Russian Ukrainian War

[WW2historian]

I thought the Kyiv independent and other Ukrainian sources bullshitted a lot, but apparently not as much as the Washington military think tank the ISW. Ukraine says about 800,000 Russians have been killed and wounded, but the ISW says it's anywhere from about 1 to 1.6 million. This war has lasted 36 month and they say Russian losses are 30 to 45k a month? 36x45000= 1,620,000 That's laughable.
" — whether intended to increase the current grouping or rotate out existing forces — is likely intended to sustain Russia’s tempo of operations despite heavy losses of about 30,000 - 45,000 causalities (combined killed and wounded) per month.[10] "

Institute for the Study of War

The Kremlin has launched an information operation that seeks to create the false impression that the Russian economy is performing well despite numerous continued indicators of macroeconomic distress.

www.understandingwar.org

 

[GaudaNaresh]

"Own Crimea=win" There is no doubt about that. The Germans had Crimea cut off (but not on the sea) and also had stronger army and the best General in WW2, Manstein in charge of taking Crimea. However they had a bitch of a time taking Crimea. Although they eventually took it, I believe it was a Pyrrhic and weakened Germany. To take Crimea and hold it, the Germans needed to first fully concentrate on taking the oil fields in the Caucasus because that would've cut off Crimea mostly for resupply from the sea. That would've made it easier to take Crimea without huge losses. The fact that the idiot Ukrainians tried to take Crimea showed just how frigging stupid they are.

Taking crimea by land is also a big problem - the 'neck' of crimea, where Crimea joins the Eurasian mainland, is a swampy, marshy mess of a land. Good luck moving armor through that terrain.