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  • AUS-97HORN
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    For the love of Christ woman,  stop posting the same fucking thing every 20 mins just to make your neurotic self feel better.     Bring something useful to the thread other than your inane babbli

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    I volunteered today. Log/Admin role to replace people for 30-60 days. The operation is in the west, or should the Orcs win will be pulled back behind the NATO wall. Either way the humanitarian effort

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⚡️ Poland will summon the russian Ambassador after putin’s scandalous statements about the "lands donated by Stalin":👉 Follow @Flash_news_ua https://t.co/PlsWFo8pSb
Germany has supplied the first ten Leopard 1A5 battle tanks to Ukraine.https://t.co/AmrNjNUAs2

 

#69654

Germany publicly telling Russia not to go after Poland.

https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-07-21-23/h_13683193b1ef7848f917d70d52cdea34

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Germany has pledged to support its NATO ally Poland in defending its eastern flank in case of a potential attack from Wagner fighters in neighboring Belarus. During a news conference in Prague on Friday, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius responded to a question about whether Germany was concerned by the Wagner group’s presence in Belarus and the prospect of an attack along Poland's border.

“We are all together, always in the closest coordination, not only when we physically meet at the level of defense ministers, but also otherwise. Where our Polish friends need support, if the worst comes to the worst, they will get it,” Pistorius responded.

 

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#69655
2 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

This is really going to show the West. WE MEAN IT THIS TIME..... 

Russian parliament is considering Russia's withdrawal from World Health Organization, Russian media report.Russia's intention to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO) has been announced in Russian parliament. According to deputy speaker Petr Tolstoy, the decision to…

 

Makes sense. Why would a disease want to be part of the WHO?

#69657

Reporting that Girkin is to be detained until (at least?.?) September 18. He deserves to rot in jail but I am honestly going to miss his doom posting/ calling the decision makers in Moscow “pink ponies”, etc. His takes on the Russian’s shit show did add to the bouquet.

SitRep - 21/07/23 - Girkin detained until September 18th..An overview of the daily events in the war between Russia and Ukraine. Today I reached 350 thousand followers, a staggering number, thanks to all of you 😍Also, war criminal Igor Girkin is imprisoned, by Russia..1/X
#69658

I think it’s about time that native Russian rebel groups< Cough, cough> take out power plants and/or transmissions lines in Moscow and St. Petersburg.   

I think we’ve established how stupid the general Rusky populace is, and how gullible.   A Fox News watching populace.   Normally I would say they spend most of their time watching bad TV, getting drunk and screwing. But given their demographics, they seem to just watch TV and get drunk.

Let’s take away their TV and see what happens.

#69659
3 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

I think it’s about time that native Russian rebel groups< Cough, cough> take out power plants and/or transmissions lines in Moscow and St. Petersburg.   

I think we’ve established how stupid the general Rusky populace is, and how gullible.   A Fox News watching populace.   Normally I would say they spend most of their time watching bad TV, getting drunk and screwing. But given their demographics, they seem to just watch TV and get drunk.

Let’s take away their TV and see what happens.

An EMP that took out their TVs and cell phones, they would drink themselves to death within the month. In the US, it would probably take 3-4 months.

CHIEF

#69661
5 hours ago, RPM said:

Oh, it happened. Fortunately, our side had them. Japan, not so much.

Those weren't thermonuclear weapons.

#69662

Informative article based mostly on Michael Kofman's reporting on the different tactics Russia is using in their defensive lines. Absent a true game changer, it makes sense why Ukraine is focusing on Bahkmut right now- it's probably the most bang for your buck right now politically speaking.

Russia built fake trenches along the front lines to lure Ukrainian soldiers into deadly explosive traps, researchers found

https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-built-fake-explosive-trench-traps-to-lure-ukrainian-troops-2023-7 

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A Ukrainian paratrooper takes shelter in a trench from a BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launcher attack on July 5,2022 in Seversk, Ukraine.

A Ukrainian paratrooper takes shelter in a trench from a BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launcher attack on July 5,2022 in Seversk, Ukraine.
A Ukrainian paratrooper takes shelter in a trench from a BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launcher attack on July 5,2022 in Seversk, Ukraine. Laurent van der Stockt/Getty Images
Russia has created layers of formidable defenses and fortifications to hold off Ukrainian advances.
Among them are fake trenches designed to lure Ukrainians into a death trap, researchers found on a recent Ukraine trip.
These obstacles are among the many challenges standing in the way of the Ukrainian counteroffensive.

