Russian special military operation in Ukraine #40

Interesting missile package used by Russia. Kaliber and other cruise missiles could have done the job yet KINZHAL was also used.

Kinzhal would be used against high priority time sensitive targets... it gives less time to evacuate when it is realised they are on the way...

I'll provide some context to my previous tweet as to whether there was a need to use hypersonic KINZHAL when Kaliber and other cruise missiles are already doing a great job.

Together with decoys and fake targets and drones the Ukraine has shown its capacity to hit airborne targets is a bit weak and while they can hit the occasional target, they are really in no condition to stop an air attack of any substantial kind.

I don't think Kinzhal was used to make sure it reached its target... I suspect it was used to hit the target before those at the target location could be warned of the attack underway.

You would think the AFU would have difficulty mounting a large scale counteroffensive due to the artillery assets Russia has deployed on the Bakhmut front.

The most successful counteroffensives don't send your counter offense force directly into the strongest part of the enemy force...

With the boost in aviation I think counter offensives might be in danger of becoming routs...

Plus the mud limiting areas of advance.

An attack with hovercraft perhaps?

Or more likely Zelensky wanting to say to the west that they have started the counter offensive and they need more money and ammo and weapons if it is to succeed... if it fails it is your fault for not properly supplying what we need.



Scott Ritter seems to think the move to the air force of our bald Russian general means a shift to heavier use of air power... I suspect if Kiev plans a counter offensive in May to try to take back territory that they might get hammered by air power like never before in this conflict...

If Kiev is planning to attack the region again there is no reason for Russian troops to retreat and leave token forces to man the line... manning the line properly means the nazis arrive at fortified positions properly manned so they will effectively be out in the open with no air power and weak artillery and will be fired upon immediately because any ammo and weapons they can put together in that time so can the Russian forces get even more together to welcome them.

Why?

He will just get released again if he gets captured

Instead of killing them Russians are coddling them

He asked for mercy and they showed him mercy, but I am sure they made clear their expectations about what he was to do with his second chance, so now if they capture him there will be no mercy.

He wasn't a nazi AFAIK, but clearly wants to kill Russians either way... footage of him in a patrol is not operating in a rear area helping civilians.

Given their track record so far I hope they brought a lot of ass-lube

Serbian school teacher teaching Russian Naval Infantry... you go girl.

I hear lots about how Russia lacks drones from Mercouris and others to the point that China is brought up as a supplier.
This does not hold water. Where is the yammering about shortages of drones by frontline-associated "celebrities" like
Prigozhin? The "crappy" Lancet has been used extensively and is no worse than anything supplied to the Kiev regime
by its NATzO owners. It appears to me that Russian drones (including the adapted Iranian ones) are more effective. If
they were in serious deficit of supply, then they would not be making much of an impact.

Also, the use of Kinzhal missiles is clearly to penetrate reinforced targets and not to defeat failing Ukr anti-missile systems.
People seem to think that the ludicrous claims by the Kiev regime to take out over 100% of the subsonic missiles are legit.
This deference to western approved propaganda is chronic.