luchtschip schreef op 27 februari 2022 17:57:
Russische invasie dreigt vooralsnog op een compleet fiasco uit te draaien
Unsurprisingly, the Russian invasion of Ukraine seems to be a spectacular failure in so many ways :
>>The idea of a Blitzkrieg failed. None of the planned tasks was accomplished as planned.
>>Not one single key city has been taken and held.
>>The Russian losses have been enormous.
>>The Russians failed to take out the Ukrainian air force and air defense. Many planes were apparently in the air.
>>The key airborne attack on Kyiv failed as the Russians failed to take either of the selected airports & the Ukrainians shot down to big IL-76, each w 125 paratroopers.
>>The attack from three directions on Kyiv is going nowhere.
>Massive Russian losses on the eastern bank.
>The attack from the north has been stopped far away (30 km?).
>The attack from the south is going nowhere.
>>The Russian attack on Kharkiv was perhaps the most pathetic. A number of light vehicles with a dozen of Russian soldiers behind each of them without helmets or bullet-proof vests, only kalashnikovs. Few tanks or armoured vehicles.
>>Ukraine seems to be littered with burnt out Russian military vehicles.
>Many Russian military vehicles have been left standing along the roads because the soldiers have sold the diesel and could not get more.
>When asked, the Russian soldiers know nothing about where they are.
>>Attempt to attack Odesa and Mariupol from the sea with landing craft appear to have failed.
>>>>This is an undisciplined, untrained, poorly equipped soldatesque.
>>>>>>>>>The Kremlin had better stop this military embarrassment as soon as possible
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