Mom, they want to ship me to the front lines!
Posted on 03/14/2023 5:35:42 PM PDT by Mariner
As fighting grows deadlier in the eastern city of Bakhmut, another big counteroffensive against Russia could cost more lives than Kyiv's forces can afford to lose, a Ukrainian senior official warned.
The anonymous official told The Washington Post that all hope for a spring counteroffensive will rely on the arrival of Western military aid and trained troops.
Currently, Ukraine doesn't have "the people or weapons" to push forward, the official said, as its most experienced soldiers continue to be killed or injured in battle.
"If you have more resources, you more actively attack," the senior official said. "If you have fewer resources, you defend more."
The official said he's not sure how Ukraine can mount an effective counterattack this spring.
"I'm looking at the resources and asking, 'With what?'"
More than a year into the war, a Ukrainian offensive could be too costly for Kyiv's limited forces. "When you're on the offensive, you lose twice or three times as many people," the official added. "We can't afford to lose that many people."
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Now that team will have to win the whole war.
From the article, “ The official said he’s not sure how Ukraine can mount an effective counterattack this spring. “I’m looking at the resources and asking, ‘With what?’”
The truth is emerging, and from a western MSM outlet. Surprise, Surprise.
“Steiner’s assault will bring the situation under control.”
Winning!
Ukraine ping
Ukraine might be trying to get Russia’s guard down. When Putin moved large numbers of Russian troops around Kharkov to Kherson, he left the road open for Ukrainians to retake ~12,000 square miles, a chunk of land the size of Maryland. The Ukrainian official is saying that the army being assembled from a mishmash of near sell-by-date equipment from NATO’s junkyards needs to be complete before a general offensive - that there’s no point in penny packet attacks that will simply get whittled down.
At that point, we will discover whether Western armor really is capable of defeating superior numbers of Russian armor without the benefit of air power. During Desert Storm, the Russians argued that air power made the difference for the Western armored units that curb-stomped their quantitatively-superior Russian-armed Iraqi counterparts. In addition, they claimed that the armor provided to Iraq consisted of inferior export models. The tanks the Russians are using in Ukraine are presumably not export models.
>I guess we will know the outcome in Bahkmut pretty soon.
They’re just waiting until the Russians hit a treeline without Ukrainians behind it. Then, once that surge happens, the Ukrainians will shuffle and other areas will be left open. It turns into a slow bleed that gets faster and faster.
All the death is happening with Wagner.
Mom, they want to ship me to the front lines!
Hopium is a helluva drug Zhang Fei.
I guess we will know the outcome in Bahkmut pretty soon.
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As we speak, Avdika is also being encircled….another key Ukie defensive position…..as an Ivan General states…we draw them in, encircle, establish the cauldron, then start Boiling it….over, and over again.
….and that’s that.
There is no way Ukraine has more cannon fodder than Russia. The Ukes absolutely will run out first. The only way to avoid this is the introduction of NATO cannon fodder into the equation.
“I’ve been seeing more truth coming out over the last few days. The battle in and around Bahkmut is a real violent fight that is killing men on both sides. I think Russia can absorb losses better then Ukraine right now. I heard a Ukrainian soldier talking about how lucky he was to survive a direct hit from a tank shell on the bunker he was in. The guys with him didn’t survive. The numbers of dead and wounded in his area was extremely high according to him….”
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It is a very deadly and dangerous place for Ukrainian conscripts. Some who decide they’d prefer to be POWs rather than dead or maimed end up being machine gunned in the back by their “friends” while trying to surrender to the Russians. Of course many become POWs. The guys in this video were unsuccessful L
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv2U7ETFDo8
All the death is happening with Wagner.
Wagner has the artillery and shells to go with it. All the death occurs on the receiving end.
According to this post, Ukraine has plenty of fighting age men who are performing in drag - maybe to get out of fighting???
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In Kiev, Drag Queens Perform to Forget The War — And to Defy Putin
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4138196/posts
This article is preparing us for Biden to order the use of American troops in Ukraine. We already have 3 divisions worth of equipment placed forward in Poland. It’s coming. Joe and the Neocons and the MIC want this war.
Poland is where Trump ordered V Corps European headquarters to be moved to when he reactivated V Corps, of course, we keep troops and equipment there.
Concur. Send Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell.
Its not going to be tank on tank battle, except in very rare instances - mostly western tanks will fall just like any other tank - to artillery fire.
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