Russian special military operation in Ukraine #27

The above is not completely accurate. No Average for each billion $ seems to be give Ukraine $100 million worth of old stuff from stock and then give the MIC $800,000,000 to replace it. The other $100 million goes for transfer and administrative costs

Considering they have no accountability of where all this shit is going they seem to be keeping a fairly careful account of what they have "donated".

Lieutenant General Roman Berdnikov (baldie), new commander of the western military district. Alexander Zhuravlev (cap) removed from the post.
Also rumours of a new commander that will be put in charge of the entire SMO
https://t.me/ghostnewsx/709

Wonder why he got removed if all was a planned trap?

Nothing to do with changing situation with Russian troops now defending Russian territory instead of Ukrainian autonomous region territory with 300K extra soldiers to support operations in new phase of this conflict.

Just removed from his position and not charged with anything?

(and for reasons yet to be fully understood, the Russians decline to bolster defenses in advance of a predictable offensive).

Their job was to kill Orcs, not hold every scrap of territory they happened to be operating on so in some cases they double down and defend and get supported with extra troops and in other cases they fight for a bit and then commit to a fighting withdrawal and move back to a more defensible position.

Having to stand and fight to the death means they die and will kill less enemy and the enemy will still advance.

This is actually a good thing. Normal reaction that should continue until best men occupy most critical positions.

Not evidence of anything however. Officers get replaced all the time, especially during different phases of a conflict moving from one phase to another...

Sacking the WD Commander shows it wasn't a trap nor done on purpose. So no they didn't retreat for that reason

We don't know what this replacement means, some people are just making shit up.

You keep saying this but russian troops and officers say otherwise, at this point you just refuse to see whats in front of you

On the internet everyone is a Russian officer...

Russia has not ran out of men, but they deployed to few and got caught out because of that is what happened.

They weren't caught out... the enticed Orcs to attack them... killed a good number of them and withdrew before they were surrounded... mission accomplished.

You're a fool if you believe everything you hear and see on Twatter.

Musk refused to buy it when he found out 80% of the traffic was paid western trolls.

In this case the soldiers on the ground said they gave warning about the impending offensive by the AFU, but were ignored by leadership. So there is at least the knowledge and competence at the tactical level, but not at the strategic.

How could the troops on the ground possibly know about an impending enemy advance... did they get emails?

One thing where NATO/Ukraine easily beats Russians is in intelligence amd reconaissance asset.

I disagree... HATO knows they can't win and don't care about Ukrainian casualties, their entire purpose is to kill Russians and they are failing badly.

A death toll of 100 is more than I would be happy with, but the number of dead Russians seems to suggest HATO really doesn't know what it is doing in this conflict... and lets be honest this is US Intel and we know their record in other areas.

Their planning expects all the things the Orcs simply don't have like effective artillery support and air power because the US is an air power centric organisation...

Not disagreeing with you. But knowing where Russian weak spots are allows them to make human wave attacks more successful.
Also, in Kherson, they are throwing a lot of armour atm.

So what will their tactics be when the Russian forces go on the offensive and start advancing... how quickly can they shift forces from one area of the battlefield to another?

The problem is, that western driven propaganda is putting just the opposite to the people's heads.
No matter what they can see with their own eyes - the narrative is claiming the other.

Except what is in peoples heads from western propaganda is not really a problem for Russia.

There are two weak points in this plan:

- massacres of Russian speaking (and now actually Russian ) population - whenever nazipigs enter
- their army is not going to stop growing. New and new waves of mobilization and constant influx of weapons let them rebuild army pretty quick

When the Russian reinforcements are ready they wont need to give ground and can actually go on some offensives, and their army only has some significant new troops that get training in the west... the cannon fodder will continue to be ground up and when the Russians are moving forward the enemy troops sent to stop them means they will be ground up even faster...

thousands? hundreds of thousands? c'mon shall they not evacuate small towns before leaving? no this barbaric from Russian side sorry

Amusing you blame the Russians for the people refusing to leave their homes and the Orcs carrying out war crimes while the west pretends they don't happen.

Sounds like there is plenty of blame to go around... remember how this conflict started?

Hundreds of thousands of people from Ukraine autonomous regions withdrawn to Russia...

But Russians are the bad guys for not staying and dying for these people who wont move... who would be killed anyway.

I disagree. They have a whole country hostage. They are hiring all over the world for $2000 a day. That for a lot of brainwashed retards is enough. I don't think anyone should count on them running out.

