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Cowardly Russia is using tactical warfare in order to suffocate the enemy, while minimizing losses. How dare they not use human wave attacks that I have been talking about for years? - Julian Ropcke (lemmygrad.ml)
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[–] IranOuttaOil@hexbear.net 27 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Armchair general here...

Ukraine is at a material disadvantage, so in order to survive and have a shot at winning, they need to entrench themselves.

So the Russians branch around them and start fighting, and then the Ukrainians retreat due to the flank.

If Ukraine had sufficient force, they could try to stop the branching, but that would require a posture not totally dependent on being entrenched.

There is no counter without the material circumstances to allow it.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 4 days ago

There's another, arguably bigger, problem which is that Ukraine is a proxy and optics are really important to them. So, instead of pulling troops out of positions that can't be defended, they just leave them there to the last because they're afraid western support will drop if they're seen to be losing.