Russia-Ukraine War - News and Developments PART 2

[Paul2]

Telegrams: Kyselivka has changed hands again

Russians fell back again, and started shelling Kyselivka as usual. Almost nothing is left from that hamlet.

 

[Vergennes]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546589106234343433

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546583657523171331

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546605456889679884

 

[Hassan Al-Somal]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546438344443297792

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546589106234343433

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546583657523171331

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546605456889679884

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546629288153292800

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546599940989796357

 

[Hassan Al-Somal]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546599940989796357

Lisichansk, a newly liberated city in eastern #Ucrania , has been destroyed by clashes, but its residents are happy under Russian control. On July 3, #Rusia took control of Lisichansk, thus completing the liberation of all of #Lugansk . HispanTV.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546599940989796357

 

[Vergennes]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546615288086642688

 

[The SC]

 

[RescueRanger]

Telegrams: Kyselivka has changed hands again

Russians fell back again, and started shelling Kyselivka as usual. Almost nothing is left from that hamlet.

The fighting essentially wiped that place off the map.

 

[ckf]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546638334147133442

Soledar and control of North Bakhmut would be key to cutoff Bakhmut and Seversk

 

[Hassan Al-Somal]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546624001547575298

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546614507010772994

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546613857149485057

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546613745132134400

 

[ARMalik]

Putin:
They should have realised they had already lost from the very beginning of our special military operation. Because its beginning also meant the start of a fundamental breakdown of the American world order.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546645302416900101

 

[Bengal71]

Russian losses in military hardware are inching ever closer to 40% of their total. They effectively lost 3 full armies there, out of 10 armies they have. I did a bit of research of how much real are the Russian armies, and came to conclusion that 2 armies they had in the Far East are for all intents, and purposes institutionally defunct. They were functioning only to train reservists, without any genuine capability for offensive organisation, or operation. They were depleted of logistics, engineering, mid-tier officers, medics, own aviation, and had no presence in GHQ.

So, the real core of Russian presence in Ukraine are the 5 real armies, with more intact ones being ones most infantry+artillery rich. More tank, and technology heavy units have suffered the most. They also benefit from significant amount of Chechen irregulars, and DPR/LPR cannon-fodder, which nobody seem to be able to count.

It's nearly all infantry fighting + artillery.

My guess now, it's 65 thousands Russian troops + irregulars fighting on the frontlines, down from 70k 2 months ago. Second echelon forces, are increasingly being thrown onto frontline duty. I will put the size of Russian rear to be anywhere from 20k to 30k auxiliaries.

The minimum Russia needs to defend itself is 3 armies in the far-east. Otherwise, even North Koreans can invade them. Russian East if ripe for the taking. I wouldn't be surprised if even Japanese can now walk over into the Manchuria now, or Finland can retake Karelia.

Awesome, just continue the war for another 6 months and then voila, Russia lost all it's 10 armies. Then US, EU and Japan can come and divide the spoils among themselves, that's a lot of land and natural resources hey.

 

[The SC]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546634154703560705

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546620336493453320

 

[The SC]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546612443132186624

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546612128387416065

 

[The SC]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546609483958329344

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546609354555768832

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546608999956635648

 

[jhungary]

@jhungary

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546020369462591488

What do you think of his analysis? Not let up on attacking the Russians since they have reduced their artillery attacks? Keep on destroying their ammo depots and train stations and trains themselves while loading and unloading.

Well, the core of the usage of HIMARS or MLRS system like that is to disrupt your enemy logistic.

First of all, there are virtually no way you can stop Russian from launching Artillery Attacks, as long as they have rounds and tube, they will continue to be doing so, the question now become how you can mitigate such attacks.

Now, you can do it in one of the two ways, target the main supply effort (or Main Line of Communication)or disrupt their region supply depots (The one that serve the immediate area). Both are each of their own. As I mentioned before, if this was me, and when I get my hands on MLRS like M270 or HIMARS, I will go after their Main Line of Communication (Kupiansk) , because you disrupt the normal flow of supplies, it will not stop the onslaught for now, since the "Ready to Use" stuff are already distributed, but it will hamper the supply effort, effectively your line of supply will be interrupted and will have a hard time filtering supply. That's very simple, you disrupt the supply coming from Russia, you increasingly lower the amount that supply get to the front.

What the Ukrainian is doing is the other way, they are targeting the regional depots. Which make immediate disruption to the Russian supplies in the frontline, it basically lower the Russian warfighting capability by taking their supply out. This is harder task, may not be as useful (because there will be multiple supply dump serving the same area and you need to hit them all) but this will stop the immediate flow of supply.

As for why the Ukrainian do what they did, my educated guess is that they dont have enough HIMARS or M270s to make a large scale interruption that would work in Kupiansk. Which is why they are doing these hit and run type tactics.

The Russian is in strategic pause at the moment, which mean they are regrouping, and intelligence estimate they are probably 40-50% understrength, and in military term, they are culminated, unless the Russian can raise another 30-40 Full size BTG, they probably aren't going to move anywhere inland. Even after R&R, what I heard is they manage to raise 10 BTG of "volunteer" This is not going to be enough for the push.

So what the Ukrainian now doing is, they got their men trained in Ukraine, UK, Germany, Norway, France and Poland, they are raising 100,000 men every 2 to 3 months, what the Ukrainian is waiting on is the latest round of Western Equipment, afterward you can probably see the Ukrainian are going to make a push late August to early September, for now, Ukraine did the sensible thing and disrupting Russian supply as they waited.

The fighting essentially wiped that place off the map.

That place has been contented more times then my mother jewellery in the will after she passed away.

Russia lost that place, they are staring down the Ukrainian counter attack. Ukraine lost that place, they can't do much but counter attack from the coast line.

And last I check, it was Ukrainian who held that place....