Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
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What difference will it make? After all, IT’S OVER.
Sounds like Ukraine is still sending more forces to Kursk.
“Ukrainian Soldiers Describe Rapid Offensive Across Border as Russians Fled”
“Ukrainian reinforcements are arriving—including from other fronts, where Kyiv’s forces were already spread thin”
“It was in darkness around 3 a.m. when the Ukrainian platoon encountered the most serious obstacle to their audacious invasion of Russia last week: a row of concrete pyramids designed to obstruct tanks.
They quickly dispatched one of the pyramids with three tank rounds, then poured through the gap in their armored vehicles. The Russian enemy, largely conscripts, mostly fled or surrendered as they were quickly overwhelmed.
“In two-and-a-half years Russia built no defense line,” said the Ukrainian platoon’s 33-year-old commander, who goes by the call sign Yanyk.”
“Iran’s new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, ran as a reformist candidate. But when he announced on Sunday that his cabinet nominees included several conservatives and only one woman, he faced a fierce backlash, with a high-profile vice president resigning and political allies accusing him of abandoning campaign promises to bring change.
The resignation on Sunday of Mohammad Javad Zarif, who had been appointed vice president for strategy and had led a search committee for cabinet nominations, shocked Iran’s political circles. He had been a prominent face of Mr. Pezeshkian’s campaign, traveling across the country and telling voters to give change a chance. Now, he was abandoning the government in a public display of deep divisions before it was even formed.
In a post on his Instagram account, Mr. Zarif said it had become clear to him that he could not bring about the kind of domestic change that people had expected.
“I am not satisfied with the outcome of my work, and I’m ashamed that I could not adequately achieve what I had promised about representation of women, youth and ethnicities and the expert opinion of the committees,” he said.
Mr. Zarif followed up on Monday with another post on to Instagram, saying that his resignation did not mean he regretted supporting Mr. Pezeshkian or that he had lost hope in the new government, but rather “it means that I doubt whether I can be effective as a vice president of strategy.”
More stunning was the timing of Mr. Zarif’s resignation. As Iran’s former foreign minister, its most seasoned foreign policy expert and the top negotiator in the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, he was bowing out as a possible regional war loomed.”
I don’t think it would lead to law and order breakdown throughout Russia UNLESS the public suddenly realise that the Emperor has no clothes.
This is similar to the situation in Romania at the downfall of Ceaucescu or the collapse of the USSR.
People in Russia don’t believe that the apparatus would collapse and are held in check until they suddenly believe that it will collapse.
Ukraine Expands Area of Fighting But Finding Advances Increasingly Blocked
Ukraine has finally provided details of its push into Russian territory as Moscow vows to retake what it’s lost.
https://www.twz.com/news-features/ukraine-expands-area-of-fighting-but-finding-advances-increasingly-blocked
The line “things happen slowly then all at once” comes to mind
There is a reason that the Russians keep as tight a lid on information as the do, shutting down YouTube is just the latest example, and the “internal security forces “ have manning and budget similar to the military
The “deal” that Putin has with his people is you stay out of politics. IE Leave me in power and I will take care of you….
It is evident when you see these videos of people sending videos to their Dear Leader asking for him to save them as if he is somehow better than the local officials they are complaining about
Reporting From Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/@RFU/videos
Reporting From Ukraine Uncensored Combat Footage (from this and past Reports) is found on Telegram:
https://t.me/RFUEnglish or @RFUEnglish
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The complete transcript.
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[ Massive Onslaught: Unlimited Shells vs. Russian Human Wave Attacks ]
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Today [ Aug 13 ], there is a lot of news from the Kurakhove direction.
Here, the Russians conducted a miscalculated attack from the north of Kostiantynivka aimed at overstretching the Ukrainian defense in and around the village.
Even though this attempt was unsuccessful it was almost immediately followed up by several highly attritional waves of mechanized assaults from Novomykhailivka and from the south which tried to exploit the momentum before the Ukrainians were able to further fortify their positions.
Russian commanders decided that their powerful push from the north should have depleted the Ukrainian defense capabilities, at least to a certain extent, so they switched back to their previous tactic of sending mechanized groups consisting of several armored vehicles each.
Russians evaluated the potential routes and decided that given the threat of minefields, taking the roads that they used in the preceding attacks was less risky than trying something new to achieve a tactical surprise, so they launched their assault just to the south of the small lakes between Kostiantynivka and Novomykhailivka.
