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 Russian government continues recruitment efforts to support operations in Kursk Oblast. Russian opposition outlet Mobilization News reported on August 14 that Russian forces will send conscripts of the spring draft class from Moscow, Leningrad, Kaliningrad, Sverdlovsk, Murmansk, and Samara Oblasts to aid Russian forces fighting in Kursk Oblast, drawing backlash from human rights activists and relatives who are protesting the use of conscripts in active combat.[23] Russian opposition outlets reported on August 14 that Russian forces are forcing conscripts who survived the initial Ukrainian incursion into Kursk Oblast to sign contracts with the Russian MoD to return to the front in Kursk Oblast.[24]
Chechen Akhmat Spetsnaz Commander Apty Alaudinov seems to be posturing himself as the spokesperson for the Russian defense in Kursk Oblast, but his claims have consistently been false and largely contradict claims made by relatively reliable Russian milbloggers. Alaudinov has portrayed himself as a spokesperson for Russian forces defending Kursk Oblast since the start of the Ukrainian incursion on August 6, leveraging his position as a seasoned Chechen commander as well as the position of Chechen forces operating in the area to establish himself as an authority on the defense of Kursk Oblast to Russian state media.[25] Alaudinov has repeatedly claimed that Russian forces have stabilized the situation and achieved various victories in Kursk Oblast, and claimed on August 14 that Ukrainian forces do not control Sudzha and that Russian forces have “blocked” Ukrainian forces within Kursk Oblast – claims that are both demonstrably false given available visual evidence and which contradict the majority of Russian milblogger claims.[26] Many Russian milbloggers claimed that Ukrainian forces control either significant parts or all of Sudzha as of August 14 and have consistently claimed that Russian forces are struggling to respond to the Ukrainian incursion - very far from Alaudinov’s claims that Russian forces have completely stabilized the situation.[27] Alaudinov’s claims have focused on portraying Russian forces as a capable defensive force that is defeating inept Ukrainian forces and have therefore leaned on several Kremlin information operations to this effect.[28] Alaudinov’s framing of himself, and by extension of the Chechen forces under his command, as a capable defensive body is also dissonant with the widespread perception of the efficacy of Chechen forces within the wider Russian information space. Russian milbloggers have consistently criticized Chechen units operating in Ukraine and near the international border for avoiding combat missions and having poor discipline, and Russian sources made similar complaints about Chechen forces operating in Kursk Oblast following the start of the incursion.[29] Alaudinov may be attempting to rehabilitate the image of Chechen forces by portraying himself as a trustworthy source of information, but his claims highlight the dissonance between the messaging of prominent Russian military commanders, the Russian information space, and the current battlefield reality in Kursk Oblast.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-august-14-2024
Alaudinov and “Akhmat” angered the military. They are accused of killing at least 40 of our fighters.
Discontent among many soldiers was caused by the words of Apti Alaudinov that the enemy does not control Sudzha, as well as the actions of the “Akhmat” special forces in the Kursk region. “Disrespectful Alaudinov is setting everyone up when he talks nonsense about Sudzha. The enemy video from the city has already been broadcast on many channels. We need to not lie about Sudzha, but to recapture it. But Alaudinov, it seems, is not talking about war, but about talk. I have heard about this for a long time, and now I am convinced,” the officer who is resisting the invasion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region was indignant. There are more serious claims against Alaudinov and his fighters. “ At least 40 of our soldiers died in the Kursk region because of the cowardice of “Akhmat”. Conscripts in the first days of the invasion. And not only. I cannot disclose all the information, but several times the Chechens fled from the battlefield. Shame and disgrace!” a source in the General Staff was indignant in a conversation with us. According to him, “there was an order from above not to disclose information about the betrayal of “Akhmat”. But we have no strength to endure it any longer.” According to our information, more than two dozen officers are preparing an appeal to Vladimir Putin with a request to remove “Akhmat” from the Kursk region and conduct an investigation into the actions of its fighters, commanders and Alaudinov personally. The President will receive it in the coming days. Alaudinov’s entourage responded to these claims with the words: “They are simply jealous of us. Let them first learn to fight themselves, and then complain.” The general's associates refused to comment further.
