Go find the videos. They’re super easy to find. There’s even an instance here where the Ukraine army (I’m guessing) shares them
Link me those videos since it is so easy to find.
There’s quite a funny one I saw recently where there’s 2 Russian guys who are doing a farcical attempt to ride motorbikes, there’s no translation so idk what they’re saying but one is absolutely screaming at the other, who seems so useless its comical… I mean there are the sounds of bullets flying from somewhere and they are doing a Mr bean impression and can’t seem to stay on the motorbikes and then also can’t pick it up…
Motorcycles have been found to be extremely effective as slower vehicles are often destroyed by drones if they lack proper support. They are also extremely cheap which matters because the majority of Russian forces are volunteers from regional volunteer formations. Meanwhile most of the actual Russian Armed Forces stayed in Russia. These volunteer formations are mostly funded by regional governments not by the federal government. But that does not mean Russia does not provide them with the essentials.
TLDR: there is some truth that these forces are poorly equipped but not to the extent that you are saying.
When Russia deployed actual professionals into the Kharkiv region, Ukraine had to send entire force of 30,000 soldiers backed by armored vehicles to halt the advance of 2,000-8,000 light infantry. Ukraine has not yet pushed this force with Vovchansk being turned into a literal parking lot by Russian military.
Ukraine sent up to 100K of their most elite troops into Kursk backed by 500 armored vehicles and a thousand pieces of equipment in total not including those which were not destroyed or whose destruction was not recorded on video. Russia claimed 3K pieces of equipment which seems reasonable considering the amount of recorded losses. 100K would be a quarter of all combat troops. This force recently got destroyed.
As for your last paragraph? Average age of a Russian soldier in Ukraine is around 50.
I thought you had many videos of meat waves running towards trenches without guns. Did you just lie to me? You make me cry.
Donkeys are being used because of mud season. Vehicles cannot be used during the mud season. Even tanks cannot operate in this mud. Donkeys have been used for transportation in heavily wooded areas during the mud season. The video you provided did not show any cavalry charge. The headline seems to be click bait and the channel is a known pro-UA propaganda outlet. The German Armed Forces still uses donkeys for transporting equipment in rugged terrain. The German Army even issues an entire handbook for the use of donkeys in combat. The US also used them in Afghanistan due to the rugged terrain.
I have seen entire groups of Ukrainians surrender to a single drone:
Ukrainian soldiers abuse one of their own who has down syndrome (Ukraine is becoming desperate for troops) just like how the Ukrainians back in WWII tortured people with disabilities in support for Bandera:
Ukrainian Inmates with military experience including a bunch of rapists and murderers from Tornado batallion, were released in February 2022, long before Prigozin was allowed to recruit Russian convicts into Wagner.
More recently in 2024, President Zelenskyy signed a bill permitting convicts to join the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Ukraine is a small country, much less populated than Russia and has not only held off the Russian invasion for over 3 years,
Ukraine had a stronger military compared to Germany, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom combined.
Ukraine had a thousand tanks at the start of the war. At least half of them were modernized. The T-64BV Model 2017 has third generation thermal, new gun stabilizer, new autoloader, same fire suppression system as T-84 Oplot-M, digital communications, satellite navigation, and other improvements. They also upgraded their T-80s to T-80BV Model 2018 which brings it up to T-64BV Model 2017 standard. There is also T-64BM and T-64BM2 which are similar to the T-64BV Model 2017 but with a more modern fire control system. These tanks are not really much worst than say a Leopard 2.
Germany, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom have less than a thousand tanks combined.
Ukraine had two thousand MT-LBs which are fairly decent APCs (Russia had 3,000). They also had hundreds of modern BTR-4s and BTR-3s supplemented by hundreds of BTR-70s and BTR-80s.
Ukraine had far more artillery guns compared to these countries combined. This includes the 500 2S3s they had at the start of the war which is Soviet counterpart to M109. They also had plenty of 2S1s and 2S19s. Even if you include only the 2S3s (which again are comparable to the M109), this is roughly the same amount of M109s that the US has.
Ukraine has almost five times the amount of multiple launch rocket systems as France, Germany, Italy, and the UK combined. They are also the largest user of HIMARS and M270 outside of the US with them having more than France and Germany combined.
Ukraine has also received over a hundred modern tanks (roughly the same amount the UK has) and over half a thousand of modern artillery guns from the West which is more artillery guns than the amount that France, German, Italy, and the UK have combined. This has helped replace their losses with their fleet of 2S3s which for example dwindled down to 140.
