Most likely because their logistics capacity is a mess. Officers on the take stripping anything of value the can get their hands on and hawking it, misappropriated funds from Moscow etc etc.
I was fortunate many years ago to visit a US airforce base. Every nut, bolt and wrench is accounted for. It's an incredibly expensive proposition keeping those incredible machines in the air, and of all armed force branches, air forces can not tolerate corruption.
Russia happens to be among the most corrupt societies in the world.
You speak about them as if they're volunteers. With a few exceptions, they've no choice but to fight. Sure, many of them want to. But others are given a few days training and just thrown into the deep end, like it or not. Brave, yes, but it's a shocking waste of life and an absolute tragedy
The wondrous archive.ph for the win: https://archive.ph/8AAlw
Only from what people have been saying for years. I might own 100 cars but I can only afford to service 1.
Are you saying all the Greens across Europe are on Putins payroll to suppress all fossil fuels except for Russian fossils fuels?
Our espionage loving pals up to no good again:
Right well it sounds ridiculous to me and I don’t even like the greens but as you say off topic.
Moving away from gas for a second, Scholz has come out in favour of granting EU candidate status to Ukraine & Moldova. DPA, Germany's main press agency has just announced it:
So, that leaves France as the big uncertain quantity. Given the statements that are coming out of Macron and his team in Kyiv at the moment, I think he might come around to supporting it as well.
"Hello Comrade. I am coffee shop intern which way please to secret filing cabinets".
Easy to grant it candidate status.
Russian chopper goes down
It was found that in Belgium that Gazprom were funding anti-nuclear "Green" lobby groups. If they were doing it on Belgium, they were most definitely doing it elsewhere too.
Green groups/activists need to be looked on with suspicion right now.
Austria already said they would block it.
Scholz had that lined up before he even mentioned it. Couldn't just go there with his lad in his hand. Can't give you weapons so here's EU accession...oh wait
And Macron has come on board in fact:
"French President Emmanuel Macron says the visiting leaders are all supportive of Ukraine gaining "immediate" candidate status to join the European Union." (BBC)
Do numbers of Russian soldiers matter that much if Russian artillery is claiming 1000 Ukrainian victims a day? While the reason for doing it likely isn't the same, if they've reduced numbers to just operate artillery then they're not really at any loss for now?
I feel ya Zelenskyy, I feel ya. :/
Actually I just read Austria changed their position earlier this month. So that seems to be everyone on board. Think the Dutch might have had concerns. Anyway it’s a long long long long way off becoming a member so it might just be fake yes for now.
You don't leave artillery out on its own, especially not in hostile territory. You will need soldiers to provide cover for artillery units and for the logistics units that are needed to supply the individual batteries with shells and charges. Given that Russia STILL does not have uncontested air superiority even over its own rear areas in Ukraine, much less the front lines, that's going to require a whole lot of men with everything from MANPADS and APCs to heavier SAM systems. So yes, manpower losses will affect Russia's ability to keep up even just an artillery campaign. It can of course pull in reserves from other military districts but that circles back to a point I made earlier today: How many can they draw off from other areas without fatally weakening their positions there?
Yet they seem to be inflicting far bigger casualties now than when they were queuing up for dozens of miles elsewhere.
To me it looks more like "This smarmy French ****..."
Artillery doesn't cause 1000 casualties a day.If it was that good then fighting troops and tanks would not be needed.
Don't forget that 1000 gone from Ukraine forces is a least 3000 gone from russia.
Only in Severodonetsk, where Ukraine is for some reason fighting in a way that plays right into Russia's modus operandi. If you look to the Kherson front in the south, or even the situation around Kharkiv, Ukraine is either holding the line or making steady progress there.
You certainly can't say that Putins army are either volunteers or want to fight except for the absolute lunatics who've likley swallowed Putins 'Ukrainians are nazis - so we have to invade' rhetoric even when the Russians are actually neo nazi themselves like the Wagner group. And as aggressors they get deserve everything thrown at them
But let's get the the camera at least pointing the correct way. If we want to blame anyone for the shocking and senseless loss of life and that includes both Ukrainian civilians and soldiers then you need to address that shock and disgust at one individual only. This cnut.
I would like to think that the Russians are losing 3 men for every Ukrainian, but seeing as Russia has apparently switched a more attritional artillery-based strategy, pounding targets from range, are they committing as much infantry and tanks as in the early stages of the war to be picked off by Ukraine?
Where are these Russian losses happening right now and how?
That is a lie or maybe ignorance on your part.Ukraine has only accepted the best into the forces because they have not got enough weapons for every one that wants to fight.They have huge numbers of men and women waiting for weapons and training.If they get through them then it will be time for your fantasy of being forced to fight after a few days training...that's what russia does to it's slaves
Which is pretty normal activity for an autocratic despot and a closed brutal regime. A war would really cost them hugely. There is also a question as to whether they would even be up to it. Having a massive military is no longer scary.
Pounding targets from range is hit and miss."I hope we hit some soldiers today and I hope they are out in the open"
The big losses are taking place everywhere russia attacks,Severdonetsk,the road leading in and the Izium area.Ukraine are in defence positions that have been prepared for a long time.They are well dug in...Severodonetsk has underground shelter in the factory area just like Mariupol.
I said 3000 but I don't believe that but other posters are claiming 1000 Ukraine fall every day.This is exaggeration in my view but I'm throwing 3000 back at them because its the ratio of warfare in attack defence.Ukraine also use tactics,the latest one being elastic frontlines.
A leader in China still needs the support of the party, an inconvenience Putin doesn't have to bother with and they are far more vulnerable economically. China needs the rest of the world more, to continue with its economic vision.
It is not 1000 dead, it is about 150 dead, the rest are injured. If there is a big reduction of Russian troops things might revert to a kind of guerilla war like it was at the start and artillery is almost useless in that scenario.
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