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Supreme Leader
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Pihkakoski
Kenraali
Russia bombing cities to break Ukrainian morale - UK
Russia's bombing of populated areas in Ukraine is an effort to break morale, according to the UK defence ministry.In its daily intelligence report
, the MoD says the strength of Ukraine's resistance continues to surprise Russia, which has responded by targeting cities including Kharkiv, Chernihiv and Mariupol.
It compares Russia's strategy with its campaigns in Syria in 2016 and Chechnya in 1999, when the Russian military carried out intense shelling of built-up areas.
The report also says that Russia's advance has been slowed by Ukraine's targeting of its supply lines.
BBC:n seurannasta ylläoleva.
Nikhris
Majuri
Monia kirjoituksia on Venäjän armeijan korruptiosta joka haittaa armeijaa: rahat joilla pitäisi ostaa uutta tavaraa menevät korruptioon, epäpäteviä upseereja hommissa. ja kaikkea muuta.
Tässä video kymmenen vuoden takaa missä VDV veteraanit ilmaisevat mitä mieltä ovat Putinista ja armeijan korruptiokin monien muiden aiheiden ohella otetaan puheeksi (kun näkee miten armeijalla menee Ukrainassa ja kuinka VDV:täkin käytettiin tässä Putinin invaasiossa, niin oikeassa miehet olivat jo aikoinaan ja videon kommenteissakin tämä tuli esille, kun ruvennut saamaan enemmän katsojia Ukrainan tapahtumien myötä). Laittakaa tekstitykset päälle.
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BallistinenNahjus
Luutnantti
Espoossa ollaan tuo varautumiskeino otettu jo käyttöön. Kadut ovat nyt valmiina naapurin invaasiolle. Tänä talvena taktiikka hiotui äärimmilleen. Enemmän kuin venäläiset, itseä pelottaa auton puolesta ja se, että pysyvätkö amalgaamit hampaissa.
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Ekoissa videoissa joku vangittu poika sanoi, että kännykät kerättin pois "harjoituksen alkaessa", eli eiköhän ne ole jossain taisteluosaston esikunnassa laatikoihin varastoituina.
Nämä oligarkien omaisuuksien takavarikot ovat tietenkin hyviä kotirintaman (=lännen ihmisten) moraalin ylläpidoksi sen suhteen, että näyttää, että jotain tehdään. Ja tietenkin se on moraalisesti oikein siinä mielessä, että kyseiset omaisuudet on joka tapauksessa laittomin keinoin hankittu (ja siis tämän touhun olisi siten voinut toteuttaa jo 25 vuotta sitten, kun NL:n valtion omaisuuden varastaminen harvoihin yksityisiin käsiin oli saatu loppuun).
En kuitenkaan usko, että tämä iskee juurikaan "vallan ytimeen". Itsekin luulin, että ne yksityiset biljonäärioligarkit siellä vetelee naruja, mutta käsittääkseni tämä ei enää pidä paikkaansa, vaan Putin on viime vuosina siirtänyt vallan tukevamman valtiojohdon käsiin. Siis ei vain poliittista, vaan myös taloudellista valtaa pitää nyt käsissään hän ja hänen lähipiirinsä valtion johdossa. Tähän pitäisi jotenkin päästä iskemään, mutta se on vaikeampaa kuin näiden oligarkien paattien takavarikoinut.
yarski
Alokas
Kovia lukuja, miten luotettavaa tuo mahtaa olla ?
Pihkakoski
Kenraali
An outgunned but resilient Ukrainian military is adopting a two-prong strategy in the face of a flawed but fierce Russian assault, relying on hit-and-run tactics and the fortification of major cities as President Vladimir Putin’s campaign enters a more perilous phase, military experts said.
The odds remain stacked against Ukraine, even as it exceeds Western intelligence assessments that had predicted Kyiv, the capital, would fall within days. Russian forces have begun employing siege tactics, aiming to flatten civilian infrastructure and exact maximum punishment for Ukrainian resistance. While Russia has mostly failed, so far, to seize major cities and effectively supply its soldiers with food and fuel, the Pentagon believes it is probable that Russia will regroup and press its massive advantage in firepower.
Russia’s invasion began with precision missiles, but weapons are changing as siege war begins
John Spencer, a retired Army officer who studies urban warfare for the Madison Policy Forum, said Ukraine’s top objective is to make the war as bloody as possible for Russia, as it does not appear Putin will withdraw anytime soon. Giving up secondary cities may become necessary to allow the Ukrainian government to endure in the capital as long as possible, he said.