Conscripts from Murmansk to be transferred to Kursk region
Earlier, mothers of other conscripts had already appealed to the head of state with a call to withdraw their sons from the Kursk region. A corresponding petition appeared on the Change.org website.
“We, the mothers of conscripts, ask you to remove conscripts from the territories of military operations. They have no experience in fighting, no weapons. <…> Save the lives of soldiers who are not prepared for military operations,” says the text of the petition, which was compiled by Oksana Deeva, the mother of a soldier serving in the area of the village of Korenevo.
https://www.moscowtimes.ru/2024/08/13/srochnikov-iz-murmanska-perebrosyat-v-kurskuyu-oblast-a139359
Bad Vlad buffoon with a buffoon army.
An assassination attempt was being prepared against Putin. Fortunately, the attempt failed.
Four trusted sources in the FSB provided us with information about the assassination attempt. According to them, they wanted to shoot or blow up the president during one of the public events with his participation. “The attackers were preparing the assassination attempt in a rented apartment in one of the districts of Moscow. There, they collected explosives, two sniper rifles and several units of automatic weapons. The assassination attempt was also thwarted there. Fortunately, the criminals’ plan failed,” said one of our interlocutors.
According to another, the assassination attempt was prepared by two people – an active member of one of the right-wing radical groups and an officer of the Russian Armed Forces. The criminals were identified thanks to an FSO employee – he was on friendly terms with one of the attackers, and through him they were trying to get closer to Vladimir Vladimirovich. Both participants in the possible assassination attempt were eliminated during the arrest, as they tried to resist. An investigation is underway with the FSO officer who uncovered the criminal plot.
A radical's diary was found in the apartment rented by the criminals. There he wrote that the president allegedly was not coping with his duties, had let the Ukrainian army into the Kursk region and would allegedly let it go further, and that Russia would disintegrate into several parts and lose territory. At the same time, the military man who participated in the preparation of the assassination attempt repeatedly criticized Putin for the fact that Andrei Belousov, appointed by the president, “is persecuting experienced generals, causing chaos and not allowing anyone to live.” The criminals’ notes contain several names of high-ranking military personnel, some of whom are currently under arrest. An investigation is underway on this matter. The FSB notes that most likely, someone influential was behind the perpetrators , “a person or group of people who want to destabilize the situation in Russia for their own interests.” Whether this is true is difficult to say for sure yet in connection with the liquidation of the criminals. But the security forces promise to find everyone involved in this terrible crime. Which, fortunately, was thwarted.
They decided not to officially report the information, so as not to upset society, which is already having a hard time. “But through you, we want to convey a clear message to everyone who wanted to kill Vladimir Vladimirovich. We will find you. No positions, money or shoulder straps will protect you,” one of the sources in the FSB added on this matter.
The Kremlin refused to comment on the assassination attempt on Putin, noting that “there were signals, but they should not be talked about.”
https://t.me/kremlin_secrets/4521
The important thing is that it is described here and now, because this is not something that would have been published before the summer of 2023. Now after Prigozhin’s march on Moscow and the arrests of many generals, it indicates that Putin is on the decline.
The details being released and the “diary” sound like Stalin-era show trial material.
Still, Russian soldiers, Russian civilians and Russian politicians will all be asking how Putin's “Little Green Men” invasion of Crimea is now threatening the people and geographic boundaries of Russia.
What people don't realize is the depth of this Vendetta or blood feud between the people of Ukraine and those political leaders in Moscow. In the 1930’s, the Holodomor starved to death many in Ukraine. Each year in Ukraine and around the world there is a remembrance of that Moscow caused genocide. Many in Ukraine have grand parents, or grand uncles and aunts that were killed in that genocide.
Shoulder Straps?
True.
According to him, the district departments of the Russian regions that Kubyshko visited often have several times fewer employees than they should normally have. In one of the departments, six people worked instead of forty.
“There is a huge shortage. But all of their remaining tasks are carried out selflessly. When you talk to them, everyone understands the situation our country is in,” the deputy minister said (quoted by TASS). In October 2023, the head of the financial and economic department of the agency, Irina Kalbfleisch, said that the Ministry of Internal Affairs was short 100 thousand employees . According to her, the level of police salaries is not competitive, while at the same time, “the issue of having a police officer on the street is very acute and urgent.”
