Posted on 08/21/2023 8:52:24 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
Ukrainian strikes on Russian rear areas are "demonstrably degrading" the morale of Russian forces in Ukraine, and this "could threaten the stability of Russian defenses on multiple critical areas of the front," the ISW said....
The ISW said morale issues can quickly intensify and spread among Russian frontline units if one unit under pressure breaks, which in turn could "spread panic" and "significantly reduce the combat effectiveness of other Russian forces."
"A broken Russian frontline unit would threaten the integrity of other frontline defenses, and such a break in the Russian frontline would provide a vulnerability that Ukrainian forces could exploit," the think tank added, assessing that Moscow's forces likely lack the necessary reserves to rotate out or quickly replace a broken unit, making the preservation of morale in front-line units imperative....
In a post on Telegram, Alexander Khodakovsky, commander of the Russian-backed "Vostok" battalion, acknowledged that his troops can't win, shortly after his forces were pushed out of Urozhaine in the Donetsk region.
"Can we win Ukraine militarily? Now and in the near future, no," Khodakovsky said...
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
and wait till Ukraine's drone attacks ramp up this fall, as they optimize their systems and the nights grow longer ... no place in Russia will be safe ...
And Stana Clause is on a weight loss program.
I’m loathing this “war by media”.
Russia cannot win. But Ukraine’s goal should not be revanchism; that would surely be a losing war, as well. The Donbas and Crimea were lost in 2014, when Petro Poroshenko resorted to total warfare against those who were supposedly his own people.
When’s the next scheduled Russian Moon crashing?
that kind of incompetence is a good example of why Russia continues to get its ass kicked by a country 1/20th of its size, after 19 months, with no end in sight
LOL
Russian social media suddenly got less arrogant after the smash landing.
AAAAAaaannnnnddddd....the war effort is collapsing in the Ukraine. Soldiers don’t like being forced to wade out into heavy fire to attack the first of 3 lines of defense without air cover. Just crawl and die. That’s bad for morale.
The ‘problem’ of the disparity in air support between Russia and the Ukraine continues, as it has from the start, to disproportionately kill off more Ukrainians than Russians.
The ‘problem’ of NATO running out of arms/ammo to give the Ukraine is coming to a head and NATO is signalling the end of the conflict is drawing near, even as they bang the table and make ‘promises.’ At this point Ukrainians are losing more rapidly than before, they will certainly lose significant portions of land if they are not divided up among neighboring nations completely. NATO will at most, regret the loss of face and the loss of ammo, but will not dwell on the destruction of so many Ukrainian lives.
ISW, = Bill Krystol, Kagan, Keane, Petraeus etc.
So neocons issue a press release explaining that heroic stalwart Ukes are degrading Russian morale. We should start seeing those inspiring 1940s style propaganda posters soon. LOL
My own country has blown up astronauts, so I won't judge a robo crash on the moon.
Has Canada even crash-landed a satellite on the moon yet???
that kind of incompetence is a good example of why Russia continues to get its ass kicked by a country 1/20th of its size, after 19 months, with no end in sight
I know! Just the shear volume of Uke territory held by Russia screams out that they are "getting their ass kicked."
Putin’s invasion will be as successful as Luna-25
he’s gonna end up losing the Donbas and the other occupied territory
he should have stopped when his attempted encirclement of Kiev failed, then he still could have saved Russia’s reputation and European O & G markets ... now it’s all lost, permanently
he’s probably also gonna lose the Crimea as well
“Putin’s Blunder”, one of the great mistakes of History
My guess is that with Ukraine’s reduced military options but sustained resolve, we will see many posts celebrating how Ukraine has droned a Russian shopping mall or hospital in the weeks to come.
| In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Ukraine Strikes 'Demonstrably Degrading' Russian Morale on Front Line: ISW, MNDude wrote: |
My guess is that with Ukraine’s reduced military options but sustained resolve, we will see many posts celebrating how Ukraine has droned a Russian shopping mall or hospital in the weeks to come. |
Yes. Some of the analysts were refering to the Ukraine's attacks on appartments in Russia and drones as 'pin pricks' meant to compensate for their inability to break through Russian defensive lines while the Russians rain death on them.
>Russia slowly waking up to the truth that they can’t win
Or they’re baiting Ukrainians into getting more NATO materiel blown up.
Anything from Newsweak is a lie.
How is the Canadian Space Program going?
Asymmetric warfare by the Ukrainians at its finest!
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