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Ukraine: military situation update with maps - Mar 30, 2023
(’Orc’ is associated with the various hoards of 13th century Mongol invaders, as well as LOTR evil villains)
War in Ukraine Explained/Reporting from Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/@RFU
Artillery (key to success in this war), Fuller explanation of Orc military structure, Other Bonus articles - see previous postings in “Attack on Europe” (FR title search).
(Numbered printed material below - Some of the items below may be out of date, and not updated yet)
••Denotes Transcribed Dialogue. The entirety of the analysis is from a Ukrainian guy named Reporting from Ukraine’s daily video - I only transcribe it. Extras are just that - from other sites, or my comments marked (Edit: .... ) or { } or [ ].
-—> Current to date and past MAPS: <——
https://militaryland.net/
-—> The True State of Russian Army <——
posted 2 months ago, 21.13 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KiII_2qabk
-—> Combined Arms Breach, what UA will have to master to smash Orc Lines <——
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ-sCT_maAQ
Extra:
-—> Ukraine Situation Report: Patriot Missile System’s Arrival Draws Near <——
The first 65 Ukrainian troops training on Patriot batteries at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, returned to Europe this week.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ukraine-situation-report-patriot-missile-systems-arrival-draws-near
Excerpts:
After a little more than three months, the first cadre of 65 Ukrainian air defense troops arrived back in Europe this week after training on Patriot air defense systems at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, according to the Pentagon. Those troops began training on Jan. 15.
The training at Fort Sill went “faster than expected,” Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryde told reporters earlier this month. Those troops will then move on to Europe for additional training on the two Patriot systems - one American and one donated by the Germans and Dutch - that will be deployed to Ukraine in the coming weeks, U.S. defense officials told reporters at Fort Sill last week.
Ryder didn’t offer any timeline on when the U.S.-promised MIM-104 Patriot air defense system will arrive in Ukraine. “So for operations security reasons, I’m not going to get into delivery timelines other than to say we’re confident that we’ll be able to get the Patriots there on an expedited timeline.”
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During an interview published by The Associated Press on Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said none of the promised systems have yet been delivered. “We have great decisions about Patriots, but we don’t have them for real,” he told AP.
Ukraine needs 20 Patriot batteries to protect against Russian missiles, and even that may not be enough “as no country in the world was attacked with so many ballistic rockets,” he said.
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By the end of this month, Ryder added, more than 4,000 Ukrainian troops who have been training in two brigades - one on Bradley Fighting Vehicles, the other on Stryker armored vehicles - will have returned to Ukraine after completing combined arms training in Germany.
Additional combined arms training is currently underway at the Grafenwoehr and Hohenfels training areas in Germany, with two motorized infantry battalions consisting of 1,200 Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel, said Ryder.
Operator and maintenance training on donated platforms is also ongoing, he said, “with more than 3,000 Ukrainian soldiers having completed platform training in 40 different programs of instruction on more than 20 systems since April of 2022.”
Reporting from Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/@RFU
[They were Trained fro 4 Days | Mobilized Russians in Action | Russians Send Untrained Artillerymen to Storm Trenches]
••Day 400: March 30
Today there is a lot of news from the Donetsk region.
Here, Russian forces have been conducting incredibly intense ground attacks until they started running out of forces. Some assault battalions started complaining that the survival rate in Avdiivka is only about 11 percent.
In order to prevent the culmination of their campaign, Russians forces even started sending artillerists into battle. They were given guns and 4-day training and were sent to storm Ukrainian trenches.
Last time I told you that the situation to the north of Avdiivka has stabilized, and the Russians did not secure any additional ground.
The freshest reports suggest that the area under Russian control is actually smaller than previously estimated. As you remember, during the previous Russian offensive campaign, they were supposed to capture 2 out of 3 remaining Ukrainian positions. The Russian side recently released combat footage showing how they assaulted and captured a Ukrainian strongpoint north of the settlement.
It looks like Russian forces used at least 4 armored vehicles and a lot of infantry. They managed to suppress Ukrainian fire and get close to the trenches, and gradually push the Ukrainians westward. The video also shows that at least a full squad of Ukrainians managed to get away.
It looks like there are at least two trench networks still under Ukrainian control: one in the western part of the village near the lake and one east of the lake in the tree line. Today Russian sources reported that they tried to get closer to the trenches but only engaged in positional fights with no changes to the front line.
The updated setting indicates that Novobakhmutivka is still under partial control of Ukrainians, although due to the geography, the positions inside the village itself have almost no tactical value because it is located in a deep valley, so whoever controls the trenches on the hills around it, is the one who controls the settlement. This also explains why Russians are attacking the trenches in the tree line from the south and not from the settlement itself.
Ukrainian sources also reported a lot of actions around Krasnohorivka. Ukrainian Assault Drone detachment from the 110th Brigade showed how they effectively prevented another Russian attack. The video features another instance of tight cooperation between artillery and drone operators and shows how the spotted assault squad gets destroyed by artillery fire.
Another footage shows the aftermath of an assault from Krasnohorivka that Russians managed to realize. Here Russians lost at least two armored fighting vehicles and around a dozen troops.
