We still do it. It is called plundging fire.
Posted on 08/28/2014 7:42:34 AM PDT by GeronL
The Russian Army must have been too close for the use of artillery, and close enough that they were in range of the Russian Army tanks.
do not worry the non-Russians will be heavily punished and some of them sent to Siberia. The Russians already have captured pilots being sent off for “psychiatric care” like they used to do to political prisoners.
But these are just “rebels”... lol
Holiday weekend coming up in the US.
They know the US media, and much of Europe’s, will be MIA for the next four days. I’ll be gone myself, but I think there is going a LOT of action this weekend.
Right, but this is a new development. Prior to the “humanitarian convoy” spectacle the bulk of the insurgents were Ukrainian citizens that got weapons from Russia. There were some Russian citizens and Kremlin agents mixed in, of course, but only now can we speak of regular Russian troops under the official chain of command invading.
We still do it. It is called plundging fire.
plunging fire.....
Putin noticed that the “rebels” were stuck in Luhansk and Donetsk and not gaining ground, that is why he sent in the real troops.
Boy howdy here we go.
The Russian putsch could happen this weekend and get almost no coverage. Very sad for their Ukrainian victims.
Viva Ukraine, Luxemboug is on their side! - okay, that is kind of funny
Numerous Twitter reports saying that Rebels captured an INTACT TOCHKA-U (SS-21) launcher and rocket abandoned somewhere south of Donetsk from the retreating UK Army.
(Scarab-B NATO classification)
That is a biggy, folks....
Russian Army troops captured...
“That is the face of the new war. We saw it in Chechnya, Lebanon, Iraq, Libya and Syria and now we see it in Ukraine.”
Asymmetric war everywhere.
Right; but I also think Putin wanted them stuck: both for the excuse to invade and because they could become a model for liberation movement inside Russia.
even countries like Argentina and Nigeria are calling Russia’s invasion a “dangerous escalation of the conflict”
Good article.
It is good to see old lessons remembered. From what I recall reading or hearing in a lecture the GIs in WW2 improvised that on their own - they were working stiffs form the Depression era and they improvised with the tools at hand - same with how they modified Shermans to break out of the hedgerows when engineers could not figure it out. But I digress,
Guerilla warriors need a sympathetic population in which to operate. One of the worst assumptions here is that the whole of Ukraine is united and in favor of the govt in Kiev. At best the majority is indifferent.
We see the same false assumption (wishful thinking) when it comes to supporting rebels in Syria or Libya or wherever. We assume everyone in these fractured countries is of one mind or that all the rebels share the same ideologies and loyalties.
Another biggy, from the Interpreter’s live blog:
Four Hundred Ukrainian Soldiers Desert Battlefield
17:21 (GMT)
An entire battalion has given up their heavy weaponry and left the ATO (anti-terrorist operation) zone after falling under attack from Russian Federation forces, Ukrainska Pravda reports, citing TSN.
Four hundred soldiers from the fifth battalion of the Transcarpathian Territorial Defense deserted from the battlefield and headed for home.
They were stopped near the town of Znamenka in Korovograd Region, and Commander Anatoly Pushnyakov, commander of Ukraine’s land forces and Nikolai Golomsha, deputy prosecutor general, personally came to meet them. They urged the soldiers to give up their weapons. The soldiers said they would only do this at their home base. In the end, they agreed to turn over the heavy weapons but took their rifles with them.
The soldiers said they had “been in hell” and fell under heavy artillery fire from Russian forces. They also said they were only going home for rotation and re-grouping, as they had been in the ATO zone for two months.”
http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-liveblog-day-192-novoazovsk-occupied-as-yatsenyuk-calls-for-emergency-unsc-meeting/#4002
Transcarpathia....
The Hungarians I was talking about earlier today.
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