Ukraine 2021(?)

[DRG]

35 people have been killed after a Ukrainian military base, less than 15 miles from the Polish border, was targeted in a Russian airstrike, the governor of the Lviv region has said.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2gmEIrkVgc

[DRG]

Thinking though, that had that been the case the Russians would have been releasing lots of photos of Ukraine's top of the line tanks destroyed and that hasn't happened

[Wdll]

Interesting video.
I don't know the exact units in it.
I'm assume the Ukrainian vehicle which is doing the shooting is some form of BTR, where the 2 (or 3?) Russian vehicles are...well the last one looks a lot like a BMP-1, but I leave that to the experts.

Regardless of what exactly they are I find a few interesting things about it, including how the what might be Russian troops taking cover behind the "BMP-1" and possibly having their legs and rest getting...retired. Just taking cover behind the IFV when there are buildings all around then feels a bit...it feels like the Russians are suffering not only from inexperienced young troops, but also for close to non existent officers on the field.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ4Auwi7_FA

[DRG]

Yeah the lower legs of the section were clearly in view of the firing unit and that's not "a good thing"

[DRG]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QW7Nfg4d9I

Russia's latest warning to the West: Russia to target Western arms supply?

[Wdll]

Originally Posted by DRG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QW7Nfg4d9I

I assume they are talking about hitting such convoys while inside Ukraine. Anything else would be suicidal.

[DRG]

Yes, it would be. Hitting a convoy inside the borders of a NATO nation would escalate this in ways we can only imagine very quickly.

OTOH once they cross the border into Ukraine they are fair targets so. "convoys" of trucks should be "off the table"... individual trucks moving at night will probably be the New Normal

Though the way this has been going they are more likely to hit an aid convoy of diapers and formula instead of a weapons convoy

[DRG]

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/...tins-kill-list


in part

“NATO doesn’t want to create World War Three, but World War Three is on already. Do you think if Russia uses nuclear weapons the radiation will care who has a NATO passport or not? Do you think there will only be 2.5 million refugees leaving Ukraine? There will be many times more and it will be Europe’s problem. Do you think Putin will stop in Ukraine? He wants Poland, Ukraine and the Baltics at least.”

[Karagin]

The convoys enter at their own risk. Not saying the Russian won't attack them, but if you are entering a country in the middle of a war, it's a risk you run.

[wulfir]

Russia seems to struggle with night fighting. Probably do not have much in the way of dependable long range recon assets either. IIRC in Syria it took them something like 24 hours to mount an airstrike on a target - if the target was not static and had moved, yeah it became a problem.

Will they even be able to detect a convoy in the first place?