The Medieval Slaughter To Which Russia Subjects Its Troops In Donbas
No professional military analyst understands Russian strategy - if it can be called that - on its last remaining Ukrainian front, which is in Donbas.
It is forcing its troops to choose between suicidal attacks - or being shot by FSB and Chechen 'blocking units,' reminiscent of Stalin's era. It's especially odd given that Russia no longer has an endless supply of troops. JL
Daily Kos reports:
This front is RIGHT ON TOP of Russia’s pre-February front
lines, and abuts one of the two regional capitals Russia still
holds. Wagner sends
wave after wave of prison cannon fodder to die in corpse-littered
fields. It’s positively medieval, and disconnected from any broader
strategic goal beyond “Wagner does whatever it wants, and ignores
Russia’s larger goals.” Maybe it does so because Russia lacks any
broader strategic goals. Or maybe it thinks gaining meters per day is great advertising for its deadly services. Russia’s inability to put together anything more substantive than
suicidal infantry charges means that all Russia is doing is exchanging
the lives of its own for cheap Ukrainian ammunition.
As I noted yesterday, what was Russia’s five axes of attack at the start of the war has been graduallywhittled downto a single front in The Donbas. Still, it’s a long front line, across two different oblasts (which collective make up the Donbas), with several directions of action. So let’s take a look at what should be the front lines for the foreseeable future (unless Ukraine surprises everyone with a new push into southern Kherson oblast or even Crimea).
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