The Russia is getting more evil thread

[TheWombat]

@Alistair

I wonder if they know it’s a mine field, or HIMARS has conditioned them to leg it when something goes bang.

Synergy, man, synergy! Seriously, that’s how these things are supposed to work I think. One system conditions you to react in ways that another system can exploit.

[Calelari]

Ya gotta leverage the synergies you create across your verticals to empower the guys in the field to impactfully disrupt the battlefield.

[TheWombat]

Though this may well be one of the few times all of that actually makes some sort of sense!

[Grifman]

HIMARS has usually been used against large immobile targets, but I’m certain drone directed artillery is always a worry.

[Grifman]

I’ve read that at least one of the unidentified objects recently downed over the US was the turret of a Russian T-72 tank.

[KevinC]

This number cannot be independently verified by the BBC, but it may be another indication that the much hyped and feared offensive has been underway. Given the lack of significant Russian advances, that may be a good sign that Ukraine is holding up so far.

Russian soldier death rate highest since first week of war - Ukraine

According to the Ukrainian data, highlighted by the UK, 824 Russian losses a day is more than four times the rate reported in June and July, when around 172 Russian soldiers died each day.

The UK’s MoD pointed out the recent increase could be due to “a range of factors, including lack of trained personnel, coordination, and resources across the front”.

Ukraine “also continues to suffer a high attrition rate”, the UK said.

[antlers]

Mobilized Russians from Tatarstan used as cannon fodder by DPR commanders refuse orders.

Ukraine War Bulletins and News (@SocraticEthics@mastodon.online)

[KevinC]

Three units sent in ahead of them and no one returned, then they’re ordered to go in. I can see why they might balk at that!

[Destarius]

I imagine the Russians have to shoot everyone who refused orders otherwise this could get out of hand fast. At this point almost every mission is a suicide mission.

[antlers]

That becomes difficult if a large enough unit refuses orders.

[ShivaX]

Sir Humphrey 🇺🇦

Colin Mulloy

I’m with Colin.

[Houngan]

Yeah, if Elon is the price, fuck it we’ll do it the old way.

[sillhouette]

TeslaTwitterStarlinkElonCo: not fascist but #1 with fascists

[KevinC]

A report that an entire Russian elite infantry brigade may have been wiped out in Vuhledar.

Russia may have lost an entire elite brigade near a Donetsk coal-mining town

As Russia probes Ukraine’s defensive lines ahead of an expected offensive, it might have lost the entire elite 155th naval infantry brigade while storming Vuhledar, a coal-mining town in the Donetsk region.

“A large number of enemy forces, including the command staff, were destroyed near Vuhledar and Mariinka in Donetsk Oblast,” Oleksiy Dmytrashkivskyi, head of the united press center of the Tavriskiy District of Ukrainian defense forces, told POLITICO. “In addition, over the past week, the enemy lost about 130 units of equipment, including 36 units of tanks.”

Russian forces also were losing 150-300 marines a day near Vuhledar, Dmytrashkivskyi said.

[Grifman]

That unit had already been decimated and reconstituted, seems nothing was learned.

As for the upcoming Russian offensive, this analyst feels it may not amount to much:

Phillips P. OBrien

Weekend Update #15

[KevinC]

Good read, thanks. Russia remains amateurs, I suppose!

Moreover, and I know this is my constant personal bugbear, no one bothered to analyse just how such a massive force of machines would be supplied. Once again, logistics lost out to scary hordes of Russian tanks streaking forward in the popular imagination.

All I can say, is that I see no indication whatsoever that the Russians could attempt such a major, air-armor breakout and exploitation. I don’t see how they could supply it, I don’t see any indication that their army knows how to execute it, and I cant see how the Ukrainians could be caught by surprise were the Russians to attempt it.

Maybe supplying the forces on the front isn’t the easy part after all.

[Woolen_Horde]

Amateurs talk tactics. Professionals study logistics.

[TheWombat]

@antlers

That becomes difficult if a large enough unit refuses orders.

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[Mark_Weston]

@ShivaX

I’m with Colin.

Setting aside Musk’s political grandstanding and general assholery, I don’t think it would be very surprising if any civilian telecoms company decided that they didn’t want their service used as the command-and-control mechanism for lethal drones.

[Mark_Weston]

That was a very good piece. I’m really glad at least a few of the commentators I see an twitter write in more long form too.