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Actually, they have gained more ground than they have lost. The Russkies are pushing up and around north of Bahkmut because they got pushed back at Bakhmut. Ukraine is advancing on Kremina and Russians are evacuating.
The article you linked to is 4 months old. I was curious what the situation is like now. So I did some googling. That wasn’t very successful. I did find one article though, dated Dec 6 (date in article is in European format of DD/MM/YYYY), which says the Russians are using Chinese and Uzbek cassette bearings for repairs:
The article appears to be a translation from another language and it is not quite clear to me how successful this substitution is. It is apparently expensive though and there is this comment, “Asian manufacturers are ‘ready to meet almost all the demand of the Russian market for these products, even without taking into account the manufacturers in the Russian Federation.”’
No matter which way it is looked at, bearings are a critical component and are in short supply. That same publication - Railway Supply - shed a little light when it said this on Oct 2:
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The main manufacturers of cassette bearings for them were the Swedish SKF, as well as Timken and Amsted Rail from the USA. All three companies left Russia after the start of the war. Components were brought from abroad, and only the final assembly was carried out at Russian enterprises. Now there is nothing to assemble them from and nothing to replace imports with.
https://www.railway.supply/en/russia...e-of-collapse/
If Russia solves the problem it is going to be expensive, and I guess if that's the best that can be done it'll have to do. The more headaches for Russia the better.
The article went on the explain that some Russian rail cars have already been cannibalized. You do have to sort of wonder how Uzbekistan - Pop 34M with 2900 miles of railroad - is going to be much help to Russia - Pop 144M with 56,000 miles of railroad.
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My facts are the facts - Putin started it. You must be an evil-minded person to defend such evil. Why are you even in the US if you despise the US/EU so much and think so highly of Russia? I'm sure Putin would welcome you.
You can keep spouting ignorant propaganda all you want...that will not ever make "Putin Started It" factual.
He is dealing with what others started & if you educate yourself about it, you will know. Here: https://youtu.be/FkLU0vFAUQs
I'm Native U.S born...a Veteran, even.
I do not "despise the U.S.". Just what a bunch of the high level Government Officials/Leaders have done in the past, and presently.
Who wouldn't despise those things? Genocide of the Native People, Slavery, etc...that's as rotten as it gets.
It is the evil-minded that messes with someone for decades, assembles a 300,000 man Military Force in his face...then rejects all his attempts at a Peaceful Resolution.
Peace should have been chosen. But the U.S./West/NATO loooooooves war...So....
Here's an excellent source on the events beginning in the spring of 2014 which led to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It seems fair and objective, from a witness to many of the events. Interesting are the eventual demonization of Putin for everything from the separatist movement in the Donbass, to the Euromaydan movement, to the rise in utility rates, to housing shortages, to the collapse of the Ukranian economy. Interesting parallel with Biden and the wokes claiming that white supremacy, Trump and MAGA are the greatest threat to "Our Democracy."
Recent Russian gains in Soledar do not portend an imminent encirclement of Bakhmut, contrary to claims made by Russian sources. Even at the most generous interpretation of Russian milblogger narratives, which claim that Russian forces are fighting on the outskirts of Razdolivka (about 6km northwest of Soledar), Russian forces are still far from being within striking distance of an operational encirclement of Bakhmut. In order to effectively cut Ukrainian ground lines of communication (GLOCs) into Bakhmut, Russian forces would have to establish control of the T0513 Siversk-Bakhmut highway (currently 7km west of the furthest point of confirmed Russian advances in the Soledar area) and reach the E40 Slovyansk-Bakhmut highway (13km from the furthest point of confirmed Russian advance in the Soledar area) at least. Considering that the recent rate of gains in this area has been on the order of a few hundred meters a day, at most, it is highly unlikely that Russian forces will be successful in cohering a mechanized push towards these GLOCs and move towards encircling Bakhmut. Ukrainian forces in Bakhmut would still have GLOCs available even if the Russians cut the E40, moreover, making the entire discussion of an encirclement at this point bizarre.
1139 pages, the war goes on, and we keep sending billions and billions of taxpayer money to this corrupt maniac, while our own border remains wide open and people have to work 80 hours a week to pay their bills.
Going to borrow a tweet I saw a few days ago.
Is it possible for every politician and every political party to lose the next election?
1139 pages, the war goes on, and we keep sending billions and billions of taxpayer money to this corrupt maniac, while our own border remains wide open and people have to work 80 hours a week to pay their bills.
Going to borrow a tweet I saw a few days ago.
Is it possible for every politician and every political party to lose the next election?
It looks like Beer Geek is another Russian bot. You need to support the war in Ukraine.
Helpless Russians trying to crawl away leaving their fellow soldiers under fire
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