Is the defeat in Pyatykhatky and loss of almost entire Storm Ossetia actually a strategic win for Russia?
Is the defeat in Pyatykhatky and loss of almost entire Storm Ossetia actually a strategic win for Russia?
Is the defeat in Pyatykhatky and loss of almost entire Storm Ossetia actually a strategic win for Russia?
At least Russians are saying that, do they know something that we don't know?
>send a group of russian enclave cannon fodder to hold x position
>give them zero fire support or resupply
>when they get overrun delete the survivors with TOS
>deny their families compensation by saying the 233rd Ossetian Wifebeater Brigade never existed
>pay an Indian 2 rupee to pretend this was just as planned
>Wifebeater Brigade
my fricking sides.
How did a single video from a completely different section of the front manage to convince people there is some mass TOS bombardment in this area is beyond me.
>ossetians weren't skullfricked by their own side
Day ruined
Did you not read the screenshots? Is that beyond you?
>deny their families compensation by saying the 233rd Ossetian Wifebeater Brigade never existed
So is Russia doing the whole "unperson" thing again?
Anon they've been doing that since day 1.
Lookup what is needed for soldiers to get death benefits in Russia. Hint: The death must be formally acknowledged and recognized as a combat loss by the RU MoD, and they have dozens of ways of weaseling their way out of that. Easiest one?
>No body lol
>The death must be formally acknowledged and recognized as a combat loss by the RU MoD
AFAIK current acknowledged Russian losses are still in the low tens of thousands, so like maybe 10% of the actual figure
120,000 to 150,000 dead by now all in
>ogrish
Yeah but I meant what numbers the Russian MOD have formally acknowledged
Obvs the real numbers are way higher, I'm trying to gauge the scale of the con from how badly they understate casualty figures
It's russia not having a fricking clue about where it sends its people, which occurs in every war they fight. Mothers have had to pay huge bribes to find sons in hospital or have them peeled out of what passes for graves registration (literal dead zigger storage surrounded by barbed wire to try and keep animals away) just like in Chechnya and every other war.
Sounds like the old Warsaw uprising tactic but unlike the Poles, the Ossetians are important to Russia as they’re the local forces meant to protect their puppet country.
Russians are the most kind hearted people. Just look at all of their gestures of goodwill for Ukraine.
Actually a treaty wad signed over the return of Pyatykhatky to Ukraine in return for Ukraine’s neutral status. But clearly Zelensky bot was told by his Anglo-Saxons masters to break it almost immediately. Now eyebrows will be raised.
Are they trying to gloat over purported use of flamethrowers?
Flamethrowers means TOS.
It looks like TF2 mann vs machine tank
>moon runes
>no translations
go frick yourself you piece of shit.
r u blind? There are translations below moron
Are you actually fricking moronic? Like seriously.
picrel and below is what they were saying yesterday kek
>The battle for Pyatikhatki has been activated. Significant reserves are being drawn up from our side to this sector of the front. At the moment, the settlement is a gray zone.
>Many people ask why we defend this piece of land so much. Pyatikhatki is the first line of defense, the breakthrough of which opens up a denouement and access to Melitopol - the main goal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
so i guess it was another highly successful countercounteroffensive
How long untill they say that the first line is actually in the next town?
Probably tomorrow, considering the battle is now for the next village in line.
So the first line is actually the ones Ukrainians are attacking now? I wonder how poorly the other lines are manned and equipped if this is the case kek.
Rather, if we take the statement that Piatykhatky is on the first line, it was taken within half a day or so of being attacked and has been held despite repeated attempts by Russia to retake it.
So Russia's first line is weak, let's see if the supposed second and third ones have more to them.
There is no second or third lines. Only first lines all the way to Moscow
100% same language as was used about forever russian Kherson. So I guess russia is preparing to 4D feint again.
even russians are starting to understand you should check twice if a russian tells you the sky is blue
We will raise our crumpet and all will be ass.
>Khokhol attack on X has been repelled, over 10000 polish-mullato HATO mercenaries, 12 Boris Johnos clones, and 700 Leopold himarses destroyed
>there is heavy fighting in X, dills are losing 50 divisions an hour
>X has been temporarily taken by crest, ours counterattack retook it while destroying an entire US Marine corps
>We never intented to keep X, it's a killbox we kill over 500 million Zelesky a day in*~~)
It do always be like that
I saw a Twitter screencap saying that Ukraine was cancelling the counteroffensive 4 days ago so this isn't real
Of course it is, this is still all part of the plan. More Ossetian women for chad Moscow dwellers
Apparently Ukie are already about to take a village after this one.
Yeah its the same strat turkey used.
Kill all the military age males in aremina via draft in WW1 annex land and women when they are defenseless.
Its also thier strat for DPR and LPR kill all local males then annex with no chance of resistance.
More dead Russian Federation minorities is always a win for Russia since it makes it easier to maintain control over those regions. The only bad thing that could happen in this special military operation is if any siloviki or their families would be killed, which will never happen since most of them are safe in Europe.
On one hand yeah sure but on the other hand the minorities are the only ones having any kids these days. Not a good plan long term.
>The only bad thing that could happen in this special military operation is if any siloviki or their families would be killed, which will never happen since most of them are safe in Europe.
I has always annoyed me to no end that HATO is too pussy to use this ridiculous bargaining chip our enemies are willingly giving us. Imagine the world in which every nook threat or a foreign relation chimput or a clandestine FSB operation on NATO soil = 1 random oligarch child or prostitute suddenly disappearing without trace. Russia would turn into a fricking white dove of nations real fricking quick.
that is one of the few downsides to rule of law: due process severely restricts operational freedom
I think the biggest thing preventing that among nationstates is the almost certain retaliation it'll lead to. It's not hard to kill a congressman or senator.
Strategy?
>We didn't want it anyway.
kek
Every time.
I'm no expert on terrain in Ukraine, but isn't the supposed high ground mostly east of the village and part of it under Ukkie control?
Anybody have any convenient topographic maps of the area?
Highground is elevation of 60 meters over 2km length, Ukrainian side North of that village also sits on such elevation
I did my best Anon, because the website is a pain in the ass to use, but I believe this to be a topographic map of the battle area.
Link to map site can be found here:
https://en-gb.topographic-map.com/map-ht26mt/Lobkove/?zoom=12
>we lured entire counteroffensive into lowland
>the trap has clenched
Don't forget
>we lured them into the largest towns and villages, while we're stuck in the hamlets
i sure hope everyone's evacuated, imagine living in some little village of 60 and these people start fighting over it with leopards and thermobaric rockets
Here's a video from Ukrainian 128th brigade in Pyatikhatki, which shows a failed Russian tank assault on the village, including some Stugna kino
Russians had a high ground, how is this possible?
shut the frick up obi wan
>lose position
>kill reserves trying to recapture it
>repeat in next position
so this is the power of defence in depth
I wouldn't be surprised if whole offensive looked like that. Slow gains, hitting enemy command and ammo depot's, logistics and artillery. And after months win goes to side with more soldiers and equipment left. Already Russian loses shift more to the older equipment side, Ukrainian have steady supply of NATO weapons so I don't know, odds for russian aren't good in my opinion. Russian probably are trying to gain bit of momentum and initiative and they are trying actively counterattack when ukies aren't dug in in new settlements. But with less and less modern equipment I imagine some of that counterattacks will be free real estate for atgm teams, Bradley's, leopard etc
>le crumple zone
It's like pottery
>losing 300 men in a single engagement means we're winning actually
goddamn the russians keep reaching new levels of cope