As seen from the map, Russian forces remain vulnerable to counterattacks from the north, so they started taking measures to protect their flanks by mining the areas suitable for potential counterattacks. Unfortunately for Russians, Ukrainian drone operators from the 110th Brigade spotted a pile of mines that Russians prepared to use and burned it down.
So, Ukrainian drone operators are dealing a lot of damage to Russian forces, and their situation is about to deteriorate even further because Ukrainians have recently relocated to Avdiivka, the most famous drone formation, which is Madiar’s Birds Drone Battalion.
Russian assaultmen from the 5th Brigade recently posted a video where they said that their battalion was completely annihilated in suicidal attacks from Vodiane. The battalion initially had 161 soldiers, but after sending one squad after another, only 19 [6%] of them are still alive. They said that they were forced to attack because anti-retreat forces in the back threatened to kill everyone who refuses the order.
And this is one of the best troops that Russians have because many of them have prior combat experience after fighting in Donbas in 2015 as volunteers.
Simultaneously, Russian mobilized soldiers said that after completing the training for artillery, instead of artillery, they were given guns and were sent to Donetsk to storm Ukrainian positions. Their families also made a public appeal to the president.
Today, British Intelligence also reported that Russians are preparing to mobilize 400,000 more people. In order to mitigate country-wide discontent, the mobilization is planned to be announced as voluntary.
They already tried to gather at least one battalion worth of volunteers in each region and failed, so if they couldn’t find even close to 50,000 volunteers, they are unlikely to have 400,000 more.
In reality, recruitment offices will just covertly mobilize whomever they can to fulfill the quotas. And some Russian citizens also started mentioning that, for some reason, they received letters from the recruitment offices with a kind notice to check whether their registered address was up to date in their system.
Overall, it looks like after losing thousands of soldiers in Vuhledar, an additional spike in losses in Avdiivka put a huge strain on the number of assault formations in the regular Russian army and forced them to take drastic measures, such as sending mobilized soldiers
that have been trained for 3 months for a completely different job.
That is why Russians seem to be planning another wave of mobilization, although, with dwindling professional units, a huge inflow of newly mobilized men may degrade the Russian army to the point where everyone barely knows what to do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPpYQuLW8T0
Denys says:
[Failed State | The Collapse of the Russian Federation is More Than Possible and Here’s Why ]
Russia is the biggest country in the world, but 80% of the population lives in the European part, and some in the south central, plus a handful in the Far East. The rest is frozen emptiness, unsuitable for human habitation. Taken together the resulting habitable county would be smaller than the US or China.
The frozen north is where many minorities live and work, sending natural resources to the factories in the southwest.
Denys shows a graphic with all the various districts, oblasts, provinces etc. Leaders in various regions were titled Presidents, but a new 2023 law changed their titles to Governors. They now have less power than they did in Soviet times, when some even had UN representation.
Putin has done everything possible to concentrate all power in Moscow, a single point, like Xi in China concentrated all power in the Party, a group.
Regions near the Chinese border have been gaining Chinese population recently. China published maps of territories it has occupied in the past which are now Russian with their original Chinese names: Vladivostok = Haishenwai or Bay of Sea Cucumbers.
This is internal propaganda to remind the Chinese people of land sized by foreigners [Laowhy]. {The Chinese concept of ‘foreigner’ applies to everyone who is not Han Chinese, even if a Chinese person is in another country, the resident hosts are still referred to as ‘foreigners’.}
Russia is a country divided by internal and external factors: physical, geographical, political and historical.
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Official Russian sources of the number of bodies delivered to each region or province: 18,023 from Feb 24, 2022 to March 22, 2023. Offical deaths in Moscow are 118 or ~1:100,000 - less than in traffic accidents - the war has no influence there. Muscovites only touch the war with their TV remote buttons and watch the State propaganda, or when they miss their Micky Dees.
For areas outside of the Moscow/European regions, the ratio changes to 1:1,655: Buryat is as far from Ukraine as Moscow as is from India.
There are two Russias: the one that watches the war on TV and the one that does the fighting. For those that live in the Far East like Buryat, these deaths become a personal/family tragedy, not pixels on a TV.
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If the Russian Elite want to survive they have to get rid of Putin - one way or another, but if they give any sign of acting against him, they face very lengthy prison sentences, if they are fortunate.
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Denys says that Russian soldiers returning home will take some ammo with then because they not longer trust the government and use it to start their own war (like after the Chechen wars where returned soldiers fought each other). With that, violent riots will happen; we are on the edge of a Great Russian Revolution ... again, but that as of now lacks a leader or group of leaders.
Gives 90% chance post war Russia will break up
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North Korea unlikely to send troops or ammo as they feel they are surrounded and need all their resources to counter.
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Ukraine Foreign Minister say any Counterattack will not be decisive. Denys say the country does not have the reaources for random attacks, but needs one big one to change the course.
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Huge snowfall in the Rostov region is preventing Russia from resupplying troops or equipment. [Looks like 12-24”] All roads blocked at present, with snowplows also stuck.
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Putin signed the Spring mandatory mobilization for 147,000 conscripts: 18-30 yr olds.
