Posted on 08/22/2024 4:27:19 AM PDT by dennisw
Russian firefighters are battling a three-day inferno in the southwest of the country, after a Ukrainian drone attack on an oil storage depot ignited the facility's diesel reserves.
On Saturday Rostov Oblast Governor Vasily Golubev said that Russian air defense forces had repelled an attack by a Ukrainian UAV in the town of Proletarsk, located around 150 miles from the Ukrainian border.
A day later, however, Golubev said that fallen debris from the UAV had landed on the industrial warehouses at the Proletarsk state reserve fuel facility, igniting a fire which Russian authorities have since struggled to contain.
Golubev also claimed that, due to a "repeated UAV attack" on Sunday morning, firefighting at Proletarsk was temporarily suspended. Ukraine has already claimed responsibility for the attack, with Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereschuck taking to Telegram to celebrate the damage wrought by the attack.
"This is how, step by step, the war enters the enemy's territory. This is the Rostov region of the Russian Federation," Vereschuck said on Monday.
Newsweek has contacted the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry for further information on the attack.
According to Russian state-run news agency Tass via Telegram on Monday, the fire is raging across an area of 10,000 square meters, and head of the Proletarsk district administration said that over 500 firefighters have been sent to deal with the blaze.
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Is the tide turning? Think Let in ‘68. It was a failure but changed the course of the war.
I love the smell of burning Russian diesel fuel in the morning. Pisses the Greenies off too!
There are still plenty of secondary explosions.
And all these deep attacks in Russia are done without using any western military aid.
“Gentlemen, the officer who doesn’t know his communications and supply as well as his tactics is totally useless.”
- Gen. George S. Patton, USA
Russia has a logistic problem.
They may (or may not) have the supplies need to fight a war but they seem to have a problem getting those supplies to the front lines.
Their leadership structure is top down. Cut communication and destroy their supplies will certainly slow their ability to wage war.
Bringing down bridges is another way to slow them down.
As amazing as it might seem, Russia does not have Air Superiority so bringing in supplies by air is not going to work.
Is Russia a superpower? That is now open to debate.
Volgograd, formerly named Stalingrad.
This from the same people who want YOU to be Carbon Neutral, to stop using Evil Oil! Wouldn’t such an action qualify as crimes against humanity?
Poor guy and his guests. What did THEY do to be KILLED by the dems and fbi cia and doj?
There was only one moron in Russia who wanted this war on Ukraine. Who thought this invasion was a great idea.
I can see this leading to a nuclear exchange. Today might be the big day.
Well, that did not work, back to the usual methods
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Kremlin snuff box, 08/22/24
https://t.me/s/kremlin_secrets
Prayers didn’t help. A fire at an oil depot in the Rostov region killed 47 rescuers
Friends, the fire extinguishing effort at the oil depot in Proletarsk, Rostov Region, has been going on for the fifth day now. Let us remind you that it was attacked on the night of August 18, and firefighting is still ongoing.
Unfortunately, tanks explode and prevent the consequences from being eliminated. According to our information, 47 rescuers died at the scene of a serious fire, and another 31 are listed as missing.
Alas, the prayers held near the oil depot did not help. Let us remind you that they also wanted to hold them in the Kursk region, hoping that this would help deter the enemy’s advance on our territory.
As people of faith, we support holding prayer services. However, relying only on them is a lost cause. To extinguish a fire, as well as to contain the advance of the enemy, it is necessary to use all efforts.
Several cities and places were named after Joseph Stalin or Stalingrad during the Soviet era. Here are some key points about cities named after Stalin:
Cities Directly Named After Stalin
During Stalin’s rule from 1922-1953, numerous cities in the Soviet Union and other communist countries were renamed to honor him:
Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Russia - The most famous example, renamed from Tsaritsyn in 1925.
Stalino (now Donetsk) in Ukraine - Renamed in 1924.
Staliniri (now Tskhinvali) in Georgia - Renamed in 1934.
