The announcement comes just days after Poland signed a similar deal with the US." (for six more Westinghouse reactors)
RuZZian Tank losses RunningTotal: 1419
October 2022 – 212
September 2022 - 217
August 2022 – 74
July 2022 – 108
June 2022 – 67
May 2022 – 148
April 2022 – 243
Feb 24 - March 2022 – 350
RuZZian Artillery losses Running Total: 379
October 2022 – 64
September 2022 - 73
August 2022 – 21
July 2022 – 21
June 2022 – 18
May 2022 – 20
April 2022 – 52
Feb 24 - March 2022 – 110
Brutal.
“A grenade from a drone tore the face of a Russian soldier and wounded two others - a strike by an operator of the 30th mechanized brigade”
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1586988358416441345
This is all well and good but it appears this winter the Russian Fed will have ample power and heat. Ikraine might not.
SappyInTexas drops his daily dirty bomb on FR.
It is going to be hilarious fun rubbing your noses in your own stupidity. You are just so wrong it’s fantastic.
Ukraine: military situation update with maps, Oct 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(Numbered printed material below - Some of the items below may be out of date, and not updated yet)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. The entirety of the analysis is from a Ukrainian guy named War in Ukraine’s daily video - I only transcribe it. Extras are just that - from other sites, or my comments marked (Edit: .... )
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https://militaryland.net/
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Summary:
Russian attack against Vugledar, that has some initial success.
Key areas:
- Oskil river area: no changes.
- North Donbass area: no changes.
- Central Donbass (Donetsk West):
Russian troops attacked village Pavlivka south of Vugledar, and currently it’s being contested by both side.
- Zaporizhya: no changes.
- Kherson bridgehead: no changes.
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••Energy Situation in Ukraine:
Electricity situation has stabilized somewhat recently, and the reason for that is Ukraine started importing electricity from Slovakia which south of Poland. Ukraine tested the import of electricity. Starting from yesterday, there was initial import of electricity, and today was even more. Ukraine is turning into from exporter of electricity into net importer, and prices in Europe are much higher. That’s going to be another net negative for Ukraine as economy, as a system, and its ability to defend itself; some of the power generation stations are blocked and they operate, but the power lines or transformers are damaged. There is no ability to take electricity from those, but there is somehow a line that goes all the way from Slovakia to Ukraine available. Again there is a question about about the extent of damage that’s being done to electricity distribution network, but there’s definitely significant damage - there’s still somehow a line available that allows electricity to brought to the rest of the country - so situation there a little bit stabilized.
••M-109L:
Ukraine received 20-30 self-propelled howitzers, M-109L from Italy, which is really great help; they are not the newest, but at the same time Ukraine is quickly losing its old Soviet artillery because the barrels are getting worn out. There is a rifling inside of the barrel of those howitzers which helps the shell to be more precise when it flies and hits the target - still not terribly precise, but otherwise without the rifling, it would be totally terrible.
As you use as you shoot shell through the bore, the rifling gets worn out eventually, becoming almost non-existent, and then precision really drops significantly; the gun is useless. That’s what’s really happening in large numbers with old Soviet self-propelled howitzers that Ukraine has, and it really needs replacement.
Plus, Ukraine is switching to NATO caliber - 155mm, instead of 152mm that Soviet Union used to have; this also means that there is on-going replacement of the equipment from the old Soviet to old Western Equipment, because these howitzers are all old equipment - they are no longer in service in Italian army, but its still excellent, great help for Ukraine.
In addition, there is there are news that Italy has 300 of this M-109Ls in its inventory that are not being used, and not needed by the Italian army. That means that Ukraine can get up to 300 of those, which would be excellent help for Ukrainian army as a whole, and definitely gonna help Ukrainian forces. About the M-109L: US-made, self-propelled howitzer, but its was standard equipment in NATO or used to be.
••Italian Support:
It looks like the new government in Italy is actually helping Ukraine more than the previous one, and especially that’s a big surprise, given that there was a lot of rhetoric that it was going to be a pro-Russian government, which proved anything but that.
••Panzer-2000 Quality:
Then there is another interesting related update: Lithuania is repairing Panzer-2000 howitzer for Ukraine, they are repairing 12 units and Ukraine got a total of 12 units, with four more coming, but Ukraine got 12 units; they’ve been in use since June or July, so its not much useful life in them, which is extremely concerning, because this is a major engineering flaw that they’re not built to last - that’s the conclusion.
Also some incidents with cracks where the the barrels would explode. All of this evidence points to the quality of manufacturing, and also quality of the engineering sort is definitely not quite there where they need to be for the real world; for the parade it all looks great, but for the real world, they don’t stand the test of the environment.
••Grain Export:
Russia is blocking export of Ukrainian grain since yesterday, so just as of date how many vessels stuck around Odessa so that’s all no more Odessa this is at this point two main ports because also used to be make alive and her son but for obvious reasons they’re not being used anymore so there are around 200 vessels stuck there.
