@ChuckPfarrer 7h
"IZIUM AXIS/ 1430 24 NOV/ RU forces were repulsed at Stelmakhivka. Heavy RU shelling along Forward Edge of Battle Area. 10 Russian Lancet UCAVS reported downed by UKR air defense units. RU constructing defenses."
RuZZian Tank losses RunningTotal: 1505
November 2022 – 87
October 2022 – 212
September 2022 - 217
August 2022 – 74
July 2022 – 108
June 2022 – 67
May 2022 – 148
April 2022 – 243
Feb 24 - March 2022 – 350
RuZZian Artillery losses Running Total: 430
November 2022 – 51
October 2022 – 64
September 2022 - 73
August 2022 – 21
July 2022 – 21
June 2022 – 18
May 2022 – 20
April 2022 – 52
Feb 24 - March 2022 – 110
Today we gives Thanks that we are a nation at peace.
Ukraine: military situation update with maps, Nov 23, 2022
(’Orc’ is associated with the various hoards of 13th century Mongol invaders, as well as LOTR evil villains)
War in Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP2QApi8G2TKc8NZmeDWSUg/videos
Artillery (key to success in this war), Fuller explanation of Orc military structure, Other Bonus articles - see previous postings in “Attack on Europe” (FR title search).
(Numbered printed material below - Some of the items below may be out of date, and not updated yet)
••Denotes Transcribed Dialogue. The entirety of the analysis is from a Ukrainian guy named War in Ukraine’s daily video - I only transcribe it. Extras are just that - from other sites, or my comments marked (Edit: .... )
-—> Current to date and past MAPS: <——
https://militaryland.net/
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Extras:
-—> Ukraine Situation Report: Kyiv Gets Sea King Helicopters From Britain: <——
The helicopters, which were last used by Britain in 2018, will serve as utility and search and rescue platforms for Ukraine.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ukraine-situation-report-kyiv-gets-sea-king-helicopters-from-britain
Excerpts:
The United Kingdom is sending three WS-61 Sea King helicopters, plus 10,000 artillery rounds to Ukraine in that nation’s latest aid package to Kyiv ...
Institute for the Study of War assessment:
Key Takeaways:
Attention Pootie Poot Orc-loving trolls:
-—> Russian sources continue to tout the forced adoption of Ukrainian children into Russian families. <——
The Kremlin may be setting information conditions for a false-flag attack in Belgorod Oblast.
The Russian military has significantly depleted its arsenal of high-precision missiles but will likely still threaten Ukrainian infrastructure.
The Russian military is likely struggling to replenish its arsenal of high-precision weapons systems.
The Belarusian prime minister traveled to Iran to discuss economic cooperation and possible security ties.
Russian military movements suggest that Russian forces are likely reinforcing positions in eastern Zaporizhia and western Donetsk oblasts.
Russian sources claimed that Ukrainian forces continued counteroffensive operations along the Svatove-Kreminna line.
Russian forces continued offensive operations around Bakhmut and Avdiivka.
Crimean occupation officials demonstrated heightened unease-likely over Ukrainian strikes on Russian ground lines of communication (GLOCs) in the peninsula and ongoing military operations on the Kinburn Spit.
The Kremlin continues to deflect concerns about mobilization onto the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD).
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WiU took today off. End report for 11/23/2022
Happy Thanksgiving to all and in hopes the war ends soon!
@ChuckPfarrer 7h
"IZIUM AXIS/ 1430 24 NOV/ RU forces were repulsed at Stelmakhivka. Heavy RU shelling along Forward Edge of Battle Area. 10 Russian Lancet UCAVS reported downed by UKR air defense units. RU constructing defenses."
@visegrad24
“Sweden & Finland are using their special skills in winter warfare to prop up the Ukrainian Army ahead of winter.
Euronews reports that Ukraine is probably receiving winter uniforms, under-clothes and camouflage suits together with special sleeping bags & tents with stoves.”
Beyond Sweden and Finland applying to join NATO, another effect of this war has been to draw the Nordic Countries (including Norway) closer together, into a cohesive bloc.
"Iranian instructors who taught Russian military to pilot the Shahed-136 kamikaze drones were killed in Crimea - According to the words of the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine."
Russia expert Gordon M. Hahn looks at the upcoming Russian Winter Offensive. Only with a ceasefire can Ukraine and its sponsors avert the upcoming catastrophe. This for three reasons:
First, the Russian hammer is about to fall on Ukraine. The gloves are coming off; electric energy stations, bridges, and even ‘decision centers’ such as central Kiev’s government buildings are being targeted. ... What will the sociopolitical situation be like when these critical infrastructures are in complete collapse and temperatures are 20 degrees colder? Russia will be moving closer to the strategy of ‘shock and awe’, fully destroying all infrastructure – military or otherwise – as the US did in Serbia and Iraq and will likely take less care now to avoid civilian casualties.
After the infrastructures are completely destroyed or incapacitated, Russia’s reinforcements of 380,000 regular and newly mobilized troops will have been fully added into Russia’s forces across southeastern Ukraine. ... A winter offensive by some half a million troops will make substantial gains on those three fronts and multiply Ukrainian losses in personnel and materiel`, which are already high. This could lead easily to a collapse of Ukrainian forces on one or more front. On the backs of such a success Russian President Putin might also make another attempt to threaten Kiev ...
Second, the West is suffering from Ukraine fatigue. NATO countries’ arms supplies have been depleted beyond what is tolerable, and social cohesion is collapsing in the face of double-digit inflation and economic recession. All this makes Russia the winner on the strategic level and is forcing Washington and Brussels to seek at least a breathing spell by way of a ceasefire.
... Third, Ukraine’s greatest political asset – Zelenskiy himself – just got devalued, putting at even greater risk Ukraine’s political stability. ... For now, in order to keep the West on board, Zelenskiy is rumored to be pushing Ukrainian armed forces commander Viktor Zalyuzhniy to start a last pre-winter offensive in northern Donetsk (Svatovo and Severodonetsk) or Zaporozhe in order to put a stop to the West’s ceasefire murmurs and reboost support. At the same time there is talk of continuing Zelenskiy-Zalyuzhniy tensions over the latter’s good press and star status in the West. ... On the background of the deteriorating battlefield and international strategic situation, such civil-military tensions are fraught with the potential for a coup. ...
... We may be reaching the watershed moment in the Ukrainian war. No electricity, no army, no society.
@visegrad24 1h
Hungary to ratify Sweden and Finland’s NATO membership applications in early January 2023.
That was the message delivered by PM Orban at today’s Visegrad Group Summit in Slovakia.
@visegrad24 12h
“The Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, today refused to sign the draft declaration of the CSTO Security Council after its meeting.
Both Lukashenko & Putin were furious.
The collective security organization is on the ropes.”
Breakdown of who voted against the European Parliament’s vote on declaring Russia a state sponsor of terrorism.
A small majority of MEPs are from France & Germany. Party-wise, Rassemblement National, AfD and a coalition of small Communist and socialist parties were behind the opposition.
