Posted on 03/02/2023 5:36:00 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Update from Ukraine | Civil war in Ruzzia | Opposition forces assault in Bryansk Region of Ruzzia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Kl_BycXWc8
Follow on Instagram up to date uploads. https://www.instagram.com/denys_pilot/
****SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here:
The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 28th February 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time).
https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-372-summary/
“You have a lot of nerve to accuse others of propaganda.
And you should investigate further what this incursion actually was”
I TOTALLY understand what the St. Petersburg troll farms are contaminating social media. I also have followed Putin invasion since 2014.
You might appreciate: The Russian Roulette Series by VICE NEWS is an excellent resource of 100+ ‘dispatches.
VICE New brought you on-the-ground LIVE VIDEO with reporter Simon Ostrovsky coverage of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
This is just the first.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNKsLlK52ss&;
list=PLw613M86o5o7a0FGlPRdt47xiDiggbNsZ
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw613M86o5o5zqF6WJR8zuC7Uwyv76h7R
VIDEO
I signed the contract without reading it. It was a mistake! Interview with russian volunteer
Lviv.Media
336K subscribers
3-2-2023 12:15 p.m. EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zht394XX6o
Yevgeny Vostrotin from the city of Snezhinsk, Chelyabinsk region, voluntarily joined the Chechen battalion Akhmat on the basis of rumors. They say that if a father goes to war voluntarily, his sons will not be mobilized. At least, this is the version he told in an interview with Lyubomyr Ferens. During the conversation, he also tried to answer difficult questions: what are the Russians fighting for, how can this war be ended, and where did the Chechens from the “Chechen” battalion go?
of course they did.
the goal is create intolerable internal pressure in russia to escalate.
VIDEOS
1. Ukrainian soldiers returning from battle covered in mud, tired and smiling-“History’s being written”
Kanal13
1.45M subscribers
3-1-2023 4:00 a.m. EST
2. The advancing convoy of Russian equipment explodes on a mine along with crew members
Kanal13
1.45M subscribers
3-1-2023 3:00 a.m. EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCJ47gzOkxU
3. RUSSIAN PROPAGANDIST STARTED TO PREPARE RUSSIANS FOR A DEFEAT IN UKRAINE || 2023
Warthog Defense
473K subscribers
3-2-2023 2:00 p.m. EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826YTAvROdo
I’ve read a few of these posts now (difficult to really take it seriously with “Ruzzia” - I realize it is a matter of localization, but still) and this source seems to be the pro-Ukranian equivalent of Ritter/MacGregor nonsensical propaganda for Russia. Is this supposed to serve any greater purpose? “We’ll match your nonsense with our own nonsense”?
ADDENDUM URL for COMMENT # 46 [Sorry about that omission!]
Please I appreciate and ask that continue to inform me when I slip-up :)
Ukrainian soldiers returning from battle covered in mud, tired and smiling-“History’s being written”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L691ANewQFY
“Ruzzia” is Denys style of demeaning that nation executing this Putin Invasion of his country.
Actually, Yes indeed. LOL
Denys ‘Updates’ serve the greater purpose with their accuracy.
ARTICLE
Russia repeated a battle tactic that failed miserably in Bucha and once again lost tanks critical to the war
www.businessinsider
Erin Snodgrass
Mar 2, 2023, 9:58 PM
https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-battle-tactic-failed-bucha-vuhledar-loses-critical-tanks-2023-3?op=1
Russia lost 130 tanks during three weeks of fighting near Vuhledar, per Ukrainian officials.
The country repeated prior tactical errors that previously lost them scores of critical vehicles.
An expert of US-Soviet relations told Insider that Russia’s newest offensive is “half-baked.”
The largest tank battle of the Russia-Ukraine war thus far proved to be yet another humbling misstep for Russia,
Ukrainian military officials this week that Russia lost at least 130 armored vehicles during the fighting outside the coal mining town of Vuhledar earlier this year, according to The New York Times. The battle saw Russia rely on an early tank tactic — one that failed the country in Bucha last year — by sending military vehicle columns straight into enemy territory where ambush awaited.
“It is striking that they’re repeating a mistake which I would have thought was an extremely painful one from which they would learn during the early days of the war,” said Simon Miles, an assistant professor at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy and a historian of the Soviet Union and US-Soviet relations.
