Russia-Ukraine Invasion
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"The russian leadership believes that Ukrainians aren’t a people, aren’t a nation. The kremlin’s gang of imperialists deluded themselves into thinking that the Ukrainians aren’t fighters, that russia has a godly mission to rule other Slavic people, and that these people long for mother russia’s domination. The russians even believed their own propaganda lies that Ukrainians are ruled by a handful of “drug-addicted Nazis under the control of Washington”. Accordingly, the russian military based its entire operational plan on the assumption that Ukrainians would welcome russian forces as liberators. (The details of the original russian invasion plan can be found here.)
The russians were confident that they would only fight small detachments of putin’s mythical “Ukrainian Nazis”, while a solid majority of Ukrainians would welcome and help the invaders. The russians were so confident about this that they didn’t provide maps of Ukraine to their troops. So far, no captured russian military vehicle contained a road map of Ukraine. russian troops even showed up at Ukrainian police stations asking for fuel and directions, expecting the police officers to help them. (They were arrested).
The russians also collected their troops’ mobile phones to ensure operational secrecy and withhold the truth of the brutality of the invasion from their own soldiers. This deprived the russians troops of all online map apps and left russian formations below battalion commanders unable to find their way in Ukraine. Ukrainians immediately compounded these problems by removing all road signs or replacing them with insults directed at the russians. As a result, scores of videos have appeared showing lost russian soldiers abandoning their vehicles after their fuel has been exhausted.
Even more astonishing, the russians were so sure of Ukrainian support that they brought just enough fuel and food for the initial push, assuming that Ukrainian forces and cities would switch sides and refuel and feed the invaders.The russians were also fantasizing about their supply convoys driving across Ukraine without the need of a covering force. A perfect example of this mix of stupidity and hubris is the russian advance to Mykolaiv. On day 2 of the war the russians sent a VDV paratrooper regiment from Novoozerne in Crimea to Mykolaiv. The unit crossed the Dnieper over the Kakhovka river dam and bypassed the city of Kherson. Shortly after the the paratroopers’ BMD vehicles ran out of fuel in sight of Mykolaiv. Now, the paratroopers only supply line runs through the choke point at the Kakhovka river dam, which Ukrainian forces continue to attack, making it difficult for the russians to send supplies forward.
The russian stupidity doesn’t end there. The supply line to Mykolaiv runs by the city of Kherson, which russia mistakenly assumed would throw itself into putin’s arms on day 2 of the war. Nothing of the sort happened and so the russian supply for Mykolaiv needs to drive for 18 km in machine gun, NLAW and Javelin range past Kherson. Only today the russian managed to bring additional forces from Crimea to Kherson and are currently trying to storm the city, with the russian troops deployed there so famished that they immediately set out to plunder the local supermarkets."
- Could it be that the Russian generals did not expect that Putin would get a sudden whim to invade, it all seems badly planneddrgs
- Made me a little sick reading the end of that article link - to force a coup of putin, ukraine+allies need to slaughter russia's hapless military solders.shapesalad
- Pawns on a chess board...shapesalad
- One made makes a decision. Many men fall.shapesalad
- *one manshapesalad