Stalinabad (now Dushanbe) in Tajikistan - Renamed in 1929.
Stalinsk (now Novokuznetsk) in Russia - Renamed in 1932.
Cities in Other Countries
Some cities outside the Soviet Union were also renamed after Stalin:
Qyteti Stalin in Albania (now Kuçovë) - Renamed in 1950.
Stalin in Bulgaria (now Varna) - Renamed in 1949.
Stalinstadt in East Germany (now Eisenhüttenstadt) - Renamed in 1953.
Sztálinváros in Hungary (now Dunaújváros) - Renamed in 1951.
Stalinogród in Poland (now Katowice) - Renamed in 1953.
Russia has a logistic problem.
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Because their logistics have not changed since the 19th century. The depend exclusively on railroads for bulk transport, goods are stacked on rail cars by hand, willy-nilly, until the car is full, the unloaded by hand into piles, with only some sorting.
Their inventory is done on paper, and must be approved by bureaucrats before anything moves, which has to go through various layers, until final approval.
They do not use pallets, shrink wrap, or forklifts. Goods from the rail cars are simply piled up at the unload point. Then trucks arrive to sort for “their stuff” by hand.
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FEEDING THE BEAR: A CLOSER LOOK AT RUSSIAN ARMY LOGISTICS AND THE FAIT ACCOMPLI”
https://warontherocks.com/2021/11/feeding-the-bear-a-closer-look-at-russian-army-logistics/
The passage I’ve clipped here was the heart of the November 2021 advanced Western understanding of Russian logistics. The problem with the passage below is everything Alex Vershinn stated as a ‘beer math’ model of Russian truck logistics is horribly wrong.
“Russia’s truck logistic support, which would be crucial in an invasion of Eastern Europe, is limited by the number of trucks and range of operations. It is possible to calculate how far trucks can operate using simple beer math.
“Assuming the existing road network can support 45 mph speeds, a single truck can make three trips a day at up to a 45-mile range: One hours to load, one hour to drive to the supported unit, one hours to unload, and another hour to return to base.
“Repeating this cycle three times equals 12 hours total. The rest of the day is dedicated to truck maintenance, meals, refueling, weapons cleaning, and sleeping. Increase the distance to 90 miles, and the truck can make two trips daily.
“At 180 miles, the same truck is down to one trip a day. These assumptions won’t work in rough terrain or where there is limited/damaged infrastructure.
“If an army has just enough trucks to sustain itself at a 45-mile distance, then at 90 miles, the throughput will be 33 percent lower. At 180 miles, it will be down by 66 percent. The further you push from supply dumps, the fewer supplies you can replace in a single day.”
Alex Vershinn, like every other Western logistician, was blindsided by the 80 year/four generation Western intelligence failure to notice the Russian Army doesn’t use mechanized logistics ‘enhancers’ to move its ammo & supplies.
The Russian Army has no pallets, no forklifts, nor any ISO containers.
There are no D-rings to tie down that huge rocket pallet. That is why the TOS thermobaric rocket pallet shifted off that truck & destroyed the wooden truck bed in the process. There is something else missing on this & every other Russian truck
And this one is from March 27th 2022 discussing the logistical advantages of Western & Chinese pallet capable supply trucks versus the Russian’s complete lack.
These were the sorts of ‘logistical things’ I had expected to be seeing in some form from the Russians in Ukraine, & haven’t. Pallet capable trucks are the Swiss Army knife/lego set of modern logistics. China has pallet trucks in their economy & military logistics.
Alex Vershinn’s assumption that six hours of work day will fill & empty three truckloads of supplies in a 24 hour work day needs to be divided by 3 or 4 due to the lack of pallets & all terrain forklifts Moving ammo packaged thus by hand takes longer.
https://twitter.com/u24_news/status/1517368674352476160
I can see this leading to a nuclear exchange. Today might be the big day
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Knock off the silly fear mongering.
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