They will run out before Russia runs out of ammo and missiles.

With the annexations, the whole theory of keeping Z alive to legitimize any surrender is pretty much out the window. So do we expect decapitation strikes after a short ultimatium?

The problem there is that once you start they will scatter like rats, or should I say cockroaches... short of burning the house down and building a new house from scratch your chances of getting a good number of them is thin... but certainly they should move in that direction...

I'm pretty sure that $2000 a day is what they will pay anyone with military experience who's willing to go to the front. Look at how many die ? They don't have to write that many checks. That is for living on location too.

Plus the US has spent 85 billion on the war. That's enough to pay grunts $2000 a day.

The thing is that the 2k is the poster price... when they deduct lodging and transport and all your equipment, you might end up actually getting paid half that or less and if you die you might not get your last few pays because of funeral expenses... and your commander might demand a 30% weekly bonus for not sending you on suicide missions...

Moldova in other hand are neutral. I wonder how many they can mobilize. Romanian tho may go with Moldovan uniform but if Russian intelligence is working..they will notice discrepancies there.

If Moldova wants to join the conflict then they will end up in the same game... play stupid games and win stupid prizes... Kiev could have talked and Donbass and Lugansk could have been autonomous regions, but instead they are losing a bare minimum four regions and likely more to the Russian Federation.

If Moldova wants to join in I am sure their autonomous regions will want to join the RF too.

No, because killing the leader of a UN member state comes with repercussions and no particular extra gains

It didn't in Libya or Iraq... the US tried their darnedest for decades to kill Saddam... killed a few of his mistresses in his many houses... the whole point of the UN inspector teams there for years was to pin him down for an attack.

I agree that Zelensky is a figurehead, and that anyone they replace him with might be better/more competent... but rather than just kill him I think their oligarchs and American colonial masters should be targeted... once you start hitting them others will find reasons to leave the country and the Ukrainians left behind might become less interested in doing as the US and UK and EU demand.

There can be no peace agreement with Zelensky, he has no honour and would break it before he had finished signing his name to it.

As for the idiot on Youtube, he's speaking to an already propagandized Western audience of fanboys so who the fk cares.

He is catering to a market not interested in the truth.

Anyone have ideas of what this is suppose to mean, potentially changing borders rather than liberating the entire Oblasts (Kherson and Zaparozhye) or leaving it open to make deals to do it? There was some confusion on Russian channnels when the document was signed by Putin which was worded strangely and they thought the same, now Peskov says this.

I suspect what he is saying is that as Russia takes more and more former Ukraine territory then different regions and groupings become viable... if they only took the Lugansk and Donbass do they want to remain two separate regions in the RF or join together to form one region... the two other new regions... what borders would they like... don't answer now, because after winter you might have more land to be added that also want to join the RF.

What form that Ukraine will take is up to Ukrainians... if they all want to join the RF then regions need to be set up... if they don't then their future needs to be mapped out with some sort of constitution that does not let them join the EU or HATO in the future... it wont be something Russia imposes on anyone... they will be voting for it themselves.

ucmvulcan wrote:
But but but the tv told me that the Russians were out of tanks and sending t-35s and bt-7s into battle

There was nice footage today on TG, with a mile-long echelon full of T-72B3s, looking like a full battalion set.
With a comment that this kind of echelons does not end at the Crimean Bridge.
Probably those are dummy only

Interesting complaint and probably true... bureaucrats and paper pushers. NOTE: Actually became one over time, needed for sure but a balance must be found.

FWD from Voenkor Kotyonok Z:

My brother Andrei Filatov paid a visit to my friend, a company officer, and was very surprised at how much paperwork had to be filled out during war. There's no time to fight.

https://twitter.com/rybar_en/status/1576833557179564033

Backman wrote:Mark Sleboda said that Russia has a million man active duty military. What does that mean ?

How many soldiers does Russia have who's full time job is the military ?

Means active soldiers (etc under military command and paid to do your job) but that doesn't mean all combat or infantry, means total personal in all branches in all roles

SeigSoloyvov wrote:

Backman wrote:Mark Sleboda said that Russia has a million man active duty military. What does that mean ?

How many soldiers does Russia have who's full time job is the military ?

Means active soldiers (etc under military command and paid to do your job) but that doesn't mean all combat or infantry, means total personal in all branches in all roles

Apparently also includes the 60,000 officer cadets in Military Academies as they are sworn in and paid employees.