The end?

In world war 2 the German advance into the Soviet Union and the Soviets later counters were characterised by many many units being cut off and surrounded.

This looks to be similar. It didn’t mean that individuals couldn’t get through on foot back then, what it meant was that there are not that many roads and the mechanised units were cut off as the roads were controlled. That meant those on foot had to outpace cross country armoured columns on roads or on hard ground in the summer. This was difficult for the Germans later in the war as the Soviets had huge numbers of partizan groups roaming the countryside.

What makes it harder for the Russians is the Ukrainians control the night because they have lots of western equipment.
 
Think Lyman is yesterday's news - it's onto Kreminna now
The dictator got lots of it's army killed to pointlessly hold it a few hours longer - so it didn't get liberated on the day of it's 'announcement'
 
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"It is by now clear that Russia is not doing a partial mobilisation, it is a full blown mobilisation being done in "stages".
The first stage seems to entail hauling 1.2 million men as fast and cheaply into the frontlines as possible.
So far they are getting some sort of Uniform, and some sort of a gun, and some ammunition. The "working" part of the guns seems to be an issue in some instances judging from the videos of severely rusted up Kalashnikov AK-47s and Mosin-Nagants that are nothing but death traps if fired.
The mobilised troops are otherwise given nothing. And with nothing I mean nothing.
No food, no water, no winter gear, no tents, no stoves, no armour, no first aid kits, no nothing...
Training? At best they get a rousing speach by a "commander" that has also been mobilised. The speach are along the lines of "Sod, we will al freeze, starve and then die". I have seen quite a few of those speaches, they are depressing to say the least.
After that the mobilised troops are taken directly to the buses for the front.
Some lucky sods get a day or two of training if they have a commander that is even **** bothered.
As they arrive they are kicked off the bus into fields and told to defend that spot.

Some are instead delivered to Contracted Units to replenish those can at least scavange the corpses for some gear.
The net effect of that is to dilute further the skill of the average unit soldier down to almost nothing. This is a good way of lowering the standard of a unit.

So, what would Volodja and Boris from Siberia that never wanted to be there in the first place do? They just wanted to continue their small lives of work, wife, kids, borstj and vodka.
According to Putin they should fight like mythical figures at the Battle of Kursk, but in reality they call the Ukrainians to pick them up. And they ask to not be returned. If they do not call they will be given 5 minutes of attention of a couple of Armoured Combat Vehicles, and they end up on the wall of dead meat. Trying to flee back to their own lines? Well, that comes with being raped by the Kadyrovites and then being shot.
It is no longer even remotely a fair fight. The soldiers can do nothing.

Those Russians that have the means and wherewithal leave Russia, these are now counting in the millions.
Some other out of desperation break their own arms and legs to buy reprieve from being sent to the frontline. Some hide in the forrests. I do not suggest watching videos of Russians going about their bone breaking business. Some even post instructional videos on how best to break themselves. No fun watching, no."
 
I did admittedly see a video of a Russian guy jumping on his mates ankle on the stairs to snap it, was a horrible sight

Reckon the partial mobilisation is just to soften them up for full mobilisation . Wondering if they’re using the logic of ww2 ? The nazis simply ran out of bullets to kill the soviets with .

The difference is Ukraine is being supplied by europe and North America . Ukraine is almost running on chest mode with infinite ammo
 
More major advances in the north of Kherson.
In Donetsk, artillary bombardment of Russian positions in Kreminna.
 
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