re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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Which is an admission that they are losing on the front, contrary to theNarrative

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1. Whose narrative?

2. While I hate to use this analogy but LSU lost to Ole Miss on Saturday with their bend but don't break defense. Yet LSU won even though it had no lead until the final OT TD.

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Germany will no longer provide heavy combat vehicles to Ukraine, according to reports from the German newspaper Bild, which cites an internal document from the German Ministry of Defense.

The transfer of such equipment, which included Leopard 2 tanks, Marder infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs), and Panzerhaubitze 2000 (PzH 2000) howitzers, has reportedly been completed.

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Germany halts supply of heavy vehicles to Ukraine.

Geez talk about overexaggerating to make something a click bait article (which I must admit it worked because I clicked). Od course, Germany is going to stop delivering vehicles if the agreed upon number have been transferred.

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Which is an admission that they are losing on the front, contrary to theNarrative

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1. Whose narrative?

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CitizenK

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Germany completes delivery of equipment to Ukraine from Bundeswehr stockpiles

The German Ministry of Defense has completed the delivery of military equipment to Ukraine from the Army’s stocks.

The official account of German aid to Ukraine reported about this on X (ex-Twitter).

Thus, the supply of Marder 1A3 infantry fighting vehicles, Leopard 2 main battle tanks, and PzH 2000 self-propelled howitzers has been completed.

Further deliveries will take place within the framework of signed contracts with the German defense industry, which will supply Ukraine with new heavy armored vehicles and artillery systems.

It should be noted that weapons were transferred from the ground forces after Germany reformed its armed forces and reduced the number of heavy armored vehicles between 2005 and 2018.

Nevertheless, as part of its military assistance to Ukraine, the German government has signed a significant number of contracts with local defense companies that will supply Ukraine with equipment until 2028.

The weapons ordered for Ukraine from Germany include 7 IRIS-T SLM SAM systems, 2 Skynex air defense systems, 12 Gepard SPAAGs, 6 Westland Sea King Mk41 helicopters, 30 PzH 2000 self-propelled howitzers, and 54 RCH 155 self-propelled artillery systems.

In addition, Germany has financed the purchase of 14 Zuzana 2 self-propelled artillery systems from Slovakia, which will be transferred to Ukraine.

The transferred weapons will also include 2 TRML-4D radars, 80 Leopard 1A5 main battle tanks, 378 FFG MRAPs, 9 Bergepanzer 2 ARVs, 2 Biber AVLB bridge-laying tanks, 3 Pionierpanzer 2A1 Dachs AEVs, and 5 Oshkosh M1070 tank transporters.

Militarnyi

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So who decides which towns and villages get leveled

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The best predictor of that has been proximity to the lines, whether or not troops are dug in, and how fierce the fighting is there. So in that case its more about the combat in that specific area than it is about any military doctrine or strategy.

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which buildings get blown to bits?

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Its repeatedly brought up as a point that Russia has trouble responding to deep strikes because they don't have the tools to accurately hit things from very far away, but when some building that doesn't even make sense for them to intentionally hit gets blown up you have the usual suspects in this thread completely convinced it was intentional. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't depending on the specific case. I just don't find it that hard to believe that they miss what they were aiming for pretty often.

Russian strike on Odesa port kills 1, injures 8, damages civilian vessels

by Kateryna Denisova October 14, 2024 2:12 PM

Russia attacked the southern city of Odesa's port infrastructure with a ballistic missile on Oct. 14, killing one person and injuring eight others, Governor Oleh Kiper reported.

The attack damaged two civilian vessels — NS Moon flying the flag of Belize and the Palau-flagged Optima, Kiper said. Russia targeted the latter ship last week on Oct. 7.

In recent days, Russia stepped up its attacks against port infrastructure in Odesa Oblast, damaging several civilian ships.

"The purpose of these attacks is to reduce our export potential," said Oleksii Kuleba, the minister for the development of communities, territories, and infrastructure, last week on Telegram.

"This is a deliberate attempt to provoke a food crisis in those parts of the world that are directly dependent on Ukrainian grain supplies."

A grain warehouse, cargo cranes, and machinery were also damaged in today's missile attack on Odesa, according to Kuleba. The victims are Ukrainian port employees.

Over the past three months, Russia has carried out nearly 60 such attacks, damaging or destroying nearly 300 port infrastructure facilities and 22 civilian vessels, Kuleba said on Oct. 10.

Over 80 civilians were killed or injured as a result of these strikes.

The Kyiv Independent

‘Double-tap’ attack. Understanding one of Russia’s cruelest tactics in Ukraine

Hitting a building, waiting for first responders and the media to arrive, and hitting the same place again to target those who came to put out the fire, help the victims, or document a potential war crime is a well-honed tool of Russia in its wars.

This ruthless and illegal military tactic is called a "double-tap" attack.

Having used Syria as a "testing ground" since 2015, Russia started terrorizing Ukraine with "double-tap" attacks following the full-scale invasion. Those attacks have grown more frequent in recent weeks.

Russian "double-tap" attacks against Ukraine have killed and injured dozens of rescuers, police officers, medics, and journalists who should be protected by international law.

The escalation in "double-tap" attacks may be linked to Russia's attempt to affect the morale of Ukrainians, exhausted from over two years of full-scale war, as well as inflict greater damage to the country's critical infrastructure, experts suggest.

According to Kelly Grieco, a senior fellow at the Stimson Center whose expertise includes international security and air operations, if Russia's goal was to ensure it had destroyed a target, the strikes would likely occur with a shorter gap.

"But the regularity with which these strikes seem to come thirty minutes apart suggests the purpose is to cause maximum damage and loss of life, including to rescue workers," she told the Kyiv Independent.

Just a day before the Zaporizhzhia strike, Russian forces conducted a "double-tap" drone attack against Kharkiv, resulting in four fatalities, including three first responders, and injuring 12, including an emergency service worker, a policeman, and a nurse.

Ukraine is not the first country suffering from Russian "double-tap" strikes — Moscow employed this tactic extensively in Syria alongside Bashar al-Assad's government forces. According to Syria's Justice and Accountability Center, 58 "double-tap" airstrikes were carried out in Syria between 2013 and 2021, primarily targeting humanitarian workers.

The Kyiv Independent

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Not saying he was correct when he specifically did that, but our intelligence agencies aren't infallible by any means. Them having their own foreign policy/national security agenda that transcends votes or presidents is something we have to get a handle on.

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But as the leader of a country, and the West, you don't supply a foreign dictator with the perfect soundbite for his international "The United States is corrupt and evil" campaign. If Obama had done that you guys would want him hung for treason.

Double taps, which are not part of a barrage, are evidence that:

1.The original target was not accidental or random since the same locations are hit twice within an hour.

2. The weapons being used for the double taps are not inaccurate since they hit the same location.