The legal status of the newly mobilized personnel has been equated with that of contract soldiers. They can be sent to the front line. How much training they will get is an open question. Let's wait and see. Volunteer btlns typically got 30-60 days of training. But this is different.
Russian sources are confirming operational encirclement of Liman. Every road out is under Ukrainian fire. It's unclear what happens next. If Russia doesn't have reserves to counter-attack with, we might be looking at the first major surrender of Russian troops.
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Russia's Far East MD is apparently training their reservists. Unclear on everyone else. This isn't too surprising, Primor'ye region trained their volunteer btln on the basis of the 155th MarBde as a de-facto 4th btln. Other areas may not be so well organized.
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Is there any reports on the refurbishment of tanks to be added to these new recruits ,certainly this older article suggests some 3 thousand t-80s but have they ?Russia's Far East MD is apparently training their reservists. Unclear on everyone else. This isn't too surprising, Primor'ye region trained their volunteer btln on the basis of the 155th MarBde as a de-facto 4th btln. Other areas may not be so well organized.
Операция Z: Военкоры Русской Весны
‼️Подготовка бойцов на Дальнем Востоке идёт полным ходом На полигонах для мобилизованных проводятся стрельбы из различных видов вооружения, идёт обучение вождению бронетехники, тактике и т.д. t.me/RVvoenkor
Two things come to mind on thisRussia's Far East MD is apparently training their reservists. Unclear on everyone else. This isn't too surprising, Primor'ye region trained their volunteer btln on the basis of the 155th MarBde as a de-facto 4th btln. Other areas may not be so well organized.
Операция Z: Военкоры Русской Весны
‼️Подготовка бойцов на Дальнем Востоке идёт полным ходом На полигонах для мобилизованных проводятся стрельбы из различных видов вооружения, идёт обучение вождению бронетехники, тактике и т.д. t.me/RVvoenkor
1. If you remember, I mentioned battlefield geometry in the past. Looks like the Russian G3 (Operations and Plans) has failed in his plans and reaction to consider battlefield geometry during the battle in Lyman.
The T-14 has yet to reach line units. I would disregard it. Russia is definitely reactivating buckets of T-80s and T-62Ms. Also 2S3s, OSA SAMs, BM-21s, BM-27s etc.
I really don't know what the deal is. Someone apparently made the decision to hold Liman, and Russian and LNR troops are holding. Again no lack of will to fight. However it's no use holding Liman if you can't hold a front line. And this is the problem. Russia still doesn't have enough troops there to form a solid front line. It appears that small Ukrainian mobile groups are doing this by simply passing through the Russian line and forcing engagements on their terms, while Russia doesn't have the C4ISR to control the area with their own mobile groups and doesn't have the boots to just hold the ground.
thinking of interception by long range artillery ,Himars or even air assets
That would be true, unless it is a setup. I suspect that it might be as it is not usual for the Ukrainians to be so forthcoming except when they want to get the RU to move troops away from were they want to apply pressure. It could even be a double bluff?
That or the pictures have been allowed to be taken but a time delay on there release so that anything gleened from them is already out of date. I recall Ukraine suffering casualties a while back when a French news crew released unredacted footage/pictures and Russia was able to make use of it. No matter which possibility I am sure Ukraine learnt from that past mishap.
Yes. Marshal Georgy Zhukov would've been very pleased with the Ukrainian performance except that they're giving his Russian Army a thrashing. If he was in charge of the Russian Army, things would've been different and any officer who didn't perform would've wish that they weren't born. Certainly wouldn't be the fubar it is at the moment.
But the Americans put some of the perpetrators on trial. Russian brutality seems to have official backing.
Aa long as his handlers perceive that he is depressed about the performance of the troops rather than the performance of the 'commander in chief' - I am sure that he will have a bright, stable, and window free future.
Once you get with a few km, any value Lyman has as a rail hub vanished right ? So Lyman is being held for prestige/political reasons ?
Lyman was a solid place to hold while the held the east bank of the Oskil river as it could have acted as a solid anchor point. Once that started to fall and even advances from Izium its benefits quickly vanished until it became a liability. Why they didnt pull out sooner I dont know with the way the situation was changing. More troops and equipment would have escaped far more intact allowing them to reform a new line. With the delay and know having to effectively run to safety through what one could describe is a death trap means what does get out will be only a portion, injured, lacking in equipment and moral which would not be an effective force to reform the line. Actions like this will just allow Ukraine to continue the offensive as it weakens the Russian rather then the Ukrainian forces.