Russian special military operation in Ukraine #38

If I had my way I'd just pitch up my hamock, chill, while the artillery does its work day and night and I await my shift

But hey guess what I'm a nobody, and I certainly don't know neither the strategic-political situation that might encourage activity from the military, nor the operative situation on the ground and whatever priorities they have at the moment.
So I simply take it as a matter of faith, that if they're advancing, and advancing on Ugledar - that there is a reason for it, and that reason is an important one. After all, the Ukrainians have also pulled in reinforcements and some of their best troops there; they're serious about the place too.

And given that you already answered your own queries about RoEs and Ugledar's commanding position, well then the conclusion comes naturally.
It's a well-defended settlement that's for whatever reason a priority to take, and Russia while taking it must avoid collateral damage to the maximum extent possible.

Not a great set of circumstances. But that's what you even have an army for. And sometimes the only thing you can do, is advance. Even if from only 1 direction. And sometimes you can come across a nasty surprise while doing so.

I live in the 3rd world. I don't think you realize how deep the GAE propaganda has penetrated into the upper middle classes of Africa and Southeast Asia, no.

Appealing to Leftist tendencies just turns off everyone with an IQ over 105. Maybe that is what Putin is aiming for?

Liberals are the intermediaries of foreign capital as Trotsky said; setting themselves up as the interconnecting layer between wealthy foreign industrialists and your native ignorant workforce, and profiting from it

So don't expect them not to go for 'GAE propaganda', whatever that is; it's just a matter of self-interest ultimately.

But I really don't get why you think Russia has that target audience in its sights at all, or why you think Russia's propaganda is left-wing & liberal at all. Sure RT's is a little, but that's just one of the instruments.

then there are better ways to go about it

Sometimes you're only able to figure that out the hard way, after the easy way proves to be not so easy after all.

Well something happened.

Just as we can say something happened when we come across one of a dozen vids each day that show Ukr vehicles or manpower or whatever being destroyed.

But notice that in but a paltry few of the ones showing losses on the Ukrainian side, whether posted by Russian telegram channels or those of the opponent's - do we receive some detailed account of what we're supposed to be looking at, how it went down, how it shows monstrous incompetence and not a single lesson learned over the past year, which Army Group commander is responsible for the alleged ineptitude of some captain or major, which Lapin, which Mamedov for the 2nd time in a row, about how all the rules of engagement used by the Ukrainian forces are wrong, that this division performs poorly constantly, about how that other brigade is so much better, or to whom to turn to to receive new socks from at the front-line.

No, none of that shit, just the footage itself with at most with a short caption, and so everyone is left to their own devices to come to their own conclusions about what they're looking at and what's going on. Or alternatively to discuss among themselves at forums such as this one.
As it should be.
Because dumb **** comments and explanations and walls of text can be written by anyone and faked by anyone. Videos can't, at least not full-length unedited ones - when it comes to careful editing and re-ordered scenes then sure there is some room for manipulation too.
And under the conditions of information war one can't demand anything but that.

If the Ukrainians don't mind giving away their positions by shelling empty vehicles, then honestly that's not such a bad trade either, as long as it can be taken advantage of by Russian forces.
Once again, Russia is in no shortage of armoured vehicles nor the capacity to produce new ones.
Personnel on the other hand don't grow on trees.

The recording quadrocopter is in the air, presumably Ukrainian, so it wouldn't surprise me if they did shell them

Engineers saved the day and recovered DETRACKED tanks even during artillery shelling. But this is ****-up that cost many lives. No mine-rollers in sight.

I won’t post the footage, but BMPs are not having a good day, especially the previously seen “Drakula” BMP-1 who crushed it’s own desant making many Ukrainians go on lengthy virtual masturbation sessions and spam it on every forum.

You're always yapping on about all these videos you see and the monstrous Russian casualties they purport to show

Post a link to the footage with a warning, people can decide for themselves whether they want to watch it or not (I don't care to personally)

And what ****-up?
Were they targeted by Ukrainians from a building, or advanced onto a minefield? Because you guys change your stories and it's confusing.
If they advanced onto a minefield; the whole point is that you won't have mine-rollers available as you wouldn't know the mines are there beforehand.

So how was the recent Ukrainian POW murderer outed so quickly?

I can only imagine sold out by other Ukrainians who thought that was fucked up? Well either that or they just found any Ukie rando and blamed him for it.

They're usually arrogant enough to show their faces or to have done so earlier and post some videos earlier

@FP

What kind of idiot would think that there's no mines in a field in front of a heavily fortified position? You assume every meter of mined by default.

Where's the heavily fortified position in the video?

All I see is a field, a dirt road and a tree line. Could be anywhere. Could be 100 miles from Ugledar although I assume that the Telegram doomers are at least not lying about the approximate location.

And assuming everything is mined will slow any movement down to an absolute crawl

I'm not asking about how fortified Ugledar is, I'm asking about where is it in relation to where the unit on video was.

And if you don't have that information, and I don't have that information, and the Telegram nobodies are full of shit in everything they say - then there is nothing to discuss. And certainly no valid accusations of incompetence can be made based on what we don't know