The Russians have gone in

[oldbrownhat]

A former Canadian soldier known as one of the world's deadliest snipers is going to Ukraine to help the nation defend itself from Russia....

So many Canadian fighters in Ukraine, they have their own battalion

The International Legion for the Territorial Defence of Ukraine says the 550 would-be fighters from Canada are based in Kyiv

"...Borys Wrzesnewskyj, a former Liberal MP who is helping Ukrainian diplomats organize volunteers for the International Legion, said his rough estimate is that at least 1,000 Canadians have applied to join the force..."

 

[AJ]

Just saw this on FOX News on line:

Medal of Honor recipient on urban warfare facing Russian forces: 'Should scare the hell out of Putin'
An Army veteran who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism in Iraq broke down Thursday on "Fox & Friends" why urban warfare will be difficult in Russia's invasion into Ukraine.
Read in Fox News: Medal of Honor recipient on urban warfare facing Russian forces: '''Should scare the hell out of Putin'''

 

[Absalom]

Just saw this on FOX News on line:
Medal of Honor recipient on urban warfare facing Russian forces: 'Should scare the hell out of Putin' ….

Putin simply does not have the army for this.

One just needs to remember that the Red Army's losses in just the battle of Stalingrad were higher than the active-duty strength of Putin's entire armed forces.

And the basic nature of urban fighting has not changed much.

 

[Onomea]

What concerns me is that the Russian brass understands they're not prepared for urban warfare, and the losses that will entail, so they will reduce Ukraine's cities to rubble, then starve those they have not killed.

Putin may order them in anyway, I suppose.

 

[Rudi]

This place is the size of Texas. There will be huge swaths of countryside where Ivan can't/won't go. Partisans will again hound the invader. Not with K98s, but Stingers and Javelins. Those poor conscript soldiers are in it deep.

 

[biku324]

Putin should read about Marshal Tito.

 

[UncleEd]

What concerns me is that the Russian brass understands they're not prepared for urban warfare, and the losses that will entail, so they will reduce Ukraine's cities to rubble, then starve those they have not killed.

Yes, Putin may just decide
to kill, kill, kill, kill. He's
already crossed many lines
and has decided he'll win or
take down the whole world.

 

[TeamPB]

I don't know if we have a Mayor like this

in the U.S.A.

 

[Rudi]

Putin should read about Marshal Tito.

Putin should read this thread!

 

[Greyman50]

Gee, just look at the Russian military's history. Overall they are not that good, just lots and lots of them, " cannon fodder". Stalin may have killed as many as the Germans did if the truth be known, just like Mao as its the " commie thing to do".

 

[ladder13]

Let me consult my chrystal ball.

Ukraine needs more weapons, the West fears provoking war with Russia

 

[Onomea]

France 24 says Putin fired eight Russian generals today...

Edited to add: In following this up, the source is Ukrainian defense officials. Not sure if this is true or not.

 

[Kevin J.]

France 24 says Putin fired eight Russian generals today...

I doubt they will be receiving their military pensions if you know what I mean.

 

[dockmurgw]

I doubt they will be receiving their military pensions if you know what I mean.

Well...judging by the cost of ammo, paying them off with lead would hold some value.

 

[dockmurgw]

Too bad the Ukrainian's don't have dogs trained to run under tanks that they could unleash on the convoys...that would be an interesting twist of fate.

 

[biku324]

France 24 says Putin fired eight Russian generals today...

Edited to add: In following this up, the source is Ukrainian defense officials. Not sure if this is true or not.

That means they are down 11 (with the 3 Ukraine has already killed). Stalin's purge of his military led to it's humiliation at the hands of others in the early stages of WWII.

 

[Beemerguy53]

Gee, just look at the Russian military's history. Overall they are not that good, just lots and lots of them, " cannon fodder". Stalin may have killed as many as the Germans did if the truth be known, just like Mao as its the " commie thing to do".

Sources vary on the exact number, but in the battle to take Berlin, in 16 days in April of 1945, the Red Army lost between 70,000 and 100,000 soldiers, and killed about the same number of German civilians, many of them women and children. (The Wehrmacht lost between 92,000 and 100,000 soldiers.)

Wanton killing...no respect for non-combatants...treating your own troops as expendable...it is indeed the Russian thing to do...

 

[biku324]

Aside from roughly 200,000 rapes of German women by Red Army soldiers after the Germans quit fighting.

"The most often quoted figures are for 100,000 women in Berlin and two million on German territory as a whole; statistics that have been extrapolated from the scant surviving medical records housed in the State Archive." The Rape of Berlin: Red Army atrocities in 1945 - EU Today

 

[arjay]

The Russians got my neighbors mother when they took Ukraine in WWII. My ma was a kid in Scotland during that war. This is bringing all those memories back and they aren't good memories. She wants Putin killed right now.
She's been pretty unhinged off and on during this

 

[Absalom]

Aside from roughly 200,000 rapes of German women by Red Army soldiers after the Germans quit fighting.

"The most often quoted figures are for 100,000 women in Berlin and two million on German territory as a whole; ….

While I had a relative among those two million, and was pretty much raised to hate the Russians, I think the situation in Ukraine is fortunately still a long ways away from those conditions.

The Red Army soldiers who reached German territory in late 1944 had spent years of brutal fighting through the rubble of what the Germans hadn't burned and killed in occupied Russia.

In contrast, there are increasing numbers of reports of befuddled Russian soldiers and units surrendering who had no idea they even were in Ukraine.

War crimes have always been a special issue in Eastern European wars, and Ukraine won't be an exception. But I think there is some hope that this isn't Stalin's Red Army any more (no thanks to Putin, I'm sure).