Battlefront.com Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 19 minutes ago, ASL Veteran said: When you see me refer to shoulder fired AT weapons as "boomsticks", you know where I got it from Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinophile Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 15 minutes ago, akd said: @sburke @Kinophile Maj. Tyumen Suslov, engineer battalion commander. No unit given: Thank you! I'm going to see if I can find that anonymous dump of all the Russian personnel. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haiduk Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 (edited) Now we have a name of captured pilot of Su-35S Mayor Sergey Yermalov, 159th Fighter Aviation Regiment, Besovets airfield, Karelia, 105th Mixed Aviation Division, 6th AF and AD Army, Western Military District Had 40 sorties in Syria and 15 in Ukraine. Last two missions were search&destroy UKR AD assets Edited April 4, 2022 by Haiduk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongLeftFlank Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 If it's man portable and can reach out and touch Ivan, send it along! Separ militias still scraping the bottom of the kit barrel. While Mother Russia scrapes its manpower barrel. And a lot of those military aged men are not Slavs.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haiduk Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 21 minutes ago, akd said: @sburke @Kinophile Maj. Tyumen Suslov, engineer battalion commander. No unit given: @sburke @Kinophile His name Pavel Suslov, Tyumen is his city. 40th engineer-sapper regiment, Ishym town of Tiumen oblast 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinophile Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 1 minute ago, Haiduk said: @sburke @Kinophile His name Pavel Suslov, Tyumen is his city. 40th engineer-sapper regiment, Ishym town of Tiumen oblast Plus they've lost their Lt.-Col. What is their mother formation? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haiduk Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 (edited) 2 minutes ago, Kinophile said: What is their mother formation? 41st CAA of Eastern Military District Chernihiv axis Edited April 4, 2022 by Haiduk 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acrashb Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 14 minutes ago, Kinophile said: I'm going to see if I can find that anonymous dump of all the Russian personnel. Supposed to be here : https://ddosecrets.com/wiki/Russian_soldier_leak but I haven't been able to download. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lethaface Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 I'd not try downloading such stuff unless in an isolated VM/separate machine. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c3k Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 (edited) 25 minutes ago, LongLeftFlank said: If it's man portable and can reach out and touch Ivan, send it along! Separ militias still scraping the bottom of the kit barrel. While Mother Russia scrapes its manpower barrel. And a lot of those military aged men are not Slavs.... Ballpark numbers... Military age males are about 10% of the total population according to that. That graphic says total is ~146 million, so MAMs number about 15 million. If Russia has suffered 15,000 KIA and another 45,000 WIA, that's a mere 60k from that manpower barrel. Given that a society cannot draft 100% of the MAM into combat, unless the end is nigh (see Third Reich, about February of 1945), then let's say about 1/3 can be used. 5 million available, 60k casualties. Russia can dig a lot deeper. Can Putin survive if Russia digs deeper? Aye, now there's the question... Edited to add: and, what the hell are they going to equip them with??? I'll bet the new conscripts will have thought the days of, "grab the weapon of the man ahead of you when he falls" was behind them. Edited April 4, 2022 by c3k 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinophile Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 15 minutes ago, Lethaface said: I'd not try downloading such stuff unless in an isolated VM/separate machine. Oh for sure. I'm not operating without experience 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akd Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 More accounts from Bucha: https://theins.ru/en/politics/249960 Interesting is the mention of either Belarusians in the Russian Army / Security units, or a Belarusian unit was present. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haiduk Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 UKR MiG-29 not far from Cherkasy - Kaniv reservoir is seen 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akd Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 Reuters report on LDPR conscripts: https://www.reuters.com/world/conscripts-sent-fight-by-pro-russia-donbas-get-little-training-old-rifles-poor-2022-04-04/ And more from Bucha: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-street-corpse-with-hands-bound-bullet-wound-head-2022-04-03/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akd Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 I find this deeply symbolic of this war: 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan/california Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 1 hour ago, c3k said: Got it, thanks. The withdrawal was announced prior to occurring...which is odd. (If I've got my timeline correct.) If the best conventional Ukrainian units are in the Donbas, then that means Kyiv (<- trying to keep up with the "new" spelling in English) was a classic holding action with tier-2 units. That would explain the inability to pocket/cutoff the retreating Russians. To me, that Russian penetration was ripe for some large-scale surrenders. However, as you state, the distances the Russians needed to cover to get back into protected space were not far. And, they prioritized their VDV... The speed of the Russian withdrawal was an obvious factor mitigating against a Ukrainian kesselschlacht. (Gotta love the German combat vocabulary. ) It was good to see