Also, the ISW maps credits Russia with a larger area preinvasion, so the denominator is smaller, and it is easier to reclaim half. |
Lies. The New York Times won a Pulitzer saying no famine in Ukraine, everything was going swimmingly. |
Whoever wins or if the conflict is frozen, it’s going to be Pyrrhic victory.
Even if Russia gets to keep all it has as of now, how do they man it and finance it? If there is an internationally agreed neutral area, where is to going to be? If Ukraine pushes Russia back and Crimea and Donbas look like they can be reclaimed - Russia will go ballistic. I think the first scenario is the most likely: the situation stays as it is, lives are lost, Russia becomes poor, but insists on fighting. Things may or may not change when Putin dies. I am honestly not expecting any major changes in the next couple years. |
So yeah, playing games to get some small morale boost is the name of the game here. In case people haven't noticed, Russia is fighting a war of attrition not one of land. The land is easy to take once the army is broken. Zelensky will gladly sacrifice thousands of men, and dozens of armored units to take a few square K. They'll run out of army long before Russia runs out of fields. |
Speaking of same old tactic... Care to put a date on any of the dozen or so videos you claim are recycled? Most of the initial Bradley and Leopard losses were to mines. There may just be far more losses than you can keep straight, so it could be an honest mistake. |
I think 50% is legit. This comparison was from a month ago, and Ukraine has reclaimed more since then. |
To add to the basket of tricks, get a load of this: The Sun is claiming this shows a Russian tank (Leopard) getting destroyed by a Ukrainian drone (Lancet). No wonder you people are so confused on what is going on. |
It is not playing games. ISW has been making these maps from the beginning, and they always had that land marked that way, the area in the east that Russia first identified as independent. |
You seem to think that Ukraine will break before Russian troops do? "Troops from the 7th VDV Division subsequently published an audio message on July 15 warning against the dismissal of their commander Teplinsky, who has also complained about the handling of the war in Ukraine. They threatened to withdraw from the occupied Kherson region, in Ukraine's south, if anything similar were to happen to Teplinsky." It looks like Ukraine is having success cutting off the North-South transport / re-supply route along M03? "They [Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Gerasimov] are preparing to send them to slaughter," "All of them [VDV] are essentially light infantry, and they are being thrown to break through the layered defense." "If the Ministry of Defense succeeds in their maneuver, then with one blow they will kill two birds with one stone—they will thin out the population of the military, dissatisfied with their management methods, and slow down the surrender of Bakhmut, who is now in a semi-encirclement," "If the idea fails, then Teplinsky will be made guilty. Or maybe they will help him with failure, limiting his equipment and ammunition (again, in their usual manner)." https://www.newsweek.com/russia-elite-unit-vdv-bakhmut-counteroffensive-mutiny-fears-document-letter-1815164 To put context around this news, the 7th is an elite "Guards" Mountain Air Assault Division. I would consider them on-par with the US 82nd or 101st Airborne Divisions. If an elite Russian Army unit like this collapses in Bahkmut, I believe it will affect Russian morale along the Russian front lines. This is a direct effect of the Wagner pull-out in Bakhmut. "Russia has "been forced" to deploy once-elite airborne forces (VDV) from four separate army divisions to hold the frontline in the city" https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-latest-russian-region-attacked-by-ukrainian-artillery-fire-as-wagner-forces-start-to-withdraw-from-bakhmut-12541713?postid=5999301 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7th_Guards_Mountain_Air_Assault_Division The timing of these ammo depots helps Ukrainian momentum. It may mean that the Ukrainians are able to move units closer in range to reach targets they couldn't reach before. "AFU destroys eight more Russian ammunition depots near Bakhmut" https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3740196-afu-destroys-eight-more-russian-ammunition-depots-near-bakhmut.html In the meantime, Solovyov is lashing out about cluster munitions, since they're highly effective against infantry in woods or dug into trenches. His anger appears genuine (tongue click at [0:27 / 6:21] and uncontrolled emotion at [1:33 / 6:21]), so it's clear that the cluster munitions are making a difference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSU7gktyLjE Once units like the 7th are broken, it will be at least 10 years to recover. |
DPR and LPR have never been independent, they have always been Russian puppets with installed gauleiters like Pushilin. |
Russia has been trying to backfill the VDV and other elite units as well, but the replacements have nowhere near the training and capabilities continue to degrade as the war continues to take its toll on Russia. |
Oh don't worry hun, there are plenty of recent videos that do show Russia's T-90s and other "elite" tanks being destroyed by Ukrainian drones and anti-tank weaponry. |
The map has very little movement since maybe last September -ish 2022 but for now it looks like an absolute meat grinder of death on both Russian sides and Ukraine sides, hundreds of thousands dead, dying or damaged with brain injury or arms blown off and legs blown apart. |
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/25/world/europe/ukraine-war-divorce.html
Ukrainian women detaching from their men “ Ninety percent of the eight million Ukrainian refugees have been women and children, and many women, married or not, do not plan to go back. They are moving on and developing new, entrenched lives. ” ————————— The “country” is finished |
Russia may have ruined it (that’s just what they do), but they’re not going to be allowed to keep it. |