re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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The mandatory evacuation in the Kursk region has been expanded to the entire Glushkovsky district.

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Putin doesn't speak or understand English.

Putin speaks very good English. This is a video of him speaking English 12 years ago
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THE MOTIVATION OF RUSSIAN ORCS BASED ON WHAT A UKRAINIAN SOLDIER HAS WITNESSED OVER THE PAST TWO YEARS

Let's start with how enemy infantry assaults are carried out. At first, a group of about 30 to 40 Russian infantrymen gathers at the initial position, from where they start moving towards our Ukrainian positions, their ultimate goal being the takeover of the dead forest we are entrenched in.

Of course, our pilots notice this group at the beginning of its movement and the orcs end up going the entire distance while under our constant mortar and automatic grenade launcher fire. They’re also being bombed by drones and hit by first-person vision drones (if available). When they get closer, our infantry opens assault rifle and machine gun fire, but the movement of Russians does not stop for a minute. In the end, three to five zombies reach the final goal and immediately hide in what is left of the forest.

One day, I saw them go across the field in a scattered manner. It turned out that our automatic grenade launcher was not properly sight-adjusted to the field and the lack of landmarks made the process very difficult. So a dozen or so soldiers reached our dead forest. The next day, they tried to repeat this tactic, and they all ended up dead.

After the number of scumbags in our forest reaches 10 to 15, they begin to cluster. Sometimes they come to our positions in search of their own guys and are taken prisoners (although very often, they do not surrender and instead engage in combat and die very quickly). Sometimes they explode on their own antipersonnel mines and lie there for several days, disturbing our soldiers’ sleep with their moans. But sooner or later, they gather a group and renew their assault.

If the assault fails, the survivors roll back to their holes where they hide and wait for the next group. They sit there without water and food, yet they take no course of action to change their situation. Sometimes, if our guys have an opportunity, the infantry clears the forest from the orcs that have broken through. But this does not stop the process, as every day a new enemy group leaves its starting position, sometimes several times a day, depending on the availability of reinforcements.

Sooner or later they manage to take over our positions, not because they are super stormtroopers, but because they’re aided by artillery fire, bombing, mortars and drones. The infantry on the ground reaches its destination and starts digging. This practice is also very interesting.

Two fools come out with shovels, sometimes even without wearing body armor, and start pounding away at the ground. After about half an hour they are either killed or wounded. But then two more come in and continue the process. At the same time, two more fools drag a log through the forest. They come under fire, but two more run after them, pick up the log and drag it further. At the same time, another group of stormtroopers starts moving. This ant hill movement exhausts our mortar and automatic grenade launcher ammo. Our drone pilots fly non-stop, but they don't even have time to recharge their batteries and eventually the moment comes when the scumbags prevail unpunished.

Zombie apocalypse movies, although exaggerated, convey the atmosphere of what is happening. Nothing stops them. If they can still move, they continue to advance in our direction.

Some say that the Russians are fighting for money. But I don't see it that way because I don't understand how much money you have to pay someone to get them to end their own life. It is said that in order to understand a person, you need to put yourself in their shoes, so I tried:

Here I am, a Russian soldier, at the initial position, and the assault begins. There are a couple of dozen corpses scattered around, but our group keeps moving. It goes along the dead forest and all around along the way there are dead bodies. Some have been dead for so long that they’ve already turned into bones. Then, we come under fire and a part of our group dies. But I keep running, jumping over the dead bodies, whose numbers don’t diminish. A first-person vision drone arrives and kills a couple more people from our group. Everyone scatters across the field, but there are 400 meters left to the goal and I make the last dash. During the sprint, the rest of the group comes under machine gun fire and only three of the initial thirty guys reach the forest. All the rest are either dead or wounded. By the end of the day, they will all die.

Then I'll have to lie in a crater under a fallen tree, covered with two dead bodies left over from the previous assault and hope that I will live to see the arrival of reinforcements — one or two more similarly motivated, suicide-destined fools. I forgot to mention the smell. I would give a lot to forget th? stench.

But enough of exploring the Russian war mindset.

At our position, there were more than forty dead bodies of Russian orcs — those who managed to reach us but did n

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Key Takeaways:

Russian milbloggers claimed that Ukrainian forces marginally advanced in Kursk Oblast amid a generally slower tempo of Ukrainian operations as Russian forces continue attempts to stabilize the frontline in the area.

Ukrainian officials continue to discuss ongoing Ukrainian operations in Kursk Oblast and offer their interpretations of the political impact that Ukraine may aim to generate.

Ongoing Ukrainian operations in Kursk Oblast are generating tangible defensive, logistical, and security impacts within Russia.

The Russian government continues recruitment efforts to support operations in Kursk Oblast.

Chechen Akhmat Spetsnaz Commander Apty Alaudinov seems to be posturing himself as the spokesperson for the Russian defense in Kursk Oblast, but his claims have consistently been false and largely contradict claims made by relatively reliable Russian milbloggers.

Ukrainian forces conducted a large series of drone strikes against Russian air bases in Russia on the night of August 13 to 14, damaging several airfields.

Georgia’s ruling Georgian Dream party furthered a narrative echoing a Kremlin information operation meant to justify Russia’s violence against the territorial integrity and sovereignty of states formerly colonized by the Soviet Union and Russian Empire.

Russian forces advanced north of Kharkiv City and southeast of Pokrovsk.

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