Mines, jealousy, Juche, the gray zones

War update

Another spring on the steppe, and war continues. Time for a look at raw frontline analysis by Ukrainian military analysts.

Today’s post will begin with a look at army suicides far from the front. Next, onto a sprawling comparison of the Ukraine war’s no man’s ‘gray zone’, to past military theatres from 1916, 1943, and the 1980s. This will lead our analysts onto an exploration of the key role played by a rather modest wunderwaffen - the humble mine.

Naturally, we will also wander about the frontlines. Today’s Ukrainian militarists have been complaining about spring weather complicating drone warfare. It wouldn’t be Ukrainian military telegram without complaints about missing fortifications, and this week proves no exception.

After that, we move onto a long intervention by everyone’s favorite would-be coup leader, former head of the army Valery Zaluzhny. He is yet again sowing doubt in the abilities of Generalissimos Zelensky to defeat the oriental hordes. According to him, drone warfare has entirely transformed the nature of warfare:

At the operational level, the war has reached a dead end. Deep maneuvers or strikes into operational depth have become impossible, largely due to the ongoing struggle between drone systems on one side and EW/air defense systems on the other. As a result, classical offensive operations and maneuvers have not just lost effectiveness….

Armored vehicles, the backbone of offensive operations since 1915, have become defenseless against cheap drones, rendering their use in any combat scenario impossible today.

Apart from Zaluzhny, we will also analyze several prognoses on the future by other top Ukrainian military analysts. They all point to Russian transfer of reserves from the Kursk front as a key factor in increasing pressure on Ukraine’s east.

The article closes with politics, jealousy and Juche. First, an angry intervention by an elite Ukrainian military unit against civilians far from the front shaming dead soldiers and their families because they don’t speak Ukrainian. Finally, Ukrainian troops wish they had leadership of the caliber of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. This also includes some valuable admissions by Ukrainian military troops that Korean troops have learned to minimize their casualties, and are now conducting advanced drone warfare training routines for their troops. There’s even a video with a jolly Korean marching song.

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