Ukrainian War Developments

[Zichan]

Has there been an analysis published on the performance of Russian armor in Ukraine?

In the first days of the war, a lot of people pointed out that Russia appears to be holding its best units back. 10 days into the war, the evidence of destroyed, captured or abandoned tanks shows a largely normal or expected proportion of modern Russian tanks (50% of the total number) like the T-72B3, T-90A, T-72B3 (obr 2016) and T-80 BVM(2017) both with Relikt armor.. The only modern tank we haven't seen yet is the T-90M.

 

[windsclouds2030]

Igor Strelkov - Russian Political Analyst, Former Commander of Donetsk Military Force being interviewed by CGTN - published on 05 March 2022:

EU mentioned its willingness to consider Ukraine's EU membership application first, then Ukraine immediately submitted the application. This is just another way to encourage the Ukrainian leadership to keep the war going for as long as possible.

Both the West and EU have no illusions about Ukraine's victory in this war. However, their stake is not on helping Ukraine's victory over Russia but on dragging the war on. This war and the sanctions will bring great difficulties to the Russian economy, causing internal instability, even confusion on the territory of Russia. This is what their calculation is based on.

For this, the war must continue as long as possible. And the Ukrainian troops must fight with the hope that their allies are about to come. That is what all these statements and negotiations are aimed at. There will be no practical result, I think. No one will risk war with the Russia as long as it has nuclear weapons.

Professor Ivan Katchanovski @I_Katchanovski from University of Ottawa, a Political scientist doing Research in politics, conflicts, policy & political communication.

As I said, Western governments want to fight #Russia to the last Ukrainian: "The U.S. and its allies are planning for a Ukrainian government-in-exile and fueling a long insurgency against a Russian occupation." #Ukraine #UkraineRussianWar #RussiaUkraineWar

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1500204726209724420

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

Has there been an analysis published on the performance of Russian armor in Ukraine?

In the first days of the war, a lot of people pointed out that Russia appears to be holding its best units back. The evidence of destroyed, captured or abandoned tanks shows a largely normal or expected proportion of modern Russian tanks (50% of the total number) like the T-72B3, T-72B3 (2016), T-80 BVM(2017) with Relikt armor and T-90A. The only modern tank we haven't seen yet is the T-90M.

Note that almost all the photos are of abandoned tanks, not actually destroyed tanks.

Russian doctrine calls for abandoning tanks immediately if they break down or run out of fuel.

Not like the opponent can get them up and running again when their own fuel depots and supply stocks are destroyed, after all. Which is what happened on day 1.

 

[Anlsvrthng]

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

Look like the US is even willing to engage Venezuela in order to isolate Russia.

Wow, looks like they don't take the "nuclear weapons in latin america" as a bluff anymore.

 

[Lapin]

Yeah... Did nobody tell the Ukrainians, or they didn't care, that impersonating the enemy is prohibited by the Geneva Conventions? Which would make this a war crime.

The USA was outraged when Hanoi put American POWs in front of cameras to denounce the US war in Indochina.
Americans condemned that as a violation of the Geneva Convention.

But the USA regards it as admirable for Kyiv to use Russian POWs for propaganda purposes.

 

[Deino]

Oh well ... the former genius has spoken again! ... sometimes it's really not that hard to understand why the West is seen so much critically all over the world!

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1500330915637379073

 

[Lapin]

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

"How to access RT.com
If you can’t get news from RT due to government restrictions, here are some alternative ways to access our content"

I don't necessarily believe everything at RT. But I believe that people should be allowed to read it and make their own judgments.

 

[gelgoog]

Look like the US is even willing to engage Venezuela in order to isolate Russia.

Venezuela could not serve as a direct replacement for Russian oil. Even less so for Russian natural gas or coal.

Venezuela has heavy oil. It competes directly with the one produced by Canada. Not Russia. Sure a deal could bring the oil price in futures markets down but production would take months to ramp up and like I said would compete with Canadian oil. The actual long term solution to the problem would have been to build the Keystone XL pipeline in the US. This would allow moving Canadian heavy oil into Gulf of Mexico refineries which previously processed Venezuelan oil. But Biden ran on a campaign of blocking the construction of the pipeline. A deal with Venezuela and Iran both would keep futures market price for oil down and probably keep prices at the pump down when next election in US comes. But does not solve European nat gas or coal problem. It would not solve European diesel shortage either. For this refineries need to restart production.

The deal with Iran is more important than the deal with Venezuela.

Meanwhile, India and China will start getting access to cheap, below market price Russian oil once the initial disruption gets sorted out.
Russia could remain in pariah state status for decades, so that's decades of 'free market' subsidies to both economies.

Yes. Russian and Iranian oil would basically switch customers.

I believe some questionable commentary on Twitter says the Siberia/China gas pipeline is unprofitable for Russia but with the collapse of the ruble, that's definitely not true anymore.

Yes. A lot of people do not realize the collapse of the ruble will make lots of projects cheaper. Especially the ones with all Russian content and production chains. Like weapons production. Ever wonder why the closed Soviet Union economy was a military industrial powerhouse?

In the first days of the war, a lot of people pointed out that Russia appears to be holding its best units back. 10 days into the war, the evidence of destroyed, captured or abandoned tanks shows a largely normal or expected proportion of modern Russian tanks (50% of the total number) like the T-72B3, T-90A, T-72B3 (obr 2016) and T-80 BVM(2017) both with Relikt armor.. The only modern tank we haven't seen yet is the T-90M.

Yes they seem to have moved some of their best units forward. But they still are holding a lot back. Remember they are supposed to have like 150,000 soldiers in Ukraine. But Russian Army has 400,000 professional paid soldiers and 200,000 conscripts in service. And Putin announced a mobilization when the conflict started...

Russian Army has 500 T-90 tanks and not all of them are in Ukraine. Probably just one of the Guards brigades. I think it is one Guards brigade worth of T-90 and another one of T-80. The one with T-80 was the first brigade scheduled to take T-14 into service BTW. So those broken down T-80 tanks you see would have gone into the warehouse in 2-3 years.

 

[emblem21]

Wow, looks like they don't take the "nuclear weapons in latin america" as a bluff anymore.

After everything that the US has done to Venezuela, they suddenly decided that they want their help, this is rich. Maybe if they let the president of Venezuela get rid of Guaidó without any more complaints from the USA about human rights and end all sanctions to Venezuela and then repatriate all the gold the west has taken from the nation, talks could be considered but at the point, it would better to let the USA squirm instead because the in a few years, no nation is going to fear the USA anymore, well not when that nation gets torn down in a civil war any way.

 

[Helius]

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

"How to access RT.com
If you can’t get news from RT due to government restrictions, here are some alternative ways to access our content"

I don't necessarily believe everything at RT. But I believe that people should be allowed to read it and make their own judgments.

Hah, what these mere few days have revealed to us plain as day, is that there's only one kind of judgment to be made.

Once you start giving out dissenting judgments you may as well be guilty of the crime itself, and summarily sentenced by the court of public opinion where the idea of a fair trial is all but loss and suddenly foreign to the ruling elite who have the masses dancing in the palms of their hands.

Yes. Russian and Iranian oil would basically switch customers.

Assuming Iran plays ball with Europe.