Geolocated footage released by Ukrainian drone operators captured a powerful Russian assault group, consisting of at least 10 armored vehicles, advancing rapidly towards Kostiantynivka through open fields.
During earlier probing attacks, the Russians analyzed the average response time of Ukrainian forces and used this intelligence to split their assault units into multiple parts, just before the anticipated Ukrainian counterstrikes.
This tactic proved effective, significantly improving the Russians’ chances of crossing the field with reduced combat losses. Each vehicle that manages to reach the designated landing zone and deploy its troops, immediately increases the Russians’ chances of establishing a foothold in the first houses, from which they could attempt to capture the entire settlement.
However, despite using familiar paths into the village, the footage reveals that several armored vehicles struck mines, which either destroyed or immobilized them. In both scenarios, surviving crew members were subsequently targeted by Ukrainian forces with grenades dropped from drones.
This situation underscores the crucial yet perilous work of Ukrainian soldiers in creating and maintaining extensive networks of minefields, which require constant renewal after each mechanized assault.
The second most crucial element in the Ukrainian defense strategy for this operation is the deployment of artillery shells equipped with cluster munitions.
Multiple geolocated videos from this engagement vividly demonstrate the devastating effectiveness of these munitions, which swiftly neutralize Russian heavy equipment and personnel. The visual evidence also suggests that the current influx of Western military aid has significantly improved the Ukrainians’ ability to engage the enemy without the need to conserve ammunition - a stark contrast to several months ago when, for instance, the fall of Avdiivka into Russian hands was partly due to a shortage of artillery shells and air defense resources.
This availability of munitions has enabled the Ukrainians to counter the new Russian tactic of splitting their units during assaults, allowing them to inflict critical damage on the enemy forces while they are in motion.
The third Ukrainian countermeasure is the usage of kamikaze drones. Footage from the area shows dozens of examples of how Ukrainian FPV drones finish off already damaged Russian tanks, BMPs, and MTLBs. Even though the fields around Kostiantynivka are open terrain and hardly provide any cover, the alarming rate of losses of armored vehicles, put pressure on Russian commanders to send their troops to rescue damaged vehicles and try to pull them out to the rear for repair.
In most cases, these missions quickly become suicidal as the Ukrainians are constantly on the lookout, and generally prefer to destroy such vehicles and not give any chance to the Russians to further use them.
Despite witnessing many of their units being destroyed before even reaching the village, the Russian officers in charge of this operation persisted in sending wave after wave of new groups, hoping that at least one would make it to the houses on the outskirts.
Their persistence eventually paid off as evidenced by a video released by the Ukrainian 79th Air
Assault Brigade, which shows two Russian MTLBs vehicles managing to reach the first block of destroyed houses under relentless Ukrainian fire; the troops quickly disembarked and scrambled for cover.
Notably, two armored vehicles were outfitted with large metal plates on top presumably to offer additional protection.
However as the video reveals this added armor proved insufficient, despite attempts to retreat the vehicles were swiftly neutralized.
The scattered Russian soldiers are seen desperately trying to take shelter beneath already destroyed tanks and in the rubble of the houses, but their efforts are in vain due to the precise and effective targeting by Ukrainian drone operators.
Overall, the Ukrainians successfully halted the enemy offensive in this sector, effectively countering
the new Russian tactic of splitting units during assaults.
This success was largely due to the ample supply of munitions available to the defenders, despite the ongoing heavy battles that have raged for weeks with the Russian high command relentlessly sending wave of to wave without significant pauses, the Ukrainian minefields are gradually becoming less dense as no defense strategy can remain flawless indefinitely.
This leads to the Russian troops getting meter after meter closer, allowing them to generate incremental gains.
However, these small steps forward are achieved through the approach of high attrition and the inevitable operational exhaustion is just a matter of time, which will be followed up by a slowdown and these slowdowns allow Ukrainians to create new fortifications ,annihilating any Russian chance of achieving an operational break through and success like Ukrainians recently managed to achieve in the Kursk direction.
I would be surprised if there are not already western contractors including pilots in Ukraine.
In Iraq as well as Afghanistan there were tons of them. Some platforms were entirely civilian. Pilots, maintenance, operations, and logistics were all contractors
It only makes sense, training a pilot does take a long time, but so does maintenance personnel.
