Ukraine war - part 16. Russia's Order of battle and deployment.
In this post we cover: 1. Russia's order of battle. 2. Where their units are deployed. 3. What this deployment suggests for future operations. 4. The changing battlefield. In my last post, I had discussed Ukrainian and Russian casualties. Ukraine war part 15 Since then, President Putin in his annual keynote speech and Q&A session at the Valdai economic summit, validated a key assumption I have been making – that the Ukrainian casualties reported by the Russian ministry of defence, are sanitary losses (all killed and wounded, including lightly wounded), of which half are irrecoverable losses. He also confirmed another key assumption I have been making, namely that irrecoverable losses are more than fresh recruits for Ukraine. I have been getting feedback, that my posts seem to pro Russia and do not indicate problems with their army. I therefore want to provide a more realistic view of the strength of the Russian army, with a note at the en...