Russian Artillery today, russian air defense yesterday, who’s left for the meat grinder?
Honest question, what’s left of their conventional forces if they’re sending specialists into meatwaves.
russia is not a paper tiger but a shit bear, covered in shit, eating shit, smearing shit everywhere.
accurate.
I certainly hope this is the case, and they know anything they do drag out of mothballs won’t last long at all.
they know anything they do drag out of mothballs won’t last long at all.
they’ve been raiding the stored soviet shit for two years and sending it to the front.
This feels like an anecdote being stretched out to make a wild conclusion. Russia still has a healthy supply of infantry on the front and cycled off. It wouldnt make any sense to start transferring specialist units onto the front. From what ive seen they are still using artillery on the major front lines especially in parkrovsk.
. Russia still has a healthy supply of infantry on the front
LOL WHAT?
They’re sending air defense artillery and tube artillery units to the front, hell they’re taking assholes off boats and turning them into meatwaves. They’re sending people into combat on crutches.
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/kuznetsov-naval-infantry-kharkov
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/22/europe/russia-wounded-troops-frontline-latam-intl/
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/russia-prematurely-sending-wounded-soldiers-1738500144.html
pray tell, where is this healthy supply of infantry?
return home?
you think any of these guys got cycled off the front? pfft, maybe in a bag
Putin’s never going to let a large mass of soldiers return home lol
These are so obviously fluff. From what we know casualtie rates are similar with Ukraine having suffered a bit less. Active duty russia outnumbers Ukraine 880k to 1.1m. This is a pro Ukrainian analysis so the real numbers are likely to be worse.
Ukraine is rotating off less and less and their active and inactive reserves are much lower than russia.
This goes over troop counts https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/comparing-size-and-capabilities-russian-and-ukrainian-militaries
The russia has a bottleneck on how many people they can conscript due to training services and support pipelines. Ukraine does not have that luxury.
This isnt to say its over for Ukraine its just bringing a bit of reality back because i hate seeing people gloat as if Ukraine is wrecking russia when theyre actually being ground down in a losing war of attrition. Russia has adapted a lot since the start of the war they arent untrained teenagers being sent to the front with nothing anymore.
This goes over the conscription in russia. Not very interesting. https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-force-generation-and-technological-adaptations-update-september-24-2025/
These are so obviously fluff.
so you’re just going to say “disregard all the evidence provided, it’ doesn’t count”
russia has been sending drunks and cripples to the front for over a year. bet you’re gonna ignore that too.
Ukraine IS wrecking russia. day by day, hour by hour, they’ve destroyed a tremendous amount of their refining and oil transport infrastructure over the last six months.
acting like none of this is happening is quite russian tho, cute.
I wish Ukraine was wrecking russia but its unfortunately not the case. They’ve done well to slow down the war and hold but holding still costs them lives and supplies.
I can dismiss all your articles because they are fluff you can’t actually think they are of any informational value. Pointing at a handful of unverified examples and speculating on the troop count of the entire battlefield is dumb. Russia has over a million active duty soldiers they dont need to send specialists as grunts. As for sending wounded soldiers watch footage from Ukraine they are often wounded as well. 2000m to andrivka has a guy with 1 leg. The rate of killed vs wounded is like 1:5 so there are a shit ton of wounded soldiers who recover and head back out on both sides.
you really love rhetorical strawman arguments.
because they are fluff you can’t actually think they are of any informational value.
this says jack and shit. diddly squat. you refute my assertions… with NOTHING.
Meanwhile, you continue to posit ridiculous ideas predicated on your deep history of volunteering supporting arguments in the form of… NOTHING.
If you’re going to dismiss entire categories but provide zero evidence of your own I’m going to disregard you. Oh, already did.
maybe you can convince the miles of idiots waiting for gas in russia and crimea that’s never going to come lol
Shocking how delusional some people are. None of what im saying is controversial.
shocking how some people assert they understand everything without providing an ounce of evidence to support their premise.
do you have evidence that the RU petroleum system is doing fine lol?
Putin’s never going to let a large mass of soldiers return home lol
Traditionally, letting a whole bunch of poorly treated, battle-hardened soldiers with a severe grudge against their leaders back into your country hasn’t gone well for said leaders. Letting them die in the field for little additional gains might be a strategic choice for Putin not suddenly finding himself in unexpected exile or “unexpected exile”
like, I think russia learned that lesson after ww1 right?
