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Posted on 8/26/24 at 6:46 am to cypher
Ukraine may be reaching a point where it is easier to get forgiveness than it is to get permission.
Posted on 8/26/24 at 8:16 am to bigjoe1
quote:Yes, they're at that point now, so how would the White House react? Especially with an election going on. The forgiveness option would give the Democrats plausible deniability and Harris will never criticize Kyiv.
Ukraine may be reaching a point where it is easier to get forgiveness than it is to get permission.
The main problem confronting the Ukrainians with this issue is the following re-supply of the fired ATACMs. Would the White House go slow to show who's in control? That's certainly possibile with the present WH crew.
But it may be too late for hitting Russian aircraft as the Russians are moving these further away, out of ATACMs range, anticipating these strikes. Still plenty of choice targets within range, including most missile and Shahed drone launch points as well as immobile ammo and supply locations.
Besides, at this point the main target will be the additional red lines. Keep shoving those down Putin's throat to show how weak and indecisive he is. That's far more damaging than any physical target within ATACMs range.
This post was edited on 8/26/24 at 8:33 am
Posted on 8/26/24 at 9:05 am to Coeur du Tigre
Gazprom's Omsk refinery hit, Russia's largest refinery. This looks like ONE of the atmospheric crude units. This refinery, like most other large refineries has more than one of them. At most, 1/3 of the refinery throughput is damaged.
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Here is something about the refinery's recent (last almost 20 years or so) modernization and expansion.
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Here is something about the refinery's recent (last almost 20 years or so) modernization and expansion.
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Posted on 8/26/24 at 9:08 am to CitizenK
Seeing X reports that Russian drones/missiles have hit inside of Poland.
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War Intel
@warintel4u
#BREAKING Russian suicide drone strikes Poland and Poland informed NATO of their airspace violation.
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World Crisis Tracker
@WorldCrisi19621
????????????. ?? War Alert ??
Breaking News
Poland officials are sharing
"#Russian suicide drone strikes Poland and Poland informed #NATO of their airspace violation."
Posted on 8/26/24 at 9:56 am to CitizenK
There is a report and video of another part of the refinery on fire, which looks more like a flare than anything damaged. A flare is a safety device to burn instead of spill liquids or release gases.
Posted on 8/26/24 at 10:05 am to CitizenK
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WeeWee, isn't your buddy with the 47th? Have you heard from him lately?
No. He was in the 92nd Assault Brigade but now he has rotated off the line and is training replacement tankers.
Posted on 8/26/24 at 10:21 am to SmogkDeizKnutz
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Seeing X reports that Russian drones/missiles have hit inside of Poland.
If WW3 breaks out and I miss LSU football season once I finally was able to get season tickets then I am going to be pissed.
Posted on 8/26/24 at 11:09 am to SmogkDeizKnutz
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Russian suicide drone strikes Poland and Poland informed NATO of their airspace violation.
Is this a reboot or just a remake of the same movie we saw near the start of the war where "Russia did it 100%" turns into Ukraine actually doing it?
Been out of pocket for the week but seems as though Ukraine is still having success with the Kursk op, but its not pulling Russian forces from the areas they were trying to get Russia to pull from. Regardless, taking Russian territory remains a very significant bargaining chip.
Posted on 8/26/24 at 11:58 am to WeeWee
Hell yeah, at least you have your priorities straight! Geaux Tigers
Posted on 8/26/24 at 12:23 pm to Tigerdad2001
Message for those who downvoted this, Geaux to the store and buy you one of those things called a sense of humor!
Posted on 8/26/24 at 1:04 pm to VolSquatch
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Been out of pocket for the week but seems as though Ukraine is still having success with the Kursk op, but its not pulling Russian forces from the areas they were trying to get Russia to pull from. Regardless, taking Russian territory remains a very significant bargaining chip.
Disrupting the rail network (Russia's transportation system is rail based)
Occupation of the main natural gas metering station so that Russia doesn't know how much natural gas is going across the border. It can guess but doesn't have an official metered amount which is how any exports tariffs are paid or how to bill clients such as Phat Phuck Orban. Shut the valves and nothing goes through. Hungarians and Slovaks freeze like frogs this winter.
