success in liberating Bakhmut.
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  6. April.
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  7. Well, its not if it never happens. Ukraine is on the ropes and all they can do is little counter attacks here and there. Otherwise its defense everywhere at any cost. Russia has for months now build up defenses in Kherson region so passing through it would be super tough with artillery deficiency and no air support. Also Ukraine would need massive advantage in man power. Finally Russians would just move some troops there to bleed Ukraine dry. On the other hand Z needs to pretend they did not loose yet. Remember Hitler, he did attacks even late in 1944 - even in 1945 (!) Some of these were major - like battle of the Bulge. Same idea here. Except Germans had far more success then UA will have.
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  8. What was it all about? Well, Zielinski is an actor - it was all about *appearances*. Ukraine needs to appear like it is still able to do something. One has to point out that Ukraine may have realized they will loose right side of Dniepr.
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  9. Russia will deal with Poland asymmetrically. I.e. they will not do any classical invasion. Migrant crisis, maybe. But I suspect something more sinister, something new. I also think Wagner in Belarus is much smaller as they are not paid to just sit around. The need to be used. So maybe attack from the north in the winter with heavy Belorus support.
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  10. Yeah but Ukraine had by far strongest air defenses in Europe. Some of the strongest on Earth.
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  11. BTW, the 77 per KIA is very, very good - I came up with a number of "up to 100 shells" so 77 is very close. I counted shelling of UA positions by Russian artillery & results. This is why I figured it may be a good idea to use Krasnopol as it may be cheaper to use 1 Krasnopol to KIA one UA vs. 100 rounds. Economy of war is bloody.
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  12. Essentially Ukraine is running low on troops and equipment while Russia is getting ready for some offensives or at least some threats of one. Ukraine is now clearly loosing the war & if they hold on so dearly for long we may see spectacular collapse of the whole UA army.
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  13. It is difficult to kick someone from friendly land. Ukriane cannot do hit and run as they are on land with Russian civilians. Same with partisans, they cannot survive on unfriendly land.
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  14. Yes, AND it is FALLING. I.e. it is less and less. But its not that simple, the bottom of the river and the banks need to be nice for the crossing of even shallow water.
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  15. Imagine US response.
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  16. At current rate it is far and wide more then a single brigade per month ;) They are loosing at least 30k per month KIA / WIA / other. At least. Probably more.
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  17.  @vdubyna  You are optimistic then - its long way till winter - long way. You think Ukraine will still be in the game? Only 27000 villages? Maybe now you understand why Azov and Bandera is hated - they razed over 4000 Polish villages.
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  18. 12:40 but there is a bridgehead there already - all 3 villages on the back of Siversk are taken. City should fall in like 2 to 3 days. Ukraine lost the war. Let it sink in.
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  19. Ukraine follows in exact steps Nazi Germany of 1945. ---- Volksturm is poorly armed, old men that are used to patch up holes in the front -- see how similar these are to territorial defense units? They also have huge casualty rate. ---- strong hope for wounderwaffe - wonder weapons -- - in Ukraine they come from the west ---- fighting for every inch, no turning, back, every German city, I mean Ukrainian is a fortress ---- telling troops to keep fighting as it will be stronger negotiation position - see Germans fighting till May as it will save pp from mass hunger or something like that I call the war for Russia once Donbass salient is taken / Ukrainians are surrounded there.
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  20. Nah, no common sense, facts etc. Can convince Banderite supporters.
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  21. How about quite from Miley - US commander in chief. Ukraine lost about 30% of the 17 brigades, 63000 troops. So around 20000 troops KIA / WIA / other. Since this is Zaporozia only, and they were not the only troops there x2. So 40,000 on that front. But it was not the only front, heavy battles on other fronts - and zaporozia is like less than 1/3 of the front line - so multiply by x2. You get 80000 as per US. Use 1:5 KIA : WIA and you get US stating Ukraine lost 13,000 KIA and 74,000 WIA in just one month. Extrapolate to a year and decrease a bit - you get at least 100,000 KIA per year. add another 100k for severely wounded. So in 2 years Ukraine will loose at least 400,000 troops - either dead or too hurt to fight. This is about 1/3 if their total potential.
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  22. Problem is there are no videos of Russian troops complaining. None. Zippo. There are no videos showing / talking / etc. about massive casualties. None.
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  23. It is short for u kranca kraina. Direct translation is at the end region. Or more grammatical version the region at the end. This is why it's marked on old maps as small region to the east of Poland.
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  24. Ukriane?
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  25. Well, any reasonable observer would have seen this for a while now - lets hope upcoming Russian offensive will put an end to any "Ukraine victory" claims & force idiots in Kiev to a negotiating table. If they continue to fight I am afraid there may not be any Ukraine left after this war is over.
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  26. But they no longer can get out. They will loose massive # of troops. It will be few times worse then Mariupol.
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  27. I think we can all agree Russia follow humanitarian rules in Ukraine given little civilian losses vs. Western supported Israel.
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  28. Personally I think he is just pushing Ukrainians into an offensive. He knows that this is the last hurrah. If Ukrainians do not go on the offensive they can fight a lot longer. It is in best interest of Russia for Ukraine to go onto an offensive.
