Posted on 09/10/2022 7:11:28 PM PDT by Widget Jr
A funny thing happened in Ukraine today...
Statement of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, by General Igor Konashenkov, September 10, 2022:
"Russian troops that operate near Balakleya and Izyum to be redeployed for reinforcement at Donetsk direction in order to reach preestablished objectives of special military operation. With this purpose, Izyum-Balakleya group of troops had been redeployed to the Donetsk People's Republic within 72 hours. Various deceptive and demonstrative manoeuvres had been carried out marking real action of the troops within the abovementioned operation. The enemy had been under powerful fire attacks with the involvement of aviation, missile troops and artillery for preventing any damage to Russian troops. Over 2,000 Ukrainian and foreign militants, as well as more than 100 units of armoured equipment and artillery have been eliminated within 72 hours."
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OSINT Defender, https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1568656767395176448:
"There are Extremely Unconfirmed Reports from within the last few minutes that Ukrainian Forces have managed to capture Donetsk International Airport after Russian Forces retreated and that they are now beginning to advance into the outer areas of Donetsk City."
Oleksiy Goncharenko, https://twitter.com/GoncharenkoUa/status/1568643958074392577
"My sources say - Ukrainian forces entered Donetsk airport! Keep fingers crossed!"
Gregor Martin, https://twitter.com/Guderian_Xaba/status/1568592199419416578
Also reports about intense battle at #Donetsk airport now."
War Monitor, https://twitter.com/WarMonitor3/status/1568601502390063104
"There is reports of battles at Donetsk airport now."
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Russian General Igor Konashenkov and the rest of the Russian general staff are having a bad day, may they continue. Ordering a redeployment to an area under attack as redeployed forces are arriving is kind of embarrassing. Even more when Donestk was under Russian occupation for eight years before the invasion began.
For General Konashenkov to state that the forces in Balakleya and Izyum are being redoployed, is an admission that the entire Russian front in that area has collapsed. What Scott Ritter, Larry Johnson, Gonzalo Lira or the rest of Russia's online shills say to pretend otherwise is irrelevant. There is no organized withdrawal of Russian forces in the area of the Oskil River. The Russian army is being routed and the pace of the rout has not slowed or stopped.
Taking Donestk also means Ukraine is in position to take back territory that Russia has illegally occupied since 2014.
🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 - Just say no to CCCP 2.0
Any American flag emojis available to you for your tagline? Just wanderin’. Oh well, priorities.
I have nothing better to do so I shall provide here a small lecture on satellite recon.
1) This is the first war in history where both sides have excellent satellite recon.
2) Drones are not too important. They require a bidirectional data link for piloting and in the other direction, imagery. Both links can be jammed or spoofed.
3) Satellites have many categories. There is imagery, and usually multispectral, meaning infrared or even ultraviolet. There is signal intelligence gathering. There is in orbit radar. Which is imagery of a sort.
4) It is a very cloudy planet.
5) There is too often talk of geosynchronous orbits. These are 23,000 miles high. And these orbits are strictly and only over the equator. That is how orbital ballistics and Keplerian element sets work. You cannot park a satellite over Ukraine and have it stay there. It is not the equator. These altitudes are usually reserved for signal gathering, communications transponding and some synthetic aperature radar work.
6) Imaging is usually done at a much lower altitude. When you lower the altitude of a vehicle’s orbit, it no longer hangs over one spot. It traverses the sky. A typical recon orbit would be 600 miles high. There is a 1000 mile limit — the Van Allen high energy proton region. It east electronics, so imaging stays below it.
7) Because it traverses the sky, there are only a few minutes of visibility per day. These orbits are usually mostly polar. The earth rotates under them. So maybe 8 minutes obliquely overhead, then 90 mins later 15 minutes direcly overhead, then 90 minutes later and another 8 minute pass. Then nothing for hours and hours. These pass times can be known to troops on the ground.
8) Overall conclusion to be drawn — there are no surprises. Both sides can see everything that is being prepared. Nothing happens unexpected.
9) Ignore everything but satellite imagery, and you likely can’t interpret it. So ignore everything.
The End
Where are Russian shills on this board? They should now what’s going on. Hey, NorseViking, kiryandit and the rest of your ilk, keep us informed, as you’ve done in the last 6 months!
And yet you have no emojis…
The Russian military would have to redeploy units from inside Russia, and that means transporting them and supporting them when they arrive. Putin has not ordered a general mobilization, and their recruitment efforts amount to finding cannon fodder to fill body bags. Unless the Russian Army is willing to draw real units from inside Russia, sending their recently recruited forces will just get them killed.
If Russia has a way out I have no idea what it is.
I just have to wonder how hard the Russian Army is even trying. I would bet that a lot of them would take out Putin if they could.
And yet the Ukrainians managed to completely snooker the Russians with a local offensive in the South, so that they missed a major offensive buildup up in the North. The Russians now have a huge hole in their front, a large Ukrainian force rampaging in their rear, and as of now, do not appear to have any reserves in the area to counterattack with.
Satellite intel is only good if you look at the photos…
A few of them are venting as trolls, angry, sniping, posting just to release bitter emotions.
Gosh gee willikers, you got me there!
This article isn’t true. I also don’t think anyone is a Russian shill, I think a lot of people are anti nwo, and wef. They’re also probably anti biolabs as well. There’s far more going on that you know and it’s all information warfare.
Since you’re into looking things up, you might want to also look up the word sarcasm.
And more than a few of them are being paid to be here.
You wrote, in particular: “There’s far more going on that you know...”. How insightful of you to remind me about that! And information warfare going on? Would never thought about such thing...
I think the airport is at risk, but have seen no evidence it is taken or even contested at this point. Strangely, Ukraine forces have been on the outskirts of Donetsk (city) since the invasion began, despite it being occupied by Russia for years. There’s a lot of “fog of war” right now and Russia has been so shaken by the loss of their GLOC hub at Kupiansk and Izyum, plus thousands of sq kilometers of ground in such a short time, nothing would surprise me now.
Just pointing out it for everyone lapping up the Uke propaganda.
That reminds me, shouldn’t we give them more money again?
Russia is airlifting elite troops to join the war according to this link.
“From Grozny, soldiers of 2 elite special forces flew out from Grozny to the special operation zone - the “North” regiment and the “South” battalion of the Russian Guard:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1567822725636411395
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