Posted on 08/02/2023 7:28:26 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Update from Ukraine | New Direction of the Ukrainian offensive on the South | When the War is over?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc95kgk3xq4
The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 1st August 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time).
https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-524-summary/
*** Great interactive maps with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front! https://militaryland.net/maps/
I think this could be a record here on FR, before my post 17 of the first 19 posts were from the person.
It’s like you are talking to yourself, hopefully you’re not answering yourself
VIDEO WITH SUMMARIZED COMMENTARY
2 Aug: NICE. New Ukrainian Drones CATCH RUSSIANS COMPLETELY OFF GUARD | War in Ukraine Explained
Reporting from Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWucSFACquM
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I am Ukrainian. My country has been invaded by Russia. In this video I will tell you what happened on the five hundred twenty fifth day of the war.
Day 525: Aug 02
Today there are a lot of updates.
FIRST of all, today, multiple sources confirmed that Ukrainians advanced in the Luhansk region. If previously, Ukrainians just localized the Russian breakthrough and pushed them from the most recently taken positions, then right now, Ukrainians cut the Russian bridgehead into 2 halves and are predominantly focused on eliminating the norther group.
Ukrainian fighters that operate in the vicinity of Tverdokhlibove released a video showing one of the storming operations. The fighters reported that they were conducting reconnaissance in the region when they spotted a well-fortified Russian position. The commander of the unit evaluated the situation and decided to engage.
The element of surprise played a major role, as Russians failed to organize a coherent response. As a result, Russians lost 10 soldiers killed in action and had dozens wounded. The Ukrainian reconnaissance unit, in turn, had no losses. It seems like Ukrainians successfully capitalized on the Russian problems with logistics and almost completely eliminated the Russian bridgehead in front of Karmazynivka. Judging by the reported intensity of Ukrainian artillery strikes on the Russian bridgehead in front of Raihorodka, Ukrainians are aiming to reduce this salient next.
When it comes to the southern front, there are a lot of interesting developments. 2 days ago, the Israeli ship Ams1 successfully broke through the Russian blockade of the Black Sea and entered the Ukrainian branch of the Danube River, despite threats from Russia. Later, 2 more ships with Greek and Turkish-Georgian registrations ran the Russian blockade. It was reported that the safe passage of these vessels is being ensured by the American anti-ship patrol aircraft.
Russian forces decided not to risk a direct confrontation and sent 2 warships to prevent other ships from following suit. Ukrainians responded yesterday by conducting a strike with marine kamikaze drones. The situation became tricky for the Russians, and they decided to conduct a last-minute strike on the Ukrainian harbor in Izmail.
As a result, Russians destroyed an absolutely enormous amount of grain that was prepared for export. It was reported that Russians destroyed 40 thousand tons of grain and a refueling station. The latest reports suggest that the ships turned around as there was no cargo anymore, so, unfortunately, the Russian strike on civilian infrastructure was successful.
In the meantime, Ukrainians continue destroying Russian military bases and logistics. First of all, more information became available about yesterday’s drone strike on Sevastopol. The footage of the explosion was quickly geolocated, and the analysts concluded that the explosion happened on the Russian rocket base number 3413. Some sources released satellite footage of the base made prior to the strike. Based on the available imagery, Russians had a lot of rockets for air defense systems S-300, Strila, and Buk.
TODAY, Ukrainians conducted another successful strike on Crimea. The target became a huge Russian military base near Hvardiiske. What is interesting is that Ukrainians tried to break through the Russian air defense in this region for a long time and may as well have more than a dozen attempts. It seems like, after the recent broad drone strike on the peninsula, Ukrainians finally developed the best possible trajectory and passed through the Russian air defense.
Russian analysts claimed that Ukrainians used a completely new type of drone that they still haven’t identified. Ukrainians reportedly already used these drones in a previous successful strike on Rozdolne. However, some sources speculated that the strike was conducted by the ballistic missile S-200 or Hrim-2, and the drones were just a decoy.
IN ANY CASE, judging by the explosion, Ukrainians blew up another ammunition depot. This is already 7th Russian military base in Crimea that Ukrainians destroyed just over the last month. The success of the campaign, to a large extent, depended on the seemingly unsuccessful broad drone strikes.
As it turned out, Ukrainians were achieving 2 objectives at the same time: creating a map of Russian air defense systems and forcing Russians to relocate their air defense away from certain bases in response to these decoy attacks. Once Ukrainians saw that Russians accommodated to the broad strikes, they unexpectedly changed their tactic, used a smaller number of drones, different models of drones, and modified trajectories, allowing them to break through the air defense and destroy Russian ammunition depots.
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A very interesting summary of Russia’s conquest history. Also a very bleak prediction for the Russian future as hoped for by their current leaders. And a rather hopeless future for those working for democratic change. Unfortunately, probably accurately predicted.
No, RevMom is not talking to herself, she is reporting information and links that we who care about the Russian war on Ukraine would likely find interesting.
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The major loss that I see here to the Ukrainian side is the loss of grain and grain facilities and related facilities. Perhaps the biggest “news” is that the US was flying air patrols to guard the grain ships. If true, that’s very significant, an “escalation” if you will, though it proved insufficient.
On the Russians’ side, the continued deliberate destruction of grain facilities is also an escalation, and in addition is a just plain “dick” move that could well result in many more deaths, and other negative consequences around the world, than this conflict generates directly.
