A lot of evidence suggests they cannot - Russian forces are already stretched extremely thin for combat infantry, simply because of a perverse force design. In most conflicts, the grunts are overrepresented in casualty counts, so the Russians are presumably now very thin, even around Severodonetsk where they have ~ 40 battalions that are nominally centred on infantry formations. Their tactics appear to be to use artillery to hammer enemy positions, then push infantry screens forward to occupy the ground - even light resistance is causing them difficulties.
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some randoms to start the day. am posting in no particular order other than timeline as I catch up to overnight events
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eventually, the West will understand that Russia doesn’t give a fuck about the Geneva convention. Much like a bully in the playground does what he wants.
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this correlates to the last set of posts from OSINT about ammo dump.
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related to this
real question here is…who are they fighting for?
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thanks @Kopstar for replying
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YESSSSSSS!!!
Atta boy Erdogan, why not be 3rd man into a scrum…fucking bellend.
good news, but too late to the party I think?
I’m still not sure what the French/Italian/German gameplan here is, perhaps someone better informed could tell me?
partisan rhetoric is escalating as eastern European leaders are emptying their coffers to keep Ukraine defense going, whilst Germany and France are giving Putin the lip service… @redalways you’re spot on. these rich countries don’t want to get the gas turned off in 4 months when they have to start heating their homes again. meanwhile, Ukraine has no homes left
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Except at least in the case of Germany, economists agree that they can turn off Russian gas, and not be too adversely affected. It’s just mind-boggling.
appears that Russia needed a diversion to distract Europe from what’s happening in Ukraine. So Erdogan starts provoking Greece to keep Putin happy.
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