This makes be feel a bit better. Thanks for posting.
I don’t know if it’s loosing steam, but it’s killing off a lot of russians…….
Looks like they didn’t have much steam to begin with.
They only advanced as far as Ukraine planned to allow them. Their advance ceased the moment they reached Ukraine’s clearly planned defensive positions, such as the Donetz/Kharkiv rivers and the cities of Hilyboke, Starytsi, Buhruvatka, and Vovchansk.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
50,000 men was never going to be enough to take Kharkiv, it just wasn’t feasible. What this did do was spread the Ukrainian lines even further, possibly in preparation for renewed offensives against Sumy, or possibly even Kyiv.
Sadly it seems according to some swedish news and more international news sites that there’s reports about Ruzzians killing civilians in captured cities/towns. Let’s hope Putin and his ilk pays for this sooner rather than later.
Edit: spelling
By all logic there is no reason Russia should have lost this war, the difference in resources was too vast.
Russia had more tanks than any other country, more artillery than any other country, more MLRS than any other country, more air defense systems than any other country.
But like the soldier said in the first days “we are lucky they are so f’n stupid”. Meat waves might take ground but they don’t win wars. Especially if you put them into losing situations over and over again. I naively told my wife who worried because her parents went back to Kharkiv not long ago “they won’t attack Kharkiv, it would take at least 300k soldiers to take a city that size, they aren’t that dumb to get another 50k killed for nothing”
Once again I underestimated just how f’n stupid they are. My FIL (who served in Soviet army so understands them)told me when Chornobaivka was destroyed like 3 times “they’ll keep bringing equipment in because they need that airport” I “need it or not nobody would be dumb enough to repeatedly get equipment destroyed”, 24 more times later I was the fool. Never underestimate how stupid Russia can and will be.
Jets won’t be a game changer, but with how badly Russia is already doing they may be the tipping point
My hopium leads me to believe that they wanted them in closer range of their weapons that are now arriving in droves. Praying for the East especially in the coming weeks. 🙏🏻
They were just trying for positioning on the off chance anybody wants to commit suicide as a nation by making ‘peace’ with the proudly fascist Russian Federation of Genocidal Maniacs.
It actually started losing momentum on the 3rd day of the attack. ruzzia was hoping to Blitzkrieg deeply into Kharkiv Oblast. That ceased the initial weekend of the attack.
Yes. From 30,000 men, they lost around 2-3,000 in 5 days. Another 1/6 refused to take part that’s around 6-7,000 out of the scene, which is around 1/4 of the whole force.
Ukrainian defences are planed in the way to wear out the opponent. Realistically Russia has two strategies they can use, hold the ground and bomb Kharkiv, or retreat. Advancing would be even further loss, and at this rate in 20-30 days there would be no more fighting forces left.
Another reorganisation is coming lol
Unfortunately no,they moved slower but they slowly establish control,i saw some real loses on their sides.The problem is that the line and fortifications who were supposed to defend them aren’t there,because corruption of the one who was in charge to build them.This resulted in more troops to retreat to Kharkiv because some places could not be defended.
More soldiers complained on videos on combat footage and others places about it.
The only good news for the moment is that they suffer big casualties and atl started to move more slowly,like i saw in last 2-3 days atl 30 tanks just on videos being blown up on their side
This might explain Putler’s cabinet shuffles this week in response to the failure…
Yes but they accomplished their goal of a buffer section to stop raids.
Let’s hope. Because losing Vovchsnsk and Kupyansk again, and having occupation forces committing war crimes in Lyman again, would be terrible.
Keep an eye on Kherson
Yeah. They’ve already shot their bolt imo. Give it a couple weeks and they’ll scramble back to Mordor
To me it looks like russia had huge losses during that short advancement over the last 7 to 10 days.
Felt like grandstanding for putins inauguration and May 9th celebration propaganda.
Now, the propaganda machine can drone on and on about their “gains”. One of those days last week saw over 1700 russian casualties…
The problem is even without steam they are completely set on continuing it, same as in Donetsk. Even if its one village per 6 months, they are fighting a war of attrition.
Media: “Ukraine’s defenses collapsing, Russia to reach Karkhiv!”
A few moments later…
“Is Russia’s assault losing steam?”
Ideally sooner than later. Video shows that they managed to get through half of Vovchansk (near the river) but to what extent and concentration of forces, i don’t know, hopefully just small groupings.
