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Wut Zelensky's Counteroffensive Doing. 🤣
NATO would lose a land war in Europe against Russia, simple as that.
They lack the industrial capacity to even sustain the ammunition and equipment requirements of a proxy war let alone a full-scale land war against Russia.
According to NATO itself "the scale and intensity of the violence in Ukraine is beyond their imagining" - If you can't imagine the level of intensity of a conflict you are neither trained nor prepared for it.
A plethora of different manufacturers of defense equipment versus a streamlined national production of only a few manufacturers with access to unlimited raw materials at their disposal that produces equipment that is simpler and easier to fix than NATO's with a shorter logistical chain.
Apart from the US, the member countries of NATO have forces that are shrunk into oblivion with no member countries showing much willingness to change that, the UK with an army that fits into a single football stadium is one of the most prominent examples of this fact.
The Europeans also seem all quite comfortable with the idea of outsourcing their security to the US in exchange for sovereignty and show no serious attempts to change that.
The US airpower is impressive but untested in a peer conflict against a force with modern integrated air defenses and their forces used to and dependent on uncontested air superiority which they will not have.
Russian doctrine is the opposite of that.
Furthermore, in such a conflict, they would not have airbases outside the reach of their opponent like they are used to.
NATO's strongest member, the US is primarily a naval and air power.
Airpower will be severely diminished and naval power being of little use in a land war in continental Europe in the mentioned scenario due to hypersonics and integrated ISR strike capabilities largely nullifying those forces.
Russia has superior ASAT capabilities which would quickly nullify NATO's numerical superiority in space.
US military force, organization, and command structure is a bloated behemoth, fractured around the globe & set up for a rematch of WW2 and largely filled with generals that came to their positions not because of merit or performance but because they "toed the line", didn't offend anyone and showed no resistance to dumb ideas. Let alone the questionable decisions regarding their new 🌈 standards.
The population in Western Europe nowadays is unwilling to sustain hardships and far from interested in getting shot at for the cause of waging war on Russia.
Last but not least the US has not sufficient forces in Europe anymore and needs to transport everything across an ocean, unlike Russia.
If war would be inevitable Russia would not wait and allow the US to build up its forces in Europe, as they did in Iraq in 2003, but instead strike their bases and logistics, which are well known, across Europe.
All of this is irrelevant as any war between our powers would quickly escalate to the nuclear level and end with the annihilation of both sides.
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Wut Ukraine Air Defence Doing. 😂
What is known about the strike on the SBU building in Dnepr at the moment.
- The left wing of the building of the SBU department building in Dnepropetrovsk region was partially destroyed. Judging by the nature of the arrival, a buried object or room located in the left wing was presumably assigned to the hit.
- Statements that the building was empty and there was no one there at the time of the impact do not stand up to criticism. In the car park of the SBU department at 23 Svyatoslav Khrabrygo Street, there were many cars, presumably of the employees of the special service.
- The accuracy of the arrival is striking. The other buildings around remained intact, a separate section of the building was destroyed. This is reminiscent of the strike on the GUR building in Kiev.
- It is also curious that the strike was carried out without an air alert being declared, all AFU air defence interception equipment in the area, as well as target detection radars, failed to identify what was presumably a ballistic missile.
- Earlier, the speaker of the Air Force of the AFU, Yuriy Ignat, said that the Ukrainian air defence had nothing to shoot down the Russian Armed Forces' ballistic speed missiles. This statement, as well as the accuracy of the arrival, suggests that ballistic missiles of the Iskander missile defence system were most likely used on the SBU headquarters building in Dnepr.
But Ukraine is Totally Winning. 🤣
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Wut Ukraine Counteroffensive Doing. 🤣
Today marks exactly 2 months since the start of the Ukrainian counter-offensive.
During this period, the Ukrainians managed to capture as many as 5 villages.
During this period, Ukraine also managed to lose more than 43,000 servicemen and an excess of 4,900 assorted weaponry pieces, which include 26 aircraft, nine helicopters, 1,831 tanks, and an array of other armored vehicles.
Notable among these are 25 German Leopard tanks, seven French AMX wheeled tanks, and 21 US Bradley infantry fighting vehicles (IFV).
Social media is flooded with videos of destroyed military equipment.
The offensive intensity of the Ukrainian army has completely declined and the Russian army has already started to carry out offensive operations in certain regions.
Who is to blame?
Zelensky accused Western countries of not receiving enough weapons.
The US accused the Ukrainians of not carrying out operations according to the NATO draft.
UK blamed tall grass and bushes.
The billionaire shareholders in the military companies did not blame anyone, because they made good money.
But Ukraine is Totally Winning Honest. 🤣🤡
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Wut Rabotino Doing. 😂
🪖⚡️Military Correspondent from "Ossetia" and "Alania" Battalions Clarifies the Situation in the Village of Rabotino, Now Dubbed the "New Bahmut"
Georgy Mamsurov, a military correspondent for the "Ossetia" and "Alania" battalions, shed light on the situation in the village of Rabotino, which is already being called the "new Bahmut." He commented on Ukrainian claims of capturing the settlement.
Mamsurov refuted the statements made by Ukraine's Deputy Minister of Defense, Anna Maliar, who had previously declared that Ukrainian forces had taken control of Rabotino. According to the war correspondent, the situation has not changed yet. The southern outskirts of the village are held by Russian forces, while the northern part remains in the hands of the enemy. He made these remarks while appearing on "Solovyov Live."
Indeed, there was a risk of a breakthrough, but the Russian army managed to stabilize the situation. Currently, all dominant heights are under the control of our troops. It's clear that the Ukrainian army lacks weaponry and ammunition to break through our defenses.
Mamsurov noted that the attacks on Rabotino are a result of Ukraine's collaboration with the West. Foreign military advisors encouraged Ukraine not to scatter its forces but to concentrate them and strike at the most vulnerable part of the front. Rabotino was chosen as the focal point, from which they could advance toward Tokmak. Consequently, they indeed amassed forces and equipment here.
However, they still cannot seize the village. Moreover, as the war correspondent claims, even if they capture Rabotino, it won't be a breakthrough. The first line of Russian defense is located 6-8 km away from the village. Rabotino only houses our outpost positions.
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@loredanatagliaferri5339
Wut Zelensky's Conscripts Doing. 🤣
They can't even hold Rabotino.
🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Orekhovo Sector Situation as of 15:00 [Local] on September 6, 2023
➡️Fierce battles continue on the Rabotino-Verbovo line.
Over the past weeks, control over positions in the village [Rabotino] has changed hands for the fifth time. The village itself is practically destroyed and mostly in the gray zone. However, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue attempts to advance towards the southern outskirts and break through to Novoprokopovka using a 'meat assault' tactic.
Tonight, due to the lack of tactical sense in defending the destroyed houses in the village, Russian units have retreated to prepared positions in the south. Rybar has marked the main fortified areas on the map for convenience.
The situation in Rabotino somewhat resembles the assault on Pyatikhatky. The AFU took the village but left it several times unable to withstand artillery and aviation fire from the Russian Armed Forces. This gradual advance, accompanied by the complete destruction of buildings in the village and defensive positions, has cost Ukrainian forces significant losses.
➡️At the same time, the AFU are transferring additional units to Verbovo, evidently hoping that breaking through to the west of the village will be easier than storming the heights in the south near Rabotino. Nevertheless, night attacks in this sector have not achieved success. There are reports of heavy losses among the AFU's 82nd Airborne Brigade.
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All opened sourced information.
Yehor Firsov, serviceman with Ukraine's 109th Battalion, identifies Chasiv Yar, Myrnohrad, Pokrovsk, Kurakhove, and Toretsk as the hottest spots in the Donetsk region.
He spoke about this on Espreso TV.
“It is difficult on our side of the frontline, the Russians are pressing, using weapons, going around from different sides, trying to reach Kostiantynivka through Toretsk from Ukrainian side. On the other hand, the Russian troops are moving through Chasiv Yar to Kostiantynivka. Pokrovsk is not far away, where we are blocking certain routes with our drones and recording that the occupiers are amassing their forces there. That is, the invaders are planning to attack Pokrovsk as much as possible. The fighting continues near the village of Shevchenko, which is very close to Pokrovsk. And then there is Kurakhove, where we know the situation is also difficult,” commented the Ukrainian Armed Forces serviceman.
According to him, the situation in the Donetsk direction is very difficult now, with constant fighting. There is often a shortage of drones due to their almost continuous use, as there are a lot of enemy targets both day and night.
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9:10 of badly edited videos by Jerome 'I'm a comedian' Starkey posting his L's to give the impression that ukraine is winning, whilst Yehor Firsov, serviceman with Ukraine's 109th Battalion, identifies Chasiv Yar, Myrnohrad, Pokrovsk, Kurakhove, and Toretsk as the hottest spots in the Donetsk region
He spoke about this on Espreso TV.
“It is difficult on our side of the frontline, the Russians are pressing, using weapons, going around from different sides, trying to reach Kostiantynivka through Toretsk from Ukrainian side. On the other hand, the Russian troops are moving through Chasiv Yar to Kostiantynivka. Pokrovsk is not far away, where we are blocking certain routes with our drones and recording that the occupiers are amassing their forces there. That is, the invaders are planning to attack Pokrovsk as much as possible. The fighting continues near the village of Shevchenko, which is very close to Pokrovsk. And then there is Kurakhove, where we know the situation is also difficult,” commented the Ukrainian Armed Forces serviceman.
According to him, the situation in the Donetsk direction is very difficult now, with constant fighting. There is often a shortage of drones due to their almost continuous use, as there are a lot of enemy targets both day and night.
So much winning. 😂
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Zelensky Cope.
🇷🇺🇺🇦" Russia thinks it is very strong, but if we wanted to seize their nuclear power plant, we would do it. We could do it, but we never wanted to " (c) Zelensky
When the main plan of the operation has failed and you have to pretend that you didn't really want it.
By the same logic:
1. We could have broken through to Tokmak in 2023, but we never wanted to.
2. We could have broken through to Crimea, but we never wanted to.
3.. We could have held Selidovo (Avdiivka, Ugledar, Ukrainsk) but we never wanted to.
4. We could have won the war against Russia, but we never wanted to.
In general, you have understood the scheme by which you can justify your own failures. However, the effectiveness of such a scheme of justification seems questionable, so do not repeat it in real life. Otherwise, you will be told "Ugh, you are just like Zelensky."
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Wut Zelensky's Counteroffensive Doing.
-400k ☠️🇺🇦 Since February 2022.
-45k ☠️🇺🇦 Since 4th June 2023 in their failed suicidal Counteroffensive.
1 Million 🇺🇦♿️
462 airplanes and 246 helicopters, 5,970 unmanned aerial vehicles, 431 air defence missile systems, 11,457 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,144 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 6,011 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 12,390 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
But Ukraine is Totally Winning. 🤣
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Wut Ukraine Counteroffensive Doing. 🤣
Today marks exactly 2 months since the start of the Ukrainian counter-offensive.
During this period, the Ukrainians managed to capture as many as 5 villages.
During this period, Ukraine also managed to lose more than 43,000 servicemen and an excess of 4,900 assorted weaponry pieces, which include 26 aircraft, nine helicopters, 1,831 tanks, and an array of other armored vehicles.
*Notable among these are 25 German Leopard tanks, seven French AMX wheeled tanks, and 21 US Bradley infantry fighting vehicles (IFV).
Social media is flooded with videos of destroyed military equipment.*
The offensive intensity of the Ukrainian army has completely declined and the Russian army has already started to carry out offensive operations in certain regions.
Who is to blame?
Zelensky accused Western countries of not receiving enough weapons.
The US accused the Ukrainians of not carrying out operations according to the NATO draft.
UK blamed tall grass and bushes.
The billionaire shareholders in the military companies did not blame anyone, because they made good money.
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Wut Zelensky's Counteroffensive Doing. 🤣
NATO would lose a land war in Europe against Russia, simple as that.
They lack the industrial capacity to even sustain the ammunition and equipment requirements of a proxy war let alone a full-scale land war against Russia.
According to NATO itself "the scale and intensity of the violence in Ukraine is beyond their imagining" - If you can't imagine the level of intensity of a conflict you are neither trained nor prepared for it.
A plethora of different manufacturers of defense equipment versus a streamlined national production of only a few manufacturers with access to unlimited raw materials at their disposal that produces equipment that is simpler and easier to fix than NATO's with a shorter logistical chain.
Apart from the US, the member countries of NATO have forces that are shrunk into oblivion with no member countries showing much willingness to change that, the UK with an army that fits into a single football stadium is one of the most prominent examples of this fact.
The Europeans also seem all quite comfortable with the idea of outsourcing their security to the US in exchange for sovereignty and show no serious attempts to change that.
The US airpower is impressive but untested in a peer conflict against a force with modern integrated air defenses and their forces used to and dependent on uncontested air superiority which they will not have.
Russian doctrine is the opposite of that.
Furthermore, in such a conflict, they would not have airbases outside the reach of their opponent like they are used to.
NATO's strongest member, the US is primarily a naval and air power.
Airpower will be severely diminished and naval power being of little use in a land war in continental Europe in the mentioned scenario due to hypersonics and integrated ISR strike capabilities largely nullifying those forces.
Russia has superior ASAT capabilities which would quickly nullify NATO's numerical superiority in space.
US military force, organization, and command structure is a bloated behemoth, fractured around the globe & set up for a rematch of WW2 and largely filled with generals that came to their positions not because of merit or performance but because they "toed the line", didn't offend anyone and showed no resistance to dumb ideas. Let alone the questionable decisions regarding their new 🌈 standards.
The population in Western Europe nowadays is unwilling to sustain hardships and far from interested in getting shot at for the cause of waging war on Russia.
Last but not least the US has not sufficient forces in Europe anymore and needs to transport everything across an ocean, unlike Russia.
If war would be inevitable Russia would not wait and allow the US to build up its forces in Europe, as they did in Iraq in 2003, but instead strike their bases and logistics, which are well known, across Europe.
All of this is irrelevant as any war between our powers would quickly escalate to the nuclear level and end with the annihilation of both sides.
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Wut Ukraine Air Defence Doing. 🤣
What is known about the strike on the SBU building in Dnepr at the moment.
- The left wing of the building of the SBU department building in Dnepropetrovsk region was partially destroyed. Judging by the nature of the arrival, a buried object or room located in the left wing was presumably assigned to the hit.
- Statements that the building was empty and there was no one there at the time of the impact do not stand up to criticism. In the car park of the SBU department at 23 Svyatoslav Khrabrygo Street, there were many cars, presumably of the employees of the special service.
- The accuracy of the arrival is striking. The other buildings around remained intact, a separate section of the building was destroyed. This is reminiscent of the strike on the GUR building in Kiev.
- It is also curious that the strike was carried out without an air alert being declared, all AFU air defence interception equipment in the area, as well as target detection radars, failed to identify what was presumably a ballistic missile.
- Earlier, the speaker of the Air Force of the AFU, Yuriy Ignat, said that the Ukrainian air defence had nothing to shoot down the Russian Armed Forces' ballistic speed missiles. This statement, as well as the accuracy of the arrival, suggests that ballistic missiles of the Iskander missile defence system were most likely used on the SBU headquarters building in Dnepr.
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Wut Ukraine Counteroffensive Doing. 😂
Colonel McGregor: Foreign mercenaries are fleeing en masse, the defeat of the Ukrainian army is approaching
Discontent is growing among Ukrainian soldiers due to failures on the front, and foreign mercenaries are fleeing en masse, said Colonel Douglas McGregor, a former adviser to the head of the Pentagon.
"Even the foreign mercenaries who fought so zealously on the side of Ukraine have now largely left. They packed their things and fled. Probably only the Poles remained," McGregor said on his YouTube channel,
According to his words, cases of desertion may become more frequent in the Armed Forces of Ukraine due to the failure of the offensive. As a result, the Ukrainian army will be divided and then completely defeated.
"I can't say exactly when it will happen, but I think we are already close to it," he added.
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🇬🇧⚔️🇺🇦Russian troops launched a counterattack near Kleshcheevka, pushing back the Armed Forces of Ukraine
➨ On the southern flank near Artyomovsk, the Airborne Forces and our infantry counterattacked the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
➨ After active artillery preparation and with the support of tanks, our soldiers successfully hit the enemy in the southern part of Kleshcheevka.
➨ In the afternoon, the fighters of the 83rd airborne brigade reported: "Our forces knocked out the enemy and advanced to the south of Kleshcheevka . At the moment, fighting is going on, the enemy is running out of steam, their manpower is running out."
➨ "The RF Armed Forces have deployed additional reserves from the Svatovsky and Kremensky directions, which allowed them to conduct a series of counterattacks in Kleshcheevka. The fighting continues," Ukrainian military analysts said earlier.
➨ Artillery is active on both sides.
➨ Also, the battles in the Andreevka area, the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered significant losses here.
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@DavidGetling
Today marks exactly 2 months since the start of the Ukrainian counter-offensive
During this period, the Ukrainians managed to capture as many as 5 villages.
During this period, Ukraine also managed to lose more than 43,000 servicemen and an excess of 4,900 assorted weaponry pieces, which include 26 aircraft, nine helicopters, 1,831 tanks, and an array of other armored vehicles.
Notable among these are 25 German Leopard tanks, seven French AMX wheeled tanks, and 21 US Bradley infantry fighting vehicles (IFV).
Social media is flooded with videos of destroyed military equipment.
The offensive intensity of the Ukrainian army has completely declined and the Russian army has already started to carry out offensive operations in certain regions.
Who is to blame?
Zelensky accused Western countries of not receiving enough weapons.
The US accused the Ukrainians of not carrying out operations according to the NATO draft.
UK blamed tall grass and bushes.
The billionaire shareholders in the military companies did not blame anyone, because they made good money.
*Wut Ukraine Counteroffensive Doing.(
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Wut Zelensky's Counteroffensive Doing. 🤣
NATO would lose a land war in Europe against Russia, simple as that.
They lack the industrial capacity to even sustain the ammunition and equipment requirements of a proxy war let alone a full-scale land war against Russia.
According to NATO itself "the scale and intensity of the violence in Ukraine is beyond their imagining" - If you can't imagine the level of intensity of a conflict you are neither trained nor prepared for it.
A plethora of different manufacturers of defense equipment versus a streamlined national production of only a few manufacturers with access to unlimited raw materials at their disposal that produces equipment that is simpler and easier to fix than NATO's with a shorter logistical chain.
Apart from the US, the member countries of NATO have forces that are shrunk into oblivion with no member countries showing much willingness to change that, the UK with an army that fits into a single football stadium is one of the most prominent examples of this fact.
The Europeans also seem all quite comfortable with the idea of outsourcing their security to the US in exchange for sovereignty and show no serious attempts to change that.
The US airpower is impressive but untested in a peer conflict against a force with modern integrated air defenses and their forces used to and dependent on uncontested air superiority which they will not have.
Russian doctrine is the opposite of that.
Furthermore, in such a conflict, they would not have airbases outside the reach of their opponent like they are used to.
NATO's strongest member, the US is primarily a naval and air power.
Airpower will be severely diminished and naval power being of little use in a land war in continental Europe in the mentioned scenario due to hypersonics and integrated ISR strike capabilities largely nullifying those forces.
Russia has superior ASAT capabilities which would quickly nullify NATO's numerical superiority in space.
US military force, organization, and command structure is a bloated behemoth, fractured around the globe & set up for a rematch of WW2 and largely filled with generals that came to their positions not because of merit or performance but because they "toed the line", didn't offend anyone and showed no resistance to dumb ideas. Let alone the questionable decisions regarding their new 🌈 standards.
The population in Western Europe nowadays is unwilling to sustain hardships and far from interested in getting shot at for the cause of waging war on Russia.
Last but not least the US has not sufficient forces in Europe anymore and needs to transport everything across an ocean, unlike Russia.
If war would be inevitable Russia would not wait and allow the US to build up its forces in Europe, as they did in Iraq in 2003, but instead strike their bases and logistics, which are well known, across Europe.
All of this is irrelevant as any war between our powers would quickly escalate to the nuclear level and end with the annihilation of both sides.
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Wut Zelensky's Regime Doing. 😂
Zelensky and his elite cabal must feel increasingly betrayed by the Western sponsors.
Last spring, Borat Johnson, representing the Anglo-American axis, made a secret trip to Ukraine. He promised Zelensky, if Ukraine commits 100% to fighting Russia, they will receive complete support and victory would be assured.
Zelensky had a choice: take the peace deal, or trust Borat's assurances and commit Ukraine to a major conflict. Despite Zelensky's earlier inclination towards a speedy and peaceful resolution with Russia -- even if it involved concessions like ceding Crimea and adopting a neutral stance -- Zelensky took the bait.
While NATO, primarily influenced by the US, has supplied significant support, it hasn't been enough. After months of combat, Ukraine's military capabilities have been considerably weakened, the counteroffensive effort is going poorly, and Russia still remains robust in its defenses.
Instead of owning up to not delivering on Borat's guarantee of total support, the Western cabal now seems prepared to place the blame squarely on Zelensky and Ukraine. Recent discourse suggests that the Western cabal believes Ukraine failed to heed its strategic advice, while Ukraine's leadership feels the West is holding back.
Ukraine now finds itself in a very precarious position. Borat's assurances steered Zelensky from diplomacy into conflict, and that most consequential decision is now backfiring. The Western cabal and Ukraine's leadership are already pointing the fingers at each other.
