{"id":8736,"date":"2024-01-22T10:05:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T09:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/2024-01-22-2\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T07:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T05:38:08","slug":"2024-01-22-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/2024-01-22-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2024-01-22"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"import-comment import-comment-level-0\">\n<h2>10:57 \u2013 Johan No.1<\/h2>\n<p>When you look at the amount of equipment in the Wikipedia list, you understand the astronomical level the support has been and still is at, but it\u2019s only good if it\u2019s enough to fight the barbarians. The Poles seem to have understood this and have ordered 1350 new tanks. The only thing one could criticize is that maybe they should have sent these 1350 tanks to Ukraine instead of taking up a lot of industrial capacity.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jurgen_nauditt\/status\/1749122329492308478?s=46&amp;t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\">https:\/\/x.com\/jurgen_nauditt\/status\/1749122329492308478?s=46&amp;t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>30 tanks are fun but if the Russians on the other side of the forest just got five hundred, it\u2019s a meaningless gesture.<\/p>\n<p>Up until the spring offensive 2023, the support was quite well thought-out \u2013 key capabilities were added that would make a big difference at the right time and increased gradually \u2013 there was a plan behind it.<br \/>\nOne of the most amusing things during the whole war was seeing the Russians move all ammunition depots in a sweat to 50km-80km-100km behind the fronts and then Ukraine got what reached further than the Russians thought and everything started again with big mushroom clouds and lots of death. The most dangerous job in the war \u2013 depot workers.<\/p>\n<p>After the spring offensive, it seems to have collapsed, F16s are delayed, artillery ammunition has completely stopped (that\u2019s wrong but it\u2019s the narrative being spread and I go along with it), hard vehicles are coming in small numbers and there is a big fight over Taurus.<\/p>\n<p>It might be that the West thought the war would end during the summer but if you don\u2019t send the equipment to achieve that, you have to expect a certain result, right?<\/p>\n<p>This FAB1500 bomb is extremely destructive and a terrible weapon. F16s had completely denied RU from using this weapon and they take their time to arrive.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/johanno1.bsky.social\/post\/3kjj3oxcbje2v\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\">https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/johanno1.bsky.social\/post\/3kjj3oxcbje2v<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then basically everyone who can think independently has understood that unless Russia turns inward, there will be a round two and since the West has not allowed UA to make Russia turn inward, a round two was always given.<br \/>\nNot sending enough material and then not starting new production and modification programs on a large scale is absolutely collective negligence by the entire West.<br \/>\nI know what I believe and that is that Russian subversive activities have been a major contributing cause to this.<\/p>\n<p>Now things are starting to move and I think we can loosen the grip on the boards a bit going forward and rejoice at the amount of heavy weapons Ukraine will buy or manufacture themselves as well as the improvement of armor protection generally against the hordes of barbarians.<\/p>\n<p>But\u2026<br \/>\nUkraine is treated differently and when you see things like 1350 tanks to Poland or 1000 hard vehicles to Morocco, you get completely tearful.<br \/>\nI can maybe on one level accept that the West does not see Ukraine as a country to wholeheartedly support since it\u2019s old Soviet or something but it\u2019s smart politics to get Ukraine into the EU and if Ukraine were to be included in future defense against Russia, that would be jackpot.<br \/>\nThe same with geopolitics \u2013 it\u2019s crystal clear that Ukraine is just a stepping stone for further Russian shiny conquests and that if it stops at Ukraine, the world will be a better place to live in.<br \/>\nThere is absolutely no excuse for the tardiness and the West has accepted a very high risk which is strange behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, the spirit of Bomber Harris has resurrected in Ukraine and they are hitting Russia\u2019s infrastructure hard, I keep nagging that this should not be underestimated because it should not be underestimated.<\/p>\n<p>Translate that to Stockholm and Gothenburg being blacked out for a few weeks this winter, the PREEM refinery exploding together with Forsmark and H\u00e4gglunds industries burning down for a few weeks while the Norwegians we are fighting post mocking messages on social media and our soldiers freeze to death in the Norwegian mountains. There is simmering unrest among the broad masses right now and the Siloviki are thinking about how to handle this.<\/p>\n<p>The repressive apparatus is not enough for both Ukraine and domestic unrest. Ukraine is quite smart because they try to make the price for waging war in Ukraine so painfully high that RU throws in the towel. The West\u2019s low-intensity response and respect for Russian barbarian mentality has only given Putin more genocide energy so now it\u2019s really time to try something new and see if it goes better.