i almost saw a friendly fire there...
i am not sure about military tactics but crossing in front of a firing cannon unless in dire situation doesn't seem very logical.

the bane without anti air cover...
but why the four vehicles just sitting there?

if we are referring to people, then yes, and not even 20%. russia has a large population that it can draft on but not sure what level where people will feel it violates the social contract between putin and the people.

edit
the one thing that made me curious is why they don't want to commit their air power in the first 12 months of the war, they number of bombers and planes could have overwhelm Ukraine air defense before it was buff up.

This post has been edited by chaosneo: Jun 11 2023, 01:40 AM

but it does matter....somewhat...
precision weapons, long range, disrupt logistics and command as well.

well, this war taught the world military a few things important in a peer to peer warfare.

from Ukrainian,
one should not move an column of tanks without some air cover for losses will be there aka Zaphor...
marking children on a building does not stop enemy from.bombing it.
drones are part of the future warfare.
some of them still made the mistake the russian army did.


from Russia,
one does not attack the same spot 4 times making the same mistakes that of the last attack aka Vulhedar.
one does not do river crossing three times at the same spot when first time already mark by enemy artillery aka somewhere in Kharkiv i think.
logistics is critical as hell especially when your enemy have precision weapons, it took so many explosions to only not bunch up munitions and depo.
army discipline is critical, Ukrainian has gotten so many info on targets behind the lines.and one wonders where all these info comes from.

i am sure there is more... you guys can keep adding to it.


This post has been edited by chaosneo: Jun 11 2023, 12:50 PM

in a way, if these are the only ones russia can show it is a good thing.
considering it is a three point offensive into heavy defensive lines, minefield, entrench troops, and wide area probing across all lines, one would have expect losses of dozens of vehicles and well as severe infantry casualties in the initial start.

for example, a medieval army trying to breach castle walls, no one would be surprised if one third of half or the first wave of infantry would have been wipe out.

but it is still too early to say as it is only started less than a week. the shaping operations have been quite efficient though.

reports of munitions depo, rail supply lines and last week, three command centers been hit.

This post has been edited by chaosneo: Jun 12 2023, 08:26 AM

if you notice most of TS posts, TS is not a non partisan but by now, mostly everyone would have taken a side by now on those who are closely following the war.

but then again, there are tons of media of russian losses.
here is the link which is update with any reports.
https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5246148


This post has been edited by chaosneo: Jun 13 2023, 09:01 AM

you can post there too.
we have colimlim as well as etude last time with constant update from russian sides.

it is not much difference than in /K
at least in RWI , one requires to have a more civil tongue and posting nonsense can get sus.

also in the same tweet:
so his military command and FSB information is not too reliable?
it is weird that he has to also want to listen to military bloggers.

new russian style suppression

i think one can safely assume that putin doesn't like what is happening on the battlefield right now or that things aren't going so well.

link to rueters article but it doesn't really say much.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia...age-2023-06-14/

This post has been edited by chaosneo: Jun 15 2023, 08:31 AM

it is PAYWALLED 😐
but luckily some kind comment decided to help the wide community...

full readable article
https://archive.ph/2023.06.14-102237/https:...-drone-3860ab6a

but these are probing attacks...
their priority is just to test defenses and response.

to be honest on all three major fronts they are actually making progress based on just probing, that actually saying a lot.
like...
1. losses may not be as bad as a lot has thought. if losses is bad, probing forward would have stop?
2. just probing and we have seen a lot of destruction on russian sides also.

i don't think the UA did not suffer casualties especially the first wave and loss of a dozen or more vehicles, but so far other than that incident, there doesn't seem to significant more losses as i am very sure russian media will be happily broadcast about it.

This post has been edited by chaosneo: Jun 15 2023, 11:16 PM

these are mines field, trenches, defensive positions, lookout points, some small towns and its three square kilometers across a long frontline...

but maybe you are righr, russians just let them wander in slowly while giving small token of defensive forces to slow Ukrainians down as well, while the range of himars making its way touching Mariupol.

any offensive will surely take losses but when you put on a grand scale like few thousands of soldiers are operating on the frontlines daily in trying to move forward, i think anyone would think that any less than a hundred casualties would be consider acceptable.

i am pretty damn sure russian military took it seriously. they had to move their command center and ammo hubs far away out of range. decentralized their logistics and even change how their artillery units array.

just by itself, it wouldn't have made much difference, but with good intel as show throughout the past year and with its precision, it definitely because a game changer that affected the russians badly.

just an example of why range precision strikes and good intel works side by side.
HIMARS at the moment is just 80km range.

i give points for ingenuity.
similar to Ukraine AT buggies.

why are you still salty about that true fact as claim by russia MOD that a vehicle purportedly reported as a Leopard 2 destroy by a KA-52? 😂

that video did show... a farming vehicle...
its like you want to defend that pilot for lack of training.