Russia has traded enormous manpower losses for meaningless territorial gains. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Putin’s war propaganda collapses at the front line
Russia boasts of gains, but its army is trading lives for villages with no strategic value.
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December 17, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Russia has traded enormous manpower losses for meaningless territorial gains. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Ukrainian forces are pushing forward around Kupyansk, retaking territory and entering the city. Russian units are isolated, dependent on drone resupply, unable to reinforce, and no longer hold a manpower edge. Even pro-Kremlin bloggers say the situation is worsening. - ISW (summarized)
December 16, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Ukrainian forces are pushing forward around Kupyansk, retaking territory and entering the city. Russian units are isolated, dependent on drone resupply, unable to reinforce, and no longer hold a manpower edge. Even pro-Kremlin bloggers say the situation is worsening. - ISW (summarized)
John Bolton, Trump’s former national security advisor, says Ukraine should lower the draft age and mobilize 18-year-olds to boost manpower and balance the battlefield. He also called demands for Ukrainian elections unfair, noting that Russia isn’t holding free and fair elections either.
December 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
John Bolton, Trump’s former national security advisor, says Ukraine should lower the draft age and mobilize 18-year-olds to boost manpower and balance the battlefield. He also called demands for Ukrainian elections unfair, noting that Russia isn’t holding free and fair elections either.
⚡ Russia is recruiting across Africa to fuel its war.
Moscow is luring African citizens to fight in Ukraine by pitching the effort as jobs or education — another sign the Kremlin is scraping for manpower.
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Moscow is luring African citizens to fight in Ukraine by pitching the effort as jobs or education — another sign the Kremlin is scraping for manpower.
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December 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
⚡ Russia is recruiting across Africa to fuel its war.
Moscow is luring African citizens to fight in Ukraine by pitching the effort as jobs or education — another sign the Kremlin is scraping for manpower.
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Moscow is luring African citizens to fight in Ukraine by pitching the effort as jobs or education — another sign the Kremlin is scraping for manpower.
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3/ Russian forces will likely continue to struggle to maintain the Kremlin’s desired multi-pronged offensive operations in different operational directions due to the long-term materiel and manpower costs of such operations.
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 AM
3/ Russian forces will likely continue to struggle to maintain the Kremlin’s desired multi-pronged offensive operations in different operational directions due to the long-term materiel and manpower costs of such operations.
ISW reports Russian forces are overstretched and can’t sustain attacks on multiple fronts. A new push on Ukraine’s Fortress Belt may drain manpower from other directions and stall the entire offensive.
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ISW: Russia’s army can’t sustain multi-pronged offensives due to manpower and equipment strain
A push toward Ukraine’s heavily fortified Fortress Belt would force Moscow to drain even more troops and equipment.
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December 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
ISW reports Russian forces are overstretched and can’t sustain attacks on multiple fronts. A new push on Ukraine’s Fortress Belt may drain manpower from other directions and stall the entire offensive.
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Russia’s biting off more than it has manpower for.
December 16, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Russia’s biting off more than it has manpower for.
2.) It is crucial to Russia that Ukraine remains vulnerable. Manpower is one thing, but weaponry is at least as important. Russia will not agree to a deal without strict limits on Ukrainian weapons, incl. vehicles, missiles, drones, even air defense.
December 16, 2025 at 11:38 AM
2.) It is crucial to Russia that Ukraine remains vulnerable. Manpower is one thing, but weaponry is at least as important. Russia will not agree to a deal without strict limits on Ukrainian weapons, incl. vehicles, missiles, drones, even air defense.
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December 14, 2025 at 10:19 AM
5/ This threatens a major loss of Russia military manpower, putting in doubt its capacity to resume the war or carry out further invasions. Since at least the start of this year, the Russian MOD has been trying to prevent this by forcing mobiks to sign contracts.
December 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
5/ This threatens a major loss of Russia military manpower, putting in doubt its capacity to resume the war or carry out further invasions. Since at least the start of this year, the Russian MOD has been trying to prevent this by forcing mobiks to sign contracts.
They just have to grind down the last of these men, drain the manpower swamp of the Russian army and make the cost of this battle so hideously high it becomes another monumental drain on Russian society and resources as it drags them closer to inevitable collapse. They are heroes holding the line
December 14, 2025 at 7:12 AM
They just have to grind down the last of these men, drain the manpower swamp of the Russian army and make the cost of this battle so hideously high it becomes another monumental drain on Russian society and resources as it drags them closer to inevitable collapse. They are heroes holding the line
Pokrovsk is making RUS losses at Bakmut look insignificant, they surely cannot keep churning through 30k men a month.
