{"id":1780124,"date":"2022-12-19T06:30:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T11:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1780124"},"modified":"2022-12-19T10:49:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T15:49:29","slug":"putin-lost-entire-units-in-his-disaster-of-a-war-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/putin-lost-entire-units-in-his-disaster-of-a-war-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin Lost \u201cEntire Units\u201d In His Disaster of a War in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fputin-lost-entire-units-in-his-disaster-of-a-war-in-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1780124&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Odesa.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/12\/putin-will-get-angry-america-will-train-more-soldiers-from-ukraine\/\">war in Ukraine<\/a>\u00a0continues for another, the 297th day, but there is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/12\/putin-really-doesnt-know-what-to-do-in-ukraine-war\/\">no end in sight<\/a> as both sides prepare for offensive operations once the ground freezes and is hard enough to support <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/12\/putin-is-really-angry-ukraines-mines-keep-killing-russian-tanks\/\">mobile armored warfare<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The Russian Casualties in Ukraine: Update<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Russian military continues to suffer heavy losses in the war.\n<\/p>\n<p>In some cases, entire units\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2022\/12\/16\/russia-200th-brigade-decimated-ukraine\/\">have been wiped out<\/a>. Moscow throws men into the meat grinder without particular regard for their survival.\n<\/p>\n<p>If the Kremlin wants to achieve anything on the ground, it will have to shift its obsolete tactics and adapt to the demands of the modern battlefield.\n<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mil.gov.ua\/en\/news\/2022\/12\/17\/the-total-combat-losses-of-the-enemy-from-24-02-to-16-12\/\">claimed<\/a>\u00a0that as of Saturday, Ukrainian forces have killed approximately 97,690 Russian troops (and wounded approximately twice to thrice that number), destroyed 281 fighter, attack, bomber, and transport jets, 264 attack and transport helicopters, 2,985 tanks, 1,947 artillery pieces, 5,958 armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles, 410 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (MLRS), 16 boats and cutters, 4,577 vehicles and fuel tanks, 211 anti-aircraft batteries, 1,648 tactical unmanned aerial systems, 174 special equipment platforms, such as bridging vehicles, and four mobile Iskander ballistic missile systems, and 653 cruise missiles shot down by the Ukrainian air defenses.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Russian Missile Strikes\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Russian military continues to attack Ukrainian cities but especially critical infrastructure with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-64010416\">missile barrages<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Since the first week of October, Russia has launched more than 1,000 ballistic and cruise missiles against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>At the start, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/16\/world\/europe\/ukraine-russia-missiles-infrastructure.html\">Russian missile attacks<\/a>\u00a0were almost always in response to either a Ukrainian attack deep behind Russian lines, for example, at the Kerch Bridge in Crimea, or to a Russian defeat on the ground, such as the defeats in the east around Kharkiv and in the south around Kherson.\n<\/p>\n<p>However, Moscow gradually changed its strategic calculus from retaliatory attacks to a consistent effort to take out the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/15\/politics\/russia-patriot-missiles-what-matters\/index.html\">Ukrainian energy grid<\/a>\u00a0and force Kyiv to make concessions.\n<\/p>\n<p>In the past few days, the Russian military has launched almost daily attacks against the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/3776569-russia-warns-of-unpredictable-consequences-if-us-sends-patriot-missiles-to-ukraine\/\">Ukrainian critical infrastructure<\/a>, plunging most of the country in the dark, without internet, water, and heat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe waves of strikes have largely consisted of air and maritime launched cruise missiles, but have almost certainly also included Iranian-provided uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) being launched from Russia\u2019s Krasnodar region,\u201d the British Military Intelligence assessed in its latest estimate of the war.\n<\/p>\n<p>Krasnodar is located in the northern Caucasus region, and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/world\/russia-warns-of-consequences-if-u-s-sends-patriot-missiles-sent-to-ukraine\">Russian military<\/a>\u00a0hopes it is far enough from the reach of the Ukrainians. In previous attacks, the Russian forces used Crimea as a launching base for the attacks.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe change of launch site is likely due to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/12\/a-ukraine-winter-war-could-be-a-disaster\/\">Russian concerns<\/a>\u00a0about the vulnerability of Crimea, while it is also convenient for resupply from the weapons\u2019 likely arrival point in Russia, at Astrakhan,\u201d the British Military Intelligence added.\n<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the Kremlin has chosen not to use its potent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2022\/12\/16\/russia-cyber-offensive-cyberattack-war-ukraine-putin\/\">offensive cyber capabilities<\/a>\u00a0against the Ukrainian critical infrastructure, preferring to destroy rather than disrupt. An explanation could be the strong Ukrainian cyber defenses\u2014they are assisted by the U.S. Cyber Command and Intelligence Community.\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Expert Biography:<\/strong>\u00a0A\u00a0<em>19FortyFive Defense and National Security Columnist,\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/sofrep.com\/author\/stavros-atlamazoglou\/\"><em>Stavros Atlamazoglou<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0is a seasoned defense journalist specializing in\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/soldiers-one-militarys-most-dangerous-161118164.html\"><em>special operations<\/em><\/a><em>, a Hellenic Army veteran (national service with the 575th Marine Battalion and Army HQ), and a Johns Hopkins University graduate. His work has been featured in <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/delta-force-sas-hunted-iraqi-scud-missiles-during-gulf-war-2021-2\"><em>Business Insider<\/em><\/a><em>,\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandboxx.us\/blog\/author\/stavros\/\"><em>Sandboxx<\/em><\/a><em>, and\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/sofrep.com\/news\/exclusive-the-perilous-state-of-the-special-forces-combat-diver-capability\/\"><em>SOFREP<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0war in Ukraine\u00a0continues for another, the 297th day, but there is no end in sight as both sides prepare for offensive operations once the ground freezes and is hard enough<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1780127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5458,4164,4260,5987,3733,3819,6991,10289,6696],"class_list":["post-1780124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-disaster","tag-entire","tag-lost","tag-putin","tag-report","tag-ukraine","tag-units","tag-war"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1780124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1780127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1780124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1780124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1780124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}