From the battlefield of Ukraine same lessons are being learned very very fast like the very important use of this weapon systems and it's deadly result.
@reservior dogs bro nice post, do you remember the so called expert here claiming that Russia is losing cause they can't control Kharkov, Odessa and Kiev. Well I don't see them post anymore and an advise for them to read Mao dictum on peoples war “Keep men, lose land; land can be taken again. Keep land, lose men; you lose both”Let's bypass the fact that a few brigades worth of people, even with the best equipment, won't win the war, how would you supply the logistics? Mechanized warfare is very resource intensive. Since most of Eastern Ukraine is out of fuel, how would they provide the fuel that far away from the Polish border? Tankers won't last long once they are headed East. What about ammo? Cannon shells are very heavy and must rely on trains, which can be hit. Even against all odds, you are able to successfully deliver a trainload of ammo, you will need trucks to deliver them to the front, which requires a lot of trucks and can be hit. The rail network in the entire Ukraine is being disrupted. Once the Russians takes Donbass, they will even out the frontline and if the attacking forces make a mistake, they can quickly be surrounded and pounded with cannons.
I wouldn't call advance of Ukrainiant forces around Kharkiv a 'counteroffensive'. They simply sent in major forces and Russian/DPR forces retreated mostly behind Seversky Donetz river to more defensible positions. Any attempts to mount an attack to cut Russian supply lines were thwarted and when Ukrainians had to send their heavy equipment back to Donbass, they simply left territorial units and nazi batallion as screen. They were there not to fight, just to harass local population searching for 'collaborators'. Once Russian forces showed up in numbers and quality, they simply retreated closer to Kharkiv.The best option, I think, would have been to pull out most of the troops and equipment to more defensive lines on the other side of the Dnieper river and blow up most of the bridges over the river. They would be conceding a huge chunk of the country but would be much more defensible than the current situation. However with them not having control over the crossings around Kherson and Russia being able to attack via Belarus I think Ukraine is screwed either way. They failed big time with their "counteroffensive" around Kharkov. I think that will lose them the entire East of the country.
One reason why I think this is happening is the amount of destruction that has happened to the Ukrainian infrastructure and storage depots. They've been continuously hit for 100 days now, while in Poland/Romania everything is still intact. Videos of captured Ukrainian MREs all seem to be of western origin now.Both HistoryLegends and Shilao made the same comment yesterday that there is no big offensive coming. Everyone thought Ukraine would be arming and training a few brigades with all western stuff at the Polish border, then once they are ready send them to the front in one go as a big fist to make an impact. However we are observing that Kiev is actually sending all the gear they are receiving piecemeal to Donbas and to their counterattacks as soon as they are available. Thus there is not appreciable buildup in Western Ukraine.
Xi Yazhou disparaged this behavior in gaming terms calling it "送菜" or "feeding".
As previously mentioned, so even when Ukraine loses, it's spun as a win. I guess only time will tell. It's the same story from mariupol during the siege. They wanted to bleed the Russians, but in the end they bled out first it seems.Russia "advancing" in Severodonetsk, but suffering heavy causalities according to Ukraine