I think something like that is of legitimate interest. Post it and lets take a look. If it proves too strong then we can remove it.
The War in the Ukraine
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But the east isn't the most difficult, the most difficult is the forested areas of the north and urban centers. In the south and the east where there's open terrain Russians continues to perform.
Like some kids that pull a prank at the front door of a neighbors but in that case they are all grown up and the neighbors have some t-90.
They could have been carried on the side not to be crushed or to be collected in an easier way later.... quite hard to put a time line. It's like the outcry on mass graves... Puting corpses in order at the same place is way better than letting them all over the place to be eaten by stray dogs...
Here's the video.
If I were to guess: troops riding on top of BMP getting picked off with gun and mortar fire and falling off.
If I were to guess: troops riding on top of BMP getting picked off with gun and mortar fire and falling off.
In terms of what Russia’s end goal is I think it’s simple. Establish Novorussiya. Creating a land bridge from Kharkov to Odessa. It just makes so much sense. The region has majority Russian speakers. Strategically it gives them control of the Black Sea kicking out NATO from the area. Secondly it makes West Ukraine a landlocked shit hole. The land is rich in agriculture which strips Ukraine of that. Also by controlling these agriculture rich areas it increases Russias share of the global food supply. And the way things are going they can dictate how much the price will be. Likely making countries pay rubles to get wheat. Egypt,Iran and Saudis Arabia already said they will pay in rubles for wheat.
So Novorussiya makes sense.
So Novorussiya makes sense.
Yep it look like it a lot, and we have seen them doing that type of carrying under artillery and fire a couple of times already... the poor lads.
There will certainly be an insurgency in Western and Northern Ukraine. It is a great resource and logistical challenge that will be necessary in occupying such a large swathe of very hostile territory.
It would be 100% correct thing to do from a strategic point of view to Eliminate (not just cripple and de-militarize) a rabidly anti-Russian regime once the Donbass and southern forces are defeated. As you and Wolfie said, whatever remaining weak force in Western Ukraine are unable to resist.
But...knowing Putin, he is probably be content with holding the east and South () and that is a strategic mistake. He cannot allow a crippled regime to exist, that just kicks the can down the road. I don't have much confidence he will go all out to eliminate Kiev, he might just declare victory after East/South () is conquered, which is unfortunate, since a NATO-backed crippled West Ukraine is still a thorn in future, no matter what a paper promise says otherwise. He should Go Big (or go home) is what I'm trying to say.
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plawolf
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That’s was one of the initial thoughts I had as well, however, to my eyes, where the bodies are lying looks to be a gully (most obvious when the drone pans around and starts to swing back) , with the road to the right with all the vehicle tracks.
If these were troops riding up top on armour that got killed by shrapnel/bullets, I would expect the bodies to be on the dirt road rather than all neatly in the ditch.
Looking at the blast damage on the ground, it looks like we have different sized munitions with big blast marks likely from artillery/rockets, but also a lot of small ones about the size of basketballs.
Based on that, I wonder if maybe this was a column of troops on foot moving in the gully to minimise their exposure who got caught cold by a Russian attack helicopter that strafed its 30mm right down the line?