The situation underscores a harsh reality, the Western cabal makes promises that quickly evaporate and nations that make the mistake of putting faith in those promises inevitably get burned.
Ukraine, thanks to its gullible leadership, will ultimately pay the price for the Western cabal's lust of geostrategic domination at any cost.
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Wut Ukraine Counteroffensive Doing. 😂
Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation (11 August 2023)
◽️In Kupyansk direction, assault groups of the Zapad Group of Forces continued offensive actions on a broad front and improved the tactical situation near Olshana and Pershotravnyovoye (Kharkov).
◽️In the course of active defence, 4 attacks and counterattacks of AFU 32nd, 41st, 44th, and 67th mechanised brigades were repelled near Novosyolovskye LPR, Sinkovka and Mankovka (Kherson).
◽️The enemy losses were up to 165 servicemen, 2 AFVs, 2 pickup trucks, 1 Krab self-propelled howitzer, and 2 AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar station.
◽️ In Donetsk direction, the Yug Group of Forces' units successfully repelled 5 attack of assault groups of the AFU 10th Mountain Assault Brigade, the 79th Airborne Assault Brigade, the 59th Motorised Rifle Brigade, and the 3rd Tank Brigade close to Nevelskoye, Belogorovka, Staromikhalovka, Maloilinovka, and Veseloye DPR.
◽️The enemy losses were up to 180 servicemen, 7 IFVs, 2 pickup trucks, 1 Strela-10 anti-aircraft missile system, 1 M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery system, and 2 D-20 howitzers.
◽️In South Donetsk direction the Vostok Group of Forces thwarted an enemy reconnaissance-in-force attempt near Staromayorskoye DPR.
◽️3 attacks of assault groups of the AFU 72nd Mechanised Brigade and the 38th Marine Brigade have been repelled near Nikolskoye and Urozhaynoye DPR.
Up to 35 servicemen, 2 AFVs, 2 motor vehicles, and 1 D-30 howitzer were destroyed.
◽️ In Zaporozhye direction, 3 attacks of the AFU 21st Mechanised Brigade were repelled by the Vostok Group of Forces near Uspenovka and Rabotino (Zaporozhye).
◽️The enemy losses were up to 60 servicemen, 3 motor vehicles, and one D-30 howitzer.
◽️In Krasny Liman direction, the Tsentr Group of Forces repelled 2 attacks of the assault groups of the AFU 68rd Infantry Brigade and the 42nd Mechanised Brigade close to Novoegorovka and Kremennaya LPR.
◽️The enemy losses were up to 115 servicemen, 3 AFVs, and 1 D-20 howitzer.
◽️In Kherson direction, up to 20 servicemen, 2 pickup trucks, 1 M777 artillery howitzer, 1 D-20 howitzer, as well as and 1 Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer were destroyed.
◽️Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Group of Forces have engaged AFU manpower and hardware in 139 areas during the day.
◽️A temporary deployment point of foreign mercenaries has been hit near Zaporozhye.
◽️Moreover, 4 ammunition depots of AFU 24th, 43rd, 60th mechanised brigades and the 108th Territorial Defence Brigade have been destroyed close to Toretsk DPR, Cherneshina, Liptsi (Kharkov), and Gulyai Pole (Zaporozhye).
▫️ Air defence facilities have intercepted 2 HIMARS MLRS projectiles during the day.
◽️Moreover, 16 UAVs have been shot down close to Kupyansk (Kharkov), Lisichansk LPR, Artyomovsk, Volnovakha DPR, Oreknov and Gulyai Pole (Zaporozhye).
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Wut Ukraine Counteroffensive Doing.
🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦Russian troops launched a counterattack near Kleshcheevka, pushing back the Armed Forces of Ukraine
➨ On the southern flank near Artyomovsk, the Airborne Forces and our infantry counterattacked the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
➨ After active artillery preparation and with the support of tanks, our soldiers successfully hit the enemy in the southern part of Kleshcheevka.
➨ In the afternoon, the fighters of the 83rd airborne brigade reported: "Our forces knocked out the enemy and advanced to the south of Kleshcheevka . At the moment, fighting is going on, the enemy is running out of steam, their manpower is running out."
➨ "The RF Armed Forces have deployed additional reserves from the Svatovsky and Kremensky directions, which allowed them to conduct a series of counterattacks in Kleshcheevka. The fighting continues," Ukrainian military analysts said earlier.
➨ Artillery is active on both sides.
➨ Also, the battles in the Andreevka area, the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered significant losses here.
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Wut Zelensky's Conscripts Doing. 🤣
In the south, the Russians built a three-level defense line, which is very difficult to break through - Oleksii Reznikov.
“When V.A. (Zelensky) said that the guys are on foot, what he meant: the Russians built a three-level line of defense and between them there are also so-called “security zones”. These are mined fields, fortifications and tank ambushes. Because we did not hide the fact that we would receive tanks and armored personnel carriers, therefore, of course, they were preparing for this and kept within tank ambushes with anti-tank systems, etc.“ whimpered the Ukrainian defense minister.
In this regard, he once again demanded from the West more equipment for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“We received demining equipment from partners, but they are not enough,” Reznikov said.
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Wut Zelensky's Counteroffensive Doing. 😂
Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation (as of August 26, 2023)
Part 1
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct a special military operation.
▫️ In the Kupyansk direction, the units of the "Western" group of forces in the course of active operations with the support of aviation and artillery fire improved the position along the front line.
▫️ During the day, five attacks of the assault detachments of the 115th mechanized, 25th airborne and 68th Jaeger brigades were repelled < /b> Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Sinkovka, Kharkiv region, Novoselovskoe, Raygorodok and Novoegorovka, Luhansk People's Republic.
▫️ Enemy losses in Kupyansky direction amounted to up to 50 Ukrainian servicemen, four armored combat vehicles, two cars, a Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery mount, and two howitzers D-20. In addition, a field warehouse of ammunition of the 103rd Territorial Defense Brigade was destroyed near the settlement of Kislovka, Kharkiv Region.
▫️ OnZaporozhye directionRussian grouping of troops, air strikes and artillery fire repulsed three attacks of 82nd Air Assault Brigade b> from the composition of the strategic reserve of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlement of Rabotino, Zaporozhye region.
▫️ During the day Zaporozhye direction destroyed up to 115 Ukrainian servicemen, seven armored fighting vehicles, four vehicles, artillery system M777 and towed howitzer M119 made in the USA, gun FH-70 made in Great Britain, howitzer D -30, as well as a US-made counter-battery radar AN/TPQ-36.
▫️ In the Donetsk direction, units of the "Southern" group of forces, in cooperation with aviation and artillery, repelled six attacks of assault groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Minkovka, Kleshcheevka and Krasnogorovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
▫️ Enemy losses in the Donetsk direction amounted to up to 225 Ukrainian servicemen, three armored combat vehicles, two vehicles, two howitzers "Msta-B", as well as howitzers D-20 and D-30.
▫️ Also in the area of the settlement Netaylovo of the Donetsk People's Republic, a field warehouse of ammunition 53rd mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed.
▫️ In the Krasnolimansk direction, two attacks of the assault groups 63rd were repulsed by the coordinated actions of the units of the "Center" grouping of troops, army aviation strikes, artillery fire and heavy flamethrower systems b>andof the 67th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukrainenear the settlement of Chervonaya Dibrovka, Luhansk People's Republic.
▫️ Enemy losses in the Krasnolimansky direction amounted to up to 60 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, one pickup truck, and also two< /b> howitzers D-30.
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Wut Kupyansky Doing. 😂
The rivalry between Zaluzhny and Syrsky continues as the blame game ratchets up:
NYT: General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Syrsky does not comply with the recommendations of the Pentagon on Kupyansk.
The commander of the ground forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine , Colonel-General Alexander Syrsky , despite the advice of Kiev's Western allies , continues to insist on strengthening the defense near the Kupyansky district. It is reported by The New York Times .
While the Ukrainian Armed Forces slowly tried to advance in the south and east, Russian fighters managed to advance near Kupyansk in northeastern Ukraine, according to the newspaper.
In this regard, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine wanted to transfer the military to protect this part of the vast front line. At the same time, in fact, the support of the Ukrainian side at that time was required in other areas, the media noted.
“Enemy units continue to inflict damage with artillery, mortars and aircraft,” Syrsky argued.
Prior to this, the United States predicted the retreat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine beyond the Dnieper.
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✍️⚡️ The situation in the Kupyansky direction on August 29 - analysis from @ Multi_XAM
The units of the RF Armed Forces continue their instructional actions along the left bank of the Oskol, advancing in the zone of settlements: Sinkovka, Petropavlovka, Stepovaya Novoselovka, Kislovka, Kotlyarovka. In this area, our forces are opposed by the fairly battered units of the 95th airmobile, 14th, 21st, 41st, 67th, and 88th mechanized brigades, 4th tank battalion, and 144th territorial defense brigades. In Kupyansk itself and its outskirts, the enemy is constantly carrying out disinformation measures by creating the appearance of transferring additional reserves of equipment and personnel. As a rule, tractors with tanks of several units of T-64BV and infantry fighting vehicles are allowed, which roll without side numbers. The goal is obvious - the command understands that there are a lot of pro-Russian-minded people in Kupyansk, and accordingly, they are trying to identify leakage channels.
In general, despite the ongoing resistance, the defense in the Kupyansk direction is extremely loose, there are practically no full-fledged engineering and barrage structures. The commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to explain this state of affairs by the fact that they expected an offensive in this sector: in the direction of Liman-1 and Svatovo, with 1 tank and 6 combined arms armies entering the junction.
The only thing that gives an advantage to the enemy at the moment is the presence of long-range artillery on the site: M777, self-propelled guns "Ceasar", MLRS M142 HIMARS. The enemy has begun to use a new type of cluster munition, with which he is trying to suppress our firing positions.
At the same time, active construction of defense lines in the rear, west of Kupyansk, is underway. The enemy equips minefields, equips fortifications. Such events are also celebrated in the Zaporozhye direction. This suggests that, despite the constant ups and downs in the Rabotino area and the victorious reports about the capture of the village by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the offensive in this area is choking.
After the attack on the Oskol crossing, the enemy's logistics at Kupyansk-Uzlovaya was significantly disrupted. The supply of the right-bank group is carried out along a hastily withdrawn bulk crossing in the area of Kantsedalovskaya Gora. Throughput is extremely low. In general, there are quite a few factors in this area that favor our progress.
A campaign has been launched in various "dill publics" about the upcoming defeat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kupyansk. They write that the RF Armed Forces have transferred significant reserves to the site. The blame for the failure of the defense is placed on European mercenaries who have been based here for a long time. One of the arguments of the "zahists" is that Western advisers demanded that the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine transfer reserves to the south, which led to a weakening of the defense line in Kupyansk itself and on the eastern coast.
@Slavyangrad
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Wut Zelensky's Rabotino Doing. 😂
🪖⚡️Military Correspondent from "Ossetia" and "Alania" Battalions Clarifies the Situation in the Village of Rabotino, Now Dubbed the "New Bahmut"
Georgy Mamsurov, a military correspondent for the "Ossetia" and "Alania" battalions, shed light on the situation in the village of Rabotino, which is already being called the "new Bahmut." He commented on Ukrainian claims of capturing the settlement.
Mamsurov refuted the statements made by Ukraine's Deputy Minister of Defense, Anna Maliar, who had previously declared that Ukrainian forces had taken control of Rabotino. According to the war correspondent, the situation has not changed yet. The southern outskirts of the village are held by Russian forces, while the northern part remains in the hands of the enemy. He made these remarks while appearing on "Solovyov Live."
Indeed, there was a risk of a breakthrough, but the Russian army managed to stabilize the situation. Currently, all dominant heights are under the control of our troops. It's clear that the Ukrainian army lacks weaponry and ammunition to break through our defenses.
Mamsurov noted that the attacks on Rabotino are a result of Ukraine's collaboration with the West. Foreign military advisors encouraged Ukraine not to scatter its forces but to concentrate them and strike at the most vulnerable part of the front. Rabotino was chosen as the focal point, from which they could advance toward Tokmak. Consequently, they indeed amassed forces and equipment here.
However, they still cannot seize the village. Moreover, as the war correspondent claims, even if they capture Rabotino, it won't be a breakthrough. The first line of Russian defense is located 6-8 km away from the village. Rabotino only houses our outpost positions.
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@Kohen124 Thanks to active offensive actions, Russian forces were able to enter the borders of the village of Sinkovka in the Kupyansk direction . ㅤ
The first reports of a favorable situation for our formations came in the evening of 9 August. Then the personnel, with the support of aviation, advanced near Sinkovka . ㅤ
At the moment, according to various estimates, from 7 to 10 km remain to the front lines of defense of the enemy. ㅤ
The enemy's problem lies in the fact that, carried away by the offensive in the Zaporozhye direction, he did not expect to meet the Russian offensive here.
In addition, for the sake of occupying the villages of Kleshcheevka and Andreevka near Bakhmut , the Ukrainians withdrew their combat-ready units from near Kupyansk. ㅤ
A trip to Kupyansk promises good prospects and a win back for August-September 2022, when the RF Armed Forces left this direction. ㅤ
orchestra_w
But Ukraine is Totally Winning. 😂
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Wut Zelensky's Counteroffensive Doing. 😂
Thanks to active offensive actions, Russian forces were able to enter the borders of the village of Sinkovka in the Kupyansk direction . ㅤ
The first reports of a favorable situation for our formations came in the evening of 9 August. Then the personnel, with the support of aviation, advanced near Sinkovka . ㅤ
At the moment, according to various estimates, from 7 to 10 km remain to the front lines of defense of the enemy. ㅤ
The enemy's problem lies in the fact that, carried away by the offensive in the Zaporozhye direction, he did not expect to meet the Russian offensive here.
In addition, for the sake of occupying the villages of Kleshcheevka and Andreevka near Bakhmut , the Ukrainians withdrew their combat-ready units from near Kupyansk. ㅤ
A trip to Kupyansk promises good prospects and a win back for August-September 2022, when the RF Armed Forces left this direction. ㅤ
orchestra_w
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Wut Zelensky's Counteroffensive Doing. 😂
🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Russian troops repel attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine along the entire front line, — Ministry of Defense
- In the Kupyansk direction, 5 attacks by assault detachments of the 41st, 66th, 67th mechanized and 25th airborne brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were repelled in the areas of the settlements of Sinkivka, Novoselovskoye and Raygorodok.
Up to 65 militants, 4 infantry fighting vehicles, 2 vehicles, a D-20 howitzer and an AN / TPQ-50 radar were destroyed.
In the area of the settlement of Tabaivka, an ammunition depot of the 103rd brigade was destroyed.
- In the Zaporizhzhia direction, 4 attacks were repelledby units of the 65th mechanized and 82nd airborne assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Uspenivka and Rabotyno.
More than 125 militants, 3 infantry fighting vehicles, 2 armored fighting vehicles and 9 vehicles were destroyed.
During the day, 11 guns and 4 mortars were hit, including: 2 M777 artillery systems, 3 M119 howitzers, self-propelled guns: Krab and Cezar, as well as the FH-70.
- In the Donetsk direction, 3 attacks by assault groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were repelled in the areas of the settlements of Novomy khailivka and Avdiivka.
Up to 235 militants, 5 infantry fighting vehicles, 2 vehicles, 2 M777 artillery systems, Krab self-propelled guns, Msta-B howitzer and AN / TPQ-36 radar were destroyed.
- In the Yuzhno-Donetsk direction, 4 concentrations of manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Makarovka, Staromayorskoye and Urozhayne.
Up to 240 militants, 2 armored fighting vehicles, the M777 artillery system, as well as the FH-70 gun were destroyed.
@btr80
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Wut Ukraine Counteroffensive Doing. 😂
Today marks exactly 2 months since the start of the Ukrainian counter-offensive.
During this period, the Ukrainians managed to capture as many as 5 villages.
During this period, Ukraine also managed to lose more than 43,000 servicemen and an excess of 4,900 assorted weaponry pieces, which include 26 aircraft, nine helicopters, 1,831 tanks, and an array of other armored vehicles.
Notable among these are 25 German Leopard tanks, seven French AMX wheeled tanks, and 21 US Bradley infantry fighting vehicles (IFV).
Social media is flooded with videos of destroyed military equipment.
The offensive intensity of the Ukrainian army has completely declined and the Russian army has already started to carry out offensive operations in certain regions.
Who is to blame?
Zelensky accused Western countries of not receiving enough weapons.
The US accused the Ukrainians of not carrying out operations according to the NATO draft.
UK blamed tall grass and bushes.
The billionaire shareholders in the military companies did not blame anyone, because they made good money.
But Ukraine is Totally Winning. 🤣🤡
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Wut Zelensky's Counteroffensive Doing. 😂
🚨"How long will Ukraine last?", Julian Ropcke writes in the German BILD paper.
In the battles for Staromayorskoye, Ukraine lost 31 armoured vehicles, including 23 APCs from NATO countries.
Bild believes that, despite the loss of the village, this outcome of the battle is a success for Russia.
“Moscow's strategy is to destroy as many (Western) armored vehicles of the advancing Ukrainian forces as possible. Russia knows that Ukraine has much more problems than the Russian Federation with the replacement and repair of equipment.”
According to Bild, since the start of the counteroffensive, the Ukrainian army has lost nine out of 18 high-tech Leopard 2A6 tanks delivered from Germany.
“While many of the damaged tanks are repairable, this is proving difficult as the repair sites are about 1,000 kilometers to the west, and some damaged German tanks are stuck under enemy fire in the Zaporozhye region”
Bild reminds that, despite the promise of about 100 modern Western main battle tanks (Leopard 2, Challenger and Abrams) in January 2023, neither Germany, nor the UK, nor the United States have yet fulfilled the delivery.
“On the contrary, the Russian army delivers between 20 and 50 “new” or modernized main battle tanks to Ukraine every month. The logic behind this is simple: if Ukraine loses 10 to 30 Western armored personnel carriers per village, and few new ones arrive, its advance will stop before reaching strategically important cities such as Tokmok, Pology, Melitpol, Volnovakha or Mariupol.
Russia relies on attrition. The question remains whether Ukraine will be able to compensate for the current losses of military equipment,” Bild concludes.
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Wut Ukraine Failed Counteroffensive Doing. 😂
🇺🇲🇺🇦🇷🇺 US intelligence believes that Ukraine in the current counter-offensive will not achieve its key goal , namely, the capture of the strategically important city of the Zaporozhye region of Melitopol. The Washington Post writes about this, citing US military officials.
“The grim assessment is based on Russia’s superior prowess in defending territory with minefield lines and trenches and is likely to prompt Kiev and Western countries to acknowledge that the counteroffensive, which involved tens of billions of dollars worth of Western weapons and military equipment, has not reached their goals. ..,” reads an excerpt from the article. The material itself is based on a secret forecast, which became known to the interlocutor of The Washington Post. As specified, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have little chance of even reaching Tokmak, a city located just 30 kilometers from the front, and the recently introduced reserves in the form of the forces of the 82nd brigade have not yet brought the desired result, and the Ukrainian army continues to stomp in front of the first line of defense.
“The modest results of the long-awaited counteroffensive have already generated undercover disputes among representatives of the American political establishment. So, some Republicans are going to refuse Biden's request to provide Ukraine with an additional 20 billion dollars, and the Democrats accuse the administration of the American president of too little military assistance...”, the material ends with such interesting information.
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Wut Zelensky's Counteroffensive Doing. 🤣
🇺🇲🇺🇦🇷🇺 US intelligence believes that Ukraine in the current counter-offensive will not achieve its key goal , namely, the capture of the strategically important city of the Zaporozhye region of Melitopol. The Washington Post writes about this, citing US military officials.
“The grim assessment is based on Russia’s superior prowess in defending territory with minefield lines and trenches and is likely to prompt Kiev and Western countries to acknowledge that the counteroffensive, which involved tens of billions of dollars worth of Western weapons and military equipment, has not reached their goals. ..,” reads an excerpt from the article. The material itself is based on a secret forecast, which became known to the interlocutor of The Washington Post. As specified, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have little chance of even reaching Tokmak, a city located just 30 kilometers from the front, and the recently introduced reserves in the form of the forces of the 82nd brigade have not yet brought the desired result, and the Ukrainian army continues to stomp in front of the first line of defense.
“The modest results of the long-awaited counteroffensive have already generated undercover disputes among representatives of the American political establishment. So, some Republicans are going to refuse Biden's request to provide Ukraine with an additional 20 billion dollars, and the Democrats accuse the administration of the American president of too little military assistance...”, the material ends with such interesting information.
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Wut Ukraine Counteroffensive Doing. 😂
Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation
(10 August 2023)
Part II (Part I)
▫️Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have neutralised manpower and military hardware in 146 areas.
▫️1 ammunition depot of the AFU 28th Mechanised Brigade has been destroyed near Dyleevka (Donetsk People's Republic).
▫️2 command posts of 63rd and 110th mechanised brigades of the AFU have been hit close to Torskoye and Avdeevka (Donetsk People's Republic).
▫️Air defence facilities have intercepted 5 HIMARS and Uragan rocket-propelled projectiles.
