Posted on 02/04/2023 8:27:49 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
“’BALLOON IS DOWN. I REPEAT. THE BALLOON IS DOWN.”
https://twitter.com/IntelCrab/status/1621956483859582977
“’A Russian 2S19M2 Msta-SM2 self-propelled 152mm howitzer was taken out of action by a Ukrainian M982 Excalibur strike in #Kherson Oblast.”
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1621907262674534401
“Ukrainian forces apparently captured a Russian MT-LB amphibious tracked armored vehicle variant near Vuhledar in Donetsk Oblast, according to the Ukraine Weapons Tracker OSINT group. Of particular interest was that it was up-gunned with a 2M-7 naval turret with two KPV 14.5mm heavy machine guns, normally used on Russian military vessels.”
Pics from your report above.
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1621590682849648644
“Vuhledar. Russian armored vehicle destroyed.”
https://twitter.com/PaulJawin/status/1621808880157134848
“The USS Carter Hall (LSD-50) (along with numerous skipper sized surface craft, I assume) is arriving in the splashdown zone for balloon recovery.”
https://twitter.com/IntelCrab/status/1621959313513234432
Key Donbass city faces encirclement – officialUkraine is losing more territory, this key city they have vowed to hold. Which is what I said would happen in Bakhmut shortly after Soledar fell. (Remember how the Ukrainians pretended that didn't happen for quite a while, and then finally admitted "yes, it's fallen to the Russians")Russian troops have positioned themselves to prevent the resupply of Ukrainian troops in Artyomovsk, a key aide claims.
Russian troops are now positioned to attack the only road that Kiev can use to resupply troops in Artyomovsk, a gubernatorial aide has claimed. The city that Ukraine calls Bakhmut is of strategic importance as part of Ukrainian defense lines in Donbass.
Yan Gagin, a military expert who serves as an adviser to Denis Pushiln, the acting head of the Donetsk People’s Republic, said Russia has already hit enemy supply convoys near Artyomovsk.
Speaking on Russian television on Wednesday, he said it was a matter of time before the road is “fully controlled,” paving the way for the capture of the city, which he described as being “in an operative encirclement.”Artyomovsk is part of a 70km Ukrainian defense line created since Kiev initiated the fighting in Donbass in 2014. Russia claims sovereignty over the city along with the rest of the Donetsk People’s Republic. The province joined Russia in October after a referendum, which Kiev rejected as a “sham.”
There have been reports of Russian advancement near Artyomovsk in recent weeks. After intensive fighting in mid-January, Russian troops captured the town of Soledar, located just northeast of the city.
MP Pushilin warned the media against overhyping the importance of Artyomovsk or any other particular settlement for the outcome of the military operation. The Ukrainian side attached symbolic value to it, as they previously did with Soledar, he argued in an interview on Tuesday.
“We’ve seen this story about a small town… that was touted as invincible. Plenty of Ukrainian soldiers got grinded there because they didn’t spare any,” he said.
Artyomovsk has strategic value because its capture would allow further advancement, Pushilin acknowledged. But losing other towns and cities would do damage of similar scale, he said.
Oh yeah! That same thing will happen here.
So even if your dubious accounting or Russian equipment losses, which you dutifully reproduce on Free Rebpulic in your daily propaganda posting is 100% accurate, it's meaningless trivia. You can lose a lot of tanks and artillery and still win the war. (As the Russians did against the German NAZIs in WW2.)
See ya' later, Slow-Poke!
Why are you such a little nazi/Biden supporting punk?
Is this video real?
https://twitter.com/olex_scherba/status/1621803146501554176
“Ukraine’s security service hacked a zoom-call between moscow and the quislings in Ukraine. And officially notified the latter that they’re charged with treason.
And then let them listen to 🇺🇦 anthem.”
Are you the best that RuZZia has to debate me?
Sure looks real.
The traitors looked surprised.
“Debris field 7 miles wide per senior military official”
I think this is the real reason the balloon wasn’t shot down earlier.
“Senior defense official to reporters just now: “The surveillance balloon’s overflight of US territory was of intelligence value to us... we were able to study and scrutinize the balloon and its equipment, which has been valuable.””
“More on recovery: “We will provide under NORTHCOM command & control a Salvage Vessel, the US Navy, which will be on scene w/in a couple of days. The debris is in 47 feet of water, primarily—The recovery that will make it fairly easy. Actually, we planned for much deeper water.””
“Here’s a different prospective of the balloon shoot down. AIM-9 detonates just below the actual balloon itself.
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https://twitter.com/IntelCrab/status/1621976474562461699
“Senior military official: US Navy and Coast Guard vessels in the area to start recovery of debris. Debris in 47 feet of water, expected to be “easy” but no timeline available now”
Biden acting all tough.
“BIDEN: “I told them to shoot it down on Wednesday. They said to me, let’s wait until the safest place to do it.””
Thanks for the strong informative post always helpful /s
More on those Tor-M2DTs.
FORBES
Russia Built A Dozen Air-Defense Vehicles For War In The Arctic. Then Sent Them To Ukraine To Get Blown Up.
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