From Saker Staff for the Saker Blog
A few notes:
Zakharova: Russia has completed preparations for retaliatory measures against Lithuania and the EU in response to the blockade of Kaliningrad and will apply them in the coming days.
It’s good to report that the EU now recognizes that they’ve lost the battle of the narrative. https://www.rt.com/news/558748-borrell-g20-russia-sanctions/
NordStream 1 is now offline for annual maintenance until July 21st. Will Russia turn it back on?
Comment from Martyanov: I also want to stress, again, that bar some obvious high-end involvement by Russian combat aviation, stand-off weapons, obvious state-of-the-art ISR and artillery, it is clear that by now the bulk of fighting on the ground is performed by LDNR forces and Russia’s National Guard (Rosgvardiya) and main forces, are being held in reserved and are used very sparingly. So, I guess Ukie 1 million-strong army is about to get acquainted with all the firepower of Russian Army, wink, wink.
The Russian hacker group RaHDIt and the Ukrainian “Beregini” were able to obtain secret operational documents about the actions of the Ukrainian army and the real situation at the front. The hackers also managed to establish channels for receiving “from the Armed Forces of Ukraine” up-to-date information on the operational situation in the combat zone of the situation at the front. According to hackers, American intelligence supplies Kiev with radar data, as well as satellite images, including the territory of Russia, which is then subjected to rocket and artillery attacks on civilians, a member of the RaHDIt hacker group told RIA Novosti.
Also take a look at Larry Johnston with estimates of Ukrainian attrition. Understanding the Tactical Situation in Ukraine Based on the Russian MOD daily Briefings
This Military Summary report at end of day yesterday is interesting and talks of battles that we did not even know was happening. (Also on Rumble for those who prefer that: https://rumble.com/v1bs479-ukraine.-military-summary-and-analysis-10.07.2022.html )
Kindly use as open thread and hammer the UkroNazis with up to date and clear information as the Sakerites usually do!
The Jewish Nazi Soros will make more donations to the Ukro-Nazis. Guess who funds Euromaidan.
Jewish Nazi? Do you know what an oxymoron is?
He’s a globalist and the nearest thing to a globalist is a communist.
You can call him a Jewish Communist but since national Socialists killed any Jew they got hold of, I suspect you have labelled him incorrectly.
https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/one-of-historys-ugly-pages:-nazi-zionist-cooperation
https://www.amazon.com/51-Documents-Zionist-Collaboration-Nazis/dp/1569804338
See also the Haavara Agreement.
This is a bit off topic so not sure if it will be allowed:
A reconnaissance and sabotage group from the Belarusian nationalist detachment “Volat” was taken prisoner by servicemen of the NM LPR near Volcheyarovka. According to a number of Russian TG channels with reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the LPR, Belarusian nationalists have been fighting in the Donbas since 2014.
When the capture of Belarusian nationalists from the “Volat” took place is not specified, they were taken near Volcheyarovka in the Popasnyansky district of the LPR near Lisichansk. All the militants of the group are volunteers who deliberately arrived in the Donbass, some members of Volat have been fighting since 2014 and 2015.
As emphasized, militants from “Volat” are involved in an attempted coup in Belarus, as well as smuggling weaponssupplied from the territory of Ukraine to the territory of the republic. Now the detainees are in Luhansk and willingly tell the details.
Earlier in Lugansk, it was reported that the Belarusian nationalist Ivan Marchuk was liquidated near Lugansk, who recently commanded the Volat detachment before it was merged with the National Battalion. Kastus Kalinouski. Together with Marchuk, several more Belarusian mercenaries were liquidated.
https://en.topwar.ru/198884-diversionno-razvedyvatelnuju-gruppu-iz-sostava-belorusskogo-nacbata-volat-vzjali-v-plen-pod-volchejarovkoj.html
As my nick says, I am almost worldly, and I believe that I also possess some Cosa-Nostra-damus abilities. So, I am going to make a prediction. There is high probability that by the end of the year – Ukraine might disappear from the world map. Good riddance. From what little do I know about Russian history, the first Russian state was called Kievan Rus’. At the end of the year, new, somewhat anagramised entity might emerge – Russian Kiev. That’s what I call poetic justice.
Joseph Borrell finally admits the west is losing to the global south (4/5th of the world population). What always seems weird is the spin from the west always saying the the world is against Russia but the truth is the world is against the EU and US.
https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/g20-difficult-times-multilateralism_en
Josep borrell é só mais um dos canalha mentirosos e racistas que infestam a ue. Guerra não provocada? Queria ver o que ele diria se tivesse que retirar com uma espátula os restos de seu parentes das paredes de sua casa após oito anos de bombardeios. Ah, mas os eslavos não passam de meros “negros das neves”, não é?
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Google-translae from mod:
Josep Borrell is just one of the liars and racists who infest the EU. War not provoked? I wanted to see what he would say if he had to withdraw with a spatula the remains of his relatives from his home walls after eight years of bombing. Ah, but the Slavs are just mere “blacks of snow”, right?
y-4x+6= boom, just applying Russian math to US Natgas plants…… Oklahoma this time, and a big one at that.
Lots of hardware being sent to the Ukrainian front, must invest in ManPad stocks, with the amount of Ukie girls going to the front, there will be more for the men to wear……the little wings on the pads may even come in handy. If you kinni fly home on them, perhaps an Angel will lend them some.
Cheers M
glad the site is back up, amazing how snooty some people get with just the mention of it on the ‘other’ site.
Operation Z: Military Correspondents of the Russian Spring
‼️🇬🇧Report from the front: depots with ammunition for the MLRS “HIMARS” were destroyed, the enemy suffers heavy losses
🚀 High-precision long-range sea-based missiles “Caliber” destroyed ammunition depots for HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems, M777 howitzers , and 2S7 Pion self-propelled guns supplied by the United States to Ukraine .
🚀 Ground-based high-precision weapons destroyed the temporary deployment point of the 118th Territorial Defense Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine . More than 300 nationalists were killed as a result of the strike .
💥 As a result of pinpoint strikes by the Russian Aerospace Forces on the points of deployment of nationalist battalions and foreign mercenaries in Kharkov , about 250 militants and up to 25 units of armored vehicles and vehicles were destroyed .
🚀The high-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed : the command post of the 58th motorized infantry brigade, the manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 10 districts , as well as the weapons depot .
✈️A Su-35S fighter of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force .
🏹Air defense systems shot down 12 Uragan MLRS shells per day .
More details in the briefing of the Ministry of Defense:
t.me/rusvesnasu/20673
https://voenhronika.ru/
The Russian army is getting closer to Slavyansk: the beginning of the GREAT BATTLE is coming soon! Latest news from Ukraine now
If from the east and south of Slavyansk the Center grouping continues to occupy settlements, then on the Izyum Front there are battles for every forest glade, forest belt, forest patch. The enemy replaces the retired units with new ones, they suffer losses and another batch of cannon fodder goes to the front. In this case, the capture of the village of Bogorodichne, a very big success.
The fortified area protecting Slavyansk from the north literally gnaws through, no matter what efforts Kyiv makes to stabilize it. Last night and tonight were very interesting. Artillery soldiers of the Izyum Front organized an attraction of unprecedented generosity for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the forests near the settlements of Dolina, Krasnopolye, Mazanovka. Two dozen batteries handed out gifts of various calibers with a frequency of 1 volley every 3 minutes.
Noticeable from the reports of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. A Su-35 fighter of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the DPR shot down a Su-25 aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The high-precision weapons of the Russian Armed Forces in the DPR destroyed the temporary deployment point of the 118th brigade of the territorial defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, more than 300 nationalists were killed
More from Military Chronicle:
Latest news from Ukraine – Yuriy Podolyaka on the morning of July 12th. The offensive of the Allied Forces in the Soledar direction
Our fighters have noticed a new tactic of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which sometimes brings results. First, the enemy makes two volleys of the Uragan MLRS at the selected target in order to discharge our air defense, and then makes a volley of more expensive and accurate Himars MLRS missiles.
The information about the complete occupation of Bogorodichny in the Slavyansk direction was confirmed, and in the evening information came about the occupation of Berestovoye on the Lisichansk-Bakhmut highway, for which fighting had been going on for a month.
The situation in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction. The Ukrainian command in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction is preparing for the offensive. Information about an imminent counterattack on the positions of the RF Armed Forces is being disseminated among the servicemen. Continued in the material.
These HIMARS system systems seems to bacome a problem for the russian forces according to this Military report from “Military summary”. these need to be dealt with accordingly if Russia wants to advance on the battlefield I think.
The HIMARS are hitting rear ammo dumps and command posts 50k behind the LOC, if they were used on the LOC they’d be spotted and destroyed within hours. The HIMARS will just make the Russians change logistics, and be more careful with where things are stored…..hidden I mean.
Cheers M
In the short term maybe Russia will have to station Tors and Pantsirs in multiples of redundancy around key logistics locations. It will be interesting to see what long term solution Russia comes up with.
In war, poor deployment and usage of a type of weapon such as HIMARS that does not give a decisive victory is a extremely foolish thing to do.
It will allow the Allied forces to develop effective countermeasures that will work when a large scale war begins, losing any advantage the new weapons system was supposed to bring.
Think for example of using the Tank in World War One. When the Brits didn’t achieve victory quickly, the Germans had plenty of time to make their own version and develop counters.
According to the “Military summary” there is heavy fighting in open areas, yet heavy fighting is only supposed to occur in the cities like Severodonetsk and Lysychans’k. In the open areas the Russian artillery is supposed to flatten everything and then the tanks move in to clean up the remaining. Its not like the Russian tanks will ever encounter numerous Ukrainian tanks. Perhaps “Military summary” is confusing heavy shelling with heavy fighting, Russian forces are probably still relaxing / regrouping after the Lysychans’k capture so are just merrily shelling away until they decide to move en masse. Himars is just some enemy shelling, the Russians can’t expect to take next to no losses all the time.
You mean that Russian heavy artilly is at work while troops regroup or something lika that.
“the Russians can’t expect to take next to no losses all the time.”
Of course not but if they manage to pinpoint ammo stores and like that it could make lige a lot worse for the Russians im afraid.
“The Russian hacker group RaHDIt and the Ukrainian “Beregini” were able to obtain secret operational documents about the actions of the Ukrainian army and the real situation at the front…”
Since even the Russian government distances itself from such groups, I consider what they say pure gossip. It may be true but still no better than gossip. I suppose it could be “PSYOPS” too. They say nothing really new. If it’s new, you – we – can’t trust it as a news source.
I follow the Russia-Ukraine war mostly through the NYT, the msn news stream, and of course through the Saker’s Vineyard.
Yesterday, the NYT ended an article on the war in Ukraine with a quote from a Ukrainian citizen whose home was destroyed by artillery fire. He said that this war destruction shouldn’t happen to humans… He was quoted as saying that “negotiations” should have avoided this war. The NYT correspondent reported, or commented, that this is a “thought” not heard elsewhere in Ukraine. The citizen was represented as having a unique outlook there. The story ended with that. My guess is that she thought it was fair to report it but knew it was something “hot” to publish and presented him as an exception; this may be an accurate report of a weird reality, too, but it takes much more evidence to believe that. Out of respect, I believe millions in Ukraine think that it should have been avoided and that they say it too. There are good and bad reporters at the NYT, so I imagine that they are having an internal war, that’s between the ‘professionals’ and the ‘righteous’ ones.
The NYT says today: “As President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia warns that Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine has barely begun, deadly attacks on three fronts this weekend suggest that — after suffering major setbacks early in its war — Moscow’s appetite for the conflict remains undiminished.”
Three fronts is the news, but what major setbacks? They didn’t even have the troops needed for the “major objective” imagined together with this “major setback.”
Ok, I’ll bite, so, how many troops did they need, according to you? According to who, like name some authority that stipulated the correct number required. The major set back, if such exists was the non capitulation of the Ukie regime within the first thirty days, generations of Ukrainians are now being removed from the planet, for ever. Now there’s a set back.
Cheers M
“so, how many troops did they need, according to you?”
The major objective was to take over all of Ukraine, they say.
I comment that there were not enough troops around those few major cities, in the first 24-48 hours of the war, for that objective to be real. I agree with your comment. That’s the setback(s) that they are referring to.
I think a major objective of that drive was to cause a military coup and Putin invited the Ukrainian army to do just that in those same hours (within the first two or three days at most).
I see no signs that what the Russian mod said was correct. He said that it was done to keep Ukrainian troops away from the Donbass. Most of the key battles happened more recently, with Ukrainian troops eventually going to the Donbass with only two weeks of training. Anyway, the mod cannot tell you the truth necessarily! The mod is not going to tell if they were wishing to cause a coup that unfortunately did not happen. Someone away, let’s say a nobody, will opine that. It will be debated by historians what the purpose was.
“The major objective was to take over all of Ukraine, they say”.
Really? Who says that? The highly expert US MSM presstitutes? I don’t recall anyone on the Russian side saying anything of the kind. There were three objectives:
1. Demilitarise Ukraine;
2. Denazify Ukraine;
3. Ensure the safety and integrity of the Donbas republics.
Prevaricating and spinning – now it not Peskov or those guys, it is The Russian MoD said .. What? Putin invited the Ukrainians to stage a military coup .. What?
This confusion is deliberate. Unless the NYT said The Russian Mod Said .. And that will be prevaricating and spinning.
“it is The Russian MoD said .. What? Putin invited the Ukrainians to stage a military coup .. What?”
When the Ukrainian government said the Russians had been defeated in their attempt to take over Kiev, the Russian military spokesman replied that the goal had been to make Ukraine think they wanted to take control of Kiev and other main cities. That’s the military “bait” that was discussed here. This military spokesman gave that rationale and said that it was planned well too. He was speaking for his government. Maybe he is not the “MoD.” And Putin sure did “invite” a military coup in Ukraine when he told the Ukrainian Generals that he would prefer to negotiate with them after the SMO began. “This confusion is deliberate.” Both of these are known facts.
Tranquilocomp, you don’t know who said what. I guess you read it through the NYT or you’re talking about known unknowns.
It’s enough now ok, of the normalization of UkroNazi propaganda and NYT propaganda.
The Russian ‘military spokesman’ never said such a thing, and neither did Putin invite a military coup – although the Times of Israel reported that he did.
US propaganda: https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/07/nyt-ground-report-debunks-nyt-claim-of-strikes-against-ukraines-civilians.html#more
I’m now going to stop answering this stuff … as the plan is to keep people busy dealing with this utterly false reporting and use their time so that they cannot spend time on real data. But, I’ll comment, when necessary. I trust all see the cycle here now … well, I know you saw it before already.