some Russian units divested themselves of EVERYTHING. Referencing the swimmers. About the need to consolidate and rest before going back into battle, I'd think just a few days in Belarus, a day to travel to a border location near east Ukraine, meet there with new supplies/equipment which used their delay in Belarus to get shipped to that rendezvous, and then a few days to get sorted with it. That's ~7-10 days before you'll see them back in combat, by my estimation. VDV maybe sooner. As Kinophile posted (among others), the Donbas represents a different problem for Ukraine. Hopefully, their offensive systems are up to challenge. Putin/Russia will not withdraw voluntarily. They'll have to be pried out and destroyed and whatever remnants sent back over the pre-2014 borders. Luhansk/Donetsk will be another problem. Crimea, even greater. This war will not end in just a few months. Until Russia is economically devastated as a consequence of Putin's aggression, this will just occur again after Russia re-arms. And, Putin will need to be tossed out. His pride is such that he will not admit defeat. (<- total armchair psychology). I think you are overestimating what the unit withdrawn from Kyiv have left, by quite a lot. There are multiple reports of units more or less mutinying when ordered back into the fight in the Donbas. The Russian troops are murderous **^&$$&*, but they are NOT brave or motivated murderous &%&$%&. The ones who faced Ukrainian ATGMs and artillery in combat are exhibiting ZERO motivation to do that again. An additional issue is that the troops withdrawn from the Kyiv area have already had an opportunity to loot one of the richest areas in Ukraine. That is not a description that can be applied to the Donbas/Mariupol front. So they don't even have that incentive. I really think that if the Russians try to shove those units back in without several weeks of refitting they are at great risk of them just collapsing utterly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aragorn2002 Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 7 minutes ago, dan/california said: I think you are overestimating what the unit withdrawn from Kyiv have left, by quite a lot. There are multiple reports of units more or less mutinying when ordered back into the fight in the Donbas. The Russian troops are murderous **^&$$&*, but they are NOT brave or motivated murderous &%&$%&. The ones who faced Ukrainian ATGMs and artillery in combat are exhibiting ZERO motivation to do that again. An additional issue is that the troops withdrawn from the Kyiv area have already had an opportunity to loot one of the richest areas in Ukraine. That is not a description that can be applied to the Donbas/Mariupol front. So they don't even have that incentive. I really think that if the Russians try to shove those units back in without several weeks of refitting they are at great risk of them just collapsing utterly. What I don't get is why the Russians don't leave those units near Kiev in order to fix as many Ukrainian units as possible. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armorgunner Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 1 hour ago, Haiduk said: Now we have a name of captured pilot of Su-35S Mayor Sergey Yermalov, 159th Fighter Aviation Regiment, Besovets airfield, Karelia, 105th Mixed Aviation Division, 6th AF and AD Army, Western Military District Had 40 sorties in Syria and 15 in Ukraine. Last two missions were search&destroy UKR AD assets Now it´s time for Finland, to take back Karelia. When all Russian assets are in captivety in Ukraine! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASL Veteran Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 Just now, Aragorn2002 said: What I don't get is why the Russians don't leave those units near Kiev in order to fix as many Ukrainian units as possible. My guess would be the threat of encirclement by Ukrainian forces in some areas and an unreliability in their ability to bring supplies through Belarus. That axis of advance requires solid support from Belarus and if the rail lines are being sabotaged along with the political stresses being experienced by the Belarussian government, then it's probably better to pull out. Especially if it's obvious that taking Kiev has become unlikely with the forces involved. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fernando Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 (edited) 13 minutes ago, Aragorn2002 said: What I don't get is why the Russians don't leave those units near Kiev in order to fix as many Ukrainian units as possible. It is better for the Russians to leave some units in Belarus rather than keep them inside Ukrania. They can fix some Ukranian troops with no danger of casualties. Edited April 4, 2022 by Fernando 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Armorgunner Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 4 minutes ago, Commanderski said: Just waiting for the Russians to get out of fuel, or moral. And then get in, and start towing 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinophile Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 (edited) @Haiduk or @akd Do you have any info on state of 144th MRB, or the 20th Gds. CAA in general? I have 3rd MRD as functionally combat ineffective - high losses, refusing to reenter combat. EDIT - my excel OOB listing RUS losses in commanders & whole units is below in my signature. Edited April 4, 2022 by Kinophile 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taranis Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 3 minutes ago, Armorgunner said: Just waiting for the Russians to get out of fuel, or moral. And then get in, and start towing You can see that the grass is greener on Ukraine side. Maybe it's one of the Russians' casus belli 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinophile Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 (edited) Khakassia internal security pigs getting leery of being sent to the abattoir. Edited April 4, 2022 by Kinophile 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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