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2022-03-02 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Ukrainian ministry of defense Combat Summary

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Posted by badanov 2022-03-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 supposedly there is a 30 or 40 km convoy of Russian and Belarus troops and equipment just north of Kiev but the convoy is stopped or moving slowly

this would seem to make the convoy a pretty easy target if Ukraine could get them close enough with good weapons

Posted by Lord Garth 2022-03-02 00:15|| 2022-03-02 00:15|| Front Page Top

#2 The Finns had a solution for that - Motti

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-03-02 07:26|| 2022-03-02 07:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Reminds me of Transvaal & Orange Free State c. 1900, similar power mismatch but with modern weapons.

Posted by Glenmore 2022-03-02 10:10|| 2022-03-02 10:10|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ Ja Glen, anders dag, presies dieselfde kak. :-(

(same shi* different day)

Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-02 10:57|| 2022-03-02 10:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Your American press is so full of lies and bullshit

The BBC's own correspondent in Mariupol, Joel M. Gunter, reports now the truth. Russia's about to complete its takeover of Mariupol between Donbas and Krym

the deputy Mayor of Mariupol told Gunter this:

"The Russian forces are several kilometres away on all sides. The Ukrainian army is brave and they will continue to defend the city, but Russia does not fight with their army, they just destroy districts.

“We believe in our Ukrainian army, but we are in a terrible situation.”

BBC reporter summarizes
Full story live on Ukraine developments
- Russian forces claim control of key port city and surround others
- heavy bombardment of residential districts
- fears of humanitarian crisis in Mariupol
- Zelensky says Russia is trying to ‘erase’ Ukrainians

https://mobile.twitter.com/joelmgunter/status/1499028802772557827?cxt=HHwWhoCzlaCwz80pAAAA

Posted by Snusomble Schwarzeneggar4936 2022-03-02 10:58|| 2022-03-02 10:58|| Front Page Top

#6 /\ Your American press is so full of lies and bullshit

Appreciate the update.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-02 11:04|| 2022-03-02 11:04|| Front Page Top

#7 Your American press is so full of lies and bullshit

Obviously a new ~~reader~~ poster to Rantburg.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-03-02 11:14|| 2022-03-02 11:14|| Front Page Top

#8 "Longtime poster, first time reader"

Posted by Frank G 2022-03-02 11:17|| 2022-03-02 11:17|| Front Page Top

#9 If you want to get truth about what's happening and about to happen you have to go east for reporting and analysis .. asiatimes.com for example

Nothing printed in the American press now has any credibility or connection to ground truth

Posted by Bob Bumble7598 2022-03-02 11:20|| 2022-03-02 11:20|| Front Page Top

#10 Noobs! In the real world, signals need to be conditioned and filtered to yield usable data. Same thing in the political world.

Posted by SteveS 2022-03-02 11:26|| 2022-03-02 11:26|| Front Page Top

#11 More bullshit ... ridiculous estimates about the daily cost to Russia of the war effort. Asiatimes military expert sources put that at less than $500 million, not "billions." Even if half its $630 billion in reserves were frozen, Russia can easily afford this

Asiatimes.com:
"Russia’s low-cost war can endure Western sanctions: Ukraine operation costs under $500 million daily and data shows martial Moscow is prepared to pay a high blood price"

Posted by Shuter Turkeyneck3853 2022-03-02 11:46|| 2022-03-02 11:46|| Front Page Top

#12 ...Russia’s low-cost war can endure Western sanctions: Ukraine operation costs under $500 million daily and data shows martial Moscow is prepared to pay a high blood price"

^^^^
Do you actually think after the fighting stops, that the former economic conditions with the rest of the world will resume? Your bought serious economic and cultural disconnections, and a worse assessment of the character of Russia as a thuggish kleptocracy, for a very long time Ivan!,

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-03-02 12:12|| 2022-03-02 12:12|| Front Page Top

#13 All the bankers and economists can see what's coming
End of dollar dominance. So obvious.
Probably move toward a gold standard like what happened after British sterling was knocked off its perch after World War One

Guess who has lots of gold
and tons of other precious metals

Does your president have any idea what the fuck he is doing?

We understand you hate Russia but why tell China and India that they need to work hard and quickly end their exposure to US dollar blackmail?

Do your leaders have a head on their shoulders?

Posted by Hupaise Shinert7515 2022-03-02 12:18|| 2022-03-02 12:18|| Front Page Top

#14 How's the weather in St. Petersburg, trolls?

