Ukraine forces outgunned up to 40 to one by Russian forces, intelligence
report reveals

Kim Sengupta in Kyiv

Exclusive: Grinding conflict in east is ‘seriously demoralising’ Ukrainian
forces, dossier says

Ukrainian troops are suffering massive losses as they are outgunned 20 to
one in artillery and 40 to one in ammunition by Russian forces, according
to new intelligence painting a bleak picture of the conflict on the
frontline.

A report by Ukrainian and Western intelligence officials also reveals that
the Ukrainians are facing huge difficulties responding to Russians
shelling with their artillery restricted to a range of 25 kilometres,
while the enemy can strike from 12 times that distance.

For the first time since the war began, there is now concern over
desertion. The report, seen by The Independent, says the worsening
situation in the Donbas, with up to a hundred soldiers being killed a day,
is having “a seriously demoralising effect on Ukrainian forces as well as
a very real material effect; cases of desertion are growing every week”.

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-war-intelligence-
russia-kyiv-military-b2096715.html

статията във wikipedia ми е известна, така че нека ми бъде спестена.
предпочитам да видя анализ на написаното в статията, ако военният опит на
обсебения му позволява да направи такъв.

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Death by a thousand cuts: where is the west's Ukraine strategy?

The pounding, daily western narratives on 'Ukrainian wins' and 'Russian
losses' underpins the lack of an actual, cohesive Grand Strategy against
Moscow.

By Pepe Escobar May 16 2022

Wars are not won with tactics and narratives - they require a Grand
Strategy. Russia has a master plan behind its Ukraine military operations,
but does the west have one?

Strategic primacy, for Byzantium, more than diplomatic or military, was a
psychological affair. The word Strategia itself is derived from the Greek
strategos – which does not mean “General” in military terms, as the west
believes, but historically corresponds to a managerial politico-military
function.

It all starts with si vis pacem para bellum: “If you want peace prepare
for war.” Confrontation must develop simultaneously on multiple levels:
grand strategy, military strategy, operative, tactical.

But brilliant tactics, excellent operative intel and even massive
victories in a larger war theater cannot compensate for a lethal mistake
in terms of grand strategy. Just look at the Nazis in WWII.

…

Those clueless Pentagon and CIA ‘experts’

On Operation Z, the Russians revel in total strategic ambiguity, which has
the collective west completely discombobulated. The Pentagon does not have
the necessary intellectual firepower to out-smart the Russian General
Staff. Only a few outliers understand that this is not a war – since the
Ukraine Armed Forces have been irretrievably routed – but actually what
Russian military and naval expert Andrei Martyanov calls a “combined arms
police operation,” a work-in-progress on demilitarization and
denazification.

…

Ukraine was never about a military win. What is being accomplished is the
slow, painful destruction of the European Union (EU) economy, coupled with
extraordinary weapons profits for the western military-industrial complex
and creeping security rule by those nations’ political elites.

The latter, in turn, have been totally baffled by Russia’s C4ISR (Command,
Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and
Reconnaissance) capabilities, coupled with the stunning inefficiency of
their own constellation of Javelins, NLAWs, Stingers and Turkish Bayraktar
drones.

…

The caliber of ‘strategic’ advice from the NATO realm was self-evident in
the Serpent Island fiasco – a direct order issued by British ‘consultants’
to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky. The Commander-in-Chief of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valery Zaluzhny, thought the whole thing was
suicidal. He was proven right.

All the Russians had to do was launch a few choice anti-ship and surface
Onyx missiles from bastions stationed in Crimea on airports south of
Odessa. In no time, Serpent Island was back under Russian control – even
as high-ranking British and American marine officers ‘disappeared’ during
the Ukrainian landing on the island. They were the ‘strategic’ NATO actors
on the spot, doling out the lousy advice.

…

As much as there’s an energetic debate among the best Russian analysts
about the pace of Operation Z, Russian military planning proceeds
methodically, as if taking all the time it needs to solidify facts on the
ground.

Arguably the best example is the fate of Azov neo-Nazis at Azovstal in
Mariupol – the best-equipped unit of the Ukrainians, hands down. In the
end, they were totally outmatched by a numerically inferior Russian/
Chechen Spetsnaz contingent, and in record time for such a big city.

Another example is the advance on Izyum, in the Kharkov region – a key
bridgehead in the frontline. The Russian Ministry of Defense follows the
pattern of grinding the enemy while slowly advancing; if they face serious
resistance, they stop and smash the Ukrainian defensive lines with non-
stop missile and artillery strikes.

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https://thecradle.co/Article/columns/10277

останалото обсебения учЕн може да прочете и сам. за осмисляне не съм много
сигурен, но пък надеждата умирала последна, казвали някои стари хора.

оставям на съвестта на обсебения всички глупости, които евентуално ще
намери по адрес на автора на публикацията.

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