Comments by "Arty" (@arty5876) on "Fierce fighting and retreats near Robotyne | Major advance in Toretsk [5 August 2024]" video.
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@Pillar8908 Russia is breaking a 2014 defensive line in the Donbass, where Ukraine was building defensive lines and bunkers for 9 years straight from 2014, where there are bunkers that stand against 3000 kilogramm aviation bomb, and all these massive defenses and bunkers are located in the highly populated urban region, where one city smoothly goes to another with huge empty potato fields with no cover between them, while Ukrainians have heights and rivers as natural barrier at some parts. And also Russia have invaded Ukraine with much smaller army than Ukraine had, Russia is fighting without mobilization for nearly two years now, so in fact, on august 2024 defending Ukrainian side have numerical superiority over Russia, Ukraine have more soldiers than Russia in the frontline, and despite all this Russia is able to advance and Russia took the strongest Ukrainian fortress of the Donbass and strongest fortress in the World in fact - Avdeevka, that was main defensive chain of Ukraine. Russia have total superiority in artillery, Russia produces 3 times more artillery shells than entire NATO combined, while Ukraine already ran out of Soviet artillery shells back in the end of 2022, and NATO gives 50-60% of its artillery shell production, so there are 6 times superiority in artillery on the Russian side while half of NATO's European arsenals are empty. Artillery and aviation are two Gods of War. In all recent wars for 200 years artillery was the cause of 90% of casualities, while infantry combat is around 5% of casualities. 90% of all soldiers who have died in WW1 and WW2 died due to artillery shelling, not in actual combat and shooting of rifles.
In the start of the war Russian army was technologically and tactically backward - there were no FPV drones in the Russian military and Ukraine had huge superiority by using FPV drones against Russian armored columns. But Russians learned from their mistakes and already during Ukrainian 2023 summer counteroffensive there was PARITY between Russia and Ukraine in drones, and at now Russia produces 3000-4000 FPV drones PER DAY. Also Russia have modernized its aviation to more accurate bombs with better precision, the same that USA did in late Vietnam war and what revolutionised American military, the accuracy of bombs grew up for DOZENS of times and during the Iraq war USA were very effectively using this tech. USSR and Russia were totally backward from USA in this technology untill 2024. Also, Russia have total superiority in electronic warfare, that is very effeftive against Ukrainian FPV drones and famous American sattelite navigation artillery shells of Hotwitzer-777, dropping accuracy of 777 satellite guided shells from 70% to 2% and making these shells economically useless.
So, it is fair to say that Russia is fighting with QUALITY, while Ukraine is fighting with QUANTITY. Russia is fighting without mobilization, Russia is fighting with only volunteers, while in Ukraine there are already nearly one million men were forcefully mobilized, and at now Ukrainian morale is low, Ukrainian men are trying to avoid mobilization and Ukrainian police forcefully catches men on the streets like animanls. And mobilized Ukrainian men at now are being thrown into battle with less than week of training. While Russian morale is normal, because Russia have 4 times more population than Ukraine, and Russian casualities at now smaller than Ukrainian, so the nearly same casualities affect 4 times bigger population 4 times less. Also, Russia is fighting war without mobilization and Russian volunteers have at least 3 months of preparation.
Russia is very slowly advancing, having less soldiers than defending Ukrainian side, but Russian soldiers have better training, better morale, superiority in artillery, FPV drones and aviation, while Ukraine have superiority of defending side (in EQUAL conditions attacking side is suffering 1.5 times more casualities), also Ukraine have landscape and urban superiority with defensive lines and bunkers. So, casuality ratio between Russia and Ukraine is nearly equal with small superiority on Russian side, and Russians having less soldiers are able to advance slowly and capture strongest fortification system on Earth in urban warfare and open spaces with no cover between them.
In fact, Russia have less soldiers than Ukraine, but few timer more support firepower, while Ukraine is defending with more men and have numerical superiority and fortifications
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