'We are again being threatened by German Leopard tanks,' Russian President Vladimir Putin declared Thursday on a visit to Volgograd, where he commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Red Army's World War II victory over Nazi forces in Stalingrad.
President Putin Visits Mamayev Kurgan Memorial Complex In Volgograd
Also in characteristic fashion, Putin got his facts wrong; the Nazis never operated a tank named after the leopard during the Second World War. As for the “collective west,” no mention was made of Josef Stalin’s invasion of Poland 16 days after Adolf Hitler’s, as per their mutually agreed carve-up of Eastern Europe, which culminated in a joint victory parade between German and Soviet armies in Brest-Litovsk on Sept. 22, 1939.
Zelensky's defense minister, Oleksii Reznikov, has suggested that the Kremlin may be deploying as many half a million soldiers for the effort, more than twice the original number fielded a year ago to mount the initial invasion. One unnamed source in the Russian military interviewed by the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta
Yet, for all the talk of an impending massive attack, there’s very little visual evidence of one. Recent satellite footage does not show any new major buildup of Russians soldiers and materiel along either the Russian or Belarusian borders. What this suggests is that Moscow may simply be funneling newly mobilized soldiers into existing fronts, with no provision of the additional armor and artillery necessary for combined arms warfare. In other words, raw meat for the grinder.
Still, Wagner and the Russian army are slowly gaining ground. They captured the salt mining city of Soledar, directly north of Bakhmut, on Jan. 16 and are making inroads to the south in an attempt to sever the Ukrainian supply lines keeping the city’s defenders fighting. “Putin wants to take all of the Donbas by March 2023,” one Western diplomat told Yahoo News. “And he doesn’t care at what cost.”Part of the new American weapons package for Ukraine announced by the Pentagon Friday is a consignment of Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bombs , a rocket-launched ground version of the air-launched GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb, which first entered service in the U.S. Air Force in 2006 and has since been used successfully in numerous wars.
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