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Update from Ukraine | Good News from the South | Bad news about Planes and S-300
Youtube.com ^ | 8-25-2023 | Denys Davydov

Posted on 08/25/2023 6:07:51 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com

Update from Ukraine | Good News from the South | Bad news about Planes and S-300

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPqd1yswR38

The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the recent developments on the battlefield, as of 23rd August 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time).

https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-546-summary/ [two summaries per week, released on Wednesday and Sunday]

*** Great interactive maps with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front!

https://militaryland.net/maps/


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41 posted on 08/26/2023 5:49:49 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine )
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

LOL - look at these fluffy bunnies! Now please click on this red arrow to get a membership because I need some funds.


42 posted on 08/26/2023 5:54:01 AM PDT by Allegra (Stop the Zeepers from Censoring FReepers)
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To: Rocco DiPippo
What will happen to paid Youcrayne propagandists on Free Republic when Youcrayne is completely obliterated and the war ends?

Sure would be nice to see them go elsewhere. They clutter up this site something awful. They hog the “Latest Posts” feed, give repeated canned responses to those who question them and on top of it all, they’re just not nice people.

Love your tagline. That’s why the vicious Biden cult is going after him with such a vengeance.

43 posted on 08/26/2023 6:01:26 AM PDT by Allegra (Stop the Zeepers from Censoring FReepers)
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To: AdmSmith; AmericanInTokyo; Apparatchik; AZJeep; babble-on; BeauBo; bert; blitz128; buwaya; ...

25 Aug: Huge Success! Russian Main TANK ASSAULT GROUP GOT TRAPPED AND DESTROYED! | Ukraine War News
Divine Justice
175K subscribers
8-26-2023 6:00 a.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYqe9RAoCyY

With the death of the Wagner leader in Russia, the first amphibious Ukrainian landing operation in Crimea and the destruction of Russian air defense systems such as the S-400, S-300 in southern Ukraine and the peninsula, the fate of the war has changed.

The Ukrainian army is now taking drastic steps for freedom on the battlefield. Kiev plans to destroy Russian positions in different sectors of the front by dividing the limited Russian resources.

Under this plan, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are gathering forces for a possible offensive along the Marfopil-Dorozhnianka line in the Zaporizhia region. Kiev is also making unbelievable advances in the Donetsk region.

In today’s agenda, one of the most prominent frontline units of the Ukrainian troops gathering strength is a surprise contingent of Ukrainian troops, which has been cutting through the settlements in and around Zaporizhia with western battle tanks.

The Ukrainian army, which has worked wonders in the triangle of Zaporizhia, Melitopol and Tokmak, made its first breakthrough today with the deployment of a special military unit using Western combat vehicles near Robotyne.

The 82nd Assault Airborne Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, consisting of two thousand soldiers equipped with British Challenger tanks and Marder and Stryker infantry fighting vehicles, landed near Rabotyne, south of Zaporizhzhia region.

This formidable Ukrainian military unit has 90 US Stryker combat vehicles, 40 German-made Marder infantry fighting vehicles, 24 US-made M113 infantry carriers and 14 Challenger tanks from the UK.

According to NATO data, the 82nd battalion alone has half of Ukraine’s best infantry armored vehicles from NATO allies. It is also the only military unit in Ukraine to use Marder and Strkyer vehicles.

Other Ukrainian military units are much less well equipped, often relying on Soviet-era equipment and crowdfunded equipment, while the 82nd Brigade and the 46th Brigade are among the last major formations that the Ukrainian Armed Forces command has in reserve.

In other words, the Ukrainians are putting up their last but biggest and most powerful trump card for a decisive victory.

Already, with the Ukrainian army’s deployment of this special unit, clear victory data has begun to come in.

In line with Kiev’s offensive plans, the 82nd Brigade’s introduction of western combat vehicles has resulted in a 100-kilometer breach of the Russian defense line in and near Zaporizhia. By finally sending these formations into battle, the Ukrainians significantly increased their firepower along one of the main axes of the counteroffensive.

In particular, the 50-mile axis stretching from Russian-occupied Robotyne to occupied Melitopol, just north of the Black Sea coast, has been turned into a network of attacks on Kiev by the successful offensive operations of the 82nd Brigade.

This brigade’s first move this week was with Stryker combat vehicles. Footage of a US-supplied Stryker combat vehicle in action in Ukraine surfaced on social media the other day. The video appeared to show a Russian Lancet munition maneuvering a Stryker.