<\/p>\n<p>Today RU seems to have only one factory that makes all tank engines, one for all aircraft engines and so on and a striking number have already been visited.<br \/>\nEverything is dismissed as \u201ca small fire that could be extinguished\u201d and then you see a picture of a huge mushroom cloud hundreds of meters high on Twitter where it\u2019s quite clear that manufacturing has now stopped.<br \/>\nWe all understand that if a tank lacks a gearbox there will be no fighting, or other smaller components for that matter.<\/p>\n<p>Right now Ukraine is taking the oil embargo very seriously when the world did not \u2013 just learned that the Baltic Sea is trafficked by a large number of ships transporting Russian oil and LNG \u2013 naively thought there were sanctions against Russian oil?<br \/>\nWho is actually buying now when India no longer buys Russian oil?<br \/>\nLet Ukraine take out terminals by pinpricks so that no oil can be transported (which the West seems to accept now) and a major revenue source for Russia goes towards zero. If you have ever walked around an oil terminal, refinery or something else, you have also been struck by the complexity of the construction and it takes a drone in one place to cause at least damage that takes weeks to repair and the operation is on pause. Follow up with attacks or get a bullseye hit and you can shut down the entire operation for a long time and that\u2019s probably what Ukraine is campaigning for right now.<\/p>\n<p>There is one more factor to consider here \u2013 the Russian missile barrage has completely failed and their artillery does not reach far while Ukraine is wreaking havoc deep inside Russia, both self-esteem and wallet hurt.<br \/>\nThe oil industry is a red line for Russia, that is indisputable because it really stings.<\/p>\n<p>Russia can only escalate, we know that, and they have to top Bomber Harris\u2019s carpet bombing somehow which they cannot manage with conventional means in Ukraine.<br \/>\nThey now have two options \u2013 strike outside Ukraine with or without proxies and hope it scares the West into abandoning Ukraine or resort to nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>It feels more attractive to escalate with or without proxies \u2013 a bit more Russian, so expect spectacular terrorist attacks or other unpleasant things ahead on the scale of October 7. A car full of TNT in some densely populated city in the West from a freewheeling terror group is a low-odds bet.<\/p>\n<p>This year they have failed with sabotage against energy in the EU and all major terrorist attacks in the EU were discovered in time this year so the security services are obviously on the ball. I remember many spectacular executed terrorist attacks a few years ago.<br \/>\nBut just as Russia due to its enormous size is completely unable to protect itself against Ukraine, the West is unable to protect itself against all terrorist attacks.<br \/>\nA last ambitious attempt to get the West to withdraw its claws that can be blamed on proxies thus.<\/p>\n<p>The million-dollar question \u2013 how far is the country Russia willing to deteriorate to continue the war in Ukraine?<\/p>\n<p>The 26th MRR is now doing terribly near Krunky, lying there amid the shelling and the stun effect of the drones.<br \/>\nNow the 36th MRR doesn\u2019t want to be worse off and they are positioned over by Vuhledar.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/pstyle0ne1\/status\/1749194599061422452?s=46&amp;t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\">https:\/\/x.com\/pstyle0ne1\/status\/1749194599061422452?s=46&amp;t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A quick scan of the unit maps shows quite a few thousands of units gone near the Dnieper now, which are completely newly formed from mobilized troops with poor training and probably numbering around 1,000 strong.<\/p>\n<p>At least I expect a UA offensive soon, otherwise my personal profiling of Zalizhny has completely failed and I want my money back from that guy at the FBI who did it and charged way too much.<\/p>\n<p>Following up on my question whether that NAFO tweeter yesterday had a point with his loss ratios, Shusko seems to think that in Avdiivka it is 1:12 in hardware in favor of UA \u2013 that is absolutely enormous and maybe the barbarian loss ratio was also correct?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/igorsushko\/status\/1749209233932071326?s=46&amp;t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\">https:\/\/x.com\/igorsushko\/status\/1749209233932071326?s=46&amp;t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perpetua has the usual 1:5 ratio in barbarian losses and since many of the assaults involve running across fields (again\u2026) the ratio for barbarians should be similar.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/andrewperpetua\/status\/1749319258138365996?s=46&amp;t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\">https:\/\/x.com\/andrewperpetua\/status\/1749319258138365996?s=46&amp;t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zelensky has already confirmed this for us and anecdotal evidence supports it.<br \/>\nCan Russia absorb losses of 1:5 to 1:12 over time? No, of course not. I also have the feeling that this ratio has steadily improved over the course of the war and that the time when Ukraine suffered the greatest losses in 2022 has never returned.