 

Ukrainian forces know how to clear a trench. In fact, we've seen them do it flawlessly. But what happens when a trench isn't a trench?

 

Russian forces built a vast, complex network of trenches and other battlefield obstacles, such as anti-tank barriers and minefields, ahead of Ukraine's counteroffensive.

 

And while many of the trenches are actual Russian combat positions, others have been traps, researchers learned from front-line Ukrainian forces.

 

Russia's military "has continued to adapt," Michael Kofman, a leading Russia expert at the Center for Naval Analyses, said in a War on the Rocks podcast discussion published Thursday following a recent trip to Ukraine with other war experts.

"They build out fake trenches. They have mine trenches," Kofman said, explaining that they attempt to "lure Ukrainian forces into trenches that have been mined" with remote-activated mines "and then blow up the mines."

"Once forces jump into them, they have parts of trenches that are intentionally empty," he said, characterizing it as an attempt "to get Ukrainians into those trenches, to then essentially blow them up."

A paratrooper from the 81st Airmobile Battalion takes shelter in a trench from a BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launcher attack which has destroyed a neighboring house on July 5,2022 in Seversk, Ukraine.
A paratrooper from the 81st Airmobile Battalion takes shelter in a trench from a BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launcher attack which has destroyed a neighboring house on July 5,2022 in Seversk, Ukraine.  Laurent van der Stockt for Le Monde/Getty Images

Clearing a trench is a difficult battlefield task that requires a coordination of artillery and maneuver forces.

A recent video released by Ukrainian special forces showed a trench-clearing operation in which the Russians were caught off guard and defeated by Ukrainians using well executed tactics, but not every battle is guaranteed to go their way.

The possibility that the trench Ukrainian infantry are rushing into might be an explosive trap makes things immensely more difficult.

Kofman said that the kinds of adaptations happening in the Russian military go beyond routine defense.

From his conversations with Ukrainian military personnel on the front lines, which he got close to during his visit, he was able to learn that Russia is also doing tricky things like stacking anti-tank mines in order to tear up mine-clearing vehicles able to withstand the explosive force produced by one or two mines but not necessarily more than that.

Russia "is doubling, tripling them up," he said of the anti-tank mines. Russian approaches put "high-value targets" Ukraine cannot afford to lose at risk, threatening their survivability.

When it comes to land mines, others in Ukraine have observed some similar tricks by the Russians.

Ryan Hendrickson, a former US Army Special Forces Engineer who cleared improvised explosives in Afghanistan and is now working as a volunteer removing mines in Ukraine, talked with Ukrainian Toronto Television this week about some of the schemes he and his team have encountered.

Hendrickson said they have come across extremely complex minefields in which anti-tank mines are protected by anti-personnel mines and other explosives surrounded by booby traps.

The purpose of a setup like this is to maim or kill anyone involved in the de-mining process.

But when it comes to the Ukrainian counteroffensive, Russian land mines — which in addition to killing troops directly also slow advancing forces and expose them to enemy artillery, missiles, and airstrikes — are only part of the problem.

Standing in the way of a Ukrainian breakthrough, the Russian military has regular forces, motor rifle units, Spetsnaz units, and so on holding the lines, Kofman explained. They have a lot of artillery, and the Russian "entrenchments include incredibly dense minefields, anti-tank and anti personnel [mines] layered upon each other."

Russia also has a lot of anti-tank weaponry deployed on the forward lines, as well as drones, particularly one-way Lancet drones, and loitering munitions. They also have attack helicopters that have put dents in the Ukrainian offensive.

"And they've dug in extensively in terms of cementing fortifications, having bunkers, having tunnels in some parts of the main line," Kofman said, pointing out this formidable defense has been months in the making.

And key challenges for the Ukrainians as they face off against these defenses is a lack of the kind of weaponry they need most, as well as their inability to execute combined arms operations at scale.

Franz-Stefan Gady, an expert at the Center for New American Security who also recently visited Ukraine for research, said that in this situation, "absent a sudden collapse of Russian defenses," he suspects that "this will remain a bloody attritional fight with reserve units being fed in incrementally."

"I think this offensive," Kofman said in the podcast discussion of ongoing developments in Ukraine and the push to batter the Russian lines, "is likely to go on not just for weeks, but for months."

"I think it's going to see this extensive attritional phase with grinding fighting with incremental gains by Ukrainian forces, and that it's going to require a great deal of artillery ammunition and adaptation," he continued, adding "it's very difficult to conduct an offensive like this against a well-prepared defense."

