Mia Jankowitz – Business Insider March 18, 2024
- A Ukrainian soldier says they’re suffering heavy casualties and are struggling in the country’s northeast.
- Part of this is down to Russia’s increased use of glide bombs, per The Times of London.
- F-16s could help counter this threat, but they are not expected to arrive until the summer.
A Ukrainian soldier fighting near the country’s northern front line has described the menace of Russia’s bombardment, telling the Times of London that they are “losing so many people, there are so many bodies we can’t even bring them all back.”
Describing the fight as “fucking awful,” the soldier, identified by the paper as Lemur, added that Ukrainian forces in the area can’t move forward.
“We can barely hold the line,” he said.
According to the outlet, Lemur is fighting at Kupiansk in Ukraine’s Kharkiv Oblast, around where the Institute for the Study of War has reported marginal Russian gains in recent days.
A major factor in the current Russian offensive is glide bombs, which Russia has stepped up the use of in the last three months.
These are Soviet-era bombs tricked out with guidance systems and wings enabling long-distance strikes.
As of last month, Russia was using them intensely around three flashpoints of the war: Kupiansk, the eastern city of Bakhmut, and Robotyne, a strategic southeastern village, the Kyiv Post reported.
Launched from aircraft at a distance and then guided to their target, the small radar signature and short flight time of glide bombs makes them hard for Ukraine’s already-strained air defense systems to detect and shoot down.
Russia is reported to be ramping up its production of the bombs.
Glide bombs were a factor in the Russian capture of Avdiivka in mid-February, its only major success in recent months. Their impact in Avdiivka was reported to be devastating.
Ukraine does not release official casualty figures.
Maksym Zhorin, a soldier in Ukraine’s 3rd Separate Assault Brigade, said in a Telegram post during that battle that glide bombs “completely destroy any position,” The Washington Post reported.
“All buildings and structures simply turn into a pit after the arrival of just one,” he said.
Struggling to push Russian forces back, Ukraine has fortified its own defensive lines.
In Kupyansk, frontline fighting is backed by two miles of trenches, dragon’s teeth, and minefields, The Times reported.
However, these present no barriers for glide bombs.
The aerial threat has placed a new urgency on getting F-16s to Ukraine.
Mykola Bielieskov, a military analyst at Kyiv’s National Institute for Strategic Studies, told the Post that the F-16s’ modified air-to-air missiles could help Ukraine counter the threat.
However, the aircraft are not estimated to reach Ukrainian skies until at least the summer.
The Russians are fighting for their survival. They can not afford a breakthrough. So, thinking logical, watching at Gaza, the Moscow attack, the Russians will start hitting much, much harder in the near future.
And they are getting a lot smarter. Just remember, Putin lighting one candle. NOT GOOD!!! DEATH!!!
We said in April ’22 that it was just meant to drag on and is hardly worth attention. Max-dead-Whitey is the main aim, same as in the other White countries
Ah, Nazi rag, the Business Insider.
I don’t know about recovering the dead, but how about shooting your own wounded?
Sure, there’s going to be all the usual horrors of war, assuming we’re not all radioactive crisps, but this war will have a new horror, where the badly wounded, or the wounded old, who won’t be returning to the front, are shot dead by the Nazis.
We all know this kind of thing goes on, but this war will be like no other. Think about the UKrainian population. Huge numbers have rightly fled the Nazi cesspit, and most of the rest rounded up for death on the front, so who is caring for the wounded? I am sure lightly wounded are cared for, and others sent around the Nazi empire, such as secret NHS wards, but going on the so, so data, which is at best just rough estimated, the deaths V wounded, do not stack up, unless the Nazis have been shooting their wounded.
We’ve all heard how drone warfare is changing the battlefield but western politicians and now the generals are still talking of how our countries need to build up their military forces including conscription. They’re not talking about building factories to produce drone countermeasures, they want us in the front line. If they want to put us under drone barrage they just want to kill us off again like they did with most of our war dead ancestors. Drones may be the next big killers in war that arrows then bullets then artillery were.
France says it will repatriate the bodies of six colonial soldiers who died in Vietnam in 1954. Why now? Why just six? It sounds to me like some French soldiers were recently killed in Ukraine.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/france-repatriate-bodies-colonial-soldiers-173311960.html
i watched a TV prog about how the last secret of fatima said the collapse of christianity wold be from the homosexual preists attacking kids
well this has happened
nuns are included
now we know Rothschild chose his apostles from homosexual deviants
and the present LBGT attacks on our kids make me think which came first chicken or the egg
rothschilds attacks on christianity or the fatima prophecies ?
Mr Jones the Business Insider is no “Nazi rag”. You must be deranged.
I am glad the Editor of this website is not as deluded in his choices of sources. Keep up the good work
RICKY
MM
Very very true
They are talking conscription, not manufacturing drones –