<\/p>\n<p>Remember here that RU went from 6,000 shells per day to 10,000 and that was considered a big deal. Until Ukraine managed to decimate the artillery, it was probably 50,000 \u2013 80,000 per day or something and that was also where Ukraine took 70% of its losses. They managed through an enormous campaign to decimate the Russian artillery by about 70%, risking mixing up the numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Then we have this very interesting puzzle piece that fits well with what Skator posted earlier in the thread, that RU is making extra efforts to recover abandoned vehicles near Krunky.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/anno1540\/status\/1749227949180473345?s=46&amp;t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\">https:\/\/x.com\/anno1540\/status\/1749227949180473345?s=46&amp;t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w<\/a><br \/>\nA train with T62s and a dozen recovery vehicles \u2013 you prioritize what you send, right?<br \/>\nPartly old vehicles but also recovery capacity, so now they prioritize getting home vehicles that can be repaired.<br \/>\nThe guy who always talks about the Russians being short on armor might not be entirely wrong after all?<\/p>\n<p>The rumor that the West has lifted restrictions on long-range weapons doesn\u2019t seem to be true because SS went to Crimea and not targets in Russia, now we know that.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/noelreports\/status\/1749027974865690870?s=46&amp;t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\">https:\/\/x.com\/noelreports\/status\/1749027974865690870?s=46&amp;t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are thus 3 million cluster munitions that are to be scrapped and not sent to Ukraine.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/secretsqrl123\/status\/1749229826064470229?s=46&amp;t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\">https:\/\/x.com\/secretsqrl123\/status\/1749229826064470229?s=46&amp;t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here you have the number of US destroyers equipped with high energy lasers.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/airpowernew1\/status\/1749161520280297604?s=46&amp;t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\">https:\/\/x.com\/airpowernew1\/status\/1749161520280297604?s=46&amp;t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regarding Operation &#8220;Turn Off the Lights,&#8221; this post from Erik14 shows how it starts \u2013 they take out some \u201csubstation\u201d (what is the Swedish word?) and then the heating goes out due to the power outage and everything takes weeks to repair. Heating pipes freeze and burst, drains freeze and burst.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LXSummer1\/status\/1749167591900217441?t=Q_Cr-5Rg1bKNAXfeF5j-8g&amp;s=19\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/LXSummer1\/status\/1749167591900217441?t=Q_Cr-5Rg1bKNAXfeF5j-8g&amp;s=19<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The soldiers\u2019 wives have had enough.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jurgen_nauditt\/status\/1748919938310410550?s=46&amp;t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\">https:\/\/x.com\/jurgen_nauditt\/status\/1748919938310410550?s=46&amp;t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is another angle to consider \u2013 US support has stopped and Ukraine strikes directly at the Russian oil industry.<br \/>\nWas it the US that had the strongest demand that Russia must be made to peace?<br \/>\nIt is at least obvious that Ukraine no longer considers it necessary to refrain from taking the war into Russia.<br \/>\nSince the EU promises more support, the countries in the EU presumably have no objection to this.<\/p>\n<p>Worth diving into, but if it was the US\u2019s brainchild that UA should not strike targets in Russia, there are a huge number of wrong decisions from the US in this war, we will see when history is written.<\/p>\n<p>UA is now dealing with this year\u2019s missile rain just like with the Black Sea Fleet\u2019s embargo on maritime traffic \u2013 they strike and the Russians dodge and blow a lot of hot air in the media instead.<\/p>\n<p>After this, we will actually see if Russia will unleash more missile rain; the thread\u2019s guess before it started was that it would become a Black Sea Fleet affair if you remember.<\/p>\n<p>T..p praises Orban<br \/>\nThat T..p would praise Orban, an absolutely insignificant leader who is only important for supporting Putin, speaks volumes. So much so that I am prepared to claim that T..p is pro-Russian and doing Putin\u2019s bidding.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jayinkyiv\/status\/1749099176527364192?s=46&amp;t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\">https:\/\/x.com\/jayinkyiv\/status\/1749099176527364192?s=46&amp;t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I know it is so but one looks for the piece of information that cannot be disputed and here it is; as an engineer you want to prove everything. Putin and Xi are after all world leaders but Orban is nothing \u2013 a bit like T..p going out and praising M\u00e4rta Stenevi \u2013 completely unreasonable if he were a somewhat mainstream presidential candidate.<br \/>\nI am prepared to go so far as to say he will never set foot in the White House again.<br \/>\nT..p has said a lot recently that is negative-negative but this statement totally exposes him and if we can figure it out, others have figured it out.