Ukrainian military was also being trained by NATO since 2015 and also received MILES gear.
The UK practically sent their entire stockpile of SPGs to Ukraine and begged to Sweden to replace their fleet and Poland thrown half of their stockpile of SPGs to Ukraine. Almost every European country has complained about massive shortages of ammunition due to it all being given to Ukraine. France stated they could only fight Russia for a few weeks before running out of ammo.
Ukraine literally has a stronger military than France, Germany, Italy, and the UK combined. There is a reason why these countries state a Ukrainian defeat would be the end of Europe although in my opinion Russia has no plans to invade more countries outside of maybe the Baltics.
All of this despite most of the Russian Armed Forces not even being in Ukraine, majority of forces in Ukraine again are from irregular volunteer formations recruited from regions across Russia.
several times they’ve actually taken Russian territory
You mean the several failed Belgorod incursions?
Or you mean when Ukraine thrown up to a quarter of all their combat troops including their most elite into a small area in Kursk Oblast which got destroyed recently? Russia has 500K soldiers in the Ground Forces not including logistics which is part of its own branch. 100K of these are conscripts and Russia will not use them even in Kursk due to public pressure. So this leaves 400K soldiers. But most of those soldiers are being used to guard the country against NATO. This left 100K on Ukraine’s border (not including the 100K in Belarus) with 50K of which fighting in Kursk. Ukraine essentially concentrated 100K of their most elite forces and captured a very small portion of Kursk before being halted by 50K troops. These 50K troops recently destroyed this force utterly. When the chance of US intervention ceased with the Putin-Trump talks, Russia immediately launched a large-scale offensive with the air being crowded with aircraft and entire Ukrainian units surrendering. They liberated 28 settlements in a single week and captured multiple western tanks and pieces of equipment.
as well as destroying Russian infrastructure inside russia and so on.
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Link me those videos since it is so easy to find.
Motorcycles have been found to be extremely effective as slower vehicles are often destroyed by drones if they lack proper support. They are also extremely cheap which matters because the majority of Russian forces are volunteers from regional volunteer formations. Meanwhile most of the actual Russian Armed Forces stayed in Russia. These volunteer formations are mostly funded by regional governments not by the federal government. But that does not mean Russia does not provide them with the essentials.
TLDR: there is some truth that these forces are poorly equipped but not to the extent that you are saying.
When Russia deployed actual professionals into the Kharkiv region, Ukraine had to send entire force of 30,000 soldiers backed by armored vehicles to halt the advance of 2,000-8,000 light infantry. Ukraine has not yet pushed this force with Vovchansk being turned into a literal parking lot by Russian military.
Ukraine sent up to 100K of their most elite troops into Kursk backed by 500 armored vehicles and a thousand pieces of equipment in total not including those which were not destroyed or whose destruction was not recorded on video. Russia claimed 3K pieces of equipment which seems reasonable considering the amount of recorded losses. 100K would be a quarter of all combat troops. This force recently got destroyed.
As for your last paragraph? Average age of a Russian soldier in Ukraine is around 50.
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I thought you had many videos of meat waves running towards trenches without guns. Did you just lie to me? You make me cry.
Donkeys are being used because of mud season. Vehicles cannot be used during the mud season. Even tanks cannot operate in this mud. Donkeys have been used for transportation in heavily wooded areas during the mud season. The video you provided did not show any cavalry charge. The headline seems to be click bait and the channel is a known pro-UA propaganda outlet. The German Armed Forces still uses donkeys for transporting equipment in rugged terrain. The German Army even issues an entire handbook for the use of donkeys in combat. The US also used them in Afghanistan due to the rugged terrain.
I have seen entire groups of Ukrainians surrender to a single drone:
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1gd02h9/ru_povukrainian_soldiers_surrenders_to_a_russian/
11 Ukrainians being taken prisoner by 4 Russian soldiers:
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/16ex23t/ru_pov_11_ukrainian_soldiers_surrendering_to_4/
10 Ukrainian soldiers surrendering:
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1cr3tsh/ru_pov_10_ukrainian_soldiers_decided_to_surrender/
Russian stormtroopers capturing a position and taking Ukrainians as prisoners:
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/199mcvf/ru_pov_russian_forces_captures_a_ukrainian/
An entire Ukrainian platoon surrendering:
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/147yfky/ru_pov_ukrainian_platoon_of_110_ombr_surrenders/
Stormtroopers taking prisoners:
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1itqyj0/ru_pov_stormtrooper_assault_group_took_an_enemy/
Ukrainian soldiers abuse one of their own who has down syndrome (Ukraine is becoming desperate for troops) just like how the Ukrainians back in WWII tortured people with disabilities in support for Bandera:
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/18tofjg/ua_pov_ukrainian_soldier_mocks_a_ukrainian/
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So for transport? Would you rather walk? It ain’t stupid if it works.
