Posted on 09/01/2024 3:53:08 AM PDT by hardspunned
46 UAVs were shot down over the Kursk region, 34 over the Bryansk region, 28 over the Voronezh region, 14 over the Belgorod region, eight over the Ryazan region, two over Moscow, seven over the Moscow region, five over the Kaluga region, four over the Lipetsk region, three over the Tula region, two drones each over the Tambov and Smolensk regions, and one each over the Oryol, Tver and Ivanovo regions.
As previously reported, one of the drones' targets was the Moscow Oil Refinery. There is a fire at the plant, but its scale is said to be small. The plant is being extinguished from helicopters.
Drones also hit the Konakovskaya State District Power Plant in the Tver Region, and were reportedly shot down as they approached the Kashira Hydroelectric Power Plant (Moscow Region). - ISZ
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Why doesn’t Putin commit his 300,000 reserves and end this madness by taking Kiev? Is Putin a smarter man than I? Does he know that those troops are better serving Russia by manning the non Ukrainian part of the NATO/Russian frontier. Could Putin be anticipating a maniacal NATO move from Poland into Belarus?
Some have said the DS has to get WWIII going before the elections. This is a good start. Putin is certainly not going to take this lying down.
He has been taking it. How do you think America would react if this happened in NYC a week ago?
https://youtu.be/261e86klShY?si=iE6Ghtj4sGjgxkLE
American politics is not really an issue in the Ukranian war against the Russians.
300,000 reserves?
They dont exist. Russia cant take Kiev. If they could have they would have, or at least the East Bank of the Dneiper, long, long ago.
A tiny down payment of Ukrainian retribution on Russia?
Its as if Russians were blind to their own sins. That is a mark of the hopelessly morally compromised. A conversion (not too likely, for most), leading to a proper repentance will be psychologically devastating.
NATO is turning Poland into an aircraft carrier with all the troops the US can muster without a declaration of war.
Poland has started to lessen it’s aggressive anti-Russian BS.
As for why, is anyone’s guess. Russia is very methodical in their destruction of the AFU. If they commit all their troops they have push into defensive positions.
Instead, they just sit back and lob artillery and FABs, with the occasional missile or drone, they can pick the AFU apart without large losses of manpower.
They maintain constant pressure on the front lines, but they are wasting lives with hugh attacks. Russia has opted for a guerrilla war up to 50km deep in Ukraine in the past few months. With the FABs appearance in Dec and operational use in Janurary 24, the defensive lines of the AFU do not hold.
Unvaranished, per the narrator:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbKvib5kVOg
Your thoughts are the same as my first two years of this war in which I thought they would feed the troops into the battal as fast as they trained them.... But artillery, FABs, have done the job. Now they produce 1000 drones a day in a Russia factory since mid-July - the FABS broke the stalemant; the drones will break the AFU mobility and combat capability.Russia has increased the size of their armed forces by an average of 30,000 per month since September 2022. They also used Wagner’s for the one major city battle with hugh losses, rather than their actual military.
Tick tock, the Russia’s use the clock. Current estimates are 1.4m Russian’s under arms, up from 500k at the beginning of the war.
In fact Russia never used more than 300k in the war until the final months of 2023. Today they are using under 500k. Supposedly it will be 590k by December 2024.
Russian MOD calls for a military of 2.1m in July 2026, with 1.3m for Ukraine. That 1.3m would match what Ukraine started the war with, 800k active/425k NG/Reserves/inactives.
Watch today video from Weeb Union on YouTube. He talks about his reporting and his video today being a complete analysis without propoganda for today. Go to 2:35 to get past him talking about being non-agenda driven analysis.
Most would shrug, and as soon a real American is in the White House, they'd blame him!
Could putin be worried about his own interior, but I thought manpower was no issue for Russia?
Taking it? So what has Putin been doing to Kiev and just about every city in Ukraine?
How many Russian cities has Putin razed in his “liberation “ of Ukraine?
It’s not, obviously. The Kursk Pocket debacle could not be going any better for the Russians. The Donbas front is in full cascading collapse. This could be ended in a week with a blitzkrieg 200,000 man assault on Kiev from Belarus.
Why doesn’t Putin commit the reserves? My best guess is Putin is aware of the massive build up by NATO ground forces within striking distance. Putin takes this Einstein quote to heart and he must be able to respond immediately.
“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.”
After 2 1/2 years of hearing about his vast reserves and he could crush them at any time, well we will see
Your last point is spot on just don’t think your clear on the stupid one
But hey just my 2 cents
Haven’t read any of your nonsense in quite a while. I remember ALL the BS administration talking points you trafficked. EVERY single post you made, now proven to be BS. EVERY ONE.
Get a load of my new tagline:
“Look for the”Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over the course of 30 months”
Every time I read a post by you I get more terrified.
See post #12
My walk up music nowadays:
https://youtu.be/Idab67Pj-F0?si=62xCUCrSv3Hn277Y
“””””My best guess is Putin is aware of the massive build up by NATO ground forces within striking distance.”””””
Where, and how many?
If I’ve posted it once here, this will be the hundredth time I’ve posted this thought on FR over the past two years.
There will come a point when Russia will have had enough of American manufactured, Americans supplied, American maintained, American targeted and in many cases, American launched weapons that have killed (fill in the blank, 60,000 to 500,000) Russian soldiers.
When that point is reached, Russia will pre emptively strike the marshaling areas and air bases in Poland. There can be little doubt how the maniacs in DC will respond. WWIII will begin in this manner on the Uke/Polish border.
Poland, primarily. Refer back to your last CJ invite to me. Yeah, there, in Moldova and Romania.
Tell the guys in this upcoming CJ, hardspunned said, hey!
What is a cj and what “massive build up by NATO ground forces within striking distance.” is in Poland?
Your post didn’t answer anything and didn’t make sense.
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