Comments by "John Walsh" (@johnwalsh4857) on "Lessons learned from armored assaults in Ukraine" video.

  1. its amazing that the Ukrs were able to punch thru Russian defenses at Robotyne without air support, the Southern Front is a disaster for the Russians, who are suffering from supply and manpower shortages esp. in artillery and artillery ammo, its so bad that the Ukrs actually have artillery superiority over the Russians in the Southern Front. since the Ukrs are very effectively targetting Russian logistics and artillery with HMARS, JDAMs and cluster munitions which have destroyed a lot of Russian artillery. Russians are desperately shipping more men and artillery to Robotyne try to stop the Ukrs but these are getting interdicted by the Ukr HAMRS and JDAMs. the other fronts have seen Russian diversionary attacks esp. at Kupiansk but all failures. in fact the Bakhmut front is shaping to be a disaster for the Russians as the Ukrs have retaken all the high ground and are encircling the Russian defenders there, supposedly Putin has ordered the Russian defenders at Bakhmut to fight to the death hahahha. I can see the Ukrs going as far as capturing Tokmak and even Bakhmut by Oct 2023. and while the Ukr offensive would be seen as a failure its actually a success, as they would have captured Tokmak at important transportation hub in the area but also Bakhmut for politicla reasons, the Ukr recapture of Bakhmut woulud alone be a political disaster for Putin. Also I think an even more significant blow to Putin would be the loss of massive amoutns of Russian casualties, vehicles and resources. Im not surprised Putin would be forced to do another mobilization heck he may even declare the special military operation a real war. I expect a Russian winter offensive to try to recapture Tokmak. Ukraine is winning by further weakening Putin's political standing. Heck you will probably see another coup vs. Putin after the Ukr recapture of Bakhmut.
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  2. the Ukr Kharkov offensive in late 2022 was a unmitigated disaster for the Russians, the worst they suffered in the war, the Russians lost several hundred tanks and APC lost , as the Russian front there collapsed, Russian troops ran away abandoned their vehicles and positions even stole bicycles and ran back to Russia, at Izyum alone, the Ukrainians captured 450 tanks and APCs in various states of disrepair since Izyum was a Russian logistics and vehicle repair hub. Also the Russians in their desperation sent in their conscrupts who were barely trained many only trained for a week at most. sent with T-90s and 80s and whatever tank or APC was at hand but they also got creamed and defeated by the Ukrainians resulting in these new recruits panicking abandoning their vehicles and running away. It was that bad. So the Russians just gave several hundred tanks and APCs including a handful of T-90Ms, one of which was last seen being shipped to the USA for study. haha. Many of the abandoned tanks were in good condition, Ukrs just repaired refuelled them and deployed them against their former Russian owners...LOL. it was that embarassing for Russia hahaha and I find it amusing that Russians like to crow about the few Leopard 2s the Ukrs lost hahahaha. while the Russians lost several thousand Russians tanks ranging from vintage museum T-55s to the latest T-90Ms, so far in this war, the Ukrs lost far less. In fact its so bad the biggest tank donor to the Ukrs are the Russians Its that EMBARASSING. Its so bad that before the war , 75 percent of Russian tanks in service were made during the time of the Russian federation. now 1.5 years later, 75 percent of Russian tanks in service were made during the time of the USSR. its so bad not only are the Russians bringing out their T-55s from storage which the last time the Russians used them in large numbers was during hte invasio oif Czechoslovakia in 1968, the SOviet never used them in Afghanistan. heck its even worse the Russians are bringing out their T-10 heavy tank, made before the T-55 hahaah. So what next , will the Russians bring out....IS-3s and T-34s hahahahaah.
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