“Not losing is winning in this case,” Spencer said. “The Ukrainian strategy is not to lose.”
Russia has bombarded Kyiv mostly with artillery and other long-range weapons, as a 40-mile convoy of tanks and other combat vehicles effectively remains stalled about 15 miles north of the capital and bogged down with logistical setbacks, a senior U.S. defense official told reporters Friday on the condition of anonymity, citing ground rules established by the Pentagon.
Putin likens sanctions to ‘declaration of war’
The odds remain stacked against Ukraine, even as it exceeds Western intelligence assessments that had predicted Kyiv, the capital, would fall within days. Russian forces have begun employing siege tactics, aiming to flatten civilian infrastructure and exact maximum punishment for Ukrainian resistance. While Russia has mostly failed, so far, to seize major cities and effectively supply its soldiers with food and fuel, the Pentagon believes it is probable that Russia will regroup and press its massive advantage in firepower.
Russia’s invasion began with precision missiles, but weapons are changing as siege war begins
John Spencer, a retired Army officer who studies urban warfare for the Madison Policy Forum, said Ukraine’s top objective is to make the war as bloody as possible for Russia, as it does not appear Putin will withdraw anytime soon. Giving up secondary cities may become necessary to allow the Ukrainian government to endure in the capital as long as possible, he said.
“Not losing is winning in this case,” Spencer said. “The Ukrainian strategy is not to lose.”
Russia has bombarded Kyiv mostly with artillery and other long-range weapons, as a 40-mile convoy of tanks and other combat vehicles effectively remains stalled about 15 miles north of the capital and bogged down with logistical setbacks, a senior U.S. defense official told reporters Friday on the condition of anonymity, citing ground rules established by the Pentagon.
Putin likens sanctions to ‘declaration of war’
On March 5, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that harsh international sanctions against Russia were like a ‘declaration of war.’ (Joy Yi/The Washington Post)
In other parts of the country, however, Russia’s advances are more significant.
First person: I’ve tried to reach Ukrainian snipers I met before the invasion. One message came back: ‘It is war here.’
In the northeastern city of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest, Russian forces have reached the outskirts after pounding neighborhoods with missiles, rockets and other weapons for days, the senior U.S. defense official said.
In the south, Putin’s forces also have advanced on the strategically important port city of Mariupol, occupied the smaller cities of Berdyansk, Melitopol and Kherson, and appear to have set their sights farther west on Mykolaiv, a city of about 470,000 people. Continued success there would allow the Russians to look even farther west and assault Odessa, a port city of nearly 1 million people, possibly both by land and an amphibious assault by naval forces on ships in the Black Sea.
Russia’s siege of Mariupol a grim sign for other major Ukrainian cities
Ukrainian officials have indicated that after surviving the initial invasion, they intend to launch a counteroffensive against Russian forces. That is likely to favor armed ambushes rather than a major, open assault on the numerically superior Russian military, said Douglas London, a retired senior CIA officer and an analyst at the Middle East Institute.
“They’re not going to be able to mount a major counterattack, organize the troops and go, ‘Charge!’ It’s going to be an asymmetrical effort to break up Russian attacks,” London said. “The Russians have a lot of static targets because of their own logistical problems, and that’s just gold for a harassing special-operations force operating in the rear. That’s just what they do.”
Residents watch a building burn after shelling in Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, on March 3. (Sergey Bobok/AFP/Getty Images)
London predicted that, given Russia’s vast military advantage, Putin will press his advantage and Ukrainian forces will eventually have to adjust again.
“I don’t see him going gently into that good night,” London said of Putin. “Ukraine will eventually lose the cities, or reach a point where they can’t resupply them, and they’ll have to transition to more of an insurgency or urban underground” operation.
As war loomed, U.S. armed Ukraine to hit Russian aircraft, tanks and prep for urban combat, declassified shipment list shows
Attacking Russian support lines already has proved to be a significant strategy to reduce Russia’s advantages, said Andriy Zagorodnyuk, a former defense minister of Ukraine. Russian vehicles are spread across a wide area on multiple fronts, and they’re constantly idling to keep soldiers warm in cold weather, Zagorodnyuk said, making diesel replenishment an enormous challenge.
The Ukrainian military has advised civilian defense volunteers to ignore armored vehicles and instead attack fuel trucks, which are unarmored and often driven by poorly trained Russian soldiers. Cutting off the fuel supply turns tanks and rocket artillery vehicles into road obstacles, said Zagorodnyuk, now chairman of the Center for Defense Strategies, a Ukrainian think tank.
