Russian special military operation in Ukraine #38

Post  PapaDragon Today at 5:45 am
They could​ simply get off their asses and destroy them on the frontline
Fact that Ukrainians even have artillery with Russia supposedly having air superiority over there is downright insulting

You have always had an ego too big for the known size of a galaxy, but the thing is getting worse each day.
Is there some treatment known for that?
Because you are getting more and more ridiculous each time when you split something out.
A book example of an armchair general.

I forgot to add, that in all of the cases, this training is made with folks who already have been tankers for a while. The only new job to teach is a loader, but that needs more physical training rather than conceptual. wrote:

that is a big "forgot" former tankers already know the hardest part, tactics. So what you describe is just conversion training. Even if there are enough Ukrainian tankers alive, they are only getting 5 weeks.

There is a theory that actually being trained for another type of weapon is the worse that can happen.
Because you need to forget what you have learned first.
The thing was quite notorious in the memories of multiple pilots, and very clear when they had to switch for plane generations or types.
Sometimes some skills and training can be dangerous with a new type of plane because one is remembering the behaviors of a different machine.
Training of a tank crew is less demanding, yet as I said - all the western tanks require 4 people crew.
It is much more than it seems. No existing in the Ukrowehrmacht tank commander is trained for commanding a gunner. Till now, he had his own ammo loading selection pannel, and was just pulling a knob if he wanted a different ammo type to be loaded. That's it. Everything was automatized. How can we expect that a guy after 5 weeks of training will switch off the behavioral and muscle training he carried for years, and turn on a brand new? It is out of a question.

Russian troops occupied all the heights in the vicinity of Artemovsk, 02.16.2023.

The units of the Russian military took all the heights in the vicinity of Artemovsk, Igor Kimakovsky, adviser to the acting head of the DPR, said on the air of Solovyov Live.

According to him, at the moment successes are being recorded near Artemovsk, where the Russian military occupied the main heights. There is one small corridor left, which is also controlled by the Russian Armed Forces, which significantly hampers the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the transport of manpower and ammunition, RIA Novosti reports.

Kimakovsky noted that many foreign mercenaries from France, Poland, and Britain were seen in the Artemovsky direction.

“There are already units that come from near Lviv,” he concluded.

Earlier, the coordinator for strategic communications at the White House National Security Council, John Kirby  , said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine could leave Artemivsk, this is allowed in Washington, but Kiev makes the final decision on this.

Recall that the acting head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine  did not intend  to give up Artemovsk without a fight.

https://vz.ru/news/2023/2/16/1199511.html

Vuledar update, Ukranian source. Still unclear to my why Russia does not carpet bomb that village if it's so tactically important to remove Ukr forces from there.

Yes the village seems pretty much intact from here

Even the library operates during normal office hours.

No existing in the Ukrowehrmacht tank commander is trained for commanding a gunner. Till now, he had his own ammo loading selection pannel, and was just pulling a knob if he wanted a different ammo type to be loaded. That's it. Everything was automatized.

You forget all that came at a terrible cost. Most gunners only have one arm...

Post  Mir Today at 10:22 am
Yes the village seems pretty much intact from here Rolling Eyes
Even the library operates during normal office hours.

Oh yeah, I can even smell a Saturday barbecue from here!


Edit : daily shift of kabooming follows the night shift of kabooming. No point to list what was hit as everything was hit.

How can we expect that a guy after 5 weeks of training will switch off the behavioral and muscle training he carried for years, and turn on a brand new?

He can do it on a training range in Germany or Poland but under the stress of a battle? 
He will try to press the button to load ammo. The button will not be there, after that he will remember that he has to talk to the loader...
All this takes time. Most of the time the tank will be hit during this extra seconds.


Ugledar/Vuledar is currently just a sideshow. The Russians keep the pressure on so that the Ukros can´t
retreat easily or send troops somewehere else.

More from our Minister of Defence

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Ben Wallace: "The Armed Forces of Ukraine must learn to use ammunition more economically, as the armies of NATO countries do." According to The Daily Telegraph newspaper, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fire about 6,000 artillery rounds a day, which exceeds the West's ability to satisfy the "shell hunger" emerging in Kyiv.

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The West is economical with its ammunition because it usually fights people who can't fight back

Lado
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If a localized, low intensity special military operation in eastern Ukraine can drain NATO reserves to the point they have to warn ukrops to go easy on ammo, then imagine what would happen if goes full power war on Ukraine.

No wonder Musk is backpeddling on his support for Ukraine.

