Putin's 'sluggish response' to Ukraine incursion has made for ineffective defence | Matthew Savill

"That’s part of the embarrassment, that they haven't really mounted an effective defence."
Ukraine "identified some Russian" weaknesses in their incursion into Kursk and the Russian response has been "sluggish", says RUSI Military sciences director Matthew Savill.
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[@HymnfortheDudes]

Sluggish?....I don't think so, he's been running to the toilet for the last few days.

[@olufemiajibowo4618]

You're 100% correct. He was dumbfounded, confused and helpless. I guess the blogger thinks it's easy to raise thousands of battle ready soldiers and such huge arsenal needed just like that🤷‍♂️. Whatever Ukraine did, Ukraine had been planning it for several months.

[@kevin.keen.socialmedia]

@@olufemiajibowo4618 I am quite sure that Oleksandr Syrskyi is the one responsible for this combined-arms plan and the supervision of its execution. I have no doubt that this part of a much larger offensive with the accent on manoeuver. Expect maximum flexibility.

[@captainhadd0ck]

Слава Україні!

[@Ne_Ne_Vova_UA]

Героям слава!

[@jastrapper190]

Drink your Polonium 210… errrr… I meant tea… tea… drink your tea General Garisimov… I said tea… 🫖 drink up… what are you staring at? -Putin

[@nicholasmaude6906]

@@jastrapper190 Have Gerasimov drink Putin's favourite Novichok blend😉😁😈.

[@PierceStudent]

The Ukrainians won't need more drones or other weapons to attack the Russian military base in Lipetsk, because there is nothing there any longer. Apparently 700 glide bombs were destroyed in the Ukrainian drone attack. Lipetsk was about 250 miles from the Ukrainian border. I would imagine that the Ukraine is prepared for a counterattack. I wouldn't want to be a Russian helicopter pilot providing close air ground support. Attacking fixed Ukrainian positions could prove problematic. And, if the Ukrainian forces take shelter amongst civilians in Russian residences, that could be problematic.

[@Dirk80241]

“A worthy response” - add that to Putin’s list of empty threats.

[@ClemensKatzer]

Yeah, those "severe consequences of an unspecified nature".

[@jastrapper190]

He’s gonna launch another three day operation to take Kiev… but for real this time!!!! 🤦‍♂😂😂😂 Putin is like a chicken with a missing head… still strutting around and pretending he’s “king of the roost”… as the rest of the henhouse looks on in horror at what’s occurring before them.

[@davechan8613]

I wonder if he’ll nuke his own land just to make a point lol

[@ClemensKatzer]

@@davechan8613 Yes. And then he will claim Ukraine did it.

[@davechan8613]

@@ClemensKatzer Ah yes, from Ukraine’s famous nuclear missile stockpile! 😉

[@meglobob9217]

The Russian army is not very 'mobile', whenever Russia's army is forced to move around, instead of behind prepared defenses, they have serious problems. Ukraine could inflict serious losses on Russian forces trying to take Kursk back.

[@dpelpal]

Especially if they get dug in............ 😏

[@ClemensKatzer]

There were some reports that Ukraine monitors the convoys coming as reinforcement and takes them out systematically. "Come to daddy, sweetie!". WUMM! :)

[@guido_aka_guy]

How long it takes Russian Army to find out ?

[@jastrapper190]

Ivan is a paper tiger…. They use human “life” (men’s souls) like the civilized world uses “b0mb disposal robots”.

[@ClemensKatzer]

@@nonvervalseinstein I doubt they want to go deep. 30km, perhaps 50. Long supply lines are a bad idea. A 40km wide buffer zone so that Russia can't shell Ukrainian cities would already be great. But it remains to be seen whether Ukraine can or even wants to keep that land. The side effects they have already achieved, even if they retreat tomorrow, were IMHO already worth it.

[@therealorkdung]

Love that Matthew has GW games behind him.

[@psotos]

I saw those games too! I couldn't figure out which games they are though. One looks like Leviathans? Not sure. Did you figure it out?

[@therealorkdung]

@@psotos Leviathan and Age of Sigmar games.

[@Astartesdave]

Nice Warhammer collection bro 👍

[@jastrapper190]

Drink your Polonium 210… errrr… I meant tea… tea… drink your tea General Garisimov… I said tea…drink up… what are you staring at? -Putin

[@emmetray4141]

They are serving each other soon. With tea I mean. They already do at night.

