Russian special military operation in Ukraine #40

As colleagues from Rybar rightly point out, the assault on Ugledar should (was) carried out by covering the mountains ... As colleagues from Rybar rightly point out, the assault on Ugledar should (was) carried out by engulfing the city and cutting all supply lines, followed by a simultaneous strike from several sides. However, the bulk of all operations of the RF Armed Forces to storm settlements over the past year was carried out according to a completely different scheme: first, a frontal assault was undertaken with losses, then a rollback to regroup and a subsequent attempt at flank maneuvers to cover, which also ended in failure, because the element of surprise was missed , and the enemy managed to pull up the reserve to the flanks and strengthen them. This happened in the case of Ugledar, when the Marine Corps units and the Kaskad OBTF storming the city in the forehead were able to gain a foothold only in the dacha sector, and the subsequent belated flank attack by motorized riflemen also led to heavy losses on the flanks already fortified by the enemy. Now the battles for the city have acquired a positional character with an exchange of blows, which could be observed in most cases even before Ugledar. Here, again and again, questions arise for the planners of such attacks, who are not able to learn even from their own mistakes in a year. Another problem with the implementation of the tactics of isolating the combat area and flank attacks against the encircled is the continuing lack of ammunition, primarily precision-guided projectiles and bombs, as well as the overcomplicated data exchange between reconnaissance and strike assets. Cutting supply lines is possible, first of all, with accurate strikes against the rear of the enemy and his supply routes tens of kilometers in depth, which practically does not happen. Without such systematic strikes, the enemy has brought and will bring supplies and reinforcements, as well as rotate forces, which turns each assault into an endless meat grinder in the ruins. If this situation persists, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will step on the same rake in every more or less large settlement, practically not moving forward. @milinfolive wrote:

Yet they are still "a battalion"

I suppose there is no way to systematically search for this type of threat at the moment, the tools need to be figured out and constructed.

I've only read the translated version of what Medvedev said but he did not explain (obviously) whether these are T-90, T-14 or simply refurbished/upgraded older models. wrote:

The joke being that US spox Kirby said something like "what kind of country would award a pilot for ramming an unmanned drone?" I guess? wrote:

NATO Secretary General justifies the transfer of shells with depleted uranium to Ukraine, 03.23.2023.

Stoltenberg justified the transfer of shells with uranium to Ukraine as non-violation of international law.

MOSCOW, March 23 - RIA Novosti. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, answering a question about the supply of depleted uranium shells by the UK to Kiev, claims that the members of the alliance follow international law in their support for Ukraine.

"NATO members follow international rules and law in everything they do in support of Ukraine," Stoltenberg told Agence France-Presse when asked about Britain's plans and the corresponding reaction from Russia.

British Deputy Defense Minister Annabelle Goldie said earlier that London would transfer ammunition containing depleted uranium to Ukraine. White House spokesman John Kirby said the US will not send depleted uranium munitions to Ukraine, but is confident that they do not pose a radioactive threat, according to him, these are "weapons of a conventional type and have been used for decades."

Russian President Vladimir Putin , speaking about this initiative, said that Russia would be forced to react if the collective West begins to use weapons with a nuclear component, and that the West “decided to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian not in words but in deeds.” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that if this happens, it will end badly for London. The official representative of the department, Maria Zakharova, described the use of depleted uranium shells as a manifestation of genocide against the population against which such weapons are used.

Souad Al-Azzawi, a doctor in geoecological engineering from the Colorado School of Mines in the US, said that the use of white phosphorus and depleted uranium by the US military in Iraq led to a sixfold increase in the number of cancers and diseases associated with radioactivity.

Natural uranium consists mainly of the isotopes uranium-238 (about 99.3%) and uranium-235 (about 0.7%). Depleted uranium is the uranium remaining after the separation of uranium-235 from it as a result of enrichment. Nevertheless, 0.2-0.3% uranium-235 remains in depleted uranium. Uranium is close in density to tungsten. This allows smaller projectiles to be equal in mass to most other metal projectiles while reducing aerodynamic drag. Depleted uranium is used in the cores of the so-called sub-caliber armor-piercing projectiles, which have a high kinetic energy. Since uranium is pyrophoric (its small particles ignite spontaneously in air), projectiles with it have a significantly greater armor damaging effect than projectiles with tungsten-based cores.

The radioactivity of depleted uranium is less than that of natural uranium ore. But, like other heavy metals, uranium is toxic. According to some experts, genetic damage that causes cancer may be associated with a mechanism of mutual enhancement of the chemical toxicity of uranium particles that enter the body, and albeit relatively weak, but still depleted uranium radioactivity.

https://ria.ru/20230323/uran-1860199467.html

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