Remember when there were idiots saying
The real russian army is on the other side of the urals?haha yes, still waiting to see these units! imagine, they’ve been fighting with one arm behind their back this entire time because they’re terribly good sportsmen and 'tis only a special military operation, pfft.
A “healthy supply” my ass.
Do you think Russia is low on troops?
I dunno… you tell me:
The mobilized have little or no leave, they are required to stay in the fight years after their enlistment.
they’re sending their best tho
well maybe some uh, help from abroad!
yeah only the finest
meanwhile the mobilization is hurting their entire economy.
which is really just built on resource extraction (that Ukraine has beaten the absolute shit out of recently) and arms sales (no one is looking at Russia’s war in Ukraine as a testament to Russian arms superiority lol).
Do I think Russia is low on troops? Yeah, yeah I do. It’s taken years but yes.
Thank you for compiling those articles. MSN Newsweek nypost aljazera are high quality outlets to be taken extremely seriously.
sigh… do you think they’d drag north korean self propelled arty across the entire continent, just to lose them to drones too, if they had any fucking choice?
https://bsky.app/profile/specialkhersoncat.bsky.social/post/3m22txhlyzk2o
there’s no argument that will sway you, no evidence that will give you pause to reconsider.
Lmao you’re an idiot. How can you reach these conclusions. You only provided evidence of arty being destroyed from a good source thats it the rest you made up.
No I dont think they were forced to drag artillery all the way over from north Korea. Russia has ties with NK and it was a opportunity for NK troops to get experience and foster closer ties with Russia. This was a chance for russia to push boundaries and escalate to test NATOs.
Its rough losing that gear no doubt and russia has been forced to becomr more cautious with assets than in the beginning of the war. Do you think they would reject a ceasefire that allows them to keep all captured territory if they were low on troops and being forced to bring in low skill NK troops?
No I dont think they were forced to drag artillery all the way over from north Korea.
ah the north korean self propelled artillery flew on fairy wings from NK.
roger that.
Or you don’t think it’s NK at all? pfft.
It’s important to note that russia will never “run out” of anything. Making tube artillery isn’t hard (compared to say, modern radar systems or nightvision gear), and they can just keep making more.
What they’re running out of are the ungodly amounts of cold war reserves meant to rush the Fulda Gap. The “free” soviet holdovers that Russia could re-mobilize relatively easy is finally gone, after using up all the easy stuff, all the kinda-hard stuff, and now also the not-quite-a-rusted-scrappiece-yet.
But they CAN still make new guns, it’s just much slower than pulling them out of storage. And that means Russia will have far fewer guns in the field. And that’s kind of a big problem for a military that has spent the last century basically centered around massed tube artillery and tanks.
Making tube artillery isn’t hard (compared to say, modern radar systems or nightvision gear), and they can just keep making more.
ehhh… harder than you think. there’s a lot of metallurgy involved with the forging, requiring chromium they have to import (chromed barrels last MUCH longer, 2-3 times more rounds per tube). Then once you have a barrel blank, you have a very tight precision dance of taking that blank and boring out the tube, breech and other complex bits - these processes take time and more importantly, western sourced equipment that hasn’t been replaced since the early 2010s. If you half ass it the barrel explodes, so it’s a touchy bit of work. https://en.defence-ua.com/industries/artillery_barrel_production_in_russia_structure_importance_and_weak_points-12151.html
the fact that they’re fielding north korean arty in ukraine tells me whatever stores they had must be running low, because how else do you justify moving self propelled guns from manchuria to europe? https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-destroys-fifth-north-korean-artillery-system-one-month-2050575
edit: some of these that got popped yesterday !
https://bsky.app/profile/specialkhersoncat.bsky.social/post/3m22txhlyzk2o
And that’s kind of a big problem for a military that has spent the last century basically centered around massed tube artillery and tanks.
this is a very good point, RU has traditionally leaned really hard on the massed artillery aspect of warfare and that isn’t going to be as easy an option moving forward
“Never running out of anything” is a stupid claim.
So the war isn’t a dump truck?
only if they fit into the series of tubes.
