Posted on 07/15/2023 7:37:51 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Update from Ukraine | Ukraine stopped the Ruzzian forces in Avdiivka. New tactics for Ukrainian Army
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0Fsqu4-UG8
The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 12th July 2023 – 22:00
https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-504-summary/
*** Great interactive map with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front!
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“The consortium and its hangers-on should just go home to the Great Big Giant zElensky Thread.”
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Yes, it’s all nice and set up for them. Over 4,800 posts strong!
They’ve left a light on for the consortium over there and even baked cookies. They’re only the slice and bake kind, but they’re fresh and it’s the thought that counts, right?
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“It’s your IP address,,,,,,,”
Perhaps.
I lurked prior and have been a Freeper since 2000.
Few know abuse that I have received in the past from: slander, name-calling, taunting, trolling, stalking, insults, religious insults, threats, harassing & annoying posts, unwanted posts to threats of physical harm & threat of doxxing!
Yet, I personally can attest to the Free Republic moderators handling of significant issues. I am totally impressed with their ability to act and very thankful. I am very appreciative that this site exists and is managed so well.
Mia culpa. Sorry. Didn’t mean to offend you.
Typically I only refer to a comment, but not duplicate. I must have mis-interrpreted your true intention.
“counter arguments”
No.
Difference of opinions and providing supportive sources for those views is ESPECIALLY what is appreciated.
Behavioral Compliance in commenting is not difficult:
As Jim Robinson posted 07/08/2023:
“Discuss the issues all you wish, BUT DO NOT MAKE IT PERSONAL! Remember to use common courtesy when posting to FR. Leave off the insults and flames, name calling, etc.”
VIDEO WITH SUMMARIZED COMMENTARY
15 Jul: Ukrainians EXPLOIT A SHORT-TERM WEAKNESS of the Russian Flanks | War in Ukraine Explained
Reporting from Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9cwAJspt9U
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I am Ukrainian. My country has been invaded by Russia. In this video I will tell you what happened on the five hundred seventh day of the war.
Day 507: Jul 15
Today there is a lot of good news from the east.
Here, Ukrainian forces doubled down on their use of artillery and assault drones to target Russian forces concentrations. A commander of one of the Ukrainian detachments reported that there are still plenty of Russian troops in Klishchiivka, which is why Ukrainians are not conducting ground attacks in this particular region.
As you can see from the geolocated footage, Ukrainian shells are exploding between the lake and the small forest, which is the center of Klishchiivka. Notably, Ukrainians are not targeting the trenches on the hills, which confirms that Ukrainians did not lose control over the main fortification and successfully repelled all Russian counterattacks.
Apart from targeting forces concentrations, Ukrainian commanders discovered another huge opportunity. As the Russian command became obsessed with the goal of returning control over the fortification, they allocated troops for achieving this task at the expense of other parts of the front line – more specifically, at the expense of their positions between Klishchiivka and Kurdiumivka.
As you can see, Ukrainians established physical control over the northern tree line and established fire control over the tree lines along the canal, which means that the Russian defense here relied only on their positions in these 2 tree lines. Ukrainians exploited the weakness of the Russian defense here and conducted a pincer movement by attacking Russians from two sides.
The storming operations were conducted by the fighters from the famous 3rd Assault Brigade. They caught Russians by surprise, rapidly advanced to the enemy positions on armored fighting vehicles, and within seconds after landing, started storming Russian fortifications.
One by one, Ukrainians revealed, assaulted, and cleared all Russian positions in the tree line. After they were done, Russian forces shelled the whole region, attempting to inflict unsustainable losses and force Ukrainians to retreat, however, the Ukrainians retained control over the newly gained territories.
Right now, Ukrainians are preparing to advance along these 2 tree lines, one of which leads directly to the small village of Andriivka. Even though Andriivka is very small, it is still an extremely important Russian logistical hub. Given that Russian forces no longer can safely use the road from Bakhmut to supply Klishchiivka, the road from Andriivka became more important than ever.
If Russians lose Andriivka, then they would have to deliver supplies through the fields, and if we look at the topographic map, we can see that these fields are located in the lowlands and are visible from all Ukrainian positions on the hills. Based on the setting, it is clear that Russian forces will not be able to sustain their operations and will either starve or step back.
Overall, the ability of Ukrainian commanders to react to the ever-changing conditions on the ground, and make new plans as they go, allowed Ukrainians to save a lot of troops by canceling an immediate attack on Klishchiivka, and allowed to conduct an expected operation from another direction, penetrating Russian defenses by up to 2 km.
*** Select the 3 horizontal dots to view the Complete Transcript [Below video/ top right corner]
VIDEOS
1. Russian economy falls because of war: Putin destroys stability inside Russia
UATV English
396K subscribers
Jul 15, 2023 11:00 a.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQkVrZOCoxc
The ruble is one of the fastest depreciating currencies in the world. Since the beginning of the year, it has lost 30% of its value against the dollar and the euro. This is the worst indicator among developing countries.
The euro is already worth more than a hundred rubles, and the dollar is approaching a three-digit number. Moreover, the fall does not stop. This is one of the most revealing results of the Kremlin’s policy. Our correspondents will tell about the effect of the collapse of the ruble and the price of the war against Ukraine for every Russian.
