Total Losses:
Russia - 5010, of which: destroyed: 3193, damaged: 103, abandoned: 323, captured: 1391
Ukraine - 1386, of which: destroyed: 731, damaged: 30, abandoned: 36, captured: 589
Total RuZZian losses have crossed 5000!!! Demilitarization and denazification of RuZZia continues.
Ukraine: military situation update with maps, July 30, 2022
(’Orc’ is associated with the various hoards of 13th century Mongol invaders, as well as LOTR evil villains)
War in Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP2QApi8G2TKc8NZmeDWSUg/videos
Artillery (key to success in this war), Fuller explanation of Orc military structure, Other Bonus articles - see previous postings in “Attack on Europe” (FR title search).
(Numbered printed material below - Some of the items below may be out of date, and not updated yet)
••denotes transcribed dialogue.
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Extras:
Ukraine Situation Report: HIMARS Knocks Out Strategic Rail Bridge Near Kherson
Ukraine continues its bridge-busting campaign with its HIMARS-launched guided-rockets, and this time a rail bridge near Kherson took a direct hit.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ukraine-situation-report-himars-knocks-out-strategic-rail-bridge-near-kherson
Includes intercepted dialogue talking about how the Azov troops were murdered, while putting out the fabrication they were killed in a Ukraine Grad (HIMARS) attack. Note: satellite images show open graves at the prison before the “strike” and covered afterward.
WiU Commenter #1 (May be located in Germany):
As absurd as it might sound I am having problems at this point to find Russians. They have largely gone off grid and I believe this is a strong indication of something. Sectors with active ground combat - really only south Donbas and Donetsk - display exclusively separatists, PMC or foreign (Chechen) units operating. With Russian support - artillery air support and so on.
But I am failing to ID a single regular Russian unit along the entire front from Kharkiv to Donetsk. I therefore doubt there are any - or at least any significant number - regular forces capable of performing offensive operations anywhere along that line. I also believe - emphasis on theory - we are witnessing yet another major redisposition of forces.
Several regular units have been ID’d in Russia lately, at crossroads and railway stations. These could of course simply have been pulled rear, as was promised, for R&R (”pause”). But the logic of pulling them all the way back to Russia eludes me. I think, therefore, that they are in transit. Transit to where? I really have very low grade observations to answer that one, except it is obviously not anywhere east or north of Donetsk (they were already there, and are leaving).
I note that on the now frequent clips and photos about the bridge-situation in Kherson Oblast, I can’t help noticing that the (few) units one can see moving or waiting to move across the rivers, are combat units. Not supply. And they are moving North. This is anecdotal, but in the lack of other indications it seems to me the Russians are moving forces into, not out of, Kherson Oblast. The sole logic of moving units there with offensive capabilities is - performing offensive operations.
The intuitive sector would rather be Zaporizjzja. This sector is very dark on OSINT, manned mainly by territorials and irregulars on the Ukrainian side that do not share info on social media, and regulars on the Russian side who seem to have no active dialogue. The always-generous-with-information separatists are nowhere near. I hear no sound from the occupied population there either.
All in all, the Russians could be transiting their entire army to that sector and I’d never know. Well, as always everybody will know everything soon enough, and all will become evident. But right now, something is afoot and it is an indication.
About the pontoons - it is very much a strongpoint of Russian competence (and a pride and joy that they have). They can assemble or disassemble a PMM-2M in 40 minutes and deploy a PTS 2 in even less.
They are second to nobody in this field - it has been a major emphasis since Soviet times and the need to overcome water obstacles on their way to the English Channel. They have (compared to NATO) enormous amounts of these systems as well. The Russians will be able to bridge any water obstacle in the Kherson - the focal issue being the severe reduction of volume and speed of transit this entails, compared to intact bridges. Setting a cap on capacity of delivery of consumables and therefore offensive capacity.
Also, vulnerability - Ukraine has already destroyed a great many pontoons this war. A soft spot in the Russian armour is engineer personal. Before the war, in 2020, they had problems with personnel. Many of the job openings require education and wages do not match these requirements, comparing to what was then available on the private job market to people with those levels of education. So, while fully staffed, the engineer brigades were under-qualified.
Many specialists and officers missing, filling out with people with insufficient qualifications. Keeping in mind that Russia has a very significantly lower proportion of specialists and officers than NATO to begin with.
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••Nuclear Deal:
In a US$20 Billion loan, Russia will build nuclear power plant for Turkey, and Turkey will repay from the revenue the plant generates. This means the Turkey will be connected to Russia’s nuclear fuel rods.
••Uranium Production & The Wagner Group:
US uranium production was shut down in the early 80s. Production fell from 10s of millions of pounds to 21,000 lbs, making the US dependent on Russian uranium concentrate (Edit: Hillary selling 20% of US stocks to Russia dod not help.)
