Many people think that only minus tens of degrees will freeze to death, but in fact, zero degrees is enough to freeze people. The average temperature in winter in Ukraine is between -7 ° С and +2 ° C, which is not as cold as many people think. However, Ukraine is another kind of cold, not dry cold, but terrifying wet cold, in a wet and cold environment people can easily appear hypothermia.
Ukraine's location is about the same as that of North China and Liaoning on the mainland, and Ukraine's precipitation is relatively large, and it is all an endless black earth plain, so the discharge capacity is very limited. In winter, there are stagnant water and muddy ponds everywhere.
It can be seen from the battlefield screen that a trench is full of water, and soldiers are very likely to freeze to death in wet and cold puddles for a long time in the cold winter. Therefore, the Ukrainian battlefield in winter can not be lived by putting on a large cotton coat and covering it with a quilt. Winter in Ukraine is wet and cold, full of cold mud ponds. Military boots are always wet and cold, and the human body quickly loses temperature and gets sick.
That is why, on the Donbass front, both Russian and Ukrainian soldiers like to sleep in dirt pits outside and prefer to be blown up by drones. Reasons for not getting into the trenches to sleep. Unless, in the trenches, there are prefabricated reinforced concrete underground huts.
On the battlefield, there is no heating equipment, and they dare not make fires to keep warm, and soldiers' winter clothes and military boots are always wet on their bodies, which is more cold and tolerant. At the same time, it will also greatly reduce the body's resistance, in this environment for 1 week, after two weeks, weak people can not survive.
Under the fierce fangs of the cold winter, now the battlefield of Donbass has frozen to death and frostbite. From the footage captured by the Ukrainian drone, it can be seen that on the Russian sniper position, a Russian soldier climbed out of the foxhole in the morning to wake up other comrades. However, not a single Russian soldier got up, and all died of hypothermia in the middle of the night, and there was only one survivor in the entire detachment.
Russian military expert Yuri Kotenok said that in winter, the Russian-Ukrainian battle will continue, but it is impossible to launch a large-scale offensive in winter. Weather conditions were not conducive to the resumption of large-scale operations, and it was difficult to attack on a wide front with all forces and weapons.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian army mainly fought the First Chechen War, the Second Chechen War, the Georgian War and the First Udong War, as well as the Syrian War. In the first Chechen war, the Russian army transferred 70,000 "elites" from all over the country, claiming to solve the Chechen problem in a week. But only the airborne troops and special forces had combat effectiveness in the Russian army, as a result, the war was fought for two years, and in the end the Russian army lost.
In the Second Chechen War, the Russian army sent 80,000 main forces to participate in the battle, and the main battle was fought for 9 months, and finally Chechen Kadyrov sent the Russian army to surrender, and the Russian army achieved a decisive advantage on the battlefield.
In the Georgian war, the strength of the Georgian army was too small, and the main force of the Russian army burst the Georgian army at once with more fights and less fighting, and achieved a complete victory. By the first Wudong War, Russian intelligence plotted against a large number of Ukrainian troops to surrender and take Crimea without bloodshed. Subsequently, he plotted against the generals of the pro-Russian faction of the Ukrainian army, and the Ukrainian army fled and surrendered.
But since the summer of 2014, a large number of Ukrainian nationalists have joined the army. Having successively recaptured Mariupol and most of Donbas, as of the beginning of 2022, the pro-Russian armed forces in eastern Ukraine are actually an absolute disadvantage, so the Russian army will enter the war.
In the Syrian war, the Russian army is mainly a command and adviser, as well as air force bombing, special forces reconnaissance. At the heart of the battle are more than 300,000 Syrian troops.
Chechnya is a place of 1 million people, mainly local armed forces, and the Kadyrov faction that supports the Russian army. Georgia has only 20,000 troops in the whole country, and in the eastern part of the country, pro-Russian forces are everywhere to respond. In Syria, the Syrian rebels lack even man-portable anti-aircraft missiles, and do not have serious artillery and tank units.
Therefore, Ukraine, with the full support of the West, with a population of 40 million and a regular army of more than 700,000, is actually the strongest opponent encountered by the Russian army. The Russian army fought slowly, fought hard, in fact it was quite normal. Now it depends on how much Russia is willing to sacrifice, and how much national strength it can support fighting for a few years and completely defeating Ukraine.