2. ⏺🚨Bakhmut Offensive LiveStream Update!!⏺🚨
Combat Veteran Reacts
284K subscribers
Jul 15, 2023 7:00 p.m. EDT Streamed 6 hours
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKnYnDO-t_U
“If Russians lose Andriivka, then they would have to deliver supplies through the fields, and if we look at the topographic map, we can see that these fields are located in the lowlands and are visible from all Ukrainian positions on the hills. Based on the setting, it is clear that Russian forces will not be able to sustain their operations and will either starve or step back.”
May the russians lose Andriivka!
ARTICLE
Take away Russia’s nuclear weapons – for Putin is finished and his country may soon collapse
Daniel Hannan
7-15-2023 3:05pm
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/15/take-away-russias-nuclear-weapons-for-putin-is-finished/
Vladimir Putin is finished. You can see the bleak despair behind his high, sullen, surgically-enhanced cheekbones. He looks, to use an old word, fey. The shadow is upon him.
He might struggle on for a few more weeks, even months. But the aura of invincibility on which his regime rested has gone. Potential successors are maneuvering openly. Big companies are building private armies. Whole regions of Russia are laying the ground for independence referendums. Army officers speak openly against the leadership.
Events are taking on a momentum of their own. Once the oligarchs and generals begin to plan for a succession, to hold tentative conversations, to identify their preferred candidates, there is no going back. Putin, who understands the psychology of fear better than most men, feels his authority flooding away.
The only thing that could have saved him, a military victory in Ukraine, is out of reach. I don’t mean only that his original objective of regime change in Kyiv is a distant memory. Even a secondary, face-saving goal, such as establishing full control over the four oblasts which he declared to be Russian following Stalin-style votes in September, is now unachievable.
Indeed, the terms that were being discussed in Minsk, and which Volodymyr Zelensky seemed to be contemplating as late as April of last year, are definitively off the table. There is no way that Kyiv could settle for the de facto independence of its eastern provinces under notional Ukrainian suzerainty. The best Russia can hope for is an eventual referendum under international supervision in a demilitarized Crimea following Kyiv’s re-absorption of the Donbas – a crushing defeat by any standard.
Could Putin be holding out in the hope of a Republican victory at next year’s US elections? Donald Trump has a hideous soft spot for the Russian autocrat, going so far during his presidency as to say that he believed Putin over his own security agencies. Other Republicans, while not pro-Putin, have none the less declared that they won’t fund another “forever war”.
But the whole question is irrelevant, for it presupposes that Russia’s demoralised troops could hold out for another 18 months.
In practice, it will be over before then. Sure, Ukraine has not repeated the lightning gains it made last August, but that was never going to happen. Russia has entrenched along a line which includes a belt of landmines three miles deep. To dislodge an army from such a position takes time.
The initial step, as during the first Gulf war, is to degrade the enemy’s infrastructure through bombardment – a process that cannot be hurried. In the meantime, Ukraine is probing for weak points, keeping the Russians guessing as to where the main assault will come, all the time turning up the pressure.
There is, in theory, a short-cut. Prigozhin’s march on Moscow showed the world how poorly defended Russia is. Ukraine could launch a massive left hook through Kursk, aiming to cut off the enemy’s forces. But most of Ukraine’s Western weapons were supplied on the basis that they would not be used on foreign soil. To quote Admiral Roland from Where Eagles Dare, “There are certain, ah, niceties to be observed in our relationship with our allies.”
So Ukraine is left with the option of grinding Russia down – not by hurling conscripts at guns, but by the intelligent use of advanced missiles, drones, satellites and, if they arrive, F16s. The only question is whether there will be regime change in Moscow first, or whether there will be a 1917-style Russian collapse along a section of the front.
In the latter scenario – that is, in the event that Russia’s boyars have not already deposed Putin – Ukraine will break through, cut off Crimea and kettle the large Russian garrison there. With only the fragile link of the Kerch bridge, Russia will not be able to relieve the peninsula. Ukraine will choke off supplies of food, water and electricity, invite the Red Cross to evacuate civilians, and wait for the Russian surrender.
If we can foresee these things, so can Russia’s elites. The oligarchs and siloviki know that Putin is leading them to ruin – national ruin and personal ruin. They know that, with every day that passes, the price that will be exacted from them rises. They will move sooner rather than later.
This is the context of Prigozhin’s mutiny. It is in the nature of these things that we have few solid facts. It is far from clear that Prigozhin or his men have relocated to Belarus. We cannot say why they halted when Moscow lay naked before them. We don’t know what deals were done.
But we do know that Wagner launched an armed rebellion, and we can reasonably assume that Prigozhin was at least acting in concert with forces which wanted change.
Last week, Igor Girkin, a former officer and FSB agent who played a key role in the annexation of Crimea and the Donbas, was reported to have suggested that the people behind the Wagner rising were a faction of oligarchs headed by Yuri Kovalchuk, reputedly Putin’s personal banker, and the energy magnates Arkady and Boris Rotenberg.
