Comments by "UzuMaki NaRuto" (@UzumakiNaruto_) on "Ukraine. Military Summary And Analysis 29.10.2022" video.
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@snagletoothscott3729
Thw Troops in Bakmut aren't pushing hard. most of time time not at all. They only push when their's an oppurtunity. So comparitevly their losses are few compared to the Ukrainian's ,wo are aconstantly shiffling troops in Bkamut to replace thier steady stream of losses as they keep trying to attack to push them out.
The Russians have been attacking Bakhmut for several months and they definitely ARE pushing hard. If you've watched any videos coming out of that battle you'll definitely see that the Russians don't care about their troop's lives with the way they keep throwing themselves at the Ukrainians.
18,000 dead Russians vs 390k dead Ukrainians. Those are the US numbers, by the way. That's not sustainable. At this point, Russian doesnt even need to push. All they need to do is stand their ground for a year and half and Ukraine won't have any troops left at all, as they keep throwiing them into the meatgrinder tat is the Russian Wall.
Can you please show me which US source says that the Russians have only lost 18,000 dead during this entire war so far? Can you link me a legitimate source that actually says this? I'd really like to see it.
If you truly believe that the Russians have only lost 18,000 men after all this time, then no wonder you think they're doing fine. Obviously though if you care about the facts this clearly isn't the case and the Russians have lost far, FAR more men than they've reported.
You don't go out and mobilize 300,000+ recruits just to replace 18,000 KIA and more importantly you wouldn't be rushing many of them to the front to try and stabilize things if you've taken so few casualties. You would instead take your time to train and equip your troops properly rather than calling them up and throwing to the wolves almost immediately.
Also if the Russians weren't taking heavy casualties then why do you think that Putin waited for so long and did everything possible to avoid calling for mobilization? During the entire war he tried recruiting men from everywhere to avoid mobilization within Russia and finally when the casualties were too much and the Ukrainian offensives were taking back territory, Putin had no choice but to concede that mobilization was necessary and unavoidable and so he did it.
On the other side if you also believe that the Ukrainians are taking such huge casualties, then in a few months we should be seeing older men and poorer quality Ukrainian troops on the battlefield that the Russians should easily defeat. Time will tell who's facts are actually true.
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@snagletoothscott3729
18,000 is from a recent document, from the Center of War Studies, which is a think tank for the US military and intelligence agencies, as 18,000 dead....which would be about right at known rates.
Again please show me legitimate links that show reputable sources that claim that the Russians have only had 18,000 KIA during the entire war to date. I really want to read it and see how they count casualties to arrive at that extreme low number. Even if you don't believe Ukrainian claims of Russian casualties, there's ZERO CHANCE that the Russians have only suffered 18k dead after all these months of hard fighting.
Wagner pushed hard up into Bakmut, but once they got inside the far eastern suburbs they met stiff resistance. Wagner has since and for quite a while only done attacks of opportunity and probing, largely to keep the Ukraine fixed in Bakmut, while their forces continue to push hard to the north and the south to surround Bakmut. The Wagner forces in Bakmut are there primarily as a thorn, to keep the Ukrainians attacking and draining troops trying to push them out.
Well if these attacks are designed to drain Ukrainian troops its clearly not working when they're still pushing the Kherson and Kharkiv offensives. So either this means the Ukrainians has tons of troops to throw at various fronts and still be able to take large casualties and keep going or else it means the reports of them dying at high rates aren't completely true.
The call up wasn't just to replace loses. It largely because the Russians were severely overstretched. They called up enough to replace losess, to fill the gaps in the line, and to have enough left after that for more offensive to push futher into Ukraine.
If the Russians weren't desperate for more troops at the front then they wouldn't be pushing under trained and under armed troops to the front to be cannon fodder would they? The only reasons you would be doing that is either you've taken heavy casualties and need replacements ASAP to replace those losses and/or your troops are performing so poorly that you need to rely on numbers to try and stop the enemy advance.
On the otherhand if you believe the Ukrainians are taking such heavy casualties then ask yourself why they're not doing the same in rushing more soldiers to the front with little training and under equipped? If the Ukrainians are desperate to replace their supposed high casualties the ask yourself why do they have time to send their new recruits outside to NATO countries to have them spend several months to get properly trained and equipped before having them come back to be sent to the frontlines?
10,000 Ukrainians spent 2-3 months in the UK to be trained by the British and they recently returned to Ukraine to be sent to the front. Ask yourself if the Ukrainians are taking such huge losses why they're able to take the time to have their new recruits to be sent away for months to get trained instead of having them sent immediately to the front?
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