▫️In addition, 38 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have been shot down close to Pershotravnyovoye (Kharkov region), Gorlikovka, Georgievka, Vasilyevka (Donetsk People's Republic), Chapaevka (Zaporozhye region), and Vasilyevka (Kherson region).
📊In total, 458 airplanes, 245 helicopters, 5,638 unmanned aerial vehicles, 428 air defence missile systems, 11,216 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,144 fighting vehicles equipped with MLRS, 5,837 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 12,165 special military motor vehicles have been destroyed during the special military operation.
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry
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Wut Ukraine Counteroffensive Doing. 😂
🚨"How long will Ukraine last?", Julian Ropcke writes in the German BILD paper.
In the battles for Staromayorskoye, Ukraine lost 31 armoured vehicles, including 23 APCs from NATO countries.
Bild believes that, despite the loss of the village, this outcome of the battle is a success for Russia.
“Moscow's strategy is to destroy as many (Western) armored vehicles of the advancing Ukrainian forces as possible. Russia knows that Ukraine has much more problems than the Russian Federation with the replacement and repair of equipment.”
According to Bild, since the start of the counteroffensive, the Ukrainian army has lost nine out of 18 high-tech Leopard 2A6 tanks delivered from Germany.
“While many of the damaged tanks are repairable, this is proving difficult as the repair sites are about 1,000 kilometers to the west, and some damaged German tanks are stuck under enemy fire in the Zaporozhye region”
Bild reminds that, despite the promise of about 100 modern Western main battle tanks (Leopard 2, Challenger and Abrams) in January 2023, neither Germany, nor the UK, nor the United States have yet fulfilled the delivery.
“On the contrary, the Russian army delivers between 20 and 50 “new” or modernized main battle tanks to Ukraine every month. The logic behind this is simple: if Ukraine loses 10 to 30 Western armored personnel carriers per village, and few new ones arrive, its advance will stop before reaching strategically important cities such as Tokmok, Pology, Melitpol, Volnovakha or Mariupol.
Russia relies on attrition. The question remains whether Ukraine will be able to compensate for the current losses of military equipment,” Bild concludes.
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⚡️ Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation
(20 – 26 January 2024)
Part II (see Part I)
▫️In Zaporozhye direction, as a result of Russian troops active defensive actions and continuous strikes, losses were inflicted on units of the AFU 33rd, 65th, 117th, 118th mechanised brigades, 128th Mountain Assault Brigade, and 112th Territorial Defence Brigade near Rabotino, Verbovoye, Nesteryanka, and Pyatikhatki (Zaporozhye region).
The AFU losses amounted to more than 450 Ukrainian troops, three tanks, four armoured fighting vehicles, 17 motor vehicles, and 11 field artillery pieces.
▫️In Kherson direction, as a result of preventative strikes of Russian troops supported by aviation and artillery, losses were inflicted on units of the AFU 35th, 36th, 38th marines brigades, 121st, 123rd, and 126th territorial defence brigades near Zolotaya Balka, Mikhailovka, Tyaginka, Zmievka, and Stanislav (Kherson region).
The AFU losses amounted to more than 335 Ukrainian troops, 23 motor vehicles, two Grad MLRS, and eight field artillery pieces.
Over the week, 35 Ukrainian servicemen surrendered, 16 of whom were captured in Krasny Liman direction.
▫️Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces wiped out four launchers of air defence systems, including two U.S.-made Patriot, one French-made SAMP-T, one German-made IRIS-T, and three electronic warfare stations, as well as one radar of the S-300 air defence system, and six AFU field ammunition depots.
▫️Aviation and air defence units shot down one Ukrainian Air Forces Su-25 aircraft, six Storm Shadow cruise missiles, four Tochka-U tactical missiles, 28 HIMARS and Vampire MLRS projectiles, and 361 unmanned aerial vehicles.
▫️In total, 568 airplanes and 265 helicopters, 11,255 unmanned aerial vehicles, 455 air defence missile systems, 14,800 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 1,210 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 7,871 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 17,891 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry
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Wut Ukraine Counteroffensive Doing. 🤣
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DATES: July 31-07, 2023
► The RF strikes back in Staromayorskoye. Early reports stated that the 247th Guards Airborne Assault Regiment was crushing the enemy and taking up positions in Staromayorsk.
► It was then reported that the 247th Regiment had been withdrawn to "restore combat readiness," while the 218th Tank Regiment and "Storm Z" units took part in the assault operations.
► However, a letter written by the fighters of the 247th Regiment to the channel "Two Majors" TG Channel corrected the record, and dispelled the claims that the 247th had been withdrawn. Instead, it was engaged in battle in Staromayorskoye and had taken AFU prisoners.
► While we wait for the dust to settle to learn the truth for certain, it appears that Staromayorsk has become a Pyatikhatki for the AFU in this zone of operation, impossible for them to hold or defend. The settlement is mostly destroyed, offering little cover for the AFU that enter.
► The Russian Army has pushed the AFU back to the northern part of Staromayorskoye.
► The enemy is preparing to storm Urozhaynoye at the junction of the Zaporozhye Oblast and the DPR.
► A ten-minute video appeared on social media of an AFU armoured column having been stopped dead (literally) in its tracks by one Russian tank, as the enemy attempted to cross minefields without the assistance of artillery, on the Zaporozhye front.
► Another video of the destruction of an AFU column on the Zaporozhye front also made the rounds on social media. The fighters of the BARS-11 (@bars11kuban) unit published the full version of the footage of the destruction of an AFU IFV column. In this episode alone, the AFU lost over a dozen armored vehicles.
► Avdeevka Direction Report: In the afternoon, our Gods of War (artillery, -ed.) dealt a powerful blow to enemy positions. For two hours, working almost non-stop, they destroyed fuel and lubricants warehouses, enemy command points, enemy personnel, armoured vehicles, and firing points of the enemy.
► Kupyansk Direction Report: 07/30/2023, as of 00:20 (MSK). More than five (5) strikes using UMPK-equipped gliding FAB-500 bombs were conducted against enemy positions. The Russian Aerospace Forces continue to strike at the air defence installations and vehicles of the Ukrainian army.
► The 101st Territorial Defence Brigade surrenders en masse to our fighters near Kupyansk in the face of the offensive of the Russian army.
► In the Svatovo sector, the Russian Armed Forces are clearing out the environs of the village of Novoyegorovka, where they have ousted the AFU troops from the adjacent heights between Novoyegorovka and Nadezhda (Nadiya).
► The Russian Armed Forces advanced 300 meters into the depth of the enemy’s defence in the area of the Novoselovskoye settlement in the LPR, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
► Fierce fighting occurred near Klescheyevka as the "Prizrak" Brigade (translated as the "Spectre," the legendary 4th Brigade of the LPR, founded by Aleksey Mozgovoy) successfully repelled an enemy attack aimed at breaking through the southern flank of Artyomovsk.
► The situation on the Bakhmut (Artyomovsk) front on July 30, 2023: detailed analysis from @Multi_XAM.
► "By October we will reach the Sea of Azov and destroy the Crimean Bridge," claims Arestovich, echoing Leonard Cohen's equally implausible "first we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin" ode to terrorism.
► This is the first picture of the Swedish CV-90 infantry fighting vehicle captured by RF troops.
► Mikhailo Podolyak accused the Western media of undermining the plans of the Ukrainian army. In his opinion, it would be better if the American journalists did not comment on the course of the SMO and did not speculate in which direction the Ukrainian army would go. And then they jinxed the whole main blow! “If you can’t comment correctly, it’s better not to comment,” Podolyak ordered.
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🇷🇺💬The main points from Belousov’s statements at the Defense Ministry board meeting:
➡️ During the entire special operation, the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces amounted to almost 1 million people; in the Kursk adventure alone, the enemy lost more than 40 thousand soldiers;
➡️The Ukrainian Armed Forces control less than 1% of the territory of the LPR and 25-30% of the territory of the DPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions;
➡️The Russian Armed Forces firmly hold the strategic initiative throughout the entire line of contract; the average daily advance has accelerated significantly and is about 30 square kilometers;
➡️ The Russian Armed Forces inflicted significant damage on the Ukrainian military-industrial complex; the enemy has largely lost the ability to produce weapons, equipment and ammunition;
➡️ In the special operation zone in 2024, over 58 thousand units of weapons and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed, including 18 thousand of foreign manufacture;
➡️ The Russian Armed Forces will form a new branch of the armed forces - "unmanned systems troops" - and will complete their creation in the third quarter of 2025;
➡️ More than 427 thousand military personnel were recruited into the Russian Armed Forces in 2024, on average more than 1,200 people sign contracts per day;
➡️ Air defense systems have shot down more than 27 thousand UAVs this year;
➡️ During the special operation, air defense systems demonstrated high efficiency; this year, 86 Storm Shadow missiles and 215 ATACMS were shot down;
➡️The Russian Ministry of Defense plans to update the content of military registration specialties and modernize the system of military universities;
➡️In 2025, it is necessary to allocate an additional 149 billion rubles for housing subsidies for the military.
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Yehor Firsov, serviceman with Ukraine's 109th Battalion, identifies Chasiv Yar, Myrnohrad, Pokrovsk, Kurakhove, and Toretsk as the hottest spots in the Donetsk region
He spoke about this on Espreso TV.
“It is difficult on our side of the frontline, the Russians are pressing, using weapons, going around from different sides, trying to reach Kostiantynivka through Toretsk from Ukrainian side. On the other hand, the Russian troops are moving through Chasiv Yar to Kostiantynivka. Pokrovsk is not far away, where we are blocking certain routes with our drones and recording that the occupiers are amassing their forces there. That is, the invaders are planning to attack Pokrovsk as much as possible. The fighting continues near the village of Shevchenko, which is very close to Pokrovsk. And then there is Kurakhove, where we know the situation is also difficult,” commented the Ukrainian Armed Forces serviceman.
According to him, the situation in the Donetsk direction is very difficult now, with constant fighting. There is often a shortage of drones due to their almost continuous use, as there are a lot of enemy targets both day and night.
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Wut Ukraine Counteroffensive Doing.
❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Kupiansk sector of the front
situation as of 15.00 August 10, 2023
🔻Under Kupiansk, servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces group "West" are conducting a positional attack on the positions of Ukrainian formations north-west of the city.
The position of the AFU has seriously deteriorated. The number of casualties as a result of systematic attacks by Russian troops is growing. And evacuation is virtually impossible due to constant shelling and the unwillingness of evacuation groups to climb to the front line.
🔻Only today, an enemy armored vehicle was hit by an accurate artillery strike, which was supposed to pick up the wounded from Synkivka. The AFU sent another BMP, but it also came under fire.
Forces 14 Mechanized Brigade and teroborony refuse to fight. The only formations still offering resistance are units of the 95th Air Assault Brigade, deployed to help.
❗️ However, this did not help either. At the moment, the battles are going on near Sinkovka. The paratroopers of the 95th brigade retreated from one of the strongholds. But for now, it is premature to talk about approaching Kupyansk, the offensive continues.
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Wut Zelensky's Counteroffensive Doing. 🤣
U.S. military personnel are voicing their frustrations over the way Ukraine is conducting its counteroffensive. This is alarming, observes @TheStudyofWar Chairman @gen_jackkeane.
2/ American officers appear to have unrealistic expectations of what a single counteroffensive operation can achieve. The U.S. should be focused on helping Ukraine fight the war the way it wants to fight, not chirping from the sidelines.
3/ American officials are reportedly irritated that Ukraine has kept large numbers of forces in its east, particularly around the town of Bakhmut, and that Ukraine has been pursuing multiple offensive thrusts within Zaporizhia oblast itself rather than focusing on only one.
4/ No one in the American military today has designed large-scale mechanized operations against a serious and capable enemy that is employing a comprehensive defense. The last time was the Metz campaign in France in 1944, led by Gen. George S. Patton.
5/ The massed attack toward Melitopol that some are demanding is the most obvious thing Ukraine could do and would concentrate Ukraine’s offensive combat power on a drive down the shortest road to the sea. This approach seems appealing and militarily sound.
6/ The trouble is that the Russians also had the same thought. They deployed the strongest of their remaining defending forces on this axis. They dug deep, extensive trench lines and covered the earth in mines.
7/ The Ukrainians have actually made a priority of this route and have recently made important gains. But they have also been attacking further east in Zaporizhia oblast and have made gains there as well.
8/ The effort that seems to aggravate American officials most of all, however, has been the Ukrainian push to recapture the city of Bakhmut, which the Wagner Group seized at tremendous cost this spring.
9/ U.S. military experts appear to want the Ukrainians to hold on all other fronts and focus on a single thrust toward Melitopol.
10/ Such advice is military malpractice. Well-designed mechanized campaigns almost always advance on multiple axes rather than one. That is what American-led coalitions did against Iraq in 1991 and 2003. It’s how the Americans, Germans, and Soviets fought in World War II.
11/ The reason is simple: Advancing along a single axis allows the defender to concentrate fully on stopping that one advance. Here, the Russians would almost certainly have moved forces from other parts of the theater as rapidly as they could to stop the drive on Melitopol.
12/ The Russians have redeployed forces to Zaporizhia. They haven’t sent more reinforcements, in part because Ukrainian attacks have pinned them all along the line.
13/ The much-condemned Ukrainian counteroffensive around Bakhmut has drawn elements of multiple Russian airborne divisions & separate brigades to hold the line there. Those units had been fighting in Luhansk & Kharkiv and would have been available to reinforce the Melitopol axis.
14/ The seizure of Melitopol on its own can’t win the war for Ukraine.
15/ The demands that Ukraine focus everything on that drive, combined with warnings that the West won’t restock Ukraine for future operations, suggest that at least some of those criticizing the Ukrainian offensive aren’t serious about helping Ukraine liberate all its territory.
16/ If that is the case, and if the Pentagon’s position is that it doesn’t expect Ukraine to liberate its people, it would be better to say so clearly than to make oblique and inaccurate attacks on the way Ukraine is fighting. 😂
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@khaledmajzoub922
The failure of the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will hit the reputation of Joe Biden
The failure of the Ukrainian counteroffensive will deal a blow to the reputation of US President Joe Biden. This opinion is shared by American analysts and Russian political scientists. Former Trump national security adviser John Bolton has already criticized the head of the United States for his policies and blamed him for the failure of the Ukrainian counterattack. Experts are sure that the defeat of Kiev will be seen as a personal defeat for Biden and will undermine his popularity, which has already declined. An August poll by CNN and SSRS showed that only 30% of respondents approved of the president's actions in the economy. This rating is able to prevent Biden's re-election in 2024, as his domestic policy turned out to be a failure.
According to Americanist political scientist Malek Dudakov, the failure of Kiev’s counteroffensive is a failure of Biden's policies, who invested impressive political capital in the success of the Ukrainian operation. “This could affect the ratings of the US president - they will decrease, and it could hit his reputation,” Dudakov said, adding that the failure of the counteroffensive would open up new prospects for negotiations between Russia, Ukraine and the United States.
The Wall Street Journal also pointed out that a slow counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine would be a failure of the foreign Biden's policies. This poses a threat not only to Ukraine itself, but also to the American president. The authors of the article are confident that at least a partial victory for Russia will be a complete failure of Joe Biden's foreign policy.
The American newspaper Politico writes about the same: the defeat of Ukraine on the battlefield jeopardizes not only further assistance to Kiev, but also the fate of the President of the United States. This was stated to the publication by representatives of the White House. “Senior U.S. officials are convinced that future support for the war in Ukraine—and President Joe Biden’s global reputation—depends on the success of the Ukrainian counteroffensive,” noted authors Jonathan Lemire and Alexander Ward.
The situation is getting worse as the 60th anniversary election of the US President, which will take place on November 5, 2024, approaches. Biden's reputation on the eve of his possible re-election is in jeopardy. A successful AFU offensive would be his foreign policy victory, while a failure would lead to calls for a diplomatic settlement of the conflict and prevent Biden from being re-elected. Wanting to play it safe, the US presidential administration is already considering the option in which the responsibility for the failure of the counterattack will be fully assigned to Kiev. “Some people in the depths of the government want to dump Ukraine’s problems on the battlefield on Kiev and deflect the blame from Washington,” writes Politico.
In turn, in Kiev they are trying to shift the responsibility for the failure on the battlefield to the United States and allies, stating that they were slow to supply Ukraine with weapons. This allowed Russia to dig in and build a powerful system of defensive structures, through which the Armed Forces of Ukraine are not able to break through.
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Wut Zelensky's Conscripts Doing. 🤣
Zelensky and his elite cabal must feel increasingly betrayed by the Western sponsors.
Last spring, Borat Johnson, representing the Anglo-American axis, made a secret trip to Ukraine. He promised Zelensky, if Ukraine commits 100% to fighting Russia, they will receive complete support and victory would be assured.
Zelensky had a choice: take the peace deal, or trust Borat's assurances and commit Ukraine to a major conflict. Despite Zelensky's earlier inclination towards a speedy and peaceful resolution with Russia -- even if it involved concessions like ceding Crimea and adopting a neutral stance -- Zelensky took the bait.
While NATO, primarily influenced by the US, has supplied significant support, it hasn't been enough. After months of combat, Ukraine's military capabilities have been considerably weakened, the counteroffensive effort is going poorly, and Russia still remains robust in its defenses.
Instead of owning up to not delivering on Borat's guarantee of total support, the Western cabal now seems prepared to place the blame squarely on Zelensky and Ukraine. Recent discourse suggests that the Western cabal believes Ukraine failed to heed its strategic advice, while Ukraine's leadership feels the West is holding back.
Ukraine now finds itself in a very precarious position. Borat's assurances steered Zelensky from diplomacy into conflict, and that most consequential decision is now backfiring. The Western cabal and Ukraine's leadership are already pointing the fingers at each other.
The situation underscores a harsh reality, the Western cabal makes promises that quickly evaporate and nations that make the mistake of putting faith in those promises inevitably get burned.
Ukraine, thanks to its gullible leadership, will ultimately pay the price for the Western cabal's lust of geostrategic domination at any cost.
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Wut Ukrainian Generals Doing. 🤣
The rivalry between Zaluzhny and Syrsky continues as the blame game ratchets up:
NYT: General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Syrsky does not comply with the recommendations of the Pentagon on Kupyansk.
The commander of the ground forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine , Colonel-General Alexander Syrsky , despite the advice of Kiev's Western allies , continues to insist on strengthening the defense near the Kupyansky district. It is reported by The New York Times .
While the Ukrainian Armed Forces slowly tried to advance in the south and east, Russian fighters managed to advance near Kupyansk in northeastern Ukraine, according to the newspaper.
In this regard, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine wanted to transfer the military to protect this part of the vast front line. At the same time, in fact, the support of the Ukrainian side at that time was required in other areas, the media noted.
“Enemy units continue to inflict damage with artillery, mortars and aircraft,” Syrsky argued.
Prior to this, the United States predicted the retreat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine beyond the Dnieper.
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Wut Zelensky's electronic intel/comms systems Doing. 😂
"ZELENSKY!! ATTENTION!!!
We, the hackers of Solntsepek, destroyed the entire system of strategic electronic intelligence of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
Serious damage was caused not only to Budanov's department, but also to the entire Ukrainian armed forces.
All radio intelligence posts in the HF / VHF bands and channels of satellite communication lines were disabled, and all equipment supplied by Great Britain, Poland and other "allies" was paralyzed.
As confirmation, we lay out the desktops of the workstations of the operators of the Polish ICAS radio intelligence complex, the Ukrainian Khortytsia complex, the British RFeye complex and other materials from the internal network.
From today, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will have to go to KONTNAHRYUK blind and deaf, which will significantly increase the number of new flags in cemeteries.
All the documents that were in our hands were handed over to the interested law enforcement agencies and the media of Russia.
P.S. Separately, we would like to thank the caring employees of the Main Intelligence Directorate who supported our attack."
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Wut Ukraine Air Defence Doing. 🤣🤡
What is known about the strike on the SBU building in Dnepr at the moment.
- The left wing of the building of the SBU department building in Dnepropetrovsk region was partially destroyed. Judging by the nature of the arrival, a buried object or room located in the left wing was presumably assigned to the hit.
- Statements that the building was empty and there was no one there at the time of the impact do not stand up to criticism. In the car park of the SBU department at 23 Svyatoslav Khrabrygo Street, there were many cars, presumably of the employees of the special service.
- The accuracy of the arrival is striking. The other buildings around remained intact, a separate section of the building was destroyed. This is reminiscent of the strike on the GUR building in Kiev.
- It is also curious that the strike was carried out without an air alert being declared, all AFU air defence interception equipment in the area, as well as target detection radars, failed to identify what was presumably a ballistic missile.
- Earlier, the speaker of the Air Force of the AFU, Yuriy Ignat, said that the Ukrainian air defence had nothing to shoot down the Russian Armed Forces' ballistic speed missiles. This statement, as well as the accuracy of the arrival, suggests that ballistic missiles of the Iskander missile defence system were most likely used on the SBU headquarters building in Dnepr.
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Wut Ukraine Counteroffensive Doing. 🤣
Today marks exactly 2 months since the start of the Ukrainian counter-offensive
During this period, the Ukrainians managed to capture as many as 5 villages.
During this period, Ukraine also managed to lose more than 43,000 servicemen and an excess of 4,900 assorted weaponry pieces, which include 26 aircraft, nine helicopters, 1,831 tanks, and an array of other armored vehicles.
