Never underestimate those savages. For the rest of my life, my view of Russia as a terrorist state will probably not change. A LOT must happen to change this.
> On the Lyman front, the Russian conducted unsuccessful offensives in the areas of Nadiia, Makiivka, Nevske (Luhansk Oblast), and Serebrianka Forest, Dibrova (Donetsk Oblast).
>On the Bakhmut front, under heavy fire from Russian artillery, Ukrainian defenders successfully repelled their attacks near Hryhorivka, Donetsk Oblast.
>On the Avdiivka front, under heavy fire from the Russian aircraft and artillery, Ukrainian defenders successfully repelled the attacks of Russian troops in the area of Pervomaiske, Donetsk Oblast.
To explain some things when all you’ve heard is how badly Russia is doing all winter long..
Due to a variety of reasons Russia has very few *functional options* for conducting their war.The issue with trench style logistics is time. Everything takes time. Due to the absolutely insane lengths of trenches in Ukraine right now the logistical time to deliver supplies to these trenches is obscene even on a *good day*.
Remember while they might be murders and thugs they are still fighting for their lives as well. This changes the way a mind thinks and is the single most misunderstood thing from civilians about troopers. No one wants to die. After a few weeks of being at risk of death.. everyone suddenly becomes very good at avoiding death even the most moronic corporal.
So how does a Russian commander have to look at this and come up with a solution?
They cant hold because holding means they will lose the supply race with Ukraine and they will all die.They cant self support each other because each unit would rather kill the other than work together and the structure of these units is such that they have almost no training in working together anyway.They can surge forward and hope to degrade the Ukrainians or cause them to stumble long enough for supplies to catch up. This works fundamentally because Ukrainian commanders want their troopers alive at the end of the day and the Russians really don’t care.
This is what the “corrosive” defense has been all about. Decreasing the speed at which units can be given supplies until they have no other option but to move closer to those supplies. People expect thunder runs and massive encirclements but that is only going to happen the instant someone on the Russian side screws up big.
The good news is there is only so long you can throw equipment and men at disruption attacks(because they are rarely favorable) before you just run out of the skill and morale required to maintain said cycle. The bad news is it takes a long time against an army as broken as Russia. 300k men is still 300k men. To put it in perspective to kill 300k men by gunshot would take over 3 days if you shot one a minute round the clock.
So what take away should you have from this post? The realization that when Russia is attacking like this it is a desperation play. It means the Ukrainian strategy is ***working*** and they are trying the only thing available to them to try and stop it.
/edit because I apparently cannot do math today the correct figure is not 3 days its 208 days.
May the Orcs find a swift death on every front.
SLAVA UKRAINI!!! HEROIAM SLAVA!!!
“pushing ahead” implies they made progress. sounds like they didnt make any progress at all though.
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Never underestimate those savages. For the rest of my life, my view of Russia as a terrorist state will probably not change. A LOT must happen to change this.
> On the Lyman front, the Russian conducted unsuccessful offensives in the areas of Nadiia, Makiivka, Nevske (Luhansk Oblast), and Serebrianka Forest, Dibrova (Donetsk Oblast).
>On the Bakhmut front, under heavy fire from Russian artillery, Ukrainian defenders successfully repelled their attacks near Hryhorivka, Donetsk Oblast.
>On the Avdiivka front, under heavy fire from the Russian aircraft and artillery, Ukrainian defenders successfully repelled the attacks of Russian troops in the area of Pervomaiske, Donetsk Oblast.
To explain some things when all you’ve heard is how badly Russia is doing all winter long..
Due to a variety of reasons Russia has very few *functional options* for conducting their war.The issue with trench style logistics is time. Everything takes time. Due to the absolutely insane lengths of trenches in Ukraine right now the logistical time to deliver supplies to these trenches is obscene even on a *good day*.
Remember while they might be murders and thugs they are still fighting for their lives as well. This changes the way a mind thinks and is the single most misunderstood thing from civilians about troopers. No one wants to die. After a few weeks of being at risk of death.. everyone suddenly becomes very good at avoiding death even the most moronic corporal.
So how does a Russian commander have to look at this and come up with a solution?
They cant hold because holding means they will lose the supply race with Ukraine and they will all die.They cant self support each other because each unit would rather kill the other than work together and the structure of these units is such that they have almost no training in working together anyway.They can surge forward and hope to degrade the Ukrainians or cause them to stumble long enough for supplies to catch up. This works fundamentally because Ukrainian commanders want their troopers alive at the end of the day and the Russians really don’t care.
This is what the “corrosive” defense has been all about. Decreasing the speed at which units can be given supplies until they have no other option but to move closer to those supplies. People expect thunder runs and massive encirclements but that is only going to happen the instant someone on the Russian side screws up big.
The good news is there is only so long you can throw equipment and men at disruption attacks(because they are rarely favorable) before you just run out of the skill and morale required to maintain said cycle. The bad news is it takes a long time against an army as broken as Russia. 300k men is still 300k men. To put it in perspective to kill 300k men by gunshot would take over 3 days if you shot one a minute round the clock.
So what take away should you have from this post? The realization that when Russia is attacking like this it is a desperation play. It means the Ukrainian strategy is ***working*** and they are trying the only thing available to them to try and stop it.
/edit because I apparently cannot do math today the correct figure is not 3 days its 208 days.
May the Orcs find a swift death on every front.
SLAVA UKRAINI!!! HEROIAM SLAVA!!!
“pushing ahead” implies they made progress. sounds like they didnt make any progress at all though.