[@guido_aka_guy]

General Gerasimov took Special Security precautions, he joint Security Meeting with Putin via Videoconference

[@THERULIAD]

and looked like ai

[@geoffgill5334]

Guessing he will be the next course of the Kremlin eating the Kremlin

[@lorristan]

The real take on this incursion is that the Russians are on the back foot and the biggest problem is that they have VASTLY SUPERIOR SATELLITE COVERAGE AND INTELLIGENCE. This makes Russias response very limited.

[@geofwassell]

Putin talking tough still because tough respinses are beyond his power. Ukraine are not murdering as they go. Shortly, the Russian people will notice this and will start to doubt what Putins regime are telling them. The reality is that the babushkas who remain are carrying on with their lives quite happily with the Ukrainian occupiers. This is a very clever move by Ukraine. hearts and minds!

[@dpelpal]

Скоро дойдёт до того, что по телику скажут, что Курская область и никогда не была частью РФ.🙄

[@jastrapper190]

Putin’s gonna launch another three day “special operation” to take Kiev… but for real this time!!!! Putin is like a chicken with a missing h3ad… still strutting around and pretending he’s “king of the roost”… as the rest of the hen house looks on in horr0r at what’s occurring before them.

[@vfrfhjd1958]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pnzGnoF9q8Z3i9U&rco=1.....I recommend watching this film to understand what is happening in Ukraine....

[@Deathadder90]

​@@vfrfhjd1958That's propaganda. It only takes a look at the comments to realise that.

[@geofwassell]

@@vfrfhjd1958 The revolution of dignity signaled to Putin that Ukraine wasnt going to labour under a Russian corrupt puppet. This was another one of Putins mistakes ( which he didnt learn anything from). What IS happening in Ukraine is not what IS happening in Kursk.Russians target and brutalise civilians and civilian targets. Ukrainians dont.

[@lotheravanti4295]

Russian air power? What has it been doing for a week?

[@weirdo1060]

Hiding in fear of F-16 fighter jets?

[@vfrfhjd1958]

And you ask the Ukrainian soldiers without arms and legs, who filled all the hospitals in Sumy. There were journalists there. They will answer where the Russian aviation was. The PR campaign of the clown Zelensky will end very tragically.

[@emmetray4141]

Allthough Ukraine is small er, russia is running out of men at a faster rate. Same with weapons and eco. And if it makes a wrong move, Nato will disarm russia within 2 weeks. Russia will fall in 3 years max. Putin might die earlier.

[@bobwallace9753]

@@vfrfhjd1958 Good post. Now go collect your potato, you earned it.

[@gavrawlinson3099]

​@@vfrfhjd1958russia is weak it hot invaded and it is going to take months to drive them out could you imagine a country trying to invade the us or uk they wouldn't get within 50 miles

[@sunkntreasure]

Itll be funny watching Russia trying to recapture their own trenches in Russia

[@bobwallace9753]

Russians are going to have to move reinforcements along a limited number of roads. Perhaps this will allow a turkey shoot.

[@geoffgill5334]

Already has 😮

[@ulfeliasson5413]

How many of those villages have indoor toilets?

[@dpelpal]

I am Russ woman, live Samara. Maybe he can also do something about *INFLATION* becuz we in Russ are to swimming in it! Damn him!

[@dpelpal]

@Bootsa1909 I remember hearing him scream "Kyiv in three days".

[@boink800]

​@@dpelpalIt's the liberation of the ethnic Ukrainians in Kursk Oblast!

[@dpelpal]

@@boink800 Yes! They have been having a Russ bombs on them for EIGHT YEARS now Ukrainian are helping them!!!!!!

[@dpelpal]

@@boink800 Yes😏

[@michaeldunham3385]

You've never spent a day in your life in Russia

[@miker4430]

$115 to each Russian to relocate 😂😂😂

[@dpelpal]

And as a Russ woman, that amount is worth less and less daily because of INFLATION. WORTHLESS DRIVEL

[@nikosatsaves3141]

Payable in a bag of rotten tomatoes.

[@proselytizingorthodoxpente8304]

Unless the Russian local authorities pocket it for themselves

[@longjidalu3845]

Ouch!! Russians are too cheap 😂😂

[@davechan8613]

@@nikosatsaves3141but how many eggs with that?

[@stephendarlison8140]

Russia is easy game for the picking

[@emmetray4141]

Russia is a hoax.