Posted by Nero 2022-03-02 12:23|| 2022-03-02 12:23|| Front Page Top

#15 Trolls - LOL

when will you depose your cretin president and save yourselves and your economy?

why are you defending his madness? are you related to him, or just masochist?

Posted by Uleck Johnson4541 2022-03-02 12:35|| 2022-03-02 12:35|| Front Page Top

#16 If you're counting on Sleepy Joe to save your army and the ruble, you are pretty far gone in fantasy. Better you take action closer to home and dump Pootie before he brings the whole house down around your ears.

Posted by Nero 2022-03-02 12:38|| 2022-03-02 12:38|| Front Page Top

#17 Y'all all say this bullshit as if we don't despise Biden to begin with and think he's an appeasing piece of #### who's probably on Putin's payroll.

"But don't you care about the Holy Dollar?"

Well, the Holy Dollar is one of the things thta made them think they could replace the American oilfield with Russian oil and helped fund the current invasion. It's one of the reasons we haen't been able to talk about things to the eco-commu-nazis here. So fuck it.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-03-02 13:03|| 2022-03-02 13:03|| Front Page Top

#18 Several of those Turkish Drones would come in handy. IEDs on their approach routes? NLAW and Javelin small unit ambushes, with Stinger to cover vs helis and aircraft?

All kinds of irregular warfare stuff can be done with what they have in place.

Route clearance is going to be very important for Russian forces.

Sad thing is, Ukraine has no way of winning this militarily. They are getting their cities rubbled and their infrastructure blown up. All they can do is force the invaders to pay more in blood and equipment. It comes down to how bloody minded Putin is.

Putin's dug in like a tick, paranoid as hell from all indications, and likely going mad in his isolation with all those "long table" photos.

I do wonder if he is getting the full truth? I know I would NOT want to be the one to bring him the casualties and equipment loss reports.

Too bad we cannot get a Tom Clancy Red Storm Rising ending for Putin.

Posted by Chealing Chomotle4158 2022-03-02 13:03|| 2022-03-02 13:03|| Front Page Top

#19 Your American press is so full of lies and bullshit

Can't disagree with him on that point...

Posted by Glenmore 2022-03-02 13:11|| 2022-03-02 13:11|| Front Page Top

#20 All you had to do was tell Zelensky to sit down shut up and accept Putin's reasonable terms.

Now Putin and Russia will get what he and Russia asked for (you know Mariupol's about to fall don't you?) but after thousands of people were killed

Posted by Blackbeard Black9908 2022-03-02 13:16|| 2022-03-02 13:16|| Front Page Top

#21 Both sides of this war are centrally controlled from a place that resides above the sovereignty of nations but with the collaboration and participation of the traitors in the CIA FBI and the thousands of ivil servants at the very top of the global power structure of our government As such:

This is all a part of the great-reset/global-enslavement plan. Think of the Hegelian Dialectic - the controllers creating a deliberate problem, to get a preplanned reaction, in order to implement a preplanned solution - as a slicing pendulum blade. Now think of the back and forth between the beats of the fabricated pandemic and the beats of the newly fabricated war as that blade cutting our freedom to shreds.

With each new crisis comes a new restriction and with each new restriciton our freedom shrinks a little and government grows a little.

This is the problem--reaction--solution Hagelian Dialectic working as designed, and all of the problems and solutions are a pantomime play , none of this is organic. And as a result, by the end we will all be slaves in a panopticon prison planet. ...Unless we stop them. Mass civil servants arrests and executions has to be the only solution at this point.

Posted by Ichnusa aka BIAFOD 2022-03-02 14:20|| 2022-03-02 14:20|| Front Page Top

#22 When determining the cost is anyone using the current Ruble value?

Posted by ruprecht 2022-03-02 14:50|| 2022-03-02 14:50|| Front Page Top

#23 been a long time since I read anything that took Hegel's Philosophy of History seriously. IMO, his theory is over 95% nonsense.

But if you accept Hegel's theory you should remember that he thought that America (maybe North, maybe South) would be the world leader after the German leadership era. He also thought the final stages of world history would combine political and individual freedom.

Posted by Lord Garth 2022-03-02 15:58|| 2022-03-02 15:58|| Front Page Top

#24 his theory is over 95% nonsense.

"If you think you have understood what I said, then I have not made myself clear."

Posted by SteveS 2022-03-02 17:34|| 2022-03-02 17:34|| Front Page Top

#25 ^ Heh

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