The Strykers were part of Ukraine’s powerhouse 82nd Air Assault Brigade, which was ordered into battle this week to help strengthen the counter-offensive in the southern Zaporizhzhia Region. So these images showed that Strykers are now on the move in Ukraine, and that advanced US armor was deployed for the first time in recent days in the war against Putin’s invasion.

Alongside the arrival of the Strykers on Ukrainian battlefields, the 71-ton, four-crew Challenger tanks, reinforced with coping cages - turret-mounted cages to protect the vehicles from drone attacks - were also observed on the move for the first time.

Russia appeared to be shaken to its core near Robotyne by the arrival of the battalion using western combat vehicles.

This settlement is now under Ukrainian control. In Mala Tokmachka, near Robotyne, Russian troops still appear to be holding out. However, Ukrainian forces have captured positions on parts of the Russian defensive front after intensive attacks on the Robotyno-Verbove line 21 km southeast of Orikhiv.

Under heavy fire from the 82nd Brigade and other Ukrainian units, part of the Russian defense south of Mala Tokmachka was broken.

Meanwhile, in Verbove, east of Robotyne, the Russian army’s 100th separate reconnaissance battalion and 417th separate reconnaissance battalion continue to abandon some positions there.

PRO-KREMLIN blogger Rybar reported that the battalion is having no problem removing Russian units from some positions in the nearby village of Verbove. It was the 82nd Brigade that was a major factor in the Russian flight from Verbove and nearby towns.


44 posted on 08/26/2023 6:02:35 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine )
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VIDEOS

1. Ukrainian jet artillery drops multiple rockets on Russian positions
The Sun
4.3M subscribers
Aug 26, 2023 6:00 a.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCL0Sj53xnI

Ukrainian jet artillery appears to drop multiple rockets that blow up Russian positions, in footage released by 67th Separate Mechanized Brigade.

2. RUSSIAN 205th BRIGADE IS TRAPPED ON THE LEFT BANK OF KHERSON, RUSSIANS CAN’T FREE THEM || 2023
Warthog Defense
600K subscribers
Aug 26, 2023 9:00 a.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8nxjj4Avkg


45 posted on 08/26/2023 6:25:19 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine )
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ARTICLE

Large pyrotechnics warehouse on fire in Russia
Ukrainska Pravda
Roman Petrenko —
Saturday, 26 August 2023, 14:02
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/08/26/7417200/

On the afternoon of 26 August, a huge fire was observed in the local fireworks warehouse in Kemerovo, Russia.

SOURCE: Ostorozhno, novosti (Attention, News); Mash

DETAILS: Eyewitnesses said that the fire is accompanied by fireworks explosions that can be heard throughout the city.

At the very beginning of the fire, the area of fire was recorded to be at least 600 metres, but it is unknown how much it is now.

It is reported that the fire caused the structures to collapse, and the building collapsed too.

Information is also being checked that, in addition to pyrotechnics, gas cylinders were stored in the warehouse.

3 VIDEOS: https://t.me/ENews112/15147


46 posted on 08/26/2023 6:31:25 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine )
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To: CapandBall

“......it is CIA/MI-6, not mother Russia or Putin that assassinated Prigozhin.”

I speculate you are right and Priggy was whacked above Moscow on way back from meeting Putin.

Media narrative is Priggy was “trying to save” his financial empire from Putin....really? As an insurrectionist his properties would be forfeit with or without scurrying...why had Putin not seized them already?

Indicators are Priggy’s march on Moscow was a CIA driven failure to displace Putin.

When that flopped Priggy “hid” in Belarus and started rattling sabers vs Poland on CIA cue....probably to false flag or provoke an attack and justify NATO intervention....or on Putin cue to make NATO sweat in the Baltics.

At this level, between people this jaded and evil on all sides.....we have NO IDEA what the truth is.

But what do I know and I do not feel strongly about it.


47 posted on 08/26/2023 6:35:14 AM PDT by Lowell1775
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ARTICLE

The one near Mother Ukraine Monument: How a woman from Kyiv saved 16-metre flag brought from Kramatorsk
Ukrainska Pravda
Saturday, 26 August 2023, 13:10
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/08/26/7417196/

The soldier’s mother, Nina Kostiumynska, from Kyiv, repaired a large Ukrainian flag at her home, which travelled 4,000 kilometres from Kramatorsk and was installed near the Mother Ukraine Monument in Kyiv on 23 August.

The story of the woman who repaired the flag was told by her son, Dmytro Kostiumynskyi, to Ukrainska Pravda. Zhyttia.

The man is currently serving in the army in the east. His mother, Nina Ivanivna, came to Kyiv from Crimea at the age of 15.

