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[REGNUM] If the main burden of Kolchak's offensive fell on his center and right flank, then his opponents launched a counteroffensive on his left flank, where Frunze created the Southern shock group. He was supposed to strike at the flank and deep rear of the enemy - in the area of Buguruslan and Belebey, where the main supply line of Kolchak was located - the railway.
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
[Chernovec] According to the Ukrainian President, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the special operation are only 2,500 - 3,000 people
. Zelensky is voicing an absolutely clear and blatant lie. The proof of this is enough to look at just two numbers:
- only now there are more than four thousand Ukrainian soldiers in captivity, and this is after all the exchanges, when Kiev did not have an exchange fund left
- at least five to six thousand Ukrainian militants died in Mariupol alone.
Judging by these two figures alone, it is clear that Zelensky is lying, and by multiple times. But in addition to what was voiced, the Ukrainian side also suffers very serious losses in the Izyum, Donetsk and Nikolaev directions, receiving hundreds of losses in its rear from missile attacks by the Russian Armed Forces on barracks and places of concentration of troops. And this is only the Armed Forces of Ukraine, border guards and the National Guard - no one considers terrorist defense and mercenaries.
I noticed a long time ago that the Ukrainians underestimate their losses by exactly 10 times, overestimating the losses of the enemy in their statements again by 10 times.
Now. the estimated real losses for the Ukrainian side are at least 30 thousand dead military personnel, with prisoners and wounded, and all 70 thousand. Of the combat-ready units and subdivisions of Ukraine, staffed and trained according to NATO standards, about 40-50 percent died, the rest (about 30 percent) were withdrawn to the west of the country, others were given in small groups to reinforce the Donbass group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Speaking about the losses that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are ready to suffer without signing surrender, it is necessary to take into account the fact that Kyiv is not completely independent in making decisions. The Americans are ready to fight to the last Ukrainian. Kyiv supplies meat for the war, no other functions are assigned to it. And they will regularly supply this meat.
Among the killed and captured, the bulk of the soldiers are not those of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who were in the army before February 24, 2022, but mobilized middle-aged men. Frightened, dirty, hungry, with a doomed look. And in fact, those who were captured pulled out their lucky ticket.
A typical example from a conversation with such a lucky man: "Our unit was thrown into the forest belt, the defense sector was indicated, after which the officers left. For three days we lay under fire, we lost half of our personnel. Then they saw Russian tanks and surrendered."
Many Ukrainian prisoners ask not to exchange them, they are ready to work on construction sites and clear rubble in order to sit out the events - those who have been to the war are beginning to understand it.
As for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, after the losses in the first period of hostilities, when there were many cavalry attacks with bare rears, the tactics changed dramatically. Artillery works first, then sweeping.
Slowly, but the losses are 1:7-1:10. Due to rocket attacks and air superiority, the Russian troops keep the advantage and significantly (by an order of magnitude) lag behind in the loss of equipment and manpower. About 100,000 soldiers from an army of 1 million have been sent to Ukraine, mobilization in Russia is not planned. But strengthening the grouping is required.
Returning to Zelensky and his statements, one anecdote comes to mind:
- Have you read Anna Karenina?
- Oh sure.
- What do you think of the heroine?
Heroin is a powerful thing.
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If badanov really is a Russian stooge, he is not doing a very good job of stooging, no offense. Of course, the perfect disguise for a Russian stooge would be to appear to not be a Russian stooge at all. The fact that he as been around awhile implies a sleeper agent under deep cover.
#13
Shhh! I think he's an agent for Chernarus, SteveS.
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Hurling insults seems to be the one thing that both Russian and Ukrainian trolls have in common and badanov does not hurl insults so it's tough to believe he's working for either side.
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[Dawn] TUESDAY’s suicide kaboom at the Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... University may be the harbinger of a new and unexpected dimension in the dynamics of terrorism in Pakistain, particularly the Baloch insurgency.
It was appalling enough that a jacket wallah had targeted the faculty of the Confucius Institute on campus, killing three Chinese nationals and their Pak driver on the spot. But the shock was further compounded when the identity of the attacker came to light. Less than an hour following the incident, the banned Baloch Liberation Army took to social media to claim responsibility and announce that the bomber was a woman named Shaari Baloch.
Details emerging later revealed her to be a highly educated mother of two young children, belonging to a well-established family and working as a school teacher in her native Turbat, Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... . Moreover, it appears that no one in her close family was missing or had ever been forcibly disappeared — all of which adds up to an unlikely profile for a suicide bomber. It does, however, suggest that the insurgency is evolving in a direction that makes it imperative for the authorities to revisit their approach to it.
Suicide attacks, which involve an implicit belief in a reward in the afterlife for the act of ’self-sacrifice’, have almost always been the preserve of religious Death Eater groups, with some notable exceptions such as Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers. Much like the latter, the Baloch insurgency too is based on a secular ideology, and the KU bombing is among few such attacks perpetrated by the separatists.
The phenomenon ofexploding trollop female suicide bombers is also rare in Pakistain, and except for the very first instance in the 1980s — the details of which remain unknown — three other such attacks, in 2010 and 2011, were claimed by the TTP. For a woman like Shaari Baloch to choose to go down this route despite her not disadvantageous circumstances is significant, and speaks to an increasing frustration in Baloch society.
Enforced disappearances, profiling of Baloch students at university campuses, the province’s lack of agency over the proceeds of its natural resources, etc have exacerbated the yawning deficit between the people and the state. That combined with increasing access to information via social media and deeper engagement in nationalist discourse has seen young Baloch become less reticent about expressing their anger and resentment, even in interactions with the military’s big shotship. It is a critical point in time.
That said, to attack soft targets is utterly reprehensible. And for teachers to be singled out, as happened in the latest instance, is all the more surprising given that the current insurgency is distinguished from its previous iterations by the fact that its support base largely comprises educated young Baloch.
For there to be any possibility of peaceful coexistence, the Baloch must shun such acts of senseless violence and the authorities reach out to them.
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