So far it really just seems to be throwing woefully underequipped (sometimes literally unarmed) and dubiously trained mobiks into battlehardened Ukranian regulars and then just sort of letting them die while hoping they delay the enemy long enough for their artillery to do something. Is this actually effective?
me thinks they are trying to save some good infantry for a push in spring next year, and probably using ex-Wagner as the cannon fodder tip of that spear
I think they are just trying to hold out until after the election when they will call for a mobilization again. We might not see an offensive until half a year after that.
Strategy?
There unironically isn't one. Chief Monke is just sacrificing wave after wave of troglodytes in the hope that as long as the war keeps on, the nationalists won't murder him.
The Russian army lost it's ability for strategies or offensives months ago.
Ranjesh, you have not reached your quota yet, get back to work
Unironically, the only unit in the ru army that knew how to do inf assaults, was Wagner.
And that was before ukr had Arty, DPICM and FPV advantage.
Hence Prigozhin taking Popasna etc quickly, but gets his shit pushed in at Bakhmut for 8 month.
>Unironically, the only unit in the ru army that knew how to do inf assaults, was Wagner.
>50K KIA
>Bahmut still isn't taken
>Wagner members see that grave is coming for everyone of them with such strategy
>Mutiny
>Pirog is dead
Yeah they knew things lol. How to cosplay The Enemy at the Gates
agreed, but they're still the best assault unit in the Russian army
Were, Wagner is currently getting dismantled and many of it's members are not signing on to the new "redut" unit
I think non signed members end as meat waves in the Bahmut anyway. They are legally criminals. Mercenary is the crime in Russia. Their leader is dead because they have now Putin's patronage. Therefore rank and file Wagnerites are fair game now for Russian """law enforcement"""". Same fate awaits them as penal battalions members they pressganged from jails before. Either sign contract with MoD or into the jail you go, where is the choice between volunteering into MoD "Storm" penal battalion or getting broom handle into the ass. Its their karma.
Yeah. They were the only hope for the vatniks, and then they were hanged, drawn and quartered.
There's something very Russian novel-esque about it.
Bloody bitch basterd!!1 Sar please do not redeem
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That's the only way Russians know how to fight. They figure if it worked during the Great Patriotic War, then it'll work now. Russians, as a matter of policy, don't reflect on fuck ups and work to improve their operations.
It's the whole eastern world, anon. This "much face-saving" shit is unironically fucking retarded.
Reading between the lines of my international business textbook, the writer was pretty based. "Western Europe was the most chad civilization on Earth because we value hard work, admitting and fixing mistakes, believe we can control our environment, and focus on success and achievement".
Meanwhile all thirdies, be they Russian, Chink, or Indian, are docile cattle that don't believe they have any control over reality, and furthermore, are too afraid to ever acknowledge a fuckup because it might cause someone to look bad.
There's a reason we conquered the world, and we can fucking do it again.
As an Asian I can confirm. Imma just sit in my nerdy office job and have you tough barbarian morons handle the killing.
Lol. Based and "The Middle Kingdom already has everything under heaven" pilled.
>>Lol. Based and "The Middle Kingdom already has everything under heaven" pilled.
God Bless Texas!
"I am a citizen of Texas, and those 49 other, lesser, states."
God bless Skippy.
Now that wagner has been spitted upon (the only guys actually competent at infantry operations or any offensive operation for that matter), i guess it ammounts to “send in the next wave”.
offense: lots of recon, artillery, light infantry infiltration tactics
sometimes they'll drive columns into oblivion like the early war
defense: mobiks in trenches, blocking detachments, fuck off huge mine fields, helicopters to blunt ukrainian pushes
> Is this actually effective?
To their credit, it’s the strategy that’s won Russia every war it’s ever been in. Though we may have finally reached a point in time where Russia no longer has the men to make “throw bodies at the problem until it goes away” work.
Did you ever hear of the crimean war? Their defeat ended serfdom in russia effectively by showing that hoards of unarmed serfs are no match for industrial weapons like artillery, resulting in a need to actually indistrialize or risk being steamrolled. Kinda funny how the myth of "throwing bodies" as an effective tool for waging wars still persists 150 years after it was disproven.
>strategy
>these days
I'm not sure how to tell you this, Anon, but for about eighteen months of the Special Needs Operation the Russian Forces have been pretty consistent in their "never plan, just react" mindset.
>delay the enemy long enough for their artillery to do something
pmc vagnar made this work, the penai battalions acted as a sufficient distraction to tie down ukrainian forces
>Is this actually effective?
its pritty harsh on the mobics and conscripts, loose about 40 or so people by the third wave and up to 80 people a day, but those are your low value units,
the more professional. elements of wagnar group sit back and operate drones and help to organise forward observation / call in fires.
it only really worked because Russia has such a large population to draw on, and a shit load of arty and vogs, Russians dont know what they are shooting at a lot of the time.
where as Ukraine has so few resources that they really have to hit more targets per shot, and they cant afford any losses even of their low value units.
The strategy is to tell monki all is fine and going well. The tactic is to use mobiks from outside st. Petersburg and Moscow. Pre-war Russia barely had enough NVGs or ratnik sets either way. Shit even the VDV did their assault on Antonov when the sun was coming up for what I assume was an acute lack of NVGs and not just assuming it would be easy but anything is possible. Daylight air assaults sound ass on a fortified airbase. The best equipped infantry will be their special forces and unironically chechens on tiktok
Same as it ever was.
I thought they were preparing for a counterattack.
The Estonian intelligence site has documented what the Russian trench hop looks like. Along with its estimated 50% casualties that spares the shock troops that make initial contact and then entrench but at the expense of literally everyone else.