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Jabberwocky said:
There's a qualitative difference between destroying a thing and shooting down a manned aircraft.
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He disagrees!

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Currently reading n interesting book, "The Bear Went Over the Mountain" Lester W. Grau - Soviet combat unit 1st person accounts from Soviet Officer Corps of operations in Afghanistan.
Produced by the FRUNTZ Officer Advanced Training Acdemy,Moscow; translated and repubed, US Army College, Fort Leavenworth. KA. Forward.Col. David Klantz.
In true Communist style, criticism is the style, with comments at the end of each vignette.
In Afghanistan, the Soviets repeatedly made the same kind of mistakes that we are seeing now.
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michaelmaltby said:
Currently reading n interesting book, "The Bear Went Over the Mountain" - Soviet combat unit 1st person accounts from Soviet Officer Corps of operations in Afghanistan.
Produced by the FREM Officer Advanced Training Acdemy,Moscow; translated and repubed, US Army College, Fort Leavenworth. KA. Forward.Col. David Klantz.
In true Communist style, criticism is the style, with comments at the end of each vignette.
In Afghanistan, the Soviets repeatedly made the same kind of mistakes that we are seeing now.
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Is it a mistake if it's doctrine?
Or just poorly executed?
 
KYIV, March 29 (Reuters) - Ukraine struck a railway depot and knocked out power in the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol, deep behind the front line, on Wednesday amid growing talk from Kyiv of a counterassault against Russian forces worn out by a failed winter offensive.

Unverified images on the internet showed explosions lighting up the night sky with streaks of contrails in Melitopol, base of the occupation administration in Zaporizhzhia, one of five Ukrainian provinces Russia claims to have annexed.


Ukraine's exiled mayor of the city confirmed that there were explosions there. Russia's state TASS news agency, citing Moscow-installed officials, said a railway depot was destroyed and power knocked out to the city and nearby villages.

Melitopol, with a pre-war population of around 150,000, is a railway logisitics hub for Russian forces in southern Ukraine and part of the land bridge linking Russia to the occupied Crimea peninsula.

www.reuters.com

Ukraine hits Russian-held city deep behind front as talk of counteroffensive grows

Ukraine struck a railway depot and knocked out power in the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol, deep behind the front line, on Wednesday amid growing talk from Kyiv of a counterassault against Russian forces worn out by a failed winter offensive.
www.reuters.com www.reuters.com
 
This doesn't come as a surprise...but the level of detail is interesting.

www.bbc.com

Russian spies more effective than army, say experts

Russia's intelligence services have had more success in Ukraine than its army, says a top think tank.
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Russia was very successful in fomenting crises in eastern Ukraine and Crimea to expand Russian influence and, in the latter case, enable a complete take-over. That same approach simply wasn't working in other parts of Ukraine, hence the need for the invasion. I find it interesting that the FSB asked for the invasion to be delayed but Putin pressed ahead anyway.
 
RogerdeLluria said:
Interesting, russia claims destruction of a non-existant GLSDB that was suposedly launched from a HIMARS that Rusia already claimed to be destroyed (several times).
gagadget.com

Russian defence ministry announces destruction of non-existent US GLSDB missile with 150km launch range

The Russian Ministry of Defence has announced the successful interception of a Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb (GLSDB). But there is a nuance.
gagadget.com gagadget.com
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Sounds like an ex-president we've all heard spew crap!
 
I found these comments interesting.

British military intelligence said on Wednesday the Ukrainians had successfully pushed the Russians back from the main supply route to Bakhmut and Russian assaults in the city were lessening.

This past week Moscow also unleashed a new attack on Avdiivka, a smaller city further south. Britain said that too had failed to make gains, while leading to huge losses in Russian armour.

"They're conducting combat operations right now in Bakhmut primarily. It's probably about 6,000 or so actual mercenaries and maybe another 20 or 30,000 recruits that they get, many of whom come from prisons," Milley told the House Armed Services Committee alongside US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. "And they are suffering an enormous amount of casualties in the Bakhmut area; the Ukrainians are inflicting a lot of death and destruction on these guys."
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The head of the Russian private military company, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said in an audio message earlier Wednesday that the battle for the city "has already practically destroyed the Ukrainian army," but added that Wagner has "been pretty battered" as well.

If Prigozhin has admitted that the Wagner forces have been battered, then they almost certainly have taken serious damage
 
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