The War in the Ukraine

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Atomicfrog

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HighGround said:
Important to note where this took place.

A lot of high-profile equipment losses in the last few weeks took place in Kherson/Zaporozhia AO. Presumably, the Dnieper grouping is to blame here. Teplisnky took over sometime in October/November. He's now had 2-3 months to unfuck this mess, but it honestly keeps getting worse for the Russians.

Sure, Teplisnky has done a relatively good job of destroying Ukrainian troops in Krynki and hitting the supporting elements of that operation. On the other hand, Ukraine has had a lot of success flying their FPV drones all over that frontline, HIMARS keeps hitting high value targets like the Yastreb AV radar, and the Russians clearly lost at least 1 Su-34 in the air. There was a notable pause in FAB usage after that happened.

I understand it's a challenging AO. NATO recon assets have a pretty unhindered access to locate, target, and provide all this data to their Ukrainian counterparts. Still, this was always the job and the Russian command in this area has done a poor job defending the aerospace.
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They clearly rely a lot on the river in Kherson. Relying on the river is not a good way for any aspirations to retake the right side and going for Odessa. Supplies for Ukrainian forces are just slightly hindered if they got some numerous lucky shots from Geran or cruise missiles.

Don't know if Ukrainian forces are building defences lines on the right side like Russian have done in Zaporizhzhia but it become more and more like a bloody standstill.
 
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sheogorath

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According a German lawmaker, Ukraine has almost no operational Leopard 2's left

A prominent German lawmaker and key decision-maker in defense budget allocations, Sebastian Schäfer, has revealed that only a limited number of the modern Leopard 2 tanks supplied by Germany to Ukraine are currently operational.

According to Schäfer, who holds influential roles in the Bundestag’s defense and finance committees, the primary cause behind this operational shortfall is the scarcity of essential spare parts needed for repairs.
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supersnoop

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What happened to M1? We saw it painted green (for once, have never seen it any other color besides Sand, which is sadly telling of intent), but nothing in terms of action... Even the Leo-1 which were not expected soon due to age have been seen in plenty of action.
 
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Atomicfrog

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supersnoop said:
What happened to M1? We saw it painted green (for once, have never seen it any other color besides Sand, which is sadly telling of intent), but nothing in terms of action... Even the Leo-1 which were not expected soon due to age have been seen in plenty of action.
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They are not available... They need enormous maintenance and in the present lenghty war scenario and logistic strains, it cannot be easy done on the front. For example they need to clean the air filter each 12 hrs of use, if not they bust the engine.

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Maybe if they can carry them on a truck to the front line and make a push it could be a thing but the risk is high that they will be all stuck because of maintenance without possibilities of retrival. Putting them near maintenance centers and important choke points could be the best way of use for them.
 
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Kejora

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SolarWarden said:
Confirmed Russia using inaccurate North Korean missiles.
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1743020674220745175

I guess the deal with Iranian missiles went sour. Is Russia running low on their stock that they need outside help? :confused:
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Doesn't look like in the middle of open field to me

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