Interesting article on Russia's special military operation, otherwise known as being a bully and washing war
So, according to Moscow, Russia spent a month, lost between 7000 and 15,000 soldiers on NATO’s estimate, lost a medium-sized nation’s worth of military hardware, brought down onto Russia devastating international sanctions just so that it could fully conquer an area it has part-dominated for eight years.
And it’s made Russia a pariah state, Putin the most loathed man on earth and the leader of the supposed enemy state of Ukraine an international hero. If that truly was the plan, it was either a pretty silly plan or the whole announcement is a fantasy."
The Russian failures can be measured in four metrics. Seven is the number of days that it took Russia’s 64 kilometre long column of tanks and trucks and troops to fall apart uselessly without ever getting to its destination of Kyiv. An impressive case of incompetence.
Ten is the number of times that Russia installed helicopters and other forces in a captured Ukrainian air base in the town of Chornobayivka, only to have them all destroyed by Ukrainian artillery bombardments. Every time. An astonishing inability to adapt.
Fifteen is the number of Russian senior commanders to die so far in the war according to Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence, a rate unmatched in any of Russia’s other wars since World War II. Of the 15, seven were generals, two were killed in Chornobayivka, and one apparently committed suicide. A colonel died after his own troops hit him with a tank deliberately.
Three hundred is the approximate number of Ukrainian civilians killed by Russia’s bombing of the theatre in Mariupol that had been marked “children” in enormous lettering visible from high altitudes. Although this is not so much a Russian failure as a deliberate Russian depravity of the worst kind, one of its many wanton acts of despicable cowardice. Putin seems to count them as successes.
And it’s made Russia a pariah state, Putin the most loathed man on earth and the leader of the supposed enemy state of Ukraine an international hero. If that truly was the plan, it was either a pretty silly plan or the whole announcement is a fantasy."
The Russian failures can be measured in four metrics. Seven is the number of days that it took Russia’s 64 kilometre long column of tanks and trucks and troops to fall apart uselessly without ever getting to its destination of Kyiv. An impressive case of incompetence.
Ten is the number of times that Russia installed helicopters and other forces in a captured Ukrainian air base in the town of Chornobayivka, only to have them all destroyed by Ukrainian artillery bombardments. Every time. An astonishing inability to adapt.
Fifteen is the number of Russian senior commanders to die so far in the war according to Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence, a rate unmatched in any of Russia’s other wars since World War II. Of the 15, seven were generals, two were killed in Chornobayivka, and one apparently committed suicide. A colonel died after his own troops hit him with a tank deliberately.
Three hundred is the approximate number of Ukrainian civilians killed by Russia’s bombing of the theatre in Mariupol that had been marked “children” in enormous lettering visible from high altitudes. Although this is not so much a Russian failure as a deliberate Russian depravity of the worst kind, one of its many wanton acts of despicable cowardice. Putin seems to count them as successes.
