This is halarious if true. Now if it is true then Ukrainians can't use the footage anymore since Russia already released it. If it's not true and its staged by Russian propaganda then the Russians can basically try to invalidate any pro Ukrainian clips showing valor as a film piece. Interesting game they are playing.
The War in the Ukraine
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This is halarious if true. Now if it is true then Ukrainians can't use the footage anymore since Russia already released it. If it's not true and its staged by Russian propaganda then the Russians can basically try to invalidate any pro Ukrainian clips showing valor as a film piece. Interesting game they are playing.
The only sources I could find saying this are UA military officials. Until we get Russian sources, I will press X to doubt.
If anyone's interest how the ride of the infamous (they are - or were - responsible for the ) 64th Motor Rifle Brigade (and 35th Army as well) ended in Ukraine you can read this first hand report translated to English:
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Typical US bollocks commentary. Of course Russia cannot have the same force structure as the US army. Russia has enemies right on its border. Not like the US which can safely use contract troops on foreign conflicts safe from blowback being an ocean away from the conflict zone. Russia's enemies in Europe alone have a much larger manpower pool than Russia, and a larger economic footprint, there is no way to solve that military economic calculus problem without using conscription.
Conscripts need to be part of the Russian force structure concept from the get go. Not a mere afterthought. Also, because of that, like with all conscript armies even mixed ones, any lack of tactical finesse of individual soldiers needs to be compensated with superior officer training at the operational level. For this Russia has much deeper officer training courses and schools than the US. Their officer pool is much larger. This allows quickly ballooning the army size with conscripts in case of full blown conflict without them running around like headless chickens without proper supervision.
Rosgvardia and OMON are not being used for frontline combat. They are being used to police occupied areas. They are in places like Kherson and Melitopol. Not fighting on the front. They are being used to clear those areas of possible insurgents, saboteurs, and partisans left behind by the Ukrainians.
The Donbass militia is operating in the front lines to clear up their own territory for rather obvious reasons. This gives them more political legitimacy when it comes the time to decide their own political future. And a lot of them probably have longstanding grievances with Ukrainian government forces and are willingly going into the fight. Once the fight moves outside the Donbass area it remains to be seen how things will proceed.
I assume Russia will eventually increase the scope of conscription. They will likely increase the amount of conscripts each year in the future and perhaps even increase conscription time to closer to what it was in Soviet times now that the whole of NATO is a possible enemy in the future. The time when the force structure was focused on fighting insurgents or peacekeeping missions abroad is long gone.
I think the WOTR commentary by Kofman was quite illuminating. Russian BTGs by design depend on conscripts to fill in the light infantry ranks. Because they declared a special operation and not war, conscripts were not allowed to fight in Ukraine and the BTGs were sent into combat in degraded form. Most of those IFVs never had a full complement of dismountable infantry. Basically, the Russians shot themselves in the foot. No wonder people like Strelkov are fuming.
Most likely, the Russians are not able to provide for the logistics of a major offensive in Donbass while also another one elsewhere. Once they finish with Donbass, they have many options.
He makes a lot of claims which are BS. Like that the problem of the VDV at Gostomel was lack of infantry. It wasn't. It was lack of equipment to counter Ukrainian artillery strikes on the dismounted infantry the Russians dropped near the airport. Russia failed to land the VDV's vehicles with the air drop. To a degree the Russians countered this issue with air support and that worked for the most part. You can tell this by the fact the Ukrainians failed to completely destroy those VDV forces and in fact the VDV were later reinforced successfully with armored vehicles coming from Belarus. Those dismounted VDV forces had to do a cat and mouse game with the Ukrainian forces for the first 24-36h until their vehicles came. But Ukraine never managed to destroy them even when Ukraine sent a mechanized unit against them from Kiev.
Infantry only became an issue when the war moved from being a war of movement to one of static combat. But when that happened they had the Chechens and PMCs to supply extra infantry. They conquered Mariupol. A city with over 400k people.
First official confirmation by the Ukranian General Staff of the use in combat of the Norwegian M109A3GN 155 mm SPG by the Ukrainian Army .
It is entertaining how the claims have to always be followed with a "they like it better than the soviet stuff they had before" with no apparent reason given. And they are older systems than even the 2S3's they have, which even comes with a semi-automatic loader.
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Ukraine suffered heavy casualties in Kharkov area,
Allegedly 200 Kraken KIA in Kharkov area, only 1 captured alive. More interesting discoveries would be uploaded later apparently :
Combat footage of Chechens, Some captured weapons and an enemy KIA.
Allegedly 200 Kraken KIA in Kharkov area, only 1 captured alive. More interesting discoveries would be uploaded later apparently :
Combat footage of Chechens, Some captured weapons and an enemy KIA.