Notable among these are 25 German Leopard tanks, seven French AMX wheeled tanks, and 21 US Bradley infantry fighting vehicles (IFV).
Social media is flooded with videos of destroyed military equipment.
The offensive intensity of the Ukrainian army has completely declined and the Russian army has already started to carry out offensive operations in certain regions.
Who is to blame?
Zelensky accused Western countries of not receiving enough weapons.
The US accused the Ukrainians of not carrying out operations according to the NATO draft.
UK blamed tall grass and bushes.
The billionaire shareholders in the military companies did not blame anyone, because they made good money.
But Ukraine is Totally Winning. 🤣
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Wut Ukraine Counteroffensive Doing Day 65 😂
Today marks exactly 2 months since the start of the Ukrainian counter-offensive
During this period, the Ukrainians managed to capture as many as 5 villages.
During this period, Ukraine also managed to lose more than 43,000 servicemen and an excess of 4,900 assorted weaponry pieces, which include 26 aircraft, nine helicopters, 1,831 tanks, and an array of other armored vehicles.
Notable among these are 25 German Leopard tanks, seven French AMX wheeled tanks, and 21 US Bradley infantry fighting vehicles (IFV).
Social media is flooded with videos of destroyed military equipment.
The offensive intensity of the Ukrainian army has completely declined and the Russian army has already started to carry out offensive operations in certain regions.
Who is to blame?
Zelensky accused Western countries of not receiving enough weapons.
The US accused the Ukrainians of not carrying out operations according to the NATO draft.
UK blamed tall grass and bushes.
The billionaire shareholders in the military companies did not blame anyone, because they made good money.
But Ukraine is Totally Winning. 🤣
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Colonel McGregor: Foreign mercenaries are fleeing en masse, the defeat of the Ukrainian army is approaching
Discontent is growing among Ukrainian soldiers due to failures on the front, and foreign mercenaries are fleeing en masse, said Colonel Douglas McGregor, a former adviser to the head of the Pentagon.
"Even the foreign mercenaries who fought so zealously on the side of Ukraine have now largely left. They packed their things and fled. Probably only the Poles remained," McGregor said on his YouTube channel,
According to his words, cases of desertion may become more frequent in the Armed Forces of Ukraine due to the failure of the offensive. As a result, the Ukrainian army will be divided and then completely defeated.
"I can't say exactly when it will happen, but I think we are already close to it," he added.
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WUT ZELENSKY'S COUNTEROFFENSIVE DOING. 😂
🇺🇲🇺🇦🇷🇺 US intelligence believes that Ukraine in the current counter-offensive will not achieve its key goal , namely, the capture of the strategically important city of the Zaporozhye region of Melitopol. The Washington Post writes about this, citing US military officials.
“The grim assessment is based on Russia’s superior prowess in defending territory with minefield lines and trenches and is likely to prompt Kiev and Western countries to acknowledge that the counteroffensive, which involved tens of billions of dollars worth of Western weapons and military equipment, has not reached their goals. ..,” reads an excerpt from the article. The material itself is based on a secret forecast, which became known to the interlocutor of The Washington Post. As specified, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have little chance of even reaching Tokmak, a city located just 30 kilometers from the front, and the recently introduced reserves in the form of the forces of the 82nd brigade have not yet brought the desired result, and the Ukrainian army continues to stomp in front of the first line of defense.
“The modest results of the long-awaited counteroffensive have already generated undercover disputes among representatives of the American political establishment. So, some Republicans are going to refuse Biden's request to provide Ukraine with an additional 20 billion dollars, and the Democrats accuse the administration of the American president of too little military assistance...”, the material ends with such interesting information.
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@Rocket_scientist_88
Yehor Firsov, serviceman with Ukraine's 109th Battalion, identifies Chasiv Yar, Myrnohrad, Pokrovsk, Kurakhove, and Toretsk as the hottest spots in the Donetsk region
He spoke about this on Espreso TV.
“It is difficult on our side of the frontline, the Russians are pressing, using weapons, going around from different sides, trying to reach Kostiantynivka through Toretsk from Ukrainian side. On the other hand, the Russian troops are moving through Chasiv Yar to Kostiantynivka. Pokrovsk is not far away, where we are blocking certain routes with our drones and recording that the occupiers are amassing their forces there. That is, the invaders are planning to attack Pokrovsk as much as possible. The fighting continues near the village of Shevchenko, which is very close to Pokrovsk. And then there is Kurakhove, where we know the situation is also difficult,” commented the Ukrainian Armed Forces serviceman.
According to him, the situation in the Donetsk direction is very difficult now, with constant fighting. There is often a shortage of drones due to their almost continuous use, as there are a lot of enemy targets both day and night.
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‼️ 🇷🇺🇺🇦 The war in Ukraine - the daily review by Yuri Podoljaka on 08/10/23
🔸The Russian offensive in the north in the Kharkov region is gaining momentum. The Ukrainian general Syrskyj speaks of a huge group of Russians breaking through the front here.
🔸Slightly southwesterly, the Russian units are already close to Kislovka, a center of concentration of Ukrainian armed forces. Ten Ukrainian bases were captured here yesterday.
🔸As of yesterday, the Ukrainians stopped trying to attack the Russian bridgehead on the Zherebets River . Another Russian offensive is to be expected in the near future. The whole front section from Kupyansk to Svato is in motion, the Russians are increasing the pressure, the Ukrainians are giving way. The Russian artillery and air force are very active in the whole area up to the river Oskol. The Ukrainians are slowly withdrawing, still holding the front, although there have already been cases of panicked desertion. Thus, the units of the 101st Territorial Defense fled from the front.
🔸Counterbattles at Artemovsk and Avdeyevka , no significant changes.
🔸Very tough fights at Urozhajnoye , Zaporozhye . Ukraine was already using the 10th Corps from the reserves here. The reserves are estimated to be enough for two weeks. All the more so that the northern sector of the front is consuming these reserves more and more.
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@ange6580
Today marks exactly 2 months since the start of the Ukrainian counter-offensive
During this period, the Ukrainians managed to capture as many as 5 villages.
During this period, Ukraine also managed to lose more than 43,000 servicemen and an excess of 4,900 assorted weaponry pieces, which include 26 aircraft, nine helicopters, 1,831 tanks, and an array of other armored vehicles.
Notable among these are 25 German Leopard tanks, seven French AMX wheeled tanks, and 21 US Bradley infantry fighting vehicles (IFV).
Social media is flooded with videos of destroyed military equipment.
The offensive intensity of the Ukrainian army has completely declined and the Russian army has already started to carry out offensive operations in certain regions.
Who is to blame?
Zelensky accused Western countries of not receiving enough weapons.
The US accused the Ukrainians of not carrying out operations according to the NATO draft.
UK blamed tall grass and bushes.
The billionaire shareholders in the military companies did not blame anyone, because they made good money.
But Ukraine is Totally Winning. 🤣
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🇷🇺🇺🇳 Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the UN:
🎙 Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at a United Nations Security Council Briefing on Western Arms Supplies to Ukraine
📍New York, December 20, 2024
💬 Zelensky is ignoring the interests and opinions of his citizens, a significant number of whom are now speaking against new escalatory steps, since such steps may lead to the destruction of new enterprises and energy facilities.
❌ As a result, many experts now question Ukraine's ability to survive the winter; however, the former comedian, who has lost his legitimacy but is still clinging on power, is ready to gamble with his country that he has held hostage, and sacrifice all of its citizens.
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• According to the Ukrainian military commanders themselves, by the end of November, the number of deserters amounted to 200 thousand people, with 85 thousand Ukrainian military deserting in November alone, which is three times as high as in October.
• Ukrainian military personnel which are being trained abroad are also deserting – in Poland alone, an average of 12 people leave the training grounds every month. France reported that half of the Anna Kievskaya brigade, which had been trained in that country, left the battlefield and the rest of the brigade was disbanded. And this is the elite of the Ukrainian army.
• The losses of the Ukrainian army in 2024 exceeded 560 thousand servicemen (killed or wounded), and since the beginning of 2022 that number is over one million.
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• Ukraine has become a genuine gold mine for the military-industrial complex of the the US, UK and their allies. But it is American companies that are profiting the most from the conflict.
• According to the latest data, half of total arms sales in 2023 were processed by 41 US corporations out of the top 100. They received $317 billion, or 50% of global arms sales revenues.
• Overall, the revenues of the world's 100 major weapons manufacturers in 2023 reached $632 billion, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
• It would be naive to expect that these unscrupulous traders, who have tasted the flavor of lucre, will give up riding this gravy train for the sake of those miserable Ukrainians.
• After the conflict started, 25 foreign lobby and consulting companies began to represent Ukraine's interests free of charge. <…>
• Apart from making money on frantic sales of their weapons to the Ukrainians (well, they are in a hurry as they need to pull it off before Trump's inauguration), they also have no scruples about making money on American citizens by driving up the prices of the military industry products.
⚠️ Despite the fact that it can be detrimental to the well-being of Americans, the outgoing Democratic administration is playing up with the arms corporations. <…>
• We have already discussed in detail at the last meeting why this criminal crew, including the man in the green 'fufaika' (sweatshirt), is so afraid of the audit of the funds provided to Ukraine, which was promised by the Trump team.
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• It is hard to say where Ukraine will end up with all these smoke and mirrors of its illegitimate leader, who is erroneously asserting that he is ready for peace, while in fact doing everything to escalate the conflict.
• As we have repeatedly stated, peace for him is the worst possible scenario, because if it the case he will have to stand for elections and subsequently lose power, since, according to some polls, he enjoys only 11% support of Ukrainian citizens. And then he will be held accountable for all the crimes he committed against his people, making them a pawn in the great game of the West against Russia.
👉 That is why he fears any negotiations like plague, and rejects one peace initiative after another.
So sad.😂
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Wut Biden's Counteroffensive Doing. 😂
The failure of the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will hit the reputation of Joe Biden
The failure of the Ukrainian counteroffensive will deal a blow to the reputation of US President Joe Biden. This opinion is shared by American analysts and Russian political scientists. Former Trump national security adviser John Bolton has already criticized the head of the United States for his policies and blamed him for the failure of the Ukrainian counterattack. Experts are sure that the defeat of Kiev will be seen as a personal defeat for Biden and will undermine his popularity, which has already declined. An August poll by CNN and SSRS showed that only 30% of respondents approved of the president's actions in the economy. This rating is able to prevent Biden's re-election in 2024, as his domestic policy turned out to be a failure.
According to Americanist political scientist Malek Dudakov, the failure of Kiev’s counteroffensive is a failure of Biden's policies, who invested impressive political capital in the success of the Ukrainian operation. “This could affect the ratings of the US president - they will decrease, and it could hit his reputation,” Dudakov said, adding that the failure of the counteroffensive would open up new prospects for negotiations between Russia, Ukraine and the United States.
The Wall Street Journal also pointed out that a slow counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine would be a failure of the foreign Biden's policies. This poses a threat not only to Ukraine itself, but also to the American president. The authors of the article are confident that at least a partial victory for Russia will be a complete failure of Joe Biden's foreign policy.
The American newspaper Politico writes about the same: the defeat of Ukraine on the battlefield jeopardizes not only further assistance to Kiev, but also the fate of the President of the United States. This was stated to the publication by representatives of the White House. “Senior U.S. officials are convinced that future support for the war in Ukraine—and President Joe Biden’s global reputation—depends on the success of the Ukrainian counteroffensive,” noted authors Jonathan Lemire and Alexander Ward.
The situation is getting worse as the 60th anniversary election of the US President, which will take place on November 5, 2024, approaches. Biden's reputation on the eve of his possible re-election is in jeopardy. A successful AFU offensive would be his foreign policy victory, while a failure would lead to calls for a diplomatic settlement of the conflict and prevent Biden from being re-elected. Wanting to play it safe, the US presidential administration is already considering the option in which the responsibility for the failure of the counterattack will be fully assigned to Kiev. “Some people in the depths of the government want to dump Ukraine’s problems on the battlefield on Kiev and deflect the blame from Washington,” writes Politico.
In turn, in Kiev they are trying to shift the responsibility for the failure on the battlefield to the United States and allies, stating that they were slow to supply Ukraine with weapons. This allowed Russia to dig in and build a powerful system of defensive structures, through which the Armed Forces of Ukraine are not able to break through.
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Wut Zelensky Doing. 😂
Can Zelensky Survive Coup-kraine?
Earlier this month, once again President Zelensky extended the condition of martial law for another ninety days in the Ukraine, giving himself near God-like control of the country. As the sole source of authority and the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), you would think that he is busy overseeing the current “Spring Counteroffensive” and devoting every second of his undivided attention on seeing to the wellbeing of his troops and civilians…
You would be wrong.
For whatever reason (a reason we will discuss shortly), President Zelensky is currently not in Kiev, he’s not even in the Ukraine! Once again, Zelensky is jet setting across Europe, begging NATO country leaders for more money, support, and weapons, but most “importantly” (according to mainstream media): the F-16. In a not uncommon display of buffoonery, the clown-in-chief triumphantly tweeted that the Netherlands were committing forty-two F-16 Fighting Falcons to Kiev’s cause, winning for his fellow countrymen a media victory to boost some sorely needed morale… but…
Curiously, in an air of confusion, Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte made a statement saying that Holland has a grand total of forty-two Fighting Falcons itself and that Kiev was absolutely not getting all of them. Instead, an unspecified number of the fighters would be sent to the Ukraine, but he did not yet know how many or even when the shipment would take place. I am certain Zelensky was not very pleased with him for saying that, given how conditions are on the battlefield. Previously, I stated “sorely needed morale”, as the AFU’s morale and hope must be at an all time low for several reasons, but I only need to address two for my purposes.
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Wut Ukraine Counteroffensive Doing. 😂
🤡"The counteroffensive 🇺🇦 could lose momentum."
Ukraine is down to its LAST brigade. Get ready for Ukraine's total collapse.
"Ukraine air assault forces finally have deployed their most powerful unit. The 2,000-person 82nd Air Assault Brigade, which is stacked with Marder and Stryker fighting vehicles and Challenger 2 tanks, rolled into action around Robotyne, in southern Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Oblast, apparently in the last few days
The 82nd Brigade and its sister air-assault unit, the 46th Brigade, were some of the last major units that the Ukrainian general staff was holding in reserve.
In finally sending those formations into battle, the Ukrainians could significantly boost their firepower along one of the main axes of the counteroffensive—the one stretching 50 miles from Russian-occupied Robotyne to occupied Melitopol, just north of the Black Sea coast.
But no brigade can fight forever. When the 46th and 82nd Brigades pull back for rest, reset and repairs, there might not be any equally powerful fresh brigades to fill in for them.
This neither is a new problem, nor one that’s unique to the Robotyne axis. The Ukrainian marine corps, which has focused its efforts along the Mokri Yaly River Valley, 50 miles to the east, has deployed all four of its front-line brigades at the same time along a 10-mile-wide sector."
But Ukraine is Totally Winning. 🤣
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🤡"The counteroffensive could lose momentum."
Ukraine is down to its LAST brigade. Get ready for Ukraine's total collapse.
"Ukraine air assault forces finally have deployed their most powerful unit. The 2,000-person 82nd Air Assault Brigade, which is stacked with Marder and Stryker fighting vehicles and Challenger 2 tanks, rolled into action around Robotyne, in southern Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Oblast, apparently in the last few days
The 82nd Brigade and its sister air-assault unit, the 46th Brigade, were some of the last major units that the Ukrainian general staff was holding in reserve.
In finally sending those formations into battle, the Ukrainians could significantly boost their firepower along one of the main axes of the counteroffensive—the one stretching 50 miles from Russian-occupied Robotyne to occupied Melitopol, just north of the Black Sea coast.
But no brigade can fight forever. When the 46th and 82nd Brigades pull back for rest, reset and repairs, there might not be any equally powerful fresh brigades to fill in for them.
This neither is a new problem, nor one that’s unique to the Robotyne axis. The Ukrainian marine corps, which has focused its efforts along the Mokri Yaly River Valley, 50 miles to the east, has deployed all four of its front-line brigades at the same time along a 10-mile-wide sector."
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Wut Zelensky's Counteroffensive Doing. 🤣
U.S. military personnel are voicing their frustrations over the way Ukraine is conducting its counteroffensive. This is alarming, observes @TheStudyofWar Chairman @gen_jackkeane.
2/ American officers appear to have unrealistic expectations of what a single counteroffensive operation can achieve. The U.S. should be focused on helping Ukraine fight the war the way it wants to fight, not chirping from the sidelines.
3/ American officials are reportedly irritated that Ukraine has kept large numbers of forces in its east, particularly around the town of Bakhmut, and that Ukraine has been pursuing multiple offensive thrusts within Zaporizhia oblast itself rather than focusing on only one.
4/ No one in the American military today has designed large-scale mechanized operations against a serious and capable enemy that is employing a comprehensive defense. The last time was the Metz campaign in France in 1944, led by Gen. George S. Patton.
5/ The massed attack toward Melitopol that some are demanding is the most obvious thing Ukraine could do and would concentrate Ukraine’s offensive combat power on a drive down the shortest road to the sea. This approach seems appealing and militarily sound.
6/ The trouble is that the Russians also had the same thought. They deployed the strongest of their remaining defending forces on this axis. They dug deep, extensive trench lines and covered the earth in mines.
7/ The Ukrainians have actually made a priority of this route and have recently made important gains. But they have also been attacking further east in Zaporizhia oblast and have made gains there as well.
8/ The effort that seems to aggravate American officials most of all, however, has been the Ukrainian push to recapture the city of Bakhmut, which the Wagner Group seized at tremendous cost this spring.
9/ U.S. military experts appear to want the Ukrainians to hold on all other fronts and focus on a single thrust toward Melitopol.
10/ Such advice is military malpractice. Well-designed mechanized campaigns almost always advance on multiple axes rather than one. That is what American-led coalitions did against Iraq in 1991 and 2003. It’s how the Americans, Germans, and Soviets fought in World War II.
11/ The reason is simple: Advancing along a single axis allows the defender to concentrate fully on stopping that one advance. Here, the Russians would almost certainly have moved forces from other parts of the theater as rapidly as they could to stop the drive on Melitopol.
12/ The Russians have redeployed forces to Zaporizhia. They haven’t sent more reinforcements, in part because Ukrainian attacks have pinned them all along the line.
13/ The much-condemned Ukrainian counteroffensive around Bakhmut has drawn elements of multiple Russian airborne divisions & separate brigades to hold the line there. Those units had been fighting in Luhansk & Kharkiv and would have been available to reinforce the Melitopol axis.
14/ The seizure of Melitopol on its own can’t win the war for Ukraine.
15/ The demands that Ukraine focus everything on that drive, combined with warnings that the West won’t restock Ukraine for future operations, suggest that at least some of those criticizing the Ukrainian offensive aren’t serious about helping Ukraine liberate all its territory.
16/ If that is the case, and if the Pentagon’s position is that it doesn’t expect Ukraine to liberate its people, it would be better to say so clearly than to make oblique and inaccurate attacks on the way Ukraine is fighting. 😂
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If you live in the West,
Everything you know (or think you know) about Russia and China has been told to you by people whose job it is to make you fear, distrust and subliminally hate those countries, they are literally paid by Western intelligence operations to skew the facts, opress the truth and cultivate irational fear.
Think about that. And now think about why?
Now listen as those same people tell you it's time for War with those very same counties which your opinions of are formed, by an entirely biased, dishonest and intelligence manipulated Media, paid to deliver that bias directly into your subconscious, day in day out.
Do you see the "Mission?"
The mission is the licencing of war, escalation, and, of course, division. Without the above, none of the grotesquely profitable illegal wars post WW2 would have been tolerated by the taxpayers and "human capital" expected to fight them.
You pay, they lie, you die, they lie. And repeat...
Arm yourself with the truth. Seek it out. A trillion dollar machine is mobilised against it, but ultimately, you do have a choice, its not easy, but they rely on your laziness, your addiction to their drive-through narrative.
Wake up, or you may stay asleep forever (exactly where the machine wants you)
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@bear1245
Wut Zelensky's Counteroffensive Doing. 🤣
NATO would lose a land war in Europe against Russia, simple as that.
They lack the industrial capacity to even sustain the ammunition and equipment requirements of a proxy war let alone a full-scale land war against Russia.
According to NATO itself "the scale and intensity of the violence in Ukraine is beyond their imagining" - If you can't imagine the level of intensity of a conflict you are neither trained nor prepared for it.
A plethora of different manufacturers of defense equipment versus a streamlined national production of only a few manufacturers with access to unlimited raw materials at their disposal that produces equipment that is simpler and easier to fix than NATO's with a shorter logistical chain.
Apart from the US, the member countries of NATO have forces that are shrunk into oblivion with no member countries showing much willingness to change that, the UK with an army that fits into a single football stadium is one of the most prominent examples of this fact.
The Europeans also seem all quite comfortable with the idea of outsourcing their security to the US in exchange for sovereignty and show no serious attempts to change that.
The US airpower is impressive but untested in a peer conflict against a force with modern integrated air defenses and their forces used to and dependent on uncontested air superiority which they will not have.
Russian doctrine is the opposite of that.
Furthermore, in such a conflict, they would not have airbases outside the reach of their opponent like they are used to.
NATO's strongest member, the US is primarily a naval and air power.
Airpower will be severely diminished and naval power being of little use in a land war in continental Europe in the mentioned scenario due to hypersonics and integrated ISR strike capabilities largely nullifying those forces.