For more than 40 years, Nina Ivanivna has been teaching tailoring and sewing at the capital’s school in Nyvky. When the war began, the woman stayed in the capital even when the Russians approached the city.

Nina Kostiumynska repaired a large Ukrainian flag at home

For a year and a half, she has been helping the local military enlistment offices by sewing flags for fallen soldiers, restoring clothes for the military, etc.

On the eve of Flag Day, the military approached the defender’s brother Oleksandr and said that the large flag with the signatures of soldiers, medics and volunteers, which had been brought to the capital and was already being carried to the installation, was torn.

The flag, measuring 16x23.5 metres and weighing approximately 45 kg, had to be repaired urgently, but everyone refused.

“My brother asked my mother for help; she agreed and repaired the flag herself. My niece signed it, and it was sent to be mounted on the flagpole. That’s how our family’s signature appeared on the flag,” says Dmytro.

“My niece signed it, and it was sent to be mounted on the mast”

The soldier says that it is very important for him that the symbolic flag has gotten to his mother.

“At the beginning of the video, they say that this flag travelled all over Ukraine. It was in Kramatorsk. I am now a little further away. The flag was here, and at the last stage, it ended up at my house. It is very symbolic. I pay tribute to my mother, who joined this large-scale and secret process,” says Dmytro Kostiumynskyi.

*** VIDEO: Happy National Flag Day!
Office of the President of Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPiOv6K1A7M

A blue and yellow flag that traveled 4.5 thousand kilometers of the front line from Chernihiv to Odessa. Almost 2 thousand signatures of our defenders on the flag cloth. Hundreds of meetings, conversations and memories of military personnel and volunteers – about Ukraine, about the war, about relatives, about love. About our Ukrainian flag. ***

“The flag was here, and at the last stage, it ended up at my house”

Dmytro recalls that when he went to war, his mother “did not ask him unnecessary questions and understood everything”.

“She hugged me and said: Son, I understand everything; this is how it should be. This is what keeps me here. My mother is a strong warrior,” says the soldier.

BACKGROUND:

As the Office of the President reported, the flag of Ukraine from Kramatorsk was raised next to the Mother Ukraine monument in Kyiv on National Ukrainian Flag Day. Before that, he travelled more than 4,000 km, including along the entire front line.

The flag was signed by almost 2,000 Ukrainians: military personnel, their relatives, volunteers, doctors, etc.

After the holidays, the flag should be handed over to the museum.


48 posted on 08/26/2023 6:59:30 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine )
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VIDEOS

1. Is Surovokin next on Putin’s hit list? | Frederick W. Kagan
Times Radio
494K subscribers
Aug 26, 2023 7:00 a.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDv6Yn3hJy8

Surovokin could face a fate similar to Prigozhin if he isn’t careful, says Frederick W. Kagan, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

2. Putin orders Wagner fighters to swear allegiance after Prigozhin’s death
Times Radio
495K subscribers
Aug 26, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qT3JTF9XV0
“Prigozhin was meant to leave Wagner, Kremlin needed a new political figure on the right.”

Russia’s Vladimir Putin had plans to create Prigozhin into a “political figure” and move him from Wagner and towards the Kremlin, says former Kremlin advisor Valery Morozov.


49 posted on 08/26/2023 7:10:50 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine )
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ARTICLE WITH VIDEO

1. In Donetsk, fighters of 92nd SMB destroyed $2 million worth of enemy equipment. VIDEO
Video Censor.NET War in Ukraine
https://censor.net/en/v3439756

In Donetsk region, a company of the ACHILLES unmanned aerial vehicle strike systems of the 92nd Separate Mechanised Brigade named after Kosh Ataman Ivan Sirko successfully used drones with night vision to attack enemy vehicles. The total cost of the destroyed enemy vehicles is about $2 million.

This was reported by the StratCom of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Censor.NET reports.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed Russian APCs-80, IFV-2, and BREM (armored repair and evacuation vehicle). Source:

2.
Ukrainian gunners from HIMARS took aim at Russian howitzer “Msta-S” in Zaporizhzhia. VIDEO
Video Censor.NET War in Ukraine

Not far from Skeliuvate, near Tokmak in Zaporizhzhia region, Ukrainian artillery from HIMARS accurately hit a Russian 155mm MSTS 2S19 Msta-S.