As Ukraine and Russia both prepared to launch new offensives in recent months, tanks, a long-important status symbol of Russia’s military might, have become increasingly important, both symbolically and strategically. Russia tapped Cold War-era military vehicles for its offensive, according to The Times, in stark contrast to Ukraine, which is awaiting Western tanks from far-away allies that are expected to arrive on the battlefield in the coming months.
But long before the staggering losses in Vuhledar, Russia’s tank failures were evident just weeks into the war. The country’s attacks on Bucha, a suburb of Ukraine’s capital city, failed to capture Kyiv and secure Putin a quick victory.
In what grew to be a 35-mile line of armored vehicles outside Bucha in February 2022, more than 100 Russian military vehicles descended upon the town, which was the site of mass killings and several alleged human rights atrocities over the course of a month early in the war.
The apparent convoy, which Ukrainian armed forces later said was actually 10 separate tactical battalion units belonging to Russia, according to the BBC, ultimately failed to capture Kyiv after a chaotic traffic jam forced troops to retreat.
Tactical and military experts told the outlet that Russia’s initial plan relied on secrecy and speed, but Russian President Vladimir Putin’s efforts to keep his schemes concealed would prove costly: Last-minute orders meant troops were left without adequate communication technology and ill-equipped to handle the cold weather. The long line of tanks drove straight into the sludge of Bucha, unable to move forward and forced to divert to clearer roads, where, with little communication between the battalions, a traffic jam ensued, according to the BBC.
At its peak, the column outside Bucha was 35 miles long with as many as 1,000 tanks, 2,400 mechanized infantry vehicles, and 10,000 personnel, the outlet reported. Ukraine found early success in blowing up bridges and dams in front of the convoy, according to the BBC, forcing the Russians to aimlessly reroute.
Russian troops, along with their tanks, began to withdraw in late March. Soon after, Ukraine defeated two of the biggest battalions present near Hostomel airport and another 370 tented army trucks were destroyed by artillery, the outlet reported, amounting to stunning early losses for Russia.
The battle of Vuhledar has proven similarly unsuccessful for Russia, which once again sent in columns of tanks upon which Ukrainian troops fired at a distance, hiding out of sight of the long convoy, The Times reported this week. Just like in Bucha, Russia failed to capture its intended target in Vuhledar, making the same mistake that already cost them scores of tanks a year ago.
It’s one of the more egregious errors in what Miles called the “half-baked” Russian offensive playing out in Vuhledar and Ukraine’s east. He chalked the missteps up to Putin’s growing impatience, suggesting the Russian president fired his top general, Sergei Surovikin, in mid-January because he didn’t agree with the military leader’s plan, which would have seen Russia go on the defense while Ukraine launched its offensive, waiting for the second tranche of mobilized Russians to arrive on the battlefield, who are ostensibly better trained than their predecessors.
Instead, the Russians continue to make the very mistake Surovikin seemed to hope Ukraine might make: launching a premature offensive without the reserves to see it through.
The Ukrainians, meanwhile, are in a better position to absorb Russia’s attacks and launch their own offensive, especially with the promise of more Western weapons on the way.
“I think Putin’s impatience is going to cost them a lot,” Miles said. “At least in terms of opportunity-cost, because the offensive is so under-prepared that they won’t be able to meaningfully exploit against, or because they will be much more susceptible to the Ukrainians’.”
VIDEO
1. Russia’s death toll in Ukraine exceeds 150,000 - 715 Russian soldiers killed in the past day
Kanal13
1.45M subscribers
6 hours ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pae9CaoanCo
2. 300 thousand Russian will die within 6 months if the aggressor continues its attacks
UATV English
382K subscribers
Mar 2, 2023
11 hours ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqbUCBJ9u8c
According to the estimates of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as of today, 150 000 Russians have already been killed during the war against Ukraine. 150 000 is the same quantity as the population of Oxford.
3. Kazakhstan and Central Asia won’t support Russia: Blinken’s visit to Asia bring good news for USA
UATV English
382K subscribers
13 hours ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XAfrlO5ubY
This is the first visit of Antony Blinken as the Secretary of State. The US made clear: it supports the sovereignty and independence of Central Asian countries and will protect their markets form Russian influence. Our correspondents have learned the details.
