re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

If I were a Wagner merc, I’d be plumb happy to be told I’m going in after Russias military has been degraded and cluster munitions have been delivered

Surely this is some kind of metaphor LINK

Unfortunately for Ukraine, on the Orikhiv-Tokmak axis, the 47th Mechanized Brigade seems to be in total chaos today.

From @MilitaryLand.net:

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Valery Markus, Chief Master Sergeant of Ukrainian 47th Mechanized Brigade, has asked to be demoted to a lower position.

He says he disagreed with decisions made regarding the deployment and development of 47th Brigade and there is incompetence of the officer corps.

He also says that the deputy commander of 47th Mechanized Brigade, Maj. Ivan Shalamaha, is amoral degenerate and working with him humiliates his honor and dignity.

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In anyone remembers, the 47th was very much hyped up before the offensive began. Here was their profile in the Washington Post:

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The brigade’s leadership trained with computers that simulated situations they might face in real life. Deputy commander Maj. Ivan Shalamaha and others planned their assaults and then let the program show them the results — how their Russian enemies might respond, where they could make a breakthrough and where they would suffer losses.

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“You understand the overall picture, how it works,” Shalamaha said. “You understand where and what your shortcomings were. And we pay attention to what we failed to do during this simulation.”

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The 47th brigade started as a battalion that Shalamaha and Valerii Markus, a famous veteran and author with more than 450,000 Instagram followers, were charged with creating. It eventually grew to a full-fledged brigade intended to break through enemy lines.

“I realized that there was indeed an opportunity to create something — something interesting, something important, which could then grow into something much bigger,” Markus said.

“When I joined the army 12 years ago, I encountered a lot of things that disappointed me very much, that made me hate the army,” he added. “When I received this offer, I saw it as an opportunity to build a unit in which I would have liked to serve 12 years ago.”

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The 47th’s leadership is also especially young — all born after the fall of the Soviet Union. Alongside Shalamaha, who is 25, Lt. Col. Oleksandr Sak, the brigade’s top commander, is 28. Markus, the chief master sergeant, is 29.

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But the biggest change? They didn’t just accept anyone, interviewing every soldier who wanted to join the brigade. Commanders questioned each person’s motivation and readiness. Every candidate had to pass a physical fitness test.

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“We are ready,” Shalamaha said. “We have the motivation of people, we have the equipment and the most valuable thing we have is the spirit to win.”

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So, Shalamaha and Markus put this brigade together themselves. Now, Markus says that Shalamaha is a moral degenerate and humiliates his honor and dignity.

The 47th has now lost 32 Bradleys since the start of the Ukrainian offensive, and they still have not taken Robotyne.

The offensive has now been underway for five weeks. It might be time to rotate the 47th out.

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Surely this is some kind of metaphor LINK

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Those guys must have been racing from a stock-provided set of pace notes. If they had done a recon there is no way all of them would have gotten that corner so wrong.*

The curve isn't off-camber, the surface is nicely prepped, and doesn't look like there would be any grip change mid-corner. That is probably a 3+/4 corner and the pace notes had it listed as a 5 or 6.

One thing Igor Sushko is actually good for is racing info.


* they are Russian so anything in the frick up area should be believable.

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AU86

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holy shite you're a hardheaded fricking idiot

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I would like to see you make an argument that what he said is inaccurate.

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Clinton and Blair began provoking Russia with NATO moving eastward in 1997


how about that fricktard? Is that enough for you?

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you're too much of a pussy to admit it

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your vagina is bleeding so much, frick, I guess you've become a fricking tranny or something

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how about that fricktard? Is that enough for you?

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you fricking simpleton?

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This guy seems stable.

ISW Update

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Key Takeaways:

Russian forces conducted a series of Shahed 131 and 136 drone strikes across Ukraine on July 11, likely in a demonstrative response to the 2023 NATO Summit in Vilnius and to threaten the Black Sea grain deal.

Germany and France pledged to provide Ukraine more weapons systems during the first day of the 2023 NATO Summit in Vilnius on July 11

A coalition of 11 states signed a memorandum with Ukraine outlining the terms for training Ukrainian pilots on the F-16 aircraft at the 2023 NATO Summit in Vilnius on July 11.

The Kremlin’s and Russian milbloggers’ reactions to the first day of the NATO Summit were relatively muted.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu attempted to portray the Ukrainian counteroffensive as a failed effort against the backdrop of the NATO Summit.

Ukrainian forces conducted counteroffensive operations on at least three sectors of the front on July 11 and made gains in some areas.

A Ukrainian Storm Shadow missile strike reportedly killed Deputy Commander of the Russian Southern Military District (SMD) Lieutenant General Oleg Tsokov at the command post of the 58th Combined Arms Army (CAA) in occupied Berdyansk, Zaporizhia Oblast.

Russian milbloggers criticized the Russian military command for failing to defend against Ukrainian strikes on Russian headquarters.

Chief of the Russian General Staff Army General Valery Gerasimov reportedly fired Commander of the 58th CAA Major General Ivan Popov after Popov voiced his concerns over the need for troop rotations in western Zaporizhia Oblast amidst Ukrainian counteroffensives.

An unknown actor killed the Krasnodar City Deputy Head for Mobilization, Captain Stanislav Rzhitsky, on July 10.

Russian forces are conducting offensive operations along the Svatove-Kreminna line and made territorial gains.

Ukrainian forces continued counteroffensive operations on Bakhmut’s northern and southern outskirts.

Russian forces launched assaults on Ukrainian positions on the Donetsk City-Avdiivka frontline.

Russian and Ukrainian forces continued ground attacks along the administrative border between Zaporizhia and Donetsk oblasts.

Ukrainian forces continued counteroffensive operations south of Orikhiv in western Zaporizhia Oblast.

The Kremlin continues measures to gradually mobilize Russia’s defense industrial base (DIB) to meet Russian military demands in Ukraine without conducting a wider economic mobilization.

The Ukrainian Resistance Center reported on July 11 that the All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK) is struggling to establish regional branches in occupied territories in Ukraine.

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