At that time, Kalbfleisch noted that the 2024 budget does not provide for the planned indexation of police salaries at the legislative level, which does not allow “to meet all the financial needs” of the department. The head of the agency's contractual and legal department, Oleg Vetrov, added that the Russian National Guard also has problems with financing, primarily in new regions.
https://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/66bddf3b9a79474d0db904fd
What will happen in the disintegration of Russia? No policemen who can keep order, it will be criminal gangs, company guards and oligarchs’ militias against each other.
“The important thing is that it is described here and now, because this is not something that would have been published before the summer of 2023. Now after Prigozhin’s march on Moscow and the arrests of many generals, it indicates that Putin is on the decline.”
May it be so!
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Russian Defenses COLLAPSE In Kursk, HUGE FIRES In Moscow | Breaking News With The Enforcer
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8-15-2024 3:30 p.m. EDT
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3YlRD1Cd-o
“Russian defenses have collapsed in Kursk near Kromskie Bykie, with Ukrainian forces advancing forward, and capturing a coveted T-90M in the process. Large amounts of prisoners were taken, with the path cleared towards Lgov.
Massive fires began to break out throughout Moscow, possibly Ukrainian special forces or partisans creating Chaos in the Capitol city.
A Russian TU-22M3 bomber broke up over Irkutsk, once again highlighting the ailing condition of Russia’s bomber fleet.
Belarus threatens Nuclear War if any invasion was to happen into their country, then pleading for peace in the Ukraine war.”
The delayed establishment of a complicated Russian C2 structure in Kursk Oblast continues to highlight the fact that the Kremlin failed to plan for the possibility of a significant Ukrainian incursion into Russia. The Kremlin and the Russian military command have treated the Russian border with northeastern Ukraine as a dormant sector of the front since Fall 2022 and likely did not sufficiently plan contingencies for defending Russian territory.[33] The Kremlin and the Russian military command would likely have established a more cohesive and clearer C2 structure more quickly if they had had standing plans for defending against a Ukrainian incursion. Putin's continued reluctance to declare martial law and acknowledge that Russia is in a state of war — as opposed to the “special military operation” he declared when he launched the full-scale invasion in February 2022 and has maintained in the subsequent two and a half years — has likely heavily shaped the contingencies that the Kremlin and the Russian military command assess Russia must plan for and what types of activities in Ukraine and Russia the Kremlin is willing to publicly acknowledge.[34] The Ukrainian incursion into Kursk Oblast will likely expand the Kremlin's consideration for what type of Ukrainian operations are possible along the border and highlight that Putin and the Kremlin have suffered from a strategic failure of imagination.[35]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-august-15-2024
Lukashenko Accused of Betrayal and Going Against Putin
This is how several of our sources – in the Kremlin and the Defense Ministry – responded to the Belarusian president's new call for peace talks on the Ukrainian crisis. “They invaded our territory, the Nazis are seizing a Russian region, and he's being smart and calling for peace. Vladimir Vladimirovich is directly stating that there's nothing to talk about with the Kiev regime, and this one is going against us and calling for some kind of negotiations. This is real betrayal,” one of the sources said with irritation.
According to another, instead of “attacking Ukraine and helping Russia, Lukashenko is engaging in empty talk and trying to avoid participating in the conflict.” “We all remember how he withdrew troops from the borders of Ukraine. We won't forget anything,” the source in the military assured. The sources in Lukashenko’s entourage, whom we contacted, refused to comment on these words. But they promised to “analyze” them.
https://t.me/kremlin_secrets/4522
Will the last person to leave, turn out the lights
Oleksiy Danilov, the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, has already said this publicly about the Kerch Bridge in the context of Ukraine's strategic interests. He stated that the bridge's presence, while significant, was actually advantageous for Ukrainian forces. The bridge, being important to Putin, requires Russian air defenses in Crimea to protect it. This, in turn, makes it easier for Ukrainian forces to destroy these defences when drawn out and dragged into Crimea.
This is the bigger picture.
We want clear skies for F-16’s. Taking the bridge down is one thing, but depleting all Russian air defences so they are unable to protect the front lines, oil refineries, their airspace against F-16’s, their borders, Russian mainland and their naval fleet, now that's priceless.
An depth analysis on the Ukrainian Offensive by General Dr. Freuding of the German Army, English Dub
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNw5OMgLuB4
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