Ukraine faces mines and manpower challenges in offensive’s early weeks © Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
Washington Post: Ukraine faces mines and manpower challenges in offensive’s early weeks
Ukrainian forces are navigating giant minefields and mounting initial attacks on Russian positions along a sprawling front line, U.S. and Ukrainian officials said, as Kyiv takes the first, halting steps of what is expected to be a prolonged and punishing counteroffensive campaign.
Ukrainian officials say they have thus far reclaimed at least 130 square kilometers, or about 50 square miles, in the country’s south from Russian forces, which have spent months hardening fortifications and positioning reinforcements in their bid to protect territory seized since President Vladimir Putin’s 2022 invasion.
President Volodymyr Zelensky last week said that the offensive was moving “slower than desired” since it began this month, but that an operation against an adversary with a deeper arsenal and a far larger force shouldn’t be expected to unfold at an action-movie pace.
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WNU Editor: Even the Washington Post is admitting that after weeks of heavy fighting and heavy casualties only 130 square kilometers, or about 50 square miles, has been reclaimed. No mention from the Washington Post that the Ukraine army has not even reached the first line of three of fortification lines that the Russian military has set-up.
My contacts in Ukraine tell me that Ukraine has started a rush mobilization campaign to replace soldiers that have been killed or wounded in this counteroffensive. I shudder to think what the real casualty numbers must be for the Ukraine government to be forced to do this.
at end of Newsweek article..
ReplyDeleteStern reported from Kyiv, and Dixon reported from Riga, Latvia. Samantha Schmidt in Ukraine’s Donetsk region and Francesca Ebel in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, contributed to this report.
Which means none of them are probably at the front line. Kramatorsk certainly is not and the Donbas region? More likely in or near Kharkov.
Bottom line, no one has seen with there own eyes what is going on and they are getting all there news from "official sources"
Not exactly Ernie Pyle type news.
It shows, this article has some very significant misleading flaws in it.
It does not matter , it will fail. Even less room in the graveyards to come. A shame.
ReplyDeleteWill be fun when war comes for you.
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ReplyDeleteProbably the worst video I've seen so far.. Definite NSFW warning. Scores of men missing legs and feet. These minefields appear to be littered mere meters apart. Offensive action seems insane on the modern battlefield. I can't imagine we would tolerate this for our own troops for even a day before we start opening the silos.
Depending on how bad you want to break that line.......
ReplyDeleteThe problem is that they did not use enough men.
What? How can I say that?
Very easy
When you do not have enough artillery or air power to destroy obstacle belts
And, This is the current Ukrainian situation.
One of the default ways to punch thru a defense is to use mass wave attacks.
And I do not mean those "so called " mass wave attacks that "supposedly" happened this last year in the ukraine.
Which, by the way, I do not think happened, as there is no proof. If you have film clips , I would definitely like to see them.
BTW, The movement of a platoon of 30 men is not a Mass wave attack.
No, I am talking about mass wave attacks like the Chinese in Korea or the NVA attacks in Viet nam or the Japanese Banzai attack.
Such efforts like these can succeed. You keep pooring in men until the enemy runs out of ammo , the mines all get blown and the machine gun barrels melt.
The article also said one of the challenges is that the front lines run over 600k. That is bullshit. That is not a challenge, it is an advantage. Russians cannot defend or reinforce everywhere at once.
And the part in the article that the Ukrainians have to find the Russians weak points? that's CRAP
That is something you do before you attack and should been done weeks ago. (so that statement in the article is BS)
But they are now using this idea ( of gathering intel) to try to say their prior attacks (that failed), were only "probing attacks". Yea, sure
Now if these prior attacks would have broken through , they would have said....
OH! LOOK. OUR Offensive is going great!!
All bullshit.
You think mass wave attacks are nuts? I agree, yes it is. I am not advocating this tactic, I merely report what was done in the past.
And yes 11:04 The article is misleading.
@12:55
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Western volunteer at the the place of arrival in Kramatorsk says: "There’s soldiers under this rubble, all over"
fake war 666 4 u
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