With Russian vehicles holding in place, Ukrainian forces have attacked, leaving smoldering wrecks and giving Russian soldiers a grim choice: stay inside their vehicle where they’re vulnerable to a possible missile strike, or try to escape on foot and face the likelihood of being shot or captured. Videos posted on social media and authenticated by The Washington Post show some Russian vehicles were probably abandoned.
Russia’s advantage is fighting conventional battles with tanks and mechanized infantry, said Rob Lee, a Russia military expert and a senior fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute. The opportunity for Ukraine to undercut that, he said, is to focus attacks with antitank weapons and antiaircraft missiles and target forces in the dark using modern night-vision goggles and thermal optics.
People walk past a destroyed Russian military vehicle on March 3 in Irpin, Ukraine. (Chris Mcgrath/Getty Images)
Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.), an Army veteran who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq, visited Ukraine in recent weeks. That its military remains decentralized — one of the deficiencies preventing Ukraine from joining NATO — might be among its best assets in this war, he said in an interview.
“Disparate pockets of resistance, and you’re seeing battalion-level units fighting independently, which … is maybe a blessing in disguise,” Crow said. “It’s actually helping them now, because … they’re not relying on the centralized command-and-control systems.
“They have a unique opportunity now to attrit Russian forces rapidly because they’re so messed up.”
Spencer, the urban warfare expert, said that inside cities, Ukrainians are increasingly adopting “defense in depth,” making it as difficult as possible for invading Russian forces to maneuver easily and survive. Bridges have been blown, tires and barricades have been piled in roads, and citizens have armed themselves with rifles, molotov cocktails and other weapons. He said he is unconvinced that Russia has enough forces to prevent Ukrainians in the capital from receiving additional arms.
History is filled with examples of a relatively small number of fighters digging into a city and its many alleys, rooftops and tunnels, and holding off a large assault for long periods of time, Spencer said. He cited the Battle of Mosul, in which Islamic State militants held out for nine months beginning in fall 2016 as Iraqi forces backed by U.S. air power took back a major city, block by block.
In other parts of the country, however, Russia’s advances are more significant.
First person: I’ve tried to reach Ukrainian snipers I met before the invasion. One message came back: ‘It is war here.’
In the northeastern city of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest, Russian forces have reached the outskirts after pounding neighborhoods with missiles, rockets and other weapons for days, the senior U.S. defense official said.
In the south, Putin’s forces also have advanced on the strategically important port city of Mariupol, occupied the smaller cities of Berdyansk, Melitopol and Kherson, and appear to have set their sights farther west on Mykolaiv, a city of about 470,000 people. Continued success there would allow the Russians to look even farther west and assault Odessa, a port city of nearly 1 million people, possibly both by land and an amphibious assault by naval forces on ships in the Black Sea.
Russia’s siege of Mariupol a grim sign for other major Ukrainian cities
Ukrainian officials have indicated that after surviving the initial invasion, they intend to launch a counteroffensive against Russian forces. That is likely to favor armed ambushes rather than a major, open assault on the numerically superior Russian military, said Douglas London, a retired senior CIA officer and an analyst at the Middle East Institute.
“They’re not going to be able to mount a major counterattack, organize the troops and go, ‘Charge!’ It’s going to be an asymmetrical effort to break up Russian attacks,” London said. “The Russians have a lot of static targets because of their own logistical problems, and that’s just gold for a harassing special-operations force operating in the rear. That’s just what they do.”
Residents watch a building burn after shelling in Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, on March 3. (Sergey Bobok/AFP/Getty Images)
London predicted that, given Russia’s vast military advantage, Putin will press his advantage and Ukrainian forces will eventually have to adjust again.
“I don’t see him going gently into that good night,” London said of Putin. “Ukraine will eventually lose the cities, or reach a point where they can’t resupply them, and they’ll have to transition to more of an insurgency or urban underground” operation.
As war loomed, U.S. armed Ukraine to hit Russian aircraft, tanks and prep for urban combat, declassified shipment list shows
Attacking Russian support lines already has proved to be a significant strategy to reduce Russia’s advantages, said Andriy Zagorodnyuk, a former defense minister of Ukraine. Russian vehicles are spread across a wide area on multiple fronts, and they’re constantly idling to keep soldiers warm in cold weather, Zagorodnyuk said, making diesel replenishment an enormous challenge.
The Ukrainian military has advised civilian defense volunteers to ignore armored vehicles and instead attack fuel trucks, which are unarmored and often driven by poorly trained Russian soldiers. Cutting off the fuel supply turns tanks and rocket artillery vehicles into road obstacles, said Zagorodnyuk, now chairman of the Center for Defense Strategies, a Ukrainian think tank.
