With those cameras the Russikies could clock the speed at which the Ukrainians are advancing. Seem a waste, though of the parts.
Yes. And Ukraine just blitzed Wagner Group's HQ. Good stuff.
Wounded Russians needed to be transported to Crimea because other Russians stole the medical equipment needed to save them.
Serhiy Gaidai said:
Don't think he said anything about Crimea, and it would make no sense to haul the wounded from Kadiivka all the way there. You're confusing it with the strike in Melitopol a day before.
Wagner war criminals deserve what's coming to them. But strikes behind the front lines, while they may inconvenience the enemy, don't win the war. Russia still has the initiative and is slowly creeping forward.
How do you figure that considering Russia has steadily been losing ground since June? Ukraine has very much been dictating the tempo of this conflict.
Ukraine has picked up the low-hanging fruit. And June is an arbitrary point: it was when Ukraine got the HIMARS and was able to start disrupting Russian logistics. If you look back at February, clearly Russia has only gained ground. The war has had its ebbs and flows, but right now, Russia is the one who's attacking and determining the pace, and Ukraine's on the defense. Since Kherson, Ukraine's made no progress.
Well yeah, that's the nature of conquest. You don't stay home and wait for someone to attack you, you attack them and hopefully subdue them quickly. If you fuck it up and attack someone but can't subdue them, then when you get pushed back, you are losing ground, even though that ground might not have been yours in the first place. And the people who are kicking your ass, are doing so "on defense". But kicking your ass nonetheless.
The point is that right now Russia is not losing any ground. They're gaining it. That's not to say Ukraine can't regain the initiative, but to me it looks like they've played their cards and unless they can get considerably more weapons and training, and new tactics to counter Russian artillery in particular (as I pointed out before, the number of artillery pieces reported destroyed by Ukraine is pretty low), they'll continue to lose ground. And I don't think it's a linear process. Just like in Kharkiv and Kherson where Ukraine made large gains in a matter of days before frontlines stabilized, the Ukrainian defensive line might collapse and be pushed back a large distance almost overnight.
By that logic, Napoleon still had the initiative at Waterloo. Most people would disagree.
With the exception of barbos' posts, I have seen no indication that what you just said is happening.
It does not appear to me that Ukraine is trying to make progress on the battle front. The battle line favors the defense, Ukraine is taking advantage of that while focusing it's efforts on hollowing out the Russian forces so they can pull another breakthrough like the one they already pulled that caused the Russian lines to fall way back. Look what happened before--bypass the strong points, the troops retreat rather than get cut off and the retreat path becomes a shooting gallery.
Which means they are dictating the course and direction of the war. I've never been in the military, but I'm sure there's a word for that.
The mobilization is still going on. More troops are being sent to the front, with better training. I think Russian MoD itself said that about 140k or so of the 300k have been sent to the front. If true, then the other half is still on their way. And that's still short of the million or so that they are prepared to mobilize.