“The Russian ‘military spokesman’ never said such a thing”
On the MOD’s announcement that said so, Nightvision wrote the following on 03/25/22 (taken from the great “Dashboard” here):
“The most important part of today’s announcements by MOD however was the confirmation that of several objectives we have up to now been merely speculating on, which are: 1. they do not plan to storm any cities and are in fact using the cities merely to stifle reserves and keep them from going east 2. the Donbass is the main priority and current objective. So this proves that all other forces in Kherson, Kiev etc are merely pinning forces meant to allow the successful capture of the Donbass cauldron 3. Another very important announcement that went under the radar: according to MOD, the Ukrainians have already committed ALL OF THEIR available reserves, and the mobilizations they ‘attempt’ to do in the far west are basically for very ragged, disorganized, untrained groups. As you see, all is going according to plan.”
This MOD announcement occasioned other comments from others too, that included opinions on the military bait concept…
I viewed the thrust of light forces toward Kiev with no pretty much artillery backing to be a gambit. Others call it a feign, but I don’t think that this tactic nothing for than a fixing operation. When you catfish a situation you stir up chaos and see what results, with a number of potential outcomes possible. Some possibilities that could have arisen from the chaos:
1) The could have been a coup by a military commander who did not desire a war they would lose and as a result see his country destroyed. Possible, didn’t happen.
2) There could have been a political capitulation, a fresh agreement to Minsk and possibly political lead change. Possible, didn’t happen.
3) The forces of the AFU fearful of the ‘military drill’ over the boarder should have predicted that any major possible hostile force on the border is a risk and rotated maximum troops to capital defense. This would cause a fixing of troops away from the east until air control was established. Possible, seems to have happened.
etc.
It’s not just a matter of reading tea leaves in “what was said” by unofficial or even official parties. What we do is look at probability and capability and then look at what occurred. What some of you are doing is reading shapes in the fog of war.
Fact of the matter is that the troops that attacked Kiev were not equipped to siege and would have been in a disadvantageous position to hold if AFU from other regions converged. We can assume this was a stupid maneuver or we can assume that other purposes were afoot. What do we not have to assume? The troops deployed were not equipped for siege.
“I viewed the thrust of light forces toward Kiev with no pretty much artillery backing to be a gambit. Others call it a feign”
I agree with “gambit”, no “feign”, arguably a worthy gambit. Should the MOD have spoken so? It was his response to Ukraine saying that it had all been a failure and repulsed by them. That’s why he came out saying, no, it was all planned, and well, to keep troops from going East. I don’t think he should have spoken that. Bad politics. Then other people can figure it out…but also later things become clearer as well. In retrospect, it looks less and less as said “feign.” I can only surmise that the gambit was to provoke a military coup. They learned a lot about Ukrainian defenses too. Who knows what else? We’re commenters. A coup must have been a big objective. The Russian troops went to Kiev right away, and right away Putin told the Ukrainian army to take power from the butchers (or whatever) and that he would prefer to negotiate with them (army). “Mas claro agua”?/”Only water is more clear”? It is possible (just possible logically) that there was a failure of their “intelligence” service, or maybe just accurate but incomplete information. The cost was high. They must know if what they learned compensated for the costs in their estimation. I don’t think so. Those Russian soldiers who were exposed in such a way are Russian heroes, considering that they were the most exposed soldiers in their army, right? Many were captured as we saw.
However, the gambit to provoke a coup, if that’s what it was, may be considered worthwhile. Some things are tried, period. The purpose of such a gambit would have been to save lives.
A military or palace coup did look fairly likely early on, when chances of Z at an election plummeted ( https://im1776.com/2022/05/27/servant-of-the-corrupt/ ) and he went full junta, and then he was in Europe after the action started.
Became very unlikely after SBU threw in with him for real and tightened their grip, however.
So I don’t know who ‘they are’ does ‘they’ work in the RF MOD communication department? They, seem to speculate, based on? This is a different kind of warfare, both sides speak the same language. You know the funniest part, ok, ain’t nothing funny in war, but warriors take their humour black…..both sides not only speak and look the same, they need to wear coloured arm bands to tell each other apart….eh, weird.
I would suggest anyone from ACGs to real students of war. Go and watch Military Summary last two vids, extremely important info in black and white. He is using a map to show the Ukrainian forces deployed in front of Donesk. Not boy scouts.
Cheers M
The battles you see now are manpower battles, that’s the denazification part. The demilitarization part was done over the first two months……if you notice, the equipment on the Ukie side being destroyed now is all NATO…… otherwise the SMO would have ended thirty days ago.
“So I don’t know who ‘they are’ does ‘they’ work in the RF MOD communication department? They, seem to speculate, based on?”
“They” was the Western media and especially the governments who say that it was from the start a military attack on Kiev and other cities with the objective of taking all of Ukraine, and that this failed. The MOD (as you can see in my Nightvision quote in this thread) later said that the objective had only been to have Ukraine concentrate its troops away from the East, which is where the real advances were to happen.
I think we are overlooking the gain of Zaporozhia and Kherson – the complete land bridge – during that period. Surely that is significant because it laid the groundwork for all subsequent advances.
A strong chess player usually plays the board, not the opponent. So he makes moves that will give good chances whatever plan the opponent chooses.
If the opponent leaves mate in 3 on, of course the strong player gives mate in 3. If the opponent avoids that blunder, no spectator who knows about chess accuses the stronger player of a “major setback”.
You can believe what you want and as usual you come with spin on anything from Russia. If it is not Peskov, it is Medvedev. If it is not Medvedev, it is someone else that is being spun. But this continual normalization of the NYT, Biden, The Hill and whatever other lying rags has most everyone here in a position that they do not take anything you say seriously.
So, in the main, we consider your posts pure gossip, and really, nobody has time to debunk the lies. Before Andrei (The Saker) went on leave to recuperate, he already told everyone on more than one occasion .. Do not give us propaganda and ask us to debunk it.
On this little piece:
“The NYT says today:”,
it is better stated like this:
“The NYT lies today:”
Because of course they’ve spun what Mr.Putin said. But that of course is probably the focus of this post .. To Spin What Mr Putin Said.
I rather trust the Russian Hackers because they actually have the docs. No, there will not be a formal response from Russia.
I must agree: as soon as I saw “NYT” I stopped reading.
I think you live in another country, right? That makes a big difference. Living in a country, you read what ‘everybody’ reads too, what the President reads every morning. You want to know ‘what’s happening.’ It would be better if reporters did not try to sway a reader with their opinions, but I maintain something that can be verified on any day now, that the msn is covering Russia more fully than ever before and quoting the major remarks of the Russians. It would be wrong in my opinion to look at their opinions to deny this fact. Who wants to be like the object of the criticism?
I think the Russian government should, must be happy with the coverage they are getting, that they are quoted literally, probably the only thing that matters to it. This different coverage began after the SMO, or even under the expectation that it might happen. (A tremendous political news phenomenon!). What else can I say? You know what Jesus said to the disciples about the world. Let me try.
The msm does not quote any Russians verbatim.
If they quote them at all, they spin it to mean the opposite of what they said.
I do remember Putin telling the Ukrainian military that if they surrendered they would be treated well.
I don’t remember him calling for a coup.
It has been pointed out that in the early days of the SMO the Russians secured the nuclear power plants and the bioweapons labs. Then they withdrew some of their troops.
This is not a set-back, this is a mostly successful operation. Yes, the Americans and Ukies managed to destroy a lot of evidence, but the Russians prevented the release of radiation and bioweapons.
“I don’t remember him calling for a coup.”
Below are just a couple of links among many that you can google:
“Putin calls on Ukrainian military to seize power to better negotiate with Russia” “Take power into your own hands, it will be easier for us to reach agreement.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-calls-ukrainian-military-seize-power-better-negotiate-with-russia-2022-02-25/
“Putin tells Ukrainian military to ‘take power into their hands’ and negotiate with Moscow”
https://www.thehansindia.com/news/international/putin-tells-ukrainian-military-to-take-power-into-their-hands-and-negotiate-with-moscow-730888
RT on February 25:
“President Putin urges Ukraine’s soldiers to take power in their own country, and prevent their leaders from using the population as human shields.”
https://www.rt.com/shows/news/550482-rtnews-february-25-18msk/
The NYT is virulently anti-Russian, and has been for decades. They just hate Russia. I know, because I’ve been reading the Times since I could read, which I guess is about 60 years now. Anything they write about Russia will be either an outright lie, or egregious spin, or simply made up to slander Russia. I say I’ve been reading it for decades, but to be honest, I’ve pretty much had to quit since the SMO began – I’m supposed to be watching my blood pressure…
Every word you typed us pure MSM propaganda
Regarding the real problems and setbacks of the campaign of Russia and allies in Ukraine, a relevant source of information is not the MSM (obvious) but the Russian channels on Telegram.
Through them we have access to assessments on the impact of HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System), and other US/NATO-supplied weapons, on the ongoing fighting.
Some examples:
《The challenges of the present moment for our country are high precision missile attacks and a terrorist war.
Specific danger are the high-precision attacks launched by the American Himars missile systems.
Rocket attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine against Russian headquarters have already become a terrible routine, which must be changed by all means.》
https://t.me/genshab/816
《It so happened that yesterday I watched the HIMARS attack in Chernobaevka, Kherson, almost before our eyes. I have been under fire many times, but it struck me that the whole package, 5 or 6 rockets, came practically in the center of the target.
But I also notice an unhealthy panic in the networks after the results of the first launches. Of course, this is only the beginning. They will attack Kherson and other border towns. Belgorod in particular. They will cover all checkpoints and military installations, whose data has been collected in the last 4 months. 》
https://t.me/RSaponkov/3293
《So, look, good people. Ukrainian rocket launchers and artillery have already attacked our decision centers several times. With result. The centers are small, but important. I don’t write here where, when, how much and by whom. In order not to divulge military secrets. Those who are into the subject will understand: if reporter Sladkov and his colleagues know, many others know too.
My question is simple: when will this shit end?》
https://t.me/Sladkov_plus/5838
《In the last 5-7 days, more than 10 large artillery and other ammunition depots, several fuel depots, about a dozen command posts, and about the same number of personnel sites in our near and deep rear have been hit. As well as several air defense and artillery positions. Large losses of personnel and equipment were sustained.
P.S. I am not writing this to inform the ukrov of the success of their attacks – they know that better and before me. And not to “exult” (which all pseudopatriotic scum accuse me of). But to ask a question: when will the RF Armed Forces start fighting at full strength? 》
https://t.me/c/1730098651/188
Sorry, again. 🤦♂️ Link unblocked: https://t.me/strelkovii/2908
There are no “good” reporters at the NY Times. All the good ones like Seymour Hersch and Alex Berenson were fired or left.
NY times like Guardian (US billionaire owned in last decade) is part of MICCIMATT.
All Western media is corrupt and all UK journalists have received D notices.
Dear tranquilocomp,
Stop reading NYT and Western MSM.
Ask yourself this question:
How does the newspaper know what it knows?
Here is a summary/paraphrase of an article by Swiss Policy Research in 2019:
‘The answer to this question is likely to surprise some newspaper readers: “The main source of information is stories from news agencies. The almost anonymously operating news agencies are in a way the key to world events.
‘It is one of the most important aspects of our media system, and yet hardly known to the public: most of the international news coverage in Western media is provided by only three global news agencies based in New York, London and Paris.
The key role played by these agencies means Western media often report on the same topics, even using the same wording. In addition, governments, military and intelligence services use these global news agencies as multipliers to spread their messages around the world.
A study of the Syria war coverage by nine leading European newspapers clearly illustrates these issues: 78% of all articles were based in whole or in part on agency reports, yet 0% on investigative research. Moreover, 82% of all opinion pieces and interviews were in favor of a US and NATO intervention, while propaganda was attributed exclusively to the opposite side.’
‘So what are the names of these agencies, how do they work and who finances them? To judge how well one is informed about events in East and West, one should know the answers to these questions.
The agencies are: Associated Press/AP, (US) Agence France-Presse/AFP (France), Reuters (UK).’
Spend 20 mins reading the full article and you will begin to see MSM ‘news’ in a different light. I guarantee it.
https://swprs.org/the-propaganda-multiplier/
Dear Stand Easy, long time don’t see. :)
Big newspapers like the NYT, Clarin and others have their own correspondents that they use (I know this from the two I mentioned) in Ukraine, in Russia, etc.
I think you want to be objective (not everybody is interested in that, the precious few are). Let’s test how it is on what you said: “Stop reading NYT and Western MSM.” Please tell me if this article below is unfair to Putin; I think Putin himself would commend this coverage of his last major speech, co-written by Anton Troianovski:
Putin denounces the U.S. as a fading world power.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/17/world/europe/putin-us-world-power.html?searchResultPosition=1
“Anton Troianovski is the Moscow bureau chief for The New York Times.” – NYT
I mean, what more could he (Putin) ask for? Credit where credit is due, or to “Caesar what belongs to Caesar” as they say in Spanish also with respect to merit.
Tranquilocomp,
The NYT piece on Putin is behind a paywall and (un)fortunately I’m not a subscriber.
But just for exercise, let me guess your demographic (I do this in a friendly spirit and may be entirely wrong here, and if so I do apologise in advance):
You’re male, middle-aged, well educated, well-off, and, if a US citizen, a Democrat. You most likely live in New York city or thereabouts. There’s a 50:50 chance you believe NYT always tells the truth.
If correct, please know that NYT targets/shapes its ‘news’ to fit people like you.
If wrong, again please accept my apologies.
I of course used the data from a survey of NYT’s readers; not uncommon for use by advertisers and marketing types.
But the thing is, ‘a swallow does not a summer make’. Credibility in the eyes of the reader is extremely important and the NYT goes a long way to maintain its credibility among its readers. So it maintains a correspondent in Moscow who supposedly tells the truth. But does he, or rather, the guys above his pay grade? A Putin speech may be ‘fair’ to him (Putin) — according to your assessment — in this instance but what about his other speeches or speeches by other Russians? In this particular speech, it is very difficult for NYT for spin it otherwise because readers have a source to check it against, namely the Kremlin website; so it publishes a generally accurate translation of the speech, otherwise it will lose credibility. The spinning (in general they report objective facts accurately, it’s in the interpretation that spinning occurs) only occurs when readers have no way of checking what is published and have to take the NYT’s or other MSM’s word for it. Eg a Tochka-U missile landed in Kramatorsk killing about 40 people. Fact. Russians did it. Spin, since Russia has never used Tochkas in the Ukraine. Spinning is always seasoned with a sprinkling of straight truthful reporting to maintain credibility. Since they’ve already established their credibility with their readers and subscribers — especially those who continue to subscribe to them — and the readers have no way of checking or are not even inclined to do so even if they had a way to check, the MSM narrative wins the day. Why do you think RT and Sputnik have been hounded out of the West? Why do you think the Vineyard has been attacked? Or search algorithms in Google, et al, changed in order to bury Russian narratives? Or journalists who challenge MSM narratives shunned, slandered and put on a deathlist?
