Backman wrote:300,000 is a lot more than the guesses people had. I thought 150,000 was going to be the number. I know they all aren't infantry. No matter how you look at it 300k is lots. If we consider that the militia , PMC Wagner and the Chechens + a few new volenteer units being assembled , we are talking over 400,000.
This was all that was needed , mobilize the already drafted part of the military and use them for rear duties
Take the volunteers and strike units of the infantry and send them forward and create echelons behind them for support and maneuver
But this will be useless and in vain, if the air force does not wipe out targets in front of advancing infantry
Kiev and Kharkov cannot be repeated, in other words you cannot send guys as recon walking into ambushes without preparing the assault
This requires sorties at high altitude and rocket and missile forces striking anywhere VSU is spotted including urban areas- civilians be warned, but it's them or us now
So February 24 cannot be repeated as a recon in force, but a committed assault/invasion with all requisite actions, strikes not only on rear and logistics targets, but also military ones in the front , in civilian zones, if apartment block contains resistance, send su34 up high and drop cluster bombs on it, use s300 smerch with cluster munitions on the cities, and men will not be lost needlessly
The main
failure of SMO was to use VDV, and armor and all infantry forces as reconnaissance in force - walking into cities where prepared ambushes were setup
Fucking hohols were positioning ATGM on rooftops, and firing at tanks, and air force was not called in to level where the fire was coming from
Our guys kept advancing into ambushes, and the stupid leadership maintained the rules of engagement
**** that shit, if guys are ordered to move into a city, you send the VKS and you bomb them wherever they pop up, civilians be damned
This should have happened as of February 24, now 5000 men are dead due to ineptitude
Well society will not tolerate it if conscripts die this way
No recon in force, bomb the Ukrainians and punish them
In Kiev, they should have cluster bombed all the highways and buildings near buildup of our forces at fastov and vasilkov , brovary should have been fucking leveled
Let's see if it will happen