Russian invasion of Ukraine

Indaparkside said:
I can’t help feeling he has put all his conscripts / prisoners etc etc on the front lines when there defeated and Ukraine are tired after months of fighting he will have his top soldiers in wait
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From reading this thread:
They have committed 80% of their entire front-line ‘elite’ soldiers already - the Chinese border is looking especially weak.
They are seriously down on ‘top of the range’ equipment - T-62 or earlier tanks, isn’t a great look, using surface-to-air missiles against land targets ditto. And the state of the basic equipment being handed out, or not , to the mobilised cannon fodder…
The black sea fleet has retreated into the Sea of Azov, and can’t be bolstered by the Northern or Pacific, as Turkey has closed the Bosporus to military traffic.
Their airforce is running out of pilots and planes wanting to commit Hari-kiri, despite being an overwhelming numerical advantage - personal thought: no bombers used by Russia yet?

Basically, they appear to be screwed other than going for the numerical cannon fodder overwhelming defences tactic… but when those ‘numbers’ are drunk, disinterested, demotivated, and have no equipment… it’s not looking good for them
 
JASR said:
personal thought: no bombers used by Russia yet?
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I was thinking that.
Maybe, just maybe, they are short of vital parts due to sanctions (and corruption). So many are not operational etc.

Or is it they need fighter escorts or are vulnerable to surface to air missiles?
 
fulabeer said:
I was thinking that.
Maybe, just maybe, they are short of vital parts due to sanctions (and corruption). So many are not operational etc.
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Yeah that’s what I thought as well, combined with lack of Intel about possible targets , and the trade-off of losing planes/pilots for small , and probably unlikely, positive gains by bombing
 
Indaparkside said:
I can’t help feeling he has put all his conscripts / prisoners etc etc on the front lines when there defeated and Ukraine are tired after months of fighting he will have his top soldiers in wait
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Good point, plus where are all the prisoner going to stay, who's going to guard them, feed them and repatriate them, all takes man power and man hours. These Russian, from their point of view, probably shoot their wounded so they dont have to bother.
 
Indaparkside said:
I can’t help feeling he has put all his conscripts / prisoners etc etc on the front lines when there defeated and Ukraine are tired after months of fighting he will have his top soldiers in wait
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If only, he's putting conscripts on the frontline because Ukraine has already done for many of his best units (the reason he went for the mobilisation).

Also with all these defeats why do they keep attacking Bakhmut, is there something they want from there, it makes no sense at all.
 
Indaparkside said:
I can’t help feeling he has put all his conscripts / prisoners etc etc on the front lines when there defeated and Ukraine are tired after months of fighting he will have his top soldiers in wait
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A tactic they used during the second world war . Strangly , exactly what the polish foreman on our site said to me on Friday .
 
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