re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Just a bit of clarification-what hit the airbase in Crimea wasn’t exactly homemade. More like a liberal mix of foreign and domestic parts with plausible deniability.

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I was told as long as the attacks on grain ships leaving the ports stopped the Bridge in Crimea was not to be attacked.

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Ukraine shouldn't hit the Crimea Bridge until the traffic jam clears. Blowing it up with thousands of cars on it would seem ... Russian.

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The Ukrainians are betting on the weight and vibration of all those cars sitting still to cause the sloppily built bridge to collapse.

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The change in tactics from nighttime attacks to daytime attacks has really gotten the attention of the Russians. I like the switch.

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His gunner lit a cigarette,

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The Marlboro man strikes again.

Malcontent News daily update for August 11, 2022:

Northeast Donetsk
Russian forces made their first attempt to advance on Siversk since July 26. Light infantry attempted to advance on Hryhorivka, and tanks attempted to move toward Verkhnokamyanske from the oil refinery. Neither advance was successful.

Russian forces attempted to advance through Spirne, aided by the Russian air force, and were able to break through to Ivano-Daryivka briefly before being pushed back.

Bakhmut
Proxy forces supported by the Russian air force made further gains into Soledar, capturing the KNUAF-GIPS drywall factory. Fighting has become intense, and volunteers are relocating civilians who didn’t heed earlier requests to evacuate.

PMC Wagner continued attempts to advance on Yakovlivka, Bakhmutske, and Bakhmut and tried to capture the western half of Vershyna but was unsuccessful.

In the Svitlodarsk bulge, Russian forces launched an offensive on Dacha. Russian proxy forces and Ukrainian troops continued fighting in Kodema and for control of Zaitseve.

Southwest Donetsk – Zaporizhia
The 1st Army Corps of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) continued offensives on Avdiivka and Pisky, relying more on artillery and fighting positional battles.

DNR separatists tried to advance on Krasnohorivka and were unsuccessful.

DNR forces also attempted direct assaults on Avdiivka from Mineralne and Spartak and were unsuccessful. They also attempted to advance deeper into Pisky in a direct assault from Donetsk, Lozove, and the Butivka Mine ventilation shaft compound but did not make any gains.

Elements of the 1st Army Corps also attempted to advance on Marinka and were unsuccessful.

Overnight, Ukrainian forces shelled the Donetsk Brewery in the Kalininskyi District, causing a large fire. The fire and explosion caused an ammonia leak. City officials ordered residents to evacuate within a 2-kilometer radius of the plant.

South of Donetsk, Russian forces attempted to advance on Pavlivka and were unsuccessful.

Insurgents launched three attacks in Melitopol, striking Russian political offices and the police station.

There were reports of two explosions where Russian forces had set up an encampment outside of Chonhar, the first checkpoint into southern Ukraine from the Crimea Peninsula.

Kharkiv
Russian forces launched the largest group of positional battles northwest and north of Kharkiv in over a month.

Russian forces attempted to advance on Udy, Prudyanka, Dementiivka, and Petrivka. None of the advances were successful and Russian forces suffered heavy losses near Petrivka.

Four explosions thundered over Kharkiv city at 4:28 A.M. local time on August 11. Ukrainian air defenses intercepted Russian cruise missiles near the city.

Kherson
Near Kherson, Ukrainian forces used precision munitions to strike the Kakhovsky Bridge in Nova Kakhovka, reducing the bridge to a single lane and only capable of supporting light vehicles. Satellite images showed that the Darivka bridge has been reopened to all traffic but reduced to a single lane.

Ukrainian forces reported three Russian command posts were destroyed: the command post for the Russian 49th Combined Arms Army (CAA) in Chervonyi Mayak, the 126th Separate Coastal Defense Brigade of the Russian Navy in Novokamianka, and the 76th Airborne Assault Division in Ishchenka.

The settlement of Barvinok, northwest of Kherson city, was recaptured by Russian forces.

Izyum
Northwest of Izyum, Russian forces continued their attempts to advance on Husarivka, supported by the Russian air force. They were unsuccessful and retreated north to Bairak.

