Posted on 02/28/2022 8:10:18 PM PST by Mariner
A Russian military convoy that was outside of Ivankiv, Ukraine, on Sunday has since made it to the outskirts of Kyiv, satellite images show.
On Sunday, the convoy was roughly 40 miles northwest of the Ukrainian capital, according to images provided by Maxar Technologies.
Maxar said that roughly 17 miles of roadway is chocked full of the convoy, which consists of armored vehicles, tanks, towed artillery and other logistical vehicles.
The private US company said the convoy was located on the T-1011 highway at Antonov air base around 11:11 a.m local time.
Antonov is roughly 17 miles from the center of the Ukrainian capital.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
The situation in Kursk Oblast
For the third day, our troops have been forced to contain a massive enemy breakthrough on the border of Kursk Oblast . Unfortunately, the enemy continues to advance and capture more and more settlements. It is hard to believe, but Kursk Oblast has turned out to be a weak point in our defense. The regular army has been pulling reserves to the breakthrough site for a very long time. Moreover, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have used a new and effective offensive model.
On our side, we are seeing a crisis in making quick and effective decisions. Both among the military and civilians. What the authorities have definitely succeeded in is lying. The Defense Ministry stated that all the invaders were driven out of the territory of the region on the first day, at the regional level they are talking about an organized evacuation of the population, which, of course, did not happen and does not exist. And most importantly, our interlocutors in the Defense Ministry and the General Staff still do not understand what exactly the enemy has planned. There are many rumors that the Ukrainian Armed Forces want to capture the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant. Intelligence does not have such information. But here it is worth asking the question, if such a possibility exists, then why is no one preparing to defend Kurchatov and the station itself? Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are building fortifications in the captured territories of the Kursk region.
If Lgov and other cities are surrendered the way Sudzha is now being done, then what kind of signal will this send to the residents of our other cities? Are we incapable of defending them? What is happening to the military command in general? And yes, GET THE CONSCRIPTS OUT OF THERE!
This has never happened in Russia before!
We continue to understand the situation unfolding in the Kursk region without haste or panic. On August 6, Ukrainian troops broke through the border and have been moving forward for three days in a row, capturing our settlements.
We have previously partially reported on the reasons for the major successes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In short, this includes the failure of the Russian Armed Forces to prepare, new tactics by the enemy , and the authorities’ unwillingness to make decisions quickly and effectively on the ground.
And now, something that no one is talking about. For the first time since the start of the Second Military Operation, Russian aviation has been forced to drop bombs on our own cities. This has happened before in the Belgorod and other regions, but then we were talking about tragic accidents associated with missiles and bombs “falling short” of Ukrainian territory. Now, in order to contain the Ukrainian Armed Forces, they have to bomb the Kursk region as well. This is a forced measure and has been agreed upon at the highest level.
And the second point, which is still completely unclear. In early September, on the Single Voting Day, elections for the governor of the Kursk region are scheduled. The acting governor, Alexey Smirnov, was considered the main contender for victory. He is now the main media figure in the region. But what if Russian troops fail to drive the enemy beyond the state border by the time of the elections? What if the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to advance? How to hold elections? Never in the history of modern Russia have we had to hold elections in a territory that we do not control (elections in new regions are a separate story). Should an election campaign be held in the region, and if so, how?
Neither the Kursk region authorities nor the Kremlin's political bloc have answers to these questions yet. Everyone is pinning their hopes on the army, whose leadership, alas, cannot come to its senses and start making decisions quickly. Meanwhile, it is known that the Ukrainians are already building fortifications in the captured territories. Rumor has it that the elections in the Kursk region may be postponed for a year, and Smirnov will remain as acting governor for now. Vladimir Putin likes his reports. But our interlocutors do not rule out that the “favorite of the Presidential Administration” and Starovoit’s protégé may lose the Kremlin's favor and someone else will be appointed to lead the problematic region.
Armiia+ app for military launched in Ukraine: its first function is electronic reporting
Ukraine has launched Armiia+ (Army+), a mobile app that soldiers can use to send electronic reports to their commanders. The purpose of the app, Zelenskyy noted, is to relieve the Ukrainian army of paperwork so that commanders and soldiers are not wasting their time on “obsolete and useless bureaucracy”.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/08/8/7469500/
Real-time reporting
At night there was a massive drone attack on Russian military airfield in Lipetsk. 285km from the front line. Published footages show the secondary detonations. Aviation ammunition storages were targeted.
https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1821792808010711112
Videos of the aftermath of the attack on a Russian ammunition depot in Voronezh region have appeared. Along with scattered artillery shells objects similar to containers of Russian S-300 air defense missiles are also visible.
https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1821631134079574231
A Russian column devastated last night by Ukraine’s military at Russia’s Rylsk.
It almost feels like starting a war on Ukraine was a big mistake.
https://x.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1821807970478436407
Russian blogger
Nightmare in Kursk Oblast. More than a hundred dead soldiers!
Near the city of Rylsk in Kursk Oblast, a column of our equipment was hit by a MLRS . There is preliminary information about a massive HIMARS attack. The column was moving at night for the purpose of camouflage, our sources say.
Why it was necessary to line up in a column so close to the border and the front line - none of our interlocutors are ready to answer. According to our information, as of 10:00 on Friday, the death of 112 servicemen has been confirmed , at least 80 more are in medical institutions.
Interlocutors with large stars on their shoulder straps are shocked. One of the sources suggested that the reason for such large losses is the haste with the transfer of reserves.
