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Calling someone a RuZZian on FR is considered an insult.
Calling someone a Comrade on FR is considered an insult.
Summarizing this war:
A tragedy for Ukraine.
A disaster for RuZZia.
A strategic win for the USA. The biggest winner of the war.
“More than three decades after Reagan left office, most Republicans still believe that America is a force for good.”
5 more invader tanks lost.
Demilitarization, desatanization and denazification of RuZZia continues.
I’ve only seen this same comment about 30 times now.
Section 1 of 7 - Ukraine: Military Situation Update - Aug 24, 2023.
••Denotes Transcribed Dialogue. Extras are just that - from other sites, or my comments marked (Edit: .... ) or { } or [ ].
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Section 2B
——> Ukrainians Are Cutting Open U.S. Cluster Shells To Make Drone Munitions <——
Cluster shells offers a source of ideal ammunition for Ukrainian drones, but they are also badly needed for their traditional application.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ukrainians-are-cutting-open-u-s-cluster-shells-to-make-drone-munitions
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Section 2C
——> Putin Confirms Prigozhin’s Death, Circumstances Remain Murky <——
A surface-to-air missile or an explosive device are the leading theories behind what brought Prigozhin’s plane down yesterday.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/putin-confirms-prigozhins-death-circumstances-remain-murky
[ Night Ambush: Half-Asleep Naked Russians Run in Panic ]
••Day 547: Aug 24
Today there is a lot of good news.
First of all, more information became available about the crush of the private jet that reportedly killed the Head of the Wagner Group, Evgeniy Prigozhin, his right hand, Dmytro Utkin, and the Head of Security, Valery Chekalov.
Today, the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency confirmed that Prigozhin was present on the board, according to the records.
Moreover, the investigators of the crush have just found the remnants of Prigozhin’s mobile phone.
In the meantime, the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, commented on the crush.
Putin expressed his condolences to the families of those who died in the crush and added that despite the fact that Prigozhin had a troubled fate, he was a very useful person who helped to achieve a lot of goals.
Russian media has also started promoting a new version of the cause of the crush.
Despite the fact that the locals heard two explosions and saw contrails, characteristic of air defense work, it was claimed that the crush likely happened due to the explosion inside the plane, possibly sabotage.
It was reported that the plane recently underwent some out-of-schedule reparations when someone could have planted an explosive device.
But the biggest news today is that Ukrainian forces landed on the Crimean shore.
Today in the morning, around 5 a.m., Ukrainians reportedly used up to 4 boats carrying GUR special forces and carried out a special operation in Cape Tarkhankut.
By the way, this is exactly where the same forces yesterday destroyed a Russian air defense system, reportedly by launching an anti-ship missile from a boat.
The target of the special forces became the base of the Russian radio-radar troops, where Russians forces have powerful multi-functional radar systems, such as Nebo-M, and modern radar systems for low-level surveillance, such as Kasta 2E.
Russian sources reported that Ukrainians managed to land on the shore and opened fire at the Russian forces.
Russian sources admitted that Ukrainians raised their flag above the settlement, as could be seen from the combat footage.
However, they claimed that Russians forces were ready to meet the attackers, quickly returned fire from machine guns, and destroyed all 4 boats and crew members.
Unfortunately for Russians, later released footage confirms that Ukrainian boat crews safely withdrew.
Even Russian military bloggers reacted to this with harsh skepticism and said that this was a lame attempt to cover up the complete lack of protection of Crimea.
Moreover, some less prominent Russian sources released footage from the base, clearly showing that Russians were not prepared to be ambushed at night at all.
The Spokesman for Ukrainian Intelligence confirmed that Ukrainian special forces indeed landed on the Crimean shore, attacked Russian forces, damaged 4 Russian boats, killed 30 Russian troops, raised the Ukrainian flag, and withdrew before Russians understood what was happening.
The landing on Crimea is especially symbolic because today, Ukrainians are celebrating the Independence Day of Ukraine.
In the meantime, Ukrainian forces conducted more than a dozen successful strikes on the Russian bases.
