What makes you think Russia hasn't fixed the problems? It was unprepared then, it's prepared now.
The War in the Ukraine
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Footage of the destruction by a Russian kamikaze drone of the Ukrainian control signal relay station for the Ukrainian Bayraktar TB2 UAVs.
Footage of the counter-battery fight of the Russian militia in Ukraine has been published. The artillery crew uses the Soviet 152-mm gun 2A36 "Hyacinth-B". Despite its age, and the gun was developed in 1971, it is the longest-range towed gun of the Russian armies. The firing range of the gun is from 28 to 33 km, according to some reports up to 40 km with an active-rocket projectile. The shell on the "Hyacinth" is double-acting, it was originally installed as a fragmentation, but it can be easily converted to a high-explosive action
The Ukrainian army received the first six British Stormer HVM air defense systems. So far, there is no video of the air defense system, but the first photos have already appeared. The Stormer HVM air defense system was developed in the eighties on the basis of the FV4333 Stormer armored personnel carrier and adopted by England in 1997. The air defense system has an optical-electronic target search station and does not have its own radar. The armament of the air defense system, 8 modified Starstreak MANPADS, which are guided by a laser beam.
Footage of the counter-battery fight of the Russian militia in Ukraine has been published. The artillery crew uses the Soviet 152-mm gun 2A36 "Hyacinth-B". Despite its age, and the gun was developed in 1971, it is the longest-range towed gun of the Russian armies. The firing range of the gun is from 28 to 33 km, according to some reports up to 40 km with an active-rocket projectile. The shell on the "Hyacinth" is double-acting, it was originally installed as a fragmentation, but it can be easily converted to a high-explosive action
The Ukrainian army received the first six British Stormer HVM air defense systems. So far, there is no video of the air defense system, but the first photos have already appeared. The Stormer HVM air defense system was developed in the eighties on the basis of the FV4333 Stormer armored personnel carrier and adopted by England in 1997. The air defense system has an optical-electronic target search station and does not have its own radar. The armament of the air defense system, 8 modified Starstreak MANPADS, which are guided by a laser beam.
The problems are not due to logistics, more troops are needed for the offensive of the army, now the number of Ukrainian troops is 3-4 times more than that of Russia. Despite this, the Russian army is moving forward
There are no logistic issues right now. Slow pace of advancement let repair and establish railroad supply routes.
Only somewhat problematic point are probably Kherson due to Dnepr it is harder to establish offensive formation for Russian side there. But longer range artillery and air can support from other side of Dnepr if Ukraine do try to push in this direction.
Seems like the kind of briefings that reveal that Russia has such a fragile economy that it would collapse and Putin would be overthrown if they economically sanctioned it.
In regards to logistics, at the onset of conflict with deep thrusts into Northern Ukraine, the primary method of resupply was truck based due to distance, with recent supply of GPS guided munitions and intel by the west we're seeing at least 1/2 ammo dumps getting popped daily by the Ukrainian forces, complicating the train based logistics that had alleviated the logistics issue the Russians had earlier in the war.
Russia has very capable train logistics corps, but their truck based supply chain has had a less than stellar showing thus far, so if they were to disperse their ammo supply depots to avoid heavy loss of equipment through strikes they will need to rely on their trucks again, it might be better this time around since they won't get bogged down by mud I guess? They did lose a lot of those trucks in the initial months though.
Russia has very capable train logistics corps, but their truck based supply chain has had a less than stellar showing thus far, so if they were to disperse their ammo supply depots to avoid heavy loss of equipment through strikes they will need to rely on their trucks again, it might be better this time around since they won't get bogged down by mud I guess? They did lose a lot of those trucks in the initial months though.
True, not logistics. Its the simple lack of manpower. BTGs are excessively mechanized in proportion of manpower. Without enough ground infantry to screen the mechanized vehicles, the vehicles easily fall victim to defensive traps, like foot squads with antitank missiles. It results in the kind of vehicular kills that you see often in social media during the early phase of the war.
The mechanized battalions have evolved into brigades that are now much more beefed with manpower, the latter namely from the DPR and LPR forces. With more human to machine ratios, things have worked much better.
It is a direct result of decision not to mobilize population and not use conscripts. While it does affect military performance, the economy and political situation in Russia are much more robust than west anticipated. Hard to say what is better.
It is somewhat solved now with heavy use of volunteers/BARS and mercenary units to bolster infantry ranks.
Mercs aren't used for this purpose. They make up the top elite spetznaz or special forces and are concentrated with Wagner. Wagner is used to tactically storm the most heavily defended fortifications, look how quickly that powerplant went down in record time recently compared to previous heavily defended industrial areas.
lol, Wagner group mercenaries are top elite like Spetsnaz
You're talking about the same Wagner group mercenaries that avoided at all cost encounters with US Army in Syria or French troops in Africa? We all know how they fare against regular troops (not elite). Nothing great. They aren't super troops. They might be brutal to civilians but aren't any kind of superior warriors especially going against well organized enemy troops. Any commander would take 1000 well equipped and trained regular pro soldiers over 1000 Wagner mercs. They might be there at the top of the spear but it only stems from the fact that Russian commanders would rather save their regular troops and use mercenaries for that with "to hell with them" attitude rather than using them as some sort of special forces. You can complain all you want about the Russian army but it isn't Congo in 1964 where mercenaries can be considered anything more than cannon fodder.
First there were Chechens as some sort of super troops, now it's Wagner group lol.
I wondered how it feels when missiles are coming at you when you're operating within SAM battery. And it seems like we have a footage. Fortunately for the crew this time GMLRS wasn't aimed at them and lost a group of missiles from the radar after few seconds. But it seems like very stressful work.