12:10
The hardest thing is probably when a person dies in front of you, whether it is a Russian or Ukrainian.
– as a human being you wish no other person to die, period.
Then we have the war on top of that, the Russians can choose to be there (well, it is a considerable amount of coercion) and they seem to have bigger problems with cold, bad food and poor leadership than that they are in Ukraine. They would rather shoot a Ukrainian than refuse war. If enough had refused war, there would be no war.
– they deserve to die as long as they are in Ukraine and you have no sympathy for them over a death in combat, especially because that Russian would have shot a Ukrainian if he had not died – that position you have to take.
Let Ukraine retaliate in kind if they want, I cannot judge a Ukrainian who would torture a Russian soldier when he has lost his wife and daughter to torture and rape by Russian soldiers. So many civilians have been affected by that so there are probably vengeful soldiers at the front.
– no one has the right from the safety of their couch to judge a Ukrainian committing an act of revenge on those premises.
Is the world fair, no.
20:59
Very well written by the blog 🤣 today’s ape-laugh.
“No stealing everything that isn’t glued down, no pooping and peeing everywhere, no littering and no taking women’s underwear (unclear to whom and why – maybe to the soldier lowest in the platoon hierarchy) like the Russians usually do.”
11:47
I think Gregg is becoming more and more worth reading, he is starting to emerge as a great strategist here 🙂
He fills the gap between what is happening and what the unit maps and official reports show in a good way.
Then you have to sift a bit.
He was almost the first to confirm that Ukraine was fighting east of the Oskil river, for example. Some of what he uncovers he seems to pull from Russian Telegram accounts, a bit like Rob Lee, but it is entirely combat-related, who is where.
And then that positive reports were not accurate, that they had not reached the Luhansk Oblast border, so he seems to want to report the truth and not run too far ahead.
He ends up between the medicated-positive Chuck Pfarrer (who draws bigger conclusions than I do from anecdotal information) and the unit maps which are a few days behind, both are wrong especially if opsec is in effect now also on the northern front which I suspect it is because we see very few photos after the first days. That does not mean that everyone sat down and opened vodka foolishly but that they no longer report.
Then it comes down to evaluating the source again – is what he writes logical, yes it is because chasing retreating Russians in the neck with forward reconnaissance/SOF/infantry is smart – so reasonably true and others lag behind in reporting. If we had videos of retreating Russians with a smoking Kupiansk in the background, yes we did, etc. with some other puzzle pieces.
Soon we will probably hear about Svatove, it is a long line they must defend and obviously fight, some BTG were in poor condition when they arrived to defend east of the Oskil river and it is likely not enough units to achieve a similarly stubborn defense as at Kherson. It could be that they reach Troitske or Kreminna first, seems to be lower density of Russians up north and they probably abandoned Kreminna. A bit strange I thought but maybe Svatove is considered the important place to defend?
Too many supplies there and it takes its time to move?