The Cynic
Russia is moving reserve forces from all over the country and pulling up equipment from the 1950s for an offensive in Ukraine, – British intelligence
Russia is moving reserve forces from all over the country and pulling them into Ukraine for future offensive operations. Most of the new infantry units are deployed with MT-LB armored vehicles removed from long-term storage as the main transport.
As noted in the brief, MT-LBs were previously in service as auxiliaries on both sides, and Russia has long considered them unsuitable for most forward infantry transport missions. They were first developed in the 1950s as tractors for carrying artillery, have very limited armor and are only equipped with a machine gun for protection.
In contrast, most Russian first-echelon assault units in February were equipped with BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicles with armor up to 33mm thick, equipped with a powerful 30mm automatic cannon and an anti-tank rocket launcher.
We will discuss the offensive potential in the evening analytical material. But while I was reading the intelligence summary, I remembered Zadornov’s old text about “Dulya in the Desert” (the paragraph of the “Russian-imperial” nature was removed, the rest was kept exactly):
- The Russian army successfully conducted military maneuvers called “Dulya in the Desert”. Two tanks without muzzles and turrets were supposed to knock out one helicopter, which was carried by soldiers. Although one tank tried to catch up with the helicopter and ram it, the helicopter ran away from it. The naval forces did not intervene, as their oar broke.
Russian people are “used to living in fiction rather than reality.”
- These exercises were observed from behind the hill by specially invited NATO observers. At first, they were frightened when they saw how a submarine appeared around the corner, which was pulled across a freshly painted field by barge haulers on the Volga. Observers noted that all 16 barge haulers fit in one Volga GAZ-24.
- Then they were very surprised when the helicopter began to be blown away by the wind to the Russian-Chinese border, where it was detained by a border guard, who remained alone in the border troops, and every night he bypassed the borders of Russia.
- The border guard was in a raincoat, and his dog was in a raincoat. Despite the fact that a month before the border guard had exchanged his machine gun for a mobile phone, he did not lose his head, did not succumb to panic and, seeing a helicopter running at him, fired at him with sounds: “Tra-ta-ta-ta-ta”. For this, the helicopter kicked the border guard with his feet.
- Suddenly, thuds were heard. It was paratroopers who landed without parachutes. They were all armed with Chinese strategic firecrackers, which went off on landing. The paratroopers were about to join the battle, but they were frightened by a helicopter that suddenly ran out of the forest, cursing loudly, because a mutant mole was chasing it underground.
It is not known how these exercises would have ended, but then everyone was covered with a ballistic missile, which the strategic troops rolled along the ground in search of a target for the third day.
