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Ukrainian general let slip about hundreds of thousands of dead Ukrainian soldiers
2022-09-03
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited

Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets


The real numbers of losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are classified, so, for the Office of the President this is a painful point, and the announced information negatively affects the Armed Forces of Ukraine. However, the truth came out

The losses of Ukraine during the special military operation amount to hundreds of thousands of people, and the authorities did nothing to avoid casualties, said the former deputy commander of the special operations forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and until December 2020, deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, General Serhiy Krivonos, on the Ukrainian Media YouTube channel network.

"[We have] the right to say to the authorities: 'Why didn’t you do anything, why <…> hundreds of thousands of dead – what did they die for? What have you done to save their lives? Stories that this is out of time, this is an attempt to blur the memory, to erase history. And how can you erase the blood of the dead, which already number in the hundreds of thousands? Who will be responsible for this?'" - such were the words of the general.

The general asks strange questions. Well, let's say that the Armed Forces of Ukraine die for Zelensky's villa in Italy, which (as it turns out) he rents from the Russians.

But seriously, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are dying now because (and their losses are now an order of magnitude higher than those of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation), they trampled on the memory of their grandfathers and great-grandfathers, who fought against the fascist Nazi evil spirits and Bandera.

Posted by:badanov

#5  The Russian concept of combined arms leans heavily on mass artillery. Their front line elements know that the artillery supporting a 20 km front can annihilate any one square kilometer of enemy forces a couple times a day. So, whenever their opponent concentrates forces to attack, that concentration will be obliterated. (See US Army FM-100-1,2,3)

This is why the U.S. Air-Land Battle doctrine was developed. It emphasized combined formations of aircraft, helicopters, and high speed armor formations. These could move through terrain faster than the Soviet (now Russian) artillery organizations could respond. While the Soviet units could target a grid square, they would be aiming at the one that the U.S. forces had already moved through.

The Ukrainian forces have no such doctrine, are slow to move, and once concentrated to attack ought to quickly succumb to the Russian artillery strikes.

The Israelis urged the Ukrainians to surrender only a couple weeks into this conflict to avoid massive destruction of their infrastructure, military forces, and institutions. They were right. And still are. The sooner the Ukrainians agree to stop fighting the better they will be.

The Ukrainians do not have the training, doctrine, and equipment (even with western augmentation) to do anything other than to lose to the massive Russian artillery, first slowly, like now, and then quickly, later.
Posted by: rammer   2022-09-03 23:15  

#4  But what happend to Preparations A-G?

"We found Preparation H was best. On the whole..."

- Breifing for Dr. Evil
Posted by: M. Murcek    2022-09-03 20:12  

#3  Too much preparation h.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-09-03 19:39  

#2  Yeah but the bastards Jews immigrants Russophobic scumbags resident posters in here, where screeching….that Ukrainian nazis where winning and the bad Russians where losing LOL.
Fuck you rantburg!


You don't say...
Posted by: badanov   2022-09-03 19:37  

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Posted by: ACA JOE   2022-09-03 19:17  

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