Russia has superior ASAT capabilities which would quickly nullify NATO's numerical superiority in space.
US military force, organization, and command structure is a bloated behemoth, fractured around the globe & set up for a rematch of WW2 and largely filled with generals that came to their positions not because of merit or performance but because they "toed the line", didn't offend anyone and showed no resistance to dumb ideas. Let alone the questionable decisions regarding their new 🌈 standards.
The population in Western Europe nowadays is unwilling to sustain hardships and far from interested in getting shot at for the cause of waging war on Russia.
Last but not least the US has not sufficient forces in Europe anymore and needs to transport everything across an ocean, unlike Russia.
If war would be inevitable Russia would not wait and allow the US to build up its forces in Europe, as they did in Iraq in 2003, but instead strike their bases and logistics, which are well known, across Europe.
All of this is irrelevant as any war between our powers would quickly escalate to the nuclear level and end with the annihilation of both sides.🤣
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Wut Zelensky's Counteroffensive Doing. 😂
🤡"The counteroffensive could lose momentum."
Ukraine is down to its LAST brigade. Get ready for Ukraine's total collapse.
"Ukraine air assault forces finally have deployed their most powerful unit. The 2,000-person 82nd Air Assault Brigade, which is stacked with Marder and Stryker fighting vehicles and Challenger 2 tanks, rolled into action around Robotyne, in southern Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Oblast, apparently in the last few days
The 82nd Brigade and its sister air-assault unit, the 46th Brigade, were some of the last major units that the Ukrainian general staff was holding in reserve.
In finally sending those formations into battle, the Ukrainians could significantly boost their firepower along one of the main axes of the counteroffensive—the one stretching 50 miles from Russian-occupied Robotyne to occupied Melitopol, just north of the Black Sea coast.
But no brigade can fight forever. When the 46th and 82nd Brigades pull back for rest, reset and repairs, there might not be any equally powerful fresh brigades to fill in for them.
This neither is a new problem, nor one that’s unique to the Robotyne axis. The Ukrainian marine corps, which has focused its efforts along the Mokri Yaly River Valley, 50 miles to the east, has deployed all four of its front-line brigades at the same time along a 10-mile-wide sector."
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Wut Zelensky's Counteroffensive Doing. 😂
🚨"How long will Ukraine last?", Julian Ropcke writes in the German BILD paper.
In the battles for Staromayorskoye, Ukraine lost 31 armoured vehicles, including 23 APCs from NATO countries.
Bild believes that, despite the loss of the village, this outcome of the battle is a success for Russia.
“Moscow's strategy is to destroy as many (Western) armored vehicles of the advancing Ukrainian forces as possible. Russia knows that Ukraine has much more problems than the Russian Federation with the replacement and repair of equipment.”
According to Bild, since the start of the counteroffensive, the Ukrainian army has lost nine out of 18 high-tech Leopard 2A6 tanks delivered from Germany.
“While many of the damaged tanks are repairable, this is proving difficult as the repair sites are about 1,000 kilometers to the west, and some damaged German tanks are stuck under enemy fire in the Zaporozhye region”
Bild reminds that, despite the promise of about 100 modern Western main battle tanks (Leopard 2, Challenger and Abrams) in January 2023, neither Germany, nor the UK, nor the United States have yet fulfilled the delivery.
“On the contrary, the Russian army delivers between 20 and 50 “new” or modernized main battle tanks to Ukraine every month. The logic behind this is simple: if Ukraine loses 10 to 30 Western armored personnel carriers per village, and few new ones arrive, its advance will stop before reaching strategically important cities such as Tokmok, Pology, Melitpol, Volnovakha or Mariupol.
Russia relies on attrition. The question remains whether Ukraine will be able to compensate for the current losses of military equipment,” Bild concludes.
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Wut Zelensky's Counteroffensive Doing. 🤣
🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Russian troops repel attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine along the entire front line, — Ministry of Defense
- In the Kupyansk direction, 5 attacks by assault detachments of the 41st, 66th, 67th mechanized and 25th airborne brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were repelled in the areas of the settlements of Sinkivka, Novoselovskoye and Raygorodok.
Up to 65 militants, 4 infantry fighting vehicles, 2 vehicles, a D-20 howitzer and an AN / TPQ-50 radar were destroyed.
In the area of the settlement of Tabaivka, an ammunition depot of the 103rd brigade was destroyed.
- In the Zaporizhzhia direction, 4 attacks were repelledby units of the 65th mechanized and 82nd airborne assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Uspenivka and Rabotyno.
More than 125 militants, 3 infantry fighting vehicles, 2 armored fighting vehicles and 9 vehicles were destroyed.
During the day, 11 guns and 4 mortars were hit, including: 2 M777 artillery systems, 3 M119 howitzers, self-propelled guns: Krab and Cezar, as well as the FH-70.
- In the Donetsk direction, 3 attacks by assault groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were repelled in the areas of the settlements of Novomy khailivka and Avdiivka.
Up to 235 militants, 5 infantry fighting vehicles, 2 vehicles, 2 M777 artillery systems, Krab self-propelled guns, Msta-B howitzer and AN / TPQ-36 radar were destroyed.
- In the Yuzhno-Donetsk direction, 4 concentrations of manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Makarovka, Staromayorskoye and Urozhayne.
Up to 240 militants, 2 armored fighting vehicles, the M777 artillery system, as well as the FH-70 gun were destroyed.
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@C.CUMM1NGS Ukraine hasn't liberated anything, they were given it for free, they didn't fight for that land, Russia and Kiev agreed to talk about peace in March 2022, Russia withdrew from the north and north east in good faith, Boris Johnson scuppered said peace deal in April 2022, Russia still controls the eastern part of Kherson, Snake island was abandoned, Ukraine would land on it so they dropped a flag on it instead, weeks later they went to raise flag and got wiped out, Russia is only interested in the Donbass and the Donbass only, if the west sends long range weapons means Russia takes more land, Russia has no intentions to catch any more land, they're dug in defending Russian territory now, and Ukronazis can't even get past the Russian buffer zone.
Costing them 43k in 66 days of their failed counteroffensive.
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@bobbuilder1382 Muhaha, who told you that, the Sun, Kiev, 🤣
Russia is the one defending, Ukraine doesn't have the men/munitions/air support to make any indentations in Russia's first line of defence, Ukraine is still stuck in the Russian buffer zone unable to break free, Kharkov is being over run by Russian Forces, 500 - 1000k ☠️🇺🇦 per day they obituaries are full, new graves being dug every day, you son are changing Ukraine to Russia to help you sleep at night, you post these Cope Posts like they're your comfy blanket.🤣
400k 500k ☠️🇺🇦
43k ☠️🇺🇦 in 69 days of their failed counteroffensive. 🤣
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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡The results of the strike on Kramatorsk
✔️Several foreign mercenaries showed up at the site of the strike, who, however, did not hide their presence in Ukraine and actively shared the details of their everyday life in social networks. Alex Gallant, Arno Dedecker and Nick Duckworth were seen among those who came on the "safari".
✔️On one of the videos, a tattoo of a wounded man is clearly visible, indicating belonging to the 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment of the US Armed Forces. Either an instructor, or a mercenary, or they are there.
✔️Another video shows a man in a uniform with the emblem of the 101st Airborne Division of the US Armed Forces.
✔️ Foreign journalists and three Colombians were also at the facility - writer Hector Abad, politician Sergio Jaramillo and journalist Catalina Gomez.
✔️Among the liquidated there are also Ukrainian military. For example, the 22-year-old member of Azov (banned in the Russian Federation) Artyom Sukhovey.
Fck Around Find Out.
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Wut Ukraine Counteroffensive Doing. 😂
In Other News.
❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦🎞 Chronicle of the special military operation: events of August 5-6, 2023.
▪️Russian troops launched a series of strikes on military facilities in Ukraine.
One of the targets was the Starokonstantinov airfield in the Khmelnitsky region. A strong fire broke out at the site of the detonation.
▪️Also, hypersonic missiles "Dagger" hit targets in Zhytomyr and Vinnitsa regions.
It is known about the hit on the tank range and the location of the operational support regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
▪️In the Svatovsky area, after a long assault, the Russian troops took complete control of Novoselovskoye.
At the moment, fighting is underway to expand the zone of control around the destroyed village.
▪️Ukrainian formations continue to shell the front-line territories of the Donetsk agglomeration.
The use of cluster munitions by the Armed Forces of Ukraine has been recorded. As a result of the strikes, two people were killed and 14 others were injured. 👈🏻 War Crimes
▪️On the Orekhovsky sector of the front, the situation remains steadily difficult: the enemy continues to attack Rabotino.
In the course of repulsing the next offensive attempts, several units of armored vehicles were destroyed by Russian artillery.
▪️Russian forces launched several strikes on the rear areas of the enemy concentration in the Zaporozhye region.
Depots of armaments were destroyed, as well as hangars with aviation equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the airfield in Zaporozhye.
▪️In the Kherson direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to try to increase the grouping on Antonovsky Island.
Russian troops inflict fire damage on the landing and positions of Ukrainian units, trying to tie down the enemy's actions.
#Donetsk #map #Lugansk #Russia #Ukraine
But Ukraine is Totally Winning.
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🔥 Russia has begun using a new flamethrower system called "Dragon", reports Die Welt.
"With this terrible weapon, Russia is reaching a new level of brutality," the publication writes.
The system is called TOS-3. It is more powerful and, most importantly, has a longer range (up to 15 kilometres) than the TOS-1 and TOS-2 (4-6 kilometres), and therefore cannot be hit by Ukrainian drones.
Previous models of the TOS (Solntsepek, Buratino, Tosochka) could only hit from a short distance and were therefore very vulnerable.
Dragon launches missiles with thermobaric warheads of great destructive power, one salvo of which can turn several city blocks into "ruins", along with military fortifications and even bunkers.
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Wut Ukraine Counteroffensive Doing. 🤣
🇺🇲🇺🇦🇷🇺 US intelligence believes that Ukraine in the current counter-offensive will not achieve its key goal , namely, the capture of the strategically important city of the Zaporozhye region of Melitopol. The Washington Post writes about this, citing US military officials.
“The grim assessment is based on Russia’s superior prowess in defending territory with minefield lines and trenches and is likely to prompt Kiev and Western countries to acknowledge that the counteroffensive, which involved tens of billions of dollars worth of Western weapons and military equipment, has not reached their goals. ..,” reads an excerpt from the article. The material itself is based on a secret forecast, which became known to the interlocutor of The Washington Post. As specified, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have little chance of even reaching Tokmak, a city located just 30 kilometers from the front, and the recently introduced reserves in the form of the forces of the 82nd brigade have not yet brought the desired result, and the Ukrainian army continues to stomp in front of the first line of defense.
“The modest results of the long-awaited counteroffensive have already generated undercover disputes among representatives of the American political establishment. So, some Republicans are going to refuse Biden's request to provide Ukraine with an additional 20 billion dollars, and the Democrats accuse the administration of the American president of too little military assistance...”, the material ends with such interesting information.
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⚡️ Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation
(20 – 26 January 2024)
Part I (see Part II)
▫️In the period from 20 to 26 January, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation delivered 13 group strikes by long-range precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles at facilities of Ukrainian military industrial complex producing uncrewed surface vehicles, ammunition, missiles and its parts.
In addition, strikes were delivered at ammunition depots, military airfield infrastructure, POL bases, and temporary deployment areas of foreign mercenaries.
The goal of the strikes has been achieved. All the assigned targets have been engaged.
▫️Over the week, in Kupyansk direction, units of the Zapad Group of Forces liberated Krakhmalnoye (Kharkov region) and improved the tactical situation in several areas of the front line.
In cohesion with aviation and artillery 43 AFU attacks were repelled.
Strikes were delivered at manpower and hardware clusters of the AFU 68th Jaeger Brigade, 25th, 30th, 32nd, 43rd, 57th, 60th, 66th mechanised brigades, 25th Airborne Brigade, and 1st Ukrainian National Guard Brigade near Makeyevka (Lugansk People's Republic), Berestovoye, Sinkovka (Kharkov region), and Terni (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to more than 740 Ukrainian troops, seven tanks, seven armoured fighting vehicles, 18 motor vehicles, and 14 field artillery pieces.
▫️In Krasny Liman direction, as a result of actions of the Tsentr Group of Forces' units, more advantageous lines and positions were taken. 17 AFU attacks were repelled.
The Group's aviation, artillery, and heavy flamethrower systems inflicted losses on AFU and Ukrainian National Guard units near Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic), Yampolovka (Donetsk People's Republic), and Serebryansky forestry.
The AFU losses amounted to more than 1,570 Ukrainian troops killed and wounded, seven tanks, 25 armoured fighting vehicles, 52 motor vehicles, and nine field artillery pieces.
▫️In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces improved the tactical situation along the front lines and repelled 12 AFU attacks.
Strikes were delivered at manpower and hardware of the AFU 22nd, 24th, 28th, 42nd, 58th, 92nd, 93rd mechanised brigades, 81st Airmobile Brigade, and 5th Assault Brigade near Andreyevka, Belogorovka, Kleshcheyevka, Mayosk, and Chasov Yag (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to more than 1,960 Ukrainian troops killed and wounded, 19 tanks, including one Leopard tank, 22 armoured fighting vehicles, 56 motor vehicles, four multiple launch rocket systems combat vehicles, including one MLRS, one HIMARS, and two Grad, as well as 27 field artillery pieces.
▫️In South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok Group of Forces inflicted losses on units of the AFU 31st, 72nd mechanised brigades, 79th Air Assault Brigade, 105th, and 127th territorial defence brigades near Rovnopol, Paraskoviyevka, Novomikhailovka, Staromayorskoye (Donetsk People's Republic), and Priutnoye.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 745 Ukrainian troops, one tank, two armoured fighting vehicles, 23 motor vehicles, and 14 field artillery pieces.
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry
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@lingyjennifer8399
Even Ukrainians admit it, stop watching sun propaganda.
Yehor Firsov, serviceman with Ukraine's 109th Battalion, identifies Chasiv Yar, Myrnohrad, Pokrovsk, Kurakhove, and Toretsk as the hottest spots in the Donetsk region
He spoke about this on Espreso TV.
“It is difficult on our side of the frontline, the Russians are pressing, using weapons, going around from different sides, trying to reach Kostiantynivka through Toretsk from Ukrainian side. On the other hand, the Russian troops are moving through Chasiv Yar to Kostiantynivka. Pokrovsk is not far away, where we are blocking certain routes with our drones and recording that the occupiers are amassing their forces there. That is, the invaders are planning to attack Pokrovsk as much as possible. The fighting continues near the village of Shevchenko, which is very close to Pokrovsk. And then there is Kurakhove, where we know the situation is also difficult,” commented the Ukrainian Armed Forces serviceman.
According to him, the situation in the Donetsk direction is very difficult now, with constant fighting. There is often a shortage of drones due to their almost continuous use, as there are a lot of enemy targets both day and night.
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@Behindstage Yehor Firsov, serviceman with Ukraine's 109th Battalion, identifies Chasiv Yar, Myrnohrad, Pokrovsk, Kurakhove, and Toretsk as the hottest spots in the Donetsk region
He spoke about this on Espreso TV.
“It is difficult on our side of the frontline, the Russians are pressing, using weapons, going around from different sides, trying to reach Kostiantynivka through Toretsk from Ukrainian side. On the other hand, the Russian troops are moving through Chasiv Yar to Kostiantynivka. Pokrovsk is not far away, where we are blocking certain routes with our drones and recording that the occupiers are amassing their forces there. That is, the invaders are planning to attack Pokrovsk as much as possible. The fighting continues near the village of Shevchenko, which is very close to Pokrovsk. And then there is Kurakhove, where we know the situation is also difficult,” commented the Ukrainian Armed Forces serviceman.
According to him, the situation in the Donetsk direction is very difficult now, with constant fighting. There is often a shortage of drones due to their almost continuous use, as there are a lot of enemy targets both day and night.
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Each therefore has their reasons for staying the course: America wants to “save face” after this summer’s disaster while Russia might want to seize the aforesaid opportunity to militarily ensure its minimum national security interests by obtaining full control over the entirety of its new regions. That said, the first’s motivations relate to an intangible interest of dubious importance and are therefore negotiable, while the second’s concern a tangible issue of premier importance and thus aren’t negotiable.
Accordingly, the only way to reduce the risk of a larger war by miscalculation is for the US to make concessions on its abovementioned intangible interests in order to meet Russia’s tangible ones, which is likely one of the possibilities being discussed during their reportedly ongoing informal negotiations. In the event that an understanding is reached, then it could take the form of the US pulling Kiev’s strings (possibly through threats of curtailing arms shipments) to coerce it into informally accepting a ceasefire.
Just like it can’t be assumed that America and Russia both have the political will to agree to this, nobody should take for granted that Kiev would go along with it even if those two reach a related deal, not to mention Poland. Each has their own reasons not to, which thus results in a multidimensional dilemma that’ll likely necessitate the US having to practically force those latter two to comply if it’s to stand any chance of success, though it’s also difficult to imagine that happening too.
The takeaway is that US policymakers are now caught in a quandary completely of their own making, which lessens the odds of a political solution to the NATO-Russian proxy war materializing anytime soon and correspondingly spikes the risk of a larger war by miscalculation. Unless the US accepts that it’ll have to sacrifice its soft power by forcing Kiev and Poland to freeze the conflict against their will, which first requires accepting the loss of its unipolar hegemony, then the worst-case scenario can’t be ruled out.
- Andrew Korybko
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@Kohen124
Despite Politico reporting that officials are now wondering whether “Milley had a point” about last November being a good time to resume peace talks, politicians might fear the public’s wrath if they do so now after all that was spent on the counteroffensive for nothing. Moreover, Ukraine and the West’s newfound military-political weaknesses that were brought about by this debacle might have made Moscow disinterested in peace talks for the time being if it already decided on another offensive.
Politico reported on Friday that US policymakers are starting to wonder whether “Milley had a point” when he suggested that last November was a good time to resume peace talks. Kiev had just reconquered the western half of Kherson Region less than two months after expelling Russian forces from the rest of Kharkov Region. Furthermore, the coming winter was bound to force a de facto freeze along the frontlines. In hindsight, Ukraine’s negotiating position was the strongest it had ever been.
Instead of seizing the opportunity, the decision was made to prepare for summer’s counteroffensive, which spectacularly failed and has recently sparked a vicious blame game between those responsible for this disaster as reported by two leading US outlets last week. Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov reaffirmed several days back that the US is obsessed with dealing a strategic defeat to Russia, hence why it’s not interested in peace, yet Politico’s latest piece hints that its calculations might be changing.
According to them, one of their unnamed official sources lamented that “We may have missed a window to push for earlier talks” in spite of paradoxically insisting that there aren’t any regrets about the counteroffensive. Another such source went even further by claiming that the Biden Administration is now asking itself the following question: “If we acknowledge we’re not going to do this forever, then what are we going to do?”
Politico then reminded their readers that these views are being shared shortly after the Washington Post revealed that “U.S. intelligence says Ukraine will fail to meet offensive’s key goal”. Although not mentioned in their article, all of this occurred during the same week that a leading NATO official proposed that Ukraine formally cedes its former regions to Russia in exchange for joining that bloc. They retracted their idea shortly after, but it still made observers suspect that the West is becoming fatigued.
NATO’s “race of logistics”/“war of attrition” with Russia that Secretary General Stoltenberg declared in February is taking its toll as Moscow’s edge grows in parallel with the depletion of the West’s stockpiles. The frontlines still remain largely frozen due to the counteroffensive failing to break the stalemate that set in since November, but there are now reports that Russia might be preparing for its own offensive sometime this fall that could capitalize on the aforesaid to scale into a full-blown campaign by spring.
President Putin’s series of reminders two months ago that Russia is still sincerely interested in a political solution to this conflict might become irrelevant if he decides to seize the opportunity presented by the counteroffensive’s spectacular failure to militarily ensure his side’s objective national security interests. At minimum, the Kremlin seeks to obtain full control over the entirety of those four former Ukrainian regions that unified with Russia last September, but its forces might have to go further to guarantee this.
After all, Kiev’s NATO-supplied artillery, drone, and missile arsenals can still threaten those regions’ residents even if they’re deployed far away from the frontlines, thus compelling Moscow to advance deeper into the Ukrainian hinterland in order to carve out a buffer zone for protecting them. The further that Russia moves in that direction, the more hysterical NATO will become, which could lead to the bloc as a whole escalating or some of its members like Poland unilaterally intervening to stop the tide.
In any case, the preceding scenario spikes the risk of a larger war by miscalculation, which both sides presumably want to avert. Therein lies the rationale behind US policymakers starting to wonder whether it’s time to consider a compromise before it’s too late, the thoughts of which were unexpectedly voiced by that previously mentioned leading NATO official who later retracted their proposal under pressure. Despite the Biden Administration denying that any such plans are in the cards, Kiev became spooked.
Many of its lawmakers from different factions united in the aftermath of last week’s scandals to table a resolution prohibiting territorial concessions, which will likely pass just like last fall’s similar such one prohibiting Zelensky from negotiating with his Russian counterpart. Neither parliamentary reaction would have happened if the Rada sincerely had faith that the US wouldn’t ever coerce Ukraine into walking back its maximalist demands for ending the conflict.
