Russian invasion of Ukraine

[Corvus]

No tanks, no planes and an embarrassingly low vehicle count.

https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/s...688151553?s=20

Have they run out of propaganda vehicles?

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No VDV on parade either.

[Iphie]

Prig's claiming a russian MoD unit fled the battlefield in Bakhmut leaving the Wanker flank open.

https://www.anews.com.tr/world/2023/...bat-in-bakhmut

[Flarelaine]

That would be so massively retardedly obvious of a false flag that I don't think even Russians would be willing to swallow it.

Populists all over the globe have a cult following that will readily believe they did not crap their own pants.

[Corvus]

Prig's claiming a russian MoD unit fled the battlefield in Bakhmut leaving the Wanker flank open.

https://www.anews.com.tr/world/2023/...bat-in-bakhmut

Sounds like an excuse as to why they failed to capture Bakhmut by pooties mandated may day date.

As an added irony about the parade, the t34 was one of the ex Laotian ones russia bought - and those were made in Czechoslovakia. Yup, it wasn't even a russian tank.

[Iphie]

Prig's also saying he will withdraw if he doesn't get the promised ammo, according to the articles on this and I hear he was complaining yesterday that he hadn't been supplied as promised. (to which I say, are you really surprised prig? Really?)

Enfin, another article about the accusation with a bit more info, Le monde is a bit more mainstream yes?

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/internatio...6026020_4.html

[Elder Millennial]

The whole Prig-Shoigu-Gerasimov-Kadyrov-DNR-LNR infighting circle really only demonstrates that the Russian chain of command is on the verge of completely collapsing.

I seriously doubt at this point that the Russian military could at this point execute any theater wide operation, even a bad one like the 3 prong invasion last year, if they wanted or had to.

If the Ukrainian counter-offensive hits hard enough, I think it's feasible that the Russian chain of command might just collapse completely and different factions might just start ignoring orders from Moscow.

[Edge-]

So the big military parade had a single ancient T34? Is that why Putin attended this via Zoom call?

[Iphie]

So the big military parade had a single ancient T34? Is that why Putin attended this via Zoom call?

He was present in person...or at least someone who looked like him.

But yes, one T-34 and some IFV's and APC's. A few Nukes (empty no doubt.), a few Iskanders and some S-400s.

[Makabreska]

Did they even trying to hide this level of patheticness with some doctored footage?

[Edge-]

He was present in person...or at least someone who looked like him.

But yes, one T-34 and some IFV's and APC's. A few Nukes (empty no doubt.), a few Iskanders and some S-400s.

I wonder if they actually brought out some troops for the parade or if they hired a bunch of out of work theater actors or something.

[YUPPIE]

I find it interesting no one found Putin intimidating despite his angry expressions and rhetoric. I swear I even saw some Russian spectators smirking/laughing in this parade.

[Elder Millennial]

I wonder if they actually brought out some troops for the parade or if they hired a bunch of out of work theater actors or something.

There were some troops, but also stuff like rail troops (Russian logistics being overwhelmingly train related they have a branch of the military which are essentially dedicated rail workers) and seemingly every cadet from every military academy they could scrape together.

[Iphie]

Did they even trying to hide this level of patheticness with some doctored footage?

Nope, you should see the reactions around the world to this display. I mean if the idea was to show strength then they failed miserably, and if I was China I'd take note.

[AntiFascistVoter]

Well, Putin's opposition just might die from laughter at this point.



The most humiliating military parade we saw in Moscow, ever. Seriously, it is so pathetic that I cannot stop laughing. Just one T-34-85 tank, the only tank. Like I said, Russia needs all of their functioning gear at the front. Ukraine completely brought Russia to the brink





This thread a year ago. "uKRaINe caNt hANdLe the iNCOmING rUSsiA ResERveS. EnDLesS SUppLY OF BaCk Up tANks."

