Posted on 11/11/2025 8:07:37 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Haunting footage has emerged showing Russian troops advancing through thick fog in a convoy of wrecked cars, many missing doors and windows, in scenes likened to Mad Max.
The video, shared by the Kyiv Post, shows soldiers clinging to battered vehicles and motorbikes as they roll down a debris-strewn road. A broken drone lies by the roadside as the column disappears into the mist.
The clip surfaced as Moscow's forces claimed new gains near the Ukrainian city of Kupiansk, where Russian troops say they have seized a string of railway stations and an oil depot on the city's eastern edge.
A commander using the call sign Hunter said units from the 1486th Motorised Rifle Regiment had pushed deep into the city and taken control of stops along the railway to Kupiansk Vuzlovyi, around four miles south of the centre.
He added that fighting continued around the nearby Kupiansk-Sortuvalnyi station.
Russia has been using pincer movements to try to encircle the Ukrainian cities of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region and Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region, though Ukraine said on Monday it had delivered supplies to Myrnohrad, east of Pokrovsk.
Russian war bloggers published an unverified video on Tuesday showing what they said were Russian forces entering Pokrovsk along a road enveloped in fog or mist.
Reuters could not immediately verify the location of the video and when it was shot.
The clip showed Russian forces on motorcycles and in an odd assortment of cars and other vehicles, many stripped of doors and windows, driving along a road littered with debris as soldiers watched from the roadside.
Some sat on the roofs of battered cars, while a drone was seen beside the road.
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Z-Man has them on the run now!
Actually, the cars look like they are out of the rock band Leningrad Cowboys look. The cars looked like the elongated hairstyles.
lol - this is along the lines of Russians fighting with shovels, or Vlad - stricken with cancer and heart disease - falling down the stairs pooping himself.
Same Brit rag too. Western media is really in the toilet.
BTW, wasn’t it you who insisted that Russia wouldn’t bother with Odessa? Wanna take that back given what’s happing now?
Good strategy...with no doors troops can rapidly jump off and into the tree line.
Tanks and armored personnel carriers get targeted and troops inside incinerated.
Also the fog stops drones from working and allow troops to infiltrate enemy territory..
BTW, wasn’t it you who insisted that Russia wouldn’t bother with Odessa? Wanna take that back given what’s happening now?
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Odessa? MAJOR shipping port. Huge transportation facilities and big rail and road arteries in and out for products.
Yeah the Russians want it.
Looks like Russia and Ukraine have decided to skip the nuclear WWIII phase and head straight for WW IV
Armored warfare is mostly dead.
They make easy targets for drones which are now everywhere, and getting smarter all the time.
soldiers need to operate in independent small groups, particularly in urban environments. That means you travel quickly on motorcycles, sedans and jeeps.
Might they not, someday, make armor strong enough to withstand drones?
And we drove a fleet of rental cars from Kuwait (Mitsubishi Montero’s) into Iraq and all the way to Baghdad.
A military tends to unofficially commedeer things.
That means you travel quickly on motorcycles, sedans and jeeps.
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And pogo sticks. The emerging doctrine is pogo sticks.
or dewelop countermeasures to keep them at bay. Armor isn’t dead. It’s merely pinin’. Pinin’ for the fjords.
Ukraine needs to take back the (approximately) 44,000 square miles they’ve lost and they’ll be right back to even.
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Grok told me that by some estimates that, in 2025, Ukraine will produce 5.5 million very cheap but deadly man-killer drones (probably not fully autonomous yet) at a cost of about $500 each.
Presently, I don't think the U.S. manufactures anything as lethal for less than $20K, if that. I presume CIA provided certain tech, but the Ukrainians have made a major cottage industry out of drone manufacture, and, as you pointed out, have changed the face of warfare.
Mad Max convoy in fog.
It’s now the muddy season there. Without better transport, Putin’s conscripts will get stuck in the mud without supplies. The most valuable thing the U.S. gave the USSR during WWII was trucks to move their masses of troops around, because the commies couldn’t make enough of anything. Russia will have difficulty transporting people and supplies until the ground freezes.
400,000 trucks. The Germans would eventually have recovered and stabilized their front line, most likely near Poland.
The Western Allies will fail to gain momentum after Normandy.
They already do!
Problem is: Putin's generals steal the inventory and sell it abroad - and then supply their armored units with cardboard egg cartons in lieu of the real stuff (reactive armor).
Regards,
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