With Russian vehicles holding in place, Ukrainian forces have attacked, leaving smoldering wrecks and giving Russian soldiers a grim choice: stay inside their vehicle where they’re vulnerable to a possible missile strike, or try to escape on foot and face the likelihood of being shot or captured. Videos posted on social media and authenticated by The Washington Post show some Russian vehicles were probably abandoned.
Russia’s advantage is fighting conventional battles with tanks and mechanized infantry, said Rob Lee, a Russia military expert and a senior fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute. The opportunity for Ukraine to undercut that, he said, is to focus attacks with antitank weapons and antiaircraft missiles and target forces in the dark using modern night-vision goggles and thermal optics.
People walk past a destroyed Russian military vehicle on March 3 in Irpin, Ukraine. (Chris Mcgrath/Getty Images)
Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.), an Army veteran who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq, visited Ukraine in recent weeks. That its military remains decentralized — one of the deficiencies preventing Ukraine from joining NATO — might be among its best assets in this war, he said in an interview.
“Disparate pockets of resistance, and you’re seeing battalion-level units fighting independently, which … is maybe a blessing in disguise,” Crow said. “It’s actually helping them now, because … they’re not relying on the centralized command-and-control systems.
“They have a unique opportunity now to attrit Russian forces rapidly because they’re so messed up.”
Spencer, the urban warfare expert, said that inside cities, Ukrainians are increasingly adopting “defense in depth,” making it as difficult as possible for invading Russian forces to maneuver easily and survive. Bridges have been blown, tires and barricades have been piled in roads, and citizens have armed themselves with rifles, molotov cocktails and other weapons. He said he is unconvinced that Russia has enough forces to prevent Ukrainians in the capital from receiving additional arms.
History is filled with examples of a relatively small number of fighters digging into a city and its many alleys, rooftops and tunnels, and holding off a large assault for long periods of time, Spencer said. He cited the Battle of Mosul, in which Islamic State militants held out for nine months beginning in fall 2016 as Iraqi forces backed by U.S. air power took back a major city, block by block.
Nikhris
Majuri
Venäjän armeijan korruption tuntien puhelimet ovat sieltä menneet esimiesten votkarahaston täydennykseen.
Panssari Salama
Respected Leader
Jännä että toi tankkiautojen lukumäärä ei kasva. Sitä olen erityisesti seurannut.
Bwana
Kenraali
Heh. Ne on jo aika päivää sitten myyty musikoille.
Chariowalda
Kersantti
Venäläisten käytökseen vaikuttaa myös ortodoksinen uskonto, ainakin moraalikäsitykseen. Siinä missä Suomalainen luterilainen itsensäruoskija kokee maailmantuskaa ja huonoa omatuntoa muidenkin pahoista teoista, on Venäläinen on tässä suhteessa moraaliltaan ja oikeuskäsitykseltään "joustavampi".
Taktinen valhe tulee aina kuin luonnostaan eikä sitä jäädä koskaan märehtimään.
Taisteluorava
Korpraali
Edit. Hidas. @Bwana ehti jo ensin.
Jos ovat vähänkään uudempia länsivehkeitä, niin eivät välttämättä enää edes varastoituna. Ei olisi yllätys, jos joku on jo lipastanut ne parempaan talteen. Arvokasta kamaa, jos uusia ei enää maahan tuoda.
Ei voi muuta kuin hattua nostaa kavereille - puhuivat asiasta joka halutaan vaan pyyhkiö Venäjällä sivuun.Monia kirjoituksia on Venäjän armeijan korruptiosta joka haittaa armeijaa: rahat joilla pitäisi ostaa uutta tavaraa menevät korruptioon, epäpäteviä upseereja hommissa. ja kaikkea muuta.
Tässä video kymmenen vuoden takaa missä VDV veteraanit ilmaisevat mitä mieltä ovat Putinista ja armeijan korruptiokin monien muiden aiheiden ohella otetaan puheeksi (kun näkee miten armeijalla menee Ukrainassa ja kuinka VDV:täkin käytettiin tässä Putinin invaasiossa, niin oikeassa miehet olivat jo aikoinaan ja videon kommenteissakin tämä tuli esille, kun ruvennut saamaan enemmän katsojia Ukrainan tapahtumien myötä). Laittakaa tekstitykset päälle.
Tätä liittoutuneet yrittivät jo 40-luvulla. Ei onnistu, se vain tukevoittaa moraalia entisestään.