My question would be: Can Russia make up for the amount of Ukrainian grain that they (Russia) are keeping off the market? I rather doubt it, and if that is the case, and the market is undersupplied, it will hit poor countries hardest. Russia can give away some grain here and there, but, that market is huge: Someone will come up short, and it won’t be the wealthy countries because they can pay the higher prices in a short market. A very large population in poor countries cannot.
I do not know where this will lead, but I can readily imagine the US and Turkey leading a UN effort to protect the grain in the Ukies storage and shipment facilities. Would the Russians then attack those?
Thank you for sharing this LINK of the reality of a high functioning Medevac team: stunningly impressive.
The demand will not decrease for grains. Weather has affected decreasing amount of harvest. The cost is increasing even now to anticipated of decreased availability.
I fear Putin is willing to use a carrot & stick approach to victimize Africa.
Putin offered ‘free’ grain to Africa. Now that the criminal case of armed mutiny held against Yevgeny Prigozhin has been terminated, he continues his recruitment for Wagner.
[See Comment #10]
In the past, statements from Prigozhin indicated his desire to take Wagner to Africa.
While it is an accurate summary of Russia’s conquest history, I think the conclusion that democracy is impossible is a flawed conclusion.
If we look at strong democracies today, a few hundred years ago, those places were not democracies.
The culture can change.
I admit I despair when I talk to Russians who live in Germany and have lived there 15+ years who are highly educated, yet still support the imperialist mindset.
But I have hopes that a catastrophic defeat will change their minds and save their nation - like the catastrophic defeats of Germany and Japan changed them
In his three videos posted two days ago American reporter Lira described the torture he was subjected to in the last 90 days of captivity by the Ukrainisns. (He was arrested for vlogging!)
The grotesque Zelensky regime has no support for human rights, you can see they made this video as repulsive as they possibly could.
Biden approves, and the USA is paying for it all. All the torture, all the religous persecution, the sanctioning of opposition political parties. Biden and regime supporters are mute on all this.
Undoubtedly many suppot arresting opposition candidates and politicians.
The Biden regime seems to be learning the mechanics of repression from their client Zelenskyy.
One can already see the same tactics being applied domestically by the Biden junta.
As you'd expect Reverend Mother and other Ukrainian fan-bois are silent about it all.
First they came for the dissident bloggers, but I wasn't a dissident blogget...
Gonzalo Lira is a former online dating coach and conspiracy theorist turned pro-Putin activist
Gonzolo was arrested for supporting the invading Putinist army.
Two days ago, he was set free on bail (his trial is pending) and he immediately announced that he will leave the country and cross the border into Hungary to ask for political asylum there.
Of course, as a US citizen, you cannot get political asylum in the European Union (which Hungary is a part of). By attempting to do so, he violated his bail conditions and is now in an even bigger mess than before.
Gonzalo revealed the locations of US and other countries’ journalists to the Russians.
He also constantly supported and justified the Russian invasion. This is what got him arrested. As in probably all civilized countries, supporting the enemy during times of war is a crime.
He hasn’t been tortured.
Sounds like a great man and a hero.
Of course, as a US citizen, you cannot get political asylum in the European Union (which Hungary is a part of).
Wrong. He was seeking asylum from being returned to the Ukraine to face charges in their kangaroo courts.
He wasn't fighting extradition to America, which admittedly might be hard if attempted. That has nothing to do with it.
Ukraine, you might recall, is NOT part of the EU. Sovereign states can offer asylum to whom ever they want, and I suspect Hungarfian judges would have looked favorably on his request. A lot of peoole in that region grew up with stories of relatives fleeing various Nazi regimes by crossing into nearby neighbor countries, which is exactly what he was attempting. Hungary, like all other EU countries is currently harboring thousands of Ukrainian draft dodgers.
He hasn’t been tortured
Sure, Sport, and you know this how? I can believe him, and his video testimony on the matter, or I can believe you, random Freeper. What's your expertise on the matter? None!
Gonzalo Lira is a former online dating coach and conspiracy theorist
You people are so predictable. If you have no facts to denigrate someone, use name calling!
Everyone substsntial did something before doing what they do now. I was a gas station pump jockey, a picture framer, and a bicycle messenger before becoming a successful software professional. What's the point of this factoid? As far as conspiracy theorist: anyone who believes JFK wasn't killed by a lone gunman, or that Biden didn't legitimately win 81 million votes is a "conspiracy theorist", at least according to lickspittle Biden apologists.
the ukes need to break behind rus lines and catch whole rus army from behind.
the way to do that is to helicopter across the old dneiper lake at night. Place 2000 men fully equipped with air cover. Then they attack at night and dawn the rus along the south side of the old dneiper lake.
simultaneously the ukes mount a large attack—along the south side of the dneiper from the north. It has to be done fast and hard.
The two uke armies link up on the south side of the dneiper.
then they have an open corridor to the south through which they can pour men and material. This army would fan out in two direction. The first goes behind the rus lines. The second goes to the bridge to crimea to cut off all the rus across the river from kherson.
again, they’d need lots of air cover and a lot of practice to to get the helicopter insertion right,.
“the ukes need to break behind rus lines and catch whole rus army from behind.”
Sounds like a plan! 👍
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