Tuesday, March 22, 2022

The latest war news

  • US military sources are reporting that the Russian Army has suffered severe degradation in Ukraine. Intelligence believe that conservatively 10% of the initial invasion force has been killed, wounded or taken prisoner. Losses in equipment, including tanks and armored personal carriers are even higher as a percentage. 
  • Fears that Russia may be considering use of poison gas remain high. However, there is no evidence that such an attack is imminent.
  • The US Government claims that more than 2,000 Ukranian children in the Russian occupied areas of eastern Ukraine have been abducted and forcibly transported to various parts of Russia.
  • A source within the Russian Security Service (FSB) has released documents which, if legitimate, indicate that the Russians are planning a campaign of ethnic cleansing within areas occupied by the Russian military. This would include mass forced deportations of civilians to Russia and the summary execution of anyone connected to pro-Ukranian groups or demonstrations.
  • The Ukrainian Army has launched a counter offensive which has driven back the Russian Army in a number of locations. The Ukrainians claim to have liberated the city of Mykolaiv near the capitol city of Kyiv. Meanwhile US sources report that the Russians have pressed into the city of Mariupol which has been devastated in a weeks long siege. Much of the city has been destroyed and there are reports of hundreds or more corpses littering the wreckage unburied. Many of them civilians. 
  • The supply and logistics situation within the Russian Army operating in Ukraine continues to deteriorate. In some units, food and ammunition are at critically short levels.
  • Russian opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny has been convicted of additional charges of fraud and contempt of court and sentenced to a further nine years in prison. The proceedings have been more or less universally described as a kangaroo court. 
  • At least one in five Ukrainians have been displaced by the war. More than three million have fled the country. 

4 comments:

unreconstructed rebel said...

My sources tell me that things are not going Russia's way at all. A great deal of the Russian armor is a bit antique. Further, the UAF have succeeded in isolating & surrounding one of the Russian thrusts. We shall see.

The Anti-Gnostic said...

Awful. The Russian soldiers are probably going to stop fighting--a number will defect--and Vlad is probably headed to permanent palace arrest. What a horrible waste.

John (Ad Orientem) said...

I wish I could be so sanguine. Putin has an iron grip on the state security services. Given past behavior I think it much more likely he will double down and the slaughter will only grow. The Russians have not been very successful fighting the Ukrainian military, but they have shown great ability when it comes to killing unarmed civilians.

Sophocles said...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ32cntgP_8