Posted on 11/15/2023 4:22:28 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Update from Ukraine | Ukraine Continue to Push the Ruzzian Army on the South | Verbove is next
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBqrvqOtXZQ
Recap Deployment Map changes – Week 45 November 13, 2023
https://militaryland.net/news/recap-deployment-map-changes-week-45/
[NOTE: two summaries per week, released on Wednesday and Sunday]
*** Great interactive maps with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front!
https://militaryland.net/maps/
You sound angry, mommy.
‘They Changed Tactics’: Ukrainian Troops Push Back Against Russian Assault On Avdiyivka
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
761K subscriber
11-16-2023 5:30 a.m.
3:30 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-Xuw_N7bCE
Ukrainian troops continue to hold out in Avdiyivka as Russian forces attack the industrial city in the Donetsk region. Moscow launched an offensive on the area in early October in an effort to seize the frontline territory.
Russian forces have suffered heavy losses during the onslaught, according to Ukrainian officials. Despite the daily fighting, some 1,500 residents continue to live among the ruins of their once peaceful neighborhoods.
Forget it, that one is a Red Chinese troll.
VIDEOS
1. “Hellish” attack on Russian trench -Footage of close-range battle with invaders in Bakhmut direction
Kanal13
1.6M subscribers
11-16-2023 2:00 p.m. EST
2:53 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geWahyR8JCU
2. Ukrainian sabotage group enters Russians’ resting area in Zaporizhia, invaders are destroyed
Kanal13
1.6M subscribers
11-16-2023 7:30 p.m. EST
1:26 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-qR9goEQ1c
Estimates I've seen of total Ukrainian armed forces, including police, are circa one million.
Estimates of Ukraine's maximum potential military manpower population are something like 20 million.
However, if we compare to Israel, out of 9 million total population, Israel has about 3 million of military age, of whom roughly 1 million serve in some capacity, especially reserves.
For Ukraine, that would mean possibly 33 million total population, around 10+ million of normal military age with potentially 3+ million serving in some capacity.
Estimates of Russian forces in and around Ukraine are in the 300,000 range.
All that said, what seems certain is that the dictator Vlad the Invader can sustain "Meat Wave" assault losses in the range of 1,000 per day, while more democratic Ukrainians obviously cannot.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is the Greatest Diplomat
Sergey Lavrov: The 500-year-long era of the West’s global dominance is over.pic.twitter.com/KVGTZqDeNT— Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil (@ivan_8848) November 17, 2023
You didn't see anything. Those "estimates" are a product of the pretend world you live in. Please continue.
You are so FOS.
We've covered this ground before, and it's worth remembering the timeline of such events:
Paid Russian agent Schroeder claims Ukraine rejected Vlad the Invader's "peace deal" because of American interference.
The 100% more logical explanation is along these lines: Americans told Ukraine, "we will support your war against Vlad the Invader for as long as it takes. When you sign a peace deal with Vlad, then we Americans will stop sending you military & other aid."
So the Ukrainian government decided 100% on its own to tell Vlad the Invader where to stick his peace deal.
Regardless of such brave talk, to my knowledge there was never an actual plan for Ukrainian victory.
Regardless of whatever brave talk we heard from Defense Secretary Austin, the fact remains there was never an actual plan for Ukrainian victory, so far as I know.
We read this report from the Moscow Times, dated September 14, 2022, over a year ago:
‼️Breaking:
Possible Coup in Ukraine
According to Zelensky, Russia is attempting to orchestrate a coup in Kiev. The Ukrainian dictator stressed that it's not safe anymore in the country and the west seems to have turned it's back.
Ukrainian "intelligence" claims that in… pic.twitter.com/UVakANdayw— Spetsnaℤ 007 🇷🇺 (@Alex_Oloyede2) November 17, 2023
Check dates for your info:
In November 2021, top Ukrainian government officials outlined allegations of a plot to overthrow the democratically elected government of Ukraine which was to take place in early December of that year.