Stand Easy, I’ll give you quotes from it then (the beginning and the end). First, I do think that U.S. media is the worst I know and ‘confessed’ this before. People are not like a formula, though. Not every NYT writer will write falsehoods and for the CIA too. That’s not life. Some say that, I know, but either they don’t know the United States or maybe don’t even see the ball.
“President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Friday reprised his critique of the United States as a declining power that treats its allies as colonies, while declaring itself exceptional and ‘the messenger of the Lord on Earth.’
‘If they are exceptional, then that means that everyone else is second-class,’ Mr. Putin said of the United States in an address that the Kremlin had billed as “extremely important” at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum — an annual business conference once known as ‘Russia’s Davos.'”
Then the last:
“He vowed to cut the red tape plaguing what remains of Russia’s market economy, pledging to reduce the frequency of audits and the jailing of executives in pre-trial investigations. And he issued a plea to Russian business tycoons to keep their money at home, pointing to this year’s sanctions as proof that they should cut ties with the West.
‘Real, solid success and the feeling of dignity and self-respect will only come when you tie your future and your children’s future to your Motherland,’ Mr. Putin said as the state television feed of his speech cut to two oligarchs in the audience, Oleg Deripaska and Viktor Vekselberg.
‘Those who didn’t want to hear this obvious message lost hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars in the West,’ he said.”
So it went. Fair enough? Sure. CIA coverage – would it be like it? No, it’s like journalism. Would Pravda have been this fair or professional? We know the answer is “no.” Am I “normalizing”? Well, looked at in that way…could “normalizing” be just normalizing?
Hmm, it looks like I was wrong — NYT can’t even report a speech, which it reminded its readers as one that is regarded by the Russians as extremely important, properly.
It is subtle with just a slight spin. The Moscow guy and his bosses at NYT are good. I’ll give them that.
Kremlin transcript:
‘After declaring victory in the Cold War, the United States proclaimed itself to be God’s messenger on Earth, without any obligations and only interests which were declared sacred.’
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‘Our colleagues are not just denying reality. More than that; they are trying to reverse the course of history. They seem to think in terms of the past century. They are still influenced by their own misconceptions about countries outside the so-called “golden billion”: they consider everything a backwater, or their backyard. They still treat them like colonies, and the people living there, like second-class people, because they consider themselves exceptional. If they are exceptional, that means everyone else is second rate.’
No mention by Putin of US allies — as alluded to by NYT — being treated as colonies or second-class by the US. He expressly mentioned people outside the ‘golden billion’ ie outside the West (or US + allies) as being treated as colonies. Big difference. Subtle spin to raise US’s allies’ hackles up or perhaps a Freudian slip by NYT?
Transcript of speech available here:
/president-putin-st-petersburg-international-economic-forum-plenary-session/
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/68669
“No mention by Putin of US allies — as alluded to by NYT — being treated as colonies or second-class by the US.”
They may have wrongly made that allusion, but in that “everybody else” in his speech you quoted, Europe is rightfully included, and it is what Putin believes. He alluded to them as no better than that in his Feb. 25 speech too (where the power of the empire was shown in how it caused them to think alike). Lavrov most recently made the point that the U.S. does not want Europe to do well. He pointed out in this regard that American companies were not affected by the U.S. sanctions like the European companies were being affected.
Is it really like Pravda’s coverage or would you admit it’s fairer? I do think the words “what remains of Russia’s market economy” are biased and wrong in the story (I caught this later). Their market economy is growing, right? Overall, I think Putin must be/should be happy with that coverage…never seen coverage like it before! To get a glimpse of the point, compare the quotes presented with how much is quoted of the Ayatollah of Iran when he speaks.
Stand Easy, that article is here too (only the last paragraph is added by the source):
https://news-universe.com/2022/06/17/putin-denounces-the-u-s-as-a-fading-world-power/
I know you are trying to be objective but here is what I have noticed from Australia sources.
News will provide a collection of nuanced changes to subject matter. In general:
1) Critical information is omitted.
2) Aggregate of bias is generally slanted 80%-99% one way.
3) Some overt fabrications are included, typically in the form “Unnamed sources familiar with the matter”. Unnamed sources are 100% biased.
4) Significant amounts of completely 100% fair\unbiased news is mixed in to the feed on subjects that are not politically contentious to give the feeling of ‘Fair and Balanced’.
The trouble is, it’s a heavy burden to sit down and watch\read news in a format where you are always having to work out what’s missing, changed, made up. If you want to know why people just don’t care about legacy news anymore it’s that. Further every news feed has a ‘profile’ of their target consumer market. If you watch that feed you are a consumer of that platforms news profile. You can’t find one more ‘true’ or ‘balanced’ as they are selling to a profile.
Here is how I learnt to stop being a news consumer and start to think again:
https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2008/10/the_media_is_the_message.html
I went to the link; I like the title of the article. Is that your blog? Biases have their link with wickedness too.
I like Kant’s point somewhere that man is not evil. That he is a noble animal instead (my words). He is right. I am reading a little of Plato’s “Timaeus” (helps). I will translate the last part of Timaeus literally from the Spanish translation which seems better, but there is no pun intended about women: “Among men, who received their existence, those who were cowards and spent their lives in injustice, were, according to all probability, metamorphosed into women in their second birth.” Why do I quote this (besides being on this section)? We notice the backwardness. However, let’s notice that, in this relative ignorance (no pun), there is already “cowardliness” and “injustice.” Noble man, who evidently knew little of the god’s designs or the creation of man and woman, had it in him to understand what a “coward” is, what “injustice” is, etc. He knew that in detail. In fact, the full range of morality was already created by man or in man before Moses. No prophet taught man what a coward and what injustice are, or the meaning of virtue (China is an example of this too). That’s why, in my opinion, later accounts of moral teachers go into extremes to establish some difference or something new. Man being noble, Kant thought that the best for man rested on a good education. My teacher would enter and say, “Objectivity”, and the whole class would answer, “Objectivity!” …it’s that easy to beat the present system (no kidding). Well, we can all agree that in the right process they would be taught about bias and objectivity properly; only an English teacher taught about it in my school and I’m grateful and use it to this day ;).
“suggest that — after suffering major setbacks early in its war —”
Since when is NYT a source of reliable facts?
Owned by Globo.
I read on Telegram that Putin signed a new decree to allow all people from the territory of Ukraine to apply for Russian passports and not just citizens of the LDPR.
Those passports may come in handy. Ukrainians in the Kherson region (both sides of LOC) were told by Ukrainian authorities to either leave the area, stay away from Russian troops and equipment, or hide in their basements if they can’t leave, because the Ukrainian Army is coming to liberate the South of the country, Crimea included. Propaganda terror? Or?
With new HIMARS and ammo with a 300k range, Crimea and or the bridge will be targets. If a Ukrainian offensive does kick in off, a massive attack on the bridge, ala Snake Bite Island, will likely signal the start of any such offensive. But I’m sure RF MOD is well aware of how high the stakes have been raised.
Cheers M
Passports: In Canada, my son has been waiting four months, I have heard of people cancelling trips, some waiting over six months, and still no passport. Guess they’re tied up processing Ukrainian refugee applications.
“Putin signed a new decree to allow all people from the territory of Ukraine to apply for Russian passports”
this is a good sign of the official decision to pull the plug on the Ukraine.. Putreshev said it as well, “the fate of Ukraine will be determined by the people living on its territory.” Note there is no mention of Ukrainian country or state nor that those people on the land wouldn’t be Russians holding Russian passports.. This confirms intent to fully end the western nazi project. Have ~10 million Galicians packed their bags to join the exodus to Europe? The supreme irony is NATO may have set in motion a Generalplan West, to kettle all nazis in western Europa.
It is also questionable the HIMARS can reach the Kerch bridge at all, even with 300km munitions. After losing the Azov coast and much of the Donbas, their closest access point (for now) appears to be Nikolaev.
Smoothie scoffed at their nonsense, saying, “FYI–the distance between Ukie-controlled Nikolaev (for how long?) and the bridge is 390 kilometers–good luck reaching it.”
For weeks I’m writing that HIMARS is a powerfull weapon and will do much damage on Russian side. It’s already in the name, high mobility. Russian MRLS is inaccurate, when firing the truck wobbles. So many videos where you see them firing 30 rockets on a target and you are lucky to hit the target. HIMARS just need 1 rocket when having the coördinates. In combination with recon drones they can easily take out hardware and move to next target. With rockets 70-80 km range they can stay behind the frontline making it difficut to counterattack. For all we know they might be operated by Americans. But all intel came from the US, without Ukraine wouldn’t be able to find targets. Russia has no equilavent to battle the HIMARS. Russia lacked drone research, you see how important they are. I would’ve invested in small, cheap recon drones. All they need to do if finding targets flying around 24/7 over Ukraine. This method would detect the HIMARS hiding places and take it out with missiles. Engaging with fighter jets might be to risky, we know they drive on roads so if you the firing directs a fighter jet can go chase it, but even with limited air defences it’s dangerous. If Ukraine gets a new batch of drones and can keep away from Russia air defence they could find positions from artillery and take them out with HIMARS, and then Russia is in trouble. And soon they will get 300 km rockets. NATO uses most guided projectiles while Russia higher quantities of unguided projectiles.
1500 UAF scum are KIA daily at the moment. Hi Mars!
If u compare the cuba crisis with the the US operated Himars u will come to conclusion that the USA is now definitely ACTIVE party of war and legitimate target FOR RUSSIAN FORCES!
If Russia is not adequately reacting on this new dangerous development the SMO will become very difficult and costly.
Moreover the Ukro nazi terrorist have stepped their terror attacks in Russian controlled areas.
These terror attacks orchestrated by western partners are good terror attacks.
How anybody in Russia can at all believe these western bastards anything anymore in future?
“Russian MRLS is inaccurate, when firing the truck wobbles.” This statement seems inaccurate as well as wobbly to me.
RF MLRS inaccurate because “the truck wobbles” LOL where do these dills emerge from?
For everyone nervous about HIMARS, please listen carefully to Brian Berletic (He is on all the other video sites as well).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y82CWaWHJc
In summary, about HIMARS:
While a powerful weapon capable of causing serious damage, they are also intended for use in combination with other weaponry and always relying on support and protection.
Alone, as used in Ukraine, they tend to be quite vulnerable and susceptible to destruction quite easily – which is already being done by Russia.
Furthermore, no conventional weapon is in and of itself a game-changer. You need trained troops to use them as a tactical tool within an in-depth strategy.
https://youtu.be/8Y82CWaWHJc?t=486
How goes the war? I think better than at the begining of SMO. But there re interesting comments from Alexander Sladkov. He has lost his temper on telegram. There Sladkov writes: «Ukrainian missiles several times and artillery have already hit our decision centers. With success. The centers are small but important. My question is simple: When f*** this is going to stop?”
Ukrainian math: “We’ve run out of weapons for the 150,000 troops we have left, but we do have enough weapons for our million-man counter-offensive.”
What a bunch of cowards we have that have stolen control of the “executive branch” of our country (U.S.) momentarily ! They don’t even have the guts to face off against Russia ‘man to man’ . I fought Russia in the 60’s during the ‘cold war’ when it was still the U.S.S.R. ! Russia is no longer the country that it was back then. Back then we held the higher moral ground. The roles have reversed since then and now they hold the higher moral ground. Putin’s cool-headedness is putting these radical, hysterical, left-wing (communist) anti-God liberal’s that are trying to destroy our country to shame. And right now Putin and Russia are fighting harder to uphold Christian principles than any other large country in the world. Putin passed a law making homosexual marriage illegal in Russia. He also passed a law making it illegal to counsel and encourage children towards homosexuality. And a couple of years ago he stated his goal to reduce abortion in Russia by 50% by the year 2025 ! This is why the “west” hates him so much. Because they believe they had won eternal victory in the areas of homosexuality and gender confusion, and it messes with their sanity to have the leader of a large country like Russia hold a mirror up to their faces and declare that these ‘sacred cows’ are unthinkable evils !
“Russia is no longer the country that it was back then. Back then we held the higher moral ground”
What a fascinating comment – and one that i so often heard from the WW2 and postww2 generations in the UK…
My ‘awareness’ of ‘morality’ was awakened by the Gulf of Tonkin resolution when i was a teenager. I then read up about all the False Flags that occurred throughout history. The USA has offered the most false-flags of any nation. Even the first shots fired at the time of the US Civil War was started as a False Flag event. Read up about Otto Skorzeny and his False-Flag attack on the Polish border which started off WW2…and the reality that Otto Skorzeny escaped the hangman at Nuremberg precisely because he was able to prove to the Americans that they had done the same special operations. In those days the Americans has the ethics to accept that Otto Skorzeny had only done what the US had already done (like dress their troops in the enemy’s uniform to infilitrate behind the Front)
Being keenly interested in the geopolitics of the Cold War, i never felt the USSR to have the lower moral ground. The Cuban Missile Crisis was always presented as a moral victory for the USA when it was nothing of the kind and i recall that i saw through the charade…and many years later, reading Kruschevs letter to Kennedy, as well as a confession by a US Delegate who had been involved in the stand-off, has confirmed to me that the Russians had played fair throughout …whilst it was the USA that too an ‘immoral’ position.
…just a few examples…
If you’re looking for me to defend the false flags of the past and present American administrations you’ve stopped at the wrong kiosk. Their numbers have only increased and multiplied over the years since our founding. Their attempts to take away our “bill of rights” in the U.S. Constitution is endemic. And we are hit almost monthly with another false flag attempt at the same. You seem to be an intelligent thinking man, so I will ask you this. Why do you think the North American part of this continent was practically uninhabited until a around 500 years ago ? That’s 5,500 +or- years since Adam and Eve were placed on the earth. That makes this country a relative toddler compared to the age of other countries. God’s timing is the clock to be paying attention to, and according to it the time is about 3 minutes to midnight. Jesus said God planted the children of the kingdom of heaven down here and His enemy the Devil planted the children of the wicked one down here (Matthew 13:37-39) . There truly are two groups of diametrically opposed people down here. The children of God and the children of His enemy the Devil. And as an intelligent individual like yourself has probably figured out both types of souls are planted in and amongst each other. They are in the same families, tribes, nations, country’s, races, disciplines, churches, religions, etc. (by the way God is not religious, He is Faithful). Do not hate anyone because of the race they are from. The bible says there will be some in heaven from every nation, kindred, and tongue.
