The Russians can’t even cross a fucking River. 3 times they’ve failed. Keep trying fuckers.
Ukraine claims to have attacked Russian troops as they attempted to cross the Siversky Donets river.
www.bbc.com
utterly piss poor Military skills. If this is the plan they need to fire their planners right now.
Opposed river crossings are hard. Ukraine has it's act together with artillery, that makes obstacles such as rivers very hard.
Now you're speaking my language! So, it's possible to stand up a bridge in... Maybe 15-20 minutes with a well-trained platoon and good bridging equipment. None of that is very easy when getting shelled.
And for impermanent bridges and wider rivers, it may just not be possible: if they can shell the bridge ends, at the abutments, impermanent bridges will just be blown to pieces.
They could also put a RECORDED! Minefield at the river bank and then dig it up when the conflict is over. Good luck getting anything bigger than personnel across after that!
I'm pretty sure Russia skimps on engineer operations, equipment, and training because it is not aggressive or flashy.
The result is... Well, river crossings that end
like this. And there is no way to get conscripts to perform well as army engineers; there's just no investment.
There are a number of ways the Russian army can get across that river, but mum's the word. It's funny watching them fail and I don't want to change that trend!