UK intelligence analysts have claimed that warm weather conditions will cause muddy roads and make it difficult for armored vehicles to move near Bakhmut, but this is to the advantage of Ukrainian defenders
“bezdorizhzhia better known as the rasputitsa (распу́тица) in Russian”
Thank you so much for your Comment #16 with that information.
I knew of the impact the Spring weather condition brought to traveling... but was totally unaware that an actual term existed!
I researched further & found this article:
https://global.espreso.tv/british-intelligence-rising-temperatures-and-muddy-bezdorizhzhia-will-complicate-offensive-actions-near-bakhmut
“Experts noted that while ‘Ukrainian forces continue their defence of Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, rising temperatures are now creating the muddy conditions known in Ukrainian as ‘bezdorizhzhia’, limiting cross country movement.’
These factors, according to the intelligence text, typically provide military advantage to the defending forces.”
A Russia so worried about NATO attacking them, they are losing half their military fighting NATO's leftovers in Ukraine.
UK intelligence analysts have claimed that warm weather conditions will cause muddy roads and make it difficult for armored vehicles to move near Bakhmut, but this is to the advantage of Ukrainian defenders
The Russians are already there and pounding the city with artillery. How does muddy roads help the Ukranians? They are stuck being pounded by artillery and will have extreme difficulty moving supplies to Bakhmut, if they can resupply Bakhmut at all.
OK.. a little humor :)
ARTICLE
RUSSIAN POLITICIAN TO FACE COURT FOR PUTIN SPEECH NOODLE
3-2-2023 - Updated 4:00 p.m. EST
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/russian-politician-to-face-court-for-putin-speech-noodle-video
MOSCOW - A Russian regional politician will appear in court next week to face accusations that he discredited the armed forces by posting a video of himself listening to President Vladimir Putin’s state of the nation speech with spaghetti draped over his ear.
The video referred to the ‘Russian saying’ that when noodles have been hung on someone’s ear, that person has been strung along or deceived.
***TWITTER
Mikhail Abdalkin, a Communist local politician in Samara Region, is in hot water after posting this video of himself watching Putin’s big address earlier this week
https://twitter.com/i/status/1629024596539191296***
For those who don’t speak Russian, the idiom “to hang noodles on someone’s ears” means to tell them lies
Mr Mikhail Abdalkin, a Communist party lawmaker in the Samara regional parliament, said on social media on Thursday that the Novokuybyshev city court would hear his case on March 7. His party had already previously reprimanded him.
“We will fight to prove our non-involvement and innocence,” he added.
Since invading Ukraine in February 2022, Russia has intensified a clamp down on public dissent, establishing fines and potentially giving prison sentences for discrediting the armed forces by expressing negative opinions.
Mr Putin’s address on Feb 21, which lasted almost two hours, included no major policy announcements other than suspending Russia’s participation in its last nuclear arms control treaty with the US.
When Mr Abdalkin posted his video shortly afterwards on “V Kontakte”, Russia’s equivalent of Facebook, he added a caption saying he had been asked to watch the speech by the deputy chair of the Samara parliament.
“I’m in full support, totally agree, great performance,” he added.
“I haven’t heard anything like it in the last 23 years. Pleasantly surprised.” REUTERS
The Russians will be unable to advance, whether with vehicles or infantry, and their logistics will be limited to good roads. The Russian artillery will find it difficult to resupply as well, or to displace.
The Russians will be unable to advance, whether with vehicles or infantry, and their logistics will be limited to good roads.
The Russians don't have to advance in Bakhmut. They are already there. Russian supplies will come in via Russian controlled territory. Ukranian resupply will also have to come in via Russian controlled territory. Roads controlled byu the enemy are never good roads. Bakhmut will just sit there and be pounded by artillery. The mud may slow advances elsewhere, but I fail to see how it does much for Bakhmut. It is a stationary target that is not going anywhere.
It does affect the ability of the Russians to fortify their lines and to resupply their forward troops, if they intend to fire on Ukrainian supply vehicles. They would not be able to bring ammo forward.
And then there will be the effect on Russian artillery. They are dispersed at the moment, but cannot stay that way. They have to displace regularly to avoid counterbattery. There are limited places they can displace to, and limited places where they can be resupplied.
However, what becomes difficult is when Soros agrees with your position!
><><
I don’t envy you.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.