The invasion force was 200K but they've mobilized since then and last time I checked there are about 350K Russians in Ukraine now, including Wagner and newly mobilized.
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Minus those KIA, MIA and injured I guess?
Yeah. And Russia can't keep all soldiers on the front lines. They need military presence in every town they take, especially bigger towns like Melitopol where the resistance is strong. If Ukraine can break Russian defense lines in some places, they will fall apart is my feeling. Especially because most of them have neither motivation, nor the training. We saw that already last year. As soon as Ukranian forces broke through, Russians started running.
It will be more difficult now of course, because Russians have several defensive lines now, but still. With the right tactic and equipment, everything is possible.
They will need 2 or 3 times the amount of RA troops for the offensive, for sure. But no one knows how many troops UA possesses or is ready to deploy. People have to take account of their reserves getting used to defend those cities along with weapons/ammunitions. Do we know if any of the NATO-trained troops participated in defending those cities? If so, the availability of troops have a different outlook as well.
A Russian navy ship equiped for subsea operations was photographed in the area of the Nord Stream blasts 4 days before the explosions.
On Russian gas exports in 2023:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/27/business/energy-environment/russias-gas-exports-2023.html
Next time that prick comes around, I hope someone will make it sink.
New wave of terrorist attacks all over Ukraine which will probably be followed with - "we're ready for negotiations, sadly Ukraine and the West are not".
Air defense is getting better and better. But sadly one residential building was hit again.
Yes, in the town of Uman. UA probably held AA defense there... (that's what you'd hear from prorussians).
These are just the guys trained with outside help right?
Shocked I am, utterly shocked.
I think around 40k have been trained abroad and around the same number have been training in Ukraine https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...-brigade-troops-counter-offensive-2023-04-05/
Yeh so plus the 700k or so already active, but perhaps less trained (on nato gear at least) troops. Sounds like the assumption is that these guys trained with outside help will be the counter-offensive force.
Another one for The Hague 
fecking terrorists.
fecking terrorists.Another one for The Hague
22 and search still ongoing. Orcs boasting they hit all designated targets, and this happens while russia is chairing a UN security council.
"U.S. Wires Ukraine With Radiation Sensors to Detect Nuclear Blasts"
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/28/science/ukraine-nuclear-radiation-sensors.html
A silver lining in all of this is it shows Putin's desperation and it makes him look doubly evil before the world when the story is amplified as it has.
Poor guy @2:08 died because of bad timing. Also insane luck by the Russian @2:22. The helmet saved his life there, so not all Russian helmets are trash.
Also nice to see, that Ukraine forces chose to retreat because they couldn't take that bunker without losses. You probably never will see something like this from Russia, because they don't care about their own.
Amazing footage as always by the K2 battalion. I guess in part 4, they will capture the bunker.
From the prior footage with the drone grenades managing to get right in the bunker they probably thought it would be an easier take. I suspect they return with a few rpg's...
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If the helmet saved him it was a fluke as most helmets can't stop high velocity 7.62 or 5.56 rounds.
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True, but honestly their plan was really poorly thought through. Get communication with the drone pilot, tell him to inform you once russians are pinned down in the bunker, advance in the trench and throw every grenade you have through the door that seems a couple of meters away from the S shape it forms. They retreated 5mn too late.
It was so unnecessary that that guy lost his life that way, sadly. He was not really keen on covering himself well from the start. I thought they would take that. Showed how brutal the trench battle was and the quality of the troops fighting there in some sense.
Yeah, it's pretty sad to see that honestly. They're flying small common drones so the pilot can't be that far, even a regular walkie talkie would do the trick. We're in 2023 and these guys tried to attack a bunker with a couple of grenades by trying to shoot through the embrasure. That's just a terrible idea. Poor lads.
It made you think about all this 1:6 ratio nonsense going around with highly trained UA troops having big advantage in the field. I wish they were trained and equipped to the point that those ratios were actually true in close combats, and it would demoralize RA faster.
There's a real possibility russian troops are far worse. I mean their exit from the bunker is pretty laughable as well.
That's why I felt so bad about the UA fallen guy against these RA feckwits.
Either the Kuznetsov is in Sevastopol or a fuel storage was hit by the Ukrainians.
I think this sort of thing will increase as the Ukrainians begin to soften up Crimea for an eventual takeover at some undefined later date.
Supposedly drones over Belgorod as well. If Ukraine can degrade Russia's supplies in those areas, they'll have to shift supplies from the areas Ukraine can't hit like Rostov to Crimea and Belgorod.
Closer video:
Well in that particular position, the ratio so far is even much worse for the Russians. Part 1: 10 Russians liquidated, part 2: 7 hits. In part 3, one Ukranian soldier dies. Even if those 7 hits in part 2 resulted in 3-4 deaths, you have a 14:1 ratio so far and we haven't seen part 4 yet.
This system, by the looks of it a S-300, should receive a medal at this point
This system, by the looks of it a S-300, should receive a medal at this point
Looks like the back of a command post vehicle for a S-300 battery.
