Is this more proof of the UA being able to adapt tactics on the fly to cope with areas of enemy superiority in terms of fire power?
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I think back to the strike inside Russia by two Ukrainian Hind gunships. Ukraine watched, learnt, looked for weaknesses and planned. Then when Russia was overconfident and let down their guard, they snuck two gunships between the air defence systems and blew up a base. It has that feel.
I don’t know how they did this, but they’ll have watched strike packages of aircraft running at the border a dozen times a day for about 2 months. Russia doesn’t innovate quickly, so their pattern probably became predictable.
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Grenades, C4, everything is more dramatic in hollywood. TNT or other high explosives don’t produce a very visible flash - very hard to see in daylight. Large amounts yes .
The ammo usage is high; however, it is part of the suppression of the enemy by fire. That’s what a light or medium machine gun should be doing but some times they are out or in bad position and you need to use your rifle to cover your squad mates. You need enough fire to keep the enemy’s heads down - full auto is a waste, burst of 3 or 4 rounds at appropriate intervals is ideal. The last thing you want is blowing through the 4 or 6 mags they carry just before your teammate is moving. At full auto you blow through a mag in about 2sec or less (30 rnd mag).
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When the counteroffensive does get into full swing, l can see large numbers of RU soldiers preferring to surrender rather than face a tank firing at them from under 50m.
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Today’s Katz:
May 14 Türkiye chooses a president | Can Erdogan lose (English subtitles)
The English subtitles are now complete although above title was not yet actually translated.
Content admits that Turkish opposition controls most cities and can win the Presidential election in contrast to Russian autocracy but ignores the actual history of defeat of the previous military dominated Kemalist regime opening up far more democratic space than existed earlier.
Instead of actually analysing the complex multi-faceted struggle embroiling the Kurds, the various Arab autocracies and the Arab spring, in which the West, far more than Turkey, accommodated Putin and the Arab autocracies uniting with Assad against the Syrian people Katz repeats ludicrous fairy tales about Erdogan supporting Daesh and even welcomes the moves towards reconciliation with Assad promoted by the opposition instead of denouncing Erdogan for shifting in that direction.
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When two countries go to war, sometimes it’s difficult to identify either as following a moral path as war tends to be a complicated mass of immorality, but here’s an attempt.
Feel free to add, delete or modify the list. It is difficult to provide a balanced ethical account when our information sources are biased towards our preferred outcome.
- Who started the war? This war is being fought in Ukraine, hence Russia is the invader and Ukraine is defending it’s nation. Russia started the military phase of this war. Ukraine chose not to surrender.
- What are they fighting for?Governments of both countries are fighting for their political survival. Ukraine is also fighting for the survival of its way of life which would change if it were under Russian control.
- Targeting of civilians. Russia deliberately targets residential buildings to terrorise civilian populations. Ukraine targets buildings that are occupied by Russian military.
- Sacrifice own soldiers. Russia uses tactics on the battlefield that lead to very high death rates amongst it’s own soldiers. Ukraine places soldiers in defensive positions where it inevitably incurs high casualties where this is necessary for the overall defence of Ukraine (the greater good).
- War crimes. Horrific accounts of large scale war crimes have been recorded against Russian forces. There are accusations of cases of war crimes against Ukraine.
- Capture of civilians. Russia has relocated Ukrainian civilians to Russia with no clear intention to return them or reunite children with their parents.
- Corruption. Both countries have numerous recorded accounts of corruption within government and military. There are reports of Ukraine actively removing those responsible.
- Mobilisation. Both nations have mobilised civilians. Ukraine shut its borders to stop men of fighting age leaving.
- Use of banned weapons. ???
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Hostilities began in 2014, Russia has been at war with Ukraine since then. Military action was originally badly disguised, since the little green men captured Crimea and created artificial resistance movements in Luhansk and Donetsk.
The aim of these military actions was to re-secure control over Ukraine. To bring Ukraine into a union state arrangement in the same way Belarus has been absorbed. It was to block the wishes of the Ukrainian people to join the EU and force them to remain within Russia’s sphere of control.
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Good summary
I think there have been several visual reports in this thread about Russia using phosphorus bombs. IDK is hyperbaric bombs are banned but there have been reports of them too
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