“We have been gathering reserves for a long time, but what idiot gave the order to move in a column - only God knows,” said our interlocutor. We do not agree with this conclusion, because the order to move in a column was given by a specific officer. And he must be punished for the death of our guys!
It is assumed that the column was spotted by an enemy drone, which directed fire. However, the work of enemy special services on our territory is not excluded. One of the interlocutors even hinted that after this strike, the FSB should have more thoroughly checked the residents of neighboring villages. Allegedly, one of the local residents could have passed information about the column’s movement to the enemy.
The reasons for what happened should be looked into in detail so that this does not happen again. Eternal memory to the dead!
https://t.me/kremlin_secrets/4489
and the video:
https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1821804091112354156
Alarming trends for aviation
In the last few days, things have happened that are worth talking about. First, the enemy used a new tactic to destroy aircraft - drone attacks on flying helicopters. This happened for the first time in the DPR at the end of July.
Now at least three helicopters have been lost in the Kursk region while containing the enemy's breakthrough. Paradoxically, with the help of cheap but modified drones, expensive equipment is being destroyed. Together with the crew. There are no countermeasures yet. The enemy does not have that many helicopters, so now the main task is to adapt and come up with a way to avoid further losses of the aircraft fleet.
At the same time, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to bomb our distant airfields. There was a serious hit in Lipetsk at night. Unfortunately, an underground warehouse with aerial bombs was hit. There is also damage to aircraft, but we are clarifying which sides were hit.
We should not forget about the F-16s received by the enemy . As we predicted, they did not radically change the situation on the battlefield. But the number of aircraft in the air has increased, which, combined with our losses in air defense, changes the balance at the front. Something needs to be done.
https://t.me/kremlin_secrets/4490
Yes, they can give up the war. Like this
The videos at #2886 and 7 seem identical from different sources. It has a vehicle driving along the road and filming the ruined trucks while driving by. It is a sunny morning with green grass and trees, houses along the way apparently in OK condition. A few civilians wandering around and looking on. There are 14 or more damaged trucks. Perhaps more because the camera was pointed to the left filming several trucks, and a flash of something on the right side could not be identified. Some trucks were damaged and seemed to have a number of bodies in them. Others were totally incinerated. A small number of uniformed soldiers were standing near one of the trucks with bodies.
Quite horrible, and I hope that Putin can be persuaded to pull out and return his troops home. If families can see this they will be sickened, grieving, and furious. More than 100 dead does not seem unreasonable based on what can be seen here. Actually, the most death dealing film I have seen these past 2 years. The bombing pictures of flaming military/industrial sites are impressive, but if you have a heart, this will touch it.
100 dead and 120 in hospital
that’s what you get when you mess around in HIMARS range.
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 9, 2024
The lack of a coherent Russian response to the Ukrainian incursion into Kursk Oblast and the reported rate of Ukrainian advance indicates that Ukrainian forces were able to achieve operational surprise along the border with Russia. Both Russian and Ukrainian forces have struggled to achieve operational surprise in the past year and a half of fighting due to the partially transparent battlefield in Ukraine. Ukraine’s ability to achieve operational surprise highlights that the widespread visual and sensor-based transparency that both sides have established does not translate into a fully transparent battlefield, however, and that the belligerents in Ukraine can leverage ambiguity around operational intent to achieve operational surprise. One Russian milblogger criticized the Russian military command for failing to observe and react to Ukrainian forces allegedly massing on the border near Kursk Oblast.[28] A prominent Kremlin-affiliated Russian milblogger claimed that Russian forces continually warned the Russian high command about a massing of Ukrainian forces along the border near Kursk Oblast but that the Russian command failed to adequately prepare for potential Ukrainian offensive operations.[29] Ukrainian forces would have successfully concealed their operational intent in order to achieve operational surprise if milblogger claims that Russian forces observed a buildup of Ukrainian forces in border areas are accurate. ISW has previously assessed that Russian forces have failed to internalize lessons learned about the difficulties of mechanized maneuver on an assumed transparent battlefield in Ukraine.[30] Ukraine, however, appears to be learning and adapting to this aspect of the battlefield given its ability to achieve apparent operational surprise in this instance.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-august-8-2024
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are already in the Belgorod Region. What's next?
Two days ago, we warned that the Ukrainian army could expand its offensive and break through the border in the Belgorod Region.
Now the Ukrainian Armed Forces have already occupied the village of Poroz in the Grayvoronsky District. Without resistance, they crossed the border under the cover of artillery. There is an assumption that this is a diversionary maneuver, because a video recording from Poroz appeared almost immediately. Similar videos appeared in the Kursk Region on the third day. However, if you do not respond to the new border breakthrough, the enemy can quickly redeploy troops and expand the territory under its control.
In order not to repeat the mistakes that were made in the Kursk Region, it is necessary to remove conscripts from the border regions of the Belgorod Region and replace them with more experienced military personnel! If your relatives or loved ones are doing their “conscription” in the Belgorod Region, then you should contact their command and clarify their location. We, as a reminder, have repeatedly called on the Ministry of Defense not to send conscripts to the border regions. Alas, they have not been heard. Now dozens of conscripts are in captivity of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The FSB officer captured in the Kursk region tells how their position was fired upon, their commander was eliminated, they were surrounded, they decided to lay down their arms and surrender.
https://x.com/albafella1/status/1822000719240819084
Worst North Face advertisement ever.
https://theins.ru/en/news/273751
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