Posted on 08/10/2024 9:01:54 PM PDT by Alter Kaker
As the Ukrainian invasion of Russia grinds into its fifth day, Ukrainian troops have advanced as far as 10 miles into Kursk Oblast—and are beginning to mop up any Russian troops they bypassed in their hurry to extend their zone of control.
The Russians, meanwhile, are finally bringing to bear their heaviest firepower—lobbing powerful glide bombs at Ukrainian columns rolling along Russian roads.
For more than a year, these glide bombs—each ranging 25 miles or farther with hundreds of pounds of explosives—have been Russia’s most powerful offensive weapons, demolishing Ukrainian defenses ahead of Russian ground assaults.
Now they’re defensive weapons—and potentially Russia’s main means of slowing Ukrainian assaults until fresh Russian ground troops arrive in Kursk.
Russian air force Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bombers drop as many as 100 KAB glide bombs every day. Until this week they mostly dropped them along the front line in eastern Ukraine, where Russian regiments have been advancing—slowly and at great cost—all spring and summer.
The bombing campaign began shifting north around Tuesday, roughly the same time the vanguard of at least five Ukrainian brigades rolled across the border into Kursk, kicking off a surprise counter-invasion in the 29th month of Russia’s wider war on Ukraine.
As Ukrainian battalions attacked from their bases in Sumy Oblast, right across the border from Kursk, Russian bombs rained down. “The intensity of combat in the Sumy direction has increased,” the Ukrainian general staff reported on Wednesday. “The enemy is actively applying aviation, helicopters, heavy weapons.”
“There is a noticeable shift in the focus of the enemy's aviation efforts in the theater of operations,” the Ukrainian Center for Defense Strategies noted. “Up to 50 percent of all guided bomb strikes ... now target the territories of Kursk and Sumy Oblasts.”
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I’m watching The Enforcer on YouTube - he’s doing a great job updating the latest. One video he posted is from Kursk, artillery fire can be heard.
How very ballsy of those Ukies!
I envision hell to pay for Ukrainians in general. Lights out, no food, no water, no rail or passable highways, cities far from the front utterly laid waste.
Why not? Grifter ZZZzzzelinskyyy set the example.
I pity the population of corrupt Ukraine and I pray that Zzzzz (along with his bimbo) gets the thorough personal screwing he so richly deserves.
Russia has been bombing Russian towns since this began. They will continue bombing Russian cities like Kharkiv until it’s done.
You sound like a good Soviet.
And you sound like a good European globalist.
>> And you sound like a good European globalist.
Or at least, a Yurpean globalist. (I don’t think there exist any GOOD Yurpean globalists! :-))
I have forgotten who the WW2 politician was that said when he was told the NAZI’s had invaded the USSR, “Good, I hope the Germans kill lots of Russians and that the Russians kill lots of Germans.”
A pox on both their houses.
Ukraine was Joe Sh*tbag’s personal money laundering ATM and Russia, while more righteous than the US currently, is still Russia.
>> A pox on both their houses.
+1
ransomnote: Note that 10 km over the Russian border really isn't that close to the Nuclear Power Plant, according to the 30km legend in the lower center of the map. It looks like 80Km from the plant to the nearest border.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kursk_Nuclear_Power_Plant#/map/0
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Forbes is not a convicted Fraudster. Mercouris is.
No, I sound like a realist and someone who’s knowledge of the history of area predates today’s latest Western disinfo. Of course, you woke DC globalist stooges don’t know or care about reality.
In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Russian Warplanes Are Bombing Russia, Aiming To Block Invading Ukrainian Troops, Alter Kaker wrote: Forbes is not a convicted Fraudster. Mercouris is.
FALSE. I've read the accusations - there are no convictions in all the searches I've done. People like you can accuse him of 100s of crimes - that is not equivalent to conviction.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=was+alexander+mercouris+convicted+of+crime
FORBES is fake news, busily telling the world that Harris is surging ahead of Trump.
“Ukrainian columns rolling along Russian roads.”
The road to Basra.
LOL Putin has already tried that. It just pisses off the Ukrainians even more. And economic damage just frees up more men for the front, since they’re armed by the West.
The reality is that you oafs have been huffing and puffing about Russian victory for over 2 years and the Ukrainians just invaded Russia.
Zelensky is a hero and is attacking, something the drunk and inept Russians can't seem to do.
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