[@florinmilitaru3431]

that land is ukraine land and referendum is coming!

[@terrencekane8203]

Крым всегда будет частью Украины Россия должна уйти сегодня 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛🌻

[@vfrfhjd1958]

Да, ты это скажи Крымчанам. Они тебя пошлют очень далеко. Украина всегда была территорией Российской империи. В составе России была Киевская губерния. А Богдан Хмельницкий всегда считал себя русским человеком.

[@terrencekane8203]

@@vfrfhjd1958 вы

[@gerryhouska2859]

According to master strategist stable military genius generalissimo chuilo poo tin, everything is going as planned.

[@boink800]

Those who dare always win.

[@dpelpal]

YuTube shut off in russia, no more KREMbots!

[@michaeldunham3385]

​@@dpelpalmore proof you're not in Russia because KZbin still works in Russia

[@emmetray4141]

Russia doesn't even exist.

[@robertelbrnd2003]

Here’s something to think about for the “Sullivanians”. Underarming Ukraine and limiting their use was what made the attack necessary. And it's a huge escalation. Moreover, according to the Russian military doctrine, an enemy within the Russian borders allows the use of nuclear warheads. How about that? No more saber rattling - it’s in their doctrine. It must be the ultimate red line. If red lines were made of wool, Ukraine would now be able to weave a new carpet for the red square.

[@samg7430]

Matthew Savill is an avid 40k player I see

[@poolboy1690]

This shows Russia's neighbors that Russia's borders are not well protected. This will have a Domino effect.

[@essencelove9130]

💙💛

[@RatTerminator]

well a Low level spy assistant can't run his Own special military operation counter terrorism operation!!😂 🇺🇦🇺🇲💪😆🤣

[@Jergal1]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="44">0:44</a> this number I like!

[@grandlotus1]

What are the chances that Ukraine will pivot east in an attempt to flank part of the Russian lines?

[@Cruzeoc101]

None

[@weirdo1060]

Unlikely due to concerns about outrunning supply lines.

[@bobwallace9753]

@@weirdo1060 Don't you think a lot of planning and preparation went into maintaining supplies? This countermeasure has gone through extensive planning. Some of the best military minds of the West are likely involved along with Ukrainian experts in working out ways to defeat Putin.

[@PassiveAgressive319]

First Trump, now Putin. Bring back democracy 🫡

[@davidreidenberg9941]

I find you equating Trump with Putin disgusting.x

[@michaeldunham3385]

​@@davidreidenberg9941doesn't help when Trump claims Putin is a great man

[@PassiveAgressive319]

@@davidreidenberg9941 ❄️

[@Cruzeoc101]

​@@michaeldunham3385 Trump was right again

[@rogerwilco5918]

​@@PassiveAgressive319😆 year old desperate troll account! There's literally no space between a trumptard and a putin troll.. they're both America's enemies

[@milankralj896]

War kiler Putler(Vladolf)

[@mariansaines5021]

This female interviewer is SO negative toward Ukraine 😵😖Not listening again.

[@lelandarcher4760]

I think they'll kick the enemy in, and the enemy's soldiers will become the enemy's soldiers.😅😂

[@RatTerminator]

Putler better watch what he eats,drinks,sleeps 😂 🇺🇲💪🇺🇦😆

[@Микаэльножницы]

You know who else was sluggish to respond to an invasion into Russian territory? Josef Stalin

[@jaydee2072]

The difference between Vlad and Iron Joe is that one had the entire Soviet Union behind them and the other just has what the Muscovites have raided from its corpse.

[@bobwallace9753]

Stalin was well supplied with US armament. Putin is rapidly burning through the gear that Stalin and the Soviet Union left him.

[@Микаэльножницы]

@@bobwallace9753 Stalin's most plentiful resource wasn't arms or munitions It was manpower

[@bobwallace9753]

@@Микаэльножницы You probably need to learn some WWII history. I don't think Russia would have done much by sending hundreds of thousands of peasants armed with potatoes against German guns.

[@jaydee2072]

@@bobwallace9753 Absolutely true as well. The myth of Soviet might came out of a Western Lend Lease factory. Half a century of build up to have a bunch stolen and the rest burnt up by 155mm artillery rounds and RPG warheads attached to cheap drone copters.

[@elaeroplano]

why is the californian english so much better to understand than the britsh english, for me as german?

