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Source about Switzerland?
New post can be found here >

FDP and Greens are already in favour and said publicy that the tanks will be delivered. If SPD turns down the request, this would mean a Govermental crisis in Germany. >

How many KA-52's are left at this point?
And I have hardly heard about MI-28 losses. I wonder what the reasoning is behind that? >

They made around 130 if them. 20ish went into the Ka-52M programme, so I would say they had a 100 in operational condition. We have 31 confirmed destroyed, so roughly 70 left. >

Only 11? I remember this is not the first day of multiple Ka-52 losses, though to be fair the last one was Kherson. Still, I thought the total would be higher. >

Apologies - got the wrong number from Oryx - 11 Mi-28, 31 Ka-52. Corrected. >

I feel it's honestly better to just keep quiet until the deal is actually done >

40k dead to take a town with population 10k. >

Not all died and not all casualties are from Bakhmut. Many deserted and Wagner has no idea of their whereabouts. Some POW and WIA 
It was a failure man force wise, but also Moscow saw it as a means to hold the front while mobiks "trained". >

Estimated Russian losses from 24.02.2022 to 24.01.2023 (Day 335):
|Category              |Change*|Total     |
|:---|:---|:---|
|Personnel             |+690      |122170    |
|Tanks                 |+2      |3152      |
|APVs                  |+8     |6284      |
|Artillery             |+2     |2148      |
|MLRS                  |+1      |448       |
|Anti-aircraft Systems |-      |220       |
|Aircraft              |+2      |289       |
|Helicopters           |+4      |281       |
|UAVs                  |+3    |1897      |
|Missiles              |-      |749       |
|Warships / Boats      |-      |18        |
|Other Vehicles        |+8      |4944      |
|Special Equipment     |+1      |194       |
*Change since the previous day.
Source: The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine >

Holy shit, Kreminna/Svatove must be a shitshow for Russia.  Usually they only have their pilots take big risks like this when they're about to lose major areas. >

There's also the failed offensive in the south that was talked up in milblogger circles but has apparently already sputtered out. >

All the aircraft losses were in the east so it means things went poorly for them on 2 fronts. >

It was all Gerasimov attempting a quick PR win by claiming a "victory" this early. 
The reason why not Surovikin or Zaluzhniki ever thought of it was that those villages are completely destroyed and in the middle of the no men's land for months. Any troops there are open to artillery fire, and the front can't be pushed either way without an extremely coordinated campaign that would be telegraphed weeks before. 
But for Russia propaganda machine it doesn't matter. Ru MoD is already saying forces are being "regouped to more favorable grounds" which is falling back after being heavily damaged. 
ISW, Defmon3, and even Strelkov were doubtful of this "offensive" and calling it for what it is a sad propagada attempt at the cost of hundreds of mobik lifes. But in >

Typical Russian tactics. Using untrained meat shields to buffer while they try in vain to fix the endemic structural issues of the Russian military apparatus. End result being needless losses for no gain. Russia needs to be rebuilt from the ground up like we did with Germany. Sometimes the only way to fix things is to start from (roughly) scratch. >

Germany had to literally be rebuilt from scratch after all the Allied raids and firebombing of German cities. Russia has largely been untouched aside from some attacks by Ukrainian forces.  The US and other NATO allies have largely conditioned their aid to Ukraine on the premise that Ukrainians strictly use their aid to defend their country and not attack Russia proper.  Most of the mobilized Russians are from the poor areas of the Russian Federation unable to get themselves exempt from service, ethnic minorities, or prison dregs.   Essentially people that count for nothing in Russia. >

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Oh gosh, oh darn. >

Hilarious, they’ll be the next forcibly mobilized >

Obviously 18 is better, but it would have been nice if they made 17 their initial order. >

Vehicle, belonging to local collaborator Valntyna Mamai, has exploded in Berdiansk
Another one bites the dust. >

It's incredible how the flow of weapons supplies perfectly tell the story of this war.
The invasion and defense of Kiev: Javelins, NLAWs and small arms.
The war of attrition: HIMARS and 155 m Howitzers.
The indiscriminate bombing of civilians: Patriot and other anti-air.
And now we're into the Bradley+MBTs stage... Which probably means the big counter offensive. >

So now all of a sudden Germany is delivering Leopards and Switzerland is freeing up ammo. This is a good day.