I read those ammo dumps, that went boom this week, had been in the same places since 2015. Wonder what arrived this week with the range to hit them? HIMARS?
Read the same article. The UAF drones dropping anti-tank grenades are more effective than the switchblades plus reusable. Another story I came across is UAF is stripping Bayraktar frames of all the fancy electronics and any transmission ability, as that is what’s being tracked via radio telemetry, and putting just a basic gps navigation control in them with a set target programmed in making them into kamikaze drones which are what are hitting stuff deep in RU territory like yesterday’s oil refinery. The stealth still works when the electronic signature tells get turned off. The electronic signatures are why UAF doesn’t think Grey Eagle drones will be of much value when AA assets haven’t been knocked out.
With more thought, I’m guessing it means UKR numbers are fairly accurate and a lot of phantom troops on payrolls had to become KIA when the rest of their units were.
Great opportunity to purge everyone associated with Putin by showing the people everything they’ve been told about the special operation is a complete lie.
Need to find the article about how 19th century wars lead to the coal overtaking wood and the rise of the steam engine came from war not the industrial revolution, WWI lead the change from coal to oil and internal combustion engines over steam engines, WWII gave us nuclear power, and the article then predicted Putin’s war on Ukraine would be the big change agent for renewable energy so that nations can be independent of fossil fuel exporters. It was written before EU banning, last week or so, the sales of ICE vehicles starting in 2035. EU combined is a bigger economy than the US, making it as an aggregate second to China, and China is already going big into renewables as they have to import a lot of the fossil fuel they use.
Which gets back to the theory that the complete collapse of RUF will happen before anyone tells Putin it could happen as no one wants to take a 5 story fall out of a basement window.
Week isn’t anywhere near long enough but I like the strategy of going into Crimea instead of up the Azov coastline to cut off Crimea supply lines reducing RU to only one way to resupply. That would also pretty much force pulling most troops out of Donbas to protect Crimea. Lose control of the Kerch Straight and taking Mariupol was all for not. If land resupply to Sevastopol is severed can Putin’s regime survive?
I believe the troops that surrendered were well documented by the Red Cross. What RU is saying about the prisoners, for domestic consumption, and what they will actually did are likely different.
This up until RU screwed themselves by obviously screwing with UKR grain and making it clear RU intends to control food supply to North Africa and the Middle East to control those areas. Europe is still dealing with aftermath of mass emigration, due to famine, from those areas. RU and UKR combined is about 25% of world’s grain supply. The grain as a weapon play was when the anti-ship missiles and HIMARs flood gates opened to UKR. There was no longer a let RU bog down for 20 years a la in Afghanistan option after that.