The coup plot was allegedly orchestrated by Russia. The Russian government denied any involvement. Some months later, Russia launched an invasion of Ukraine, with the toppling of the Ukrainian government being one of its objectives.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Ukrainian_coup_attempt_allegations
VIDEO COMMENTARY
16 Nov: BREAKING POINT. Russians Sent DRUGGED SOLDIERS TO STORM POWERFUL DEFENSE | War in Ukraine
Reporting from Ukraine
437K subscribers
11-17-2023 1:45 a.m. EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riQRVzgJID0
⚠️ Watch RFU in 20 languages: https://www.youtube.com/@RFU/channels
I am Ukrainian. My country has been invaded by Russia. In this video I will tell you what happened on the six-hundred-thirty-first day of the war.
Day 631: Nov 16
Today, there are a lot of updates from the Avdiivka direction.
Here, Russian forces recently conducted a new massive wave of attacks in the northern part of the region, mostly consisting of infantry. The main goal of this operation was to breach the Ukrainian defense in front of Terrikon and establish a foothold on the territory of the chemical plant.
Recently released footage by Russian sources shows the aftermath of the morning airstrikes on the chemical plant. Some Russian military analysts claimed that Russian forces started using even bigger air-dropped bombs, namely FAB-3000, which is a 3000-kilogram bomb containing 1400 kilograms of explosive charge. The bomb is designed primarily for the destruction of industrial and urban facilities.
A Ukrainian fighter that is defending the chemical plant posted a video showing the result of the airstrikes. As you can see, despite continuous strikes with massive bombs, due to the sheer scale of the chemical plant and the rigidity of the structures, it is very hard to reduce it to ruins or even undermine the defense.
Nonetheless, after conducting the strike, Russian forces launched a powerful infantry assault from the tree lines in front of the settlement. Unfortunately for Russians, most of them did not manage to cross even 100 meters. A Ukrainian drone operator from the forty-seventh mechanized brigade released a video showing how he targeted one of the Russian units in the area. The objective of the assault unit was to advance from the dense tree belts and take control of the building 180 meters from their positions. However, the Russian soldiers from the video managed to cross just 90 meters before being destroyed by drones.
Another attack on the chemical plant came from the north. The main objective of the Russian soldiers in this area was to move along this tree line and establish control over at least the first 100 meters. A Russian fighter who was sent to storm Ukrainian positions filmed the aftermath of the attack. He showed the Ukrainian chemical plant toward which they were moving, and here I have to pause the video because when he lowered the camera, the ground around him was full of fallen Russian soldiers. He was standing in the middle, surrounded by corpses, and said that they incurred disproportionately high losses compared to Ukrainians.
Both Russian and Ukrainian sources recently circulated footage showing how Russian commanders are punishing Russian soldiers for the prevalent use of drugs.
As said in the video, the soldiers were afraid to go on what they themselves considered a suicide mission and used drugs, which is why the whole detachment was simply annihilated. So, if previously the biggest problem Russian low-level commanders faced was an abuse of alcohol by the personnel, then now the problem has been exacerbated, and the use of drugs becomes the main issue, especially around Donetsk and Avdiivka, because this is a densely populated area, simplifying the access to such things.
The Russian frontal attacks become even more self-destructive every day as Ukrainians are conducting counter-battery fire. A Russian soldier posted a video showing the destruction of a Uragan artillery system. In this case, there was no direct hit, the Ukrainian shell fell several meters away from the vehicle but caused the detonation of the rockets. Another Russian soldier released a video showing what happens when a HIMARS rocket hits a Russian artillery system MSTA-S. The vehicle was simply disintegrated. Even the engine and chassis were scattered across the field, while the top part was never even seen.
Overall, the motivation of the Russian soldiers to continue the offensive operation is extremely low. The soldiers understand that their chances of survival are close to zero, which is why the use of forbidden substances is at all times high.
