Posted on 10/05/2023 7:12:05 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
Ukraine may or may not have killed the Russian admiral in charge of their Crimean headquarters, as they first claimed, but their attack succeeded nonetheless. The Ukrainians “severely” damaged both the HQ and two ships undergoing repairs in a series of attacks on the key port of Sevastopol, endangering Russian navy operations in the Black Sea.
Now, satellite and intel data show that the Russians have retreated to lesser ports in Crimea and in Russia proper, putting them out of range of attacks on Ukrainian merchant-marine commerce:
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A few weeks ago, the Ukrainians began an offensive on Russian positions in Crimea, mainly focused on the strategic naval base in Sevastopol. The cruise missile and drone attacks have continued, and have been remarkably surgical — even as the Russians admitted two weeks ago, when they lost both their HQ and their backup communications center in Sevastopol:
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This demonstrates the skill and intel-gathering of Ukrainian forces in the Crimea campaign. It also exposes just how difficult the Russian position is on the peninsula now, and how poor their screening defenses are for their naval assets. Given how small or basically non-existent Ukraine’s navy is, one would have expected the Russians to bolster these defenses before the invasion, especially since a naval blockade would have been an obvious choice to force Kyiv into an eventual surrender.
Now, it looks like the Black Sea fleet will be limited to missile and drone attacks on land-based targets:
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Right?
500,000 dead Ukrainian kids in a failed NATO expansion, and you’re still cheering?
“It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it.” -Upton Sinclair
Fixed.
i certainly don’t know if this is the case here in particular, but given how well documented nudge brigades/77th brigade type stuff is, I think it is highly likely that at least some of the usual suspects here are in fact in this category.
> This demonstrates the skill and intel-gathering of Ukrainian forces in the Crimea campaign.
I’d say they’re getting a _large_ amount of western help. Intel and weapons along with mission planning.
100%
Former adviser to the head of the Pentagon: Zelensky's behavior is disgusting
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's demands related to the financing of the Kiev regime are shameful, said the former adviser to the head of the Pentagon, Colonel Douglas McGregor.
"His behavior is… pic.twitter.com/gcLcWTTOh1— Sprinter (@Sprinter99800) October 5, 2023
Link please.
MacGregor is a combat veteran, West Point grad, a Trump appointee, with a PhD in history. Your qualifications are what exactly?
They didn’t prepare b/c they thought they had a lay down fight.
They were mistaken.
The latest estimates on dead Ukrainian soldiers is 500,000. Ukraine has now begun drafting women.— James Rattenborg (@JamesRattenborg) October 4, 2023
WARNING something BIG is happening in Ukraine, Putin stays quiet | Redacted with Clayton Morris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdJ1CEIiMks&ab_channel=Redacted
Oh wonderful. Biden propaganda bullshit on the menu for lunch today.
"Ukrainian soldiers are being DRUGGED and forced to fight" Ex-CIA Larry Johnson | Redacted News
Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson: "If you go social media, you see row after row after row of Ukrainian flags fluttering after freshly dug graves. Thousands of them. You don't see that in Russia. So, right there, it tells you right away that the causalities are in Ukraine.
The average age of the soldiers fighting on the frontlines for Ukraine is over 40 years old. That means you might have one or two that are 17 and 18 but you have a lot more that are over the age of 40. That speaks to a manpower loss.
"To put the losses in context, right now it is estimated that Ukraine as lost over 500,000 men killed in action. During WW II, the British, the United Kingdom, it's entire killed in action in both Europe, Africa and the pacific, was 345,000. That was after six years of war."
Ukraine chased the Russian navy out of Sevastopol using drones, jet skis and speed boats. If Russia invaded Ukraine to secure the port of Sevastopol for its navy, Russia is losing this war.
Do you want me to tell you a secret? The HQ was withdrawn about a month before the war.
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