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KYIV, June 16 (Reuters) - Advancing Ukrainian troops are facing "desperate resistance" from Russian forces around the eastern city of Bakhmut, and are inflicting big losses on Russian troops in the south, Ukrainian military chiefs said on Friday.

Reuters could not verify the battlefield situation. Russia has not officially acknowledged Ukrainian advances in the early stages of a counteroffensive, and said it had inflicted heavy losses on Kyiv's forces in the previous 24 hours.

Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi, who is in charge of Ukrainian ground forces, said the situation in the east was tense and Russia was bringing its best divisions into the Bakhmut sector with backup from artillery and aircraft.

"We continue to conduct offensive actions in separate directions, occupying dominant heights, and strips of forest with the aim of forcing the enemy gradually out of the outskirts of Bakhmut. Realising this, the enemy units put up desperate resistance," Syrskyi said on the Telegram messaging app.

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Syrskyi said Ukrainian forces were also advancing in the south. Kyiv said on Thursday it had regained control of about 100 square km (38 square miles) of territory in just over a week of its counteroffensive against Russian forces.


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Ukraine says Russia taking heavy losses in south, resisting near Bakhmut

Advancing Ukrainian troops are facing "desperate resistance" from Russian forces around the eastern city of Bakhmut, and are inflicting big losses on Russian troops in the south, Ukrainian military chiefs said on Friday.
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ThomasP said:
Although it is an evil way to think, people are currently easier for the Russians to replace than their more sophisticated equipment like aircraft, therefore it is better to conserve their air assets until needed and expend people in the fighting as long as possible/necessary. Evil but potentially effective if you have enough people - particularly in a war of attrition.
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Yes...until the cannon fodder wises up and realizes that they can revolt and overthrow the ones in charge.
 
manta22 said:
Yes...until the cannon fodder wises up and realizes that they can revolt and overthrow the ones in charge.
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That never works out for Russians, as they always jump from one tyrannical system to another just as bad or worse. Smarter Russians would have stayed with the Tsar post-WW1 and pushed for more powers for the Duma, a sort of Magna Carta for Russia, eventually bringing Russian into a constitutional monarchy.
 
GTX said:
www.abc.net.au

New 'jumping' explosives and booby-trapped toys. What Ukraine is facing as the world's most mined country

Ukraine is covered in more landmines, booby traps and unexploded ordnance than any other country in the world. As the conflict rages on, what resources and innovations will help the de-mining community tackle the issue?
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The POM-3 mine sounds like a modern version of the WWII German S-mine, which was known as the "Bouncing Betty" or "Frog".
 
About recent Putin's speech.
He said that they destroyed "five Patriot complexes" near Kyiv. "Complexes" means systems or groups of units in Russian. Well, he was almost correct - in number at least. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, at least six Patriot's PAC 2 or PAC 3 missiles were destroyed by incoming Kinzhals in the skies of the Kyiv region in one night.
 
WARSPITER said:
The question of ongoing maintenance becomes a large issue here. As pointed out, the build quality in the first place isn't the same standard as NATO
users would expect.

Given that, what is the lifetime of engines etc with the sorties already being flown as per Jabberwocky ? How reliable is the ability to replace or
repair the worn out / failed systems which must occur during use in normal flight, let alone combat ? In other words, how much of the Russian
force is being grounded each week / month just by being flown and how much can be refurbished to go back up ?

No idea of the quality of parts or actual build. Others here probably know.
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I think the parts quality is probably extremely variable. Everyone who ever knew a person who had a Lada car will attest to that some were treated like sh*t and went forever and others fell apart in "days". I knew one who ran his succesfully for years but the type went from none to common to almost none in a year in Aus

Certainly in my experience the Mil-8 aircraft parts may look agricultural but they are extremely well designed and trouble free but that does not mean any other types are. The Mil-17 has EASA certification with a single hydraulic flight control system whereas all other types need dual systems. That certification was based on many years operation without a single flight control hydraulic failure. The only non scheduled component change on the PNG Mil's was one engine driven fuel pump caused by fuel that failed the laboratory BOCLE test carried out post failure and component tear down. All the other pumps were changed as a precaution as they also had been operated on the same fuel.

Naturally these aircraft are civil so not operated as aggressively as mil aircraft
 
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Admiral Beez said:
That never works out for Russians, as they always jump from one tyrannical system to another just as bad or worse. Smarter Russians would have stayed with the Tsar post-WW1 and pushed for more powers for the Duma, a sort of Magna Carta for Russia, eventually bringing Russian into a constitutional monarchy.
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Dude, they deposed the Tsar because of WWI. "Staying with him afterwards" is the equivalent of setting off the scuttling charges, and then urging the crew to not abandon ship.

The Tsar was deposed and likely dead before the Bolsheviks signed Brest-Litovsk. Of course the Reds sent most of the intelligentsia to stay with him anyway ... courtesy of eleven grams of lead, or a gold mine in Kolyma, or the White Sea canal, or ...
 
Thumpalumpacus said:
Dude, they deposed the Tsar because of WWI.
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That Tsar, yes. But choose another rather than toss out the system.

Ditch Nicolas II and his hemophiliac son and have the praetorians appoint Duke Michael Alexandrovich as Tsar.

en.wikipedia.org

Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia - Wikipedia

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"Unlike his brother the Emperor, he proved a popular military leader."

"British consul Bruce Lockhart thought he "would have made an excellent constitutional monarch".
 
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