Comments by "Arty" (@arty5876) on "Russia 'used cluster munitions' in Ukrainian city of Kharkiv - BBC News" video.
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@kingsleykester8167 Let's discuss the "military defeat of Russia in Ukraine." First of all, what do you mean by military defeat? - During the four months of the war, Russia established control over quite extensive territories of Ukraine. Do not forget that Ukraine is the largest country in Europe, and Russia essentially controls territories in 30% of Italy and 25% of Germany. Ukraine is not capable of conducting effective counter-offensives. Or maybe you mean by the defeat of Russia great losses? Well, excuse me - the attacking side, other things being equal, always bears greater losses than the defending side, especially in the 21st century. Perhaps if the American first army in the World had invaded Ukraine in the same way, maybe they would have been even more destroyed than the Russian second army of the World. The Russians invaded Ukraine without a numerical advantage, with an equal number of troops, although military science requires a preponderance, other things being equal, for a successful offensive. Do not forget that war has not been declared, and there is no mobilization in Russia.
So by the third month of the war, Ukrainians had gained a numerical advantage over the grouping of Russian troops. So it is not worth judging the training and competence of the Russian troops by what results they have achieved. Firstly, if Russian conscripts are fighting in Ukraine, then in very small numbers and somewhere in the rear, but there are no conscripts on the front line. Ukrainian conscripts, untrained and poorly equipped, are fighting against the Russian contract army, although the Russian contract army, admittedly, is worse than the Ukrainian contract army. The Russians have much more artillery, aircraft and equipment.
Thus, we have a situation that if we take the level of training of Ukrainian contract soldiers for 100, then Russian contract soldiers have a level of training of 75, and Ukrainian conscripts at 40. And they are fighting each other with equal numbers, although the Russians have a preponderance in technology. For 2 months, the front line has hardly changed, so far Russia has been holding the profits of the first month of the war.
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@kingsleykester8167 Russia does not use 100% of its army - there is no mobilization in the country, at least 50% of Russian troops are not in Ukraine. Before the war, Russia had a land army of 360 thousand soldiers. Ukraine has 160 thousand. Against 160 thousand Ukrainian soldiers, Russia used about 150 thousand of its soldiers. At the same time, in Russia, the army remained at the pre-war level, since the war has not been formally declared and there is no mobilization, and in Ukraine everyone is put under arms. Two months later, the Ukrainians had a serious numerical advantage, and the Russian army got bogged down. At the same time, Russia almost does not use conscripts, and fights only with contract soldiers, while Ukraine uses untrained cannon fodder against Russia, which has total superiority in artillery and aviation. Russian Russian contractors, on the other hand, have anti-tank weapons and drones, and Russian contractors are not as good as the Ukrainian ones, and in an equal battle, Ukrainian contractors defeat the Russians. Now neither side can achieve success anymore
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@kingsleykester8167 The Russians invaded Ukraine without numerical superiority, despite the fact that the attacking side suffers more losses, especially Kiev - a city of four million with twenty-storey buildings. Cities are always very difficult to storm. Russian troops are stuck in the suburbs of Kiev. There is no mobilization in Russia, while it is underway in Ukraine, and therefore the Ukrainian side is gradually accumulating a numerical advantage. The Russian command, realizing that Kiev could not be taken with the available forces, withdrew troops from all regions of Ukraine, except the east and south. By the way, Ukrainians absolutely incompetently surrendered the south of their country, did not pay enough attention to the south, although they could stop the Russian offensive right on the border, in a very narrow Crimean isthmus, where the terrain is quite open. A narrow open corridor with one road. Ukraine missed a huge chance. Russian Russians became a distraction maneuver of the Russian army, because while Ukrainians were occupied by Kiev, the Russians encircled Mariupol and consolidated their success in the east of Ukraine.
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@kingsleykester8167 Before the war, Russia had a land army of 360 thousand soldiers. Ukraine has 160 thousand. Against 160 thousand Ukrainian soldiers, Russia used about 150 thousand of its soldiers. At the same time, in Russia, the army remained at the pre-war level, since the war has not been formally declared and there is no mobilization, and in Ukraine everyone is put under arms. Two months later, the Ukrainians had a serious numerical advantage, and the Russian army got bogged down. At the same time, Russia almost does not use conscripts, and fights only with contract soldiers, while Ukraine uses untrained cannon fodder against Russia, which has total superiority in artillery and aviation. Ukrainian contractors, on the other hand, have anti-tank weapons and drones. Russian contractors are not as good as the Ukrainian ones, and in an equal battle, Ukrainian contractors defeat the Russians. Now neither side can achieve success anymore
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