Ukraine war: Russia's army in abysmal condition - forces clash

Created: 03/23/2022, 17:07

By: Christian Stör

The Ukraine war is developing into a disaster for Vladimir Putin.

Previously unconfirmed reports from the front are devastating.

• In the Ukraine war*, the army of Russia* seems to be in big trouble.

• The troops of Russia's President Vladimir Putin* are apparently not able to secure the supply routes to the front in Ukraine*.

• Soldiers attacking each other, injured people who are not cared for: Unconfirmed reports from the Ukraine conflict* paint a devastating picture of the Russian invasion.

Update, 5:07 p.m .:

An allegedly intercepted phone call was published by Ukraine to prove the catastrophic conditions of the Russian army on the war front.

Two alleged soldiers from Russia talk about the war in Ukraine - and describe to each other the miserable situation in which the Russian army is said to be.

Numerous media reported on the alleged phone call, including the news channel CNN and the Daily Beast portal.

The authenticity cannot be verified at this time.

"It wasn't even that bad in Chechnya," says one of the suspected soldiers.

The defenders from Ukraine would "tear apart" the formations of the Russian army.

More than half of his unit suffer from frostbite on their feet.

"But they are not even taken to the hospital," said the soldier.

The report by a Ukrainian journalist named Roman Tsymbaliuk paints a similar picture of the frontline in the Ukraine war.

According to Tsymbaliuk, a Russian unit was ambushed near Kyiv and more than half of the soldiers died in firefights.

One of the soldiers is said to have "blamed the commander," the journalist writes on Facebook.

The soldier is said to have "waited for the right moment in the battle and drove his tank over the commander".

The commander is said to be a "Colonel Medvedev".

According to the Daily Beast, this story cannot be verified either, but it is confirmed that a "Colonel Medvedev" was wounded in battle.

A destroyed Russian army tank in front of Kyiv.

Russia has to accept increasing losses in the Ukraine war.

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Ukraine war: Russia plagues supply problems - invasion comes to a standstill

First report:

Kiev/Moscow – The Russian army is fighting unexpected problems in the Ukraine war.

While at the beginning of the invasion on February 24, 2022, most experts still assumed that Russia would achieve an easy victory over Ukraine, the situation is now very different.

But why is that?

For one thing, Russian President Vladimir Putin has apparently miscalculated and underestimated the resistance of the Ukrainian fighters.

In addition, the Russian army is increasingly struggling to provide its soldiers with sufficient food and petrol.

So it happens again and again that the Russian army has to leave their vehicles without fuel.

Ukraine war: Russia must defend supply routes

This shows the disadvantage of the military strategy that Russia has chosen in the Ukraine conflict.

The Russian army leadership relies on small combat units that can advance quickly.

However, these groups are intended for attack and not for securing their supplies.

The Ukrainians are always able to attack the Russian supply convoys.

Russia is therefore forced to use numerous soldiers only to defend its own supply routes.

The offensive is thus more and more faltering.

An example of an operation by the Russian commandos near Kyiv*.

Throughout March, the Russian military was there, trying to gain a foothold east of the capital.

With Russian forces failing to fully capture the city of Sumy or take control of tracts of land in north-eastern Ukraine, Russian forces had to secure the long line of communication between Russia and Kyiv.

The only way for Russian forces near Sumy to Kyiv is almost 300 kilometers along the H07 highway in the forests, where their convoys are extremely vulnerable to Ukrainian mobile anti-tank units.

Ukraine War: Russian commando ambushed

As Ukraine's online newspaper Kyiv Independent reports, one morning a force of at least five Russian BMP-2 infantry combat vehicles ("Boyevaya Mashina Pechoty 2") and a T-90 tank rushed east towards Rusaniv in an attempt to capture a Conquer bridge over the river Trubisch on the H07 road.

The offensive was doomed to fail.

Ukrainian troops lurked in the woods by the road.

The ambushed T-90 tank burned down just 100 meters from the bridge.

At least two other BMPs tried to escape the ambush and swerved off the road to the meadows closer to the river bank.

They didn't stand a chance.

It was striking that the infantrymen killed near Rusaniv had placed little value on the food they had brought with them.

In any case, their rations were largely intact.

Instead, they carried with them a large supply of Russian-made snacks, as well as cheap canned fish from Ukrainian supermarkets.

There could be a simple reason.

According to the Kyiv Independent, many Russian POWs have testified that the MRE (meals to eat) kits assigned to them have long since expired.

Ukraine war: Russia suffers from supply problems

So far, the Ukrainian resistance has inflicted heavy casualties on the invaders from Russia over the course of the war.

According to official Ukrainian estimates, Russian forces lost about 15,000 men between February 24 and March 21, more than in Russia's two multi-year wars in Chechnya combined.

US intelligence estimates the number of Russian casualties in Ukraine at 7,000.

How could things continue in view of such loss figures?

Should the supply problems of the Russian army worsen in the coming days of the war, the Russian advance is likely to become increasingly difficult.

This could increase the chance of negotiations between Ukraine and Russia.

However, it cannot be ruled out that in such a case Vladimir Putin will further intensify the bombing and rocket attacks.

The use of chemical or biological weapons also seems conceivable.

(cs)