re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Supposed Video from Odessa

Looks like Russia is staying true to form and hitting random civilian targets. I don't understand that strategy of using valuable precision-guided munitions on targets with no military or strategic value.
https://twitter.com/albafella1/status/1681462246080237571

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Residents of Odesa share online the first footage of the consequences of a massive Russian attack on the city.

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More video
https://twitter.com/albafella1/status/1681463590618791937

https://twitter.com/albafella1/status/1681469070632157185

Missle Strike
https://twitter.com/Faytuks/status/1681428171277869057

Supposed Missle Launch from Crimea
https://twitter.com/officejjsmart/status/1681472903865409536

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ATTACK ON ODESA ????

Crimean news reports that this was a ???? Kaliber missile, launched against the port city of Odesa ????, tonight.

The only good news:

So many Crimean took videos and put them on social media that now we know where the ???? missile launch site is located.

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Another of the launch
https://twitter.com/IntelCrab/status/1681449286943268865

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Launches from #Sevastopol as seen from a nearby appartment complex.

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https://twitter.com/MarquardtA/status/1681452779137826816

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Just an extraordinary scene in Odesa tonight of air defenses trying to fend off drone and missile attacks, far bigger than last night. Sky lit up with tracers and flashes, monster blasts setting off car alarms. Stopped around 20 mins ago but lasted over an hour.

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Isw update

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Key Takeaways:

The July 17 Kerch Strait Bridge attack is likely having immediate ramifications on Russian military logistics in southern Ukraine.

Russian forces conducted a strike campaign ostensibly against Ukrainian military objects in southern Ukraine in explicit retaliation for the Kerch Strait Bridge attack.

The dismissal of former Russian 58th Combined Arms Army (CAA) Commander Major General Ivan Popov and the issues he cited continue to have effects on Russian military operations in southern Ukraine and the discourse around these operations.

Ukrainian forces conducted counteroffensive actions on at least three sectors of the frontline against the backdrop of increased Russian offensive operations and claimed tactical gains along the Kharkiv-Luhansk Oblast border on July 18.

Russia continues legislative manipulations to repress domestic dissent through introducing fear of criminal liability.

The Telegraph concluded that Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and Belarusian authorities are actively involved in the forced deportation of Ukrainian children.

Russian forces continued offensive operations along the Kupyansk-Svatove line, southwest of Kreminna, and in the Bakhmut and Avdiivka-Donetsk City areas and made limited territorial gains in all sectors.

Ukrainian forces continued counteroffensive operations around Bakhmut and advanced north of Bakhmut.

Ukrainian forces conducted counteroffensive operations in the western Donetsk-eastern Zaporizhia area and in western Zaporizhia Oblast and reportedly made limited advances.

Russian forces conducted limited ground attacks in the western Donetsk-eastern Zaporizhia oblast area and recently made limited advances in western Zaporizhia Oblast.

Some Russian sources suggested that recent measures supporting the development of the Russian National Guard (Rosgvardia) allow it to posture as an alternative Russian military formation.

Russia continues to formalize methods of social programming targeted at youth in occupied areas of Ukraine.

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Massive Explosion reported in the Zhytomyr Region of Northern Ukraine after a claim Strike by a Russian Shahed-136 “Kamikaze” Attack Drone, the Target of this Attack is Unknown at this time.

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If Russia didn't have nukes we probably would. Their navy is pretty bad.

Where are you reading that? Whoever is saying that doesn’t have a clue about what they are talking about. There are no weapon shipments going into Ukraine via the port at Odessa. Russia controls the Black Sea, they aren’t going to allow weapon shipments to flow thru it to Ukraine.

I read it on telegram a couple three times. Didn't pay it too much mind. Tried to go back and find the article but didn't see it. believe it had a short video with blinken. Didn't watch it though. Stuff moves fast in there sometimes it's hard to go back and find something

I'll keep an eye out for it and link or of I see it again

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Looks like Russia is staying true to form and hitting random civilian targets. I don't understand that strategy of using valuable precision-guided munitions on targets with no military or strategic value.

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This is looking very much like a tantrum style retaliation rather than a coherent strategic one. There is strategic value in land locking Ukraine but the potential damage to relations with several neutral or friendly countries dependant on grain from Ukraine is significant, and Russia has few of those right now.

Russia could pay a steep price for what appears to be an attempt salve their national pride.

Edit: As a side note, I find it interesting they targeted areas that were likely less well defended by AD. For all the claims of the destroyed Patriot batteries in Kyiv there has been little sent there recently.

This video is proof 13Bs ain't right in the head no matter what uniform they wear.

Vid from Twitter relocated off Twitter


Now do it with a petal mine... or better yet don't.

Port and critical infrastructure hit in Russian missile and drone attack in southern Ukraine
19.07.2023 11:58

Russian invaders attacked the port and critical infrastructure in southern Ukraine overnight, injuring at least seven people.

Ukraine's Operational Command South said this in a post on Facebook, Ukrinform reports.

"At night, the enraged enemy hit southern Ukraine with a powerful accumulation of missiles and kamikaze drones," the Command said, adding that Ukrainian air defenses intercepted 12 of 12 Kalibr missiles fired from the Sevastopol bay.

Also overnight, the invaders used a coastal missile system in temporarily occupied Crimea and hit Odesa with Oniks missiles and strategic bombers fired Kh-59 and Kh-22 missiles. Simultaneously with the missile attack, the Russians launched Shahed-136 one-way attack drones in the south.

The Kh-59 missile was shot down as it approached the coast and fell in a residential area of Odesa, leaving a large crater, with several buildings damaged by the blast wave. Three civilians were injured.

The Oniks and Kh-22 missiles targeted the port and critical infrastructure. The enemy hit a grain and oil terminal, damaging reservoirs and loading equipment. A fire started, and all competent services were working to eliminate the consequences. There was no information about casualties.

"In the Odesa region, an industrial facility was hit, where a civilian employee was injured, and two warehouses in different locations were hit - with tobacco and fireworks," the Operational Command South said

Eight Shahed-136 drones were shot down in the sky over the Odesa region and two more over the Mykolaiv region. Recreational infrastructure facilities in the coastal zone of the Kobleve community were damaged by drone debris and caught fire. Two civilians were injured.

Also, due to combat work to destroy missiles and drones, several apartment buildings were damaged in residential areas in Odesa by the blast wave.

"At least six Odesa residents, including a nine-year-old boy, who sustained injuries from broken glass and other objects, sought medical help," the report said.

UKRINFORM