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The Russian Invasion of the Ukraine.

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This '40 mile convoy' is not a convoy.
It is just the road the Russians are using for resupply. There will be lots of convoys on it.

In WW2 the US had roads designated to take supplies to the front and a separate roads for returning vehicles.

Google the Red Ball Express
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Ball_Express

If the Russians are relying on a single road they are making a big mistake, apart from jams due to overcrowding and breakdowns, a few attacks along it will bring the whole thing to a halt.

One of the reasons for the failure to relieve Arnhem in WW2 is that there was only one main road that could be used for the advance and it wasn't possible to push an entire army along it at the speed or in the numbers needed.
 
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Ukrainian military officials have claimed 5,710 Russian troops have been killed in the first five days of intense fighting in the country.

In a video message posted to Facebook, a spokesperson for the country's general staff added that over 200 Russian soldiers have been taken captive by Ukrainian forces.

The official also claimed that 198 Russian tanks, 29 planes, 846 armoured vehicles and 29 helicopters have been destroyed.

The BBC cannot independently verify these claims, but the UK defence ministry believes that Moscow's forces have suffered heavy losses during its invasion of Ukraine.
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Belarus will not join invasion - Lukashenko

The leader of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, has told state media that his forces will not join Russian troops in the invasion of Ukraine.

Lukashenko, who is a close ally of Vladimir Putin, said that the "Belarusian army isn't taking part in military action, and never did".

"We can prove this to anyone. More than that, the Russian leadership never raised this issue with us - our involvement in the armed conflict. And we don't intend to take part in this special operation in Ukraine in the future. There is no need for this."
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'Russia has 75% of forces inside Ukraine'

Russia has moved from having 40% of its forces inside Ukraine to around 75%, a military academic says.

The 75% figure has also been cited by a senior US defence official.

Dr Jack Watling is a research fellow in land warfare and military sciences at the Royal United Services Institute.

He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme a large body of Russian troops is advancing south from Belarus and starting to set the conditions to be able to conduct an assault into Kyiv.
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Kherson in southern Ukraine surrounded by Russian forces

The regional center of Kherson in southern Ukraine is surrounded by Russian troops, reports from the area say.
Russian troops had launched a ground assault on the city, located near Moscow-controlled Crimea, earlier this morning, according to eyewitness accounts.

"The Russian army is setting up checkpoints at the entrances of Kherson," mayor Igor Kolykhayev said on Facebook. "Kherson has been and will stay Ukrainian," he said.
"The city is actually surrounded, there are a lot of Russian soldiers and military equipment on all sides, they set up checkpoints at the exits," Kherson-based journalist Alena Panina said on national broadcaster Ukraine 24.

The journalist added that there was still electricity, water, and heating in Kherson but added that challenges had arisen in bringing food into the city of 300,000 as the food was stockpiled in warehouses on the city's outskirts.
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Captain_Swoop said:
If the Russians are relying on a single road they are making a big mistake, apart from jams due to overcrowding and breakdowns, a few attacks along it will bring the whole thing to a halt.
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There are already reports of jams.
 
Pat Robertson came out of retirement to claim that Putin "is being compelled by God" to invade Ukraine in preparation for a massive End Times invasion of Israel.

Video in link

https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1498410764113256455

Apparently it's all part of Gods plan, It's the first part of Putin's plan to team up with Turkey and attack Israel which is his real target.
 
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The Russians do not have full air superiority yet, apparently, but they must be pretty confident to have that X-mile long convoy on the road.

(Or be very foolhardy.)
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Or out of other options for keeping their troops supplied.
 
erlando said:
I'm pretty sure the German soldiers participating in joint exercises with other NATO soldiers when I had my stint in the army 30 years ago had weapons. I'm pretty sure they were quite a bit newer than the M-1 Garand I was hauling about.

Oh and btw... *raises hand*.
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What army was still using the Garand in 1992???
 
Minor point but shows how universal the revulsiion with Russia is:

Three of the major film studios...Disney, Warners, and now Sony have pulled their films from Russian release; I suspect that Paramount and Universal will do the same. Going to increase the sense of isolation; thokugh with the Russian economy going into collapse there would not be much money for movies anyway.
 
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"We can prove this to anyone. More than that, the Russian leadership never raised this issue with us - our involvement in the armed conflict. And we don't intend to take part in this special operation in Ukraine in the future. There is no need for this."
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"We just allowed the russian invasion force to use our country as a staging area. Nothing to see here." :rolleyes:
 
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What army was still using the Garand in 1992???
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The Danish army. (It was '90-'91, but still..) The US forces gifted quite a few to the Danish army after WW2 as part of the Marshall plan IIRC. The official Danish model designation was M/50, as it entered service in 1950. Around 1955 the Danish army purchased around 20,000 units made by Beretta under license. The weapon I had had a low serial number maybe indicating it was pre-WW2.

The army had already begun phasing it out some years before I did my stint but there were obviously not enough of the new rifles for my company to get them.
 
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erlando said:
The Danish army. (It was '90-'91, but still..) The US forces gifted quite a few to the Danish army after WW2 as part of the Marshall plan IIRC. The official Danish model designation was M/50, as it entered service in 1950.

It was phased out soon after I left the army.
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Garand was the best standard issue rifle of World War 2, and is a fun rifle to shoot but it was obsolete by the early 1960's.
 
dudalb said:
Garand was the best standard issue rifle of World War 2, and is a fun rifle to shoot but it was obsolete by the early 1960's.
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It was really fun to shoot. Nothing beats taking out targets at 400 metres when the light machine gun needs to change barrels. :D
 
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