Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ As Russian progress in Ukraine slows to a crawl, frustration is mounting among warbloggers about why Russia isn't yet 'fighting for real'. One proposes a list of what should be done, from seizing the eastern half of Ukraine to emulating 2022's infamous Hostomel air assault. ⬇️

2/ Russian warblogger Yuri Kotenok advocates:

"1. Stop playing second fiddle in the war by seizing the initiative. For example, by imposing a pre-emptive blockade on the enemy’s ports and transport links, rather than responding to attacks on ships in the Black Sea and Azov Sea.

3/ "2. Do not agree to a compromise; do not be taken in by the temporary and ostentatious ‘peacefulness’ of the Trump/Macron camp and suchlike, or by the, to put it mildly,…

4/ …strange persuasions and admonitions ([Kazakhstan's President] Tokayev alone is a case in point, and it would be indecent even to mention [Azerbaijan's President Aliyev) from ‘partner-allies’ in the CIS and elsewhere.

5/ "3. Do not stop at the borders of the Russian Federation, but wrest the lands of historic Russia from the enemy. Everything is important, including the full opening of the Chernihiv front with the prospect of threatening Kyiv.

6/ "Do not charge headlong at the enemy’s prepared defensive lines, but take extraordinary operational measures (Hostomel to the rescue).

7/ "4. It is clear that, given the current pace of the advance and the very high casualty rate, these hopes and predictions seem little more than wishful thinking, but...

8/ "One plausible scenario would be to divide the territory of the former Ukraine along a natural barrier – the Dnipro – with access to Kyiv and the taking of its right bank under control, whilst the left bank remains under enemy fire [sic – the banks are the wrong way round].

9/ "Kyiv must, come what may, cease to be a breeding ground for Banderism. This is one of the conditions for Russia’s preservation and the survival of its future generations, regardless of whether those ‘at the top’ – who think in terms of the past – understand this or not.

10/ "5. I believe Russia cannot manage without the help of Iron Kim’s ‘berserkers’. In the same vein – the testing and routine deployment by the Russian Armed Forces of North Korean ballistic missiles against enemy targets,…

11/ …something which is already being trumpeted in the ‘Pig Reich’ and ‘Euro-Sodom’. Also here – the long-overdue joint production with the DPRK of heavy strike UAVs.

12/ "6. Defeating the enemy is unthinkable without a radical change in the situation in the Black Sea, where our fleet, deprived of its flagship, is confined to bays and serves primarily as missile launch platforms.

13/ "I believe that mere promises from star-studded heroes in epaulettes on Navy Day are not enough. Submarine cruisers armed with ‘Zircons’ will undoubtedly plough the world’s oceans in the future, but driving the enemy into a corner in the Black Sea specifically…

14/ …should have been done yesterday, just as divisions of unmanned systems should have been established there first and foremost.

It is clear that the Baltic Fleet and all the Russian Federation’s fleets and flotillas are being strengthened, including in terms of air defence.

15/ "7. And finally, I sincerely hope that the esteemed Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Hero of Russia Valery Gerasimov, will put his innovative scientific ideas into practice by beginning, in the fifth year of this gruelling war, to…

16/ …to establish a zonal air defence system for the country, with the aim of protecting the economy, infrastructure, energy sector and its citizens from massive raids by enemy unmanned aerial vehicles and missile systems.

17/ "I believe it is time, Valery Vasilyevich, it is time...

Better late than never."

Source:
t.me/voenkorKotenok…