Ukrainian War Developments

Botnet said:

Russia is now entrenching so the Ukrainians are able to conduct limited company and battalion sized attacks, it might give them some gradual progress.

I'm interested to see if the Russians are pulling troops out from the Kyiv front to the East or South though.

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Some progress in regaining some controlled territory maybe, but if they can't breakthrough the Russian line then it is fruitless...

That is an interesting question, maybe the Russian won't see the need to pin down Ukr forces in Kyiv, now that they've made some progress in thinning down the herd in the east. But if the Russian do pull troops from Kyiv they'd have to pull everything or risk being encircled themselves

Just a thought, one of Chinese Red Army's favorite tactics in the civil war was to feint attack on a town and ambush the reinforcement. This sort of tactics can be magnified to a larger scale today with modern ISR and air power, destroy enemy in maneuvering.

Of course if the enemy is determined to stay bunker up in the cities then you won't be able to do anything about it, but if the enemy is willing to come out to play.....The Russian may not have the man power or the air power to pull this off in the start, but I wonder if the PLA may prefer this type of method

Phead128 said:

Bro, he literally trying to shame me to blindly support Russia, regardless of logic or reason. Essentially, trying to say: " If you are not anti-NATO, then are you anti-China".... But I am anti-US as often as I am anti-Russia propaganda, still not advocating for splitting China-Russia, just calling out illogical assertions, like how is NATO responsible for Ukrainian warcrimes. And somehow I am anti-China for saying this? No way.

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Do calm down. You are splitting hairs over a non-black-and-white issue.

you asked " Is NATO 100% culpable for Ukrainian warcrimes against Russian POWs?"
Answer is NO. Happy now.

Yet " Is NATO 100% non-culpable for Ukrainian warcrimes against Russian POWs?"
Answer is NO.

Let's move on.

Dolcevita said:

Do calm down. You are splitting hairs over a non-black-and-white issue.

you asked " Is NATO 100% culpable for Ukrainian warcrimes against Russian POWs?"
Answer is NO. Happy now.

Yet " Is NATO 100% non-culpable for Ukrainian warcrimes against Russian POWs?"
Answer is NO.

Let's move on.

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Thank you, I agree 1000%. Let's move on.

enroger said:

Just a thought, one of Chinese Red Army's favorite tactics in the civil war was to feint attack on a town and ambush the reinforcement. This sort of tactics can be magnified to a larger scale today with modern ISR and air power, destroy enemy in maneuvering.

Of course if the enemy is determined to stay bunker up in the cities then you won't be able to do anything about it, but if the enemy is willing to come out to play.....The Russian may not have the man power or the air power to pull this off in the start, but I wonder if the PLA may prefer this type of method

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Remember this?

Then this happened?

We were never sure if that base was abandoned by Russian and then captured by Ukrainian but my first reaction was did they just successfully lured the Ukrainian into a trap?

Temstar said:

Remember this?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1504810045418184737

Then this happened?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1505257995843813381

We were never sure if that base was abandoned by Russian and then captured by Ukrainian but my first reaction was did they just successfully lured the Ukrainian into a trap?

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This may be an instance of that tactics at work, but I'm talking about overall strategy. The Russian went for lock down and isolate enemy forces and defeat them in detail, an alternative can be to allow or even encourage enemy to maneuver and defeat them in the open. Of course maybe I am "纸上谈兵“, just some thought on possible alternatives.

Edit: It maybe a concern that Ukr forces may coalesce into large concentration of force too hard to swallow for the Russian, but Russian has air power and more long range fire power on their side, those would have higher efficiency dealing with clumped up forces in the open away from the civilians.

yongpengsuen said:

Can't believe they use vintage Strela 10 still.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1508262600395698184

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That Strela 10 is doing good work though.

Here's the part where it shot down a drone:
When Russian MOD say they shoot down like 16 drones a day I'm guessing it's mostly like this and not 16 TB-2 a day.

The Russian army used new weapons for the first time in Ukraine, the work of the remote mining engineering system "Agriculture" was filmed near Kharkov. The video shows the moment of remote installation of minefields. The operation of this installation is similar to the work of the Grad MLRS. The difference is that instead of the warhead of a 122 mm rocket, they carry cassettes with mines. After the installation of mines, this territory is plotted on an electronic map, there is no need to carry out mine clearance manually, mines can be remotely deactivated.


Movement of a column of Russian military equipment of airborne units to the area of combat missions in the Kiev region


The destruction of the Buk air defense system of the armed forces of Ukraine by the Russian operational-tactical complex Iskander. The Iskander missile attack was carried out after receiving intelligence data from a Russian UAV patrolling an area in the Kiev region.

foofy said:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1508028575026491397

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The Ukrainians are kneecapping Russian POWs. This is clearly a warcrime. We can criticise the Russians for warcrimes too. But on the Russian side there were no records of torture on this level.

These Ukrainian combatants will never be trialed by the IOC. We all know that. Their only trial will be the battlefield, when the Russian and Chechen units finally come for them.