Posted on 08/29/2023 4:09:12 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
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Knock, Knock.
Who’s there?
The Ukraine Army
https://twitter.com/Teoyaomiquu/status/1696563428918284565
“The 108th Airborne Regiment of the RF Armed Forces lost from a third to a half of its personnel in two weeks of fighting in the Rabotino area... Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, they fought in the Kherson region, where in the fall of 2022 he suffered heavy losses”
They are not your father’s Airborne anymore.
Those “elite” Airborne units are by now mostly comprised of 2nd and 3rd string replacements. The crazy brave guys are long since dead, and cowardly shirkers are likely disproportionally represented among the survivors.
“winning the war requires winning the “drone” war.”
I believe that is likely the key to tactical success.
The Russians have mass on their side. The counter to mass is precision, and that requires the kind of real time targeting capability that drones provide.
At sea, the drones have also been transformative area denial weapons.
In the air, drones have not played a direct role in air superiority, but they have played a big role in long range air strikes, and suppression of enemy air defenses.
On land, sea, or air; this war is a coming of age party for drone warfare. Winning wars from here on out will likely require winning the drone war.
Airborne used to parachute, glide into enemy territory, these guys are just glorified meat troops with a smattering of training - if they were lucky - hanging out in bunkers and trenches.
“Gazprom’s Net Income Shrinks on Capped Gas Flows to Europe”
“Gazprom PJSC’s net income for the first half of the year fell to the lowest since 2020, due to the Russian natural gas giant’s sharply reduced flows to Europe.
Net income fell to 296.2 billion rubles ($3.1 billion) in January-June, from 2.5 trillion rubles for the same period a year ago, Gazprom said Tuesday. The producer reported a loss of 18.6 billion rubles in the second quarter.
Gazprom has capped flows to Europe — once its biggest market — since last year amid the growing standoff between Russia and the West over the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine. Almost all major pipeline routes delivering Russian gas to Europe have been halted, with flows to several countries cut off entirely in 2022 after they refused to pay for the fuel in rubles.
“The drop in exports to Europe was partially offset by an increase in supplies to China, which will continue to grow further as part of contractual obligations,” Deputy Chief Executive Officer Famil Sadygov said in a statement, following the financial results.
Still, deliveries to China are just a fraction of what the producer used to send to Europe. Gazprom supplies gas to the Asian nation from its fields in eastern Siberia, which aren’t linked to its pipelines delivering gas to the European Union.”
Russian occupation leaders are fleeing Tokmak.
“Russian occupation “authorities” reportedly began leaving the city of Tokmak in the Ukraine’s south, according to locals
The city is the first on the way of the Ukrainian counteroffensive, located 20 km from the current frontline”
https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1696548260301988033
“That’s according to the information of locals reported by Ivan Fedorov, the mayor of Melitopol, which is the next occupied Ukrainian city in the area.
“The occupiers are being smoked out of Tokmak. Almost daily explosions and the liberation of settlements in the Melitopol direction transform Tokmak, which is still occupied, to a completely front-line city,” Fedorov said.
While the initial distance from the Russian-occupied city of Tokmak to the frontline was about 31 km, it is now less than 20 km as the Ukrainian army advanced, taking Robotyne and areas around it. The Ukrainian army has reached the second line of Russian defense in the area”
It will just come back under a different name, cranked comes to mind
(Gazprom) “Net income fell to 296.2 billion rubles ($3.1 billion) in January-June, from 2.5 trillion rubles for the same period a year ago, Gazprom said Tuesday.”
Almost a 90% drop in revenues during the first half of this year, compared to last year. But it gets even much worse for Russia:
“The producer reported a loss of 18.6 billion rubles in the second quarter.”
Gazprom is now running at a loss!
This is a Strategic defeat for Russia. The full financial effects have yet to be felt - but they are mounting quickly.
Talk about running an economy into the wall...
This Putin guy is pure gold, when it comes to impoverishing Russia.
The loss of Gazprom revenue will be a powerful force driving the more rapid depletion of Russia’s foreign reserves. Several major factors, like this one (the civilian economy shrinking, unaffordable war and security expenses, support costs for a weakening ruble), seem to be accelerating, indicating that the impact will likely be hard, when the reserves run out.
Putin’s foot is on the gas rather than the brake, as he drives the Russian economy into the wall.
“Almost all major pipeline routes delivering Russian gas to Europe have been halted”
Ukraine has indicated that it will not renew trans-shipment agreements with Russia next year, so the landlocked last laggards in Central Europe still importing Russian gas (who admittedly faced tougher infrastructure challenges), like Austria and Hungary, will have just this last Winter as a grace period to replace Russian gas supplies.
Putin made this happen.
Send more Artillery!
Troops in the open!
Hitting the Russian reinforcements as they move - this is getting to be a bit more like maneuver warfare, rather than trench warfare.
https://twitter.com/ChuckPfarrer/status/1696583538533937282/photo/1
Imagine some pretty good memes could be made from this picture
Just when your tan was going so well
RT says it’s just a fireworks show(I know lame)
Himars, cluster time. Nothing like a target rich environment
Send the 76th I was “reliably “ informed that they have only lost 10% for whole war
This looks like a desperate attempt to get UKR to redeploy reinforcements from other fronts.
“these guys (Airborne) are just glorified meat troops”
Airborne forces are essentially light Infantry. What really distinguishes them is high motivation and training.
When I served in the 82nd Airborne Division, I was particularly impressed with the quality of the junior enlisted soldiers - E-1 to E-4. They had self-selected to volunteer for jump school. They were generally a ballsier and more squared away group than I have seen in other Divisions (admittedly a small sample). They do the bulk of the small arms fighting.
When these Russian Airborne units get reconstituted with 50 or 70% mobilized replacements, I would anticipate that they would be generally less effective than an average (normal) light Infantry unit, rather than more effective, as their patch and beret might imply.
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