Topic: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] - page 241. (Read 73667 times)

Think about how stupid you are sounding. The Donbas area is not some tiny area off in the Ural Mountains somewhere. It's a big area, along with other areas south of it, that the Russians have liberated.

If people are too stupid now, to fix their own water and electricity, they were always too stupid to have any in the first place. Russians aren't stopping them from fixing their electricity and water. They are even helping them by protecting them from the rebel Ukraine military.

If the people don't want to fix their own water and electricity, and rebuild their own cities and homes that the Ukraine military destroyed, that's up to them. They have the ability to do either, to fix or not fix... or they never had these things in the first place, and might as well go back an live in caves like their ancient ancestors.

They must have sucked at it because Putin's army came in 2022 and still found entire cities full of people to raze and to kill.

all the killing and property damage that the Ukraine military did in the Donbas area since 2014

I will say a few words about the "barrage of fire" tactics, which the allied forces of Russia and the LDNR used to break into the fortified areas in Avdiivka. This is an old trick from the times of the First World War, which the Russian Army masters to perfection. To use it successfully, you need good logistics, because you will need to spend a huge amount of artillery shells and multiple launch rocket systems. Russia is now spending about 5,000 tons of artillery shells per day in Ukraine on the use of a "barrage of fire" (not counting high-precision missiles). For each unarmored target in the Donbass, 300-500 shells are spent. After such artillery preparation, assault detachments with the support of armored vehicles go into battle, usually formed according to the national principle (Tuvans, Buryats, Chechens, etc.), which use their native language in radio communications, which provides additional protection against radio interception. If the assault squads meet strong resistance, they move back and artillery again works on the identified positions. Such tactics make it possible to successfully advance without numerical superiority and with minimal losses (but with an increased consumption of artillery shells).

That's why 50 or even 100 HIMARS can't turn the tide of this operation. Russia can concentrate 10-15 divisions of howitzers and MLRS on a small sector of the front, and they plow everything with cheap shells and unguided rockets. And Ukraine can oppose only 1-2 divisions, which, moreover, are forced to hide from drones and high-precision missiles. The success of the operation to liberate Donbass is not a matter of strategy or tactics, it is a matter of logistics and timing.

When you need weapons from a foreign country to defend your country from a foreign invasion, you're simply being invaded by the country that is giving you the weapons.

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When you need weapons to defend your country from a foreign invasion, it really doesn't matter where they come from.  
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