Posted on 09/10/2022 7:40:54 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
Ukrainian forces said Saturday they had entered Kupiansk in eastern Ukraine dislodging Russian troops from a key logistics hub in a lightning counter-offensive that has seen swathes of territory recaptured.
The German foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, meanwhile arrived in the Ukrainian capital for a surprise visit, which she said was to demonstrate Berlin's support for Ukraine in its battle against Russia.
Ukrainian special forces published images on social media showing camouflage-clad officers with automatic weapons "in Kupiansk." It "was and will always be Ukrainian," their statement said.
The town of some 27,000 people, that sits on a crucial supply route for Russia forces in the east, fell within the first week after the Kremlin ordered its invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
Observers of the conflict expect Ukrainian forces to announce further gains in the Kharkiv region, which borders Russia, and has been either controlled by Russia or shelled by its artillery for months.
There was no official confirmation that Kyiv's troops had also routed Russian forces from Iyzum -- an important staging ground for Russia's war effort -- with a pre-war population of around 45,000 people.
But images flooding social media appeared to show Ukrainian forces within the city and Russian observers of the conflict said there were initial reports Moscow's army had already withdrawn.
"Ukrainian troops are advancing in eastern Ukraine, liberating more cities and villages. Their courage coupled with Western military support brings astonishing results," foreign ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko said in a statement on social media.
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I’m surprised we haven’t seen Zelensky riding a tank into Red Square yet. 😅
If people do not notice, the way the russians are fighting a war is how the US would fight a war. The US military is hollowed out much like the russians seem to be.
Given the sheer amount of threads you all have posted up in the past 24 hours within FR, can’t remember the last I have eaten so much popcorn while sitting back and watching/waiting for things to continue to unfold. GG.
This is very good news for the Liberal World Order.
US doctrine is much like what the Ukrainians have been up to in Kharkiv-Izyum this last week. Much the same as the US performance in Iraq, 2003.
This is opportunistic “Auftragstaktik” in the classic German style. Its possible that the US Army as become more bureaucratic and process-bound since 2003 and may no longer be able to execute their doctrine, but we wont know that for sure until they try it.
In any case, the Ukrainian mobile units have performed superbly.
This is why one of my more immediate desires is a system that would let us lay wagers, and collect on them, via FR.
Ministry of Defense of Russia
In order to achieve the stated goals of the special military operation to liberate Donbass, a decision was made to regroup the Russian troops stationed in the Balakleya and Izyum regions to build up efforts in the Donetsk direction.
◽️To this end, within three days, an operation was carried out to curtail and organize the transfer of the Izyum-Balakley group of troops to the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic. During this operation, a number of distraction and demonstration activities were carried out with the designation of the real actions of the troops.
◽️In order to prevent damage to Russian troops, a powerful fire defeat was inflicted on the enemy using aviation, missile troops and artillery.
◽️Over three days, more than two thousand Ukrainian and foreign fighters were destroyed, as well as over a hundred units of armored vehicles and artillery.
#Russia #Ukraine @mod_russia
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Bullshit. There are ZERO similarities between Russia’s military and our own.
The similarities lie in the politics, not in the conduct of military operations.
Well!
I must approve of that particularly magnificent piece of apologetics. They meant to do that all along, it turns out.
Or it could be that this whole operation is a large-scale and rather often fatal attempt at humor.
Amazing how the FR mouthpiece of the Russian MoD always arrives on schedule.
So Russians fled from Kharkiv to Donetsk to "build up efforts in the Donetsk direction" - as someone has already joked in my timeline, "the main objective of the special military operation is to seize Pisky".
https://twitter.com/Faytuks/status/1568605699222999043
#UPDATE: I can't believe what I am seeing. The russian miliary is actually leaving Volchansk to: "save the lives of the population, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation decided to leave our city" - Deputy says https://t.me/mig41
The full video makes clear it was a Russian T-72B3 tank struck by an ATGM. 2/https://t.co/DCrHqdvCsB pic.twitter.com/UqPOlEHCVY— Rob Lee (@RALee85) September 10, 2022
Also, it looks like the commander is standing in the turret at the moment of the explosion. He's propelled upwards and lands on the building of the roof next to the tank several seconds later, which shows just how powerful the explosion was. pic.twitter.com/Zbje1VYAyS— ChrisO (@ChrisO_wiki) September 10, 2022
Damn… I hope the shock wave got him on his way up, not the rafters on the way down.
He literally got blown sky high! No surviving that!
Lol!
What blows up, must come down.
Amazing how the FR mouthpiece of the Russian MoD always arrives on schedule.
Yep. Just lazily spammed 5 posts with a cut and paste of an official Russian MOD press release. Looks like Russia’s online warriors have given up just as much as the AWOL Russian “army.”
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