They will have soon 4 american MLRS to replace them ! Joke apparts, they are losing way more equipment than what they are receiving and this situation endured way to long to be able to maintain the front. They will have infantry with manpads and ATGM with some IFV and civilians cars left in a couple of weeks. It's throwing life to the Russian grinder if they are not able to diminish the size of the front.
The War in the Ukraine
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They’re wasting all their newest systems in the meat grinder. If Russia is able to take Donbas as a whole, I don’t know what Ukraine can do. They will have no capability to take back the territory they’re losing without significant amounts of heavy weapons (reason for the failed “counterattacks”). One thing I’ve heard is that they’re training some sort of miracle Western equipped army with Polish T72s, M109, etc. but it seems like they’re just being sent to the front instead.
It’s likely the Russians are letting Ukraine to send more forces to Severodonetsk/Lyschansk region to fix them there to open other fronts. It’s reported Russia has 20 BTGs in the Izyum front as reserve waiting for the order to attack. Also it’s reported Russia has a 7:1 advantage in firepower(artillery,tanks, armored vehicles). So any Ukrainian counterattack will be devastated. And Russia is focused in taking the suburbs around Severodenetsk/Lyschansk to complete the encirclement of the region. Ukrainian general staff knows it makes no military sense to try turn these two cities into Mariupol 2.0. In the end they’ll get encircled and annihilated. The Ukrainian political leadership plan is to try to hold every position which in the end will leave them to lose everything and take heavy losses.
How reliable is sky news? Didnt they report that Ukraine took back 50% of the city in a counter attack which was found to be false? Did they make a correction like ISW?
All the aid they are getting are either being destroyed by Russian missiles and air strikes or sent to the front where they are being destroyed. We have kept hearing about this massive summer offensive coming in July to push the Russians back. They then postponed it to August and now they are saying it will be a massive fall offensive in September/October. I don’t think a massive offensive is happening. It likely propaganda to boost domestic morale. Kievs strategy is to hold every position and make the Russians pay for every territory they hold.
Does anyone have information from the Russian side on a Zaporizhzhia counteroffensive?
It's futile to keep checkpoints if a counteroffensive is starting anyway. Better for these troops to get back with the main body and waiting for the counteroffensive to be grinded before taking back their positions.
Quite a sudden news, probably a mere propaganda stunt because there hasn't been build up for Zaporizhzhia offensive this week from my part
Manning checkpoints is probably a task they can hand over to Rosgvardia.
What's left of Dolgenkoe after the Russians hit an ammonum-nitrate storage