Must be embarrassing considering that Russia is winning with donkeys, what does that say about Ukrainian peoples’ will to fight?
Oh wait the Ukrainians also use animals:
Ukrainians using horse sleds as transport
Ukrainians riding on bicycles and horse carriages
Ukrainians using horse carriage
Ukraine transporting supplies via horses
Ukrainian Inmates with military experience including a bunch of rapists and murderers from Tornado batallion, were released in February 2022, long before Prigozin was allowed to recruit Russian convicts into Wagner.
More recently in 2024, President Zelenskyy signed a bill permitting convicts to join the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Convicted Females joining Ukrainian Armed Forces
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Ukraine had a stronger military compared to Germany, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom combined.
Ukraine had a thousand tanks at the start of the war. At least half of them were modernized. The T-64BV Model 2017 has third generation thermal, new gun stabilizer, new autoloader, same fire suppression system as T-84 Oplot-M, digital communications, satellite navigation, and other improvements. They also upgraded their T-80s to T-80BV Model 2018 which brings it up to T-64BV Model 2017 standard. There is also T-64BM and T-64BM2 which are similar to the T-64BV Model 2017 but with a more modern fire control system. These tanks are not really much worst than say a Leopard 2.
Germany, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom have less than a thousand tanks combined.
Ukraine had two thousand MT-LBs which are fairly decent APCs (Russia had 3,000). They also had hundreds of modern BTR-4s and BTR-3s supplemented by hundreds of BTR-70s and BTR-80s.
Ukraine had far more artillery guns compared to these countries combined. This includes the 500 2S3s they had at the start of the war which is Soviet counterpart to M109. They also had plenty of 2S1s and 2S19s. Even if you include only the 2S3s (which again are comparable to the M109), this is roughly the same amount of M109s that the US has.
Ukraine has almost five times the amount of multiple launch rocket systems as France, Germany, Italy, and the UK combined. They are also the largest user of HIMARS and M270 outside of the US with them having more than France and Germany combined.
Ukraine has also received over a hundred modern tanks (roughly the same amount the UK has) and over half a thousand of modern artillery guns from the West which is more artillery guns than the amount that France, German, Italy, and the UK have combined. This has helped replace their losses with their fleet of 2S3s which for example dwindled down to 140.
Ukrainian military was also being trained by NATO since 2015 and also received MILES gear.
The UK practically sent their entire stockpile of SPGs to Ukraine and begged to Sweden to replace their fleet and Poland thrown half of their stockpile of SPGs to Ukraine. Almost every European country has complained about massive shortages of ammunition due to it all being given to Ukraine. France stated they could only fight Russia for a few weeks before running out of ammo.
Ukraine literally has a stronger military than France, Germany, Italy, and the UK combined. There is a reason why these countries state a Ukrainian defeat would be the end of Europe although in my opinion Russia has no plans to invade more countries outside of maybe the Baltics.
All of this despite most of the Russian Armed Forces not even being in Ukraine, majority of forces in Ukraine again are from irregular volunteer formations recruited from regions across Russia.
You mean the several failed Belgorod incursions?
Or you mean when Ukraine thrown up to a quarter of all their combat troops including their most elite into a small area in Kursk Oblast which got destroyed recently? Russia has 500K soldiers in the Ground Forces not including logistics which is part of its own branch. 100K of these are conscripts and Russia will not use them even in Kursk due to public pressure. So this leaves 400K soldiers. But most of those soldiers are being used to guard the country against NATO. This left 100K on Ukraine’s border (not including the 100K in Belarus) with 50K of which fighting in Kursk. Ukraine essentially concentrated 100K of their most elite forces and captured a very small portion of Kursk before being halted by 50K troops. These 50K troops recently destroyed this force utterly. When the chance of US intervention ceased with the Putin-Trump talks, Russia immediately launched a large-scale offensive with the air being crowded with aircraft and entire Ukrainian units surrendering. They liberated 28 settlements in a single week and captured multiple western tanks and pieces of equipment.
Yet the Russian economy keeps growing.
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