More equiment for the UA Forces?

Exactly what I'd do. Getting that hardware and ammo is just as important as taking the soldiers off of the board. Maybe more so now that mobilization has officially begun.

Well the bus station in Dnipro has up to 100 buses destroyed or damaged. Also hit near the shopping center, Bridge City, downtown Dnipro blowing out windows and hitting a residential area.

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The humanitarian column from Zaporozhye oblast was also attacked in the morning. 23 killed, 28 wounded. They are really stepping up the attacks on civilians.

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Yea its real, that channel has tons of railway russian equipment being moved

damn it!! .

From the same channel:

Fake.

“Annexation day” festivities.  Would like to point out that this could be a nice false flag opportunity.  NOTHING is too despicable for Russia at this point.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/xrx128/putin_afraid_of_annexation_day_no_briefcases/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Civilians blown to pieces in attack:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/xrwmfm/dnipro_mayor_tells_the_story_of_krims_family/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Alleged Russian platoon-sized infantry wave attack in Soledar:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/xrwh58/apparantly_the_fleeing_russians_in_the_earlier/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Deliberate targeting of civilian convoy at exit to occupied Zaphorizhia, 20+killed:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/xrwfc6/at_least_24_people_killed_after_the_russian/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

The only 2 they have?

Along with the 82s that still have that ghetto Z hand painted on the side. They couldn't even make a stencil and spray paint it?

Donbas is Ukraine
Kherson is Ukraine
Zaporizhzhia is Ukraine
Crimea is Ukraine

Death to every invader on Ukrainian soil. Fuck them all for the horror and death they brought to this peaceful country.  

No, nobody really springs to mind, they've always been good neighbors...

Have to wonder how well equipped with winter gear they'll be. Ya, they might be used to winter when they have their civi gear and a house with a fireplace

That was really insightful.  Thank you for posting that.

That looks like an "Intel inside" sticker.

We see 50-60 vehicles on there, and it breaks in the middle.  Assume it's 5x that.  What are the daily losses for Tanks/IFV/Trucks?  I've seen several days in the last 2 weeks that saw 50+ destroyed captured.  So in 5 days of combat, they have likely killed or captured what's on that train, or more.  What difference with those make?  They are just fuel for the fire.

Do i wish they weren't going to the front?  Yes.  It will cost Ukrainian lives to destroy them all, but they will all be destroyed or captured since RU seems incapable of mounting a real defense at this point.  The few professional units seem to be few and far between, with most of them down in Kershon area, which is why the progress there has been so much slower.  Also what enabled the lightning fast advances we have seen up north.

I guess my point is, that is not a game changer even if it's a massive train.  And if you only count the equipment you actually see?  It's been destroyed in literally a day, on at least 5 or 6 different days.  The orcs just bought themselves a few more miserable days.

The last piece of armor has an O

The attack on civilians this morn in Zaphorizhia is fucking sickening.. russian are nothing but pieces if shit. Worse than shit!. Putins little temper tantrum and claiming the referendums make any land he wants Russian is what a 2nd grader would do.  It's time the west officially declares them a terrorist state.  Stop being scared and just do it.

That looks like a “Property of US Government” sticker.

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I believe the reasoning for winter being preferable is the ability to move equipment more easily as the ground freezes.

Clothing here isn't really an issue as people are used to it, and know what to wear. I personally noticed how quickly you get tired if you aren't eating right. With an active lifestyle outdoors your battery drains quickly as your body tries to keep you warm. I imagine if the Russian troops are hungry now, they will be fucked when the temps drop below freezing.

Looks like Putin's circle jerk is underway.

Thanks for that, ill subscribe to that channel.

It's an Intel processor sticker next to an Nvidia sticker.  

I think adverse weather conditions like that will generally favor the smarter side. Which is Ukraine.  Adverse weather conditions will give somebody an advantage but you have to use your head.

I assume mud season means wet season, and while the Russian Air Force generally sucks, now it will suck more.  

Mud makes you roadbound.  If you're in a vehicle.  In Korea, in the Winter, the US was roadbound and the Red Chinese advanced along the ridges to get into our rear.  So for example if there was a sector of the front that was forested and muddy, and noone could get vehicles there, it could become an infantry fight and that plays to the Ukrainian advantage.  This assumes the Ukrainians can do go counterbattery in those areas.

There was a book I would recommend called "The Winter War" by a guy named Trotter.  The closer you get to roads and trafficable terrain, the Red Army's tanks and artillery and supplies really hammered the Finn defenders along the Mannerheim Line.  But up north where it was forested and sub zero, it could get catastrophic if you couldn't adapt to the environment.  And generally I doubt the Russians really train for much or adapt much.  And I assume frostbite, cold weather injuries, trenchfoot, will be insane with this crew of recruits coming up.  They dont get any training, you think they'll get socks? I predict idiot recruits huddled around fires getting UAV bombs dropped on them will be a thing.

I think if you rely on air power adverse weather is bad. If you rely on tanks mud is bad.  If you log is crap and you are trying to hide off road from UAVs, driving trucks of artillery ammo across fields, mud is very very bad.   Otherwise, adverse weather gives an advantage to whoever adapts to it.  A light infantry force that knows the terrain, can interdict Russian artillery with HIMARS, and  floods the zone with UAVs wont be blitzkrieg-ing; it will be a slow slog, but could do better.  It will be better, but slower, I think.

Thinking out loud, when you think of roadbound Russians stuck by the side of the road while the Finns ski'd around them, if I was a Ukrainian I would be asking for extra wide mud tires for ATVs. And it would be poetic justice if the Finns ship them some overwhites.

I am also thinking the Finns in 1940 did a good job rotating troops in and out, as the winner in adverse conditions is teh hard guy, but you dont have to be as hard if you ca warm up and get hot food and then be hard out in the cold and mud.  I don't think the Russians excel there, either. Logistics, troop morale, giving a shiot about their troopers, Yeah, um, No.   And don't fall for this "Russian peasant" myth. Patrolling and pulling security and supervising and leading requires NCO leadership, and I don't think there's any doubt of that, either.

I get a laugh out of these all the time.

Yes, very critical.  Lots of calories are needed and water needs go up, too.  Besides the obvious pers. equip. needs, the routine sustainment needs get much higher.

When I was younger I worked a few years as a ski patroller in northern Vermont.  Outdoors all daylight hours, most all days and all weather, 20F to -30F. The calorie needs were HUGE, we ate like wolves and generally still lost weight.  Required probably double normal calories.  If they rotate troops in/out of manned lines periodically and keep up the log chain, you can keep people performing at a very high level all winter.  If you can’t get double the food, increased water, and shelter periodically, the performance will tank rapidly.

The disparity can be like a force trained and equipped for night fighting vs. amateurs.  Just like “owning the night,” one side can “own the cold.”

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After night strikes in Kherson, Russian media reports that so-called “First Deputy Chairman of the Kherson Regional State Administration for Security” Aleksey Katerinichev was killed#Ukraine #Kherson pic.twitter.com/ktSB9nU0OQ

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