Unlike then, this scenario is now more realistic than ever as evidenced by last week’s spree of reports aimed at preconditioning the public to accept the possibility of a compromise for resolving the NATO-Russian proxy war in Ukraine before its cycle of self-sustaining escalations spirals out of control. If the political will is present on both the American and Russian sides, then it’s possible that they could reach a deal, but this can’t be taken for granted due to the dilemma that US policymakers inadvertently created.
Despite Politico reporting that officials are now wondering whether “Milley had a point” about last November being a good time to resume peace talks, politicians might fear the public’s wrath if they do so now after all that was spent on the counteroffensive for nothing. Moreover, Ukraine and the West’s newfound military-political weaknesses that were brought about by this debacle might have made Moscow disinterested in peace talks for the time being if it already decided on another offensive.
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As of today, official confirmation has been received regarding the deaths of two deputy army commanders: Major General Andrei Sukhovetsky of the 41st Army, and Major General Vladimir Frolov of the 8th Army.
In late May 2022, retired Major General Kanamat Botashev, 63, a former fighter pilot, was killed, presumably having volunteered for combat. Additionally, Captain 1st Rank Andrei Paliy, the deputy commander of the Black Sea Fleet, was also reported among the casualties. On June 5, 2022, the death of Major General Roman Kutuzov was reported.
In June 2023, the death of Major General Sergei Goryachev was announced. He served as the chief of staff for the 35th Combined Arms Army, responsible for confronting the Ukrainian counteroffensive in the Zaporizhzhia region.
By July 2023, the death of the first Lieutenant General, Oleg Tsokov, deputy commander of the Southern Military District, was confirmed.
In November 2023, Major General Vladimir Zavadsky was killed. He served as the deputy commander of the 14th Army Corps.
Over 29,200 reports specify the dates of military personnel deaths. While the daily loss figures derived from this data may not accurately reflect the total casualties, they provide an indication of the intensity of the fighting on specific days.
It is important to note that the most recent data is likely to be incomplete and subject to significant revisions in the future.
In 32,200 of the casualty reports, the ages of the deceased are mentioned. In the initial six months of the conflict, characterized by the deployment of regular military forces without the inclusion of volunteers, mobilised troops, or prisoners, the most significant number of fatalities occurred in the 21–23 age group.
The age profile diverges notably for volunteers and mobilised soldiers. Those who volunteer for combat service are predominantly in the age bracket of 30–35 years or older. The mobilised personnel are generally over the age of 25.
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Since our previous update on December 15, over 1,100 names have been added to our casualty list.
The year 2023 has been more deadly for the Russian army than 2022.
In our final 2022 report, our list had just over 10,000 names. We can now confirm that no fewer than 15,500 men died that year—meaning, we discovered about 5,000 previously unrecorded deaths in 2023.
By the end of 2023, our list had grown to over 40,500 names, and we expect the tally for 2023 to rise by at least a third, especially in light of the recent devastating assaults. Therefore, it’s clear that the Russian forces incurred heavier losses this year compared to the first year of the invasion.
In the last fortnight, our list has been updated to include five officers with ranks up to Lieutenant Colonel.
What we know about the casualties
The majority of those killed in action come from the Sverdlovsk region, Chelyabinsk region, Bashkiria, and Buryatia. A notably high number of casualty reports are emerging from Krasnodar krai (also known as Kuban) and Moscow region. This increase can be largely attributed to the efforts of volunteers who are documenting and photographing military burials in local cemeteries, thus bringing a greater number of losses to public attention.
The distribution of casualties across Russian regions is presented in absolute figures, these numbers have not been adjusted in relation to regional population sizes or the concentration of military units.
Readers can view either overall losses or those specific to different branches of the armed forces. Additionally, there is information regarding the native regions of the mobilised soldiers.
In the majority of cases, the military branch of a deceased serviceman can be ascertained either directly from the death notification or indirectly through the distinctive features of the uniform and sleeve insignia.
Although mobilised soldiers, volunteers, and inmates do not belong to traditional military branches, for analytical purposes, they have been included in our chart. This allows for a comparative analysis of their losses alongside those of regular military units. Below is the breakdown of fatalities segmented by various branches of the army.
Since the summer, volunteer units bore the brunt of casualties, a stark contrast to the war’s initial phase. During the winter and early spring, the heaviest losses were sustained by the Airborne Forces, followed by the Motorised Rifle Troops.
By the end of 2022 and entering the new year, there was a marked increase in fatalities among prisoners conscripted into the Wagner PMC. These conscripts were formed into “assault groups” for offensives against Ukrainian positions near Bakhmut.
By March 2023, these prisoners represented the largest single category of losses in the conflict. Following the assault on Bakhmut, there have been no reported instances of mass deployment of these prisoner units.
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@NemesisoftheGrandPoohbahputin
40,599
Russian casualties corroborated by publicly available data as of 29 December
+ 1,175
last two weeks
4,915
total casualties among new recruits
Mediazona, in collaboration with BBC News Russian service and a team of volunteers, continues gathering information on the Russian military casualties in Ukraine. The figures we provide are sourced from publicly available information, including social media posts from family members, local media coverage, and official statements from local authorities. However, these figures represent only a partial account and do not reflect the full extent of the casualties.
The actual death toll is likely significantly higher. A joint data investigation by Mediazona and Meduza estimated in July that by the end of May, approximately 47,000 Russians under the age of 50 had died in the Ukraine war.
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@WagnerWithShovels.
Wut Ukraine Counteroffensive Doing. 😂
In the south, the Russians built a three-level defense line, which is very difficult to break through - Oleksii Reznikov.
“When V.A. (Zelensky) said that the guys are on foot, what he meant: the Russians built a three-level line of defense and between them there are also so-called “security zones”. These are mined fields, fortifications and tank ambushes. Because we did not hide the fact that we would receive tanks and armored personnel carriers, therefore, of course, they were preparing for this and kept within tank ambushes with anti-tank systems, etc.“ whimpered the Ukrainian defense minister.
In this regard, he once again demanded from the West more equipment for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“We received demining equipment from partners, but they are not enough,” Reznikov said.
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Wut Zelensky's Counteroffensive Doing. 😂
In the south, the Russians built a three-level defense line, which is very difficult to break through - Oleksii Reznikov.
“When V.A. (Zelensky) said that the guys are on foot, what he meant: the Russians built a three-level line of defense and between them there are also so-called “security zones”. These are mined fields, fortifications and tank ambushes. Because we did not hide the fact that we would receive tanks and armored personnel carriers, therefore, of course, they were preparing for this and kept within tank ambushes with anti-tank systems, etc.“ whimpered the Ukrainian defense minister.
In this regard, he once again demanded from the West more equipment for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“We received demining equipment from partners, but they are not enough,” Reznikov said.
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@Stepan_Bandera2023
Today marks exactly 2 months since the start of the Ukrainian counter-offensive
During this period, the Ukrainians managed to capture as many as 5 villages.
During this period, Ukraine also managed to lose more than 43,000 servicemen and an excess of 4,900 assorted weaponry pieces, which include 26 aircraft, nine helicopters, 1,831 tanks, and an array of other armored vehicles.
Notable among these are 25 German Leopard tanks, seven French AMX wheeled tanks, and 21 US Bradley infantry fighting vehicles (IFV).
Social media is flooded with videos of destroyed military equipment.
The offensive intensity of the Ukrainian army has completely declined and the Russian army has already started to carry out offensive operations in certain regions.
Who is to blame?
Zelensky accused Western countries of not receiving enough weapons.
The US accused the Ukrainians of not carrying out operations according to the NATO draft.
UK blamed tall grass and bushes.
The billionaire shareholders in the military companies did not blame anyone, because they made good money. 🤣🤡
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Wut Biden's Counteroffensive Doing. 😂
The failure of the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will hit the reputation of Joe Biden
The failure of the Ukrainian counteroffensive will deal a blow to the reputation of US President Joe Biden. This opinion is shared by American analysts and Russian political scientists. Former Trump national security adviser John Bolton has already criticized the head of the United States for his policies and blamed him for the failure of the Ukrainian counterattack. Experts are sure that the defeat of Kiev will be seen as a personal defeat for Biden and will undermine his popularity, which has already declined. An August poll by CNN and SSRS showed that only 30% of respondents approved of the president's actions in the economy. This rating is able to prevent Biden's re-election in 2024, as his domestic policy turned out to be a failure.
According to Americanist political scientist Malek Dudakov, the failure of Kiev’s counteroffensive is a failure of Biden's policies, who invested impressive political capital in the success of the Ukrainian operation. “This could affect the ratings of the US president - they will decrease, and it could hit his reputation,” Dudakov said, adding that the failure of the counteroffensive would open up new prospects for negotiations between Russia, Ukraine and the United States.
The Wall Street Journal also pointed out that a slow counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine would be a failure of the foreign Biden's policies. This poses a threat not only to Ukraine itself, but also to the American president. The authors of the article are confident that at least a partial victory for Russia will be a complete failure of Joe Biden's foreign policy.
The American newspaper Politico writes about the same: the defeat of Ukraine on the battlefield jeopardizes not only further assistance to Kiev, but also the fate of the President of the United States. This was stated to the publication by representatives of the White House. “Senior U.S. officials are convinced that future support for the war in Ukraine—and President Joe Biden’s global reputation—depends on the success of the Ukrainian counteroffensive,” noted authors Jonathan Lemire and Alexander Ward.
The situation is getting worse as the 60th anniversary election of the US President, which will take place on November 5, 2024, approaches. Biden's reputation on the eve of his possible re-election is in jeopardy. A successful AFU offensive would be his foreign policy victory, while a failure would lead to calls for a diplomatic settlement of the conflict and prevent Biden from being re-elected. Wanting to play it safe, the US presidential administration is already considering the option in which the responsibility for the failure of the counterattack will be fully assigned to Kiev. “Some people in the depths of the government want to dump Ukraine’s problems on the battlefield on Kiev and deflect the blame from Washington,” writes Politico.
In turn, in Kiev they are trying to shift the responsibility for the failure on the battlefield to the United States and allies, stating that they were slow to supply Ukraine with weapons. This allowed Russia to dig in and build a powerful system of defensive structures, through which the Armed Forces of Ukraine are not able to break through.
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Wut Ukraine Counteroffensive Doing. 😂
⚡️Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation
(10 August 2023)
Part II (Part I)
▫️Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have neutralised manpower and military hardware in 146 areas.
▫️1 ammunition depot of the AFU 28th Mechanised Brigade has been destroyed near Dyleevka (Donetsk People's Republic).
▫️2 command posts of 63rd and 110th mechanised brigades of the AFU have been hit close to Torskoye and Avdeevka (Donetsk People's Republic).
▫️Air defence facilities have intercepted 5 HIMARS and Uragan rocket-propelled projectiles.
▫️In addition, 38 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have been shot down close to Pershotravnyovoye (Kharkov region), Gorlikovka, Georgievka, Vasilyevka (Donetsk People's Republic), Chapaevka (Zaporozhye region), and Vasilyevka (Kherson region).
📊In total, 458 airplanes, 245 helicopters, 5,638 unmanned aerial vehicles, 428 air defence missile systems, 11,216 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,144 fighting vehicles equipped with MLRS, 5,837 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 12,165 special military motor vehicles have been destroyed during the special military operation.
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry
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Wut Zelensky's Counteroffensive Doing. 🤣
U.S. military personnel are voicing their frustrations over the way Ukraine is conducting its counteroffensive. This is alarming, observes @TheStudyofWar Chairman @gen_jackkeane.
2/ American officers appear to have unrealistic expectations of what a single counteroffensive operation can achieve. The U.S. should be focused on helping Ukraine fight the war the way it wants to fight, not chirping from the sidelines.
3/ American officials are reportedly irritated that Ukraine has kept large numbers of forces in its east, particularly around the town of Bakhmut, and that Ukraine has been pursuing multiple offensive thrusts within Zaporizhia oblast itself rather than focusing on only one.
4/ No one in the American military today has designed large-scale mechanized operations against a serious and capable enemy that is employing a comprehensive defense. The last time was the Metz campaign in France in 1944, led by Gen. George S. Patton.
5/ The massed attack toward Melitopol that some are demanding is the most obvious thing Ukraine could do and would concentrate Ukraine’s offensive combat power on a drive down the shortest road to the sea. This approach seems appealing and militarily sound.
6/ The trouble is that the Russians also had the same thought. They deployed the strongest of their remaining defending forces on this axis. They dug deep, extensive trench lines and covered the earth in mines.
7/ The Ukrainians have actually made a priority of this route and have recently made important gains. But they have also been attacking further east in Zaporizhia oblast and have made gains there as well.
8/ The effort that seems to aggravate American officials most of all, however, has been the Ukrainian push to recapture the city of Bakhmut, which the Wagner Group seized at tremendous cost this spring.
9/ U.S. military experts appear to want the Ukrainians to hold on all other fronts and focus on a single thrust toward Melitopol.
10/ Such advice is military malpractice. Well-designed mechanized campaigns almost always advance on multiple axes rather than one. That is what American-led coalitions did against Iraq in 1991 and 2003. It’s how the Americans, Germans, and Soviets fought in World War II.
11/ The reason is simple: Advancing along a single axis allows the defender to concentrate fully on stopping that one advance. Here, the Russians would almost certainly have moved forces from other parts of the theater as rapidly as they could to stop the drive on Melitopol.
12/ The Russians have redeployed forces to Zaporizhia. They haven’t sent more reinforcements, in part because Ukrainian attacks have pinned them all along the line.
13/ The much-condemned Ukrainian counteroffensive around Bakhmut has drawn elements of multiple Russian airborne divisions & separate brigades to hold the line there. Those units had been fighting in Luhansk & Kharkiv and would have been available to reinforce the Melitopol axis.
14/ The seizure of Melitopol on its own can’t win the war for Ukraine.
15/ The demands that Ukraine focus everything on that drive, combined with warnings that the West won’t restock Ukraine for future operations, suggest that at least some of those criticizing the Ukrainian offensive aren’t serious about helping Ukraine liberate all its territory.
16/ If that is the case, and if the Pentagon’s position is that it doesn’t expect Ukraine to liberate its people, it would be better to say so clearly than to make oblique and inaccurate attacks on the way Ukraine is fighting. 😂
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Wut Nato Doing. 😂
Zelensky and his elite cabal must feel increasingly betrayed by the Western sponsors.
Last spring, Borat Johnson, representing the Anglo-American axis, made a secret trip to Ukraine. He promised Zelensky, if Ukraine commits 100% to fighting Russia, they will receive complete support and victory would be assured.
Zelensky had a choice: take the peace deal, or trust Borat's assurances and commit Ukraine to a major conflict. Despite Zelensky's earlier inclination towards a speedy and peaceful resolution with Russia -- even if it involved concessions like ceding Crimea and adopting a neutral stance -- Zelensky took the bait.
While NATO, primarily influenced by the US, has supplied significant support, it hasn't been enough. After months of combat, Ukraine's military capabilities have been considerably weakened, the counteroffensive effort is going poorly, and Russia still remains robust in its defenses.
Instead of owning up to not delivering on Borat's guarantee of total support, the Western cabal now seems prepared to place the blame squarely on Zelensky and Ukraine. Recent discourse suggests that the Western cabal believes Ukraine failed to heed its strategic advice, while Ukraine's leadership feels the West is holding back.
Ukraine now finds itself in a very precarious position. Borat's assurances steered Zelensky from diplomacy into conflict, and that most consequential decision is now backfiring. The Western cabal and Ukraine's leadership are already pointing the fingers at each other.
The situation underscores a harsh reality, the Western cabal makes promises that quickly evaporate and nations that make the mistake of putting faith in those promises inevitably get burned.
Ukraine, thanks to its gullible leadership, will ultimately pay the price for the Western cabal's lust of geostrategic domination at any cost.
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@Stepan_Bandera2023
🤡"The counteroffensive could lose momentum."
Ukraine is down to its LAST brigade. Get ready for Ukraine's total collapse.
"Ukraine air assault forces finally have deployed their most powerful unit. The 2,000-person 82nd Air Assault Brigade, which is stacked with Marder and Stryker fighting vehicles and Challenger 2 tanks, rolled into action around Robotyne, in southern Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Oblast, apparently in the last few days
The 82nd Brigade and its sister air-assault unit, the 46th Brigade, were some of the last major units that the Ukrainian general staff was holding in reserve.
In finally sending those formations into battle, the Ukrainians could significantly boost their firepower along one of the main axes of the counteroffensive—the one stretching 50 miles from Russian-occupied Robotyne to occupied Melitopol, just north of the Black Sea coast.
But no brigade can fight forever. When the 46th and 82nd Brigades pull back for rest, reset and repairs, there might not be any equally powerful fresh brigades to fill in for them.
This neither is a new problem, nor one that’s unique to the Robotyne axis. The Ukrainian marine corps, which has focused its efforts along the Mokri Yaly River Valley, 50 miles to the east, has deployed all four of its front-line brigades at the same time along a 10-mile-wide sector."
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@Amradar123
Today marks exactly 2 months since the start of the Ukrainian counter-offensive
During this period, the Ukrainians managed to capture as many as 5 villages.
During this period, Ukraine also managed to lose more than 43,000 servicemen and an excess of 4,900 assorted weaponry pieces, which include 26 aircraft, nine helicopters, 1,831 tanks, and an array of other armored vehicles.
Notable among these are 25 German Leopard tanks, seven French AMX wheeled tanks, and 21 US Bradley infantry fighting vehicles (IFV).
Social media is flooded with videos of destroyed military equipment.
The offensive intensity of the Ukrainian army has completely declined and the Russian army has already started to carry out offensive operations in certain regions.
Who is to blame?
Zelensky accused Western countries of not receiving enough weapons.
The US accused the Ukrainians of not carrying out operations according to the NATO draft.
UK blamed tall grass and bushes.
The billionaire shareholders in the military companies did not blame anyone, because they made good money.
But Ukraine is Totally Winning. 🤣
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🤡"The counteroffensive could lose momentum."
Ukraine is down to its LAST brigade. Get ready for Ukraine's total collapse.
"Ukraine air assault forces finally have deployed their most powerful unit. The 2,000-person 82nd Air Assault Brigade, which is stacked with Marder and Stryker fighting vehicles and Challenger 2 tanks, rolled into action around Robotyne, in southern Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Oblast, apparently in the last few days
The 82nd Brigade and its sister air-assault unit, the 46th Brigade, were some of the last major units that the Ukrainian general staff was holding in reserve.
In finally sending those formations into battle, the Ukrainians could significantly boost their firepower along one of the main axes of the counteroffensive—the one stretching 50 miles from Russian-occupied Robotyne to occupied Melitopol, just north of the Black Sea coast.
But no brigade can fight forever. When the 46th and 82nd Brigades pull back for rest, reset and repairs, there might not be any equally powerful fresh brigades to fill in for them.
This neither is a new problem, nor one that’s unique to the Robotyne axis. The Ukrainian marine corps, which has focused its efforts along the Mokri Yaly River Valley, 50 miles to the east, has deployed all four of its front-line brigades at the same time along a 10-mile-wide sector."
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Wut Ukraine Counteroffensive Doing. 😂
Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation (11 August 2023)
◽️In Kupyansk direction, assault groups of the Zapad Group of Forces continued offensive actions on a broad front and improved the tactical situation near Olshana and Pershotravnyovoye (Kharkov).
◽️In the course of active defence, 4 attacks and counterattacks of AFU 32nd, 41st, 44th, and 67th mechanised brigades were repelled near Novosyolovskye LPR, Sinkovka and Mankovka (Kherson).
◽️The enemy losses were up to 165 servicemen, 2 AFVs, 2 pickup trucks, 1 Krab self-propelled howitzer, and 2 AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar station.
◽️ In Donetsk direction, the Yug Group of Forces' units successfully repelled 5 attack of assault groups of the AFU 10th Mountain Assault Brigade, the 79th Airborne Assault Brigade, the 59th Motorised Rifle Brigade, and the 3rd Tank Brigade close to Nevelskoye, Belogorovka, Staromikhalovka, Maloilinovka, and Veseloye DPR.
◽️The enemy losses were up to 180 servicemen, 7 IFVs, 2 pickup trucks, 1 Strela-10 anti-aircraft missile system, 1 M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery system, and 2 D-20 howitzers.
◽️In South Donetsk direction the Vostok Group of Forces thwarted an enemy reconnaissance-in-force attempt near Staromayorskoye DPR.
◽️3 attacks of assault groups of the AFU 72nd Mechanised Brigade and the 38th Marine Brigade have been repelled near Nikolskoye and Urozhaynoye DPR.
Up to 35 servicemen, 2 AFVs, 2 motor vehicles, and 1 D-30 howitzer were destroyed.
◽️ In Zaporozhye direction, 3 attacks of the AFU 21st Mechanised Brigade were repelled by the Vostok Group of Forces near Uspenovka and Rabotino (Zaporozhye).
◽️The enemy losses were up to 60 servicemen, 3 motor vehicles, and one D-30 howitzer.
◽️In Krasny Liman direction, the Tsentr Group of Forces repelled 2 attacks of the assault groups of the AFU 68rd Infantry Brigade and the 42nd Mechanised Brigade close to Novoegorovka and Kremennaya LPR.
◽️The enemy losses were up to 115 servicemen, 3 AFVs, and 1 D-20 howitzer.
