re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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"Kissing the icon in the lap" is an awesome euphemism.

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The ban is actually the Anti-personnel Landmine Convention which neither the US nor Russia are signatories, Ukraine is but I don't know if they have specifically breached it depending on the types of mines they have laid.

IIRC the only real land mine issue in the Geneva convention is the type of fragments that can be used. They are required to show up on X-ray so no glass for example.

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The Obama administration undertook a review of its policy towards the Ottawa Convention and in 2014 expressed an intention to eventually accede to the treaty. US policy under President Obama banned the production and acquisition of APLs as well as use of the weapons outside of the Korean Peninsula. 

 In sharp contrast to President Obama’s landmine policy, the Trump administration allowed the production and deployment of APLs anywhere in the world in 2020, although there was no known new use or production during his presidency. Two years later, the Biden administration announced that it would be rolling back the Trump administration’s policy, essentially returning to the 2014 approach. The Biden administration’s policy aligned U.S. APL policy outside of the Korean peninsula “with the key requirements of the Ottawa Convention – the international treaty prohibiting the use, stockpiling, production, and transfer of APL.”

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Russia is now deploying T-90S tanks to Ukraine. Possible that these were intended for India but Russia chose to send them to the Russian military because of heavy tank losses.

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T80-S

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IZIUM/2215 UTC 4 OCT/ UKR has expanded positions on the E bank of the Oskil River. RU Lines of Communication and Supply (LOCS) are now under bombardment. P-66 & H-26 HWYs being interdicted by UAV controlled precision strike artillery.

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The fact that Khokhols can concentrate large forces to break through in the offensive sector, deliver 2 main attacks at the same time, knock out artillery and work in our rear of the DRG, speaks of the level of their operational art and technical equipment. If we know that the Khokhol is concentrating large forces and preparing a strike, we do not take the necessary measures, we do not create defensive lines, including using civilian equipment, we do not act on the enemy’s communication routes in their at least the nearest rear, we do not mine possible approaches, in including using MLRS for this (or we do it formally, for show), then this speaks of our level of operational art.

I repeat once again, we have forces for defense. The enemy did not create an overwhelming superiority in manpower, and even more so in technology. Those defensive lines where we act more or less competently do not break through. Those units and subunits that do not abandon their equipment and do not run to the rear confidently hold their positions, like the same 126th coastal defense brigade of the Black Sea Fleet. Now the main issue (and this is always the main issue of any war) is well-organized logistics, which includes, among other things, the replenishment of units with personnel, the withdrawal of battered units to rest and replenishment, and not just an uninterrupted supply of ammunition.

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