re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Then argue with the pro-Ukraine accounts reporting that. Its factually true even if its “not that simple”

Russia is truly gaining momentum....

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But during the week of Oct. 20-27, Russia made even bigger gains - taking 196.1 square km (75.7 square miles) of Ukrainian territory, according to the Russian media group Agentstvo which analysed Ukrainian open-source maps.

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And things are looking so good in Kursk, sounds like those North Koreans spanking some ukranian tail...

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The recent Russian counterattacks in Kursk have retaken up to half of the territory first seized, casting doubt on how long Kyiv will be able to continue holding it.

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And ukraine now going to "draft" another 160,000 people. I guess thats all that are left after so many have fled the country or been kidnapped and slaughtered on the front. Genocide of your own people, I guess every vineyard has its price.

ISW Update Oct 29th

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Key Takeaways:

The rate of Russian advances in Ukraine has increased in recent weeks but remains slow and consistent with positional warfare rather than with rapid mechanized maneuver—emphasizing how generally stagnant Russian advances have been after over two and half years of war.

Russian President Vladimir Putin attempted to use an annual Russian nuclear deterrence exercise to further boilerplate nuclear saber-rattling information operations that aim to influence Western decision making.

Recent Russian polling suggests that Russian domestic support for local government entities has somewhat declined over the past year, most likely in response to increased crypto-mobilization force generation efforts at the regional level.

Russian officials and milbloggers are conducting information operations that falsely portray the Georgian opposition's peaceful and legal challenges to the conduct of the October 26 parliamentary election results as a Western- and Ukrainian-sponsored illegal coup d'état.

The Georgian protests have been peaceful and legal - far from the Russian claims of an illegal coup.

These concerted Russian efforts to baselessly discredit the Georgian pro-Western opposition and civil society are part of a common Kremlin tactic aimed at framing the valid and legal concerns of pro-Western political entities in the post-Soviet space as illegitimate and violent.

Ukrainian forces recently advanced in Toretsk, and Russian forces made advanced near Kupyansk, Pokrovsk, Kurakhove, and southwest of Donetsk City.

The Russian Ministry of Defense (MOD) continues to rely on Russia's prison population to replace depleted Russian units on the frontline.

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Then argue with the pro-Ukraine accounts reporting that. Its factually true even if its “not that simple”

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No dipshit, it isn't as simple as the South Koreans giving military aid in general, not as a response to battlefield conditions which are always transient.

The Russians are smarter than the Chinese and more creative. They’re also much less insular and xenophobic. And they don't have the cultural problems the Chinese do with fraud and lying.

They’ll be partners, but the Chinese aren’t going to eclipse them.

I don’t have a high opinion of the Chinese.

Fraud is worse in China, it’s systemic and present in all levels of society. It’s a culture where people happily cheat to get the outcome they want.

British Defence Intelligence
UPDATE ON UKRAINE
30 October 2024
INTELLIGENCE UPDATE

According to the Russian Investigative Committee General-Major Alexander Ogloblin has been arrested and is being held in pre-trial detention for allegedly accepting 10 million rubles in bribes from a telecommunications company, as an inducement to secure Russian Ministry of Defence contracts. Ogloblin had previously been sentenced to four and a half years in prison in February 2022 in relation to separate embezzlement charges. He was granted early release after testifying against his former superior Deputy Chief of the General Staff, and Head of the Main Communications Directorate, General-Lieutenant Vadim Shamarin, who was detained in May 2024.

Ogloblin's second arrest demonstrates that Russian authorities continue to enthusiastically pursue corruption charges against serving and former defence officials (appointed in the era of former Minister of Defence, Sergei Shoigu), even after achieving initial convictions. The goal of Russian authorities is almost certainly not the eradication of corruption entirely; this behaviour is fundamental to the functioning of the regime. Instead, Russian authorities are likely seeking to limit corruption to more manageable levels that have a less drastic impact on the functioning of the department.

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And they don't have the cultural problems the Chinese do with fraud and lying.

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The rest of that post was ridiculous... but this is a Chef's kiss of absurdity, like a cherry on top... to stack metaphors, which it deserves.