A Russian cannon was firing at the positions of Ukrainian troops from the occupied territory. But the M142 HIMARS hit it with one shot, Censor.NET reports.
VIDEO: https://censor.net/en/v3439759

3. In Kherson region, Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed enemy gun “Giatsint”.
https://censor.net/en/v3439763
In the temporarily occupied Kherson region, the Ukrainian military destroyed a powerful large-caliber enemy cannon “Giatsint”

This was reported on the Telegram channel of the Southern Defense Forces, Censor.NET informs. Source: https://censor.net/en/v3439763
VIDEO https://storage2.censor.net/video/3/260823_htr.mp4


50 posted on 08/26/2023 7:17:49 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine )
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Kiev is also making unbelievable advances in the Donetsk region.


Not true, maps have not changed there in any way since the 16th.

Whole post can be discounted for that reason.


51 posted on 08/26/2023 7:20:16 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: House Atreides

Love it Hopium! Hope all you want but Ukraine can not beat Russia—They are too small and even with all the support in the world they will lose in time. They will just run out of people. Rather than be willing to give up some lands (they no longer control and whom they have been shelling) they persist in demanding all lands given to them by Nikita Khrushchev in a political move—he never imagined the USSR would fold up. They are keeping up the fight. In time the war will be over and no one will be pleased with the peace accords. People will say Look at USSRs invasion of Afghanistan! Russia didn’t lose, they pulled out, just as we did when we stepped in and we did in Vietnam. Russia isn’t pulling out in the foreseeible future.


52 posted on 08/26/2023 7:31:19 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade ( Ride to the sound of the Guns!)
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To: PIF

Kiev is also making unbelievable advances in the Donetsk region.


Not true, maps have not changed there in any way since the 16th.

Whole post can be discounted for that reason.
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Well, you have to give her credit, she did say they were UNBELIEVABLE. Sometimes truth slips out subconsciously,


53 posted on 08/26/2023 7:47:39 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-M)
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To: House Atreides
--- "Well, you have to give her credit, she did say they were UNBELIEVABLE. Sometimes truth slips out subconsciously,"

I have been looking "behind the scenes" at many of the various citations, many YouTube and on another thread Twitter, and find that YouTube / Google picks up 45 percent of all revenues, while the various "content creators" get their 55 percent. So money is obviously involved.

The Divine Justice channel said in the copy-paste: "Huge Success! Russian Main TANK ASSAULT GROUP GOT TRAPPED AND DESTROYED!"

The channel "Divine Justice" is monetized! Since Jan 4, 2018, the channel has generated 38,425,881 views. Assuming all views were monetized from day 1* with an average RPM of $3.00, this channel has generated $115,277.64 over 2030 days. That's an average of $20,727.26 per year.
Divine Justice uploads from the United States. It began its life as a "how to" channel and learned that there is a nice bit on income to be a "Ukraine war" specialist. In the United States.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/@officialdivinejustice/about

Additional source: https://socialblade.com/youtube/c/hobilerimorgu

PIF's remark is apt. "Not true, maps have not changed there in any way since the 16th. Whole post can be discounted for that reason."

One consistent feature seen over these last months, as I peer behind the scenes of the pro-Ukraine and anti-Zelensky sorts of YouTube videos, there is a significant earnings advantage to being "pro-Ukraine," in terms of the sharing of clicks and ad revenue. Many are taking in an estimated $100K and more a year, just for posting YouTube war videos. And all carry some sort of heightened title and message, so as to encourage clicks and the side hustle of donations to Patreon and beyond. This is true for both sides, so to speak, but the massive income earner are those promoted here on the daily thread.

Skepticism is warranted.

54 posted on 08/26/2023 8:29:15 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Lowell1775
So much surrounding Prigozhin is mystery wrapped in an enigma. TBH, at this point there is still a chance he faked his own death, he did before with a plane crash in the African Congo.

But the Wagner PMC and rank and file Russias are NOT blaming Putin… that is just western propaganda.

55 posted on 08/26/2023 8:35:28 AM PDT by CapandBall
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

““I think we are in the endgame with Putin.” Short term, the death of Prigozhin reinforces Putin’s role ‘as the warlord of Russia,’ but has consequences for the Russian president in the long term, says Lord Peter Ricketts.”

May it be so!


56 posted on 08/26/2023 8:39:01 AM PDT by Sunsong
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57 posted on 08/26/2023 9:30:40 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: ought-six

Nice try, kid.


58 posted on 08/26/2023 9:35:28 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: House Atreides

That one is a Red China troll.


59 posted on 08/26/2023 9:36:31 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: Phoenix8

Jez don’t spam, Jez don’t get paid.


60 posted on 08/26/2023 9:37:23 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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