The morality I was referring to was how a country treats it’s own citizenry. One would think that a country would treat it’s own citizens more favorably than the citizens of other countries. Back then basic needs such as food, meat, and especially paper products were in such short supply in Russia that they were actually considered contraband. Stalin,” shot himself in the foot” before WW2, when he became paranoid his officer corp was planning to overthrow him and so he ‘purged’ a large number of them (it’s estimated approximately 10,000) before the war.
When I worked in Naval Intelligence (65-69), the worm was beginning to turn. The crookedness and corruption of our presidential elections and administrations was beginning to let it’s slip show. (as with turning it’s back on the crews of our U.S.S. Liberty, and U.S.S. Pueblo spy ship’s) But it had not yet become a full blown attempt to take dictatorial powers over our citizens.
When you set yourself up as an example of a “shining city on a hill” (per Reagan), claiming to represent Christian values, what God allows Satan to throw at you, he will. It’s taken Satan a few hundred years but in desperation he has finally blown his cover and is trying to submit the United States under dictatorial powers. This most recent pseudo- presidential election is an example of it.
In 2008, Obama came into the presidency wearing “tyrant on his sleeve”. His valid birth certificate was later debunked and some say proven to have been a clumsy forgery. He claimed to be a Christian, but it was proven he was raised a Muslim in Indonesia and taught to read and write Arabic, to recite his prayers properly, to read and recite the Quran and to study the laws of Islam. He said he was against homosexual marriage but signed a law making homosexual marriage legal in the U.S., and one man came forward describing the homosexual experience he had with him.
It is said there is a 150 million man and woman civilian army in the U.S. And I have met some of them and they say they can hit a running deer in mid leap over a fence at 150 yards !
God is allowing these evil ones to be taunted with the thought of submitting the U.S. under a dictatorship, while they recognize the ‘brick wall’ they’re up against in trying it.
Has anyone heard from Gonzalo Lira recently? He hasn’t posted to his twitter feed in quite some time. The concerning thing is the recent Russian artillery and missile activity in the Karkov area where he lives. Here’s what he posted back in April about this issue:
“Once again: If you haven’t heard from me in 12 hours or more, put my name on this list.
GL”
The “list” he was talking about was a list of journalists that have gone “missing” because of the Ukrainian secret police and/or the Zelensky regime.
He has always had some really good insight on what’s really going on over there so hopefully he’s all right!
Here’s a link to his twitter page for anyone that’s interested: https://twitter.com/GonzaloLira1968
I did read somewhere that Twitter have again censored GL and given him forced leave for a week. Maybe explains this.
Regarding the alleged longer-range HIMARS Ukraine is slated to receive, ostensibly to reach targets inside of Russia, isn’t Ukraine being pushed farther and farther away from the Russian border ?
No one ever accused the Rooskies of doing things the easy way. Why is the west Ukie power grid still functioning? In fact, why is the Pollack power grid still up? Why are the Baltic satraps still receiving electric power from the Russian grid? Is this Kabuki theater or actual war? Take out all the major transformer farm substations and let the denizens live in the dark and eat their pets…then eat each other. Does anyone really believe the globo-homo-schlomos would risk a full thermonuclear exchange so the ost euroweanies can watch porn and hollyweird sitcoms and online shop? C’mon Rooskies….get serious. It’s supposed to be a war where the other side does most the suffering and dying and relocating………
i suspect the reason for your cognitive dissonance is that you are focused on a Gung-Ho “Wham Bam Thank you Mam”.”Kill’em all” strategy..whilst the Russians prefer to turn up the pain dial and then watch what the response is…then turn up the pain dial some more…
Doesn’t that sound rather scary? The Nazis are firing more rockets at Donetsk every day. More and more people are dying. The West is interfering without end. In Kaliningrad, Kazakhstan, Moldova is ignited. The West insults the Russian leadership and the Russian people. Russia still delivers goods to the West. So far, no results have been published for the US talks in Saudi Arabia. China and the US Regime had also a long conversation. Shouldn’t be starting to worry? Change tactics? Somehow it’s getting more and more confusing every day.
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Boris Rozhin: The farther we go to the west, the better (Part 1)
Russia has not yet used its potential in the Ukrainian theater of operations Military expert on the nature of hostilities in the former Ukraine, threats and prospects for a protracted conflict on the southwestern borders of Russia, the chances of the parties and the new Iron Curtain.
– How much has the counteroffensive potential of the Armed Forces of Ukraine decreased compared to the plans for July and August, which were announced in April and early May?
– Obviously, this process is a two-way traffic. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to form reserves for offensive operations, and the RF Armed Forces both strike at these reserves and force the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to transfer reserves to strengthen the front and compensate for losses.
Nevertheless, the intentions of the enemy are obvious, and by the end of the summer he will probably try to organize a local offensive operation.
The most likely directions are Krivorozhsko-Nikopolskoye (in order to cut off the bridgehead of the RF Armed Forces on the right bank of the Dnieper and reach Kherson) and Zaporozhye (Vasilyevka-Orekhov-Gulyaipole section) by the forces of several battalion tactical groups, which will be supported by a significant artillery grouping and the remaining aircraft.
– The Armed Forces of Ukraine began to work precisely on military warehouses. There is an opinion that the Russian Army can be covered by shell hunger. Is it so?
– Taking into account the fact that the main calibers are 122-152mm plus missiles for the Grad MLRS, the destruction of several warehouses from the point of view of the total stocks is not very important. It is fundamental that the destruction of front-line warehouses makes it difficult to develop offensive operations, since artillerymen have to simply wait for new ammunition cars to be delivered to them together with the destroyed wagons of ammunition, and at this time the intensity of the work of artillery and MLRS in some areas may decrease.
So far, this has more of a tactical effect, but in the future, the systematic nature of such attacks on ammunition depots and fuel and lubricants may also have operational consequences in some areas.
– Why didn’t they hit Zmeiny right at the moment of landing, without even letting you take a picture with the flag? No opportunities? Or overlooked?
– According to official data, the blow was delivered after the photo shoot. Just like the group that installed the border post stolen in the Kharkiv shopping center was fired upon after the photo session and suffered losses.
From a military point of view, these are few fundamental points, since in the current realities it is fully controllable about. Serpentine can not both sides. The RF Armed Forces can also deliver their flag there for photographs, take it off and leave at the risk of receiving ammunition from the UAV.
– Will it be possible to drive the Armed Forces of Ukraine out of Slavyansk according to the “Lysychansk” scenario, or will a “second Mariupol” and the complete destruction of the city await us?
– The semi-coverage of Slavyansk with the occupation of the adjacent heights, starting from the same Karachun, seems promising.
Ultimately, Slavyansk itself is less suitable for defense than Severodonetsk or Mariupol. As it appears.
The main stake of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be placed on the defense of the Kramatorsk region, and in the event of a threat of encirclement, they may well surrender Slavyansk, as they surrendered most of Rubizhne and Severodonetsk. The city itself, in any case, will certainly suffer greatly during the fighting, so it is better for civilians to leave Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Druzhkovka, Konstantinovka, Artemovsk and Soledar in advance. These n.p. are the unconditional targets of the 2nd stage of the NWO, and they will be released one way or another, regardless of the resistance of the enemy.
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Boris Rozhin: The farther we go west, the better (Part 2)
Russia has not yet used its potential in the Ukrainian theater of operations
– How likely is it that after the final liberation of the DPR and Zaporozhye, the NMD will be suspended for the sake of political games?
– It seems that the war will not be stopped by the United States, and it will continue after the liberation of the occupied territories of the DPR.
The military-political leadership of the Russian Federation, most likely, after the completion of the 2nd stage, will once again probe the possibility of negotiations with even worse conditions for Ukraine and, in the event of a completely expected refusal, will proceed to the 3rd stage of the NWO.
Perhaps the political changes in the United States this autumn may change this vector of events. But so far, there are no visible prerequisites for the end of the war after the completion of operations in the Donbass.
– Kyiv, the West announce strikes on the Crimean bridge. How real are the threats? What will Russia do and will these measures be belated given the enemy’s attempts to seize the initiative?
– In the case of receiving new long-range missiles, such a strike is quite likely from Zaporozhye. Of course, such a strike will be carried out with the knowledge and approval of NATO, with all possible assistance with target designation.
The probability of attempting such a strike in the coming months should be regarded as quite high.
The lack of clear reactions to such an attack, if it occurs, in practical terms, is likely to lead to further strikes deep into the territory of the Russian Federation. Information preparation for the possibility of such a development of events is already being carried out by mainstream Western media.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are reasonably taking measures to strengthen the protection of such facilities.
“Looks like we’re in for a long war. Calculation of the enemy on the depletion of the Russian Federation. And what are our reserves, given the shortage of human resources?
– The Russian Federation does not have a shortage of human resources, as such. The numerical disproportion is formed from the limitations of the SVO format and the decision not to mobilize.
The mobilization potential of the Russian Federation is significantly higher than that of Ukraine. This is the huge reserve of Russia, which has not even been used even close, since at the current stage the stake is made on the contract army, various volunteer formations and PMCs.
In the long run, with the involvement of the Russian mob potential, Ukraine will lose in any case, especially if the pace and volume of grinding the enemy’s manpower is increased.
– Speaking to the leaders of the factions of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin made it clear that Russia has not really started a war yet. What do we have in stock from a military point of view?
– In addition to a huge mobilization resource, the Russian Federation can also use huge stocks of conventional weapons and ammunition for a long time as part of the process of grinding the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Unlike Ukraine, the Russian Federation has every opportunity to produce the necessary weapons domestically, while most of the Ukrainian military industry has already been destroyed. For the most part, Ukraine depends on foreign supplies, which even now cannot compensate for all the losses incurred.
Of course, all this does not negate the use of the latest types of non-nuclear weapons within the framework of the military-industrial complex’s ability to increase their production.
– If the statement about a new redistribution of the world in connection with the hostilities in Ukraine is true, then what configurations in the Eurasian space and at its borders should Russia be ready for? And where will its borders be?
– The new borders of the Russian Federation in Ukraine will pass where our Armed Forces stop. The further they move west, the better.
It is important to understand that the final line of contact by the end of the war will become part of the New Iron Curtain, which will most likely be mothballed for decades. Therefore, without achieving the desired goals by military means, it is not advisable to make peace in an unsuitable configuration of the future state border.
Ultimately, now a lot depends on our army, which solves problems of a historical nature and directly affects what the fate of Russia will be in the 20-30s. XXI century.
– Thanks for the conversation.
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Operation Z: Military commissars of the Russian Spring
💥Powerful explosion in Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson region Presumably, the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck from the Tochka-U OTRK or HIMARS MLRS, presumably at the ammunition depot. t.me/RVvoenkor
💥After the strike of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Novaya Kakhovka, warehouses with saltpeter exploded, there are victims, the market, hospital and houses were damaged, – the military-civilian administration.
The number of victims is being ascertained.
Recall that the explosion of a saltpeter warehouse destroyed an entire block in Beirut in 2020.
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Looks like saltpeter warehouses are legitimate targets now. How many has Ukraine got?
The next new superweapon thats going to magically change the Ukrainian loss into a last minute victory is the HIMARS. Meanwhile, Russia relentlessly goes about its business swatting the latest Western garbage and liberating the people from Nazi oppression. But, still people will fall for the next “gamechanger” despite hearing it all before. Surely we are due another round of the Russians running out of ammo nonsense?
The US, in particular,appears to find it difficult to grasp any type of military operation that does not involve civilians engulfed in firestorms and the total flattening of hundreds of cities Korea style. Which has hardly resulted in victory after victory!
(Great news if true!)
WASHINGTON, July 11 (Reuters) – The United States believes Iran is preparing to provide Russia with up to several hundred drones, including some that are weapons capable, U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters on Monday.
Sullivan also said the United States has information that shows Iran is preparing to train Russian forces to use these drones.
Not true. Russia is proud and wouldn’t submit, even unnecessarily, to that, and someone who disregarded this reality invented that.
How do you know that? Any quotes on that (“Russia is proud….” and so on….)?
Cannot quote it.. it was not in the NYT.
Touche.
ASB Military News
Putin to visit Iran in a week – Peskov
Now the drone story went from plausible to highly likely.
This would be USA’s biggest nightmare to be real. Iran has hacked, captured and reverse engineered USA’s top drones & has shown numerous times that these drones flew freely over US ships and their carriers, filming them — undetected. Iran has profited off of USA’s trillion dollar research into drones and copied it tit for tat with improvements and great success. These drones are sophisticated and without a doubt some of the best in the world. Iran is a drone super power, they absolutely have the numbers the White House is claiming to give away. Whether that’s the truth or not, time will tell. But the story is plausible.
Russia does not sport as many drone classes as Iran and the Orion and other classes are way too valuable for Russia to risk them falling into Ukraine’s & USA’s hands. These Russian attack drones are being used in very safe ways. Aka — they’re not being used where they need to be used. With Iranian drones, Iran or Russia couldn’t care less as that’s literally USA’s reverse engineered tech.
To add a little more, Iran and Russia have technology transfer deals. Russia has given Iran a lot of military tech. So once again, this is plausible.
It is funny, these doomsayers never spoke out when Ukrainians were bombed witless. And they never showed up when two HIMARS were reported killed.
When “The Ukrainian military attacked warehouses with saltpeter located in the village of Novaya Kakhovka in the Kherson region which is under control of the Russian military. The strike resulted in large explosions. Victims were reported.”, boy, they showed up and yelling “The sky is falling, the sky is falling.”
Russia military will figure out how to counter a new US weapon system, it takes time, but for the Russian military, it takes superhumanly short time. And US shall pay for this indiscretion.
Ukrainian propaganda and the uncritical parroting of Ukrainian propaganda by the west MNM, are the two shape shifters we need to watch unflinchingly. They are the true evils dressed as soothsayers.
We don’t at the moment have spectacular news from the Russian forces. So it feels like a pause and then comes the wunderwaffe and then comes the hysteria.
You are very right. We have to call out the propaganda but not dwell on it .. just call it out.