Before my unit started kicking out all the “fat old dudes” we had a very high mission capable rate. It began to drop significantly to the point that they brought back many of the folks the kicked out back as civilian trainers
“Russian Troop Shortage Is Exposed After Ukraine’s Incursion, Raising Risk of New Draft”
“A deepening shortage of soldiers for its war in Ukraine is prompting Russia to hike recruitment bonuses to avoid a repeat of an unpopular mobilization. So far, there’s little sign it’s working.
The military isn’t getting enough new soldiers to keep pace with frontline losses that are at their highest since the February 2022 invasion began, according to three people close to the Kremlin and the Russian Defense Ministry, asking not to be identified because the issue is sensitive. Regional officials are now failing to meet more than a third of their recruitment quotas on average, a person familiar with the situation said.
The situation may force Russia to consider a new mobilization, according to two of the people. Officials may present it as a rotation measure to rest frontline troops, one of the people said, while another said a draft may be ordered as soon as the end of this year.”
“The scale of Russian losses and inadequate replacement levels make it increasingly difficult to sustain the current strategy of slowly grinding out advances in Ukraine, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. There’s no longer any discussion about seizing Kyiv and other cities because Russia doesn’t have the manpower, the person said.”
The Delusion runs stronk in this one:
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Kremlin snuff box, 08/13/24
https://t.me/s/kremlin_secrets
Putin is asked to urgently ban the dollar and divorces in Russia. Then we will “recapture the Kursk region and take Kyiv”
The initiator of these bans, the philosopher Alexander Dugin, made this request to the President, “I know that everything is being prepared. Divorces are being banned little by little, and we will refuse enemy currency. But everything is going terribly slowly. And now we very urgently need to abandon everything Western that is corrupting Russian culture and the Russian spirit. Then the people will see a new reality, real values. Unite around them. And we will win. We will not only retake the Kursk region, but we will take Kyiv, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Odessa. We will destroy Ukraine so that everyone will forget about it,” said Alexander Gelievich in a commentary to our channel.
According to him, he has already “had a short conversation with Vladimir Vladimirovich on this topic.” And he believes that the President will hear him.
The Kremlin confirmed to us that Putin had a conversation with Dugin. But they refused to say whether the issues of banning the dollar and divorces are being considered right now.
Kremlin snuff box, 08/13/24
https://t.me/s/kremlin_secrets
In Crimea, they said whether the Kursk region could “repeat” there
A statement about the threat of attacks on the Crimean Bridge and cutting of the land corridor to Crimea was made on Channel One:
“At the end of August - beginning of September there will be another large-scale offensive operation from Ukraine. It is possible that the land corridor to Crimea will be blocked along with a massive strike by F-16 aircraft on the Crimean Bridge.” https://t.me/rusbrief/258939
We found out if the situation is really that serious.
“An enemy attack on Crimea is possible. But it will definitely not be successful,” our source in the Ministry of Defense briefly said on this matter. At the same time, he believes that a ground operation by the Ukrainian army in Crimea is “not very likely.” A much greater threat is missile strikes and drone attacks.
The interlocutor surrounded by Sergei Aksenov is less optimistic. “There is a threat of an enemy invasion of Crimea. But we are preparing. We are doing everything to ensure that the Kursk region does not happen again,” he said.
The source refused to comment on the threat of large-scale attacks on the Crimean Bridge, noting that “this danger has existed for a long time.”
Moreover, the fact that this was announced on Channel One, in his opinion, cannot be an accident. “The enemy is very dangerous. Everyone should understand this, not just the military,” an ally of the head of Crimea is confident.
Kremlin snuff box, 08/12/24
https://t.me/s/kremlin_secrets
Two important points on the Kursk breakthrough of the Ukrainian Armed Forces
The first thing I would like to note is that our reserves did reach the breakthrough site. Now there is an attempt to stop the enemy offensive. However, the breakthrough area is significant.
The threat of a serious breakthrough also remains in the Belgorod region, which is why the evacuation of the population from the border areas began there. Here, the governor did not follow the example of his Kursk colleague, who talked about the results of the evacuation, forgetting to actually organize it in the first days.
Now there will be more videos of contact battles, enemy equipment destroyed, and so on. However, almost a week has passed since the breakthrough began. During this time, 589 of our military personnel were considered captured or missing (data from the Ministry of Defense).
The second is elections. Now there is open panic in the Central Election Commission and the Kremlin political bloc. There is no way to hold elections during active hostilities. But the President insists that canceling the elections would indicate serious problems.
The CEC has been tasked with urgently preparing a version of a separate format for the Single Voting Day, which will be implemented for the Kursk region.