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has lost this war but it is not lost until they give up or are thrown out.<\/p>\n<p>The carpet bombings that are spreading will of course not diminish because Budanov has already told us that they have tens of thousands of drones completed and they build many thousands per month.<br \/>\nWe also have winter cold in Russia in March, so over two months of freezing.<\/p>\n<p>20% of Russia\u2019s LNG exports went up in smoke in the latest drone attack \u2013 does anyone think four successful attacks more are far off?<\/p>\n<p>Russia is completely unable to defend itself while Ukraine can shoot down +90% of all attempts against Ukraine \u2013 that is what reality outside the media looks like.<\/p>\n<p>The war is already won.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine is now the aggressor and the ball is rolling, they strike at Russia\u2019s soft parts and fuel liberation movements inside Russia. They couldn\u2019t manage this in 2022 and in 2023 they weren\u2019t allowed to do it but 2024 finally seems to have opened up.<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons Putin desperately tries to get his win is that he understands he has stirred up the wrong hornet\u2019s nest and unless Ukraine is defeated, Russia will turn inward.<\/p>\n<p>It will be incredibly fun to see Russia scream and cry at the UN and beg to at least keep Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>The siloviki have a few more months to negotiate as long as they have occupied territories left to negotiate over.<br \/>\nWhen the country is liberated, no straitjacket in the world can prevent Ukraine from collapsing Russia if they have retaken the country by force.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing that could become an emergency exit for Putin is if they withdraw to the 1991 borders and the West negotiates a deal and conditions it on Ukraine&#8217;s EU membership, but they need to do that now.<\/p>\n<p>This emergency exit will close permanently quite soon, it closes when the Azov strike has been delivered.<br \/>\n(I know, a bit dramatic but some talking points cannot be negotiated away with the principals).<\/p>\n<p>The media wants to discuss weapon shortages and that Russia will attack the EU in a few years, I think 2024 started with carpet bombing in Russia and am now impatiently waiting for the next daring offensive from Zalizhny.<\/p>\n<p>If they no longer listen to the admonitions not to take the war into Russia, maybe they have also stopped listening to the bungling NATO officers and will run their own offensive race going forward.<\/p>\n<p>They retake Northern Luhansk by entering the northern Oblasts and the darkest Donbass by moving towards Rostov na Don \u2013 there is already low-intensity war in Russia today so crossing the border is much less than we think.<\/p>\n<p>ATESH and SOF are wreaking havoc like an angry swarm of hornets in the rear but they will probably increase and we have only seen the beginning of the drone swarms.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be mechanized combat because there is an offensive reserve that has now recovered somewhat.<br \/>\nThe International Legion may have fewer fighters but ethnic Russian units have kilometers-long queues of applicants.<\/p>\n<p>2024 started like a New Year&#8217;s fireworks display, roughly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"import-comment import-comment-level-1\">\n<h3>11:50 \u2013 MatsExtrude<\/h3>\n<p>Thanks! \ud83d\udc4d <\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see if Ukraine launches a counteroffensive soon. It would be a show of strength so I hope you are right! <\/p>\n<p>Trump has probably liked most dictators for a long time. I would guess he would prefer to join that group himself.. Putin is one of the &#8220;worse&#8221; ones so of course he likes to be friends with him.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding Orb\u00e1n, Trump&#8217;s affection is nothing new:<br \/>\nFour years ago: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FewGyHBPMcg\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FewGyHBPMcg<\/a><br \/>\nTwo years ago: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tp9zmKz6Svk\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tp9zmKz6Svk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;ve seen MAGAs interviewed who highlight Hungary as an example country that they think the USA should emulate.. They don&#8217;t seem to mind an autocrat, as long as it&#8217;s Trump..)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"import-comment import-comment-level-1\">\n<h3>13:04 \u2013 Johan No.1<\/h3>\n<p>I still don&#8217;t know if I should call it a switchgear or something else \ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"import-comment import-comment-level-2\">\n<h4>13:23 \u2013 Johan No.1<\/h4>\n<p>Now they are too dumb to understand it but the dictator you want because you think you will be the one who gets all the advantages and doesn&#8217;t get arrested has a high probability of affecting you too.<\/p>\n<p>Quite often a dictator cleans out those who first supported him, ask SA and the left in Iran how they thought that went \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"import-comment import-comment-level-2\">\n<h4>13:28 \u2013 MatsExtrude<\/h4>\n<p>Thought it was obvious, it&#8217;s called: &#8220;Transformer station distribution switchgear installation&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>NOTE! Add signal at the beginning if you mean railway instead of electricity!