SHOOT TO KILL: UK Defense Intel bulletin for 4 NOV notes that frontline RU units in Ukraine are now positioned in front of “Blocking Units”. These specially designated Russian troops are authorized to shoot and kill deserters.
Posted on 11/05/2022 9:13:34 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
Welcome to my newest update on Putin’s War in Ukraine. We are now 36 weeks — 254 days — since Russia launched an unprovoked attack on Ukraine. My last update can be found at Putin’s War, Week 35. The Lull Before the Next Storm. There has been some action, but the crappy weather has slowed things down. Also, both sides are somewhat tired after a punishing summer’s campaigning. I look at this period as the break when the fighters have returned to their corners.
Two significant items have been covered outside this update. First, the Pentagon is beefing up the number of weapons inspectors to ensure that weapons allocated to the Ukrainian Army end up there. Naturally, the folks who have been cheering Putin are claiming that this is a nefarious first step towards the US military fighting Russia a la Kennedy’s Special Forces advisors in South Vietnam. I think that is bullsh**, YMMV. If you’re interested, read more at The Pentagon Sends Weapons Security Inspectors to Ukraine; if You Thought Those Opposing Aid to Ukraine Were Happy, Think Again.
The second item is that after Ukraine launched an air-sea drone attack on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet at anchor in Sevastopol (Ukraine Carries out Extensive Drone Attack on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet Sevastopol Homeport), Putin declared that Russia was leaving the agreement that allowed Ukrainian grain to be shipped out of the war zone. By Wednesday, he’d backed down (Vladimir Putin Rejoins Ukraine Grain Deal After He Finds No One Cared That He Left).
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
Russian propagandist Svetlana Babayeva, who headed the Simferopol unit of Russia Today, was shot dead at a training ground in temporarily occupied Crimea. The official version is "an accident, a ricochet during shooting." pic.twitter.com/RAHykjSMMd
— International Observers Ukraine (@INTobservers) October 28, 2022
Understand Rattlebrain, It might be lonely in here for you tonight. We Americans are watching a Great pastime. College Football. We can catch up tomorrow. Please don’t go away> I need to be informed :)
It’s over. Russia got everything they wanted, and they only used the C-team.
Credit: Institute for the Study of War
Russia didn’t want this war.
Putin wanted this war.
Putin’s goal o a vassal state has failed spectacularly.
His subsequent goal of grabbing left bank Ukraine and the black sea coast also failed spectacularly.
Then his sim to grab kharkiv failed.
Now he’s being pushed back in the south and east.
He has failed in getting any goals in Ukraine. However Putin’s goal of destroying Russia is continuing apace
Kyiv Planning for Total Evacuation if It Loses Electricity
NY Times ^ | November 5, 2022 | Marc Santora and Ben HubbardPosted on 11/5/2022, 7:58:03 PM by McGruff
As they struggle to maintain an electricity grid heavily damaged by Russian missiles, officials in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, say they have begun planning for a once unthinkable possibility: a complete blackout that would require the evacuation of the city’s approximately three million remaining residents.
The situation is already so dire, with 40 percent of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure damaged or destroyed, that municipal workers are setting up 1,000 heating shelters that can double as bunkers while engineers try to fix bombed-out power stations without the needed equipment.
To try to keep the grid from failing altogether, Ukraine’s national energy utility said on Saturday that it would continue to impose rolling blackouts in seven regions.
Bkmk
Timber Rattler, Cronos
WEF new young leaders.
How’s that 100,000 man mobilization coming along in Kyiv?
Found enough bodies roaming the streets to haul to the front yet?
Very childish analysis...
‘Ukraine Facing Defeat; US Sends ‘Military Inspectors’ to Ukraine’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP-2ljzWHyE
Here’s an interesting question, relating to grain shipment protection:
What’s Turkey’s naval capacity in the Black Sea vs. Russia’s (or anybody else, for that matter)?
This given Russia’s losses so far.
Turkey seems extremely keen to keep those shipments going. I suspect they are very worried about further food price inflation & possible unrest.
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