The War in the Ukraine

HiMARS attack on Russian barracks have claim dozens up to 100+ Russian troops also a separate attack on Vagner base

Here is Russia source

I think the question should be asked is why the hell is Russia still putting a lot of military personnel in one building in range of HiMARS? To me it shows a lack of respect for Ukraine's ISR capability or I should say US ISR capability. At least 90kms away from the front and this doesn't happen.

Atomicfrog said:

I think all old soviet block mig29 are slowly pooring in Ukraine. Don't know how many have been sent already.

The Slovakia one arrived I think:

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How many mig-29's are left in Europe to give? A dozen maybe? I suppose Egypt can be "persuaded" to give their Mig-29 fleet (what's left of it) to Ukraine for lifting of sanctions or Vipers and Rafales.

It appears that yesterday there were mutual strikes on military buildings with concentrated manpower. Тhe AFU is used to this, and they have more censorship, so every time it happens to the RU side, it's a big shock.

SolarWarden said:

I think the question should be asked is why the hell is Russia still putting a lot of military personnel in one building in range of HiMARS?

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The tweet you posted had this included

There are multiple reports of a New Year celebration that occurred in a building of a school in the occupied Makiivka, where a large number of mobilised were located. HIMARS strike.

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New Year celebration and all that. Of course the primary lesson here is that there are no holidays or celebration days during wartime

SolarWarden said:

Here is Russia source

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1609661145366790147

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"Russian sources are telling about hunderds of victims" but the screenshot he provided doesn't contain anything about "hundreds of victims".

Stierlitz said:

"Russian sources are telling about hunderds of victims" but the screenshot he provided doesn't contain anything about "hundreds of victims".

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It's Russian social media sites

kokole said:

It appears that yesterday there were mutual strikes on military buildings with concentrated manpower. Тhe AFU is used to this, and they have more censorship, so every time it happens to the RU side, it's a big shock.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1609620335669948416

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1609653144279199744

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That's kinda funny when Russia strike a school full of soldiers, everyones in the west cries warcrimes and when Ukraine strike a school full of soldier is victory... the bias is so overwhelming all the time, lol !

gelgoog said:

Weather in Ukraine is at 5-7 degree Celsius. The ground turned into mud. Terrain conditions are pretty poor to make an offensive. Assuming the Russians even wanted to make one. Winter is milder than usual. It was only at sub-zero for less than a week which was not enough for the ground to harden to a point you can traverse with tanks through it.

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This is correct. The winter has been far, far milder than usual and the ground has been mud.

If the winter stays wet and warm, there will be an extremely tough time for anyone to conduct major offensives. What's more, the mud of a mild winter may continue into the traditional Raputitsa. If so, we're looking at a delay in any sort of offensives short of a major collapse somewhere until April or May. Or at least until the ground firms.

General Mud favors the defender.

For the discussions of ammo, Perun did a good video discussing the logistics of resupply for Ukraine and how Russia is fairing:


Also, "Ukrainian" produced 152mm ammo:

Atomicfrog said:

That's kinda funny when Russia strike a school full of soldiers, everyones in the west cries warcrimes and when Ukraine strike a school full of soldier is victory... the bias is so overwhelming all the time, lol !

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One must wonder what’s going to happen in return. It’s not like the Russians will have much incentive to not go after the civilian infrastructure when the chances present itself. If this keeps on happening, we can expect the Russians to have less and less empathy when another massive missile strike goes off.

SolarWarden said:

It's Russian social media sites

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1609617796241166336

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1609615020697993216

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There is no way to be sure that these are Russian social accounts and not Ukrainian trolls under the direction of the Ukrainian Center for Information and Psychological Special Operations.

There are many Ukrainian paid bots and trolls posing as Russians from Russia and their main task is to flood Russian social networks with fakes, disinformation and propaganda to destabilize Russian society from within. Now I remember that these Ukrainian trolls even posed as Dagestanis and tried to organise protests in Dagestan through social networks when the partial mobilisation was announced.