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"import-comment import-comment-level-1\">\n<h3>13:29 \u2013 Johan No.1<\/h3>\n<p>That one is always tricky \u2013<br \/>\n-you will lose \u2013 the F10 basketball team gives up.<br \/>\n-you have won this \u2013 the F10 team feels they don&#8217;t need to fight at all and lose.<\/p>\n<p>What has been consistent is that at the first sign of adversity, a collective West throws up their hands and says there is no point in supporting Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, I have developed a certain way of writing.<\/p>\n<p>But yes, the West and especially the EU will have to deal with Russia for decades to come so nothing will return to normal.<\/p>\n<p>However, the collapse in Ukraine will come much faster than everyone currently thinks, it is no longer a wet sandbag they are kicking that barely moves but a bag of those white rice cakes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"import-comment import-comment-level-3\">\n<h5>13:34 \u2013 MatsExtrude<\/h5>\n<p>Yes, the supporters who have shown they are willing to do anything to put &#8220;their&#8221; dictator in power are known to be potentially very dangerous in the future. Better to get rid of them..  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"import-comment import-comment-level-1\">\n<h3>13:37 \u2013 Johan No.1<\/h3>\n<p>Well \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>Putin will not give up \u2013 correct.<\/p>\n<p>Has the Black Sea Fleet retreated from Crimea?<\/p>\n<p>Has the elite air force stopped flying over Ukraine (not completely but reduced missions)?<\/p>\n<p>Has the army air force stopped flying over Ukraine?<\/p>\n<p>Has RU stopped this year&#8217;s missile rain (maybe\u2026)?<\/p>\n<p>Has RU already retreated from 50% of the conquered territory?<\/p>\n<p>They will not &#8220;give up&#8221; but they will first lose the southern front, then lose Crimea, then lose Belgorod, then northern Luhansk and finally the darkest Donbass.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the intensity of liberation deeds and drone bombings has only increased.<\/p>\n<p>And many sub-republics and oblasts have taken the opportunity to free themselves.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s roughly how it will play out, maybe Russia turns inward earlier.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"import-comment import-comment-level-2\">\n<h4>14:58 \u2013 Johan No.1<\/h4>\n<p>Very hard to choose between the two proposals \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"import-comment import-comment-level-1\">\n<h3>15:16 \u2013 Johan No.1<\/h3>\n<p>Wow today half the text got pushed back, I need to start setting aside more work time to proofread and fact-check before I post \ud83d\ude05<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"import-comment import-comment-level-1\">\n<h3>15:20 \u2013 Johan No.1<\/h3>\n<p>That is very interesting, the more I learn the more I understand that they are a simple criminal clan who also happen to be a country with nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>That they were responsible for large-scale drug smuggling into the EU at the state level I would never have understood, I thought it was the mafias and not the security services. That means in the long run that all smuggling via embassies that I thought was mostly the inner circle was also sanctioned?<\/p>\n<p>Imagine how large an amount must have been brought in through diplomatic mail over the years?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"import-comment import-comment-level-1\">\n<h3>16:02 \u2013 Johan No.1<\/h3>\n<p>\ud83d\ude32 the stench of corpses surrounding oneself with about a dozen corpses to hide must be indescribable along with rats and maggots.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, I can\u2019t understand how the Russian soldiers can accept this, it also exceeds my comprehension actually.<br \/>\nIn your description above, we are not very far from the orcs in Mordor actually.<\/p>\n<p>Worth noting that the Russians have gone from mechanized combat to &#8220;mole tactics,&#8221; doesn&#8217;t feel like winning a war directly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"import-comment import-comment-level-1\">\n<h3>16:13 \u2013 Johan No.1<\/h3>\n<p>Ukraine themselves have stated that they were not allowed to enter Belgorod with Ukrainian units so they sent in ethnic Russian and Belarusian units with some UN peacekeepers and some reinforced vehicles from the USA.<\/p>\n<p>They received enormous criticism for the Belgorod raids and there were no more after that. It far exceeded the Western materiel used and the criticism could only have been about the actual invasion of Russia.<\/p>\n<p>At the attack in Novorossiysk it was Ukrainian-built marine drones and drones (maybe) that struck and they received a yellow card from the West Zelensky himself has stated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"import-comment import-comment-level-2\">\n<h4>16:28 \u2013 MatsExtrude<\/h4>\n<p>They almost have to be on drugs if they are going to survive such an environment for a longer time..<\/p>\n<p>The few who possibly survive will have wonderful memories of the successful SMO in Ukraine for the rest of their lives.. <\/p>\n<p>Putin really doesn&#8217;t care about his population. 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