Posted on 10/05/2022 6:22:08 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Ukraine presses on while Putin retreats: On the 224 of the war, the Ukrainian forces continue to advance in the east and the south while the Russian military seems to be in full retreat.
The Ukrainian Way of War
After weeks of successful Ukrainian counteroffensives, a pattern is emerging. The Ukrainian military has been launching a two-prong attack from the north and south, aiming at an enemy-occupied city. Once it is threatening to envelop or has enveloped the city, the Russian forces retreat, often under heavy artillery fire, and the Ukrainian military captures the city and then repeats the process.
Using this town-hopping approach, the Ukrainians have managed to liberate large swaths of territory in the east. The Ukrainian forces have already done this four times, most notably in Kupyansk, Izium, and Lyman, and are setting the conditions for repeating it two more.
The Ukrainian military now has the proper manpower and weapon systems, especially long-range precision capabilities in the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) and M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS), to fix the Russian forces on a particular position but also generate preponderant power at weak spots on the Russian defenses and achieve tactical depth penetration.
As a result, the Ukrainian forces have consolidated a large area east of the Oskil River close to Kharkiv in the east. The Russian military would have hoped to create a new defensive line on the Oskil after its harried retreat from Kharkiv, but the Ukrainian forces didn’t allow that. Now, the Ukrainians are approaching Svatove, which is a major logistical base.
“Politically, Russian leaders will highly likely be concerned that leading Ukrainian units are now approaching the borders of Luhansk Oblast, which Russia claimed to have formally annexed last Friday,” the British Military Intelligence assessed in its latest estimate of the war.
Making things worse for the Russian military is the fact that with every mile that the Ukrainians advance, they are able to bring their deadly long-range weapon systems, most notably the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) and its heavier cousin, the M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS), closer to the frontlines and thus threaten additional Russian units and lines of communication and supply that were out of range previously.
The Russian Casualties in Ukraine
Overall, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense claimed that as of Wednesday, Ukrainian forces have killed approximately 61,000 Russian troops (and wounded approximately thrice that number), destroyed 266 fighter, attack, and transport jets, 232 attack and transport helicopters, 2,435 tanks, 1,414 artillery pieces, 5,038 armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles, 341 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (MLRS), 15 boats and cutters, 3,841 vehicles and fuel tanks, 177 anti-aircraft batteries, 1,032 tactical unmanned aerial systems, 132 special equipment platforms, such as bridging vehicles, and four mobile Iskander ballistic missile systems, and 246 cruise missiles shot down by the Ukrainian air defenses.
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STOP SPAMMING THE BOARD WITH YOUR “YAY UKRAINE” PAID SHILL POSTS!!!
The Taliban was in full retreat once before too. Things don’t always turn out like we would hope.
Bkmk
It was the Taliban’s Country.
The Russians are the US in your scenario.
It was the Taliban’s Country.
The Russians are the US in your scenario.
It was the Taliban’s Country.
The Russians are the US in your scenario.
Bout as reliable as using Hamas for info during Israeli military action.
How is it a “yay Ukraine” post?
it’s merely a summary of the current military situation, where Russia is retreating
what’s the problem
I wonder if its planned to get russian troops out of an area so that those troops are better tactical targets.
I dunno.
I am not on any sides on this, they are all wrong. Not the us socialists, not the ukraine socialists, and not the russian socialists. They are all wrong and will drag the rest of the world into their mess.
Last throes 🙄
“Russian military seems to be in full retreat”
Source: Some guy on the internet
Full retreat? Maybe, but I’ve been hearing that Russia lost the war and is in full retreat literally since Day 1.
Don’t like it? Don’t click on the headline.
Yeah. Please ease up on the truth. The Putinistas are about to cry.
It is uses figures from the defense ministry of one of the combatants in a conflict which may or may not be true. Nothing wrong with healthy scepticism is there.
I just want some HIMARS to use against Democrats in D.C.
Might just make America great again.
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