bigun
Red Skull Member
The two nations are engaged in a war of words.
I’m just re-upping this to remind us that the situation between Belarus and Ukraine is very touchy. The Belarus military is providing training to mobilized Russian reservists because Russia has a shortage of trainers due to the war. Russia wants to draw Belarus into the war to open a “second front” to pin down Ukrainian forces so they can’t be used in the east.
At the same time, Belarus is stripping its own military of tanks and armored fighting vehicles to transfer these to Russia to replace combat losses.
Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko is a savvy enough politician to know his people aren’t terribly interested in getting involved in Putin’s War. If you recall, Belarus had a surge of sabotage attacks on its rail lines in the direction of the Russian border (Belarus Rail Lines Carrying Trains With Supplies for the Russian Army Are Being Hit by Sabotage Attacks). In the past week, some more alleged sabotage activity has surfaced.
Ukrainian Special Forces Raids Airfield in Russia
Mainstream media reports that Ukrainian Special Forces carried out a raid on a Russian airfield at Pskov, some 400 miles from Ukraine…but only 20 from Latvia
Airfields aren’t the hardest targets to hit, and the chances of getting in and out without being detected are excellent. That being said, the Ukrainians are proving adept at conceiving and executing outside-the-box operations that a top-down army like Russia’s, has a hard time anticipating.
Mobilization Ends
I’ve covered the mobilization problems in some detail in previous posts. As I mentioned above, the Russians are trying to overcome their lack of a formal training establishment by using Belarusian Army trainers. The whole issue has turned into a political nightmare for Putin. Last week, Putin formally ended mobilization.
The pain of the men caught up in the process continues.
Even though I’m clearly supportive of Ukraine driving Russia back to the pre-2014 boundaries of that country, I’m also a professional infantry officer and an avid student of warfare. I may be proven wrong on this, or “time will tell,” as one of the more noxious “tankie” accounts says, but I can’t see how Russia feeds and clothes the men it is sending to Ukraine, much less train them and discipline them into cohesive and effective units. They are cannon fodder in the truest sense of the phrase.
ICYMI, last month, the head of Russia’s mobilization program unfortunately “suicided” himself.
Rail Line from Kiev to Chisinau (Moldova) Reopens
Poland Looks East for a Weapons Supplier
Poland cannot get the weapons it wants fast enough from Germany and the United States, so it has turned to South Korea to take up the slack. Of particular interest to Poland is the Chunmoo MLRS, a rough analog to HIMARS. HIMARS, a US-produced system, can’t be manufactured fast enough to meet Poland’s force modernization needs; South Korea doesn’t have that problem. Poland has already bought 190 Korean Black Panther tanks (video below) while waiting for the US to deliver M1 Abrams tanks.
I’m just re-upping this to remind us that the situation between Belarus and Ukraine is very touchy. The Belarus military is providing training to mobilized Russian reservists because Russia has a shortage of trainers due to the war. Russia wants to draw Belarus into the war to open a “second front” to pin down Ukrainian forces so they can’t be used in the east.
At the same time, Belarus is stripping its own military of tanks and armored fighting vehicles to transfer these to Russia to replace combat losses.
Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko is a savvy enough politician to know his people aren’t terribly interested in getting involved in Putin’s War. If you recall, Belarus had a surge of sabotage attacks on its rail lines in the direction of the Russian border (Belarus Rail Lines Carrying Trains With Supplies for the Russian Army Are Being Hit by Sabotage Attacks). In the past week, some more alleged sabotage activity has surfaced.
Ukrainian Special Forces Raids Airfield in Russia
Mainstream media reports that Ukrainian Special Forces carried out a raid on a Russian airfield at Pskov, some 400 miles from Ukraine…but only 20 from Latvia
Airfields aren’t the hardest targets to hit, and the chances of getting in and out without being detected are excellent. That being said, the Ukrainians are proving adept at conceiving and executing outside-the-box operations that a top-down army like Russia’s, has a hard time anticipating.
Mobilization Ends
I’ve covered the mobilization problems in some detail in previous posts. As I mentioned above, the Russians are trying to overcome their lack of a formal training establishment by using Belarusian Army trainers. The whole issue has turned into a political nightmare for Putin. Last week, Putin formally ended mobilization.
The pain of the men caught up in the process continues.
Even though I’m clearly supportive of Ukraine driving Russia back to the pre-2014 boundaries of that country, I’m also a professional infantry officer and an avid student of warfare. I may be proven wrong on this, or “time will tell,” as one of the more noxious “tankie” accounts says, but I can’t see how Russia feeds and clothes the men it is sending to Ukraine, much less train them and discipline them into cohesive and effective units. They are cannon fodder in the truest sense of the phrase.
ICYMI, last month, the head of Russia’s mobilization program unfortunately “suicided” himself.
Rail Line from Kiev to Chisinau (Moldova) Reopens
Poland Looks East for a Weapons Supplier
Poland cannot get the weapons it wants fast enough from Germany and the United States, so it has turned to South Korea to take up the slack. Of particular interest to Poland is the Chunmoo MLRS, a rough analog to HIMARS. HIMARS, a US-produced system, can’t be manufactured fast enough to meet Poland’s force modernization needs; South Korea doesn’t have that problem. Poland has already bought 190 Korean Black Panther tanks (video below) while waiting for the US to deliver M1 Abrams tanks.
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