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  29.  @orestmarkheva7325  Exactly - this is why Ukraine is taking MEGA losses - they are holding the line more or less but at what cost? All Russians need to do is wait, they run out of pp sooner or later.
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  30. Russians are already at Vovvharivka - i.e. next to oil refinery - if they take northern hill there its over - they have... the high ground.
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  31. Before September we should see end of special operation.
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  32.  @brucealbert4686  They are exactly Volksturm. Even weapon systems they have are the same (!)
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  33.  @Matheus-xp6xq  Well, Ukraine lost 3 BTGs in Kherson - so I guess they also cannot build a bridge - and that was like right now, with lower water level! they build the bridge, but enemy did not exactly stood still and watched them cross.
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  34. You are over estimating your numbers. KIEV Pravda admitted that Ukraine population is around 20m. They cannot send millions as they don't have millions available.
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  35. Yes, both of them. Fully restored.
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  36. Correct, there is one more village after it and then then line.
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  37. T-1000 Tank is here.
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  38. A Russian told me, you eat some meat, you encounter a bone. What do you do? You spit it out. So they encountered a bone, and they spit it out. There was no pride other then stupidity trying to chew the bone.
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  39. One road is already cut - Russians are in Soledar (not fully taken) and a bit beyond it. The other road has lots of issues. Probably will be physically cut in a day or two.
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  40. @Samurai 7 LOL, so far we only have videos (many) of Ukrainians refusing to fight. Junior officers are also dying and in large numbers (certainly more then average soldiers). Also where general was killed a battalion commander was killed as well (junior colonel). If troops refused to fight you would not see them doing such spectacular gains and win such hard battles where these generals were at. This is western propaganda saying - but it defies logic. If you look at Ukrainian side, where troops refused to fight, instead of sending a general to them they disarmed battalion. In one case battalion refused to attack, MPs were sent, and they fired on MPs and refused to be disarmed - there is no video proof of this, but there is video proof of disarming. Again, you can see this with say current battles where Ukraine is sending their special forces and foreign legion - regular troops refused orders and are pooling out. Finally, when you watch movies made in the west, one of the main themes present of a "Great General" is one that is close to the front line troops. So how it can be that west thinks its gallant and desirable for general level officer to be at the front, yet then when Russians do it its b/c of stupidity? Even in Polish WWII books, a great general is one that does not back off from front lines - at least on book level - I still remember Polish counter attack at Bzura - the largest counter to Nazi Germany till 1943, when leader of two Polish armies, was on his horse and observed the first day of the attack, where dismounted cavalry troops of both brigades were assaulting a village across a river. Finally the general did not have to be that close - artillery kills a lot of pp - all he had to do is be relatively close to the front line. Brigade general is commander of a small formation, at most 6000 troops. I can only say positive things about the disposition of Russian officers, I wish for every army to have such officers as Russia demonstrated. I would not hesitate to serve under such officers.
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  41. Russians are getting ready to storm Bahmut, entered Soledar and are ready for general storming of Severts. This line of defense is about to disintegrate & through August we will see desperate but futile Ukrainian attempt to defend Sloviansk - Krematorsk line.
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  42. Slash winter, slash next year ;))) LOL :))) Once offensive starts within weeks Russia will start a counter offensive that hopefully ends the war with total UA defeat. The desperation in Kiev is heavy. They know they are lookin at the end.
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  43. If they pressure Russians hard around Kremina they may step back - they are flexible. They can step back and counter etc. Russians are pushing all over the place - Ukies only in Kremina.
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  44. Problem is Ukraine is wasting 10s of thousands defending it! Defending this city is as stupid as defending Mariupol was. Let me remind you stupid Ukies defended Mariupol with up to 10k troops. They lost 10k as KIA or POWs. Meanwhile Russians drunk some vodka and wasted defenders with artillery and air strikes. Same was US led battle of Falujah - defenders smashed by artillery and bombers got over 10x casualty rate. Defending to the last man is not a winning strategy if your enemy can accept losses itself.
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  45. Encircle & destroy, rinse and repeat. Eventually Ukraine will run out of troops and total defeat will be inevitable.
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  46. And Ukraine is taking much heavier man power losses.
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  47. Not really. They are not even close to taking the city. They cannot even take two small villages for like 2 months now.
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  48. Go away Banderite.
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  49.  @Kevlar_soul  Ummn if you do the same calculation for Ukraine you are not even close to 30KIA - Ukraine fires around 3000 shells per day on average, or between 2000 - 4000 per day. Also the ratio even for Russian Donetsk militia for wounded is 5 to 1. Same for Ukraine. And certainly higher for Russia - maybe 7 to 1. People can be wounded multiple times. Numbers also needs to be adjusted since Russian troops are heavy and thus they have better protection - so UA numbers for Russian dead may be more like 100 shells needed to kill one, or more. Russians also fire on known targets, come on, no one fires for "fun". Besides, we know exact numbers of Russian dead - its just over 10,000 and we know quite well the number of allies killed, at over 6000. The main issue is calculating Ukrainian losses which we know are 4x higher at lower bound and up to 6x - but that is very broad with moderate confidence.
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  50. And Moscow is very happy for it - fire bag works great! Moscow hopes UA will send more troops to that front line so it stands for another 6 months.
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