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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted on 8/11/24 at 9:24 pm to Lima Whiskey
Posted on 8/11/24 at 9:24 pm to Lima Whiskey
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Suffering is at the core of the Russian identity.
Well, it's not at the core of Ukrainian identity. They've suffered enough, and they will be more than happy to see their persecutors face even a touch of the hell that Russia has inflicted upon them.
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Posted on 8/11/24 at 9:27 pm to StormyMcMan
Posted on 8/11/24 at 9:30 pm to Lima Whiskey
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He's done a good job for Russia
He runs a criminal syndicate that fronts as a government. He and his cronies have stolen trillions. He is lording over a nation of hopeless alcoholics in a demographic death spiral who's educated class flee the country as fast as they can.
He uses murder to enforce and intimidate even his "friends" much less his enemies. Just today he pardoned the guy who murdered one of his political opponents.
Even those in his inner circle realize their lives are essentially a lost cause to his whims and pleaures.
They all send their children to school, work, and live in the West. While they steal as much as they can before the lights go out.
You call that a good job?
What's a bad job look like?
This post was edited on 8/11/24 at 9:37 pm
Posted on 8/11/24 at 9:34 pm to Lima Whiskey
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Suffering is at the core of the Russian identity
You'll excuse the Ukrainian population for opting out of accepting that hopeless suffering as their own future.
They've chosen self determination, enlightenment, progress, and participation in the modern world.
I hate that you don't get it. But they do.
Posted on 8/11/24 at 10:52 pm to Jim Rockford
The one guy near the end basically shows that Russia is toothless to perform economic or military harm to the West.
Posted on 8/11/24 at 11:13 pm to CitizenK
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If tweet fails to load, click here. Poor Russia. Is Ukraine not playing by the rules you set? Guess you are not the superpower you pretend to be.
Posted on 8/11/24 at 11:38 pm to WeeWee
Rumors that 5 new units joined the fight near the Russian bulge in Donbas. Maybe rolling back a farm field at a time was to set a trap. I hope so.
Posted on 8/11/24 at 11:39 pm to Coeur du Tigre
Fascinating.
Posted on 8/12/24 at 4:18 am to CitizenK
Video just emerged of a Ukrainian BTR-4 in Giri. This is far outside the Ukrainian zone of control on anyone's map right now. Ukraine is still continuing to significantly expand the Russian territory they control. Yesterday, I mooted the idea that the new Ukrainian salient might be too small for them to control long-term, and it seems that Ukraine is making a big push to the east of their initial territory.
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Posted on 8/12/24 at 4:24 am to GOP_Tiger
Until yesterday, Russia still controlled the easternmost areas of Sudzha. That's no longer true.
I think that if Ukraine is really going to try to hold the "city" for the long-term, they really still need to take the areas to the east of the city to create more of a buffer. That appears to be what they are trying to do.
I think that if Ukraine is really going to try to hold the "city" for the long-term, they really still need to take the areas to the east of the city to create more of a buffer. That appears to be what they are trying to do.
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Posted on 8/12/24 at 4:26 am to IRespectBrianKelly
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Capturing 500 sq. km.
LOL
Try not to have a heart attack, BKR, but it's up over 720 sq. km. now, as reported by Russian Telegram channels.
Posted on 8/12/24 at 4:35 am to GOP_Tiger
Huh. Something that I just learned is that you can't use a compass to navigate in the Kursk area, due to the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly.
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You can use GPS, of course, but that can be jammed.
I'm sure that both Russian and Ukrainian forces are well aware of this phenomenon, but I was not.
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You can use GPS, of course, but that can be jammed.
I'm sure that both Russian and Ukrainian forces are well aware of this phenomenon, but I was not.
Posted on 8/12/24 at 4:48 am to GOP_Tiger
If you look at the satellite view between Sudzha and Giri, you can see a large forest belt just south of the road from Sudzha to Belitsa.
At this point, it's highly likely that Ukraine controls the forest belt and everything south of that.
At this point, it's highly likely that Ukraine controls the forest belt and everything south of that.
Posted on 8/12/24 at 4:50 am to GOP_Tiger
Tendar has made a new, relatively speculative map based on this.
If Ukraine were able to take everything inside the dotted line, that would be a highly-defensible salient.
If Ukraine were able to take everything inside the dotted line, that would be a highly-defensible salient.
This post was edited on 8/12/24 at 4:53 am
Posted on 8/12/24 at 6:04 am to GOP_Tiger
All of the speculation on this page based on the BTR-4 may be utter rubbish, as it now appears that the Ukrainian BYR-4
discussed above may have been previously captured by Russian forces.
If so, it was Russians driving it through Giri.
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discussed above may have been previously captured by Russian forces.
If so, it was Russians driving it through Giri.
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This post was edited on 8/12/24 at 6:12 am
Posted on 8/12/24 at 6:16 am to GOP_Tiger
Posted on 8/12/24 at 6:29 am to GOP_Tiger
Random tweets
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The situation on payments between #Russia and #China is worsening, even small regional banks in China have become more reluctant to accept payments from Russia for fear of getting under the #US sanctions, although in May-June they worked with Russian business.
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This morning, the governor of the Belgorod region announced the evacuation of residents from the Krasnaya Yaruga district to safe places due to the "activity of Ukrainian troops on the border".
This area is to the south of Sudzha district which is now under control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
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Ukraine is trying to ship as much grain as possible this summer, capitalizing on military gains it has made in the Black Sea region, — Reuters.