The Ukrainian squirrel will eventually have to give in, it the Third Reic could not , Ukraine certainly can’t. Ukraine seeks the negotiation table now, get rid of this comedy show actor, and get someone grown up. But, you never know with these eastern people, they got rid of Nazism thanks to the Red Army and now Russia is at fault? Ungrateful ignorant pigs. Just crush Ukraine, an abomination anyway and get it over with, Siberia could use 2-3 million new cohabitants, closely watched by the NKVD, no the MGB, sorry the FSB. Whatever!!
Ukrainians must be idiots, or least policymakers were and should be shot, Stalin way, traitors to the people. Especially Ukrainian politicians should have a nasty death, considering what they have done to their Motherland, traitors bought by US $ for personal gain. Read what Ilya Ehrenburg wrote and said of an enemy of the people and on the Gates.
Nasty words. You can only be a traitor once, then always a traitor. You are either with the people or against it. Your choice….
Some videos for today.
Kiev regime troops abandon fortified bunkers as Russia-led forces advance in the Donbass:
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/Murad_1107:b
Findings at oil refinery in Lisichansk, LPR:
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/lpr_report_0907:4
Today’s Kiev regime shelling of Donetsk injured at least three civilians:
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/Donetsk_shelled_1107:9
Russian Gvozdika self-propelled artillery shells enemy positions:
https://rutube.ru/video/9c65ba70fd59d37ee6aa6025f6cd858e/
Russian mortar team opens fire on enemy positions:
https://rutube.ru/video/1cc39ebb868f31f673da807400e95b89/
Combat mission performed by Russian reconnaissance battalion:
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/MILITARY-FINAL:c
Wheat is being harvested in the liberated parts of Zaporozhye oblast:
https://odysee.com/@Ruptly:d8/wheatukraine:4
Re: “So, I guess Ukie 1 million-strong army…”. I assume a mis-print, more like “1 million strang and stranded…”
Overnight from various sources:
The UkroNazis are still shelling non-combatants and civilians, using innocent people as human shields, shooting at hospitals, churches and schools. It is bad news, but let’s wait and see some decision making platforms taken out.
Here on this channel is some video: https://t.me/IntelRepublic/1797
It is time for Russia to destroy one or two US coordinate transmission satellites for the Himars systems as they become legitimate targets for being used to protect the Nazi regime in kyiv and its anti-Russian ethnic purifiers.
What is she waiting for? Is she afraid of American reprisals?
President VV Putin said two things:
A ) The special military operation is an existential question for Russia. He is right ! If the dwarfs of kyiv win, not only will the Russians in Ukraine be deported or physically eliminated, but Russia itself will end up dismembered, its resources and wealth squandered for the benefit of the West and the dollar. Does it want this?
B ) The world without Russia is uninteresting. He is right ! We want the multipolar world with normal interstate relations and not the new world order with the West’s adulterated and variable geometry conceptions of what is good and what is bad. If the West is unable to live without destroying Russia, let the West be destroyed too.
Personally, I prefer to arrive a Russian bomb on my city (I live in France) than fifty more years of NATO and the European Union.
I hope the saker’s comments are read by someone in charge in Russia to convey our thoughts in high places because I am not alone in not wanting US domination anymore. The Russian people don’t want that anymore. Millions of people around the world don’t want that anymore.
‘According to the latest data, 7 people were killed during the Haimars strike on Novaya Kakhovka. So many more are missing. More than 60 were wounded, some are seriously.
It is known that three days before the city was filmed by the American satellite Worldview-2. He also observed the Novoshakhtinsky Oil Refinery in June, after which the object was attacked by Ukrainian drones.’
@voenkorKotenok
Updates:
Russian Ministry of Defence publishes data on the number of foreign mercenaries in Ukraine
https://t.me/EurasianChoice/16775
It was quite an eye-opener because when I got to read the totals, my brain glitched on me, and I added a +1. I kid you not, I could see it, in front of my eyes .. +1 – The Saker Blog.
This is the one, the foreign mercenary that is active here on the sitreps. This one is still trying to death to push points where the context is not available. Nothing that comes from this foreign NYT mercenary, has anything to do with what is happening in the SMO. So, I’ll call him the foreign mercenary from now on. Do not let him pull you off task here. If nobody thinks it is very strange that just after the Saker blog recovers from a wicked cyber attack, there are these attempts to take this conversation off track. So, foreign mercenaries, we have here as well. My news is that this wicked cyber attack made me, and I mean in my heart and my being, more determined to do my part to usher in the world that Putin and Xi Jingping and many others are clearly beginning to envisage.
Thing is, don’t walk down the mercenary’s path because the propaganda is designed to make you walk down this path. There is a good reason that the few involved in keeping up these short sitreps said:
… hammer the UkroNazis with up-to-date and clear information as the Sakerites usually do!
So, how goes the war? I checked Readovka quick this morning and besides their usually short and dare I say it, non-sexy reports, they pointed out something and this is:
After the defeats in Lisichansk and Severodonetsk, the AFU command is trying to freeze the conflict in anticipation of full-scale Western assistance. This is of course why they do not talk peace at all and whatever raggedy army is left, continues to fight with NATO and US weapons.
Here is Readovka and I did not spend time to fix the machine translation.
“foreign NYT mercenary”
Please explain what “foreign” is and what “national” is too, then. 2) The 5th and 6th Russian ‘columnists’ are foreigners to you, or are they “national”? The Russian government should not talk “denazification” so much.
I think no one posted videos of Zelensky as dancer more than the imagined “foreign NYT mercenary” (+1 mercenary because of the mercenaries fighting in Ukraine!); I say Zelensky is no puppet and therefore mainly responsible for a war that should have been avoided. Also, better for Russia to get honest about Stalin and the communist legacy, and to note his pact with Hitler, before “denazifying” from a holier-than-thou stance. Stalin should not have signed that pact with Hitler. Hitler sought this pact because he believed it was necessary for him to avoid a two-front war. So, Stalin gave Hitler what he needed to invade Poland. Now Russia will “denazify the world”? First be honest with this history, then it’s different.
@Amarynth,
There is of course always the option of terminating the hateful Foreign Mercenary. I believe the trial has already been concluded. :-)
Cheers!
Awe Jack .. Foreign Mercenary of course was the cook only, or he drove a truck only.
I gave you the evidence about Putin inviting a military coup (three links, one of them RT). I gave evidence of the MOD/military spokesperson on troops used as a bait/feign near Kiev and a few other big cities at the start of the SMO (quoted Nightvision). It didn’t count at all. I don’t know from you who the “foreigner” and the national are on the Internet (Internet citizens here?). I am the “Russian” and you the “West”, with all predefined, in this thread, so let’s be friends and any differences shall become the figments of the imagination.
Just picked up Dima’s Military Summary – exceedingly interesting as he talks about how Russia hammers the Ukrainian forces on rotation or rest. The idea is to remove anything that can be used as fresh forces. He also talks about a change in de-militarization targets. Also with a possible Ukie attack in the south.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA65eQTCBc8
Dear Amaranth,
I am so happy you are back. In East Africa I was also blocked.
Ps. A ex US intelligence officer said comcast was attacking site and protonVPN would be most effective against hack. Expect more of the same. Please bulk up defences as much as possible. They are going to escalate soon globally.
One thing I would be keen to know more about, though I get information on South front, is given Russia is fighting on two fronts, Syria and Ukraine, and Israel, Turkey, US all escalating in Syria, what is the impact of this.
It appears that they are timing increased Syria assault with increased NATO intervention in Ukraine.
Syria more than Ukrainie is the most likely for all out direct hits on US v Russia bases and personnel. This has to be factored into the geopolitical analysis as there will be an escalation.
When factoring Syria, never forget Iran, major part of any equation in that hood. The only way NATO even dares to enter the Ukraine physically, boots on the ground, will be when the Ukrainians beat the Russians back to Russia’s border, the pansies may have the balls to get involved at that point but I’m sure they remember what happened last time some EU Nazi terrorists with guns arrived in Moscow. Honestly, should that scenario ever raise its ugly head, the tacticals will come out and many EU US cites will have large uninhabitable zones.
Cheers M
Dear Sean the leprechaun,
Indeed I hope they are not that stupid but stupidity is their standard operating mode. Really they are not as rational and forward thinking as people would expect.
I am sure they are pondering where and how to stick a false flag and are exasperated at not getting responses desired from Russia.
I also have one eye on biological warfare. Given the reports from the Ukranian biolabs and that they don’t care for Ukies either, I am sure one idiot or another is seriously considering bioweapons deep in the stench of the bowels of the Pentagon.
Right now the West is internally beginning to implode. It’s faster in the US. Slower in Europe but it is happening.
People urging Russia to strike should consider that the West is about to go into a serious economic and social state all by itself.
Plus the sanction on Russia has infuriated Africa and the rest of zone B as they don’t care how it affects others.
EU shit on a stick bottom of Borrell, stated they have not sanctioned grains to Africa. But they sanction cargo ships, payment methods and they know perfectly well it amounts in reality to de facto blockade on grain to Africa as the shipping companies can’t get insurance from Western insurance companies and are scared of sanctions.
Russia is Kenya’s second largest tea importer and Kenya is the largest black tea producer in the world. This affects trade between us.
For this, the EU and US will never be forgiven.
This is implemented for UK journalists since start of SMO. D notices.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/media/2015/jul/31/d-notice-system-state-media-press-freedom
Dima, of Military Summary, interviewed by the Duran.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU2A_yN-0kc
Cheers M
GL makes a guest appearance on the vid, what caught my ear though, Dima was saying the shelling of some forested areas was so intense, in the morning all the locals could smell was charred human flesh. Also while Russia kills hundreds of unprepared Ukrainians in the Donbas, the majority of Ukraines strongest most professional forces are arrayed in the south near Kherson. Getting ready for the big liberation push…….psssst…..the Russians can see you.
Cheers M
-> 《it is clear that by now the bulk of fighting on the ground is performed by LDNR forces and Russia’s National Guard (Rosgvardiya) and main forces, are being held in reserved and are used very sparingly. 》
Perhaps this above is the most important information in this SitRep.
Since it has not achieved due relevance in the posted comments, I must emphasize it in this regard.
For the DPR and the LPR this is also a protracted war of national emancipation, waged since 2014.
An emancipation war is the indispensable moment in which a People and a Territory is forged.
Even if DPR and LPR come to unite with the RF, it will be a decision of those who have won their sovereignty by struggle.
@ arkx Brasil on July 12, 2022 · at 8:25 am EST/EDT
“…For the DPR and the LPR this is also a protracted war of national emancipation, waged since 2014.
An emancipation war is the indispensable moment in which a People and a Territory is forged.
Even if DPR and LPR come to unite with the RF, it will be a decision of those who have won their sovereignty by struggle.
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Spot on, brother.
And these twins have been forged on blood, iron, and fire.
Their freedom and independence continues to be costly, this is their national treasure.
As Hồ Chí Minh stated,
“There is nothing more important than independence and freedom.”
Lone Wolf
@Lone Wolf (I saw your previous reply):
-> “As Bob Marley sang, “a hungry man is an angry man,” no matter where.”
-> “Winter is coming”
In the middle of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, winter has already arrived in Sri Lanka.
The first falling piece of a whole domino about to collapse.
We will live in increasingly dangerous times.
@ arkx Brasil on July 12, 2022 · at 3:03 pm EST/EDT
”In the middle of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, winter has already arrived in Sri Lanka.
The first falling piece of a whole domino about to collapse.
We will live in increasingly dangerous times.”
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I believe the first piece was drunken clown BoJo.
Sri Lanka requested aid just recently from Russia in the form of fuel.
Too little, too late.
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https://www.dailypioneer.com/2022/world/sri-lankan-president-calls-russian-leader-seeking-fuel.html
Sri Lankan president calls Russian leader seeking fuel
Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said Wednesday that he had a telephone call with Russian leader Vladimir Putin to request credit support to import fuel for the island nation that is facing its worst economic crisis in memory.
“Had a very productive telecon with the Russia President Vladimir Putin. While thanking him for all the support extended by his govt to overcome the challenges of the past, I requested an offer of credit support to import fuel to #lka in defeating the current econ challenges,” Rajapaksa said in a tweet.
Western nations largely have cut off energy imports from Russia in line with sanctions over its war on Ukraine. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said earlier that the government would look for other sources first but it has not been successful…”
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Lone Wolf
Summary for July 11 from Rybar
https://twitter.com/i/status/1546736320483311616
These Rybar videos are posted by someone on YouTube. I really like these videos as they show you what and where.
here is the link rather than going through Twitter above:
https://youtu.be/0OyaSo4raMA
This is the channel.
https://www.youtube.com/user/Itapirkanmaa2/videos
Voenkor Kitten Z
Report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation of July 12 , 2022 Berezan, Odessa region, Iskander strikes destroyed the launchers of the Harpoon anti-ship missile system;
– In the Artemovsk area, 180 militants and 26 units of military equipment of the 30th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed by air-launched missiles;
– The Russian Aerospace Forces hit 17 objects, including four ammunition depots;
– As part of the counter-battery fight, two platoons of the Grad MLRS and two artillery platoons of the Giacint-B howitzers were destroyed;
– Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery hit 214 targets per day;
— Seven Ukrainian UAVs were shot down;
— 12 Uragan MLRS shells were intercepted.
@voenkorKotenok
The 30th Mech brigade has a home base just east of Lvov. Seeing it in a dispatch for the first time in Donbass suggests Kiev is not holding reserves.
@ Exile on July 12, 2022 · at 10:44 am EST/EDT
The 30th Mech brigade has a home base just east of Lvov. Seeing it in a dispatch for the first time in Donbass suggests Kiev is not holding reserves.
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Yes, they are.
Read below.
They are building a “one million men” army for their August counteroffensive. They are not even using the armored cars given to them by the Collective West, preserving them for the “Big One” when they would unleash the “Kraken” and all Russians will run back to Russia scared to death.
Really.
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https://voenhronika.ru/publ/vojna_na_ukraine/zhest_s_ukrainy_poslednie_novosti_i_video_sejchas_12_ijulja_zaregistrirovany_samye_bolshie_poteri_vsu_za_sutki_16_video/60-1-0-12578
”…In addition, the use of civilian vehicles by the Armed Forces of Ukraine is striking. Foreign armored vehicles have long been supplied to Ukraine, but at the front it is extremely rare. All this suggests that the Ukrainians are trying to preserve the cadre army. They want to wear down Russian troops on the defensive and then counterattack by August with trained units armed with Western armored vehicles…”
Lone Wolf
@ Russian Bear on July 12, 2022 · at 9:39 am EST/EDT
Hello, Russian Bear.