 

 

#69666
Russian Sources are reporting tonight that after a Large Artillery Barrage, Ukrainian Armor and Mechanized Elements equipped with NATO Equipment have launched a Major Assault on the Russian Defensive-Lines in the Zaporizhzhia Region between the Settlement of Robotyne and Verbove,…

 

#69668
4 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Are they finally going for the plant?

If you're talking about the nuclear power plant, it's a decent amount further west.

#69669
4 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:

If you're talking about the nuclear power plant, it's a decent amount further west.

My guess since the Dniper is starting to dry out after the Russians blowing the dam, the UKA are now going to see what happens if they put pressure on the Tomak corridor where the reinforcements come from. 
 

If they come from the East, then the UKA should be able to flex more on that region and depending where they come from finish the encirclement of Balmut.

If they come from the west in Crimea, then it might be time to see what type of havoc can be done from Kherson. If none come at all they try and finally break the defensive line and go all out towards Melitopol 

#69670
Kodema, Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian forces hit a reported Russian communications node with a US-supplied JDAM.
The Parliament of #Bulgaria allowed the transfer of 100 armored vehicles to #Ukraine, reports the agency BGNES.

 

#69671
29 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:

If you're talking about the nuclear power plant, it's a decent amount further west.

I was looking at the maps below - if I'm reading the location of Robotyne right, and they take that little area, if they swing west towards Vasylivka (which is on the Dnipro river, almost straight north from Melitopol), the major road(s) between Melitopol and the power plant are within 30-40 km (50-60 by road).

Vasylivka is the circled area below (power plant is slightly NW, a little point sticking out into the river).  If they took that, they've made it extremely difficult to get forces from/through Melitopol to the power plant.

I could be wrong though, because there's a lot of duplicate place names, and the translations have a problem with some of them.  

Edit: Like @Laxtonto said, they have some major options to the east/south if they take Robotyne.

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#69672
Crimea 💥💥😊 another ammo depot down.
The Ukrainian General Staff confirmed the destruction of an oil depot and warehouses of the Russians in occupied Crimea

 

#69673
Kherson energy companies received 37 transformers, which will allow speeding up the restoration of electricity supply in the affected area. The transformers were provided by partners from Sweden, Finland and the Netherlands.

 

#69674
Girkin’s friend and ally, Pavel Gubarev, who demanded the release of Igor Girkin, has also been arrested. When he got arrested the crowd was shouting “pozor”, shame. Source: https://t.co/NqC8ia36g7#Russia #Ukraine— (((Tendar))) (@Tendar)
👀👀👀

 

 

 

#69675
2/ The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel has published large sections of the lengthy report, which according to State Duma deputy Mikhail Delyagin, was written by his fellow deputy from Kuzbass, the political strategist Oleg Matveychev.

 

4/ The report calls for the Kremlin to "take repressive measures against those who are insane and with whom it is impossible to negotiate." It warns that "a militia of people who know how to hold a gun is being formed around Girkin-Strelkov."

 

6/ 🔺 Andrei Kartapolov and Andrei Gurulev, United Russia State Duma deputies;🔺 Oleg Tsaryov, the former "speaker of the Novorossiya parliament"🔺 Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of RT

 

8/ The report on "the danger of jingoism in the information space of the Russian Federation" declares that currently "there is an extremely undesirable situation ... with trends that favour the plans of our geopolitical opponent."

 The rest of the thread is also interesting and goes into further detail about the report. The regime isn't worried about its left, but its right

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#69676
pic.twitter.com/EGLPaj2bh8

 

Girkin / Girkout

 

#69677
⚡️🇺🇦Ukrainian military personnel from 47 separate mechanized brigades clear 🇷🇺Russian positions and take prisoners. Their work is covered by the 🇺🇸American BMP M2 "Bradley" in the area of the village of Robotyne, Zaporizhzhia region.

 

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#69680
1 hour ago, KYHorn said:
2/ The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel has published large sections of the lengthy report, which according to State Duma deputy Mikhail Delyagin, was written by his fellow deputy from Kuzbass, the political strategist Oleg Matveychev.

 

4/ The report calls for the Kremlin to "take repressive measures against those who are insane and with whom it is impossible to negotiate." It warns that "a militia of people who know how to hold a gun is being formed around Girkin-Strelkov."

 

6/ 🔺 Andrei Kartapolov and Andrei Gurulev, United Russia State Duma deputies;🔺 Oleg Tsaryov, the former "speaker of the Novorossiya parliament"🔺 Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of RT

 

8/ The report on "the danger of jingoism in the information space of the Russian Federation" declares that currently "there is an extremely undesirable situation ... with trends that favour the plans of our geopolitical opponent."

