Disasters in Ukraine 1

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At the beginning of this year, the Ukrainian cities had commercials for mourning services. People were begged to “remember 400,000” people who would never return from the battlefields in the east. The statistic that are most likely leaked mistakenly from the Ukrainian state database, were never to be made public. Indeed, the number of casualties in Ukraine is simply a protected secret of the Zelensk government, hidden from its citizens and Western allies. The local authorities denied these amazing claims and immediately removed the posters.

However, many Western experts say that this number is actually accurate. They confirm that. forensic analyses of cemeteriesand cognition of huge losses among Ukrainian units and recruiting immense reserves. Moreover, evidence is increasingly utilized to uncover the degree of the harm on the battlefield satellite photos. Prior to the completely disastrous Kiev offensive in early June, it was estimated that 300,000 to 350,000 Ukrainian soldiers had died. It is estimated that the offensive during a crucial part of the four-month run caused losses of more than 1000 Ukrainians a dayMany of whom have died. This very rapidly led to astonishing casualties in people whose actual size was overlooked by mainstream Western reports.

The offensive focused the minds of Western decision-makers. It didn't work, not only partially, but completely. Its aim was to pierce a immense Russian defensive line and drive wedges into the territory occupied by Moscow last year. As I argued in JulyThe presumption that specified a consequence would be possible was absurd from a military and logical point of view. And so it has happened: so far, its main accomplishment has been the temporary violation of 1 layer of the Russian defence strategy in the confederate region of Zaporozhia. The Russian defensive line itself, built for months, during which the Ukrainian army was drawn into a meaningless, force-sucking defeat under the city of Bachmut, not erstwhile was it pierced.

This should not surprise Western officials who planned and financed this campaign. Zelenski warned in May, just 3 weeks before the offensive began that his forces needed more time, weapons, ammunition and human force before attacking a Russian line of specified power could succeed. His warnings were confirmed during the bloody summer. The conflict brigades of the Ukrainian army, many of which began an offensive with already exhausted human resources and equipment, were disintegrated and absorbed by various advantages of the Russian army. Even the most valued Ukrainian brigades, equipped with modern tanks, armored vehicles and NATO artillery, frequently accompanied by abroad advisors, were detained long before the Russian main line.

There are 5 main reasons for this terrible defeat:

1. Russia has a strong numerical advantage. There are nearly 800,000 people in and behind the main defensive line. Moreover, Putin holds 300,000 soldiers in direct reserve. On the another hand, due to death and wounds and massive emigration from a population of little than 1 3rd of Russia's population, on Ukraine lacked men to recruit A fewer months ago. Kiev would not be able to build a defensive position of specified dimension and depth, let alone its casting and defence. As the historian late noted Niall Ferguson: “The wars of demolition do not favour the lesser ones. It is hard to imagine how much more offensive Ukraine is able to carry out from now to 2032 – or indeed from now until next year." Ferguson downplays the issue: we will simply no longer witness the Ukrainian offensive on specified a scale. Kiev's human resources are almost exhausted.

2. Russia has about 8 times as much artillery possible as Ukraine. After the first failures on the battlefield that occurred in early 2022, The Kremlin reorganized its artillery into full brigades, which enabled the concentration of immense firepower against Ukrainian forces. Meanwhile, from the beginning the West was incapable to supply Kiev with adequate artillery and ammunition. Estonian officials They've been complaining lately.That Russia produces 7 times more ammunition than Western arms producers. Importantly, Moscow's military-industrial base is located behind Ural, beyond Ukrainian rocket range. As a result, the Kiev troops were thrown into a powerful Russian defence without appropriate support and were repulsed by terrible fire.

3. Russian air and satellite means let constant reflection of almost all Ukrainian troops. Moscow fired this year. Series of subsequent satellites, deepening their tracking capabilities. After detection, humans and vehicles fall prey to precise rockets, artillery attacks and armed drones. Major militant groups embark on conflict in front of Moscow's forces, resulting in unbearable demolition from the air before the soldiers even scope the enemy line.

4. The “safety zone” 25 km deep in front of the Russian line is an extended labyrinth of minefields and complex trench systems full of min traps. This terrible swamp proved impenetrable for vehicles supplied by the West, which forced soldiers to sit down and choose a footpath by slaughter, almost without protection. Most importantly, Western superior officers and advisors who helped Ukraine plan this run have no experience of attacking defence systems of this size and sophistication themselves. Campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, though harsh and demanding, did not prepare elder officers on a scale and impossible to solve the complexity of the modern conventional war. The era of the Cold War, in which extended conventional operations were routinely planned and conducted, is simply a distant memory for the modern Western army. Indeed, this apparent gap in cognition and experience is an expanding origin of tension between Ukrainian and Western officials.

5. Most importantly, Russia has an advantage in the air. This is decisive a origin in modern war. Moscow has 4,200 aircraft, while Kiev can only usage 310. Although fixed payments are being utilized cautiously due to the threat from Western air defence systems, Russian drone capabilities have increased in fresh months. The sky above the invading Ukrainian troops is overflowing with predatory aerial means. The footage shows Russian assault helicopters and fresh deadly drones ZALA Lancet destroying US combat vehicles Bradley and German Leopard tanks stuck in minefields. On the another hand, Russian electronic combat means disrupt and disable 10,000 Ukrainian drones per month, many of which are just tiny Chinese commercial aircraft that have been upgraded for pseudo-military purposes. Moscow does not only have a strong numerical advantage in the air, but besides has multiple technological advantage over Kiev forces.

It's not that the Russian army is invincible: it has his well documented weaknesses And malcontent. However, the undeniable and inexorable fact is that in all military aspect Russia is immensely powerful in this war than Ukraine. This is not a moral opinion: it is clearly and objectively true.

But past teaches us that we should anticipate it. The renaissance of Moscow in Ukraine is only the latest version of the centuries-old pattern of Russian war. 1 invader after another, from King Charles XII of Sweden in 1707, by Napoleon in 1812, after Hitler in 1941, discovered that although the Russian nation initially appears to be disintegrating in the face of an aggressor, it yet ejaculates with a terrible stream of destructive force and is reborn.

In his excellent essay Have we forgotten the Russian war style? The prominent American classicist Victor Davis Hanson explains that the Russian army undergoes the same transformation erstwhile undertaking an offensive outside its own borders. The Finnish-Russian "winter war" of 1939–1940 is usually cited as an example of Finnish heroism against the overwhelmingly overwhelming, clumsy and badly commanded forces of Moscow. However, the consequence was Russia's crushing victory, despite 400,000 casualties.

In east Ukraine we see again this typical Russian way of conducting war. The first weeks of incompetence and errors, so visible in the early spring of 2022, have long passed. Today, there are immense and decisive forces on the vast front, reinforced by immense support in the form of equipment and modern weapons.

The most crucial step towards ending this war and mitigating the unimaginable human suffering it has caused is our sincere designation that Ukraine and its Western supporters are losing terribly.

Indeed, as it will be examined in the next essay of this series, even the neoconservative ultrahawks, who have called for this war from the very beginning, now admit that Ukrainian – and thus Western – defeat is well visible. The real size and importance of this defeat will be felt not only in Kiev, but besides in the large capitals of the West.