Ukraine doubled its food exports in July to more than 4.2 million tons, compared to the same month last year, according to the Ukrainian Association of Trade Network Suppliers, despite intensified russian attacks on Odesa and Izmail.
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As I pointed out yesterday, the Russians are now taking very seriously the fact that the AFU in the Kursk region are here to stay. This morning, several bloggers are talking about this, warning that victorious reports are harmful. Dislodging even the existing group of the AFU will be extremely challenging.
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12 August, six days into the Kursk Operation - Russian channel "Zapiski Veterana" says Sudzha is under full control of the AFU.
This has numerous implications for the Kremlin regime. So far, it attempted to get Belarus involved into this, and yesterday carried out a provocation at the ZNPP. We can expect even more in the coming days.
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Interfax reports this morning that the head of the Belovsky district of the Kursk Zone, Nikolai Volobuev, again called on residents of the area to leave the territory due to the tense situation. Residents are encouraged to move to as far as Dolgie Budy in the east of the district, or leave it altogether.
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The deputy energy minister of Ukraine has been detained for a $500,000 bribe
According to the Ukrainian security services, the official promised the heads of state-owned enterprises of the Lviv-Volynskyy coal basin to hand over mining equipment from mines in the frontline district of Donetsk Region. He and three accomplices were detained while receiving the third tranche of the bribe.
According to MP Zheleznyak, the detainee is Oleksandr Heylo.
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There is still complete confusion among Russians this morning about the situation in the sanitary zones of the Russian Federation. In every video posted by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, they see some kind of subtext - they say they are deliberately misleading us, trying to lure more reserves from other directions.
Other channels accuse each other of alarmism. Some of the attacks are quite aggressive.
They are also confused in terms of presence of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in different locations as well as attacks, such as on border points.
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On the AFU attack on the Krasnoyaruzhsky district
Early this morning, the AFU launched an attack on the Kolotilovka checkpoint in the Krasnoyaruzhsky district. Apparently, the AFU don't give up their plans to stretch our defensive lines, create the maximum number of tension points and attempt to break through to the east in order to cut off Belgorod from the north.
The enemy arranged a firing carousel, using several units of heavy equipment and with simultaneous attempts to advance by small assault groups. Since half past eight in the morning, Russian air force aviation has been striking at enemy positions and advancing reserves.
Against the backdrop of what is happening in the Kursk region, a strike on the neighboring area was, alas, only a matter of time - especially given the unengaged enemy reserves pulled to the Russian border area.
??Krasnoyaruzhsky district has been in the center of AFU attention for the last month. The screenshot shows the activity of both the AFU and the Russian Armed Forces over the past month.
??From the facts of attacks and shelling that we have noted, we can single out three areas on which the enemy relies, systematically conducting shelling and sorties.
??Kolotilovka checkpoint - the very place where exchanges took place and the checkpoint was operating;
??Terebreno - because of the adjacent forest area, where it is so convenient to send enemy sabotage and reconnaissance groups. Terebreno is a rather obvious target for advancing to the east (especially taking into account that Terebreno is at the bottom, and the forest area located to the west is on a hill);
??Dronovka - the settlement is located in a small appendix extending into Sumy region, also located in the lowlands.
Despite the stabilization of the situation in Kursk region, there is still a long way to go before the crisis is resolved. We already wrote yesterday about the problems of coordination affecting the overall effectiveness of the actions of the Russian Armed Forces in the Russian border region: alas, in the conditions of an operational crisis it is not so easy to resolve this problem.
And given the nature of the AFU's actions and the anticipated strike in the other direction, the sooner the problems of coordination, fine-tuning of firing, communication and control problems are solved, the better.
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The Economist: the AFU General Staff has reported the transfer of Russian troops to the Kursk region from Kharkiv and Donbas
In connection with the offensive of the AFU in the Kursk region, the Russian command began to transfer troops to this direction from Kharkiv and Donbas. This is reported by The Economist with reference to an anonymous source in the General Staff of Ukraine.
"Their commanders are not idiots. They are moving forces, but not as fast as they would like. They know that we can't stretch logistics 80 or 100 kilometers," the source said.
According to the interlocutor of the publication, the AFU sent “the most combat-ready units” to the Kursk region. According to him, the Ukrainian military managed to penetrate deep into the region up to 40 kilometers.
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The EU is launching a humanitarian initiative for demining in Ukraine, allocating €2 million, — the press service of the EU representation in Ukraine.
As part of the initiative, 16 Belgian Malinois will be sent to Ukraine together with eight Ukrainian mentors.
The project is aimed at cleaning up the liberated territories, including the Mykolaiv, Kherson and Kharkiv regions, which suffered greatly from the war.
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Posted on 8/12/24 at 6:29 am to StormyMcMan
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The Ukrainian flag is flying on the Kinburn Spit
The voice-over says that the recording was made yesterday, August 11.
The Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine raided the Kinburn Spit in Mykolayiv region occupied by the Russians on August 9. There they destroyed six units of armored vehicles of the occupiers and eliminated about three dozen invaders. The Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine soldiers reportedly set up a battle flag of the Military Intelligence of Ukraine at the "Suvorov monument".
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"The Armed Forces are building fortifications and turning Sudzha into a fortress" — Forbes
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Posted on 8/12/24 at 7:17 am to Lima Whiskey
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They're a resilient people
People on the PT board label anyone that disagrees with them sheep, but the Russian people are really sheep.
Posted on 8/12/24 at 8:06 am to GOP_Tiger
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Huh. Something that I just learned is that you can't use a compass to navigate in the Kursk area, due to the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly.
Lord. Do you stay up all night long following this crap?
Get some sleep Bill.
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