Naturally, there will be no campaigning or rallies now. Alexey Smirnov will retain power. Although many on the ground had questions about the acting governor’s belated reaction to the breakthrough of enemy troops into the region under his control. And in general, the border area remained practically uncovered.
Rumor has it that local elites doubt the need to hold elections and are sending a signal that it would be better to postpone the vote. At the same time, after the situation has stabilized, they propose to replace the candidacy of Alexei Smirnov ( and even blame all the failures on him ).
Now the Central Election Commission is not ready to say for sure whether it will be possible to hold elections in the Kursk region, as the President demands.
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 11, 2024
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-august-11-2024
The hastily assembled and disparate Russian force grouping responding to the Ukrainian incursion into Kursk Oblast is comprised of Russian units likely below their doctrinal end strength and ill-prepared to establish the joint command and control (C2) structures necessary to coordinate operations.
Ukrainian military observer Kostyantyn Mashovets reported on August 11 that Russian forces have thus far redeployed roughly 10 to 11 battalions from across the theater to Kursk Oblast, but suggested that these battalion units are below their intended end strength, likely further exacerbating the disorganization of the Russian response.
Mashovets reported that Russian forces have deployed to defend in Kursk Oblast:
1 reinforced motorized rifle battalion of the 138th Motorized Rifle Brigade (6th Combined Arms Army [CAA], Leningrad Military District [LMD]);
Up to 3 battalions from the 128th Motorized Rifle Brigade and 72nd Motorized Rifle Division (both of the 44th Army Corps [AC], LMD) from the Northern Grouping of Forces in northern Kharkiv Oblast;
1 motorized rifle battalion of the 272nd Motorized Rifle Regiment (47th Tank Division, 1st Guards Tank Army [GTA], Moscow Military District [MMD]) from the Kupyansk direction;
Up to 2 airborne (VDV) assault battalions of the 217th VDV Regiment (98th VDV Division) from within Kursk Oblast;
Units of an unspecified echelon of the 104th VDV Division from Kherson Oblast;
1 battalion, possibly of the 810th Naval Infantry Brigade (Black Sea Fleet [BSF]) from the Kherson direction that Mashovets assessed is more likely of the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade (BSF) from northern Kharkiv Oblast;
Additional battalions of the 38th and 64th motorized rifle brigades (both of the 35th CAA, Eastern Military District [EMD]), likely from the Zaporizhia direction.
Mashovets’ reporting largely coheres with a report from another Ukrainian source on August 9 and contradicts widespread Russian milblogger claims on August 10 and 11 that elements of the 810th Naval Infantry Brigade are fighting near Sudzha and Martynovka.
Russia’s redeployment of battalion and lower-level units, rather than full brigades and regiments to defend in Kursk Oblast, is likely contributing to Russian forces’ difficulty in quickly establishing effective C2 in the area.
Ukraine-based open-source intelligence organization Frontelligence Insight reported that both Russian and Ukrainian forces will redeploy battalions across the frontline and that these battalions are often at the strength of reinforced companies, due to manpower and materiel shortages, including newly-created units that are not fully staffed.
Frontelligence Insight noted that drone units often deploy separately from their parent units, due to their higher mobility and combat effectiveness, and so observing drone activities in any given area of the theater does not necessarily mean that the drone element’s parent unit is operating in the vicinity.
The disorganized nature of regular Russian battalions, combined with the Russian decision to assign the defense of Kursk Oblast to the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), rather than to the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD), as well as the integration of conscripts, FSB personnel, and Rosgvardia elements in combat, will hinder the Russian effort to establish effective C2.
Mashovets assessed that Russian forces are likely attempting to buy time for further, more comprehensive force redeployments to defend in Kursk Oblast and focusing on minimizing the Ukrainian offensive effort, rather than establishing a joint C2 structure.
A prominent, Kremlin-awarded, Russian milblogger claimed that Russian forces in Kursk Oblast are struggling to communicate with each other, and often do not know the units operating on their flanks due to rapid redeployments of Russian units from different force groupings, ultimately undermining the integrity of the Russian defensive lines.
“ban divorces in Russia”
After that, RuZZia can require every woman to have a baby within 12 months, or face the firing squad.
Purifying RuZZian Society.
Elections, sure results are already prepared, but sadly not much different from here.
Mail in ballots for “displaced” Russians are already counted
When I saw the word campaigning I about spit my coffee out
Nope they are building trenches in the sand again, burn up those resources
But the usuals here say Putin doesn’t want all of Ukraine, humm
Awesome!
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