The Ukrainian General Staff reported that the Ukrainian Air Force and Artillery jointly struck 4 command posts, 10 areas of enemy forces concentrations, 4 air defense systems, and 2 artillery systems.
The biggest strike happened in Tokmak. It was reported that here, as a result of the HIMARS strike, Ukrainians destroyed an important Russian command post on the territory of a Russian base.
This is extremely important given that Tokmak is the closest Russian stronghold to the front, where Ukrainians recently breached Russian defense and established total control over Robotnye.
In fact, today, Ukrainian fighters reported that Ukrainians are already advancing on the next settlement on the line - Novoprokopivka - while Russian forces are retreating.
The derangement of the command on this front line will exacerbate the situation even more and possibly allow Ukrainians to generate new gains much more easily.
[ Ukraine Landed in Crimea and Will Break The Russian Defense in The South ]
Section 4A:
UA used Neptune rockets to attack the Russian base near Olenevka, Crimea
Ukrainian GUR troops that landed in Crimea were helicoptered in. Because of that the S-400 had to go before they landed. A real Ukrainian societal & UA morale booster, while destroying the Orcs’.
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Section 4B: New Russian version of Prigozhin’s death is now a bomb, but that does account for the shrapnel on the fuselage and other parts, nor the 2 contrails seen, nor the 2 Kabooms heard.
Putin’s options for the Wagners is to lock them up or just pay them.
The US, reversing course, now say it was a missile strike.
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Section 4C:
Denys’ Conclusions:
A) With the current Regime, it better to not negotiate about anything.
B) Russia is a barbarian dictatorship state completely out of control
C) Putin has lost his mind
D) Russian elite created the Putin Bubble to protect themselves; for them its either Prison or the Graveyard.
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Section 4C: Its way more important to break through in the south an cut the Orc army in half than the east with it’d constant reinforcements from Russia.
Section 5A: Ukraine will soon receive F-16s, but on ATACMS Biden has not yet said yes or no, - the head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley
He noted that ATACMS is a controversial topic for many reasons and the question is still on the table
https://t.me/pilotblog/6280
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Section 5B: One of the Z-bloggers shows that Ruzzia starts to get rid of the Wagner grave yard.
Nothing should remind Ruzzians of Prygozhyn and Wagner.
That what will happen to those who believes Putin
https://t.me/pilotblog/6287?single
Section 6A: Food problems began at the front.
Immediately from several units, we received information that problems with food supplies began at the forefront. In particular, we are talking about the Zaporozhye direction.
“The third day they don’t bring anything, we sit on the last dry rations. The command said that those who would hold their positions would be fed. Some kind of cruel thing is happening,” an officer who is fighting near Tokmak tells us.
According to another source, problems in the Vugledar direction began a little earlier for all units that are on the first line, and for some of those on the second. Allegedly, the Ministry of Defense did not provide supplies.
“We take food from the locals, but there is nothing special to take,” the military man says.
Due to the lack of food, some fighters refuse to go into battle.
At the same time, it is surprising that the problems began precisely in those places where the Ukrainian army is successful. What is this if not a planned sabotage?
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Section 6B: Losses at the Shaikovka airfield. Enemy drones destroyed the “Shell” installation
The night attack by drones and missiles on the Shaikovka airfield in the Kaluga region, unfortunately, was successful for the enemy.
According to our information, 5 drones were launched, 3 of which were suppressed on approach by electronic warfare systems, one was shot down, and one hit our Pantsir air defense system.
The enemy also launched two missiles of the modified S-200 complex, one of them was shot down, the second fell not far from the fuel tanks of the airfield.
Fortunately, there were no casualties among the staff.
A direct hit in Crimea recently” Recall that a modern Russian S-400 complex was destroyed
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Section 6C: What did Ukraine blow up in Crimea? Three things to know
Regarding the missile attack of the Ukrainian troops on the Crimea. The enemy announced the defeat of the S-400 complex at Cape Tarkhankut, and a number of our military correspondents confirm the information.
We learned from four sources in the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff the real information about the state of emergency.
First, unfortunately, this time the enemy did not lie. According to sources, our S-400 was destroyed along with a “serious stock” of missiles.
How exactly the enemy hit this installation, no one understands.
