Russian forces in southern Ukraine appear to be experiencing an increasingly desperate shortage of water. Water rations for all personnel – from soldiers in the trenches to fighter pilots – are now limited to only 1 l (36 oz) per day, as little as 8% of what they need.

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by Loki9101

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  1. “If they don’t have water, they should drink Vodka” – Marie Antoinette Putin, 2024.

  2. There’s water in Russia. They should go there.

  5. Is there a source on this? Seems like this may be sensationized potentially.

  6. In non-Darth Vader units, that’s a bit more than a litre.

  7. Russian forces in southern Ukraine appear to be experiencing an increasingly desperate shortage of water. Water rations for all personnel – from soldiers in the trenches to fighter pilots – are now limited to only 1 l (36 oz) per day, as little as 8% of what they need

    The Fighterbomber Telegram channel last week posted an appeal to Russian companies to supply Russian Air Force regiments with bottled water. 3,300 litres have now been donated to one airfield – enough to last a month.

    However, seven more regiments still need a total of 23 tonnes of water (23,000 litres / 6,000 US gallons). The huge shortfall almost certainly indicates a major breakdown in Russian logistics across the region, exacerbated by drought and the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam.

    The channel notes: “The standard of one litre of bottled water a day is not only for pilots. It’s the same for the whole army, but now they’ve added pilots to it. It’s the same for those in the trenches.”

    This quantity is far below what is needed. According to this chart, at current temperatures of 30-35°C men are likely to need between 10 and 15 litres per day if they are carrying out moderate to hard work. They are getting between 8-15% of this amount.

    Not surprisingly, Russian soldiers on the front line are taking increasingly desperate measures to obtain water, such as creating crude filters to try to strain out contaminants, or simply drinking untreated water directly from puddles.

    Given that ground water in the vicinity of trenches is likely to be contaminated with human feces, spilled fuel and decaying corpses, it’s probable that Russian troops are experiencing significant rates of water-borne diseases.

    While this is likely to affect combat effectiveness through dehydration and disease, it’s possible that Russian casualties are so high – reportedly currently 1,200 per day – that they are dying so quickly that many do not have time to get ill. /end

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    Here is the full text because I know many don’t want to click on this X cancer.

    You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.” – General Dwight D. Eisenhower, USA

    All interstellar empires rose and fell, ultimately, on their ability to deliver on this one simple, unexciting thing: logistics.”

    — John Jackson Miller

    And that is what it comes down to, allocation of resources, or the failure to allocate them, is disastrous in war, production is a problem, but logistics is the biggest headache for any state/army.

    Logistics is in what the US led alliance thrives at, always has. This is how Russia will lose, in an unglamorous way. The sinews of war are infinite gold, but the gears of war do not turn without these quite humorless lot which transport these goods from America all the way to Ukrainian gunners.

    The cost of operating and maintaining a system over its useful life is driven primarily by system design, and reliability and maintainability decisions, which are typically made before production.” – Ms. Christine Fox, Former Director, Cost Assessment & Program Evaluation

    Russia can keep up in a war of stockpiles. In a war of industries, they are hopelessly outgunned and outclassed by the Western war machine. Russia is a corrupt hellhole, and ultimately diligent work and higher levels of professionalism on every step of the way will prevail.

    I have promised Russia a poverty driven and crushing defeat in the second half of this decade when the war began. And this is how that defeat will come about, not with a bang, no, the Russian empire will die with a whimper, in fact it dies in waves 1917, 1989, 1991 and now the next wave is here.

    It will be a boring death, parts won’t be where they are supposed to be, food, fuel, water, clothing, all will not be where it is supposed to be either out of scarcity or due to Russia’s slop and stack logistics that lacks itemization and fork lifts, compared to our pull logistics.

    Sure, it will still take a while. The defeat of Russia is a complex process rather than an event. I hope Ukraine will continue to hit refineries, trucks, truck factories, trains, fuel depots, ferries, and large military cargo ships.

    Russiae imperium delendum est.

  8. The Russian surf soldiers have to drink what ever they can find. The practical consequences will be increased water bourne diseases. The water ways and wells will be badly compromised by the rotting corpses covering the landscape.

  9. One liter of water is 8% of daily water consumption? There’s no way I could drink 13 liters of water a day. Beer, on the other hand…

  10. Now they get to be in a meat wave assault or flying a jet at high speeds while releasing missiles still over Russian territory while suffering with a dehydration headache and maybe even early organ failure. That should go well for them.

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