Russo-Ukrainian War - 2022 Edition - Part 8

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konfab said:
Russia's state security is too good for that, as long as he has the military on his side, he is safe from that at least



I am sure Putin is terrified. It presents no threat to him.
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Do you think Gorbachev's state security was poor then because he was taken in a coup?
The Soviet Union had significantly more resources than Russia.
 
konfab said:
They don't need tanks to still be at war with Ukraine. As I said previously, they would switch to asymmetrical warfare.
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You mean hybrid warfare? They have been doing that since Crimea.
 
konfab said:
Reality is that Putin could turn the war into a guerilla style conflict if resources really became stretched.
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konfab said:
They don't need tanks to still be at war with Ukraine. As I said previously, they would switch to asymmetrical warfare.
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konfab said:
It is what the current situation creates, regardless of what we think Putin's motives were.
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Tell us you didn't follow or know about the Sov Russian invasion of Afghanistan and what happened when the Sovs started losing too many men...
 

Ukraine is COMING HOME, BABY! Ukrainians BREAK THROUGH RUSSIAN Defenses. "GRAND CRUSADE" of 400,000​




I enjoy this channel. Would love to join his Patreon discord channel for all the videos he shares there, but sadly, SA salary.....
 
konfab said:
Nato has just said that they will only admit Ukraine after the war, therefore it would stand in Putin's interests to keep the war going as long as possible no?
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No, i think if he could find a way to freeze the war right now he would take it with two hands. Ukraine is the one that is trying to improve their hand before going to the negotiating table, Russia is more or less trying to hold on to what they have and they have pretty much been doing that since retreating from Kyiv. Besides from a few smallish gains in Severodonetsk, Lysychansk and Bakmhut.
 
'Be a man' ad campaign tells Russians to join army
A wide-ranging advertising campaign appears to have been launched in Russia urging citizens to join the military.
It comes as the Russian armed forces have reportedly been suffering heavy losses and struggling to make progress in Ukraine more than a year after invading it.
The Defence Ministry in Moscow released a video appealing to Russians to give up their civilian jobs in favour of a contract with the military.
The video features a supermarket guard, a fitness instructor and a taxi driver - all apparently disillusioned with civilian life and finding fulfilment after joining the army.
The video promises a monthly salary of at least 204,000 roubles ($2,500, £2,000), four times Russia's average.
"Impossible to understate just how ubiquitous this army recruitment drive is," said one Twitter user in the Russian capital.
"It has completely taken over Moscow and you can barely go two minutes without seeing another poster."

What the ads don't say​

The recruitment drive is likely to have been prompted by the Russian military's desperate need for new soldiers after more than a year of fighting in Ukraine.
According to leaked US documents, the Pentagon estimates Russian losses at between 189,500 and 223,000 casualties, with 35,500-43,000 men killed in action.

In September 2022, President Vladimir Putin announced "partial mobilisation", which sought to recruit new soldiers regardless of whether they wanted to join the army, and led to a dip in his popularity.
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Russian army launches campaign encouraging men to join

The campaign comes as Russian armed forces apparently suffer heavy losses in Ukraine.
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When and how will Ukraine start counteroffensive against Russia?​



As spring gets under way in Ukraine, an ominous lull in hostilities has fallen over the battlefields in the war Russia began last year.

Moscow’s winter offensive never quite materialised despite the mobilisation of hundreds of thousands of mostly untrained men. Many were shipped straight to the front line only to be killed in what survivors called “cannon fodder storms”.
passable for troops and heavy weaponry, Ukraine is amassing fresh forces trained to use new Western arms, and its long promised counteroffensive seems imminent.

“We are confident the counteroffensive is taking place in the nearest future,” Prime Minister Denys Shmygal said last week. “The US absolutely supports us.”


But where and how will it begin?

A Western military analyst said he thinks Ukraine has enough manpower and gear to call the shots.

“Whenever they choose to begin their counteroffensive, they’re going to have sufficient trained and equipped manpower,” retired US army Major General Gordon Skip Davis told Al Jazeera

Kyiv’s only major drawback, a dire shortage of air forces, can be compensated by improved air defence capability, he said, and US-made Patriot air defence systems arrived in Ukraine on Wednesday.
What’s far more important is that Kyiv can exploit the low morale of Russian forces and their shortages of arms and ammunition.


“They have a pretty good read on Russian concerns, and they will likely seed their fears to their advantage,” said Davis, who frequently visited Ukraine from 2014 to 2019 and met with its leaders and top brass.
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Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russia: What you should know

Western weapons pour into Ukraine as officials in Kyiv promise new attacks will start soon.
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