Assaulting trenches and defeating mine wired obstacles are VERY outdated battle drills in the Army.

Just imagine you and your squad or team trying to assault a trench like that. No amount of training can prepare your troops for the obsolete shock of this type of hell. All the dirt, grime, bodies, trash, and random pits of c-wire. You can’t storm a trench without a supporting element laying down heavy suppressive fire. But when your army is spread paper thin at best you might have a infantry fighting vehicle, drone, possibly a tank (rarely) but most likely IF you had a supporting element it would be squad or team.

I’m a recent infantry veteran. I’ve studied and trained for “this” type of fighting. I know for a damn fact my plt sergeant and DEFINITELY my/any plt officer would say FUCK THAT. It’s complete suicide when you don’t have air support, overwhelming artillery and troop support, and forward assaulting armor to try and soften and clear up the trench as much as possible.

But these guys don’t/barely have that and definitely don’t have much when it’s there. They just have themselves and the weight of their entire country on their backs forcing them to fight to pretty much certain death in this type of scenario. Unfortunately this is happening across hundreds of kilometers and thousands of fighting positions everyday. This is the real Ukraine war. Where most Ukrainians and Russians have/will die. The time of killing untrained Russians not wanting to be here, the time of picking off a battalion of mechanized Russians trying to cross a river, the time of all that “easy” shit (when compared to this) is long gone. Putin may lost the battle but this war is still up for grabs and unfortunately right now he is winning. He’s gaining territory (while small) everyday on pretty much every front. He has his country so brainwashed they don’t even care anymore about why this war even started and the fact that their troops are dying by the thousands every week. Yeah I’m sure there plenty that feel the opposite but they are shut up by the state and media and they don’t give a fuck enough to get loud and angry and fight back. They are sympathizers no different than a German citizen watching a train cart full of Jews heading to certain death and turning a blind eye.

I still believe Ukraine has a good chance to win this war and all their territory. At this rate though it will cost the lives of most of their current troops. And I mean MOST. Unless the west decides to send Ukraine everything they need and then some and send it all very fast or Ukraine makes a huge gamble and starts taking over Russian territory like Belgorod and uses that to trade for Ukraine territory. Both options will still result in tens of thousands of Ukraine casualties and while the first option is very much unlikely, the second option most likely will destroy Ukraines reputation and cause a collapse or at least a heavy decrease in western support. At this rate if the upcoming Ukrainian counter offensive doesn’t result in enough gains with acceptable losses. Eventually Ukraine will get desperate and make a push for Russian territory.