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| 'How I attacked this summer': what the Armed Forces of Ukraine managed to achieve |
| 2023-09-03 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by David Narmania [RIA] In autumn, in our latitudes, it is customary to take stock. Moreover, there is a reason: the third month of the Ukrainian counter-offensive is coming to an end. It was expected to start in the winter, but it did not happen: the APU was waiting for Western equipment. They waited in the spring - the thaw and the fall of the Bakhmut Fortress were added to the lack of tanks. Summer came, and on June 4, General Zaluzhny moved his regiments forward. And now we can state that the Ukrainian army cannot achieve any significant success at the front. And it would be fine if this "can't" meant the postscript "without meat assaults." But no. Can't even with them. Moreover, judging by what the Armed Forces of Ukraine demonstrated, the military genius of the Kyiv military leaders boils down to meat assaults. At first, they really tried to use what they were taught in the West, and wanted to break through to the Russian positions on the armor. But this tactic had to be abandoned: it turned out that Western technology - even the newest of the samples delivered to Kiev - is no better than domestic, and in some respects it is completely inferior to it. Especially in the form in which the Armed Forces of Ukraine received it: some of the equipment was removed from it so that it would not go to the Russian troops for study. And when the world was shown footage clearly demonstrating the vulnerability of the vaunted "Leopards" and "Bradley", on Bankova Street, scratching their heads, they decided to abandon their active use so as not to set up sponsors from Europe and the USA . The advertisement for Western arms concerns came out painfully unconvincing - with such a picture, they cannot sell an elephant. Therefore, the infantry will act independently. Technique is Western. And the infantry is its own, native, Ukrainian. She won't be caught idly through the streets. There is someone to saturate the thinned ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In the bottom line, the results of the counteroffensive can be summarized as follows: one and a half villages in the foreground of the Russian defense moved into the gray zone, but the Ukrainians themselves cannot gain a foothold there either. Firstly, only the names on the map remained of them - so they were battered by artillery from both sides. Secondly, they are also located in the lowlands, and any troops there are a convenient target for howitzers, self-propelled guns, MLRS and Solntsepekov. And here it is important to note something important: the Ukrainian command emphasizes that the "partners from NATO " themselves would never have decided on an offensive operation in such conditions. There is neither vital air superiority, nor the ability to suppress Russian artillery, nor operational space for breaking through the front - the Russian command drew conclusions from the course of the campaign and prepared for the strike, building a powerful line of defensive lines. The Ukrainian generals are telling the truth here, but this is the key advantage of the West in this conflict: by investing in it financially and technically, you can insure yourself against human losses. Well, don't worry about the Ukrainians! Nevertheless, the bet that was made on Bankovaya did not work, and the promises to walk along the Yalta embankment in the summer, or at least reach the Crimea, remained a shaking of the air. All the steam of the Ukrainian counteroffensive went off the whistle. And the account of the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine already goes to tens of thousands only over the past summer. But since it can take a long time to demand fighters from the West, and you need to attack yesterday, you have to compensate for the lack of military leadership talent and military equipment with an abundance of mobilization resources. Hence Zelensky's statements that the military command wants to mobilize more people. The problem is that those who can hold a weapon in their hands, but have not yet received it, are becoming less and less every day. And here we recall the recent decision of the Ukrainian president - after a year and a half of the conflict, to dismiss all regional military commissars. Allegedly for bribery. Logical questions, where the relevant authorities have been looking all this time, are preferred to be ignored in Kyiv. And then you start to answer - and even more uncomfortable moments will come out along the chain. In any investigation, as you know, it is important not to go out on yourself. Instead, it is better, as Zelensky's spokesman Fyodor Venislavsky said recently , to cancel the deferment from mobilization for those who receive a second higher education. Why does Mykola need books when there is a machine gun? Salt of a situation that it will not solve a problem. To achieve a radical change in the state of affairs at the front, Kyiv must offer something revolutionary for this conflict, not only for the success of the counteroffensive, but at least for changing the status quo. Indeed, for now, one gets the feeling that time is working for Russia - it has not even come close to that stage of lack of resources for existence, in which Ukraine has long been . The survival of the Kyiv regime is completely outsourced. The only question is how long Western sponsors will pay for the work of the life support apparatus for an already dead state. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 I found this interesting (if only due to accent) guy on youtube |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-09-03 14:13 |
| #1 The important thing, they run out of conscripts and are starting to waste their elite (ideologically solid [mostly Gallician]) units. Vlad promised to deNazify Ukraine, Vlad delivers. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-09-03 02:45 |