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The SRG that attacked the Belgorod region had weapons and equipment from the US, the Czech Republic and Belgium - Washington Post
"Three MRAP mine-resistant armoured vehicles were provided by the US, one by Poland. At least two of them were seized by Russian forces. Rifles from the Czech Republic and Belgium and an anti-tank AT-4 used in the US and in the West were also used."- the publication notes.
The Washington Post also said that this raises questions about Kiev's control over the situation.
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MOD Reports:
280 new units have been formed from the 300,000 mobilized last Autumn.
It is described as the largest such callup in Russia’s history since WW2.
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Some thoughts on this, as an often asked question in chat has been, “where are the mobilized men?”
At this point I think the answer is clear: they have been training and working behind the line of contact.
That is, Russia did not simply scoop up 300,000 men and throw them to the front as Ukraine has been doing some 7+ times now, but actually formed an entirely new, professional Army with them
It’s worth noting that the size of the entire U.S. Marine Corps is around 180,000 in total (including admin, clerical, maintenance, etc).
This is yet another sign that Russia is in no hurry and is quite comfortable taking the time to properly re-train and equip these men and form new units proper.
It should also be noted that this new army is cohesive. Same uniform, same training, same language, same communication, same doctrine - and a training regimen born from experience in the SVO.
Meanwhile Ukrainian units are being trained in multiple countries by different instructors with multiple incongruent programs, doctrines, and kit.
Ukraine itself is aware of this problem, which is why they have allocated Leopard tanks to one unit and Bradley IFVs to another and so forth, instead of mixing them up across the board.
The problem for Ukraine nonetheless remains: a lack of consistency in doctrine and kit across units. There is no “universality” in such, and as such, Schroedinger’s Offensive remains in the box because these units cannot effectively coordinate together.
Meanwhile, Russia now has a second modernized and cohesive Army formed in addition to the small portion of it’s existing Army already dedicated to the SVO.
Where and how this new Army will be employed (defense in depth, counter offensive operations??) I can not say.
But that MOD now makes this statement inclines me to believe the mobilized Army is increasingly ready for work.
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https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status...12782318735363
Based on our nine months of training with all services of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, to include the Ground Forces (Army), Border Guard Service, National Guard, Naval Infantry (Marines), Special Operations Forces, and Territorial Defense Forces, we have observed a series of common trends: lack of mission command, effective training, and combined arms operations; ad hoc logistics and maintenance; and improper use of special operations forces. These trends have undermined Ukraine’s resistance and could hinder the success of the ongoing offensive.What ongoing offensive?
In our experience, across many units and staffs, the Ukrainian Armed Forces do not promote personal initiative and foster mutual trust or mission command. As Michael Kofman and Rob Lee recently discussed on the Russia Contingency podcast, elements of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have an old Soviet mentality that holds most decision-making at more senior levels. Amongst military leaders at the brigade level and below, our impression is that junior officers fear making mistakes.But to use mission command down to the lower levels of a Platoon one needs noncommissioned officers (sergeants) to run the show. Those the Ukrainian military had are by now probably dead:
Having trained every component of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, we have continually seen a lack of an experienced noncommissioned officer corps. It is common to see field grade officers running around during training counting personnel and coordinating for meals. In the United States, it takes years to develop just a junior noncommissioned officer.The next big lack is combined arms training and use. Tanks protect the infantry, the infantry protects the tanks, the artillery covers the battlefield to allow tanks and infantry to maneuver, command takes care that all three coordinate their actions.
The armor/infantry relationship is supposed to be symbiotic, but it is not. The result is that infantry will conduct frontal assaults or operate in urban areas without the protection and firepower of tanks. Also, artillery fires are not synchronized with maneuver. Most units do not talk directly to supporting artillery, so there is a delay in call for fire missions. We have been told that units will use runners to send fire missions to artillery batteries because of issues with communications.Due to the wild mix of weapons and for lack of trained mechanics logistics and the maintenance of equipment are a mess.
Most of the military’s operations are not phased and are sequential. Fires and maneuver, for example, are planned separately from infantry units — and infantry units plan separately from supporting artillery. This mentality also carries over to adjacent unit coordination, which is either nonexistent or rare and causes high rates of fratricide. Unit commanders have concerns about collaborators and thus are hesitant to pass on critical information that can be used against them to sister units.