This means even if Russia agrees to renew the whole trade going forward, which everything indicates they will not, even though it makes sense for them as well - they were able to export grain too, and they have large crop this year - they definitely have incentives to export, however for Russia, its more important to hurt Ukraine’s finances then to let them gain from its exports.
If Russia decides to open it up again, the problem is the bad president from a perspective of the marine insurers and and vessel owners - they would be charging really high rates to go to Ukraine, which then again makes the whole trade unprofitable. Its possible that Russia did quite a bit of damage, not only for right now, but for the future.
••North Luhansk’:
Ukrainian troops are trying to attack; they trying to cut off the road, but the road is not the main problem or objective. The objective is to cross the river and establish bridgehead, because that creates a huge threat for the Russian troops, and forces withdrawal all the way from the northern pat to the southern part of the frontline. This would be a decisive move, however Russian troops now have more boots on the ground, defensive positions are stronger. The attack was not successful, and the right moment has been lost, a lost opportunity.
••North Donbas:
Things here are pretty much the same with Wagner mercenary is continuing the attacks without any success. The formal owner now suggests shutting down Google and YouTube in Russia.
••Central Donbas:
Russian troops are attacking out the northern salient and trying to expand it, and then the same is going on here out of the Piskey salient.
Russian troops got into a village called Wademe, north of Piskey that creates big problems for Ukrainian troops in terms of its defensive position, or the coherent defensive line.
The only attack that is yielding success to Russian troops is this attack towards Pavivka. This is unverified, but they claim they are fighting in Pavlovka which means its being contested. Ukrainian defensive positions south of Pavivka where penetrated. Russian troops were able to advance all the way to Pavivka, including Pavivka itself.
There is fighting going on in the Pavivka - where it all end up we’ll see - at this point, even the loss of the Pavivka doesn’t really change anything as long as Vulgladar holds - its the cornerstone of Ukrainian defenses, because it creates a wedge into Russian territory and into Russian-controlled area.
As long as it holds, this will prevent Russian troops from being able to move north and create the pincer, because the logic on the Russian side is the following: all of this attacks that are happening like on this front line don’t quite lead to anything.
There are heavy losses. At this pace, they can they can continue doing attacks for another year without much success. They are actively trying to figure out where else they can bridge Ukrainian defenses and achieve what they want, which the initial goal here is to push Ukrainian troops as far as possible from Donetsk, but so far they were not successful with the exception of Pavivka. It doesn’t look like Ukrainian troops might be losing, it its still situation under control.
••Kherson Bridgehead:
Things here are a stalemate. Ukrainian command is focused on attacking & disrupting Russian supplies. There were more attacks with HIMARS against the Russian ferries & pontoons - the extent of the damage is unknown, but I’m sure that some of them did hit the targets.
“@bayraktar_1love
«In Pskov region, not far from Latvia on a military airfield, two Ka-52s were damaged by an explosion at around 10pm. Ka-52s were non working and were under repair. Wreckage was scattered 200 meters around. Reasons unknown.» - Russian media. Link- https://t.me/bazabazon/14201
“Somebody should do a Ka-52 countdown.”
“@IainHutchinson3
I’ve been informally doing that, but it depends a lot on how many of the original 100 you think were airworthy to begin with. For what it’s worth my best guess is about 36 left.”
The announcement comes just days after Poland signed a similar deal with the US." (for six more Westinghouse reactors)
@visegrad24
“Romania has announced that it will increase military spending from 2% of GDP this year to 2.5% of GDP in 2023.”
The Washington Post noted there are "power outages continuing in the Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv regions," and others. The Post listed some of the below regions impacted by large-scale power outages and water supply disruptions:
Kyiv region: Russian strikes damaged buildings, and rescuers are searching for victims, the regional police said. Attacks left 80 percent of the capital without water and are likely to cause sustained power outages, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
Kharkiv: Two strikes hit critical infrastructure facilities in the eastern city, causing problems with the water supply and affecting the public transit network, the mayor said.
Zaporizhzhia region: An infrastructure facility was struck by rockets, the local governor said, prompting warnings from officials in the southern region that energy supplies there could also be affected.
Cherkasy region: Some of the region lost power after air attacks on infrastructure facilities, the military administrator said.
DTEK—the Ukrainian energy giant that provides a significant share of the country's energy supply—is running out of equipment to fix the widespread power outages the country has experienced under fire by invading Russian forces.
On Monday, officials with Ukraine's largest privately operated energy company announced it has depleted its stores of equipment following a series of attacks on the country's energy and water infrastructure over the past month. On Monday, Russian forces deployed at least 50 missiles targeting the country's electrical grid and water supplies, leaving swaths of the country without power as winter approaches.
While DTEK Executive Director Dmytro Sakharuk said Monday the company was able to purchase some equipment to offset the losses, the cost of the equipment is "now measured in hundreds of millions of dollars," with some outages estimated to last well into Tuesday.
