"There is an unverified government document circulating now that Ukraine military wants women to replenish their ranks. On pro Russian telegram but shocking if true."
You are posting Russian propaganda.A picture paints a thousand words
"Today, everyone in Ukraine is fighting – not only men, but also women. There are lots of volunteers – so many that there are not enough weapons. A short photo selection showing the equipping and weapons of the Ukrainian Armed Forces"
There are 37,000 women in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. More than a thousand women have already become commanders - Ukraine's First Lady Olena Zelenska
Me thinks the OP needs to stay away from Russian telegram sources!
That's a pretty impressive number.
^^^ middle picture… Thems gun bearing hips! Ivan better keep his head down.
This is what I saw. Have no idea if it's true, but let's face it plenty on this thread turned out not be true claimed from both sides of this entirely avoidable shitshow.
Just don't think it's a good idea to have Ukranian women 18-60 put on a uniform and become a target, shocking belief to have but there you go.
Culture.
Back in 2014. Projected onto the US embassy in Moscow.
Rashisisim starting to become publicly evident then.
Take another look at the posts above,if you can't figure it out then you should take a break from pro-russian telegram sites
I never thought much of those soft caps-
Russian Ukraine War - Soldier Was Firing Shots & Then This Happened 2022 NEWS #mustwatch #warzone - YouTube
Make russia Small Again (MrSA 😂)
"Beautiful Ukrainian women are ready, willing and waiting. To shoot you in the face."
The 3 stooges are to head East
At present rate of casualties,it will sustain ukraine for 37 days
They are in serious bother and will need outside troops on the ground before end of summer at present rates of attrition
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Ukraine is losing 100 to deaths a day,and circa 650 to 800 per day in wounded/injured
Or 30k casualties a month.....this rate of attrition is simply unsustainable
Sorry for posting it for the second time but somehow can't get rid of it
30k gone from Ukraine means 90k gone from Russia......this rate of attrition means there will be no one left to shoot Ukraine soldiers
The us was putting its wounded at 3 to 5 times killed in iraq/afganistan and it was much less conventional/confrontational war,also the 750 figure was banied about on news other day?
A million willing people,is all well and good but without experience they will be cannon fodder,they will be coming up againest soldiers dug in,and with months of intense enough fighting/experience with em......
they are going to need outside troops from nato,or america to turn the tide here,otherwise all it will be is a long drawn out bloodbath,with thousands of utterly unnecessary deaths.....russia has no qualms of taking its time and grinding through town by town,why wait on inevitable,or at what point will it before outside help will arrive
The 37k mentioned would extend the war by 37 days, you make it sound like they will run out in 37 days.
Anyways you're not taking into account the injured returning to the Frontline, not all wounds will prevent that. I can't find the quote, but it was a high % (<75%) of wounded soldiers return to the fight after a month.
Russia will have to do a mobilisation well before Ukraine run out of soldiers. Gonna be harder to get the Russian public on-site for a mobilisation now Puta admitted it's a land grab and nothing to do with Nazis, NATO, chem/bio labs or Ukraine wanting nukes or any other excuses he used.
Russia has near infinite soldiers and many syrians mercenaries have been arrested,would surely suggest they have a core of experienced soldiers from there too?
Noone doubts russia is suffering huge losses,just they have a infitely larger well to draw from......at start of this war, it was put out russia had enough cash to sustain a 9 to 20 day war and everyone assumed it was a matter hold tight and ride it out,this simply hasnt been the case,the sanctions have failed to stop em,the only viable option to sustain ukraine here is outside assisatnce and a lot of it
They would not want to tell Scholz where they'll meet Zelensky lest he pass it up to his handler.
Russia have not got near infinite soldiers.Russia has a lot of men to throw into battle.There is a big difference between trained soldiers and "forced to volunteer men".
3/1 ratio is for trained soldiers.What is the ratio for soldiers fighting untrained men?...a lot more so i think so my 90k figure has just gone up by a lot!
Put the cursor below it and hit Delete.