These issues are compounded by unreliable communications between units and with senior leadership. The Ukrainian Armed Forces have a hodgepodge of radios that are vulnerable to jamming. Further, battalion missions are mainly independent company operations that do not focus on a main effort coupled with supporting efforts. The armed forces do not combine effects, so operations are piecemeal and disjointed. The separate missions are not supporting each other, nor are the missions of lower level units “nested” under a higher level mission. Sustainment is not synchronized with operations, either.
This lack of coordinated maintenance and logistics also translates into medical care. Medical evacuation and care are haphazard. Experienced Ukrainian combat medics have repeatedly stated that many of the evacuees would have survived it they had reached definitive care in a timely manner. The Ukrainian Armed Forces can solve this issue with a systematic logistics process.Ukrainian special forces are mostly used as infantry even as they should be used for more demanding missions. There also are gimmick missions:
Ukraine special forces units comprised of international volunteers shop around their services to conventional unit commanders without a mission being tied to a strategic or operational goal. One example of a mission was a conventional brigade commander who had reported to his command that he had occupied a village taken from the Russians. When he realized that the information he had was mistaken and they had stopped short, he asked the international special operations forces unit to go into the occupied village and take a picture of a Ukrainian flag placed on top of a building in the center of the village.A suicide mission to hide the commanders false reporting ...
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“We [the US] told the Russians in 1991 and 1992, repeatedly and in writing, although we didn’t sign a treaty, that if they withdraw the 400,000 troops from Germany and allow it to unite, then NATO will not move an inch to the East.
Since then we have entered 14 countries in the East. Moreover, we have deployed AEGIS systems, with the option of nuclear missiles, in Romania and Poland. Right on the Russian border. Bill Burns, then ambassador to Russia and now director of the CIA, once wrote in his famous memo: "If you [NATO] enter Ukraine, you will cross a red line that cannot be crossed." All actions of US foreign policy pushed Russia to aggression" - Senator Robert Kennedy
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Since the morning, Ukrainian formations have been shelling the border areas of the Belgorod region .
In the Shebekinsky urban district , residential buildings and a roadbed in Novaya Tavolzhanka and Bezlyudovka were hit: two women died, two more people were injured by shrapnel.
In the Volokonovsky district, shell fragments shattered windows in three private residential households, and damaged a gas pipeline and power line on the outskirts of the village of Tishanka.
Over the course of yesterday, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired on civilian objects in 18 settlements of the region: five civilians were killed, another 16 were injured of varying severity.
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Kiev has firmly closed the door to negotiations with Moscow and has no plans to open them, the Secretary of the Council for National Security and Defense of Ukraine, Alexei Danilov, told Rada television.
"Not only have we closed the door, we have no plans to open it, it is very tightly closed." You know that there is a decision of the Council for National Security and Defense of Ukraine on that occasion - that we are not planning any negotiations with the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin," he said.
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Brazil believes that Russia's concerns about Ukraine should be "taken into account".
This was stated by Celso Amorim, chief foreign policy adviser to Brazil's president, in an interview with the British Financial Times.
The idea of weakening Russia could have negative consequences similar to those of the Treaty of Versailles to fuel World War II.
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Authorities in Dnepropetrovsk are already reporting that Iskander missiles have struck, but they are in no hurry to open bomb shelters
There are probably no air defence systems in Dnepropetrovsk - civilians have nothing to fear.
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10 minute episode. Looks like the collective west attempt to win over India and Brazil when the G7 was in Japan, has failed.
Modi and Lula, done dealing with Zelensky. BRICS new currency
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$12 TRILLION — that’s the estimated value of coal in Donbass and other ex-Ukraine regions that are now part of Russia!
CO2 is plant food, so let’s hope they sell a lot of that coal to countries that have efficient coal power plants!
“Moscow controls 63% of Ukraine's coal, 11% of its oil, 20% of its natural gas, 42% of its metals, and 33% of its rare earths, including key minerals like lithium.”
Maybe Putin should go for the top regions that have a lot of oil and gas as well.
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