Moreover, the destruction of the Russian artillery means that the Russian infantry has to advance without sufficient artillery support, incurring even more losses. And this has already been reflected in the total losses that Russians incurred today, more precisely, 1330 killed and wounded. As the quality of Russian attacks decreases, the probability that Ukrainian fighters will manage to withstand the Russian offensive becomes higher and higher.
*** Select the 3 horizontal dots to view the Complete Transcript [Below video/ top right corner]
Ivan Presto - you are consistently wrong, you said back in Feb 2022 that Kyiv would fall, then you claim again, in November 2023 that
“Wrong again. Kiev is about to fall” —> https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4197170/posts?page=153#153
Do you like being wrong consistenly?
That is a 100% Russian propaganda lie, and if you can't see the lie in it, then you have been victimized & bewitched by evil forces working for our destruction.
The fact is, there's nothing "civil" about it, rather it is an unprovoked, highly illegal invasion of sovereign Ukraine territory by a foreign army.
When we combine Russia's Vlad the Invader with his new Axis of Evil -- the CCP's Xi-snake, NoKo's Little Kim and Iran's Moolah Mullahs -- we see events today mirroring those in history, at times when all were "not our wars" until suddenly they became our war, with untold costs in blood and treasure worldwide.
Reno89519: "But killing, raping, and taking Americans hostage in Gaza is.
Surely you can see the difference."
Sure, and it's all the same thing -- just as in WWII, the Axis of Evil today threatens our friends and allies wherever we look weak, stupid and/or corrupt, be it Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan or... you name it, there are long lists of other conflicts with Russia, China and Iran.
For starters, China has claimed territories belonging to:
Reno89519: "And propaganda?
Wow, if you don’t see the paid trash posted day in and day out on Ukraine as anything but propaganda, I presume you are part of the Ukrainian criminal enterprise yourself."
Sorry, but now you're just babbling nonsense, meaning: just because you loathe and despise what's true, that doesn't make it "propaganda".
The facts and truth about Ukraine are so simple and direct there's no need to resort to lies or propaganda to explain Ukraine's side -- unlike Vlad the Invader's highly illegal "special military operations" which must be obscured in great clouds of smoke, mirrors, personal attacks and propaganda lies.
The truth is, there's nothing "criminal" about sovereign Ukraine's war for independence against "mother Russia", while at the same time, there's nothing lawful about Vlad the Invader's repeated aggressions against his many sovereign neighbors, including Ukraine.
How you, Reno89519, can fail to see all that is beyond my understandings.
Your YouTube poster is clearly biased in favor of Russia, but I had no trouble listening to his presentation.
I simply noted his biases and any inaccuracies I could detect.
There are people who follow pro-Russian media, just to keep track of what they are trying to sell lately.
Professor Gerdes is one.
I expect it's exacting, demanding work and I don't have the patience for it.
Right here on Free Republic is about as close as I want to get to all that nonsense.
Mopnterrosa-24: "Zelensky has been in power less than 1/6th the time Putin has been in power and Putin is a true dictator.
Zelensky is Mister Klean compared to Putin "
Right, calling Zelenskyy a "dictator" is just insane nonsense, and I don't understand where it comes from.
In the 24 years that Vlad the Invader has ruled over Russia, Ukraine has constitutionally elected five different presidents and six parliaments with different political majorities.
The most recent was in 2019 and Volodymyr Zelenskyy's "Servant of the People" party was elected precisely because they promised to clean up Ukraine's corruptions.
By all accounts, Zelenskyy's government has done just that, firing or arresting many corrupt officials, something the United States government could study and emulate.
In the meantime, Russia's Vlad the Invader is said to be one of the -- if not the -- world's wealthiest men, though western seizures of $ hundreds of billions in Russian foreign assets may put a temporary crimp in Vlad's otherwise lavish lifestyles.
Still, where by all accounts Ukraine's corruptions are steadily being eliminated, Russia's today are what they've always been, since at least 1991.
Why is that so hard for someone like JonPreston to see?
List a link to an account that shows corruption is being eliminated.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.