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Originally Posted by mapuc
Russian “elite” paratrooper units are being forced into the heaviest fighting in Kherson region.
It seems the Russian elite units will be non existent after this war…
This is largely due to the normal infantry being so incompetent that elite units are put in frontal assaults
Markus
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Their airmobile units were dramatically thinned out already in the first few days when naive Russian commanders thought they could send their helicopters in dare-devil fashion and all alone deep into enemy territories to seize bridgeheads at important objectives - and instead got often almost wiped out. After the Ukrainians were done with them after the first two weeks, many of these units had practically seized to exist as cohesive combat formations. The losses were reported to be dramatic.
The Sovjet airmobile regiments were feared during the cold war, assumingn they would be like Nazguls haunting the battlellines up and down from above and penetrate the frontline at will. The Russians maybe became victim of their own according self-perception, thus the over-confidence.
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Chechnyan terror leader Kadyrow gets reported to have indicated he wants to withdraw from the war and plans to return to his hellhole in Chechnya. Rats leaving the sinking ship?
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One thing should not be forgotten, never. The Russians have activated so far only a small fraction of their material reserves. And they still have the option to escalate with weapons so far not being used. The question is where their inhibition threshold lies - or better, where it ends.