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GTX said:
www.abc.net.au

US-trained Afghan commandos say Russia trying to recruit them to fight in Ukraine

Afghan special forces soldiers who fought alongside American troops and then fled to Iran after the chaotic US withdrawal last year are being recruited by Russia to fight in Ukraine, according to three former Afghan generals.
www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au
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This would rather be good news for the Ukrainians to fight such opponents, considering they ways they dropped theirs weapons instead of fighting to protect theirs women, daughters, mothers or sisters and leaving the Talibans take power.
 
vikingBerserker said:
www.telegraph.co.uk

Battalion of Russian mobilised men wiped out in days, survivors claim

The soldiers were sent to the frontline in Luhansk and their officers ran away, according to an unverified Verstka news agency report
www.telegraph.co.uk www.telegraph.co.uk
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If they ran away, my guess is that a 1Lt. said he had an idea and whipped out a map...

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at6 said:
I would hope that instead of entering Kherson, the Ukrainians would surround it and cut off all electricity and water to the city. Mean while they could concentrate of driving the Russians out of Ukraine.
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How thorough have the Russians been "evacuating" the citizens? That has to be a concern with the Ukrainian high command. Starving out a bunch of their own citizens could backfire hard.
 
Been watching a bunch of YT so be warned. Kherson has been looted clean. No power, no water. The city appears to be mostly empty of civilians. I'm thinking the orcs are going for a cauldron with Mobiks as live bait. Leave them cut off on the wrong side of the river. No one to free and nothing of value in Kherson, not enough to lose hundreds of irreplaceable Ukrainian lives. Whoever is left after it's been really cold for a while will probably be keen to surrender. Strike where it will really hurt the orcs. I'd love to see the AFU pull off an "island hopping" attack and hit 'em from Zaporizhzhia and some kind of amphibious assault. Using A-10s.
 
at6 said:
I would hope that instead of entering Kherson, the Ukrainians would surround it and cut off all electricity and water to the city. Mean while they could concentrate of driving the Russians out of Ukraine.
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Agreed. The Russians have clearly invested a lot of manpower and resources in building up the urban defences of Kherson. So, now's the time for the AFU to ignore Kherson and instead focus on taking intact the Dnieper crossing at the Nova Kakhovka dam, and then race the 90 km for Armiansk.
 
Russian forces have greatly depleted their arsenal of high-precision weapons systems and have suffered significant aviation losses and will likely struggle to maintain the current pace of the Russian military's coordinated campaign against Ukrainian critical infrastructure. Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces General Valeryi Zaluzhnyi stated on November 3 that Ukrainian forces have destroyed 278 aircraft compared to the Soviet Union's loss of 119 aircraft during 10 years of war in Afghanistan.[20] The United Kingdom Ministry of Defense (MoD) reported on November 7 that Russian forces are unlikely to replace these aviation losses in the next few months because they likely significantly outstrip Russian capacity to manufacture new airframes.[21] Ukrainian Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) representative Vadym Skitbitsky stated in a comment to the Economist on November 7 that Russian forces have used more than eighty percent of their modern missiles in the coordinated campaign to strike Ukrainian infrastructure and that Russian forces only have 120 Iskander missiles left.[22] ISW previously assessed that Russia has depleted its arsenal of high-precision weapon systems in its campaign against Ukrainian critical infrastructure, which is intended to degrade Ukrainian popular will (but is highly unlikely to succeed).[23] Ukrainian sources reported on November 7 that Ukrainian officials and engineers could restore power supplies to normal levels in a few weeks if the pace of Russian strikes on critical infrastructure dramatically slowed.[24] Skitbitsky also reported that Russian officials have reached an agreement with Iranian officials to purchase Fateh-110 and Zolfaghar ballistic missile systems.[25] ISW has previously assessed that Russian forces are increasingly reliant on Iranian-made weapon systems to support its coordinated strike campaign against Ukrainian critical infrastructure.[26]

Institute for the Study of War

This page collects ISW and CTP's updates on the conflict in Ukraine. In late February 2022, ISW began publishing daily synthetic products covering key events related to renewed Russian aggression against Ukraine.
www.understandingwar.org www.understandingwar.org
 
www.bbc.com

Putin allies who criticise Russia's war machine

The top brass have been sharply criticised over the war by Ramzan Kadyrov and Yevgeny Prigozhin.
www.bbc.com

The growing bromance between Kadyrov and Prigozhin is interesting, particularly since they reinforce each other's messages about Russian failures...and this despite Putin's ownership of "the message." Not sure how much influence the two have in reality but they're clearly being afforded a freedom that few others enjoy.
 
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