[Makabreska]

Nope, you should see the reactions around the world to this display. I mean if the idea was to show strength then they failed miserably, and if I was China I'd take note.

Russian "strength" was exposed hard over a year ago. Now it seems they dont even have the power to keep up appearances during a major holiday of their "WW2 victors" religion.

[Iphie]

Russian "strength" was exposed hard over a year ago. Now it seems they dont even have the power to keep up appearances during a major holiday of their "WW2 victors" religion.

You know what was meant, this wouldn't even convince the most ardent supporter of putin.

[ringpriest]

The whole Prig-Shoigu-Gerasimov-Kadyrov-DNR-LNR infighting circle really only demonstrates that the Russian chain of command is on the verge of completely collapsing.

I seriously doubt at this point that the Russian military could at this point execute any theater wide operation, even a bad one like the 3 prong invasion last year, if they wanted or had to.

If the Ukrainian counter-offensive hits hard enough, I think it's feasible that the Russian chain of command might just collapse completely and different factions might just start ignoring orders from Moscow.

As another point demonstrating the Russian military's inability to coordinate, look at the various missile attacks on Ukraine over the last 2-3 days. Over 160 missiles were fired on different axes... in penny-ante packets spread over the course of a day or more. If they're been able to coordinate that to within an hour or two, Ukrainian air defense (or at least C&C) could have been overwhelmed. As it was, by giving the Ukrainians the freedom to address each individual volley on its own the effectiveness of the attack was significantly degraded.

[Elder Millennial]

As another point demonstrating the Russian military's inability to coordinate, look at the various missile attacks on Ukraine over the last 2-3 days. Over 160 missiles were fired on different axes... in penny-ante packets spread over the course of a day or more. If they're been able to coordinate that to within an hour or two, Ukrainian air defense (or at least C&C) could have been overwhelmed. As it was, by giving the Ukrainians the freedom to address each individual volley on its own the effectiveness of the attack was significantly degraded.

Actually, I've read an article on this topic. It seems to be that most "missiles" they are launching are actually those Iranian Shahed drones, complemented by higher altitude Russian military drones (tho those are in short supply, tho they are very problematic as they are in that weird range where they are too cheap to be shot down with BUKs or Patriots but fly too high to be machine gunned down, this is probably having way more of those Gepards would help) and some ballistic missiles (which the Ukrainians have gotten pretty good at shooting down).

The Ukrainians have set up mobile "anti-drone" units. Which are basically a bunch of dudes with a pick up truck, some heavy machine guns, maybe a couple of Manpads and a cellphone.

The Ukrainian government has an app people can install on their phones to report sightings of drones etc (most of them fly quite slow), which is combined with military radar data and the drone hunters can track the drone sightings via their mobile phones.

So big waves of drones would get intercepted very quickly.

So the Russian work around is sending a few drones down certain paths, with a bigger wave following them. The big wave changes course depending where the "bait" drones encounter the most resistance.

Russia just doesn't have the capacity for firing big waves of missiles like back in the winter, and the Ukrainians have adapted to the whole Iranian drone bullshit. There's also a question of just how many drones can the Iranians supply the Russians with, as the Russians are likely using them up pretty much as they are getting them.

(Seriously fuck Iran seven different ways for this bullshit.)

https://www.businessinsider.com/ukra...methods-2023-5 (original article, it's probably pay walled.)

[Edge-]

https://i.imgur.com/ghktb0C.png

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I'm sure the decision to use two different shots is partially intentional and all but fuckin rofl. Does Ukraine have more Russian tanks than are left in the actual country of Russia? At least operational ones?

[zealo]

https://preview.redd.it/n4m6rhuqhuya...abled&8adafd53

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I'm sure the decision to use two different shots is partially intentional and all but fuckin rofl. Does Ukraine have more Russian tanks than are left in the actual country of Russia? At least operational ones?

Uh, there's a 403 error on that link, I'm pretty sure reddit doesn't allow you to link image previews like that.