Russian forces in the Petropillya salient southwest of Izyum attempted to break through Ukrainian defensive lines in Velyka Komyshuvakha and were unsuccessful.

Ukrainian forces liberated the settlement of Dovhenke and are now 14 kilometers south of Izyum, gaining fire control of the M03 Highway.

Dnipropetrovsk
The village of Marivka on the Dnipro River was struck by over 80 Grad rockets fired by MLRS, targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure overnight. Thirteen people were killed and another 11 injured – seven critically.

Sumy
Dmytro Zhivytsky, Sumy Regional Administrative and Military Governor, reported Radkivka, Krasnopillya, Bilopillia, Khotin, Slavhorod, and Nova Sloboda were shelled and hit by mortars. The shelling knocked out natural gas service in Sumy, Krasnopillya, and Khotin.

Chernihiv
In Chernihiv, the settlements of Lohy and Senkivka were shelled by Russian forces over the international border. There wasn’t additional information on damage or casualties.

Beyond Ukraine
Social media was flooded with reports that up to eight explosions rocked the region near Zyabrovka airfield in Belarus, occupied by the Russian military. The Ministry of Defense of Belarus claims there was an accident at the airbase. The government’s official version of events is a vehicle engine was being tested when it caught fire. The fire spread, causing a series of explosions. The fire was extinguished with the loss of “equipment” and no casualties.

Daily Assessment

1. The day after explosions tore through the Saky Naval airbase in Russia-controlled Crimea, Russian forces killed dozens of civilians in attacks across Ukraine.

2. The rate of Russian artillery fire continues to slow, with Donetsk, Bakhmut, and north of Kherson seeing the most activity.

3. The Russian air force flew fewer sorties today over Ukraine, but it is yet to be seen if this is because of the loss of ammunition in Crimea.

I found this to be interesting, supposedly it is written by an LDR Blogger.
https://wartranslated.com/lpr-blogger-and-volunteer-murz-on-why-the-russian-advance-in-the-donbass-is-so-slow/

“LPR” blogger and volunteer Murz on why the Russian advance in the Donbass is so slow

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In the LPR, recently, I don’t remember if I already wrote about this, they started taking ambulance drivers to the army. The cost of “paper off the army” [i.e. bribe] jumped to 100 thousand rubles.

In the DPR, one and half of dozen of those “replenishment” people arrived into a unit. Out of them all, of those who turned out to be fit fighters were just two. TWO. Some of those who arrived were convalescents, still with rods in their injured limbs. One of them the “recruiters” took from “durka” [mental asylum], which quickly became clear, and he was sent back to the “durka”.

So, citizens “Russian military bloggers” who have been jerking off for a month to “The main event of August-September of this year: the offensive of the Allied Forces on Sloviansk and Kramatorsk”, let go. Even if it is implemented, then only by the Russian Armed Forced. By the way, where are they?

In general, “quick” [victory] is when encirclement operations are taking place. And if there are no encirclement operations, there are no cartoons.

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https://twitter.com/ChuckPfarrer/status/1557841616911712259

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WHAT HIT SAKI? While not confirmed, Battle Damage Analysis of the Russian Naval Air Station at Saki rules out a direct action mission by UKR saboteurs. Craters and damage are consistent with the 500 lb C4 warhead delivered by The MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS).

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https://euroweeklynews.com/2022/08/11/watch-huge-fire-at-military-barracks-with-mass-evacuation-in-moscow-russia/
WATCH: Huge fire at military barracks with mass evacuation in Moscow, Russia

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Video footage of the fire in Russia’s Moscow region has since been shared on social media, with one user taking to Twitter to post:

“Moscow region. Dolgoprudny. During the night of 11.08.2022 a wooden barracks of a military unit burnt down. No information about casualties.”

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I saw somewhere that the airbase that got hit was a Black Sea Fleet airbase.

https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1557824532584570883

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A Russian Telegram channel is saying there are reports that the commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Admiral Igor Osipov, has been replaced by Vice Admiral Viktor Sokolov.

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One of them the “recruiters” took from “durka” [mental asylum], which quickly became clear, and he was sent back to the “durka”.

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