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"Russians are logistically incompetent and can barely maintain air superiority" This is categorically false, look at the insane 1200 airstrikes that were launch

• ceejayoz 5y ago
  > This is categorically false, look at the insane 1200 airstrikes that were launched in the last week. That'd be an insanely high number, yes. You misread things: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/zelensky-says-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-has-moved-into-the-next-phase-0j6kwmggd https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/zelensky-says-russian-inv... "Russia claims to have hit more than 1,200 targets in Ukraine with missiles, artillery and airstrikes overnight as it launched a long-awaited new offensive in the Donbas region." Also, no one doubts that the Russians are flying air missions, but "air superiority" means something far more than that.
• mikeyouse 5y ago
  Like pointed out elsewhere, "1,200 strikes" includes artillery, missiles and airstrikes so most of those were clearly not delivered via planes. In any case, where are they striking? Nearly all of their air sorties are near DPR / Mariupol / Kharkiv, just across the border from Russia. They had deep air access when they were pushing to establish Antonov Airport as a forward base/landing site but when they failed to capture the airport, it seems like all of their plans fell apart. It's been incredible watching the sheer number of downed Russian aircraft.. OSINT folks like Oryx have IDed a substantial number of these but the Ukraine MOD shows over 300 combined aircraft losses, over 800 tanks, 2000 APCs, etc etc etc. This is not a successful military operation: https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1517395823386050560 https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1517395823386050560