I’m sure those artillery pieces will do great in an artillery duel with HIMARS guided by drones and satellites.
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Having a tank (even a very old one) must be better than having no tank at all. Attacking an entrenched position without armored support while under artillery fire as seen in the videos below seems futile:
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brutal video.
on a lighter side
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Some are experienced fighters working as part of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine. But there have been high-profile problems. A former Army private first class, John McIntyre, was ejected from the Legion for bad behavior. Mr. McIntyre defected to Russia and recently appeared on state-run television, which said he had provided military intelligence to Moscow.
umm, what?
Today, Mr. Nance is involved in a messy, distracting power struggle. Often, that plays out on Twitter, where Mr. Nance taunted one former ally as “fat” and an associate of “a verified con artist.”
jfc
More about impostors and war profiteers:
:vince1:
wHy DiDn’T tHeY sImPlY sUrReNdEr!?
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Armenia passed something that basically ratified the ICC Rome statute, so now putin can’t visit Armenia.
in response RU foreign ministry released something that says “it’s unacceptable that armenia did this.”
lol. regional superpower my butt. maybe the problem is your presidnet keeps committing crimes against humanity.
but also ru senate big honcho opined that ICC is a fictitious institution that has no legal basis. so, maybe it doesn’t matter that armenia joined it?
Lol mersheimeimeimer, always and forever.
what’s the technical definition of a slaughter-fest? 10-1? 15-1?
“They’re conducting combat operations right now in Bakhmut primarily. It’s probably about 6,000 or so actual mercenaries and maybe another 20 or 30,000 recruits that they get, many of whom come from prisons,” Milley told the House Armed Services Committee alongside US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. “And they are suffering an enormous amount of casualties in the Bakhmut area; the Ukrainians are inflicting a lot of death and destruction on these guys.”
The battle over Bahkmut has turned into a “slaughter-fest" for the Russians, Milley said.
“The Ukrainians are doing a very effective area defense that is proven to be very costly to the Russians. For about the last 20, 21 days, the Russians have not made any progress whatsoever in and around Bahkmut,” he said. “So it’s a slaughter-fest for the Russians. They’re getting hammered in the vicinity of Bahkmut and the Ukrainians have fought very, very well.”
The head of the Russian private military company, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said in an audio message earlier Wednesday that the battle for the city “has already practically destroyed the Ukrainian army,” but added that Wagner has “been pretty battered” as well.
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Is that true? All the OSINT maps and videos on Twitter show Russia making slow but steady progress.
i don’t know. he might not be talking about results like moving 100-500m in one place, but more overall progress for cutting off defending bakhmut forces. also could be that 3 weeks ago is when they got close to the supply lines, and haven’t been able to complete the encirclement. seems like generals usually don’t talk about tactical outcomes, and instead focus on operational/strategic goals.
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Specifics aside about small gains/losses either way seems noteworthy that a few weeks back almost everything was prognosticating like Ukraine was about to pull out of city, would be surrounded/cut off within 24hrs/etc
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russia experiments with letting convicts return home from the front.
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I don’t think that many were saying the Ukraine had no choice but to retreat from Bakhmut. That’s just what was expected because Russia keeps creeping ever closer to encircling the Ukrainian forces. The lopsided attrition rates have been getting steadily worse. Their lines of communication are at least sporadically under artillery fire.
Look at this topographic map of Bakhmut.
So why does Ukraine insist on defending the strategically unimportant Bakhmut instead of taking the high ground west of it? If there are good reasons to not give up the ruins of Bakhmut they are not obvious to outside observers.