Still amazed & impressed how UKR continues to thwart them with what was a 10-1 manpower disadvantage. Are UKR maintaining manpower there or still slowly withdrawing men?
Still amazed & impressed how UKR continues to thwart them with what was a 10-1 manpower disadvantage. Are UKR maintaining manpower there or still slowly withdrawing men?
December 14, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Pokrovsk is making RUS losses at Bakmut look insignificant, they surely cannot keep churning through 30k men a month.
Still amazed & impressed how UKR continues to thwart them with what was a 10-1 manpower disadvantage. Are UKR maintaining manpower there or still slowly withdrawing men?
Still amazed & impressed how UKR continues to thwart them with what was a 10-1 manpower disadvantage. Are UKR maintaining manpower there or still slowly withdrawing men?
This is an unattractive proposition for both Ukraine and its supporters, given the risk that the remainder of the Donbas could still fall into Russian hands due to Russia’s superiority in materiel and manpower.
December 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This is an unattractive proposition for both Ukraine and its supporters, given the risk that the remainder of the Donbas could still fall into Russian hands due to Russia’s superiority in materiel and manpower.
🔥 AFU hit ammunition depot near Avdiivske and Enemy manpower concentration points in the Myrnohrad and Rodynske districts
⚡️ SBU drones again hit oil production platforms in the Caspian Sea
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⚡️ SBU drones again hit oil production platforms in the Caspian Sea
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December 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
🔥 AFU hit ammunition depot near Avdiivske and Enemy manpower concentration points in the Myrnohrad and Rodynske districts
⚡️ SBU drones again hit oil production platforms in the Caspian Sea
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⚡️ SBU drones again hit oil production platforms in the Caspian Sea
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🇰🇭 The Cambodian military has begun using Chinese QBU-10 anti-material rifles against Thai forces.
Anti-materiel rifles are large-caliber sniper systems designed primarily to destroy material targets, not just enemy manpower.
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Anti-materiel rifles are large-caliber sniper systems designed primarily to destroy material targets, not just enemy manpower.
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December 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
🇰🇭 The Cambodian military has begun using Chinese QBU-10 anti-material rifles against Thai forces.
Anti-materiel rifles are large-caliber sniper systems designed primarily to destroy material targets, not just enemy manpower.
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Anti-materiel rifles are large-caliber sniper systems designed primarily to destroy material targets, not just enemy manpower.
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🔥 Oil refinery in Yaroslavl region and a number of targets in the occupied territories were hit - General Staff
👀 Slavneft-YANOS oil refinery
👀 An ammunition depot near Avdiivske
👀 Enemy manpower concentration points in the Myrnohrad and Rodynske districts
👀 Slavneft-YANOS oil refinery
👀 An ammunition depot near Avdiivske
👀 Enemy manpower concentration points in the Myrnohrad and Rodynske districts
December 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
🔥 Oil refinery in Yaroslavl region and a number of targets in the occupied territories were hit - General Staff
👀 Slavneft-YANOS oil refinery
👀 An ammunition depot near Avdiivske
👀 Enemy manpower concentration points in the Myrnohrad and Rodynske districts
👀 Slavneft-YANOS oil refinery
👀 An ammunition depot near Avdiivske
👀 Enemy manpower concentration points in the Myrnohrad and Rodynske districts
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December 16, 2025 at 10:02 PM
In 2004, historical Lori Bogle identified the cycle that Pete Hegseth is currently heading up.
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December 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Ukrainian drones wipe out Russian manpower equivalent to two battalions in 48 hours, commander says - Euromaidan Press share.google/blJdCvI3SS64...
Ukrainian drones wipe out Russian manpower equivalent to two battalions in 48 hours, commander says - Euromaidan Press
Ukraine’s drone forces say their kill count hit 976 soldiers in just two days — and the pressure is still rising.
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Ukrainian drones wipe out Russian manpower equivalent to two battalions in 48 hours, commander says - Euromaidan Press share.google/blJdCvI3SS64...
Absolutely not, they made Sweden and Finland join NATO, started massive rearmament in the EU, lost all influence in the Middle East (the moment they had to divert their forces from Syria, Assad was toppled), fortified Baltics borders, not mention the insane loss of manpower and equipment.
December 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Absolutely not, they made Sweden and Finland join NATO, started massive rearmament in the EU, lost all influence in the Middle East (the moment they had to divert their forces from Syria, Assad was toppled), fortified Baltics borders, not mention the insane loss of manpower and equipment.