Russian forces continue to consolidate their positions, but haven’t made any major offensives in the past few days. Ukrainian forces around Chernihiv risk encirclement at the moment as the Russians move east of Kyiv.
I expect the forces west of Kyiv will try to cut the city off from resupply, but the Ukrainians are using this period to stock up on munitions, including a number of ATGMs.
Lol, didn’t realize that @billroggio started a thread a half hour before me, go read it.
One major issue the Russians are still running into is that a number of their pushes have run into severe supply difficulties, especially as Ukrainian forces operate behind their lines.
A lot of Russian assets have fallen victim to hit and run attacks by TDF fighters.
In the south, VDV units continue to make pushes, but have been forced to bypass major cities and areas where the Ukrainians have put up fierce resistance.
This is in line with the terrain in the area, as their earlier offensives were over flat, relatively indefensible ground.
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This is one of the major issues Russia is running into. They are using heavily mechanized formations to try and break through largely infantry based Ukrainian forces.
Unfortunately for the Russians, the Ukrainians have a metric crap ton of ATGMs.
ATGMs that were primarily designed for a theoretical war in Europe back in the 80s, giving NATO infantry the ability to fight a major Russian mechanized assault.
Also for conversion purposes, 1 metric crap ton= 1.10231 US crap tons.
I know there are going to be a lot of those SimpsonUSSRjoke.gifs being posted about this, but the Russian government is currently trying to rally the people against a common enemy in order to prevent general unrest.
It’s great when you can just point at McDonald’s and say “bad western company” instead of admitting the mess of a war you started is having some pretty bad consequences.