Yeah, the "Russia is spending [figure pulled out of arse} a day on this war" stuff had as much credibility as the Ghost of Kiev. Russia is not like other European states. It's relatively poor, democracy is only a word in the dictionary, they've been revved up on propaganda since putin took office, propaganda about the glories of war and fighting facists as the mainstay and faith of national Russian pride. Since putin took over after the utter shambles of the 90's where the country was openly raped of resources and power, he continued on, but took it behind closed doors for his cronies and more scraps from the master's table got to the little Russian in the street, the same Russian whose culture elevates suffering to a virtue. He has a lot of support for this. That their czar looks kindly on them. In short they can and will take a lot more hardship than Western Europeans and keep fighting.
Never mind that Russia's fighting force for the most part is dirt cheap. Compare the pay of a Russian soldier to one in Germany or the US. Compare the cost of an Abrams tank to a T-72. Compare the cost of their most expensive kit their Sukhois etc to Lockheed F22s and the like. And most of all they have the sheer force of numbers and aren't afraid to throw them into the meat grinder of war. They celebrate that meat grinder as a positive every victory day. They've already sustained casualties even by "official Russian" numbers that would likely cause an uproar in the US, or any other civilised nation.
IMHO - and I said this from very early on; Donbas, or the guts of it is lost to Ukraine. The land bridge to Crimea ditto for the most part. Russiia will have to deal with the rebuilding and control of the inevitable insurgency for years. And again I've said this too; if I were Ukraine, bitter pill that it is, I'd essentially leave them to it. Leave them to that already existing clusterfcuk that's been brewing for decades. I'd concentrate on fighting them to a stalemate at the existing "borders", throw hell at them if they try to take Odessa(which I suspect they won't). Leave them to their North Korea status in the aftermath. Clean Ukraine up, keep the Americans at a friendly distance and get on board with the EU. The current German government are on borrowed time. And the EU should go in and do a "marshall plan" for Ukraine. It will be to huge social, political and yes financial benefit to the EU and Ukraine. And let ever more impoverished Russia look on.
That's the way it seems to be going anyhow. Unless UA gets a trainload of weapons, and the rest, it will be attrition for years. But! how long can Russia sustain sanctions? And! how long has Putnut got to live?
Promising.
thats not how war works lad
Except it looks like "Ukraine is getting hammered now, but don't worry they're playing the long game and the big counter offensive is just around the corner" isn't how this works either.
Ukraine is not going to capitulate and Russia is not going to abandon territory. Which just leaves a horrific stalemate and each side hoping the other collapses first or some miraculous game changer arrives. If Ukraine gets a game changer, Russia can still escalate further.
So probably Putin's death is our best hope. But that's not looking too imminent either.
The situation is just f*cked up and grim beyond belief and it's hard to see any prospect of peace at the moment
And a month old.
It really is,by and.large....a paraphrase an old irish saying,.....its not those who can inflict the most,but those who can endure the most,whom will conquer.....
fundamental mindset of war havnt changed in 2000 years,its methods,tactics and areana might have.....russia can politically,and militarily endure this war of attrition longer than ukraine,a fully equipped force of circa 180 to 250K overseas/nato troops would turn the tide quickly....but politically noone is gonna run to their assistance like that
It pretty much is Duff. In WW2 the German forces were vastly superior on nearly every metric to the Russian forces, save for winter prep and numbers. Years ago I read a history of that conflict and the author mentioned a "kill ratio" type number about it. It was something like for every German killed, eight or ten, or more? I can't recall, Russian soldiers were killed. But in the end fighting against the sheer numbers the Germans were on a hiding to nothing(fighting on a few fronts didn't help. Obvs).
Now a small force can bugger a "superpower". The 20th century is full of examples. Vietnam for the French and the Americans. Afghanistan for the Russians, the Americans and the British(and everyone else save for Alexander the Great). Hell, Ireland and the British Empire. It's very doable, but it usually relies on a constant hit and run insurgency tactic where you can melt into the background afterwards, and the support, tacit or active, of the vast majority of the population. In old style open conventional warfare? That's a whole other matter.
On the other hand this is a war of choice for Russia versus an existential war for Ukraine... that is a big factor is endurance.
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