Presidential Brigade.
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1718592222482821465
5 minute video of artillery forward observation...with English subtitles.
Previous day’s thread: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4192859/posts
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.”
Presidential Brigade.
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1718592222482821465
5 minute video of artillery forward observation...with English subtitles.
https://twitter.com/ChuckPfarrer/status/1718610984342888612
These targeting and observation drones enable deadly accurate counterbattery fire.
Because “and then it caught fire” is apparently a natural part of the business cycle in Russia.
https://twitter.com/officejjsmart/status/1718594072447705273
https://twitter.com/ChuckPfarrer/status/1718429941425955259
Grab a warhead off of a Rocket Propelled Grenade and fly it into an armored vehicle (or any vehicle) from 5 to 10 miles away.
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1718609634779431110
So, ruzzia is flying CAS missions near Avdiivka.
What is ruzzian artillery doing?
And putin has what moral ground to criticize Israel for defending itself?
https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/1718528062088790280
I believe FrankenSAM is primarily using RIM-7 Sea Sparrow missiles and possibly Aim-9Ms.
They claim that he failed to report an accurate picture of the situation on the ground.
Sounds more like that they needed another scape goat for the Russian failures in this sector.
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1718663927968469247
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1718674502387720268
Krasnodar is east of the Kertch bridge.
“In Makhachkala, Russia, a mob of Dagestanis is chasing through the airport building, trying to find Jewish people or Israeli citizens.
The lynching atmosphere in some Russian regions have reached levels similar to the Reichskristallnacht in Nazi-Germany.”
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1718688867467903249
What will the pro-Russian Freepers say about this? How can the Russian Nazis de-nazify Ukraine? It doesn’t make sense. Shouldn’t Putin send his troops to de-nazify Dagestan?
Artillery Losses
October 2023 - 77
This is the best stat up there.
This seems to be an artillery and mine war.
I don’t believe the tanks anymore. That is, they don’t seem to be uke troop killers — like artillery. rus tanks are not great on defense and seem to just get blown on offense. Whereas rus artillery —while not so accurate—is deadly enough to cause uke losses sufficient to keep the ukes from massing anywhere.
kill enough rus artillery and maybe there will develop holes in the rus lines.
maybe not.
still the best hope for success for the ukes is to come in behind rus lines from the dneiper. Seems lots more things need to come into place for that to happen in force.
Remember the raccoon stolen from the zoo in Kherson by Russian forces?
It has been stolen again!
ISW reports:
“A Russian VDV-affiliated milblogger announced on October 28 that he was forced to shut down his Telegram channel, implying that unspecified actors abducted the raccoon that the milblogger had been using as a mascot to help gain notoriety and fundraise for Russian forces. The milblogger claimed that the channel generated over 20 million rubles ($212,000) for Russian forces within a year.
The raccoon gained fame when Russian forces stole it from a zoo when withdrawing from west (right) bank Kherson Oblast in November 2022.
The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) has increasingly targeted Russian milbloggers in censorship and self-censorship campaigns, and it is possible that MoD-affiliated actors aimed to censor this milblogger.
The milblogger claimed that “traitors” abducted the raccoon and left occupied Ukraine and suggested that the milblogger may have personally known who took the animal, however.
Ukrainian Kherson Oblast Military Administration Advisor Serhiy Khlan stated that the raccoon had previously attacked Kherson Oblast occupation head Vladimir Saldo and criticized the Russians for losing the raccoon.
ISW is unable independently to confirm reports of the raccoon’s whereabouts or actions.”
Last Friday (27 October 2023), Russia was expected to raise interest rates another full percentage point.
But instead they raised two. Now the rate is 15%, up from 7.5% on July 21st.
Rates doubled in three months, from a base that was already high among the G20. Now only two other members have higher interest rates (Argentina and Turkey), and those countries are recognized as in economic crisis.
The Bank of Russia said the hike was because of inflation exceeding their expectations (6%, vs. a target of 4%), but their reported inflation rates are not really much higher than most countries (between that of the UK and Australia).
So either they are lying about their inflation rate (likely), or they are really raising rates in an effort to support the value of the ruble (likely), or likely both.
Russia’s radical capital controls, imposed on 11 October, have succeeded in temporarily preventing the ruble from nosediving (now around 94 to the dollar), but they obviously see a pressing need for further radical actions.
Russia’s economic policies now clearly put it in the company of the world’s economic basket cases. Doubling over about the last three months is the fastest rate of interest rate increases of any nation in the world.
Putin continues to accelerate, as he drives Russia over a cliff.
Brace for impact, anytime after Putin’s “re-election” in March.
