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Typical Western view of the current state of the conflict.
farouk
48 minutes ago
10 months and 1 week after Moscow started its 3-day special operations misadventure inside the Ukraine and they really are on the backfoot:
1) In the north of the Kharkiv Oblast, Moscow is getting pushed back, having advanced around 20 miles of the Oskil river (a natural defensive line, which they reached in September and where Moscow really should have held the line) at the city of Kreminna, there is talk that the Ukraine has captured it.
2) In the centre, for some very strange reason, Moscow has spent the past 4 to 5 months trying to capture the city of Bakhmut, which despite all the extra troops it has deployed to take the city, has suffered huge losses resulting in this past week of Kyiv actually taking back lost ground (The videos and photos from the city show a death toll that would bring down any western government , one photo alone shows 19 dead Russian troops, another (recent video clip) shows a UAV using a thermal camera to track a squad of Russian troops (remember its winter, so cold) allowing Gunners to take them out. Another video clip (yesterday) shows a loitering munition tracking a speeding APC (BMP2 I think) from above its starboard side dropping down behind it and racing to strike it in the rear, a rear which has its clam shell doors open and which clearly shows a bloke sat in the back and another on the turret trying to shoot it down.
3) At the bottom, Moscow appears to have made some progress against the city of Malinka , the thing is, it is 14 miles to the centre of Malinka from the centre of Donetsk city, so hardly anything to write home about.
4) In the south east, the Ukraine has taken to hitting concentrations of Russian troops with uncanny accuracy (usually inside R&R Hotels) , as well as striking ammo dumps, HQs and lines of communication. Leading Moscow to presume that the Ukraine is going to strike there next cutting the land bridge to the Crimea which kind of explains why Sat photos show they have completely fortified the city of Tokmak and the town of Kam’yanka
5) Following on from the strike on Engels airbase 2 nights ago (duty rumour has it 5 TU95 jets were damaged , 17 blokes killed , 21 injured and control tower destroyed, having watched the street cameras videos of the explosions, (with sound) I would rather believe that claim than the report issued by Moscow that they shot the missile down and the debris killed 3 people) Moscow (Like it did in the Crimea) has started relocating aircraft further away from the area. Which kind of explains the rash of missile and arty strikes on the city of Kherson yesterday.
6) For some reason Moscow still peddles the line of nothing more than unconditional surrender , yes I can see that is just for Western public consumption and things like the British PM asking for an audit of British Aid to the Ukraine doesn’t help. I mean the last poll inside the Ukraine (last week) had 78% of those surveyed voting for the Ukraine to continue fighting.
Well its almost a new year, I expect to see the Ukraine open a completely new front and retake another huge swath of land back from Russia, something I expect Moscow is expecting and dreading simply as the quality of its troops is less than that of British army cadets , which might explain the 100 odd T90M in Belrus, which I feel would be used as a distraction in which to put the brakes on any Ukrainian thrust.
Last edited 18 minutes ago by farouk
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/nato-hq-goes-lights-out-in-solidarity-with-ukraine/
farouk
48 minutes ago
10 months and 1 week after Moscow started its 3-day special operations misadventure inside the Ukraine and they really are on the backfoot:
1) In the north of the Kharkiv Oblast, Moscow is getting pushed back, having advanced around 20 miles of the Oskil river (a natural defensive line, which they reached in September and where Moscow really should have held the line) at the city of Kreminna, there is talk that the Ukraine has captured it.
2) In the centre, for some very strange reason, Moscow has spent the past 4 to 5 months trying to capture the city of Bakhmut, which despite all the extra troops it has deployed to take the city, has suffered huge losses resulting in this past week of Kyiv actually taking back lost ground (The videos and photos from the city show a death toll that would bring down any western government , one photo alone shows 19 dead Russian troops, another (recent video clip) shows a UAV using a thermal camera to track a squad of Russian troops (remember its winter, so cold) allowing Gunners to take them out. Another video clip (yesterday) shows a loitering munition tracking a speeding APC (BMP2 I think) from above its starboard side dropping down behind it and racing to strike it in the rear, a rear which has its clam shell doors open and which clearly shows a bloke sat in the back and another on the turret trying to shoot it down.
3) At the bottom, Moscow appears to have made some progress against the city of Malinka , the thing is, it is 14 miles to the centre of Malinka from the centre of Donetsk city, so hardly anything to write home about.
4) In the south east, the Ukraine has taken to hitting concentrations of Russian troops with uncanny accuracy (usually inside R&R Hotels) , as well as striking ammo dumps, HQs and lines of communication. Leading Moscow to presume that the Ukraine is going to strike there next cutting the land bridge to the Crimea which kind of explains why Sat photos show they have completely fortified the city of Tokmak and the town of Kam’yanka
5) Following on from the strike on Engels airbase 2 nights ago (duty rumour has it 5 TU95 jets were damaged , 17 blokes killed , 21 injured and control tower destroyed, having watched the street cameras videos of the explosions, (with sound) I would rather believe that claim than the report issued by Moscow that they shot the missile down and the debris killed 3 people) Moscow (Like it did in the Crimea) has started relocating aircraft further away from the area. Which kind of explains the rash of missile and arty strikes on the city of Kherson yesterday.
6) For some reason Moscow still peddles the line of nothing more than unconditional surrender , yes I can see that is just for Western public consumption and things like the British PM asking for an audit of British Aid to the Ukraine doesn’t help. I mean the last poll inside the Ukraine (last week) had 78% of those surveyed voting for the Ukraine to continue fighting.
Well its almost a new year, I expect to see the Ukraine open a completely new front and retake another huge swath of land back from Russia, something I expect Moscow is expecting and dreading simply as the quality of its troops is less than that of British army cadets , which might explain the 100 odd T90M in Belrus, which I feel would be used as a distraction in which to put the brakes on any Ukrainian thrust.
Last edited 18 minutes ago by farouk
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/nato-hq-goes-lights-out-in-solidarity-with-ukraine/
Insufficient level of interaction with other branches and types of troops. Along with the inoperative identification system, this more than once led to “friendly fire”, to the point that almost all (!) Su-34, Su-35S and Su-30SM aircraft lost since the spring, as well as part of the Ka-52 helicopters, are “on account" of the Russian air defense.