He seems to believe that these men aimed to weaken Putin rather than to bring him down, because they did not want him to be succeeded by a hard man such as Nikolai Patrushev. The theory goes that they used the insurrection to wring concessions from the weakened dictator in preparation for a later handover to a junta that would seek peace and protect their business interests.
We have no way of knowing whether this is right. But we do know that all sides are limbering up for a bloody interregnum, a Time of Troubles like that which preceded the accession of the Romanovs in 1613. The balance of opposed factions has broken down, the Tsar has lost all authority, and Russia faces the prospect of warlordism.
To some Western analysts, these things are terrifying. They conjure the prospect of ongoing civil war, or of local magnates acquiring nuclear stockpiles. But it is no more in the West’s power to hold the Russian Federation together than it was to hold the USSR together – something American and European diplomats foolishly tried to do in 1990.
What is in the West’s power, as some Russian dissidents are now arguing, is to push for denuclearisation, both of any breakaway republics as the price for recognition, and of the rump state around Moscow and St Petersburg.
Such a state – let’s call it Muscovy – would have few options. Its assets would have been seized for reparations, its citizens barred from overseas travel, its natural resources lost with the secession of various republics. Its choice would be to become an ill-tempered Eurasian khanate, a kind of nuclear Kazakhstan, or to embrace the free world, as West Germany did under Konrad Adenauer.
As with West Germany, the prize would be economic recovery as part of the Euro-Atlantic world. And, as with West Germany, the price would be demilitarization – including, in this case, the destruction of nuclear weapons, possibly as part of a reduction of global stocks.
After 1990, Russia was never made to accept either the fact of its defeat or the nature of the crimes it had committed over the previous seven decades. This time, things will be different.
Pray that all of Ukraine and the God-fearing people of Eastern Europe will be liberated from the tyrannical rule of the Idolatrous Globohomo Empire.
VIDEOS
1. Deadly blow from Ukrainian army: 550 Russian soldiers, dozens of equipment are destroyed in one day
Kanal13
1.59M subscribers
7-16-2023 2:00 a.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v19UNQqbsxM
2. Russia withdraws all its troops from Belarus
Kanal13
1.59M subscribers
7-15-2023 11:00 a.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14xfngD_c5w
SHORTS 3. Ukrainian soldiers kiss the ground as they return home after prisoner of war exchange with Russia
The Telegraph
3.95M subscribers
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RN5exNw_54I
“Vladimir Putin is finished. You can see the bleak despair behind his high, sullen, surgically-enhanced cheekbones. He looks, to use an old word, fey. The shadow is upon him.
He might struggle on for a few more weeks, even months. But the aura of invincibility on which his regime rested has gone. Potential successors are maneuvering openly. “
All of this stuff is pure projection. They take the situation that Ukraine is in, and claim it for Russia.
It goes right back to Mar 2022 when they claimed “Russia is running out of artillery ammunition.”
I was neutral with the main desire of the US minding its business for once, but now….
The smug sanctimony from them makes me sick.
I will join you in prayer for this.
After 1990, Russia was never made to accept either the fact of its defeat or the nature of the crimes it had committed over the previous seven decades. This time, things will be different.
Here it is. Your hatred and desire for revenge against Russia. You and what army is going to make this happen? Not the USA.
Let’s see. It’s been over 30 years, or in other words a generation and a half, since 1990.
Seventy years prior to 1990 is 3 and a half generations.
So we are supposed to get excited that Russia will be made to pay now for acts committed by people long dead.
Do I have that right?
So we are supposed to get excited that Russia will be made to pay now for acts committed by people long dead.
Do I have that right?
What does that even mean? Do you want war with Russia too? That’s what “punishing Russia” is going to take. Only a handful of cranks in the USA and some foreigners want that.
Noticed that you've backed off a bit on having dissenting opinions removed after you got caught flogging the "abuse" button. Very good. No one needs the now-constant, long-winded, self-righteous, finger-wagging responses consisting of your posting of very selective excerpts of Jim Robinson's rules of engagement every time things get a little heated on your propaganda threads.
I notice how you always leave the section out about calling people "Putinistas," communists," Soviets" etc. That section was the main thrust of Robinson's comment.
Why are you posting articles from serial propagandist Denys Davydov, a draft-dodging Youcraynian scumbag who's hiding out in Switzerland, living La Vida Loca while his countrymen are getting slaughtered like pigs?
He is military age. Why is he not fighting for his country? Why has he allowed others to fight and die in his place while he parties it up in Switzerland and rakes in serious cash pushing jingoistic, false crap about the trajectory of the war?
Have you not thought about how immoral it is to post his obvious propaganda? Have you not thought about how immoral it is to post the garbage being put out by a draft dodging coward who goads others to fight and die for a lost cause?
This lying creep should be shunned by his countrymen and I'm sure that after the war he will be shunned, if not arrested, for his role in helping prolong the senseless slaughter of young men and women .
Now here's the reality of where this war is heading:
There’s nothing to punish Russia for. Ever Russian deserving of punishment for transgression against us is getting it—in the afterlife. They’re all dead already.
The Ukraine, on the other hand...
Pray that Russia loses.
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