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2021-04-14 Europe

Ukraine's Unconventional Warfare Plan To Resist A Russian Invasion

[Koffee Company] KYIV, Ukraine — Should Russia invade, a national network of Ukrainian irregular military units is prepared to wage a protracted, guerrilla resistance campaign.

Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces comprise about 100,000 reservists and civilian volunteers assigned to 25 brigades scattered across the country — at least one unit is assigned to each of Ukraine’s 24 regions, or oblasts. These unconventional forces fall under the Ukrainian military’s chain of command.

With the Russian military massing on its frontiers, Ukraine has activated the Territorial Defense Forces in its southern regions. According to Ukraine’s armed forces, those units conducted exercises along the Black Sea coastline and the border with Russian-occupied Crimea to resist an amphibious landing force and "to combat subversive-reconnaissance groups and other hostile forces and irregular armed formations."

Ukrainian Operational Command South — which includes the Vinnytsya, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, Odesa, and Kherson oblasts — controls five territorial defense brigades. Each of those units is tasked to defend its respective regional territory and impede the advance of a Russian invasion force so that regular Ukrainian units have more time to maneuver. In theory, the territorial defense brigades can mobilize for combat within one to two days.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-04-14 08:30|| || Front Page|| [18 views ] Top

#1 A nice idea for activating the civilian militia.
How will it stand up to advancing armor?

Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-14 13:29|| 2021-04-14 13:29|| Front Page Top

#2 prepared to wage a protracted, guerrilla resistance campaign

Posted by Phavimp Smith9261 2021-04-14 13:42|| 2021-04-14 13:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Like they did in 1920es & after 1945?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-14 14:27|| 2021-04-14 14:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Seems like they did this during the Crimea snatch.

IIRC, only one commander ended up being effective and they went and arrested him for conducting war in the Olde Style, instead of the new way of giving up their location by dinking on their phones then catching artillery.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-04-14 14:51|| 2021-04-14 14:51|| Front Page Top

#5

Not too well, especially since Biden won't send them any anti-tank missiles.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-04-14 16:08|| 2021-04-14 16:08|| Front Page Top

#6 How will it stand up to advancing armor?

Should have previewed that previous comment. Dunno what happened to the part that was supposed to be italicized.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-04-14 16:11|| 2021-04-14 16:11|| Front Page Top

#7 The Ukraine situation was used to get at Trump. I really don't care what happens there.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-04-14 17:33|| 2021-04-14 17:33|| Front Page Top

#8 Can it be arranged so everyone named Vindman dies there?

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-04-14 17:35|| 2021-04-14 17:35|| Front Page Top

#9 I think Russia has claimed that their occupation of the Crimea and eastern Ukraine is to protect ethnic Russians.

As bad as this claim is, there is little ethnic Russian presence in central and western Ukraine.

Posted by Lord Garth 2021-04-14 17:40|| 2021-04-14 17:40|| Front Page Top

#10 Well is the Ukraine going to conduct a tactical, strategic , or phycological campaign against the Russian or a combo job of all three. Photo's of dead children can hurt diplomatic relations for Russia, How much pain are the Russians willing to put up with for a warm water port ?

Posted by Phinetch Wherese4624 2021-04-14 18:01|| 2021-04-14 18:01|| Front Page Top

#11 What business is it of ours?
Anyone?
Bueller?

Posted by Eohippus Omarong9066 2021-04-14 20:50|| 2021-04-14 20:50|| Front Page Top

#12 Theory is to stop the fire while it is small so it doesn't get too big to stop later.

Posted by These Forkbeard7574 2021-04-14 21:04|| 2021-04-14 21:04|| Front Page Top

#13 The Gas Princess is pretty much quiet nowadays.

Posted by Clem 2021-04-14 21:11|| 2021-04-14 21:11|| Front Page Top

#14 Theory is to stop the fire while it is small so it doesn't get too big to stop later.

Reality is there is no threat to Western Europe, or to Eastern Europe, but only an internecine former USSR squabble between Russia and another one of the former Soviet republics.

This one happens to be roughly 40/60 Russian and non-Russian (though Slavic and 100% Russian-speaking along with the native tongue that's almost indistinguishable from Russian).

If we intervene in this affair in Russia's backyard, we will have reached the ultimate in globalist hubristic stupidity.

And Putin will wrong-foot us again, just as he wrong-footed Soetoro the Fool again and again and again.

Posted by Angorong Photle7927 2021-04-14 21:48|| 2021-04-14 21:48|| Front Page Top

#15 If we intervene in this affair in Russia's backyard, we will have reached the ultimate in globalist hubristic stupidity.

That point was reached when Plugs and Kam became president and VP.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-04-14 21:50|| 2021-04-14 21:50|| Front Page Top

#16 Re: #11 /\ B, was that you?

Posted by Clem 2021-04-14 21:59|| 2021-04-14 21:59|| Front Page Top

#17 No.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-04-14 23:26|| 2021-04-14 23:26|| Front Page Top

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