 The rest of the thread is also interesting and goes into further detail about the report. The regime isn't worried about its left, but its right


ChrisO_wiki
@ChrisO_wiki

17/ "For example, in the program 'Evening with Vladimir Solovyov' there is every time essentially a gang rape of the authorities. The speakers are constantly kicking the authorities for various shortcomings in their activities."

18/ The report notes that many of the 'ultra-patriots' have criticised difficulties in military operations

19/ It complains that "a large number of war correspondents who are sent from our official media ... [should not] spout all sorts of rubbish in their Telegram feeds."

20/ ... these figures think that at this stage it is necessary to drum into the heads of the population the existence of a huge number of problems and the traitors who create these problems."

21/ It warns that 'ultra-patriots' have created "an image of a so-called "fifth column" around Putin, which creates problems and which does not let the right information and true patriots reach Putin upstairs." The report forecasts an erosion of confidence in the government.

22/ ... "when confidence in the institutions of power in the institutions of power is lost, [they will] strike a final blow to the president and declare that "the fish rots from the head," preparing the way for Putin's overthrow.

23/ The next Russian presidential election in March 2024 is highlighted as the moment when the blow will come from "the information troops of NATO and Ukraine." Ukrainian propaganda is said to have become much more sophisticated and aimed specifically at Russians.

24/ "At this point, "the public, tired of the flow of negative news and failures, will be convinced that the "fifth column" and enemies of the state are in charge of our president.

25/ Then it will be possible to tell the public directly that Putin is an undesirable figure in the leadership of the country, that he is incapable of securing victories, or to effectively manage the army, has brought the country to a dead end, has quarrelled with the international community, and so on."

It advises that the Kremlin should "talk to those of the major information players and stakeholders who are able to hear."

27/ "Kartapolov, Gurulev, Prigozhin, Tsarev, Simonyan, a number of political analysts - they all need to be persuaded to stop whipping up critical hysteria and talking about the shortcomings and so on.

29/ "We must explain to them firmly that now you are clearly working for our enemies,  ... give them clear instructions that they should curtail this hysterical activity ...

31/ "We need to hold a big high-level meeting with them and demand to lower the temperature, to turn down the thermostat, so to speak."

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#69681
13 minutes of battle footage subtitled in English.Ukrainian soldiers from the 3rd Mechanized Battalion of the Separate Presidential Brigade storming a Russian trench, killing 5 enemy soldier and taking 1 prisoner.https://t.co/BTzgVrTVpn

 

This is why Russian propagandists in the occupied territories of Ukraine are considered legitimate targetsAnyone who participates in reloading guns, rides on military vehicles, has no identifying marks, but carries a weapon becomes a combatant.The video shows Sergei Zenin, a…

 

#69682
A HMMWV of the 93rd brigade manages to survive an artillery barrage while also a Russian FPV drone misses the vehicle by an inch.
A Russian T-80 tank destroyed with the help of SMArt 155 projectiles.

 

#69683
Included in the package are several Stryker AFVs, mine clearing equipment, munitions for NASAMS, munitions for HIMARS, anti-tank weapons including TOW and Javelin and munitions for Patriot and Stinger anti-aircraft systems, according to the officials.
1/ A Russian volunteer detachment in the occupied Kherson region has reportedly been forcibly disarmed by the FSB, apparently due to fears of a new Wagner-style mutiny. ⬇️

 

#69684
Why did the NYT publish such a bizarre article, which normalised a mass murdering russian terrorist and invasion commander as a mere “critic of Putin’s war effort”?Meet its author, NYT reporter Ivan Nechepurenko, a russian national who still lives in russia.Ivan denies russia…

 

Important, developing story https://t.co/nTcfZrZLGx

 

#69685
1 hour ago, Schulz2.0 said:
13 minutes of battle footage subtitled in English.Ukrainian soldiers from the 3rd Mechanized Battalion of the Separate Presidential Brigade storming a Russian trench, killing 5 enemy soldier and taking 1 prisoner.https://t.co/BTzgVrTVpn
This is why Russian propagandists in the occupied territories of Ukraine are considered legitimate targetsAnyone who participates in reloading guns, rides on military vehicles, has no identifying marks, but carries a weapon becomes a combatant.The video shows Sergei Zenin, a…

Excellent response to the second tweet:

 

#69686
2 hours ago, PTINS said:


ChrisO_wiki
@ChrisO_wiki

17/ "For example, in the program 'Evening with Vladimir Solovyov' there is every time essentially a gang rape of the authorities. The speakers are constantly kicking the authorities for various shortcomings in their activities."

