The War in the Ukraine

SolarWarden said:

Oh this policy looks like is going to change really soon by the way US officials are talking.

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Well, they are welcome to try. I'm sure it won't affect the involvement of other parties into the war and the corresponding escalation in other areas and you and the US in general won whine about the consequences of it all.

I'd tell you to remember this isn't a Call of Duty game but I doubt you care about that.

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argo said:

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This YouTuber is a very pro FLG and epoch times person so the comments are quite reflective of that.

Only reason I mentioned it is because she may crop out some parts. Any one have an unabridged or other full version ?

MortyandRick said:

This YouTuber is a very pro FLG and epoch times person so the comments are quite reflective of that.

Only reason I mentioned it is because she may crop out some parts. Any one have an unabridged or other full version ?

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Nothing really surprised me in that video, isn't urban combat defined by extremely high attrition in this war? An average infantry man on both sides are really just drone/artillery targets until they reach the next dugout.

I feel like this thread has a unreasonably rosy view of Russian losses. Even if they have fire superiority, it is exceedingly difficult/expensive to dislodge an enemy from a prepared urban environment.

What's really dumb is going to Russia as PMC when there are a myriad of less hazardous military adjacent gigs that will have similar pay without risking a UAV to the dome.

If the Russians are now using thousands of glide bombs a month has there been a noticeable increase in causalities over last year?

argo said:

If the Russians are now using thousands of glide bombs a month has there been a noticeable increase in causalities over last year?

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Ukrainian casuality rate is the hardest kept secret of this war so it wouldn't be easy to find answer for that question.

tankphobia said:

Nothing really surprised me in that video, isn't urban combat defined by extremely high attrition in this war? An average infantry man on both sides are really just drone/artillery targets until they reach the next dugout.

I feel like this thread has a unreasonably rosy view of Russian losses. Even if they have fire superiority, it is exceedingly difficult/expensive to dislodge an enemy from a prepared urban environment.

What's really dumb is going to Russia as PMC when there are a myriad of less hazardous military adjacent gigs that will have similar pay without risking a UAV to the dome.

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It depends of what you consider rosy.

Most people don’t think Russian loses are small in absolute terms, they are small in relation to the available pool of men in the Russian army and they are specially very small in relation with the gargantuan ukranian loses.

Probably Russia have lost 100k men or so, more or less is what is possible to extrapolate from weekly numbers of media zona and some weekly estimations I saw time ago.

However it is important to notice that most of Russian loses were either Wagner fighters, either prisioners recruited, either militias of Donbass (that are now 1st and 2nd army corps).

Captured T-90M in good working condition by Ukraine

Russian armored assault at Chasiv Yar destroyed
I thought the whole point of opening Kharkiv front was to make Ukraine move troops from Chasiv Yar to Kharkiv and make it "less difficult" to storm and take Chasiv Yar... well it aint working. Kharkiv front is also becoming another grinder for russian forces.

Also attack on satellite receiver at Crimea was done with 8 ATACMs

And it looks like the go-ahead in allowing Ukraine to use ATACMs and sclp/stormshadow missiles inside Russia is all but certain

Likely they will try to get this done so that Ukraine can attack Russian staging positions near Sumy.

argo said:

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What a guy honestly. Surviving so long on the front-line is no joke. Not surprised that he's in a unit that is either lower priority or has low morale.

Why would Russians risk their lives to save a foreigner? Camaraderie and brotherhood will obviously be a problem in these mercenary type units.

tankphobia said:

Nothing really surprised me in that video, isn't urban combat defined by extremely high attrition in this war? An average infantry man on both sides are really just drone/artillery targets until they reach the next dugout.

I feel like this thread has a unreasonably rosy view of Russian losses. Even if they have fire superiority, it is exceedingly difficult/expensive to dislodge an enemy from a prepared urban environment.

What's really dumb is going to Russia as PMC when there are a myriad of less hazardous military adjacent gigs that will have similar pay without risking a UAV to the dome.

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I don't consider Russians losses to be light, but some people do give unreasonably high numbers.

I am also very skeptical of Ukrainian loss claims, which are widely considered to be fewer than Russia's. Yeah, Ukraine is on the offensive less often, but they are under far heavier bombardment and are generally at a significant fires disadvantage.