African countries of Mali and Niger are large produces of uranium ore which they sell to France. Wagner Group operates in both countries. In those countries, the Group helps Russia corner the uranium market by gaining a larger share and so set world prices. The do this by gaining leverage over the country’s internal politics and economy; similar to what they did in Libya by stopping oil production for to help Russia early in this year.
By controlling production in Mali and Niger, the Russians gain leverage over France and can ask for concessions.
As you can see the Wagner Group is more than an army for hire. The Group is an integral part of the way Russia operates its foreign policy and how Russia corners or tries to control the Commodity Markets.
••Gazprom
Stopped NG supply to Latvia.
••Swedish Power Supply:
Power will be less and to expect black and brown outs during the winter.
••Russian Shortages:
Shortage of fiber optic material. The forms used to make the optic fiber needs a special form imported from Japan. Russian internet and communications will be hard hit.
••Polish Deal for Krabs:
The deal was for 60 SPG Krabs. Got 8 more recently. Number is 36-40 in Ukraine now. These help to offset the broken PzH-2000s. US still maintains clear numerical advantage over Russian LR artillery and in precision.
••Ukraine Evacuation:
The government asked people to leave the city of Donets because there may be no water, no NG, no food, no electricity in the city during the winter. Like the destroyed infrastructure in other destroyed cities, the Russians will not be able to repair it before winter.
••Russian Partial Mobilization:
Every on of the 85 regions in Russia is required to provide at least a battalion to the Front. The big concern is, since Russia is made up of many ethnicities, the new battalions will be wholly ethnic in make up. This might create local separatism or local nationalism.
Also, from the Novosibirsk region, managers of factories got a request from Central Government to form battalions from the workers to send to Front. This mobilization is unlikely to gather enough people (for various reasons) and is an indication that the system cannot integrate people from those regions on its own.
••HIMARS:
Destroyed ammo dump in Nova Kakhovka; no new hits at bridges. Point is to explain the impact on Russian supply lines that the destruction of the bridges creates. Small access road across the dam is repaired and functioning. This access only provides a small fraction of the supplies the previously functioning bridges could supply.
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Summary:
Russian troops captured village Semygirya Continued HIMARS attacks against Russian ammo depots
Destroyed Russian ammo depots in Nova Kakhovka.
Key areas:
- Izyum bridgehead: no changes
- North Donbass area: village Semygirya captured by Russian troops
- Donetsk West: no changes
- Kherson bridgehead: no changes.
1. Kharkiv: No changes.
2. Izyum bridgehead. No changes.
••Some unsuccessful Orc attacks - just distractions.
3. North Donbass: village Semygirya captured by Russian troops.
••Southern section attacks mostly unsuccessful. Slowly but surely towns being gobbled up by Wagner Group mercenaries. Most important distinction between Wagner and UA is Wagner lacks bureaucracies, have free hand, and attack in fewer numbers.
4. West of Donetsk: Avdiyivka and Maryinka. No changes.
••Major front for Russian offensive. No major gains, but slowly taking some ground - a street here and there.
5. Vugledar: No changes.
6. Velyka Novosilka - Gulyapole stretch of frontline. No changes.
7. Kherson bridgehead: No changes.
••Orc 20th D, 7th AD, 7th MC are the units endanger of being cut off.
Orcs attack disrupted at Davydiv Brid by UA artillery. Initiative may have switched here to UA.
Livin’ alone
I think of all the friends I've known
When I dial the telephone
Nobody's home
All by myself, don't wanna be
All by myself anymore
All by myself, don't wanna live
All by myself anymore
Hard to be sure
Sometimes I feel so insecure
And love so distant and obscure
Remains the cure
All by myself, don't wanna be
All by myself anymore
All by myself, don't wanna live
All by myself anymore
When I was young
I never needed anyone
And makin’ love was just for fun
Those days are gone
All by myself, don't wanna be
All by myself anymore
All by myself, don't wanna live
All by myself anymore
All by myself, don't wanna be
All by myself anymore
All by myself, don't wanna live
All by myself anymore
All by myself, don't wanna be...
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LMAO, these threads are utterly, and I mean utterly, hilarious given its the same FR peeps over and over and over and over and over and over posting to them.
Going to laugh my arse off just in spite of them when Ukraine literally implodes economically and militarily. Not a matter of ‘if’, it’s a matter of when. Bet.
Just so everyone knows, it’s not just the globalist propaganda that has this annoying breathless hyperbole. The Russians do it too:
Zelensky’s elite battalion destroyed
https://www.daily-sun.com/post/635258/Zelenskys-elite-battalion-destroyed-%E2%80%93-Russia
1st August, 2022
Would be nice if both sides would stick to straight reporting. Something can be true and still be propaganda. They should let it go at that.