Probably, heads will roll in the Almaz-Antey concern, which produces these systems, in the near future. The designers claimed that the S-400 could not be hit by any weapon.
Secondly, six people died. Among the dead are valuable specialists.
Among them was even the Hero of Russia, however, our sources categorically refused to name his name. We will further refine this information.
Thirdly, after the loss of such an important air defense system, shelling of the entire Crimea is likely to intensify. So, according to our information, the Sevastopol governor Mikhail Razvozhaev called an urgent meeting, at which he warned that the city was in for “several hellish weeks.”
Sergei Aksyonov has not yet held meetings, but, according to sources close to him, he looked very worried.
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Section 6D: This whole nightmare will soon be over. The retired general gave a gloomy forecast for the coming weeks
Recent weeks have brought less and less good news - Ukrainian troops have broken through the defenses in the Robotnye area, Moscow is being shelled by drones every day.
“S-400s were shot in Crimea - they also filmed it!” - the retired general is indignant in a conversation with us.
“It already looks like bullying. I could not believe it, but they destroyed the air defense system live! This is a disgrace to the command!” says the general.
He also drew attention to the story of the lost Russian Mi-8 helicopter, which landed in Ukraine.
“Only an idiot would believe that a helicopter could accidentally (!) fly across the border and land there, and was not shot down by enemy air defense (as it was in reality, we told here ), the general explains.
The information went around for several days, but no one wanted to talk about it officially, so as not to bring bad news. As a result, everything was leaked through telegram channels, which is logical.
But who will be held responsible? our source said.
According to him, in the coming days and weeks the situation could escalate even more.
The blows can be delivered more densely, but in the next 2-3 weeks the intensity will decline, because the Ukrainians simply do not have enough resources to continue all this.
Regarding the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the general advised not to rush, because he considers his murder, although a logical outcome, but still strange.
Section 7A: The information fuss around the destroyed aircraft with representatives of the Wagner PMC leadership diverted attention from a number of events that were “lost” in the previous two days, but nevertheless are important for understanding the overall picture of what is happening.
The “death” of Yevgeny Prigozhin became news number one and successfully ousted the topic of the president’s impersonated double from the information space.
This allowed the understudy to recover and continue to portray Putin, taking part in numerous meetings and events, of which there were a great many over the previous two days.
The double managed to meet and bless the work and deeds of the acting leader of the LPR Leonid Pasechnik, the acting leader of the Zaporozhye region, Evgeny Balitsky, the acting leader of the Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, and the acting leader of the DPR, Denis Pushilin.
Almost all the meetings were held in a formal setting and did not show up in anything remarkable, with the exception of the meeting with Pushilin.
During the closed part of the conversation, the understudy relaxed somewhat and gave himself the freedom to mock Denis Pushilin, asking vulgar questions about his connection with the chairman of the State Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin.
Pushilin smiled stupidly and almost coquettishly answered the “President” that these were speculations and that the connections were purely business.
The doppelgänger also made several speeches via videoconference during the BRICS summit, to which Russian President Vladimir Putin was asked not to come and not to send an understudy.
Speaking via video link at events on the sidelines of the summit, the double read the speeches prepared for him and edited by the president, and was like that.
The only significant outcome of the summit is the decision to expand the composition and invite new members.
In a joint statement, the leaders of the BRICS countries stood up for everything good and against everything bad, though each had something different in mind.
It became clear to everyone, without exception, that Putin is an outcast for everyone and everywhere.
That’s actually all that concerns the summit.
The twin also distinguished himself by participating in the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Battle of Kursk, in the village of Ponyri, Kursk Region, where he delivered a lengthy speech.
The appearance of an understudy at events with a large crowd of people, this is what the whole story with doubles was started for, and here, it should be noted, he is doing an excellent job so far.
In general, the last two days have been very eventful for the double.
The final point of this two-day marathon can be considered an indirect recognition of the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin and recognition of his services to the president and the country.
Interestingly, the doppelgänger was advised to remember Prigozhin precisely during the meeting with Denis Pushilin, whom Putin sincerely despises.
With such an energetic double, soon the President will not be needed, but why, if this one can cope with everything?