I posted a few questions for you a few threads ago, wonder if you saw them.
There was a report of a trainload of Uragan MLRS heading for Ukraine that was demolished by the UkroWerhmacht, I wanted to verify if in fact that happened, if you have news related to that event.
If you see this message, please let me know.
Thanks.
Lone Wolf
Hi LW
I never saw your questions, sorry. I am finding a lot of terms confusing:
‘a trainload of Uragan MLRS heading for Ukraine that was demolished by the UkroWerhmacht’
What’s ‘Uragan’? What’s ‘UkroWerhmacht’?
I don’t know if you’re asking if I saw that Ukraine destroyed Russian MLRS or Russia destroyed Ukrainian MLSR.
As you know I check many TE channels to try to get news.
Thanks!
@ Russian Bear on July 12, 2022 · at 1:37 pm EST/EDT
Hi RB,
Uragan = Hurricane MLRS
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BM-27_Uragan
UkroWerhmacht
Ukro = Ukraine
Werhmacht = nazi German army
Ukrainian nazi army
Hope that clarifies the issue.
Sorry.
Below please find the news I asked you about. Avia.pro is pro-Ukraine, I don’t trust it, but I wanted to corroborate the news.
Thanks!
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https://avia.pro/news/perebroshennyy-na-front-divizion-rszo-uragan-okazalsya-unichtozhen-menee-chem-za-chas
The Uragan MLRS division transferred to the front was defeated in less than an hour.
The military published video footage depicting the destruction of the Uragan MLRS division just transferred to the front by rail. Apparently, the arrival of a train with multiple rocket launchers was recorded in advance and as soon as the equipment was removed from the railway platforms and placed in the vicinity of the station, it was hit. Literally within 20 minutes, 4 launchers were destroyed, after which four more launchers were destroyed. This indicates that an entire division of MLRS was destroyed, as well as transport loading vehicles, trucks with ammunition and other equipment.
On the presented video frames you can see the moment of strikes on the locations of the launchers of the MLRS “Uragan”. Judging by the precision with which the strikes were carried out, the latter appear to have been carried out by corrected munitions. Some of the ammunition began to spontaneously detonate, as a result of which collateral damage was caused.
In fact, the Uragan MLRS division was destroyed within just an hour of its transfer to the front line, which is probably due to the lack of air cover.
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Lone Wolf
OK, thanks. All the spots I check out, I can’t recall seeing anything but I could have easily missed it.
@ Russian Bear on July 12, 2022 · at 2:54 pm EST/EDT
OK, thanks. All the spots I check out, I can’t recall seeing anything but I could have easily missed it.
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Thanks anyway.
It would have been big news, if you didn’t see it, probably was another lie from avia.pro.
Lone Wolf
From ASB Military News
ASB Military News
According to Rybar sources, Ukraine has sold 1 HIMARS system to Russia for 800k USD
Rybar is also the one who called out French CAESAR being sold to Russia before it was officially confirmed by anybody.
Hahahah
By Ukraine, they prob mean some commander
Ukraine has officially started “investigating” the Caesar sale 🤣
If I heard correctly on Military summary channel it could be two HIMARS systems. Still not sure if I got it right
Voenkor Kitten Z
Military expert Boris Rozhin with a brief summary of the results of the operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine at 12:50 pm on July 12, 2022, especially for the Voenkor Kotenok Z @voenkorKotenok channel :
1.
Seversk.
After the liberation of Grigorovka, fighting continues in the direction of Serebryanka, the capture of which will allow them to advance to Dronovka and bypass Seversk from the north.
Fighting in the Verkhnekamensky area. The enemy continues to raze the village to the ground with artillery, trying to slow down the advance of the RF Armed Forces towards the eastern outskirts of Seversk.
2.
Soledar.
After the capture of the Disputable Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, battles began for Ivano-Daryevka in order to further advance to the Seversk-Soledar highway.
The enemy is strengthening the defenses on the line of the settlements of Zvanovka-Razdolovka.
In the area of Berestovoye and Belogorovka – positional battles.
To the east of Soledar, the enemy has been driven out of Vladimirovka and is being driven out of Stryapovka.
3.
Artemovsk.
Fighting in the Pokrovsky area.
The enemy suffered heavy losses as a result of strikes against concentrations of manpower in Artemovsk and Chasov Yar.
In turn, missile strikes continue deep into the territory of the DPR and LPR against ammunition depots and fuel and lubricants.
In the area of Svetlodarsk, attempts continue to cut off enemy forces that have settled at the Uglegorsk TPP.
The enemy still holds Kodema and Semigorye.
4.
Avdiivka.
Positional battles near the Avdeevka-Konstantinovka highway and in the Avdeevka industrial zone.
There is no serious progress towards Krasnogorovka and Ocheretino. On the outskirts of New York – also without significant changes.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to shell Donetsk, Gorlovka, Yasinovataya and other settlements.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the army of the DPR, in turn, are increasingly working on the Avdiivka fortified area.
5.
Slavyansk.
Fighting in the area of the Valley, Bogorodichny, Sidorovo. The enemy is gradually pushed back to the city.
According to the statements of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the advanced positions of the RF Armed Forces are 10 km from the outskirts of the city. The advance is hampered by forests that cover Slavyansk from the northwest.
The enemy continues to rotate badly battered units in the area of Slavyansk and Kramatorsk.
6.
Kharkov.
Positional battles in the direction of Zolochev, Uda, Dementievka, Upper Passages and Upper Saltov.
The enemy shells Cossack Lopan and Tsupovka.
The RF Armed Forces are actively working on targets in Kharkov.
7.
Carbon.
Positional battles in the area of Pavlovka and Yegorovka.
In Maryinka and Novomikhailovka – no significant changes.
8.
Zaporozhye.
On the line Kamenskoye-Orekhov-Gulyaipole – no significant changes. Fights continue in a positional manner.
In the area of Kamensky, another exchange of bodies of the dead took place – they changed 40 to 40.
The enemy is trying to accumulate forces in Zaporozhye for active operations in the direction of Vasilyevka and Pologi.
9.
Nikolaev.
In response to the shelling of Energodar and Novaya Kakhovka, the RF Armed Forces delivered massive strikes on Nikolaev, as well as in the Nikopol and Krivoy Rog directions.
The high activity of artillery and MLRS on both sides hinders active offensive operations and at this stage forms a tendency towards positioning.
But political statements from Kyiv indicate that a possible offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krivoy Rog direction may fit not only into purely military parameters.
Attempts to advance to Kherson will be dictated by the declared political goals and the desire to achieve tactical or even operational success before mid-autumn.
10.
Odessa, Izyum, Dzerzhinsk – no significant changes.
@voenkorKotenok
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(I follow this Telegram channel daily and Voenkor Kitten Z is NOT a ‘Concern Troll’!! So when he has concerns we should probably all listen)
Voenkor Kitten Z
We need to start fighting in earnest: my comment to the Federal Press agency The
Ukrainians tried to strike at an object that they considered a legitimate target. They claim that the Kherson region is Ukraine, but in fact they are destroying their own territory. Of course, this territory is liberated by Russia. It is possible that there were military installations there, but civilians were also under attack. The military-civil administration indicates that saltpeter has detonated, this substance is used in agriculture. There was a big explosion, with dozens of dead and injured.
Ukrainian troops hit Novaya Kakhovka with an operational-tactical missile of the American HIMARS complex, supplied by the United States. These complexes can also fire rockets, that is, they can be used directly as MLRS, but they can also fire operational-tactical missiles. This complex is a serious threat. The liberated areas of the Kherson and Zaporizhia regions, the DPR and the LPR, as well as the territory of Russia, fall under the possible fire of HIMARS. The enemy announces strikes against these territories.
There is no need to reinvent the wheel to counter this. This is spelled out in combat regulations and manuals, dictated by the experience of conducting military operations in Russia and the USSR.
It is necessary to multiply the forces and means of air defense both in the conflict zone and in the territories adjacent to it. It is necessary to inflict enemy artillery on the positions of missile forces, to destroy it not only when they are deployed in positions, but also on the march, in storage areas, in reserve positions, where they camouflage and hide.
This is a huge layer of intelligence work: military, technical, electronic. This work must be strengthened, the safety of our people depends on it.
Now many do not understand the essence of what is happening, they rush from one extreme to another. But you need to understand that none of the air defense systems can guarantee one hundred percent protection against such weapons. Something will go astray, but something will fly. It is necessary to equip shelters, inform the population, and carry out various activities so that people act clearly in a conflict, including in border areas.
If this continues, it is necessary to hit the decision-making centers. Our limitations in retaliatory strikes against the enemy are to some extent incomprehensible to me.
The enemy strikes at warehouses. This suggests that the Ukrainians are ready to go on the attack. Their main task now is to deprive the allied forces of Russia and the republics of Donbass of the advantage in artillery, which is now on our side. With the help of American satellite reconnaissance systems, they identify our warehouses, places of accumulation of equipment and strike.
It is necessary to disperse accumulations of equipment and ammunition, carry out camouflage measures, maintain hygiene in radio exchanges, using communication facilities. This must be taken with extreme care. The inability to fulfill the requirements prescribed by blood will result in great sacrifices. Maximum precision and coordination of actions are required. The enemy is gaining strength, this is not to be denied.
The enemy threatens us, expects to carry out offensive operations. So you need to inflict damage on him, which will discourage the Ukrainians from going over to the counteroffensive. Russia has forces and means for this. As Russian President Vladimir Putin said, we have not yet used a significant part of our potential, “we have not started to fight in earnest.” I would like us to start doing this.
@voenkorKotenok
‼️🇺🇦🏴☠️The militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine dealt a massive blow to the military air defense unit protecting Luhansk
‼️💥The enemy attacked Lugansk with HIMARS MLRS, firing 9 missiles
This was stated by the representative of the NM LNR Andrey Marochko. At the moment, all necessary measures are being taken to ensure the safety of residents.
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Andrey Marochko, a spokesman for the LPR says that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had dealt a massive blow to the LPR air defense unit in Lugansk.
As we speculated earlier today, Ukrops are using TOCHKA-U ballistic missiles right after they saturate air defences with MLRS.
These strikes are falsely usually reported as HIMARS strikes, but they’re in fact Soviet Tochka-U strikes.
This tactic is less effective against russian forces, but pretty effective against people’s militia forces who don’t have the AD hardware that Russia does near its places of deployment.
Although they people’s militia is still pretty damn well guarded, the modern variants of Pantsir’s and BUK’s / S300s are exclusively operated by Russian forces (with some exceptions)
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@ arkx Brasil on July 11, 2022 · at 2:11 pm EST/EDT
“…Furthermore, no conventional weapon is in and of itself a game-changer. You need trained troops to use them as a tactical tool within an in-depth strategy.”
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More than a long-term strategy, you need a network to which every aspect of the battlefield is connected and in which all active parts of the battlefield are interconnected.
That’s what Andrei Martyanov calls C4ISR [Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance], which the UkroWerhmacht and their Western puppeteers lack. The modern battlefield is totally integrated, Ukronazis can have any number of HIMARS, but lack a vision of the battlefield from that perspective. They are now like children with new toys, using the HIMARS to spread terror in the civilian population.
After all, they are nazis, aren’t they?
Take a look at A. Martyanov latest video, posted here by the heroic Saker Team. It deals precisely with this subject.
/july-11-headlines-worthy-of-review/
Lone Wolf
@ Russian Bear on July 12, 2022 · at 5:42 pm EST/EDT
We need to start fighting in earnest:
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Thank you for all your reports, special thanks for this particular one.
Battlefield Ukraine Entered a New Phase
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The influx of weapons from the criminal Collective West to the UkroWerhmacht has created a quantitative imbalance in Battlefield Ukraine, and it can be felt and perceived by observers of the war. The targeting of ammunition depots and RF forces, plus the indiscriminate shelling of the civilian population, demands a response from the Allied forces for which is getting late.
The gap between the LDNR and the RF in weapons systems is being acutely exploited by the UkroWerhmacht. The destruction of the LPR air defense system speaks volumes about the urge to close the gap in the systems between LDNR and the RF. In fact, a complete reevaluation of the integration of both armies should take place ASAP, to elevate the LDNR to the level of weaponry of the RF.
Regardless of the lack of a network integration for the UkroWehrmacht, they have access to technology provided by the Collective West. That and the direct assistance from US “advisors” are giving the UkroWerhmacht an edge, the impression they are “winning,” and the delusion that these wonder weapons will turn the tide in the battlefield. Marshall “Coke” Zelensky is now marching south (virtually, from his office in Lviv), at the back of the cannon fodder he will send to die by the millions.
Satellite information is giving a new advantage to the UkroWerhmacht, and as they gain expertise using it, their new wonder toys are going to become more deadly. Isn’t it time for Russia to start thinking on neutralizing some satellites? Didn’t they say will take the war to whoever aided 404 in the war effort? I don’t understand the deliberate slowness in the Russian response. Are they taking a measure of the (new) enemy? Are they organizing a Phase III in which all these aspects are going to be taken care of?
We certainly hope so.
We don’t know Putin for bluffing, his word counts, and his most recent warning, “we haven’t even started yet” should chill the blood of the enemies of Russia. We have no idea what Russia has in store as a response to the UkroWerhmacht “surge,” the HIMARS, however, demand a response ASAP, their elimination a vital priority.
The new tactics of “active mobility” recently designed by the UkroWerhmacht, were easily neutralized by the Allied forces, even though they are causing delays. The “new tactics” consist of getting out of the towns where they traditionally hold the civilian population as human shields, leaving only enough forces as barriers, then embracing the surrounding forests allowing the Allied forces into the town, and once inside catch them in a fire bag.
The reason for the delay has been the Allied forces have been clearing the forests around Seversk and Slavyansk, prior to entering the towns, causing massive casualties to the UkroWerhmacht with their new “active mobility” tactics. In Lisichansk, forest clearing came after taking the town, just recently finished. Ukronazis chose to die before or after the taking of the towns, Allies oblige, no problem.
For the UkroWerhmacht, delay is the name of the game.
UkroWerhmacht will throw cannon fodder (Russians call it “meat”) to the line Seversk/Artemovsk, and to the Slavyansk/Kramatorsk hub to hold the Russian advance as much as possible, making time for the “surge” that will be provided by the Collective West, more weapons, more newly trained troops coming from the UK (three weeks training, and to die, useful idiots), and more money to waste on a wasted land.