◽️In Kherson direction, up to 20 servicemen, 2 pickup trucks, 1 M777 artillery howitzer, 1 D-20 howitzer, as well as and 1 Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer were destroyed.
◽️Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Group of Forces have engaged AFU manpower and hardware in 139 areas during the day.
◽️A temporary deployment point of foreign mercenaries has been hit near Zaporozhye.
◽️Moreover, 4 ammunition depots of AFU 24th, 43rd, 60th mechanised brigades and the 108th Territorial Defence Brigade have been destroyed close to Toretsk DPR, Cherneshina, Liptsi (Kharkov), and Gulyai Pole (Zaporozhye).
▫️ Air defence facilities have intercepted 2 HIMARS MLRS projectiles during the day.
◽️Moreover, 16 UAVs have been shot down close to Kupyansk (Kharkov), Lisichansk LPR, Artyomovsk, Volnovakha DPR, Oreknov and Gulyai Pole (Zaporozhye).
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@ЕгорПещерский
Colonel McGregor: Foreign mercenaries are fleeing en masse, the defeat of the Ukrainian army is approaching
Discontent is growing among Ukrainian soldiers due to failures on the front, and foreign mercenaries are fleeing en masse, said Colonel Douglas McGregor, a former adviser to the head of the Pentagon.
"Even the foreign mercenaries who fought so zealously on the side of Ukraine have now largely left. They packed their things and fled. Probably only the Poles remained," McGregor said on his YouTube channel,
According to his words, cases of desertion may become more frequent in the Armed Forces of Ukraine due to the failure of the offensive. As a result, the Ukrainian army will be divided and then completely defeated.
"I can't say exactly when it will happen, but I think we are already close to it," he added.
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@Rocket_scientist_88
Reporting you for sexual harassment.
Yehor Firsov, serviceman with Ukraine's 109th Battalion, identifies Chasiv Yar, Myrnohrad, Pokrovsk, Kurakhove, and Toretsk as the hottest spots in the Donetsk region
He spoke about this on Espreso TV.
“It is difficult on our side of the frontline, the Russians are pressing, using weapons, going around from different sides, trying to reach Kostiantynivka through Toretsk from Ukrainian side. On the other hand, the Russian troops are moving through Chasiv Yar to Kostiantynivka. Pokrovsk is not far away, where we are blocking certain routes with our drones and recording that the occupiers are amassing their forces there. That is, the invaders are planning to attack Pokrovsk as much as possible. The fighting continues near the village of Shevchenko, which is very close to Pokrovsk. And then there is Kurakhove, where we know the situation is also difficult,” commented the Ukrainian Armed Forces serviceman.
According to him, the situation in the Donetsk direction is very difficult now, with constant fighting. There is often a shortage of drones due to their almost continuous use, as there are a lot of enemy targets both day and night.
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@flakcannonhans 🇺🇦 losses.
A total of 508 aircraft, 253 helicopters, 8,176 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), 441 anti-aircraft missile systems, 12,882 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 1,169 multiple rocket launchers (MLR), 6,853 field artillery and mortars, as well as 14,583 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed by Russia's forces since the onset of the special military operation.
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@jacekboczarski6698
Even if Ukraine holds on for at least several months or perhaps as long as half a year longer there, the problems touched upon in CNN’s piece will likely only exacerbate seeing as how more forcibly conscripted troops will be thrown into what might by then become the next infamous meat grinder. Morale will probably continue plummeting while defections could spike, both of which could combine to cripple the UAF and create an opening for Russia to exploit in Pokrovsk or elsewhere along the front.
The ideal solution for Kiev would be to reach a ceasefire for facilitating its voluntary withdrawal from part of Donbass (ex: Pokrovsk’s surroundings) in parallel with pulling out of Kursk, which are terms that Russia might entertain since they’d advance some of its political and military goals. It’s better for Ukraine from the perspective of its regime’s interests to have an orderly withdrawal than a chaotic one if Russia achieves a breakthrough, but Zelensky and his ilk aren’t known for their rational decisions.
Nevertheless, those like India and Hungary who are want to help politically resolve this conflict could propose something of the sort, perhaps also suggesting the revival of last month’s reported Qatari-mediated partial ceasefire proposal for eschewing attacks against the other’s energy infrastructure. Zelensky is unlikely to agree, especially since he’s under the influence of uber-hawk Yermak, but it would still be best to informally circulate some variant of the aforementioned proposal sooner than later.
Regardless of well-intentioned third parties’ proposals, the conflict appears poised to continue raging into the next year absent a complete military and/or political breakdown in Ukraine, neither of which can be ruled out though considering how bad everything has become per CNN’s latest report. Ukraine and its Anglo-American “deep state” allies could also stage a major provocation aimed at desperately “escalating to de-escalate” on more of their terms, so observers shouldn’t rule that scenario out either.
So sad.
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Reflecting on CNN’s surprisingly critical report, it’s clear that the UAF is in the midst of converging crises caused by the failed counteroffensive, the forcible conscription policy, and Zelensky’s Kursk blunder, which are leading to more desertions, defeats, and ultimately more desperation. In such circumstances, Ukraine can either stay the course by remaining in Kursk at the expense of losing more ground in Donbass, withdraw from Kursk to help hold Donbass, or asymmetrically escalate.
The first two scenarios are self-explanatory while the last could concern expanding the conflict into other Russian regions, Belarus, and/or Moldova’s breakaway Transnistria region, seriously damaging Russian nuclear power plants out of desperation to provoke a nuclear response, and/or assassinating top Russians. There are only a few months left before the winter impedes combat operations on both sides, after which the status quo will persist until spring, when one or both sides might go on the offensive.
This timeline adds urgency to the impending Battle of Pokrovsk, which Russia wants to win as soon as possible in order to push through the fields beyond, capture more territory, threaten the Kramatorsk-Slavyansk agglomeration from the south, and possibly prepare to make a move on Zaporozhye city from the northeast. If Ukraine can hold out into next year, then it could have more time to build more defenses beyond Pokrovsk, thus reducing the pace of Russia’s advance if it comes out on top there.
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@jacekboczarski6698 Oops
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are in the midst of converging crises caused by the failed counteroffensive, the forcible conscription policy, and Zelensky’s Kursk blunder, which are leading to more desertions, defeats, and ultimately more desperation.
CNN carried out a rare act of journalistic service with their detailed report about how “Outgunned and outnumbered, Ukraine’s military is struggling with low morale and desertion”. It candidly describes the numerous problems afflicting the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) at this pivotal moment in the conflict as they continue to occupy part of Kursk but are still losing ground in Donbass. Their story begins by introducing a battalion commander who lost most of the around 800 men under his control.
This figure couldn’t take it anymore and thus transferred to a cushy military administrative job in Kiev. He and the five others who CNN spoke to when researching their report informed them that “desertion and insubordination are becoming a widespread problem, especially among newly recruited soldiers.” In the words of one commander, “Not all mobilized soldiers are leaving their positions, but the majority are…They either leave their positions, refuse to go into battle, or try to find a way to leave the army.”
The reader is then informed that these troops are forcibly conscripted, thus adding context to why they desert, but they also claimed that morale problems began to infect the armed forces’ ranks during the now-resolved impasse over more American aid to Ukraine. While that likely played a role, CNN conspicuously omits to mention last summer’s failed counteroffensive, which proved that Ukraine is unable to reconquer its lost lands despite all the hype and the aid that it received up until that point.
Moving along after having clarified the real reason behind the UAF’s plunging morale over the past year, drones have made the battlefield more unbearable than before, and the amount of time between rotations has grown since some troops simply can’t leave their positions without risking their lives. CNN then added that “In just the first four months of 2024, prosecutors launched criminal proceedings against almost 19,000 soldiers who either abandoned their posts or deserted”.
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Many western media outlets have of course been barely able to contain their delight and have completely innacuratley dubbed the actions of Prigozhin as a "Civil war" or revolution. Some facts.
*The actions of a single individual do not constitute anything but the actions of a single individual, the fact that that individual has private command of a significant military force still does not constitute anything but the actions of a single individual.
* Prigozhin has no political support and no formal or informal political apparatus behind him. Therfore the idea that this was a Coup is flawed and not based on any political reality.
*Secondly, there was not a single regular Russian unit that joined this action or aligned themselves with it, either overtly or as far as we know covertly.
*Thirdly, the ability for Wagner to mount any serious challenge to the state is severely limited by their lack of not only political support or know how but their lack of logistical depth. Wagner are entirely and uniquely reliant on the Russian MOD for logistical support. It's this reliance rhat has caused the public spates between Prigozhin and the MOD which led to yesterday's "Demonstrstion"
The sense here in Russia is that given Prigozhins numerous theatrical performances threatening to pull out of Bakhmut etc etc many felt his actions yesterday would end in a settlement with his departure, this has indeed happened, however there was serious concern that his actions could have triggered a dangerous limited conflict in Rostov where the Kremlin would have had no option but to take on the PMC militarily. This according to sources I've spoken to today I am told is highly unlikely as Wagner operators had absolutely no wish to spill the blood of their comrades in the regular forces. My view is that Prigozhin pushed too far on this occasion and has now burned his bridges to a great extent.
* How Wagners resources which consist of a significant body of Russian combat Veterans now unrivaled globally regarding combat experience, is probably the biggest issue.
*I do not think or belive that Putins position or popularity have been adversely impacted as the frenzied suppositions in the western media. His address to the people was well received and the vast majority, despite their frustrations with past mistakes during the SMO(which have been acknowledged and acted upon by the Kremiln) support Putin and his ultimatum to Prigozhin.Thankfully the realisation of the reality of what faced hin and his fighters led to Prigozhin standing down with relatively little blood spilled. But for all the reasons outlined above, he would have had a very difficult time trying to convince his operators to engage their fellow countrymen in any escalation.
At the end of the day thankfully it was Prigozhin that backed down, and large scale conflict was avoided.
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Wut Zelensky's Rabotino Doing. 😂
🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Orekhovo Sector Situation as of 15:00 [Local] on September 6, 2023
➡️Fierce battles continue on the Rabotino-Verbovo line.
Over the past weeks, control over positions in the village [Rabotino] has changed hands for the fifth time. The village itself is practically destroyed and mostly in the gray zone. However, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue attempts to advance towards the southern outskirts and break through to Novoprokopovka using a 'meat assault' tactic.
Tonight, due to the lack of tactical sense in defending the destroyed houses in the village, Russian units have retreated to prepared positions in the south. Rybar has marked the main fortified areas on the map for convenience.
The situation in Rabotino somewhat resembles the assault on Pyatikhatky. The AFU took the village but left it several times unable to withstand artillery and aviation fire from the Russian Armed Forces. This gradual advance, accompanied by the complete destruction of buildings in the village and defensive positions, has cost Ukrainian forces significant losses.
➡️At the same time, the AFU are transferring additional units to Verbovo, evidently hoping that breaking through to the west of the village will be easier than storming the heights in the south near Rabotino. Nevertheless, night attacks in this sector have not achieved success. There are reports of heavy losses among the AFU's 82nd Airborne Brigade.
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@C.CUMM1NGS
🇺🇲🇺🇦🇷🇺 US intelligence believes that Ukraine in the current counter-offensive will not achieve its key goal , namely, the capture of the strategically important city of the Zaporozhye region of Melitopol. The Washington Post writes about this, citing US military officials.
“The grim assessment is based on Russia’s superior prowess in defending territory with minefield lines and trenches and is likely to prompt Kiev and Western countries to acknowledge that the counteroffensive, which involved tens of billions of dollars worth of Western weapons and military equipment, has not reached their goals. ..,” reads an excerpt from the article. The material itself is based on a secret forecast, which became known to the interlocutor of The Washington Post. As specified, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have little chance of even reaching Tokmak, a city located just 30 kilometers from the front, and the recently introduced reserves in the form of the forces of the 82nd brigade have not yet brought the desired result, and the Ukrainian army continues to stomp in front of the first line of defense.
“The modest results of the long-awaited counteroffensive have already generated undercover disputes among representatives of the American political establishment. So, some Republicans are going to refuse Biden's request to provide Ukraine with an additional 20 billion dollars, and the Democrats accuse the administration of the American president of too little military assistance...”, the material ends with such interesting information.
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“Coup-Kraine”.
I do not when or how it will happen, or if it will even succeed, but an attempt will be made. Perhaps one or more have been attempted already, quietly swept under the carpet, “nothing to see here”? These types of geopolitical situations seldom turn out well for the tyrant that seems to be at the center of it all, we’ve seen the memes and know the names. So, how will it go down? Will some general stand up for his country and seize the capital or perhaps plan an assassination? Will there be a general uprising of the people, demanding peace and retribution for their slain and maimed loved ones and for the children left without a father? Will the AFU hit critical mass, collapsing the nation into anarchy as the become operational ineffective through attrition? Will an angry mob, tired and cold from the shelling of power plants this Winter, storm the presidential residence with pitchforks and torches blazing, dragging Zelensky out into Maidan Square to hang him? Or will Zelensky go on another tour of Europe one day and just… simply… never return?
Your guess is as good as mine…
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“How do we end this violent nonsense?!”
Three percent, that’s it, only three percent of what is left of the Ukrainian population need to be asking that one question and then act on it, that is all it would take. I believe this conflict deeply troubles the Russian diplomats and the Kremlin, and that Russia does not want to be fighting, but would rather try diplomacy. The problem that they face, is that Zelensky himself signed into law that negotiating with Russia is illegal. There are reports of back channel diplomacy taking place behind the scenes, but nothing ever comes of it, to the chagrin of Russia. One man, or one man’s signature, stands in the way of peace in the region, one man and his regime…
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And this is how a mutiny, a military overthrow of the government, a coup d’état if you will, this is how they begin!
Studies indicate that it only takes three percent of a population of any nation, no matter the size of the country or the population, to topple a pre-existing government. Three percent. Period.
So, why is President Zelensky, while his country is at WAR I might add, off rubbing elbows with European elites, panhandling for fighter jets that won’t be operational until next Summer, if at all? The Ukraine does not even have the infrastructure to support this aircraft, they haven’t even built runways long enough for an F-16 to take off from, and do you really think Russian Armed Forces won’t be sending cruise missiles into any airfields that Kiev tries to build?! I don’t even need to get into the issues of pilots, fuel, parts, and ground crews to make my point: Zelensky is stalling AND possibly, possibly trying to stay out of Kiev for his own safety
He did this to himself… and to every Ukrainian.
As the Ukrainian population, military and civilians, have been noticing the graveyards keep growing and multiplying and the line at the front is either static, or in the case of Kupyansk creeping ever closer to them. They have been noticing the corruption with the press gangs. They have been noticing that they are still not a member of NATO, that Zelensky was looked upon like a clown at the recent NATO summit, and Zelensky’s antics have been growing increasingly more annoying to the rest of the World. Now, with the recent evacuations in the Eastern part of the country, more and more of them are starting to ask themselves,
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Secondly, the male population in the Ukraine is plummeting!
The AFU have suffered approximately thirty-eight thousand, five hundred casualties in this one offensive alone, and it is believed that those that remain are poorly trained, have little experience in combat and leadership, and that the are starting to see the writing on the wall. With press gangs taking bribes with one hand and pulling whomever they can off of the streets that cannot pay to send to the front with the other, those that end up seeing combat are not very enthusiastic about their predicament. There are videos all over Telegram of soldiers surrendering, explaining the horrid conditions they are made to endure and lack of training and discipline amongst the ranks. So, as the AFU continues to grind their best, their brightest, and now their reserves against Russian defenses, I would imagine there are quite a few soldiers sitting in their trenches right now thinking to themselves, “Who is my real enemy?”…
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Firstly the counteroffensive has failed.
In over eleven weeks, the AFU have yet to even reach the first “Surovikin Line” of Russian defenses in the Zaporozhye Oblast, when earlier this year they telegraphed their plans to the World of slicing through to Melitopol, then all of the way to the Sea of Azov, severing the land bridge to Crimea. In their endeavors (read: failures), they have lost hundreds of armored personal carriers (APC), tanks, artillery, and other NATO-loaned heavy equipment. They have also lost a lot of soldiers, the average rate has been around four to five hundred casualties… A DAY! In fact, they have been losing so many men, within forty-eight hours the 82nd reserve forces have been called to the front, and at the time of writing this article, the front remains static with the AFU charging headlong into Russian minefields and heavily fortified defense positions. All of this death leads us to our next point:
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Quite maximalist goals.
But getting back, admittedly, there does exist a small loop-hole Putin could use to ‘save face’ if he really wanted to. Which is that, when he signed the official annexation of Kherson/Zaporozhye, he left the exact demarcation of their borders open to future consideration. That means the exact borders were not entirely stipulated; which is to say that if Russia really wanted to, they could freeze the conflict and merely say that the currently occupied areas of Kherson/Zaporozhye are the ‘official’ demarcated Russian areas. However, I don’t see this happening because it will be a gross betrayal of the citizens of the remainder of the full Zaporozhye/Kherson areas, and I can’t imagine Putin doing that.
So, the question remains as always, does Russia intend to only win back those lands, or go even further to Odessa, Kharkov, etc. Interestingly on that account, Peskov issued a new statement which evoked a lot of grumbles and outrage in the pro-Russian community as he stated that Russia only intends to get back the territories it signed into law:
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We know the combined population of LPR, DPR, and Crimea is probably north of 6M. Add on top of that the millions of Ukrainians that fled to Russia proper from the rest of Ukraine and you get minimum 12-15M that have fled the country in general. Prewar population of 36M+ subtracted from that very quickly gets you to 27M and even below.
So, things are getting disastrous for Ukraine—but the question on everyone’s mind is what’s next?
On the one hand, a growing chorus of increasingly prominent voices believes that Russia itself is gearing up for a major offensive of its own. No one can agree on when, though—and estimates range from by end of August, to next spring-summer.
Respected Russian ex-general Konstantin Pulikovsky says that, ultimately, no matter how good your defense, victory can only be achieved through offensive operations. He says Russia will definitely begin an offensive, but only when it senses the enemy is completely exhausted:
💥💥💥Lieutenant General Pulikovsky, former commander of the group of troops in Chechnya:
The most important thing we must understand is that defence, even the most active, the best defence, is a forced method of fighting. It is impossible to achieve victory in defence, victory is achieved only in offensive operations. There will be an offensive, there will definitely be an offensive. But it usually begins when we feel that the enemy is really exhausted. Because the offensive is always associated with its own heavy losses. And defence, on the contrary, leads to heavy losses of the enemy, which is what is happening now. But there will be an offensive, I have no doubt about that.
When it will happen depends not on the armed forces of Ukraine, but on the socio-political situation, which is controlled by the NATO bloc and directly by the United States. That is where our main enemy is. Depending on this situation, a decision will be taken as to when we will go on the offensive.💥💥💥
Interestingly, assistant to DPR head Yan Gagin echoed this view:
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Given that Mediazona's count of Russian KIA in the 30,000 range has recently been validated by another inadvertent disclosure on their side (of some 8,500 WIA returned to duty, total, in the entire VDV for the entire SMO) this also points to an absolutely brutal fact: for every Russian soldier killed in this war, somewhere between seven and thirteen Ukrainian soldiers die. That's apocalyptic for the Ukrainian Army and a disgrace for their Western advisors.
This also, by the way, aligns perfectly with the Ukrainian MoD's claims for Russian casualties. This suggests strongly that the Ukrainian MoD's infamously implausibly running count of Russian losses is, astonishingly, actually an accurate report of their own losse
What he’s referring to in the last part is an interesting disclosure that came about from VDV General Teplinsky’s congratulatory speech on Paratrooper’s Day last week, which I had posted here. He had obliquely mentioned how 8,500 total VDV members were wounded. Given that we know WIA to KIA ratios are typically at least 2:1 if not 3:1, this tells us that total VDV KIA was likely in the 2000-4000 range at the most. And keep in mind, according to MediaZona’s charts, VDV has suffered the highest percentage of losses of any other group in the Russian armed forces.
And guess how many total VDV MediaZona has verified the deaths of? ~1600. So this is in sync with General Teplinsky’s own figures as it would put Russian KIA to WIA ratio at a steeper 1:5 or so which is explained by the fact that Russia’s better battlefield medicine and medevac capabilities means that there will be fewer KIAs compared to simply wounded as a far larger percentage of wounded are successfully treated.
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As usual, they couch it with the wink-and-nudge that Russia has even more just to dampen the effect of the blow.
Here’s one analyst’s (ArmChairWarlord) take on it after actually studying the cemeteries in one region as a sample:
There are at least 10 000 graves that I found in the Lviv Oblast, there will be more, because I only checked out the main cemeteries. New graves are also being prepared everywhere.
I can not visit every cemetery or city, because of safety and i need to sustain myself financially, so I need to keep my business going at the same time.
The Ukrainian losses will be somewhere around the 200,000 mark, excluding the missing. That’s my estimate. Almost every person I speak to, knows someone who died, and in turn knows someone else who knows another person that died. The conversations usually go like this… “The man from the second floor of my apartment died, and my cousin from XXXXX lost her son, 3 others from her son’s class also died…”
We will perhaps never know the truth or real losses, and also not on the Russian side.
Interestingly enough, in one week, I also saw over 200 men and more than 30 women with missing limbs or in wheelchairs. These are people that were at the same place as me, at a particular time…so you can conclude yourself how many of those there are.
