https://x.com/igorsushko/status/1791320398656925782
The video shows the only drone that did not get shot down.
The drone in the video looks like a Bayraktar TB2, pictured above.
Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
“Jeopardy! For 500 points, what is Novorossiysk?
“Novorossiysk is the last ruZZian Black Sea port that was safe enough for them to actually use.” “
Tuapse oil refinery burns after 🇺🇦 UAV attack
The siren has been blaring in the city for about 15 minutes.
do not leave your house
““No one leaves the house. Neither to school, nor to work,” the deputy head of Novorossiysk in the chat of his telegram channel”
https://twitter.com/TreasChest/status/1791300551201743304
Biden was an idiot for telling Ukraine not to hit any more refineries.
Hit em all. Burn it down.
“Russia: Rosneft’s Tuapse Oil Refinery on fire after Ukrainian drone strikes in Krasnodar Krai on the Black Sea coast. It had a refining capacity of 240,000 barrels per day.”
https://twitter.com/search?q=Tuapse&src=typed_query
Sevastopol has joined the chat…
Public transport in Novorossiysk does not work after the UAV attack and explosions, - deputy head of the city.
Damage To Russia’s Belbek Air Base In Crimea Seen After Ukrainian Strikes
Ukrainian attacks this week targeted a portion of the flightline at Belbek Air Base where Russian MiG-31 interceptors regularly park.
https://www.twz.com/news-features/damage-to-russias-belbek-air-base-in-crimea-seen-after-ukrainian-strikes
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MiG-31 Foxhounds Confirmed Destroyed In New Imagery Of Belbek Air Base
New satellite imagery confirms the loss of two MiG-31 interceptors and other significant damage at Belbek after recent Ukrainian strikes.
https://www.twz.com/news-features/mig-31-foxhounds-confirmed-destroyed-in-new-imagery-of-belbek-air-base
OT:
Eying China Threat, Congress Pushes Navy On At-Sea Rearming
The Navy’s inability to reload its surface combatants at sea with fresh missiles has become a glaring risk.
https://www.twz.com/sea/eying-china-threat-congress-pushes-navy-on-at-sea-rearming
Stop, Drop and Roll, RuZZian Boy
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On the Lyman-Yampolivka direction.
Reporting From Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/@RFU/videos
The complete transcript.
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[ Russian Are Finished! Ukrainians Exhaust Russian Forces And Take Ground! ]
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Day 813: May 16
Today, there are a lot of updates from the Lyman direction.
Here, Ukrainians have largely exhausted Russian combat capabilities and have conducted a series of powerful counterattacks to regain lost positions.
Over the past months, Russian forces have persistently tried to cross the Zherebets River to ultimately take control over the Ukrainian city of Lyman. Lyman functions as the Ukrainians’ headquarters in the region, from where they supply, reinforce, and rotate their forces on the front line.
Despite the intensity of Russian assaults, Russian forces have not been able to even reach the Zherebets River, as all Russian attacks were halted well before they could reach the Ukrainian settlements guarding the river.
As stated in previous reports, Ukrainian defenders in the settlements of Terny, Yampolivka, and Torske have repelled the Russian offensive effort and drained the Russians of their combat capabilities.
The severity of the Russian losses is apparent, as Russians have halted their offensive actions in the area to reorganize and replace their manpower and equipment losses.
Ukrainians realized that they could not simply sit by and wait for the Russians to rebuild their strength and had to use this opening to strike the Russians back.
However, despite their high losses, Russian forces still maintained a numerically larger force on the front line than the Ukrainians. Consequently, Ukrainians needed to find a way to counterattack the Russian positions despite being heavily outnumbered.
Ukrainians managed to do this in a two-pronged operation.
First, Ukrainian drone operators intensely targeted Russian infantry on the front line. Geolocated footage shows how Ukrainians were targeting Russian infantry in the trenches in front of Yampolivka with FPV kamikaze drones.
Secondly, Ukrainians used their heavy octocopter drones to mine Russian supply lines toward these frontline positions with anti-tank mines.
Ukrainians released drone footage of Russian tanks, Infantry fighting vehicles, and armored personnel carriers being destroyed by mines in their attempts to reach and reinforce the Russian frontline positions.
A Ukrainian military blogger showed that Ukrainians use these large drones, mainly at night, to prevent visual detection. He also stated that Russians use listening posts to locate and take down the Ukrainian octocopters, as they are also quite loud.
Ultimately, these listening posts form little threat to Ukrainian operations, as Ukrainian military observers note that they are easily detectable themselves and destroyed with suicide drones or drone-dropped grenades.
As Ukrainians deteriorated the Russian presence on the frontline and destroyed any reinforcements that tried to fill the gaps, Ukrainians managed to create a localized superiority in manpower to the Russians.
Additionally, Ukrainians held the element of surprise, as Russian infantry still felt they had the initiative and were unprepared to form a coherent defense or even consistently wear their bulletproof vests.
Later, Ukrainians released geolocated combat footage, showing they had begun counterattacking Russian positions.
The footage shows the high preparation and coordination of the Ukrainian assault group, as they received live information from a reconnaissance drone, as well as multiple FPV kamikaze drones standing by for support.
