I assume it was the people that wanted to rejoin, but the corrupt neo-Nazi politicians were preventing it.
Well now they’re fighting Satanists. Putin’s next group is going to be the lizard people from outer space.
This guy is seriously deranged.
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Why didn’t he just go there first, when they were just getting a claw hold? Now they’re going be much harder to scrape off the wall.
It’s official.
Sounds plausible to this landlubber.
Nano-drones:
I know very little about drones-how would those be used by Ukraine?
Reconnaissance, to see behind obstacles and so on.
They’d be great for urban environments. See what’s around corners, behind structures or perched on rooftops. Probably just in time for the house to house, building to building fighting that awaits in Kherson city.
That includes precisely locating the enemy while in combat. There are videos of trench warfare with the Ukrainian and Russian soldiers only ten meters apart. An overhead drone can provide a bird’s eye view to the soldiers on the ground, allowing them to throw grenades at the enemy more precisely.
They can also enter and explore buildings, so long as they don’t encounter a closed door or window.
Or a guy with a tennis racket.
That’s the great part of urban combat though, there’s not many intact windows. And not so many doors, either.
Who needs a guy?
A drone that small can also easily fly inside a building, which might be useful for examining structures for boody-traps at minimal risks to humans. Among other things.
Five weeks after Putin announces a ‘partial mobilization’, we begin to get a clearer picture of results on the ground.
Russian Losses Fueled by New Units Untrained in ‘Basic’ Weaponry: Ukraine (msn.com)
An online search shows lots of anecdotal evidence that training of newly mobilized Rus. troops to date has been disastrous. I’m wondering if the world is missing out on substantial amounts of proper or appropriate training that’s going on? Those stories wouldn’t make for interesting news, but it doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. Are the plentiful tales of all the unsuitable inductees and horrible training conditions news because they focus on exceptional newsworthy disasters, or taken in the aggregate does it paint a picture of what’s generally going on in Russia?
Perhaps Putin ascribes to spray and pray automatic weapon fire methodology?
Except Russian forces are poorly supplied.
The Russian NCO’s must be furious at the daily screw ups by under trained troops and unmotivated soldiers. Tanks running over equipment or wandering into mine fields. Supply Trucks dying on the road because someone drained the oil.
It’s has to be a shit show that mobilization made worse.
I have to wonder how many of these there are by now.
Contract troops, who were the majority of the skilled NCO corps, were the first into the meat grinder. It’s possible that conscript privates are being led by untrained conscript corporals and by green lieutenants.
Have y’all seen this article? Reuters got access to an abandoned Russian base and the thousands of documents left behind, and here’s their special report on what they learned. I’m just getting into it now, but it makes for fascinating and horrifying reading.