[@otocan]

Keine Idee! Film und Fernsehen?

[@olbuck]

Agreed. Many British announcers have the "mush in mouth" sound that makes them unusable.

[@geoff1201]

It's called English, pronounced properly.​@@olbuck

[@geoffgill5334]

Lol we colonials language evolved our British cousins didn't 😂😂😂

[@emmetray4141]

Easy answer, no experience. I can easily distinguish between some US accents, generally canadian and australian and several british accents plus irish/scottish. give it time.

[@EDD519]

copycat Stalin ??

[@michaeldunham3385]

Similarities but Stalin was worse

[@davidthompson9141]

This is actually an annihilation. This was pure idiocy by ukraine and their nato advisors (who have been terrible at taking ground throughout this war) to commit 5 brigades into russia proper where they have no entrenchments, fortifications or local support and where it is impossible to resupply them. The largely foreign mercs who were sent in will never return home and ukraine have now highlighted their lack of strength along the front, where it is now known their force is thin on the ground.

[@garymelnyk7910]

You’re Russian!

[@rogerwilco5918]

😆 it's like you idiots live in another dimension

[@jeffturner2102]

Uk government shouldn't be giving £billions to Ukraine! charity should start at home! how hospitals are in a terrible state! Roads falling apart!!!?

[@frederickd.provoncha8671]

It was exactly this type of isolationist attitude that helped cause WWII. What happens elsewhere in the world DOES matter, and if we don't help our allies eventually we won't have any allies left and only enemies. Our rights and freedoms and prosperity here at home would not last long.

[@metalandwood4u]

Youll be speaking russian if you dont help ukraine !

[@al2642]

Yeah... A sluggish response to a slughish move. And a dangerously dumb move indeed

[@rogerwilco5918]

What do you mean? Are they going to bomb more children's hospitals and schools and playgrounds?

[@dariuselcornel]

Trăiesc în România și am căutat ucraina pe harta europei, n-am găsit-o 🤣🪦🤣

[@Krlarson27]

This guy knows what hes talking about, he plays warhammer 40k. ha 🤣

[@rogerwilco5918]

What's the connection?

[@lesliepropheter5040]

He’s got nukes and Trumps top secret infrastructure information - just chillin’

[@ahartify]

This kind of vague, emoty speculation is merely idle!

[@stephe7941]

Do you not think they were watching from satellites. Do you not think Ukrainian soldiers and zelensky have walked right into a trap.

[@dpelpal]

I think that's what Russia said when Ukraine took back all of Kharkiv and Kherson😂😂😂😂😂

[@garymelnyk7910]

No.

[@tomw.6757]

Russia is weak

[@iramehra2774]

No way russia would have allowed the ukrainian forces to cross the russian border so easily ,the same as Israel allowed hammasss to cross their border .Where was the security intelligence?We are watching theatre .

[@7171jay]

@ira This wasn't a matter of Russia "allowing" Ukraine to advance into Kursk but simply a lack of Russian forces in the area. Putin boldly and foolishly thought Ukraine would never attack Russian lands so he chose to use most of his forces in Ukraine leaving this area very poorly defended. Now Putin has a problem that is very difficult to deny but he is indeed trying to downplay this as much as possible

[@rogerwilco5918]

Nobody "allowed" anything

[@vfrfhjd1958]

The stupidest military PR campaign of Zelensky. Which delayed the negotiations indefinitely. Ukraine is already suffering heavy losses in equipment and people there. Russia has significantly more resources. These are the convulsions of a dying man and direct aggression against Russia, which everyone is silent about. And this means that Russia, according to its nuclear doctrine, can very well use nuclear weapons. What negotiations can we talk about? On the contrary, after this invasion, the Russians have united even more around their president and have become even more hateful of the puppet government in Ukraine. Moreover, the Ukrainian troops are engaged in looting there. They shoot civilians.

[@tomw.6757]

Negotiations? LOL This war ends with Russia's surrender.

[@rogerwilco5918]

I stopped at "Ukraine is already suffering huge losses". Sources? That sounds like something a desperate putin troll would literally make up.

[@emmetray4141]

You are wrong in everything. Russias days are running out. 3 years max. Maybe end of this year.

[@user-lj1ye5ds8t]

Russia special operations reached in Ukraine! Now Ukraine special operations should reached to Russia!

[@bro___ccoli1156]

Says expert who smells of fabric softener

[@HueCao-kj9cn]

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