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This makes be feel a bit better. Thanks for posting.
I don’t know if it’s loosing steam, but it’s killing off a lot of russians…….
Looks like they didn’t have much steam to begin with.
They only advanced as far as Ukraine planned to allow them. Their advance ceased the moment they reached Ukraine’s clearly planned defensive positions, such as the Donetz/Kharkiv rivers and the cities of Hilyboke, Starytsi, Buhruvatka, and Vovchansk.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
50,000 men was never going to be enough to take Kharkiv, it just wasn’t feasible. What this did do was spread the Ukrainian lines even further, possibly in preparation for renewed offensives against Sumy, or possibly even Kyiv.
Sadly it seems according to some swedish news and more international news sites that there’s reports about Ruzzians killing civilians in captured cities/towns. Let’s hope Putin and his ilk pays for this sooner rather than later.
Edit: spelling
By all logic there is no reason Russia should have lost this war, the difference in resources was too vast.
Russia had more tanks than any other country, more artillery than any other country, more MLRS than any other country, more air defense systems than any other country.
But like the soldier said in the first days “we are lucky they are so f’n stupid”. Meat waves might take ground but they don’t win wars. Especially if you put them into losing situations over and over again. I naively told my wife who worried because her parents went back to Kharkiv not long ago “they won’t attack Kharkiv, it would take at least 300k soldiers to take a city that size, they aren’t that dumb to get another 50k killed for nothing”
Once again I underestimated just how f’n stupid they are. My FIL (who served in Soviet army so understands them)told me when Chornobaivka was destroyed like 3 times “they’ll keep bringing equipment in because they need that airport” I “need it or not nobody would be dumb enough to repeatedly get equipment destroyed”, 24 more times later I was the fool. Never underestimate how stupid Russia can and will be.
Jets won’t be a game changer, but with how badly Russia is already doing they may be the tipping point
My hopium leads me to believe that they wanted them in closer range of their weapons that are now arriving in droves. Praying for the East especially in the coming weeks. 🙏🏻
They were just trying for positioning on the off chance anybody wants to commit suicide as a nation by making ‘peace’ with the proudly fascist Russian Federation of Genocidal Maniacs.
It actually started losing momentum on the 3rd day of the attack. ruzzia was hoping to Blitzkrieg deeply into Kharkiv Oblast. That ceased the initial weekend of the attack.
Yes. From 30,000 men, they lost around 2-3,000 in 5 days. Another 1/6 refused to take part that’s around 6-7,000 out of the scene, which is around 1/4 of the whole force.
Ukrainian defences are planed in the way to wear out the opponent. Realistically Russia has two strategies they can use, hold the ground and bomb Kharkiv, or retreat. Advancing would be even further loss, and at this rate in 20-30 days there would be no more fighting forces left.
Another reorganisation is coming lol
Unfortunately no,they moved slower but they slowly establish control,i saw some real loses on their sides.The problem is that the line and fortifications who were supposed to defend them aren’t there,because corruption of the one who was in charge to build them.This resulted in more troops to retreat to Kharkiv because some places could not be defended.
More soldiers complained on videos on combat footage and others places about it.
The only good news for the moment is that they suffer big casualties and atl started to move more slowly,like i saw in last 2-3 days atl 30 tanks just on videos being blown up on their side
This might explain Putler’s cabinet shuffles this week in response to the failure…
Yes but they accomplished their goal of a buffer section to stop raids.
Let’s hope. Because losing Vovchsnsk and Kupyansk again, and having occupation forces committing war crimes in Lyman again, would be terrible.
Keep an eye on Kherson
Yeah. They’ve already shot their bolt imo. Give it a couple weeks and they’ll scramble back to Mordor
To me it looks like russia had huge losses during that short advancement over the last 7 to 10 days.
Felt like grandstanding for putins inauguration and May 9th celebration propaganda.
Now, the propaganda machine can drone on and on about their “gains”. One of those days last week saw over 1700 russian casualties…
The problem is even without steam they are completely set on continuing it, same as in Donetsk. Even if its one village per 6 months, they are fighting a war of attrition.
Media: “Ukraine’s defenses collapsing, Russia to reach Karkhiv!”
A few moments later…
“Is Russia’s assault losing steam?”
Ideally sooner than later. Video shows that they managed to get through half of Vovchansk (near the river) but to what extent and concentration of forces, i don’t know, hopefully just small groupings.