Russia-Ukraine War

Kadyrovites: Hey, that's my wife!!!

All about controlling the means of production in Putin's drive towards the restoration of the Soviet Socialist Republic

Do you know if there has been an update on the attack on Lipetsk-2 airbase, greenpilot?

Would be interesting to see exactly what was parked up there at the time.

Thinking of the gas metering station the Ukranans have now, rather than shut off the flow, would they throw the throttle open and say to us here in Europe to go fill your boots! Take the revenue from Russia and let orban and Co say no thanks ic thrg want to support vlad

Why would they fight the war on Russian terms. Russia thrive on static warfare where they rely on heavily mined areas and kamikaze waves to stay in the fight. Ukraine want to move quickly and rely on the element of surprise. That's only possible in Russia as it avoids the mined areas so hopefully they take as much as logistically possible.

They should hold it and charge a transit tax seen as it crosses their land. Syphon off as much as they want to heat Ukraine too.

BBC says

Yes, and by doing so will increase the logistics chain, and then Ukraine start hitting them in their new locations too. The fact that Ukraine now has long range capabilities, means that they can really disrupt any airborne Russian operations.

Would this be classified as a "dumb on dumb" incident.

Sky news says

Ukraine have much much shorter supply routes being on the inside of a semicircle

And Russians in three years of their Three Day war have illustrated time and time again logistics is not their strong point, hell only this week we have MOD reporting that they can’t even supply enough drinking water

At start of this Kursk special operation a week ago we had posts claiming Ukrainians won’t have the logistics to sustain this, yet not only the area continues to expand we have evidence of food aid being disturbed to civilians

Meanwhile Kursk governor begging Putin to pull troops from elsewhere to help Kursk

"At the start of this Kursk special operation a week ago we had posts claiming Ukrainians won't have the logistics to sustain this…" What's your point? A week ago we also had people being berated for suggesting that Ukraine were looking to hold territory in Russia… what's your obsession with trying to discredit other good-faith posters? You remind me of another poster who used to do the same thing until thread banned a few months ago…

We've been here before, but if 100% applied things will get interesting in Russia.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cy54nn4v471t

Ah, there's loads of reasons the Ukrainian SMO into Russia is worthwhile. It really doesn't take much thinking to be honest.

Just came across this commentary on Russian logistics, and how the Kursk incursion could have (intended?) consequences for the more active frontline areas:

https://twitter.com/Schizointel/status/1823737718582526037

It's a long thread, but here's the meat of it (slightly paraphrased to make it more readable!) :

another issue that Russia is going to face logistically in organizing a counter-offensive in Kursk currently [is that] Russian supply lines through the [Motorised Transport, as opposed to rail] Brigade will be stretched in order to supply the Russian FLOT. […]

Russian forces currently engaged against the ukrainians will not have the most efficient and adequate supplies in timely manner which will likely result in more land being captured by the ukrainians which they can't afford […]

if Ukraine gets too close to any of the areas that I highlighted such as Rylsk, Lgov, Chermoshnoi, Selikhovy Dvory, Oboyan, and Rakitnoe then logistically speaking, their lines to Belgorod and Kursk will be even further degraded and then it will become a siege and it will be a matter of time before Ukraine captures two major Russian population centers.

[…] they cannot afford to allow Ukraine to advance further and must Marshal necessary forces to counter-attack. The problem with that though is to rally the forces needed. They will need to strip the logistical resources from the front lines in Ukraine which will make those areas vulnerable to Ukrainian counter-attack

This all sounds plausible, and the recent feck-ups - stationary columns being easy pickings for the Ukrainians, and Russian Air Force bombing their own supply trucks - are reminiscent of how they lost Kyiv due to their own 40-mile traffic jam.

Incidentally, today's "Reporting from Ukraine" YT channel talks about how the Ukranians spread "get out now" information to the Kursk public, causing them to clog up the main routes into Kursk and bogging-down the Russian troops. I haven't heard any other accounts of this, but it sounds like something the Ukranians might do!

In any case, I can see a scenario developing where Ukraine gradually eliminate viable supply routes for the Russian forces still in Urkanian territory. Blowing up the Kerch bridge would then create an almightly bottleneck on the few remaining corridors and be a prime target for missile and drone attacks.