Donbass Devushka
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Civil infrastructure components in space provided to Ukraine for military purposes may become a legitimate target for retaliation, the Russian Foreign Ministry said

Hello maxar, earth sense and starlink

"Hell hath no fury like a woman's scorn"

From SouthFront:

In January, Zelensky blamed Russia for the helicopter crash in Brovary, because of which the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine was killed:

“War is not only on the battlefield, war has several directions. There are no more accidents. All this is the result of war. All these steps, everything that happens, missiles that hit our people, on the civilians, deaths of children…”

In response, the President of Ukraine received the following appeal from a Ukrainian woman:

“Tell me please, how can you constantly blame everyone, but not yourself? Never yourself! Everyone is always to blame, not you! What are you sitting there for? Why did you run for president of our country? To destroy our nation? Right now, that’s what it looks like!

For you, everyone else is to blame for everything. You collect all the scrap metal from all over the European Union! You make young guys who have newborn babies and pregnant wives go to the front. You changed the law, so now even sixteen year olds are conscripted, and seventeen year olds go to the hot spots. You’re even the official sponsor of fucking British scientists who dissect our guys for organs.

You bastard, your wife walks around in a 40 thousand euro raincoat, and this wasn’t even a New Year’s gift! She lies that she knows the prices in her country and claims that mackerel costs 8 hryvnia… Have some conscience, Zelensky! Haven’t you ruined everything? Are you not afraid that your children will pay for your sins?

You laugh, mock and jeer the common people, thanks to whom you became a millionaire! You’re a dollar millionaire, for ****’s sake! Where did you get it – from the war, fucking hell, from bones! I understand that you don’t feel sorry for anyone, you bastard, but don’t you even feel sorry for your children? Just get out of Ukraine!

Take all these fuckers that you sponsored, all these Banderites… and just **** off to Britain! People are tired of you, tired of your regime, tired of your lies, do you understand or not? You lie all the time, you brute! You’ve never told the truth! Go out now to Khreshchatyk and prove that you are in Ukraine!

Turn on the live broadcast on all social networks, kneel down, you faggot, and ask forgiveness from every mother from whom you took a son! Because you are not going to negotiate with Russia, because you are not sitting down at the negotiating table with Putin, because you are fighting until the last Ukrainian and because you are still bombing Donbass! You stinking faggot!!!”

Kremenchug, Poltava, Odessa received gifts. Dnjepropetrovsk is getting some love now.

I do hope this rumour that Belarus is going to integrate with the RF is true. That will open up a new can of worms for the NATzo vermin, not to mention 404

The story of the superiority of aviation is a Western myth.. The West in the past few decades first kept all its opponents under sanctions for a few years, only then to strike at them, and those opponents were weak, but hey, everyone in the West admires Maverick and Top Gun. Although we are living in 2023, nothing has really changed except that the trench struggle has been replaced by urban warfaree. As much as aviation has an effect, so do cruise missiles or tactical ballistic missiles. However, no country in the world has enough precision-guided weapons to win a conflict of this intensity. Without a strong ground army, everything is an illusion - Hollywood myth

JohninMK wrote:Ben Wallace: "The Armed Forces of Ukraine must learn to use ammunition more economically, as the armies of NATO countries do."

Hilarious!!   Pray tell, Bennie my lad, the last time any NATO satrapi was involved in a full-scale combined arms war with a peer opponent, armed to the teeth and backed to the hilt by an array of "wealthy" states?

Never.  Thats right, you fcking stupid useless clown.  Fcking never.

This useless nonce is a great example of why the British Empire is dead and buried and will never rise again.  

The rumor of Belarus becoming a subject of the federation has been going on forever now "will they, won't they" its like a sitcom at this point. Until it actually happens, no point to pay any mind to the endless rumors

Fairly accurate

For Russian speakers. Full recording of statements Prigozhin made yesterday.
https://t.me/voenacher/39664

Another prisoner exchange:

https://t.me/voenacher/39664

The Russian Ministry of Defense reports that today, during the next round of the exchange of prisoners, 101 servicemen have been returned home to Russia.

They will be delivered to Moscow by the BTA transport board, after which they will undergo a course of examination and rehabilitation in a hospital.

@milinfolive

Ugledar obviously holds strategic value since it's the only built up area north of RU's frontlines on that axis for quite some distance, therefore serving as a virtual fortress. The big question is how Ukraine continues to reinforce the town, since Russia should easily be able to interdict any vehicles or convoys moving across the flatlands using air assets.

For Russian speakers. Full recording of statements Rogozin made yesterday.
https://t.me/voenacher/39664

You mean Prigozhin's statements

No-one much cares about what Rogozin has to say, even less so now given that he can't even keep his mouth shut and his activities on the down-low while within artillery range

You mean Prigozhin's statements

You're right. I'll correct it in original post.