Posted on 8/26/24 at 1:16 pm to CitizenK
I need to add that looking at the refinery in Google Satellite View, there are more downstream processes, as in petrochemicals manufacturing. There are also large areas where previous processes were demolished. It is also where catalyst manufacturing is located. Damage to that unit will harm other refineries as well but a year or two down the road, not immediately.
Posted on 8/26/24 at 2:10 pm to Tigerdad2001
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Former Ukrainian ambassador to Kazakhstan Petro Vrublevskyy has been sentenced in absentia to 6 years in prison in Russia
He was found guilty of inciting hatred and hostility on national and linguistic grounds. The reason for the case was an interview in 2022, in which Petro Vrublevsky approved the killing of Russians by Ukrainian forces.
"We try to kill as many of them as possible. The more we kill Russians now, the less our children will have to kill," he said in the interview.
The Russian and Kazakh Foreign Ministries then protested to the Ukrainian diplomatic office. Vrublevsky apologized for his words. In October 2022, his powers as ambassador to Kazakhstan were terminated.
In March, the Basmanny court arrested Vrublevsky in absentia, and the Russian Interior Ministry put him on an international wanted list. The former ambassador is on Rosfinmonitoring's list of "terrorists and extremists".
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Today, russia carried out the most expensive missile-drone attack on Ukraine, spending $1.3 billion on it, Forbes.
Thats 0.5% of their GDP
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A Russian military blogger says that the Battle of Kursk has become routine for Russians, primarily due to the lack of active operations at the moment.
At the same time, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are still expected to invade other areas.
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Posted on 8/26/24 at 2:21 pm to StormyMcMan
British Defence Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE UPDATE
UPDATE ON UKRAINE 26 Aug 2024
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed forces reported that on 14 August 2024 a multi-service strike targeted Kusk Khalino Airfield. Imagery from 14 August 2024 confirmed the destruction of one Orion UAV. The collocated MiG-29 FULCRUM Fighter aircraft and second Orion UAV may have been damaged during the attack.
Introduced by the Russian Military in 2020, the Orion is a long-range, medium altitude UAV. It is primarily utilised as an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platform, although it can be equipped with guided munitions.
INTELLIGENCE UPDATE
UPDATE ON UKRAINE 26 Aug 2024
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed forces reported that on 14 August 2024 a multi-service strike targeted Kusk Khalino Airfield. Imagery from 14 August 2024 confirmed the destruction of one Orion UAV. The collocated MiG-29 FULCRUM Fighter aircraft and second Orion UAV may have been damaged during the attack.
Introduced by the Russian Military in 2020, the Orion is a long-range, medium altitude UAV. It is primarily utilised as an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platform, although it can be equipped with guided munitions.
Posted on 8/26/24 at 2:54 pm to cypher
Reportedly, Russians stabbed a number of the Chechen Akmat soldiers and buried them, fed up with their running away.
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The "Rusich" battalion stabbed Kadyrov men to death and buried them
There is also an explicit video and I am going to leave it out maybe
@osint_69
will publish it on his TG
Posted on 8/26/24 at 3:04 pm to CitizenK
Rusich members are quite literally nazis, so they naturally dislike nonwhites and/or religious minorities like the Chechens.
I lean towards believing that this actually happened.
I lean towards believing that this actually happened.
Posted on 8/26/24 at 3:05 pm to GOP_Tiger
More Americans support aid to Ukraine. As I have said, everyone loves a winner, and Ukraine looks like they are winning right now. There's talk in DC of another supplemental to increase the aid to Ukraine.
Posted on 8/26/24 at 3:08 pm to CitizenK
Posted on 8/26/24 at 3:08 pm to CitizenK
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Disrupting the rail network (Russia's transportation system is rail based)
According to my friends who live in Russia and recently took the train to St Petersburg it is well on its way. Normally the overnight train takes 8 hours which means that train averages around 88 km/hr. It took them almost 18 hours this time. That is an average speed of 39 km/hr. It was so bad that they took a bus back. It was not a nice bus either. My friend said it looked like it had been transported from 1985 to today. He said it still had the Hammer and Sickle on the head pillows.
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