Russia - Ukraine Conflict 2022 (75 Viewers)
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Russian forces did not make any major advances on March 20. Russian forces around Kyiv are increasingly establishing defensive positions and preparing to deploy further artillery and fire control assets. Ukrainian forces repelled continuing Russian efforts to seize the city of Izyum, southeast of Kharkiv, and Russian forces did not conduct any other offensive operations in northeast Ukraine. Russian forces continue to make slow but steady progress on Luhansk Oblast and around Mariupol, but did not conduct any offensive operations towards Mykolayiv or Kryvyi Rih.
Key Takeaways
Key Takeaways
- The Ukrainian General Staff reported for the first time that the Kremlin is preparing its population for a “long war” in Ukraine and implementing increasingly draconian mobilization measures, including deploying youth military organization members aged 17-18.
- Ukrainian forces reportedly killed three Russian regimental commanders in the last 24 hours.
- Russia’s Wagner Group will likely facilitate the deployment of Libyan fighters to Ukraine.
- Russian forces are digging in to positions around Kyiv, including the first reports of the war of Russian forces deploying minefields.
- Ukrainian forces repelled a Russian assault on Izyum, southeast of Kharkiv, and inflicted heavy casualties.
- Russian forces continued their slow advance into Mariupol but did not achieve any major territorial gains.
- Ukrainian forces launched further localized counterattacks around Mykolayiv.
The Ukrainian General Staff reported for the first time that the Kremlin is preparing its population for a “long war” in Ukraine and implementing increasingly draconian mobilization measures.[1] The General Staff reported the Russian military commissariats of the Kuban, Primorsky Krai, Yaroslavl Oblast, and Ural Federal Districts are conducting covert mobilization measures but are facing widespread resistance. The General Staff reported the Russian PMC Wagner Group will facilitate the transport of Libyan fighters from LNA leader Khalifa Haftar’s forces to Ukraine. The General Staff reported universities in the DNR and LNR are conscripting students above the age of 18 and that most units in the DNR’s 1st Army Corps are comprised of the “mobilized population,” rather than trained soldiers, and face low morale and equipment shortages. The Ukrainian Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR) additionally reported on March 20 that Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu signed an order to prepare to admit Unarmiya (Russian Youth Army, a Kremlin-run military youth organization) personnel aged 17-18 to fight in Ukraine on March 15.[2] The GUR further reported Colonel General Gennady Zhidko, head of the Russian Military-Political Directorate, is in charge of executing the order. The Ukrainian General Staff reported on March 19 that Russian officials “severely reprimanded” the head of the 652nd unit of Information and Psychological Operations for his “weak efforts” and inability to create a “Kherson People's Republic."[3]
Russian forces face mounting casualties among officers and increasingly frequent desertion and insubordination. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense reported on March 19 that “some [Russian] naval infantry units” (unspecified which, but likely referring to Eastern Military District units deployed to the fighting around Kyiv) have lost up to 90% of their personnel and cannot generate replacements.[4] The Ukrainian General Staff reported at noon local time on March 20 that Ukrainian forces wounded the commander of the 346th Independent Spetsnaz Brigade and claimed that Ukrainian forces killed the commanders of the 331st VDV Regiment, 247th VDV Regiment, and the 6th Tank Regiment (90th Tank Division, CMD) at unspecified times and locations.[5] The General Staff reported the Russian Black Sea Fleet is replacing 130 insubordinate soldiers in the 810th Naval Infantry Brigade with paratroopers from the 7th Airborne Assault Division – a measure highly likely to cause greater unit cohesion problems.[6] The General Staff additionally reported that Russian forces are increasingly using ”outdated and partially defective equipment” to replace combat losses.[7]
The Ukrainian MoD reported that forced mobilization in the DNR has demoralized Russian proxy forces, with many refusing to fight and accusing Russian leadership of forcing them into combat to find Ukrainian troop positions. The Ukrainian Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR) reported the number of insubordinate Russian personnel who are refusing combat orders is “sharply increasing” in the Kherson and Mykolayiv oblasts on March 20.[8] The Ukrainian General Staff reported the Russian military commandant office in Belgorod City is investigating 10 Russian servicemen of 138th Motor Rifle Brigade who refused to continue fighting in Kharkiv and agitated for other Russian servicemen to abandon their posts.[9]
Ukrainian military intelligence (the GUR) reported on March 20 that another group of mercenaries connected with Yevgeny Prigozhin and the “League”/Wagner Group began arriving in Ukraine on March 20.[10] The GUR claimed this group aims to eliminate Ukraine’s top military and political leadership, including Volodymyr Zelensky, Andriy Yermak, and Denys Shmyhal. The GUR claimed Russia is turning to assassination plans due to the failure of Russian conventional operations.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-march-20
https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...th-russia-will-require-referendum-2022-03-21/
Intresting. Wonder if it was ever done before and if at all possible during an ongoing war
Intresting. Wonder if it was ever done before and if at all possible during an ongoing war
So you split the difference and come to the conclusion that both sides are to blame equally? 
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Some people 
It’s unbelievable in the first place that some think propaganda and bias in the west where journalists are independent and almost impossible to even sue for things like libel and defamation, let alone jail, is at all similar to a country where people can be jailed for calling a war a war.
It’s unbelievable in the first place that some think propaganda and bias in the west where journalists are independent and almost impossible to even sue for things like libel and defamation, let alone jail, is at all similar to a country where people can be jailed for calling a war a war.
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There is an exact same page about the US dude, then you complain about others falling into propaganda lmao
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_the_United_States
And how many of these were killed by the US government. Most of these are victims of collateral damage in war zones or terrorist attacks. You really think American journalists are persecuted to the level that Russian journos are?
And everyone in the media has the same opinion in the US? Have you ever watched Fox News? Breitbart? The Daily Wire? These are all right wing media.
and there’s far left media like the Huff Post, Young Turks etc along with centrist outlets like NYT, MSNBC or CNN. You really have no clue what you’re talking about.
Go back to sucking Putin’s dick.
And everyone in the media has the same opinion in the US? Have you ever watched Fox News? Breitbart? The Daily Wire? These are all right wing media.
and there’s far left media like the Huff Post, Young Turks etc along with centrist outlets like NYT, MSNBC or CNN. You really have no clue what you’re talking about.
Go back to sucking Putin’s dick.
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Sorry, did not know we were living in a fairytale haha. Imagine believing a country with so much social unrest, economic and political power, a huge history of civil rights issues including systemic racism, a history of being involve in external conflicts, being involve in wars, somehow has extremely good politicians who surely never ever killed or jailed a journalist. What’s next? Jeffrey Epstein really killed himself? Assange really raped someone? 