Until the UAF reach and breach the first line of defence, it's pointless.
Ukraine - Russia Conflict
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Until the UAF reach and breach the first line of defence, it's pointless.
Yes, I meant 1bn rubles. $12.5m is sod all money for anything other than a small business. In the UK, a medium-sized business is one with a market capitalisation of over £100m ($127m). Pre-tax profits are probably 10-20% of that, depending on the business type, so $12.5m is a small business. Basically Russia is levying this tax on all businesses medium and large.
More excuses to defend you theory. It requires a lot of maintenance your theory, ever realise that? Wacky scheme like moving tons of explosive with lifting bags underwater undetected for a mile. Cross-silt assaults with IFs and BUTs attached as to whether they materialise.... or Russia drove the explosives in.
Russia blowing up the dam theory would only work if they actually got an advantage in doing that. They only have both short term and long term disadvantages now. All the main advantages belong to Ukraine.
They gained the advantage of:
1) Blocking a cross river assault;
2) Absorbing Ukrainian forces and resources in a major rescue and humanitarian operation, reducing the amount available for their offensive; and
3) Destroying Ukrainian economic infrastructure and killing workers.
Any potential dried river bed is also open to a later Russian assault during another potential Russian offensive. So the only advantage you offer works both ways, depending whose forces are strongest at any given time.
All the Russians have is the first two days and they sure milk it for all its worth by showing the same Leos and Bradleys from different angles
The crew of those Bradley's survived vast majority without injury which is why the turnaround to replaced the destroyed/damage Bradley's will be very quick. It's all about the crews.
The crew of those Bradley's survived vast majority without injury which is why the turnaround to replaced the destroyed/damage Bradley's will be very quick. It's all about the crews.
A cross-river assault was impossible in the first place. You need air power to accomplish that.
Lol, all the humanitarian problems are on the Russian side. The Ukrainians are on the high land.
Lol at 3. That's been happening anyway. The Russians don't need to hurt themselves to do that.
No, the reservoir can be filled up by the dam upriver. All the Ukrainians have to do is open the gates and any Russian attempt to cross the flats is gonna get washed away. Alongside blowing up the dam, Ukr released water from a dam upriver in order to empty its reservoir, so it can be used as a weapon later. So Ukr gets to use solid ground in a matter of weeks for their offensive. And once the Russian offensive starts, it's gonna become a river again.
Dude, there's literally no benefit for Russia here. The attack flooded the lowlands killing Russian soldiers and destroying their defences, they are the ones stuck with a humanitarian and ecological disaster on their side, and the river has become shallow enough to allow the UAF to simply walk across it, which they can turn off at will. And they lost water access to Crimea, which will take years or even decades to fix. Probably never, unless the Russians take all of Kherson.
Most of their Western kit is fine, but a lot of their Soviet stocks that were part of the offensive were hit. Not all brigades have Western kit.
Also, the UAF are on an operational pause right now, so there's not much fighting going on.
Or surprise and a lot of artillery.
Russia isn't doing jack for survivors, it's even shelling those rescuing them. Many have escaped to the west bank.
Not on such a large scale and so cheaply achieved.
And their people in Kherson would get re-flooded too. Good plan LOL.
I've just explained all the benefits. The amount of resources Ukraine has to sink into the rescue is massive. Russia doesn't care about such things, it's also blown two more dams in Zaporizhzhia since. Ukraine would need to reflood their own citizens so that won't happen, and in an undeniable way. Your theories are all massively flawed and keep relying on increasingly complex and ridiculous scenarios to explain them.
Maybe the side that imprisons its own people for 25 years for criticism and shoots its own people who retreat just doesn't f*cking care about people, consider that for one second.
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