18/ The report notes that many of the 'ultra-patriots' have criticised difficulties in military operations

2 hours ago, PTINS said:


21/ It warns that 'ultra-patriots' have created "an image of a so-called "fifth column" around Putin, which creates problems and which does not let the right information and true patriots reach Putin upstairs." The report forecasts an erosion of confidence in the government.

22/ ... "when confidence in the institutions of power in the institutions of power is lost, [they will] strike a final blow to the president and declare that "the fish rots from the head," preparing the way for Putin's overthrow.

2 hours ago, PTINS said:

25/ Then it will be possible to tell the public directly that Putin is an undesirable figure in the leadership of the country, that he is incapable of securing victories, or to effectively manage the army, has brought the country to a dead end, has quarrelled with the international community, and so on."

It advises that the Kremlin should "talk to those of the major information players and stakeholders who are able to hear."

I never thought about it, but yeah, those evening news hosts have spent the past 500+ days telling their audiences that not enough is being done, and over time that could easily leave the people to believe "why isn't Putin doing something, how long will this continue?"

#69687

If true, it’s a pretty big and important shift in policy.

Ukraine Situation Report: U.S. Now Pushing To Deliver F-16s “As Fast As Possible”https://t.co/XZqWU9im6R

 

#69689
1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

If true, it’s a pretty big and important shift in policy.

Ukraine Situation Report: U.S. Now Pushing To Deliver F-16s “As Fast As Possible”https://t.co/XZqWU9im6R

 

Ah yes, now it's a rush.

#69690
Use of US supplied DPICM cluster munitions in the Zaporizhzia region.

 

#69691
6 hours ago, KYHorn said:
⚡️🇺🇦Ukrainian military personnel from 47 separate mechanized brigades clear 🇷🇺Russian positions and take prisoners. Their work is covered by the 🇺🇸American BMP M2 "Bradley" in the area of the village of Robotyne, Zaporizhzhia region.

 

So this is a net zero (always negative in war cause war)? Ukrainian soldiers capturing a few orcs and fucks supposedly killed the good guys. Who won the battle? 

#69692

^I'm always suspect of those videos, mostly because the Ukrainians wrap themselves up in blue, yellow, or green tape. These don't, are laying weirdly, no obvious signs of trauma/blood, and are too bunched up. Screams fake to me.

#69693
45 minutes ago, MillerEP said:

^I'm always suspect of those videos, mostly because the Ukrainians wrap themselves up in blue, yellow, or green tape. These don't, are laying weirdly, no obvious signs of trauma/blood, and are too bunched up. Screams fake to me.

Early on Russia literally posted a fake video like that. You could see in another video some of the "dead" soldiers getting up. 

#69694
52 minutes ago, MillerEP said:

^I'm always suspect of those videos, mostly because the Ukrainians wrap themselves up in blue, yellow, or green tape. These don't, are laying weirdly, no obvious signs of trauma/blood, and are too bunched up. Screams fake to me.

Yeah, so many of the videos of Ukrainians show them with the tape, that when I don't see said tape, I assume they are Russians.

#69695
Reportedly launches of Kh-22 cruise missiles by Tu-22m3 towards Kherson and Odesa.

 

 

#69697
🚨 Tonight Russia destroyed the Transfiguration Orthodox Cathedral, a protected UNESCO World Heritage site, with a targeted precision cruise missile strike. 1794 - The Transfiguration Cathedral in Odessa was built.1936 - Blown up by Stalin's Bolsheviks. 2002-2010 - Rebuilt… https://t.co/podxII4PgJ

 

#69699
Slightly odd Ukrainian armored vehicle recovery train, made up of a former Russian BMO-T (not a BMD-4) rocket flamethrower heavy armored personnel carrier, pulling a T-72B3, pulling another T-72B.

 

#69700

Not all news is good news. 
 
Minefields, fortifications and Russian air power have combined to largely block big advances by Ukrainian troops in their offensive
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraines-lack-of-weaponry-and-training-risks-stalemate-in-fight-with-russia-f51ecf9?st=pxkr8l5egzcidgo&reflink=share_mobilewebshare

 My opinion? Things that could change the stalemate for the better:

-more and better weapon systems to Ukraine. 

-Russian economic/political collapse

-strategic mistakes by Russia

Things that can change it for the worse:

-Drop in US support

-Ukrainian political collapse (the economy has already collapsed)

-Ukrainian strategic errors  

The upcoming US elections will bring out our worst. 

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