Posted on 10/06/2022 8:06:06 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
There’s a lot of conflicting news on freep, mostly from partisan trolls. However, we can all agree on the 300,000 mobilization number, since Puting called for it. That is a LOT of people that need to be trained by a LOT of trainers. It’s a lot of clothing and boots, and winter is coming. It’s a lot of arms and ammunition that needs to be manufactured and supplied. And of course, it’s a boatload of food, several times per day. It does appear that the Russian Kleptocracy is ill prepared for this level of concentrated logistics. Interestingly, the Soviets used to have these logistics. At the end of Operation Barbossa, they were spitting out a hundred tanks per week.
In WW2 the Russians soldiers would be shot dead by political commissars if they did not move forward in attack. They would be shot for pretty much any reason and their bodies left in the open as the army moved ahead. Other ways to use you was to put you in front of the attack with no weapon. The Russian soldiers did not have enough weapons so those that did and died the next soldier that came upon him would grab the weapon till he died and the next etc etc.
If they were captured then after the war came back to Russia they would die in a prison camp.
These conscripts have it easy....
‘We spent a week in brutal, absolutely appalling conditions. We had no provisions, no money - nothing at all.
Sounds like they were well trained for their tour in Ukraine.
Update on Russian operations in Ukraine for October 5, 2022
- Latest US aid package falls far short of replacing steep Ukrainian losses amid continued offensives;
- Ukraine’s offensive has limited capabilities, will not achieve “victory” over Russian forces in territory deemed “Ukrainian” by Kiev;
- Ukrainian offensive is an “all-or-nothing” proposition, hoping to achieve psychological and political gains toward ending the conflict in ways Ukrainian military force cannot;
- Western analysts celebrate the psychological impact the offensive is having on pro-Russian media, pundits, and even prominent members of Russian society;
- In reality, Ukraine will be left overextended and vulnerable just as Russia’s 300,000-strong mobilization begins shaping the battlefield.
In Ukrainian channels, information about the state of the Armed Forces of Ukraine appeared. They refer to the data of the General Staff.
Here is what the military-political leadership of Ukraine hides:
- the staffing of the Armed Forces of Ukraine remains at the level of 43-48%;
- losses among military personnel - more than 191 thousand killed and wounded;
- statistics on missing persons are not maintained; - medicine is working at its limit, the seriously wounded are taken through Poland for treatment in European countries (Germany, France, Italy);
- an acute shortage of small arms and body armor;
- the resource of some samples of equipment transferred by the allies is ending (the first batches of American M777, M109, new Panzerhaubitse 2000 and MARS II);
- the lack of qualified specialists in the operation of Western weapons, so the equipment is operated by people without a deep understanding of the materiel;
- a problem with consumables, especially hydraulics and liquid nitrogen, necessary for M777 howitzers;
- in the field, an automated fire control system does not last long, fragments and dust are killed quickly enough; there are no opportunities for repairs on the spot, we have to send them to Poland, where there are spare parts and specialists.
In addition, the MPS of Ukrainian military personnel remains at a low level, despite the recent information campaign to distribute “encouraging” materials on social networks and organized concerts.
Such a deplorable state of the Armed Forces of Ukraine can only testify to one thing - they do not have long to exist.
You are correct, but since Ukies have their eyes in the sky, all that massed Russians and the recent massed Russian conscripts will do....
Will be seen in advance by NATO an US satellites and AWACS types and conveyed within 15 minutes (almost real time) to Ukraine command in Kiev.
Where are the Russian AWACS equivalent in Ukraine? Nowhere to be seen. Russia also has no good satellites that can effectively observe Ukraine. Kazan’s failure you are backing Rus losers.
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