The Ukrainian army has been expanded with new troops and will grow in size weekly as new regular army troops graduate from accelerated training courses. Also anybody retired from the army in the last 5 years has been reabsorbed back into the army and other older retired people are training local reserves.
I think this is that army in action, they fight smarter than the Russians and are taking less casualties even in attack than they are. They can replace loses quickly and are organizing and fielding new units weekly, plus they are backed up by competent, motivated and trained reserves. The idea is to eject Vlad's army from Ukraine as quickly as the can and cut them off while they are still stuck on the roads to destroy as many of them as they can. Over a thousand anti armor weapons a day means the Ukrainians are running through Russians and equipment like shit through a goose. As their army and military power grows over time, there is no way Vlad can withstand it during summer gruella season. Right now Vlad is throwing good money after bad, reinforcing a losing and hopeless situation.
Let's make no bones about it, if Vlad could afford to have a million man army he would have it already and he can't afford to raise that many troops. Raising troops is one thing, who is going to train and motivate them? Feed them? With the current bunch running the show, they will steal their food and starve them to death before they get to the border.
Vlad can't concentrate enough infantry to win, he's got armor, but that is kinda useless when confined to the roads. They need long range artillery and drones to deal with the open field kind of combat, when the Russians can get off the roads and bypass built up areas. Meanwhile destroy as much as you can and kill as many as you can, line the roads with IEDs on their expected line of advances etc and send reservists gruella attacks, drones and special forces after their logistics and trucks in their rear.
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Ukraine War: Ukrainian troops in Izyum confident of victory
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