We don’t have enough troops we even throw the wounded into combat. It’s a scary problem. It’s clear that right now there is a struggle to freeze the conflict. It’s clear that Moscow sees that it can’t win.” – Russian ‘military correspondent’ Maxim Kalashnikov

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1. Some more sources on the issue. Russia will suffer a poverty driven crushing defeat and their moral is under the floor. Napoleon once said morale is to the physical as three is to one.

   Badly wounded Russian soldiers, some on crutches, are being sent to fight in Ukraine. Russian milbloggers say it is because of huge losses and shortages of personnel, as well as bureaucratic mismanagement and the military’s culture of lying to superiors.

   https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1808098253008744539

   We are in pain, we are all wounded, and we simply have no strength.”

   Kharkiv region, Vovchansk direction. Two brothers, Igor and Yevgeny Valetov, servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces from the 25th Motor Rifle Brigade, were wounded during a “meat assault.” Despite this and the serious losses in their unit, their commanders drive them back to the attack the next day.

   There are more and more reports about the facts of sending literally people with disabilities into assaults by the Russian army.

   Also, the Russian Federation began mobilizing female prisoners some time ago. And lately, the Ukrainian military has reported a presence of assaultwomen, particularly in the direction of Chasiv Yar.

   All these facts, as well as recruiting in African countries, as well as the request for a labor force in North Korea, speak about the acute shortage in Russia of people willing to fight.

   https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1807804074286318071

   https://www.kyivpost.com/analysis/35211

   A Russian soldier from the 138th Brigade, which participated in the battle for Volchansk, informs the relatives of his fellow soldiers that he was not able to get everyone out alive. This is the same battle that Putin so frivolously described as creating a “sanitary zone.” For him, a couple of thousand here, a couple of thousand there have no meaning. Meanwhile, warmongers will say that Russia must keep pressing, and Ukraine must surrender.

   https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1812612460840423799

   Russia uses injured soldiers, POWs in human wave attacks, Telegraph reports

   https://kyivindependent.com/russia-uses-injured-soldiers-pows-in-human-wave-attacks-telegraph-reports/

   Russiae imperium delendum est.

2. No shit. Crazy. A Russian finally realized what we’ve known for 3 years now.

   Meanwhile the ruskie bots are still claiming they can sent 40 million Russians into the war. Endless bodies. Just like Stalingrad.

   It’s so satisfying to watch them collapse in real time.

3. The signs are promising, let’s just hope the collapse comes before the orange man is in the white house again.

4. It is still mind boggling for me that they send meat waves for two years, now even with disabled bodies and women while having no clear war aims or objective. How slave-like can the mothers and population of Russia be to still accept that?

5. What if Russia wants to withdraw due to having no more resources or soldiers and Ukraine still going nuts? Like if Ukraine wants to continue and destroy and conquer Russia back ? I mean only if pootin withdraws doesn’t mean Ukraine will accept

6. Russia can’t fully conquer Ukraine! But the current problem will be whether Ukraine can take back the occupied land?

7. Again, russian milbloggers are throwing these desperate taunts since the early days of war. We’re not quite there yet. There’s still many weapons needed in Ukraine.

8. Yet Putin keeps throwing canon fodder.

9. So when does Russia start using tactical/battlefield nukes? Doesn’t Russian war doctrine state if you are going to lose you use nukes and take the other side with you?