The Russian collapse sequence in Northern Donbass proceeds apace.
The Russian's polyglot ground forces simply cannot handle Ukrainian fire support parity.
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The various Russian ground units are melting under the pressure of captured Russian artillery shells that the fall of Kharkiv Oblast delivered to Ukraine, along with the railway rolling stock to move the captured shell stocks near the Donbass front lines.
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Events in Ukraine are now beyond the power of the German & DC de-escalation camps to effect.
The ~170K Russian at start invasion forces have taken ~95% casualties.
The sums:
54,650 KIA
KIA * 2 = 109,300 WIA
Total Russian casualties = 163,960
The impressed Russian colonial militias and the Russian Army's most recent conscript & contract replacements are nearly untrained, so the Russian & Russian colonial infantry forces are s--t without 10-to-1 fire superiority.
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The Ukrainians now have superiority in Donbass railway logistics with Kupyansk in their hands.
And they have captured sufficient Russian artillery ammunition to reactivate 500 artillery tubes sidelined in May and the AFU have the trained & organized manpower to crew them in
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...days.
The Lyman & now the Lysychansk fighting are place holding 'shaping operation' in the East while AFU resets for the next operational level offensive.
Plus Russia is about to lose its 25 BTG equipment set & manpower
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...in its 'right bank' forces in Kherson Oblast to 'GMLRS logistical collapse.'
Ukraine seems to be setting Russian forces in Ukraine for another major Defeat/Route/Collapse, as I strongly suspect the timing of the next Eastern
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...Theater operational offensive into Luhansk will be coordinated with the collapse of Russian Forces in Kherson.
Ukraine is planning this:
"Get 'em skeered and keep the skeer on 'em"
- Lt. General Nathanial Bedford Forrest, CSA
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BLUF: Russian collapse inside Ukraines Pre-2014 borders is baked into the cake and all the US & German de-escalation camps can do is poison their Ukrainian relations going forward.
The de-escalation camps cannot save Putin nor will they be able to save themselves when the
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Russian Federation falls apart because Moscow's Regime Security forces are all '200' & '300' (KIA & WIA).
The 60k Russian regime security forces were mauled heavily, early, in the Kyiv column & they are 1/4 to 1/3 of the ~163K Russian casualties to date.
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The Russians have already started eating themselves inside Ukraine.
FYI, the important part in Nadin Brzezinski medium -dot-com piece is that ALL the Oligarchs are raising PMC's. It is not just Wagner's Patron Oligarch.
Only some of the Oligarchs are sending their PMC to Ukraine.
The Oligarchs are spoiled for choice with all the VDV
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...and other Russian Regime Security Force refuseniks, if they promise to keep them in Russia.
We are seeing the Oligarchs as a class taking 'cross the rubicon' type steps in preparing for the post-Putin Russian Civil War.
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Sweating the possibilities of Russian 'loose nukes' in a multi-sided Russian civil conflict wasn't on my 24 Feb 2022 bingo card...
...but it sure as heck is right now.😱😱😱
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"The good news here is that Putin’s announcement of emergency measures shows he recognises Russia is losing in its war of imperial expansion. The less good news is that if he believes even a tiny fraction of the lies and fantasies he reeled off...
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...during the speech, his grip on reality is even shakier than we previously suspected.
And later in the column:
"In fact, few of Putin’s contradictory storylines stand up to even a moment’s critical thought: we are winning in Ukraine – but the forces of the west aligned...
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"Sex tourism and sex trafficking in Iran are increasing. One contributing cause is the practice of sigheh. Sigheh (also known by its Arabic name “nikah mut‘ah”) allows men to marry a woman for a pre-determined period of time,
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...have intimate relations with her, and then leave her without consequences. While sigheh is often justified using moral terms, in practice it is a legal loophole for prostitution. The problems associated with sigheh are rampant, but there is almost no research or data...
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- Current conscripts can be ordered to the front & 'refuseniks' jailed.
- Stop loss on all Russian conscript & contract troops. They are all in for the duration of the war.
- Priority call up/conscription of former Russian soldiers with needed skills.
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- Administratively, new conscripts & contract troops will be used as replacements for existing units.
The previous four bullet points together represent potentially effective steps to delay a Russian lanchester square manpower collapse for up to three months.
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Ukraine has enough artillery shells to fight the Russians tube to tube for artillery fire superiority at Lyman in the Donbass!?!!
This is the US Defense Department statement that @JackDetsch is relaying here.
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It isn't just the fact it is the 1st time since May 2022 that Ukraine has had enough shells.
It's the fact that Ukraine now has better Donbass railway logistics to move shells close to the guns firing on Lyman than Russia has to resupply its guns firing back.
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This is more visual evidence of the the ongoing replacement of Russian tactical trucks w/civilian vehicles.
The destruction of these vehicles represents increasing economic damage to the Russian Federation, as it runs down it's economic transport capability w/o replacement. 1/7