Posted on 08/30/2023 6:15:58 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
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Calling someone a RuZZian on FR is considered an insult.
Calling someone a Comrade on FR is considered an insult.
Summarizing this war:
A tragedy for Ukraine.
A disaster for RuZZia.
A strategic win for the USA. The biggest winner of the war.
“More than three decades after Reagan left office, most Republicans still believe that America is a force for good.”
“‘Killed in packs’: Desperate Putin offers soldiers huge salaries as he runs short of troops, weapons and ammo”
“The Russian president is attempting to lure new recruits – but it may not be enough after mass casualties and as ammunition runs low”
“Russian soldiers are earning almost three times the average salary in the country, the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said.
Troops are now being paid around 200,000 rubles (£1,650) per month, which is 2.7 times more than most Russians’ paychecks.
“By way of comparison, 2.7 times the average UK salary would equate to over £90,000 a year,” the MoD said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Officials say that Russian forces have become increasingly well remunerated since its invasion of Ukraine. The MoD said that in February 2022, Vladimir Putin noted that a lieutenant would receive 81,200 rubles (£670) per month. Eight months later, he announced that even new recruits would be paid 195,000 rubles (£1,650) per month.
But the Russian president is still struggling to recruit soldiers and is likely to “fail to meet recruitment targets”, the department said, as high pay and benefits fail to attract volunteers amid dwindling ammunition and resources.”
“Roman Saponkov, a Russian military blogger with more than 70,000 subscribers, wrote on Friday: “The brigade commander and the chief of the reconnaissance battalion are sending our guys in without artillery support, without drones — poor guys are being killed in packs.”
Another milblogger noted that soldiers occupying islands near the Dnipro river have complained of lack of ammunition, food, artillery support and reconnaissance.”
Can anyone think of a single NATO member that has not invaded Russia?
“Drones were fired at six Russian regions, damaging military planes at an airport.”
In what appeared to be one of the largest-scale drone attacks on Russia in months, military transport planes were damaged near the country’s border with Estonia, a Russian regional official said early Wednesday. In Ukraine, officials said the same morning that at least two people had been killed in attacks in Kyiv.
Russian officials said drone attacks had targeted six regions in the west and southwest of the country. An attack on the airport in Pskov, 30 miles from the border, damaged four Il-76 military cargo aircraft, engulfing two of them in flames, a regional governor in Russia said in a statement. Russia’s defense ministry said at least eight Ukrainian drones had been intercepted over at least five other regions of the country but did not address the event in Pskov.
No injuries were reported in the widespread attacks, which were not independently verified.”
“According to Russian sources, 4 Il-76 heavy cargo aircraft were “damaged”- one can be seen burning fiercely in this footage.”
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1696784537085264230
https://twitter.com/GloOouD/status/1696792294895096312
https://twitter.com/IntelCrab/status/1696671649762812100
“after a Ukrainian drone attack, Russia tried to retaliate by striking with cruise missiles and drones. All cruise missiles (28/28) and 15/16 Shahed drones were shot down, the Ukrainian Air Force reports.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1696773702426218836
“In Bryansk, a Ukrainian UAV reportedly hit the Kremniy EL plant. It is one of the largest Russian manufacturers of microelectronics.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1696659922182631528
“Putin struggles with falling ruble, rising prices as sanctions bite”
When Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed top economic officials last week after a bruising month in which the Russian ruble plummeted to a 16-month low against the U.S. dollar, the Russian president sought to set a confident tone. The Russian economy, he said, was growing again and wages were rising.
But despite the show of bravado, Putin could not avoid mentioning a growing weakness that is stalking the economy as Western sanctions bite ever deeper, and one that has been exacerbated by the ruble’s plunge.
“Objective data shows that inflationary risks are increasing, and the task of reining in price growth is now the number one priority,” Putin said, with a note of tension in his voice. “I ask my colleagues in the government and the Central Bank to keep the situation under constant control.””
“#Ukrainian «Kara Group» of 63rd Mechanised Brigade destroys 🇷🇺#Russian assault group in Kreminna Forest.”
https://twitter.com/GloOouD/status/1696842487854202959
“The Russian Bobr group continues to provide additional information on Ukrainian progress, releases footage that confirms a Ukrainian advance almost up to the Surovikin line east of Robotyne.”
https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1696610393362182570
“Heavy fighting is happening near Verbove, both Russian and Ukrainian sources report. Initial reports suggest that the AFU is entering the western outskirts of the settlement.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1696806456073269303
“Ukrainian forces have visually confirmed broken through the primary Russian defense line west of Verbove. In addition, another Ukrainian deep-strike force operates east of Novoprokopivka.”
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1696847099311071586
“Russian Artillery (100th Sep. Recon BDE) shelling Ukrainians BEHIND the first Surovikin Defense line near #Verbove. The 82nd Air Assault Brigade has breached.”
https://twitter.com/GeoConfirmed/status/1696811846303449093
“What looks like advances in the Direction of Verbove by the 82nd Air Assault Brigade.”
https://twitter.com/DefMon3/status/1696800042462392605
“Tu-95s showing a new covering on the ground at Engels 2. Unclear exactly what it is but could be to confuse missiles using digital image matching for terminal guidance, like the land attack Neptune that’s supposedly now in play. Report on that weapon & this application coming.”
https://twitter.com/Aviation_Intel/status/1696597523220291687
“In the latest example of changes to US strategic bomber operations, B-2 stealth bombers Tuesday landed in Norway for the first time. The nuclear-capable bombers are on a lengthy forward deployment to Iceland. The US Air Force is expanding the bases it operates heavy bombers.”
https://twitter.com/nukestrat/status/1696715490893168769
“Headquarters of political party “United Russia” was blown up in occupied Nova Kakhovka, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol Petro Andryushchenko said.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1696788873186103708
“The 40th artillery brigade destroyed a Russian BMP-2.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1696782774563185114
“The 44th artillery brigade and aerial reconnaissance of the 65th mechanized brigade targeted and destroyed a Russian 203-mm 2C7 “Pion” SPG, somewhere in the south of Ukraine.”
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1696777849737220118
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