So let's look at the data points we have showing Ukrainian KIA in the 200-400,000 range.
- Population surveys
- Obituary counts on social media
- Cemetery construction
- Amputation disclosures
- Older, inadvertent official disclosures
- Endless conscription but no army growth
It's all completely internally consistent, pointing to the same approximate number of casualties in the 2-400k range. This is exactly what you would expect if that was in fact the case - all these secondary indicators are consistent with each other and there is no countervailing data besides the obvious lies of Ukrainian officials.
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The article begins with this gutting preamble:
KYIV, Ukraine — This nation is worn out.
For nearly 18 months, Ukraine has stood against its Russian invaders — rallying support for its troops by embracing last year’s battlefield victories in the Kyiv, Kharkiv and Kherson regions.
Those wins carried beleaguered Ukrainians through a winter of airstrikes on civilian infrastructure and a brutal and symbolic battle for Bakhmut, the eastern city that fell to the Russians in May.
Throughout, Ukrainian officials and their western partners hyped up a coming counteroffensive — one that, buoyed by a flood of new weapons and training, they hoped would turn the tide of the war.
But two months after Ukraine went on the attack, with little visible progress on the front and a relentless, bloody summer across the country, the narrative of unity and endless perseverance has begun to fray.
The article goes on to state that, though official casualty tallies don’t exist, almost everyone knows multiple people who’ve died at the front:
Blyzniuk also lives in fear that her husband or two sons of fighting age will be mobilized. She has already noticed that far fewer men walk the streets of her city than before. Ukraine does not disclose its military casualty counts, but everyone shares stories, she said, of new soldiers at the front lasting just two to three days.
Another soldier dishes the grisly details of frontline work:
In the Donetsk region, an Estonian Ukrainian soldier who goes by the call sign Suzie works at a stabilization point where wounded soldiers are treated before being transferred to hospitals in safer towns. On a recent day, he helped organize body bags that would soon be used in the makeshift morgue that already reeked of death.
Sometimes, he said, soldiers’ bodies are so blown apart they have to use two or three body bags to contain them. There are times when a soldier is returned with “just 15 percent of the body,” Suzie said. “I never saw so much blood before.”
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@Rocket_scientist_88 if Russia is losing 1.5k per day, why dies the BBC and Mediazona show less than 200 casualties a day, ukraine on the other hand are being annihilated 2.6k per day casualties.
Facts Over Feelings 🤡
From the horses mouth.
*Yehor Firsov, serviceman with Ukraine's 109th Battalion, identifies Chasiv Yar, Myrnohrad, Pokrovsk, Kurakhove, and Toretsk as the hottest spots in the Donetsk region.
He spoke about this on Espreso TV.
“It is difficult on our side of the frontline, the Russians are pressing, using weapons, going around from different sides, trying to reach Kostiantynivka through Toretsk from Ukrainian side. On the other hand, the Russian troops are moving through Chasiv Yar to Kostiantynivka. Pokrovsk is not far away, where we are blocking certain routes with our drones and recording that the occupiers are amassing their forces there. That is, the invaders are planning to attack Pokrovsk as much as possible. The fighting continues near the village of Shevchenko, which is very close to Pokrovsk. And then there is Kurakhove, where we know the situation is also difficult,” commented the Ukrainian Armed Forces serviceman.
According to him, the situation in the Donetsk direction is very difficult now, with constant fighting. There is often a shortage of drones due to their almost continuous use, as there are a lot of enemy targets both day and night.
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@larsrons7937
The situation in the Bakhmut direction on 27.07.23⚡️
A difficult situation has developed in the south of Bakhmut. To date, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have chosen this area as one of the main directions for attack.
The intensity of the battles is very high. Artillery is constantly working, both ours and the enemy. The enemy is laying, including mainly, cluster munitions, having a small but advantage. It also helps that the dominant heights are mostly behind him.
Detachments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to enter Kleshcheevka and gain a foothold on its outskirts. At the same time, forest plantations in the vicinity of the village are literally littered with the bodies of the enemy, our guys are fighting for every meter.
The darkest news comes from Andreevka, south of Kleshcheevka. Fierce battles are also going on for Andreevka. But, even when withdrawing from positions, our troops will obviously make attempts to return to them at the first opportunity.
Kurdyumovka is under our control. Enemy artillery is also constantly working here and mobile groups are trying to penetrate the village two or three times a day - we are repulsing it. In addition to the already familiar Poles, French mercenaries were also seen near Kurdyumovka.
Wargonzo
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Jesse Watters contends that those who deny the evidence of Joe Biden's involvement in Hunter's unregistered foreign lobbying, money laundering, and influence peddling scheme are intentionally avoiding reviewing the laptop, listening to whistleblowers, reading the FBI informant document, listening to Joe's voicemail to his son, and examining the evidence:
"When you read the email from Hunter saying the only reason China and Ukraine are paying me is because they want access to my dad.
You can consider that hard evidence, but if you don't read that, you're right. There's no evidence.
If you don't acknowledge that Joe Biden flew his son to China on Air Force Two.
If you don't acknowledge that Hunter took his business partners to the White House when Biden was Vice President 100 times.
Or acknowledge that Hunter put his dad on the phone with his business partners dozens of times.
Or acknowledge all of the pictures with his son's business partners.
Or read the emails saying Hunter is paying Joe's monthly expenses with dirty bribes, then yeah, you're right.
Joe is totally clean."
In other words, if you ignore the bank records, wire transfer statements, suspicious activity reports, emails, text messages, audio recordings, photographs, and witness testimony corroborating the Bidens collected millions from foreign nations as unregistered foreign agents and laundered the money through twenty shell companies, then the question arises: where is the evidence?
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Vice President Joe Biden meeting Hunter Biden's foreign business partners.
November 2010: Joe Biden had a sit-down meeting with Eric Schwerin - the president of Hunter's private equity firm - in the West Wing.
November 2011: Joe Biden met with Chris Heinz — a co-founder of Hunter’s private equity firm — in the West Wing.
March 2012: Joe Biden met with Andres Pastrana Arango — the former president of Colombia who Hunter was doing business with — at his personal residence.
December 2013: Hunter flew with Joe Biden aboard Air Force Two to China, where he introduced him to Jonathan Li, a Chinese businessman.
February 2014: Joe Biden had lunch with Hunter and two of Hunter’s Mexican business partners and was pictured giving them a tour of the White House.
April 2014: Joe Biden met with Devon Archer — another co-founder of Hunter’s private equity firm — in the White House a week before Archer joined the board of Burisma.
June 2014: Joe Biden met Manuel Estrella — Hunter’s Latin American business associate. After the meeting, Estrella emailed Hunter: “Hunter, I just met your father! So exciting!” Hunter replied: “I'm glad it all finally came together.”
August 2014: Pictures show Joe Biden golfing with his son, Hunter, and Devon Archer while they were both serving on the Burisma board.
April 2015: Joe Biden attended a dinner in Washington, D.C., with Hunter’s business partners from Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.
November 2015: Joe Biden hosted his son’s Mexican business partners — Carlos Slim, Miguel Aleman Velasco, and Miguel Aleman Magnani — at his personal residence.
February 2016: Biden flew Hunter and Jeff Cooper — a family business partner — to Mexico City for a business trip aboard Air Force Two.
May 2016: Joe Biden met with Eric Schwerin — the former head of Hunter’s private equity firm — for dinner in Washington, D.C.
September 2016: Joe Biden attended a fundraiser for Francis Person — a business associate of Hunter’s and a former advisor in Biden’s VP office.
May 2017: Joe Biden met with family business partner Tony Bobulinski TWICE.
June 2018: Joe Biden texted Hunter saying that he was with Jeff Cooper — a family business partner — and that Cooper wanted to “do some work” with him.
Photos, emails, text messages, and White House visitor logs CONFIRM these meetings took place. It’s not up for debate.
So why did Joe Biden lie?
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@Kohen124
400k ☠️🇺🇦 since February 2022
45k ☠️🇺🇦 Since June 4th 2023 during their failed counteroffensive.
1 Million 🇺🇦♿️
462 airplanes and 246 helicopters, 5,970 unmanned aerial vehicles, 431 air defence missile systems, 11,457 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,144 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 6,011 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 12,390 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.😂
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Wut Ukraine Counteroffensive Doing. 😂
Thanks to active offensive actions, Russian forces were able to enter the borders of the village of Sinkovka in the Kupyansk direction . ㅤ
The first reports of a favorable situation for our formations came in the evening of 9 August. Then the personnel, with the support of aviation, advanced near Sinkovka . ㅤ
At the moment, according to various estimates, from 7 to 10 km remain to the front lines of defense of the enemy. ㅤ
The enemy's problem lies in the fact that, carried away by the offensive in the Zaporozhye direction, he did not expect to meet the Russian offensive here.
In addition, for the sake of occupying the villages of Kleshcheevka and Andreevka near Bakhmut , the Ukrainians withdrew their combat-ready units from near Kupyansk. ㅤ
A trip to Kupyansk promises good prospects and a win back for August-September 2022, when the RF Armed Forces left this direction. ㅤ
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Wut Zelensky's Counteroffensive Doing. 🤣
NATO would lose a land war in Europe against Russia, simple as that.
They lack the industrial capacity to even sustain the ammunition and equipment requirements of a proxy war let alone a full-scale land war against Russia.
According to NATO itself "the scale and intensity of the violence in Ukraine is beyond their imagining" - If you can't imagine the level of intensity of a conflict you are neither trained nor prepared for it.
A plethora of different manufacturers of defense equipment versus a streamlined national production of only a few manufacturers with access to unlimited raw materials at their disposal that produces equipment that is simpler and easier to fix than NATO's with a shorter logistical chain.
Apart from the US, the member countries of NATO have forces that are shrunk into oblivion with no member countries showing much willingness to change that, the UK with an army that fits into a single football stadium is one of the most prominent examples of this fact.
The Europeans also seem all quite comfortable with the idea of outsourcing their security to the US in exchange for sovereignty and show no serious attempts to change that.
The US airpower is impressive but untested in a peer conflict against a force with modern integrated air defenses and their forces used to and dependent on uncontested air superiority which they will not have.
Russian doctrine is the opposite of that.
Furthermore, in such a conflict, they would not have airbases outside the reach of their opponent like they are used to.
NATO's strongest member, the US is primarily a naval and air power.
Airpower will be severely diminished and naval power being of little use in a land war in continental Europe in the mentioned scenario due to hypersonics and integrated ISR strike capabilities largely nullifying those forces.
Russia has superior ASAT capabilities which would quickly nullify NATO's numerical superiority in space.
US military force, organization, and command structure is a bloated behemoth, fractured around the globe & set up for a rematch of WW2 and largely filled with generals that came to their positions not because of merit or performance but because they "toed the line", didn't offend anyone and showed no resistance to dumb ideas. Let alone the questionable decisions regarding their new 🌈 standards.
The population in Western Europe nowadays is unwilling to sustain hardships and far from interested in getting shot at for the cause of waging war on Russia.
Last but not least the US has not sufficient forces in Europe anymore and needs to transport everything across an ocean, unlike Russia.
If war would be inevitable Russia would not wait and allow the US to build up its forces in Europe, as they did in Iraq in 2003, but instead strike their bases and logistics, which are well known, across Europe.
All of this is irrelevant as any war between our powers would quickly escalate to the nuclear level and end with the annihilation of both sides.
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Wut Zelensky's Counteroffensive Doing. 🤣
U.S. military personnel are voicing their frustrations over the way Ukraine is conducting its counteroffensive. This is alarming, observes @TheStudyofWar Chairman @gen_jackkeane.
2/ American officers appear to have unrealistic expectations of what a single counteroffensive operation can achieve. The U.S. should be focused on helping Ukraine fight the war the way it wants to fight, not chirping from the sidelines.
3/ American officials are reportedly irritated that Ukraine has kept large numbers of forces in its east, particularly around the town of Bakhmut, and that Ukraine has been pursuing multiple offensive thrusts within Zaporizhia oblast itself rather than focusing on only one.
4/ No one in the American military today has designed large-scale mechanized operations against a serious and capable enemy that is employing a comprehensive defense. The last time was the Metz campaign in France in 1944, led by Gen. George S. Patton.
5/ The massed attack toward Melitopol that some are demanding is the most obvious thing Ukraine could do and would concentrate Ukraine’s offensive combat power on a drive down the shortest road to the sea. This approach seems appealing and militarily sound.
6/ The trouble is that the Russians also had the same thought. They deployed the strongest of their remaining defending forces on this axis. They dug deep, extensive trench lines and covered the earth in mines.
7/ The Ukrainians have actually made a priority of this route and have recently made important gains. But they have also been attacking further east in Zaporizhia oblast and have made gains there as well.
8/ The effort that seems to aggravate American officials most of all, however, has been the Ukrainian push to recapture the city of Bakhmut, which the Wagner Group seized at tremendous cost this spring.
9/ U.S. military experts appear to want the Ukrainians to hold on all other fronts and focus on a single thrust toward Melitopol.
10/ Such advice is military malpractice. Well-designed mechanized campaigns almost always advance on multiple axes rather than one. That is what American-led coalitions did against Iraq in 1991 and 2003. It’s how the Americans, Germans, and Soviets fought in World War II.
11/ The reason is simple: Advancing along a single axis allows the defender to concentrate fully on stopping that one advance. Here, the Russians would almost certainly have moved forces from other parts of the theater as rapidly as they could to stop the drive on Melitopol.
12/ The Russians have redeployed forces to Zaporizhia. They haven’t sent more reinforcements, in part because Ukrainian attacks have pinned them all along the line.
13/ The much-condemned Ukrainian counteroffensive around Bakhmut has drawn elements of multiple Russian airborne divisions & separate brigades to hold the line there. Those units had been fighting in Luhansk & Kharkiv and would have been available to reinforce the Melitopol axis.
14/ The seizure of Melitopol on its own can’t win the war for Ukraine.
15/ The demands that Ukraine focus everything on that drive, combined with warnings that the West won’t restock Ukraine for future operations, suggest that at least some of those criticizing the Ukrainian offensive aren’t serious about helping Ukraine liberate all its territory.
16/ If that is the case, and if the Pentagon’s position is that it doesn’t expect Ukraine to liberate its people, it would be better to say so clearly than to make oblique and inaccurate attacks on the way Ukraine is fighting. 😂
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Yehor Firsov, serviceman with Ukraine's 109th Battalion, identifies Chasiv Yar, Myrnohrad, Pokrovsk, Kurakhove, and Toretsk as the hottest spots in the Donetsk region
He spoke about this on Espreso TV.
“It is difficult on our side of the frontline, the Russians are pressing, using weapons, going around from different sides, trying to reach Kostiantynivka through Toretsk from Ukrainian side. On the other hand, the Russian troops are moving through Chasiv Yar to Kostiantynivka. Pokrovsk is not far away, where we are blocking certain routes with our drones and recording that the occupiers are amassing their forces there. That is, the invaders are planning to attack Pokrovsk as much as possible. The fighting continues near the village of Shevchenko, which is very close to Pokrovsk. And then there is Kurakhove, where we know the situation is also difficult,” commented the Ukrainian Armed Forces serviceman.
According to him, the situation in the Donetsk direction is very difficult now, with constant fighting. There is often a shortage of drones due to their almost continuous use, as there are a lot of enemy targets both day and night.
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🇷🇺🇺🇳 Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the UN:
🎙 Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at a United Nations Security Council Briefing on Western Arms Supplies to Ukraine
📍New York, December 20, 2024
💬 Zelensky is ignoring the interests and opinions of his citizens, a significant number of whom are now speaking against new escalatory steps, since such steps may lead to the destruction of new enterprises and energy facilities.
❌ As a result, many experts now question Ukraine's ability to survive the winter; however, the former comedian, who has lost his legitimacy but is still clinging on power, is ready to gamble with his country that he has held hostage, and sacrifice all of its citizens.
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• According to the Ukrainian military commanders themselves, by the end of November, the number of deserters amounted to 200 thousand people, with 85 thousand Ukrainian military deserting in November alone, which is three times as high as in October.
• Ukrainian military personnel which are being trained abroad are also deserting – in Poland alone, an average of 12 people leave the training grounds every month. France reported that half of the Anna Kievskaya brigade, which had been trained in that country, left the battlefield and the rest of the brigade was disbanded. And this is the elite of the Ukrainian army.
• The losses of the Ukrainian army in 2024 exceeded 560 thousand servicemen (killed or wounded), and since the beginning of 2022 that number is over one million.
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• Ukraine has become a genuine gold mine for the military-industrial complex of the the US, UK and their allies. But it is American companies that are profiting the most from the conflict.
• According to the latest data, half of total arms sales in 2023 were processed by 41 US corporations out of the top 100. They received $317 billion, or 50% of global arms sales revenues.
• Overall, the revenues of the world's 100 major weapons manufacturers in 2023 reached $632 billion, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
• It would be naive to expect that these unscrupulous traders, who have tasted the flavor of lucre, will give up riding this gravy train for the sake of those miserable Ukrainians.
• After the conflict started, 25 foreign lobby and consulting companies began to represent Ukraine's interests free of charge. <…>
• Apart from making money on frantic sales of their weapons to the Ukrainians (well, they are in a hurry as they need to pull it off before Trump's inauguration), they also have no scruples about making money on American citizens by driving up the prices of the military industry products.
⚠️ Despite the fact that it can be detrimental to the well-being of Americans, the outgoing Democratic administration is playing up with the arms corporations. <…>
• We have already discussed in detail at the last meeting why this criminal crew, including the man in the green 'fufaika' (sweatshirt), is so afraid of the audit of the funds provided to Ukraine, which was promised by the Trump team.
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• It is hard to say where Ukraine will end up with all these smoke and mirrors of its illegitimate leader, who is erroneously asserting that he is ready for peace, while in fact doing everything to escalate the conflict.
• As we have repeatedly stated, peace for him is the worst possible scenario, because if it the case he will have to stand for elections and subsequently lose power, since, according to some polls, he enjoys only 11% support of Ukrainian citizens. And then he will be held accountable for all the crimes he committed against his people, making them a pawn in the great game of the West against Russia.
👉 That is why he fears any negotiations like plague, and rejects one peace initiative after another.
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Wut Ukraine Counteroffensive Doing. 🤣
Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation (11 August 2023)
◽️In Kupyansk direction, assault groups of the Zapad Group of Forces continued offensive actions on a broad front and improved the tactical situation near Olshana and Pershotravnyovoye (Kharkov).
◽️In the course of active defence, 4 attacks and counterattacks of AFU 32nd, 41st, 44th, and 67th mechanised brigades were repelled near Novosyolovskye LPR, Sinkovka and Mankovka (Kherson).
◽️The enemy losses were up to 165 servicemen, 2 AFVs, 2 pickup trucks, 1 Krab self-propelled howitzer, and 2 AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar station.
◽️ In Donetsk direction, the Yug Group of Forces' units successfully repelled 5 attack of assault groups of the AFU 10th Mountain Assault Brigade, the 79th Airborne Assault Brigade, the 59th Motorised Rifle Brigade, and the 3rd Tank Brigade close to Nevelskoye, Belogorovka, Staromikhalovka, Maloilinovka, and Veseloye DPR.
◽️The enemy losses were up to 180 servicemen, 7 IFVs, 2 pickup trucks, 1 Strela-10 anti-aircraft missile system, 1 M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery system, and 2 D-20 howitzers.
◽️In South Donetsk direction the Vostok Group of Forces thwarted an enemy reconnaissance-in-force attempt near Staromayorskoye DPR.
◽️3 attacks of assault groups of the AFU 72nd Mechanised Brigade and the 38th Marine Brigade have been repelled near Nikolskoye and Urozhaynoye DPR.
Up to 35 servicemen, 2 AFVs, 2 motor vehicles, and 1 D-30 howitzer were destroyed.
◽️ In Zaporozhye direction, 3 attacks of the AFU 21st Mechanised Brigade were repelled by the Vostok Group of Forces near Uspenovka and Rabotino (Zaporozhye).
◽️The enemy losses were up to 60 servicemen, 3 motor vehicles, and one D-30 howitzer.
◽️In Krasny Liman direction, the Tsentr Group of Forces repelled 2 attacks of the assault groups of the AFU 68rd Infantry Brigade and the 42nd Mechanised Brigade close to Novoegorovka and Kremennaya LPR.
◽️The enemy losses were up to 115 servicemen, 3 AFVs, and 1 D-20 howitzer.
◽️In Kherson direction, up to 20 servicemen, 2 pickup trucks, 1 M777 artillery howitzer, 1 D-20 howitzer, as well as and 1 Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer were destroyed.
◽️Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Group of Forces have engaged AFU manpower and hardware in 139 areas during the day.
◽️A temporary deployment point of foreign mercenaries has been hit near Zaporozhye.
◽️Moreover, 4 ammunition depots of AFU 24th, 43rd, 60th mechanised brigades and the 108th Territorial Defence Brigade have been destroyed close to Toretsk DPR, Cherneshina, Liptsi (Kharkov), and Gulyai Pole (Zaporozhye).
▫️ Air defence facilities have intercepted 2 HIMARS MLRS projectiles during the day.
◽️Moreover, 16 UAVs have been shot down close to Kupyansk (Kharkov), Lisichansk LPR, Artyomovsk, Volnovakha DPR, Oreknov and Gulyai Pole (Zaporozhye).
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