re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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You don't need targeting equipment if you have a map with accurate distances and know the windage...


If you want to hit an individual tank with a first round impact from artillery you do. If you want to drop any type of gps guided munition you do.

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Looks like Russia has a break through in the South. Made significant gains last night

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I assume all the fields in the area are likely too wet and muddy to traverse reliably. Perhaps they thought that since the weather was so bad, the threat of drones strikes was also minimal

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I am curious how the Ukrainian Army has managed to avoid any decisive battles with the Russians. Where are the Ukrainian tanks?

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It is the second week of war in Eastern Europe. We have a long way to go. The world remains in thrall of one man, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. The war continues to intensify with increasingly indiscriminate shelling and bombing. Hospitals, schools and apartments, some with sheltering citizens, become subject to the criminal neglect of Russian officers in their harried effort to achieve chimeric objectives.

The fiasco of the Polish MiG-29's has either been a misstep, as it most likely is, or a veiled signal, which it is most likely not. Either way, it gains for Putin a perceived leverage. But he has enough problems of his own. Besides a deepening quagmire and economic cataclysm he's had to admit draftees were sent into the conflict, something he promised would not happen. In classic Russian fashion he's vowed to punish those "responsible" for misjudging his orders. The senior officer corps has already been having a bad past few days. Two generals have been killed in action, and reportedly eight more have been sacked.

The humanitarian crisis is growing astronomically. With more than 2m Ukrainians on the road, sheltered in camps and quartered in Polish homes, the refugee migration is already 1/5th that of the Great War in just two weeks of conflict. Refugee corridors arranged by cease fire have been difficult to sustain with frequent violations. The Russians secure corridors leading into Russia while menacing those leading into the Ukrainian interior. Ukraine faces a demographic crisis as women and children flee their homeland while the men stay to fight. It is the year 2022.

The siege of Mariupol has been seeing the hardest urban fighting. The bombing of a hospital has appalled the world over. Fighting persists around Kharkiv. Skirmishing and raiding persists around Kyiv. Tentacles of the Russian advance are closing in around the Donbas where a good bulk of the field army is deployed. A fighting withdrawal to a line anchoring on Kharkiv on the left and Zaporizhzhia on the right is beginning to seem a more prudent defensive position to consider.

There is one encouraging note, and that as long as Putin is mired in an intractable conflict in Ukraine, he cannot threaten any other nation. Certainly not after the abysmal performance his army has shown thus far. Putin may yet win the conventional war in Ukraine, but he will never be able to control the country. This buys NATO time... perhaps years worth of time to build a credible deterrence it has heretofore lacked. That is no encouragement to Zelensky or Ukraine, but the West will continue to supply him with every ATGM and MANPADS he needs to kill Russians. Its the best we can do without risking the dreams of the entire world.

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chimeric

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I can't imagine they can risk losing armor like the Russians can. Perhaps they're avoiding going toe to toe using tanks to avoid losses they can't easily replace.

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That is no encouragement to Zelensky or Ukraine, but the West will continue to supply him with every ATGM and MANPADS he needs to kill Russians. Its the best we can do without risking the dreams of the entire world.

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