What the Allied forces will do in the next two weeks will be decisive for the need to contain the new UkroWerhmacht offensive, and to counter the surge in new weapons. Wonder why the Allied forces, mainly Russia, wait until the weapons are deployed. These weapons, mainly HIMARS, should be targeted on entrance, instead of waiting to play a cat and mouse game with them once deployed.
For now, the Seversk/Slavyansk campaigns are moving west, Seversk might be surrounded, bypassed and left for later in the rush to Slavyansk, as forecasted by yours truly about a week ago. The taking of Grigorovka and Serebryanka allow the Allied forces to move west along the southern bank of the Siverskyi Donets river.
Along the southern side of the line, Artemovsk, the Wagner Orchestra continues their tour from town to town, getting ever closer to the concert in Artemovsk, turned fortress by the UkroWerhmacht, which has spent tons of money fortifying it. Next week at the latest the assault on Artemovsk should start.
We hope Allied forces will respond in kind to the lethal surge in weapons the Collective West is providing the criminal Ukronazi regime.
Lone Wolf
-> “That’s what Andrei Martyanov calls C4ISR [Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance]”
Exactly what I meant, but avoiding using the precise military term.
-> “I don’t understand the deliberate slowness in the Russian response.”
Here’s the point. And the attacks continue:
《The Armed Forces of Ukraine used ammunition for the Himars MLRS with a firing range of 140 km to 300 km to attack Luhansk》
https://t.me/vicktop55/5066
There is speculation on Russian channels about “secret agreements” with the West:
《 There is an active export of Ukrainian grain after the abandonment of Snake. A jam of hundreds of ships was formed near the mouth of the Danube. The first 16 merchant ships have already passed the mouth of Bystroe. More than 90 more vessels are waiting at the roadstead.
A giant step towards a political settlement of the conflict + secret supply to the AFU + easing the pressure on the world economy
As I wrote, the epic with Snake was the preparation of the ground for Istanbul-2:
The withdrawal from under Kiev, Chernigov, and Sumy was also explained by goodwill, de-escalation. And it was not just a statement to cover military necessity. An Istanbul-1 was concluded, among whose clauses: the Russian Federation undertook to attack only in certain areas, not to kill encircled AFU soldiers and the National Guard, withdrawal of troops from Belarus, security guarantees for visits of Western leaders to Kiev and no barriers to Western military aid.
The withdrawal of Azov plus the lifting of the naval blockade was not a military necessity under the guise of a goodwill gesture; it was a political process under the guise of military necessity.》
https://t.me/bulbe_de_trones/1259
These are speculations. Should they be taken into account? Yes, but only as speculations. Only the unfolding of the facts can shed some light on this.
But the terrible underlying question is: This has become an unwinnable war and is bound to escalate to the brink of nuclear Armageddon.
Ok, confirmed by Peskov, as I expected:
This story about Russia buying Iranian drones is totally pushed by the US. They are also pushing … Russia has asked China for weapons.
Putin is not going to Iran to buy drones. Think a moment, do you really think Putin’s role is to buy weapons? There may be principle discussions on technology sharing.
⚡️BREAKING NEWS⚡️
Iranian Foreign Minister says Tehran NOT planning sale of drones to Russia and avoiding any steps that could lead to further escalation in Ukraine.
Statement comes after US says Iran would supply (https://t.me/IntelRepublic/1815?single) Russia with drones.
UPDATE: Putin will not discuss purchase of drones with Iranian leader – Kremlin Spokesman Peskov.
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So a little forward thinking and guesses. Why is Mr.Putin going to Iran?
I would guess it is part of the change in the financial world order
I would guess it is part of the resistance against Israel. I don’t know if people saw this: https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/moscow-ends-all-operation-of-the-jewish-agency-in-russia
I would guess it is Syria.
Those I would guess would be on the discussion list and I would guess that the topics were prepared in advance by Mr.Putin’s diplomats.
As well as Iran joining BRICS and SCO.
It had to be wrong, indeed.
“Why is Mr.Putin going to Iran?”
Financial things, Syria, not Israel. It must be a continuation of the wide-ranging conversation with the Iranian president not long ago in that long table (establishing much closer relations between both countries, similar to how its relations got closer with China).
@ tranquilocomp on July 13, 2022 · at 3:03 pm EST/EDT
“Why is Mr.Putin going to Iran?”
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Because it is there.
Lone Wolf
I want to drop a cautionary note.
There is in my observation a clear hysteria after the hits by the HIMARS.
So, here is my caution .. Do you really think there is any way in hell that the Ukraine can win this SMO? Of course not, so, we take the rough with the smooth and all the many many Telegram channels out there, with a grain of salt.
If you really feel hysteria, here is a remedy – Go read some Kadryov – He will make any of that hysteria go away. We’ve all heard the stories that the Brits are training Ukrainian soldiers (and the Poles and there is a million man army being stood up in double quick time — this of course is nonsence). I am sure the Russian’s are fully aware of this supposed threat.
So, check this out .. There is training going on in other places as well – for competent combat. From Kadryov:
https://t.me/RKadyrov_95/2540
Whose training would you trust? The Brits, the Poles, NatoNazis unleashing hell on civilians, or Kadryov?
Here they are trying to train a women’s unit: https://t.me/EurasianChoice/16858
The Russians have not shown much of their strength as we know. We cannot cry that they should show more. But you know, a HIMARS enters the field, it is not only that it gets sold to the Russians, it is also that the Russians roll out counter weapons. https://t.me/asbmil/2879
Don’t cry brothers and sisters! .. Keep Working! This is but a very small part of the taking back of our world and it is not only Russia / Ukraine that is involved here. Here we have a SMO (will it stay a SMO? depending on what happens next week), but there is a very substantial and large war on the economic, social, technical etc .. basically all vectors that involve humans in our compĺete world.
There is wheat harvesting going on deep behind the loc, and as usual, as we saw and as we are still seeing in Syria, if the NatoNazis cannot steal it, they burn it! https://t.me/sputnik/8570
I cannot even begin to tell you how much this disgusts me.
@ amarynth on July 13, 2022 · at 7:35 am EST/EDT
Here they are trying to train a women’s unit: https://t.me/EurasianChoice/16858
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Meet Olga Kachura, call sign-Korsa, commander of the DPR NM rocket artillery unit.
I read the caption to the video, started watching it, and until then I realized that Olga is a female, that his name should have told me that. Before that, I assumed, despite the name, Olga was a male. Patriarchal mindset? Guilty as charged.
Olga is a force to reckon with, and a nightmare for the nato-nazis.
Scroll down to video #17.
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“Olga Kachura, call sign-Korsa. Commander of the DPR NM rocket artillery unit. Since 2014, Korsa has trained hundreds of fighters, and now it has 140 gunners under its command. “The most important thing for us,” smiles Korsa, ” is time and accuracy.” “The faster you learn, the longer your life will be. The faster we work out and hit the enemy, the less likely it is that we ourselves will come under open fire, ” Korsa tells our military commander Arina Sladkova.”
https://voenhronika.ru/publ/vojna_na_ukraine/kramatorskaja_operacija_vse_bolshe_napominaet_lisichanskuju_poslednij_vypusk_jurija_podoljaki_novosti_s_ukrainy_na_ranee_utro_13_ijulja_19_video/60-1-0-12585
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Lone Wolf
Operation Z: Military commissars of the Russian Spring
‼️🇬🇧Report from the front:
☠️The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation liquidated the sabotage and reconnaissance group of the Armed Forces U, transferred from Kiev to the Kharkov region;
☠️The Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed over 350 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and 20 units of equipment from the Kakhovka group at the shipyard in Nikolaev ;
✈️The Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed two command posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Nikolaev region;
✈️Russian fighters shot down three Su-25 and Su-24 aircraft in the air in the DPR, as well as one MiG-29 in the Mykolaiv region;
🚀The Russian Armed Forces destroyed up to 70 military APU and 10 self-propelled howitzers 2S1 “Gvozdika” in Nikolaev with high-precision weapons ;
🏹Russian air defense intercepted 5 Ukrainian Tochka-U ballistic missiles, shot down 18 Uragan MLRS shells and shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft , destroyed 9 UAVs in a day .
More details in the report of the Ministry of Defense:
https://t.me/rusvesnasu/20749
Rybar Video for July 12th (Does anyone have a link for where these are directly posted??)
https://twitter.com/i/status/1547140708674310144
@ Russian Bear on July 13, 2022 · at 11:19 am EST/EDT
RB, I need your help with an issue I need to understand.
There are many towns that are “in dispute,” meaning there they are being fought over between the Ukronazis and the Allies. The automated translation in many of the reports you post, or Russian news outlets is “the Disputable” or “the Disputed” but it doesn’t mention the name of the town.
Look at this example from one of your posted reports,
/sitrep-operation-z-how-goes-the-war/#comment-1121017
“…2.
Soledar.
After the capture of the Disputable Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, battles began for Ivano-Daryevka in order to further advance to the Seversk-Soledar highway…”
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Same with this report from “Military Chronicle,” which I copy here in Russian.
https://voenhronika.ru/publ/vojna_na_ukraine/kruglosutochnaja_mjasorubka_po_vsemu_frontu_poslednie_novosti_s_ukrainy_za_poslednij_chas_13_ijulja_20_video/60-1-0-12586
“…На Донбассе стороны ведут подготовку к дальнейшим боям на подконтрольной Киеву территории ДНР. Юго-восточнее Северска идут столкновения в окрестностях Спорного и Ивано-Дарьевки. ВСУ перебросили на участок несколько взводов 10 огшбр. В Северске ракетным ударом ВС РФ был уничтожен пункт обслуживания техники украинских военнослужащих. На подступах к Соледару союзные силы наступают со стороны Триполья. Им удалось выбить силы тактической группы «Чарли» ВСУ из Новой Каменки и Стряповки…”
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The automated Google translation is,
“…In the Donbass, the parties are preparing for further battles on the territory of the DPR controlled by Kyiv. Southeast of Seversk, clashes are taking place in the vicinity of Disputed and Ivano-Daryevka. The Armed Forces of Ukraine transferred several platoons of the 10th Guards Rifle Brigade to the site. In Seversk, a missile strike by the Russian Armed Forces destroyed a service point for equipment of Ukrainian military personnel. On the outskirts of Soledar, the allied forces are advancing from Trypillya. They managed to knock out the forces of the tactical group “Charlie” of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Novaya Kamenka and Stryapovka.
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See, it reads, “in the vicinity of Disputed and Ivano-Daryevka.” Same with the example from your post, “after the capture of the Disputable,” but what is the name of “the Disputable” or “the Disputed”?
I hope I am as clear as mud. Any questions, just shoot. Appreciate your input, and your timely reports.
Lone Wolf
Hi L.W.
The Russian language is difficult to translate to English because of the weird clauses and adjective positions.
I read the above as ‘the disputed Ivano-daryevka’.
I also see the term ‘Dill’ and have no idea what it’s supposed to mean.
Maybe Amarynth knows.
@ Russian Bear on July 13, 2022 · at 2:57 pm EST/EDT
I thank you very much.
Translation is a difficult issue, but what you suggest makes sense.
Yes, I have seen the term “Dill” and have no idea what it means.
Gratefully,
Lone Wolf
Dill (Ukrop in Russian) is a politically charged name for Ukrainians, common in social networks, blogs and everyday speech. “Ukrops” are people who support the Maidan, the new government, the country’s unconditional orientation to the West and anti-Russian rhetoric[1], participants in the hostilities in eastern Ukraine on the side of the official Ukrainian authorities[2], citizens of Ukraine who defend Ukraine’s rights to independence, self-determination and territorial integrity[3].
The second meaning of the nickname “dill” is used to name the Ukrainian political party “Ukrainian Association of Patriots – UKROP”. In these cases, the assessment is practically not expressed and other spellings are fixed: “UKROP”, “Dill”.
@ Leniki on July 13, 2022 · at 4:26 pm EST/EDT
Thanks a million!
I was sure it had nothing to do with a cooking recipe, but that was as far as my understanding of “Dill” went.
Automated translators are funny, they are not different from humans, they always take a shortcut to the nearest word when in doubt.
Lone Wolf
@ amarynth on July 13, 2022 · at 7:35 am EST/EDT
“…Don’t cry brothers and sisters!…”
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I don’t see anybody crying, not just yet, maybe later, once winter comes? :-)
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“…Here we have a SMO (will it stay a SMO? depending on what happens next week)…”
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Good question.
Maybe the “Gerasimov Doctrine” can helps us answer it.
Or at least show us the difference in the Russian Way of War between a classic military confrontation and an SMO.
Interesting to read some of the caustic comments at the bottom, countered by those who seem to understand the “Gerasimov Doctrine” better.
Who is Valery Gerasimov?
As the Saker explained once, he’s the military brain in the RF Army Forces, a soldier with war experience (Chechnya). Shoigu is a very good manager of a complex military force, but lacks military experience on the field.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Герасимов,_Валерий_Васильевич
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The Gerasimov Doctrine
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https://topwar.ru/198798-doktrina-gerasimova-ili-pochemu-rossija-ne-otvechaet-na-obstrely-gorodov.html
“The Gerasimov doctrine”, or why Russia does not respond to the shelling of cities
Rules of special operation “Z”
In 2013, the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Valery Gerasimov, published the text “The Value of Science in Foresight”, in which he outlined the contours of future military conflicts. Then the world lives under the impression of “color revolutions”, and in less than a year another Maidan will take place, which will turn everything upside down. The theses voiced by the Chief of the General Staff turned out to be so resonant that abroad the article was immediately dubbed the “Gerasimov Doctrine”. Later, one of the analysts – Mark Galeotti – even apologized for creating a new term. Probably due to the fact that in the material the head of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces talks mainly about the defensive strategy. For example, about the organization of territorial defense there are such words:
“Of particular relevance in modern conflicts is the protection of the population, facilities and communications from the actions of the enemy’s special operations forces in the face of an increasing scale of their use. The solution of this problem is envisaged by the organization and conduct of territorial defense.”
Since then, the term “Gerasimov Doctrine” has been firmly entrenched, and the author himself has been appointed the main ideologist of Russia’s military strategy. However, it would be surprising if the Chief of the General Staff distanced himself from the creation of such a serious document. “The Value of Science in Foresight” is actually a handbook of the SVO leadership in Ukraine, which answers the main questions: why has the army not yet “begun to act seriously” and why is there no retaliation for the barbaric strikes on the cities of Russia and Donbass?
