Russian equipment has been destroyed at a faster rate than it can be produced or refurbished from storage depots. There's simply less of it. It is rare to see any Russian attacks with vehicles north of Avdiivka. Maybe once a month in the Kharkiv or Siversk sectors. It still happens a lot south of Avdiivka.
Russia compensates with infantry attacks. They used to try to achieve speed (without protection) with Desertcross 1000-3 "golf carts", but of the 2,000 or so they received from China, hundreds have been destroyed. They've since used motorcycles and dabbled in motorized scooters. One thing you haven't seen is a reduction in infantry casualties.
Supplies of humans are an issue for Russia, too. The bonus for signing up has increased several times because fewer humans are signing contracts. There are jobs unfilled in the economy and every human that is sent into the army is another job unfulfilled. As Russia runs out of equipment, their humans will be killed and wounded at a higher rate, so that's a factor.
There are no declared hard numbers regarding the limits of Russian manpower and the impact of those limits but they exist.
Thank you.
Very good 👍. Also, nice reference to 'counting coup' and appropiate to the situation.
learnt about the American West in my history class 30 years ago. I had a very good history teacher so it's stayed with me.
Seems to me there's a substantial decline in destroyed artillery, tanks and AFVs by ZSU daily reports.
That is accurate and documented by an Andrew Perpetua report posted last week.
(At the end of the post: https://donaldhill.substack.com/p/ukraine-update-ddb)
Russian equipment has been destroyed at a faster rate than it can be produced or refurbished from storage depots. There's simply less of it. It is rare to see any Russian attacks with vehicles north of Avdiivka. Maybe once a month in the Kharkiv or Siversk sectors. It still happens a lot south of Avdiivka.
Russia compensates with infantry attacks. They used to try to achieve speed (without protection) with Desertcross 1000-3 "golf carts", but of the 2,000 or so they received from China, hundreds have been destroyed. They've since used motorcycles and dabbled in motorized scooters. One thing you haven't seen is a reduction in infantry casualties.
Thanks for the comprehensive answer.
Dear Don. Informsprotyv makes every month report. May be It will be intrresting.also it makes some reports about troops what are on battelfield in Ukraine https://sprotyv.info/analitica/teror-czivilnogo-naselennya-stav-zagalnoyu-konczepczi%d1%94yu-vedennya-vijni-rosi%d1%97/
Thanks for the answer. So basically we are rather hoping that they will run out of assault rifles rather than of humans.
Supplies of humans are an issue for Russia, too. The bonus for signing up has increased several times because fewer humans are signing contracts. There are jobs unfilled in the economy and every human that is sent into the army is another job unfulfilled. As Russia runs out of equipment, their humans will be killed and wounded at a higher rate, so that's a factor.
There are no declared hard numbers regarding the limits of Russian manpower and the impact of those limits but they exist.
Still humans are easier to cheat into service than assembly lines into production.
Thanks for this Don