Russian special military operation in Ukraine #7

LMFS wrote:https://t.me/russnasledie/1892

Russian cities.

What does Ukraine have to do with it?

Donetsk - founded by Emperor Alexander II in 1869 during the construction of a metallurgical plant in Yuzovka. What does Ukraine have to do with it?

Ispan wrote:Anybody has an accurate estimate of how many Ukrainian troops there were in Mariupol?

Judging by enemy casualty reports from DNR in Volnovakha there were 3.000 troops eliminated for sure, one batallion each of six brigades. Highly likely they are only counting the regular troops and not the National Guard and other paramilitary battallions integrated into each brigade, so I think another battalion of nazis per brigade. Perhaps 5.000 enemies.

Now at Mariupol the garrison must have even been stronger to hold onto a big city. Perhaps 10 thousand?

any breakdown of units? The Azov gang how large was? There were at least a few army battalions that escaped south to the city from the breakthrough at Volnovakha

RTN wrote:
Russia could never come up with such precision guided rockets.

ucmvulcan wrote:Thoughts on how the war is going.  Am I right on this or wrong?

1. Putin claimed his aim was to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine.  I think the Russian forces are doing that.  Ukraine seems to have three main groupings of forces, one near Kiev that is mostly conscripts, one is near Odessa that is part conscript and half radicals, and the one in the east that is mostly hardcore and radicalized nazis.  Even from wikipedia's map, and yes in this they are a tool for propaganda, we can see large pincers that are closing behind the radicals and the main aim will be to destroy them utterly and completely.

This goes with another aim

2. Recognition of the independence of the DPR and LPR, these two independent territories lack sufficient military strength to defend their territorial integrity so you help them by wiping out Ukraine's military

So why is Russia surrounding but not driving on Kiev or Odessa? Simple, the aim is to tie those forces down and deal with them through sustained air and missile strikes.  

3. I think that we are going to see the main ground operations in the Donbass and we are going to see airstrikes to degrade Ukrainian military power in the rest of the country.  

Am I right on this or not?

Podlodka77 wrote:Since most of you have left the topic of weapons systems, I have to deviate a little from the topic.
I know that this is not the topic of this story, but I have a feeling that after this conflict, the production of Su-57 aircraft will be increased. I think that an additional contingent could be ordered on the already ordered 76 planes until 2027.
This also applies to the T-90M tanks and of course the T-14.
And off course, more submarines...

JohninMK wrote:Very democratic Ukraine now openly a one power block state. Otherwise known as a dictatorship.

Euromaidan Press
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Ukraine's RNBO suspends activities of pro- political parties for the time of the war, Zelenskyy informs:

Opposition Platform-For Life
Shariy's Party
Nashi
Opposition Bloc
Socialist Party
Left Opposition
Union of Left Forces
Derzhava & others

lyle6 wrote:

At least for AFVs, the heavy losses among even modernized platforms against NATO's top shelf man portable anti-armor weapons comes as a bit of a shock.

They were probably expecting a blow-out just winging it with second rate armor like last time, but the Ukrainians got better.

In any case this is a pretty big ammunition that the modernists can use to finally push for delivery of next gen platforms in actual numbers.

JohninMK wrote:No mention of S-300 heading east, if its going that would be classified.

NATO Air Command
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Germany and the Netherlands are deploying Patriot batteries to Sliač airbase, Slovakia

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Integrated Air & Missile Defence it is an essential, continuous mission that safeguards Alliance territory and populations against any air and missile threat and attack.