Some more come to mind:ks_sachin wrote:Deans,
Are there more of such unexpected and inexplicable decisions to come from the Russian high command?
And these is not a fog of war types of decisions.
Their aircraft carrier is undergoing a prolonged refit (not ready, because of an accident during the refit), but its air wing, of highly capable
SU-27s is at St Petersburg, instead of being transferred to the Crimea. The battlecruiser Peter the Great is also unavailable, because it was given for refit to a shipyard owned by Putin's crony, which has never worked on a large vessel (only submarines).
No attempt to conscript men in the Crimea, who since 2015 have faced a threat of invasion (unlike Ukraine which has ruthlessly conscripted everyone) Crimea has just deployed its first brigade, where they could have deployed 5-6, months ago.
Not much attempt to standardize training of conscripts/volunteers in the Donbass. The best fighters who have been around since 2014 are now fed
up of war and expect Russian infantry to take over. Questions are being asked over why the Donbass militia were asked to man the line East of Kharkov, (without heavy weapon support) where the Ukrainian attack took place, when Kharkov is not part of the Donbass and the militia had no interest in defending it. Russia is behaving like the Germans did with their Romanian allies, before the debacle at Stalingrad.
Its only now that orders have been issued to set up 2 armored vehicle repair facilities, because field repair units and the tank factory itself can't handle the load. Ukraine on the other hand, had this set up as soon as the war began.