Russian defense enterprises refuse to repair damaged military equipment of the occupiers. When delivering equipment for repair, the occupiers completely dismantle it, and spare parts and units are sold or exchanged for alcohol. More details:
https://gur.gov.ua/content/oboronni-pidpryiemstva-rosii-vidmovliaiutsia-remontuvaty-poshkodzhenu-boiovu-tekhniku-okupantiv.html
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Russian firms refuse to repair occupiers’ equipment
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Implement conscription and mobilization in Ukraine
It seems that the measures Kyiv has taken so far are not enough. Ukraine is waging a real people's, national war, and it must be waged accordingly. Introduce compulsory mobilization, conscript civilians into military production, requisition transport.
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Kyiv relies on insufficient foreign equipment, urging faster deliveries of tanks.
20. And Kyiv has no such reserves. We can only count on deliveries of foreign equipment. But they are clearly insufficient. The other day, Biden announced new deliveries, including, for example, 600 tanks. Now this is already serious. The only thing to do is to hurry up.
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Russian army loses 4x more gear, but has reserve tanks
Yes, the Russian army suffers four times as many losses in equipment. But Putin has old tanks in storage. pic.twitter.com/P1DLXBjS49
— ChrisO_wiki (@ChrisO_wiki) 3 juillet 2022Yes, the Russian army suffers four times as many equipment losses. But Putin has old tanks in storage.
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Flexible defence: static lines, strongholds, and strategic retreats
16. To make it very simple, in defence you can build static lines with strongholds. And relying on these fortifications to repel enemy attacks. Including retreating to the 2-3 line of defence if necessary and advancing slightly forward where possible. This is a flexible defence.
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Mobilized men: training time for 10 brigades in Western Ukraine
14. Conventionally, a massively mobilized 100,000 men could make up 10 brigades, which could undergo 2-3 months of training in camps in Western Ukraine. So that these 10 brigades could then be transferred to the front as fully combat-ready units.
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Ukraine needs to create and train many new motorized rifle and assault units
13. In addition, Ukraine needs to create new units from the mobilized forces – not only territorials, but also full-fledged motorized rifle and assault battalions, regiments, and brigades. Spend not 2-3 weeks, but 1-2 months to train them. And there should be many such units.
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Territorials: secondary tasks, defense, rear areas, and replenishing losses.
10. Perform secondary tasks – digging trenches and unloading trucks, roughly speaking. Occupy the second and third lines of defense, control the rear areas. Replenish active units in case of heavy losses. All of this can be done by the territorials.
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Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces face challenges on Donbas front lines
11. But due to the shortage of soldiers and high casualties, Ukraine is using territorials on the front lines. There are especially many of them in the Donbass. However, the territorials' combat effectiveness in direct combat is low. They lack heavy weapons and combat experience.
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Popasnya-Lysychansk operation ending: artillery advantage, but two other key reasons
7. We can see that the Popasnya-Lysychansk operation is concluding – Russia is a couple of steps away from full occupation of the Luhansk region. All this happened primarily because of the decisive advantage in artillery. But there are two other reasons we should not forget.