"All of Vlad's forces and all of Vlad's men, are out to put Humpty together again." (4 Viewers)

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These are not the actions of a military where things are going well. Personally it reminds me a bit of Hitler's stomach battalions.
For an army that's apparently on the ropes, the Russians continue to hold back the technologically superior Ukrainians. The latter of which have regained about 100 sqkm since Jan 2023 notwithstanding inflicting about 1/2 a million casualties. Until Ukraine has a viable strategy to overcome the Suvorkin Line, it doesn't really matter how many losses Russia takes.
 
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Until Ukraine has a viable strategy to overcome the Suvorkin Line, it doesn't really matter how many losses Russia takes.
It certainly does matter.

Russian losses can only go on for so long before triggering one event or another.
Civil unrest is growing at home, soldiers are going AWOL, all the while troops are being killed in absurd numbers, lowering moral to incredible lows.

Now that Putin is pulling the Volkssturm card, the public will not be happy.
 
It certainly does matter.
I hope you're right. But so far.... Ukrainian forces kill over 1,000 Russian soldiers and destroy 19 artillery systems over past 24 hours

Details: The total combat losses of the Russian forces between 24 February 2022 and 13 February 2024 are estimated to be as follows [figures in parentheses represent the latest losses – ed.]:
  • approximately 397,080 (+1090) military personnel;
  • 6,424 (+8) tanks;
  • 12,004 (+27) armoured combat vehicles;
  • 9,500 (+19) artillery systems;
  • 981 (+0) multiple-launch rocket systems;
  • 667 (+1) air defence systems;
  • 332 (+0) fixed-wing aircraft;
  • 325 (+0) helicopters;
  • 7,332 (+30) strategic and tactical UAVs;
  • 1,882 (+0) cruise missiles;
  • 24 (+0) ships and boats;
  • 1 (+0) submarines;
  • 12,623 (+24) vehicles and tankers;
  • 1,518 (+4) special vehicles and other equipment.
And yet Ukraine remains on the defensive, waiting for the next Wunderwaffe from NATO. I hope these huge losses for Russia are masking a coming collapse of the Russian forces that the Ukrainians can exploit, presumably after Nov 2024 when US support for 2025 can be reliably measured.
 
The Ukrainians are still in the process of receiving aid both from previous U.S. packages as well as from European sources.

Aid to Ukraine has not stopped. The issue of running low on ammunition means that the Ukrainians are using their ordnance faster than previous aid packages accounted for, but the results of that ordnance expenditure speaks for itself in the long list of Russian losses.

Ukraine may be currently on the defensive, but this is likened to a boxing match between two dissimilar fighters, one a heavyweight and the other a welterweight.

The welterweight cannot hope to take out the heavyweight blow for blow, so he's using his lighter weight in keeping mobile, wearing down his heavyweight opponent, while taking opportunities to land blows when the opening presents itself.

Russia simply cannot stay in the ring at this pace.
 
+1 converted submarine joining the Moskva
 

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