The Ukrainian assault group consisted of pure infantry with no armored support, to avoid losing the element of surprise, as large armored vehicles would be quickly spotted by Russian reconnaissance.
Finally, after receiving the order, the Ukrainian assault group advanced towards the Russian position along the tree line. They opened fire to suppress the Russian defenders, and after a short firefight, the Russian infantry surrendered and were taken captive by the Ukrainian fighters.
In the aftermath of this attacks, Russian forces intensified their artillery bombardments on the regained Ukrainian positions. Geolocated footage of these bombardments confirms that Ukrainians had taken full control over this positions.
As Russians had lost their combat capability due to prior attacks they were unable to mount a counterattack to follow up on this artillery bombardments, meaning Ukrainians were able to hold on despite the mountain pressure.
In turn Ukrainians also targeted Russian Artillery systems to hold the bombardment. Geolocated footage shows how Ukrainian drone operators destroyed a Russian GRAD multiple rocket launch system before it could fire on Ukrainian targets.
A Ukrainian military blogger stated that this operation showcases the Ukrainian ability to successfully counterattack and force the initiative on the Russians, despite their significantly larger numbers in manpower and equipment.
The Institute for the Study of War also confirmed that based on the released combat footage Ukrainians had indeed been able to advance along the tree lines east of Yampolivka.
Overall a series of disastrous Russian attacks drained the Russian combat capabilities, forcing them to hold their offensive operations to reorganize and reinforce their losses.
Ukrainians managed to take advantage of this operational pause to further drain Russian units on the front line and destroy any Russian reinforcements that tried to alleviate the pressure.
This created a localized superiority in combat capabilities for Ukrainians. which allowed them to counterattack and regain lost positions, while Russians were unable to gather enough forces to mount a counterattack.
Once again Ukrainians have proved to be able to take the fight to the Russians despite being outgunned on nearly all fronts improving their tactical situation in the process.
Shoigu gone, but the mysticism continues:
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Kremlin snuff box, 5/17/24
https://t.me/s/kremlin_secrets
The ashes of the great commander Suvorov* were divided into two parts
This was done on the instructions of Sergei Shoigu, sources close to the Security Council Secretary told us.
“Part of the ashes of the great commander, who you see, how he helps us advance at the front, truly leads our soldiers forward, now in the Kharkov region. It’s not easy there. Some, on the initiative of Sergei Kuzhugetovich, began to be transported to defense industry enterprises. Chemezov personally gave the go-ahead,” one of our interlocutors told us.
According to another, Shoigu planned to take particles of Suvorov’s ashes to China, but he was not allowed. They said that “there is no point in shocking our Chinese friends with bones and exposing Vladimir Vladimirovich.”
Sergei Kuzhugetovich was forced to obey. But he believes that particles of the remains of the great commander could help achieve more during the visit. For example, direct supplies of Chinese weapons to us.
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*Count Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov-Rymniksky, Prince of Italy; a Russian general and military theorist in service of the Russian Empire and the Habsburg monarchy. He was Count of Rymnik (1789)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Suvorov
Kremlin snuff box, 05/17/24
https://t.me/s/kremlin_secrets
Gentlemen, please tell me: did Shoigu take all the air defense with him when he left?
Or what’s been happening over the past few days? I don’t even want to tell you where we ended up last night. Again, “everything was knocked down,” and the fires are “the consequences of being hit by shrapnel”?
Tired of listening to this.
Something needs to be done about this. I wonder if the President is even informed about real problems?
I understand the desire to not see nationals killed in Ukraine, but for experience in iraq and Afghanistan, much of the logistics and maintenance was done by contractors.
Almost all maintenance on RC aircraft was done by civilian contractors. For the RC-26s there was a full bird Col and CMSGT that supervised maintenance, that was a hell of a gig for them
As the song goes the lure of easy money has a very strong appeal.
Imagine there are plenty of folks with experience who would be willing to work on equipment like patriot and f-16s as well as other western equipment.
Bizarre video. “Putin” bragging that Xi let him have 2 pieces of duck at dinner yesterday.
https://twitter.com/prof_preobr/status/1791414072585474554
Caption translation:
Putin, beaming with happiness, says that yesterday at dinner at Xi’s, he got as many as 2 pieces of duck.
A serf, even imagining himself to be a king, remains a serf.
Chertishchev MS. Magical thinking in normal and pathological conditions: literature review.Neurology Bulletin.2022;LIV(4):32–44.
https://journals.eco-vector.com/1027-4898/article/view/108946/pdf_1
“In the Russian-speaking sample, a comparison of the magical thinking levels in groups of patients with various mental disorders and healthy subjects did not show any differences between them.”
https://x.com/igorsushko/status/1791320398656925782
The video shows the only drone that did not get shot down.
The drone in the video looks like a Bayraktar TB2, pictured above.
Why did ruzzia deploy MiG-31s to Crimea?
My guess is to sit air defense alert to help protect the Kerch bridge.
Interesting.
““For the first time since the start of the war, we have enough artillery [shells]” - Zelensky”
Sumy could be next
“Russians pulled up tanks in the Kursk region near the border with Sumy. They were noticed early and two were destroyed immediately after detection by the 103rd Territorial Defense Brigade.”
https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1791428201316507916
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