Page 154 - Ground Combat News Today

Right now? >> well, the mood is still resolute. people are willing and ready to defend the country in each way they can. army by repelling russian offenses and pretty successfully. actually, ukraine has received a lot of success on the ground -- in the ground combat. big problem is, of course, the missiles that continue to fall from the sky on ukrainian cities. yesterday 50 people were killed, civilians, among them children. another concern is also the humanitarian situation. several major citie...

Units trying to get into kyiv, they dont look very good. part of it may well be a lack of morale. i dont believe some of the stories coming out. they said one of the parent troop commanders trying to seize the airport thought he was on a training exercise, didnt know he was in ukraine. i dont believe that. by the way, id be skeptical of that 5500 dead russians, too. that would imply 35,000 casualties. there hadnt been that level of ground combat yet. there will be if they plunge into kyiv. so i ...

Most of the people have come from the port city of odesa, which has not been engaged yet in ground combat. people hearsay theyve heard explosions and blasts and that preparations are being made to defend the city. but most of the people have not seen the combat up close yet. i spoke with one family where a grandmother was holding a 4-month-old baby. she was from another town called mykolaiv. they said their home was destroyed by shell fire. the family was thankfully okay. but they were they are ...

I dont think we really are needed. the u.s. military, to deal with the millions of refugees, which cal clearly and correctly says will be fleeing ahead of a major outbreak in ground combat. but the nato alliance has started to come together. the germans have partially disarmed. theyre not a great military presence. they used to be in the 1980s. the french dont still have significant military capabilities, so does the u.k. putins put russia in a streejics, vulnerable position. for gods sake, his ...

>> if we even contemplated widening the war, to where it included tactical, nuclear weapons, it would be astonishing, the level of harm we would then encounter. so, i am not convinced that we are on the verge of world war three, at all. i think putin is over a barrel. stymied by courageous ukrainian ground forces, with a handful of planes. he has committed 60% of his ground combat for trying to subdue one country. he has a lot of nukes, a lot of oil, and natural gas, and that is about it. now, h...

Cities are buying from the center of ukraine, which has not seen active combat operations, ground combat, there have been rocket strikes in areas around here, but has so far been spared the brutal violence that we have seen in other parts of ukraine. as you pointed out, yes, im at a checkpoint. this is a village outside of the city. and were getting a sense of how the local population has been mobilized by russias invasion of ukraine. so all of this has been erected in the last two weeks. and it...

I think switch blade is a potential game changer for ground combat against russian armored north of kyiv. but again, all this takes time. it takes creativity. i dont think were on the verge of world war iii at all. putin doesnt have the grund combat power to seize the baltic states. but we would be involved in a shooting war with russia if we go in by air, even if its nonnato. brits, french, u.s. its a viable military option. president biden has a very cautious role to play here to not widen the...

Accuse who im attacking, so that when i have my first strike of chemical weapons, i am justifying it. is that with vladimir putin is trying to do here? >> he may well be. look, we gotta put this in context. russia has committed over 60% of ground combat forces trying to take down ukraine. over half their air force is out of options. there would be no employment of nuclear weapons by putin. you cannot win a nuclear exchange. his officers know that. i think hed get shocked if he told them to launc...

Is that what vladimir putin is trying to do here? >> he may well be. look, weve got to put this into context. russia has committed over 60% of their ground combat forces trying to take down ukraine, over half their air force. he is out of options. there will be no deployment of nuclear weapons by putin. you cannot win a nuclear exchange. his officers know that. i think hed get shot if he told them to launch an unprovoked attack. he clearly doesnt have the combat power to take on nato. what he do...

Like rubber three? >> if we even contemplated widening the war, to where it included tactical, nuclear weapons, it would be astonishing, the level of harm we would then encounter. so, i am not convinced that we are on the verge of world war three, at all. i think putin is over a barrel. stymied by courageous ukrainian ground forces, with a handful of planes. he has committed 60% of his ground combat for trying to subdue one country. he has a lot of nukes, a lot of oil, and natural gas, and that ...