The Chief of the General Staff’s vision of the armed conflict from 2013 surprisingly coincides with the initial stage of the special operation in Ukraine. Among the main differences between the war of a new type, Gerasimov singled out: the beginning of hostilities by a group of peacetime troops, the highly maneuverable nature of the offensive, the defeat of critical enemy facilities in a short time, the massive use of high-precision weapons and special operations forces, as well as strikes on the enemy throughout the depth of its territory. An external observer 100% identifies the Russian special operation on denazification and demilitarization by these signs. By the way, in Gerasimov’s concept, the armed forces are presented as nothing more than a peacekeeping contingent:
“In addition, the complex and multifaceted tasks of peacekeeping, which may have to be solved by regular troops, imply the creation of a fundamentally different system of their training. After all, the task of peacekeeping forces is to separate the conflicting parties, protect, save civilians, help reduce the potential for hostility and establish a peaceful life. “
But that’s not all. A new type of armed conflict must be accompanied by massive political, economic and diplomatic work. Which we also observed until the withdrawal of our troops from the north of Ukraine, which was presented as a “gesture of goodwill.” The developers of the doctrine paid special attention to working with the population in enemy territory, especially with the leadership. Unfortunately, in the case of Ukraine, we have to admit that this card was played only in Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. In all other regions, the Allied forces faced fairly organized resistance. We can say that here the nationalists of Ukraine began everything seriously.
It is worth noting that in the description of Gerasimov’s new conflict, there is not a word about the territory that to one degree or another passes under the control of the Russian army. Everyone remembers how the informed public resented the absence of a civil-military administration on the liberated lands? So, this fact fit into the concept of an armed conflict of a new type, designated by Valery Gerasimov. If the land becomes Russian, it is only through a popular referendum. It should be noted that the doctrine of a new war was successfully tested in 2014 on the example of the bloodless return of the Crimea and, much later, the military-diplomatic settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. Recall that the conflict of the new generation is a strictly coordinated work of the armed forces, diplomacy, politicians and financiers. It is important that even the army in this story is not always given the first role. That’s right – in the early stages of the operation, the fate of Ukraine could not be decided on the battlefield.
Hybrid of the second stage
The fact that the doctrine failed became clear after the withdrawal of the Russian army from the northern regions of Ukraine. The point of no return was the staging in Bucha, when the army was falsely accused of war crimes. Obviously, during this period, the military machine of the Russian army began to turn on the rails of the traditional armed conflict. It would seem that the games with wars of the new “hybrid” type are over, it is time for the army to take the reins of power. It is no longer up to a diplomatic settlement, and political arguments from the Kremlin are already heard in a new, much tougher rhetoric.
Valery Gerasimov identifies the following distinctive features of the classic military confrontation: the strategic deployment of troops, the frontal clash of large groups, the defeat of the enemy’s manpower and firepower, the consistent seizure of borders and areas in order to control the territory, as well as the defeat of the enemy and the destruction of its economic potential. Special operation “Z” in the second stage retained one distinctive feature of the conflict of a new generation – strikes with high-precision weapons deep into the territory. If we follow this logic, Russia has not yet fully realized itself in the framework of a special operation in the classical sense, and the actions of the allied forces now seem to be in limbo.
On the one hand, we are no longer talking about a hybrid conflict (diplomats are silent – guns speak), on the other hand, it is too early to talk about a full-scale military operation. No, of course, at the operational-tactical level, everything is in order – no one feels sorry for the nationalists, as in the first stage. All calibers are used, ranging from 5.45 mm to Iskanders. Civil-military administrations have been formed and are functioning in the liberated territories.
But at the strategic level, it seems that the General Staff is still operating according to the paradigms of the “Gerasimov Doctrine”. And here there can be two explanations why Russia does not take revenge for the shelling of civilians in the Donbass and Russia. First, strikes on decision-making centers are seen as the last trump card of the Russian military and political leadership. Of course, the last trump card in the framework of conventional warfare. If so, then the time for strikes has not yet come. The second explanation is that the country’s leadership still hopes to return to discussing a new peace settlement. Naturally, under new conditions, in which, in addition to demilitarization and denazification, the liberated territories already appear as part of Russia.
Missile strikes on Bankova (Zelensky’s office) and Vozdukhoflotskaya (the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine) can really decapitate the Kiev regime. What can this lead to? Here, the situation is completely unpredictable-from a full-fledged civil war in Ukraine to the introduction of a” peacekeeping ” NATO contingent. We can say for sure that Zelensky and his henchmen now need Russia alive. First of all, they listen well to Western puppeteers, for whom hard times are coming. Winter, high energy prices and a food crisis are ahead. Sooner or later, this will force the sponsors of the Kiev regime to push, and Zelensky will sign a peace agreement. And if he doesn’t sign it? Vladimir Putin expressed this very transparently when he said that
“Russia has not yet started anything seriously in Ukraine.”
By the way, presidential press Secretary Dmitry Peskov explained for the particularly unintelligent:
“The Head of State just appealed to the statements that are being made from Western countries and from Kiev that, they say, Kiev will move on the battlefield until victory. Here, Putin simply reminded us that (a) the potentials are completely incommensurable; (b) Russia’s potential is so great in this regard that only a small part of it is currently being used in a special military operation.”
Author: Evgeny Fedorov
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Lone Wolf
I see no reason whatsoever why RF would not turn NS1 back on. Unless the Wunderwaffen are doing more damage than we are told. The strike on the salpeter store was of course straight up evil and probably the direct work of US personnel using HIMARS.
But countermeasures against this system are reportedly on their way, air defence.
The Line Seversk/Soledar/Artemovsk is Breaking
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It looks like Seversk was easier than expected, it was supposed to be bypassed, however, the UkroWerhmacht couldn’t resist the intensity of Allied fire, and the Allies are now at the city limits.
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https://voenhronika.ru/publ/vojna_na_ukraine/rossijskaja_armija_zashla_v_seversk_novosti_s_ukrainy_jurij_podoljaka_poslednij_vypusk_na_utro_14_ijulja_12_video/60-1-0-12590
The Russian Army has entered Seversk! News from Ukraine and battle map: Yuriy Podolyaka-latest issue for the morning of July 14 (12 videos)
Allied forces entered the city limits of Seversk-LPR Interior Ministry. That Seversk and Soledar are unprofitable defense lines for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Both cities are located on the eastern bank of the shallow Bakhmutka River (8-10 meters wide). Fleeing even through such a river can turn into a disaster, so the wave can be an option like Lisichansk-to leave everything and run to Kramatorsk-Slavyansk.
According to Strelkov’s forecasts, Slavyansk and especially Kramatorsk are being prepared by the Ukrainian Armed Forces as a second Mariupol.
Today, Seversk, Bakhmut and Soledar were hit by a barrage of artillery and air strikes…
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Artemovsk might fall sooner than expected too.
https://voenhronika.ru/publ/vojna_na_ukraine/kruglosutochnaja_mjasorubka_po_vsemu_frontu_poslednie_novosti_s_ukrainy_za_poslednij_chas_13_ijulja_20_video/60-1-0-12586
Round-the-clock MEAT GRINDER on the whole front! Latest news from Ukraine in the last HOUR-July 13 (20 videos)
Heavy strikes on Bakhmut and Kramatorsk, especially on Bakhmut – there was hell, continued in the morning. At night, there were powerful explosions in Nikopol and Marganets in the Dnipropetrovsk region, controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine – an ammunition depot was hit.
American MLRS systems hit our ammunition depots near Luhansk during the night.
It is expected that the main battles will unfold precisely for Bakhmut and Kramatorsk…
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Lone Wolf
From Military Chronicle:
The Russian Army has entered SEVERSK! News from Ukraine and a map of battles: Yuriy Podolyaka – the last release on the morning of July 14
The allied forces entered the city limits of Seversk – the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the LPR. Both Seversk and Soledar are unfavorable lines of defense for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Both cities are located on the eastern bank of the shallow river Bakhmutka (8-10 meters wide). Escape even through such a river can turn into a catastrophe, so a wave is possible like Lisichansk – to drop everything and scamper to Kramatorsk-Slavyansk.
According to Strelkov’s forecasts, Slavyansk and especially Kramatorsk are being prepared by the Armed Forces of Ukraine as the second Mariupol.
Today there were many artillery and air strikes on Seversk, Bakhmut and Soledar.
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Military expert Boris Rozhin with a brief summary of the results of the operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine as of 23.10 July 13, 2022 especially for the Voenkor Kotenok Z @voenkorKotenok channel :
1.
Seversk.
Fighting today shifted to the outskirts of the city after the RF Armed Forces ousted the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Verkhnekamenskoye.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the LPR declares that the fighting is already going on in the city limits of Seversk.
Fighting in the area of Ivano-Daryevka.
The positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the heights near Seversk are subjected to heavy artillery and missile attacks.
2.
Soledar.
The enemy was forced out of Upper Kamenka.
Fighting in Stryapovka and in the Yakovlevka area.
The LPR announces the withdrawal of our troops to the outskirts of Soledar. The enemy claims to be holding the line for the time being.
In Belogorovka and Berestovoe – no significant changes.
3.
Artemovsk.
The battles for Pokrovskoye, as well as the battles for the Veselaya Dolina, began on the outskirts of the city.
Fights for the Uglegorsk TPP. Information about the retreat of the enemy from Svetlodarsk is not yet true – while the Armed Forces of Ukraine hold Kodema and Semigorye, they still have the opportunity to supply troops defending at the Novolugansk and Uglegorsk thermal power plants, which fetters the activity of the RF Armed Forces southeast of Artemovsk.
In Clock Yar, they continue to clear the rubble with the dead soldiers of the Volkssturm. Officially – 47, unofficially – more than 100.
Artemovsk is being attacked on a regular basis.
four.
Slavyansk.
Fighting in the area of the Valley, Sidorov, Prishib, Mazanovka.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine recognize some advance of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation to Slavyansk.
Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Druzhkovka, Konstantinovka have been subjected to intense missile strikes in recent days. Several concentrations of enemy troops were hit.
5.
Kharkov.
Fighting in the area of Udy, Dementievka, Upper Passages, Upper Saltov. Attacks on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the northern outskirts of Kharkov and in the Chuguev area also continue. Attacks are also being made in the Zolochev area. In general, so far the tendencies towards positionalism are dominating here.
6.
Avdiivka.
On the front line without significant changes.
With a sedentary front, both sides rely on artillery. The enemy continues shelling Donetsk, Gorlovka, Yasinovataya and other settlements.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have been intensifying attacks on Avdiivka in recent days.
7.
Zaporozhye.
On the line Kamenskoye-Orekhov-Gulyaipole without changes.
To the east of Gulyaipole, the enemy attempted reconnaissance in force in the direction of Olgovsky, suffered losses in manpower and equipment, and retreated. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to find the capabilities of the RF Armed Forces in the Zaporozhye region for a potential offensive with operational-tactical goals. It is obvious that such attempts will continue, as well as, in fact, missile attacks on the liberated territories of the Zaporozhye region.
8.
Nikolaev.
The enemy suffered heavy losses in people and equipment as a result of massive missile attacks on the city. Attempts to be active in the Krivoy Rog direction were not successful due to the suppressive fire of the RF Armed Forces.
The UAF also continued strikes on the outskirts of Kherson and on Nova Kakhovka, continuing to target ammunition depots and command posts.
9.
Ugledar, Marinka, Velikaya Novoseloveka, Dzerzhinsk, Odessa, Izyum – no significant changes.
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In Kyiv, they were so emboldened by the use of “Haymars” (MLRS + OTRK) that they are ready to strike at objects in the Crimea, including the raid and bays of Sevastopol, as well as the Crimean bridge. In fact, several talking heads in Kyiv have already warned about these strikes.
The matter remained for the small – permission to strike in the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States. According to my information, the Americans have not yet given such permission, because Moscow warned that then the center of Kyiv with its infrastructure would face a sad fate.
By the way, fears due to a sharp reaction in the form of strikes by the RF Armed Forces are stopping Poland from officially announcing the deployment of its troops to Ukraine. Poland has been doing this for a long time, but latently, masking and diversifying the entry of units, observing military secrecy. Polish military units under the guise of PMCs, Ukrainian military have long been involved in hostilities in the Donbass, Kharkiv, Zaporozhye, Kherson, Nikolaev and other regions of Ukraine.
As for the Kyiv leaders inspired by the use of “Haimars” in residential areas of Donbass, warehouses and locations of the RF Armed Forces and NM LDNR, they are ready to strike directly at the sub-territory of Russia, and not only Crimea. Let’s just say they’re making plans. There is a probing of the forces and means of air defense of the Russian Federation in the Rostov region (July 13 over Taganrog), in Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk, Voronezh, Oryol and other regions.
Insolent ukry will try to get “Haymarsami” (range + 300 km) almost to the Moscow region.
At the same time, attempts by Kyiv to strengthen the air defense system are noted, by acquiring IRIS-T air defense systems from Germany. So far, Kyiv has managed to buy one system, but appetite comes with eating. And although our experts evaluate IRIS-T as a cross between Thor and Buk, we need to neutralize the actions of the enemy, who is trying to close the sky over Ukraine. By the way, we do not fly over the regions in the central and western parts of Ukraine, we work only with CD.
This is about the issue of bridges and tunnels, or rather, their safety. I would not like to have the enemy’s air defense systems deployed somewhere in Dnepropetrovsk, so that they prevent us from flying over the Donbass and on the Melitopol-Berdyansk line.
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Rybar Update for July 13th
https://twitter.com/i/status/1547479709683830785
If there’s a war between two countries, say A and B, each with its own allies, would you not read any war news from A and from its allies? The HIMARS are being used against Russia now, an intensifying or/and widening of the war; the dangers – the specter – of WWIII are present. The Serbian president said today:
“We should understand that amid the world war, all the talks that it is a regional or a local war must be dropped. The entire Western world is fighting against Russia via Ukrainians. It is global conflict,” -TASS
RT and TASS are not yet reporting on the damage caused by the HIMARS missiles. Nothing. Who does in war about its own side? The Western media is reporting this. You can call it “all lies” and only get news from one side only, but will you be more informed than those of us who get it from both sides? How could you? Typically, countries report their wins and not so much their losses (individuals too). If I follow the news I have, Russian soldiers have been killed by HIMARS missiles. I don’t want to cite the numbers mentioned or estimated (most likely exaggerated) by Ukraine. Also, the media influences leaders themselves, so the coverage sort of places “responsibility” front and center. Sometimes, the exactitude of the numbers may not really change the issue of responsibility, which is shaped too by the reactions to the news (the declarations made), and you miss all this if you can’t read it. By contrast, Russia is not killing Western soldiers, who are too far from the battles. What does this mean? I think it means that if the Serbian president is not right in what he said (quote), he is very close to being right.