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/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 902, Part 1
(Thread #1049)
(URL) https://www.reddit.com/live/18hnzysb1elcs (https://www.reddit.com)
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|u/WorldNewsMods - 1 month
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|[New post can be found here](/r/worldnews/comments/1esltp3/rworldnews_li
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|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|[General Staff of Armed forces of Ukraine claims shooting down Su-34
|fighter-bomber over Kursk region
|overnight](https://liveuamap.com/en/2024/14-august-general-staff-of-
|armed-forces-of-ukraine-claims)
|u/Style75 - 1 month
|
|How many do they have left now?
|u/AccordingBread4389 - 1 month
|
|The bottleneck are not the jets, but the pilots.
|u/JoshuaZ1 - 1 month
|
|Standard estimates are that 160 to 180 were built, with a lot of
|Western sources saying 163. They've lost a few in various non-
|combat accidents, and that accounts for about 10 of them. How many
|have been shot down by Ukraine is unclear. From [the Wikipedia
|article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-34) which has been
|updated a few days ago, it looks like at least 18 confirmed down and
|another 10 or so unconfirmed. But it is possible that some of those
|were able to be returned to service. This does not count damage to
|them from being hit while on the ground, which has happened to at
|least two (with unclear amounts of damage). So a plausible range is
|that they've lost 20-40 of them. The Su-34 is also under ongoing
|production, so pilot deaths may be more helpful here than aircraft
|destruction, and that number is probably a little lower due to
|successful ejections, which may be around 15- 30 as a plausible
|number. Also, since that is keeping pilot numbers into account, the
|pilot deaths from accidents a decade ago matter less for that
|purpose since they've been replaced. 15-20 or so pilots of Su-34s
|since February of 2022 seems like a good rough estimate.
|u/Acceptable-Pin2939 - 1 month
|
|Something else to note that the USAF expects to have a readiness
|rate between 75 and 85%. So you can expect the Russian aircraft
|readiness rate to be considerably lower. Probably closer to 50%.
|Russia for example are struggling to get *water* to their pilots.
|So you can probably with reasonable confidence say that half of
|whatever fleet remains is at any point not available for sorties.
|u/MartovsGhost - 1 month
|
|On the other hand, American doctrine emphasizes safety over
|efficiency. So generally there's a pretty large cushion built in
|for American expectations. What is ready for Americans is
|probably luxury for Russians. So Russia may operate at a similar
|optempo, but just accept more casualties/accidents.
|u/jeremy9931 - 1 month
|
|Too many. Plus it’s one of the jet types they still get somewhat
|regular deliveries of.
|u/grimmalkin - 1 month
|
|* approximately 594,400 (+1,240) military personnel; * 8,476 (+21)
|tanks; * 16,402 (+17) armoured combat vehicles; * 16,821 (+57) artillery
|systems; * 1,151 (+5) multiple-launch rocket systems; * 921 (+1) air
|defence systems; * 366 (+0) fixed-wing aircraft; * 328 (+0) helicopters;
|* 13,548 (+57) strategic and tactical UAVs; * 2,426 (+0) cruise
|missiles; * 28 (+0) ships and boats; * 1 (+0) submarines; * 22,710 (+61)
|vehicles and tankers; * 2,813 (+7) special vehicles and other equipment.
|u/flukus - 1 month
|
|2/3rds of a months tank production gone in one day.
|u/jszj0 - 1 month
|
|Yep good to see the tank numbers tick up again
|u/MaraudersWereFramed - 1 month
|
|I'm guessing those non-conscript reinforcements are arriving in
|kursk area
|u/AgentElman - 1 month
|
|A huge day for tanks. I really wonder what the story is there.
|u/PacificProblemChild - 1 month
|
|Wow, if these figures exclude Kursk, this is a big day. Russian
|movements exposing armour (particularly tanks)? Actually even if it
|includes Kursk… Arty still high as well. Ukraine has been busy!
|u/bitch_fitching - 1 month
|
|Most of the confirmed tank losses on warspotting over the past week
|have come from Kursk.
|u/CavemanMork - 1 month
|
|There have also been reports of Russia pushing along other parts
|of the front despite Kursk. I guess they're trying to keep
|Ukraine from capitalizing. So I guess that might be a possible
|cause too.
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|[According to information circulating on social media, two Chinese men
|who joined the Russian army in early June were killed in action on Aug 1
|after they were sent to the front line on July 31 as
|commandos](https://liveuamap.com/en/2024/14-august-according-to-
|information-circulating-on-social)
|u/AssinineJerk - 1 month
|
|AliByeBye
|u/Mistletokes - 1 month
|
|Temu Berets
|u/purpleefilthh - 1 month
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|Wish Force
|u/varro-reatinus - 1 month
|
|KIAliExpress
|u/GrapefruitExpress208 - 1 month
|
|That was quick
|u/JmacPlayer - 1 month
|
|i saw some quote that the average cannon fodder of Russia lives 8-12
|hour on the frontline.
|u/ttbnz - 1 month
|
|That long?
|u/TTGG - 1 month
|
|7-11 hours of drinking then 1 hour of stumbling across an empty
|field.
|u/Canop - 1 month
|
|Efficient and as planned. The Russian army wasted less than a month
|before having them do their part in a meat wave.
|u/cuttino_mowgli - 1 month
|
|Yeah they're sent to the front line as a part of the meat brigades.
|u/LilLebowskiAchiever - 1 month
|
|Didn’t even make it to 10 weeks. SMDH.
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|[Russian channels are tired of the Russian MoD hiding the truth.
|“Sudzha is not controlled by Russian forces and this is confirmed by
|various units that are fighting in the Sudzhansky district. If someone
|says otherwise, then they are simply devaluing the blood of the soldiers
|who are now shedding it
|there.”](https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1823606769077063722)
|u/thisiscotty - 1 month
|
|https://x.com/Tendar/status/1823594882423730213?t=ECrrwZFwhSqErju-
|lNdadw&s=19 "Ukrainian UAVs reached the Kulebaksky District, Nizhny
|Novgorod Region, in Russia. Target was most certainly the Savasleyka air
|base, which is home to MiG-31K. It seems that at least one drone goes
|controlled nose-dive down. Citizens in the region counted 10 drones."
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|[Russian strikes on Ukrainian positions in Kamyshnoe, close to Girki’.
|This is a plausible confirmation that Ukrainian forces have indeed
|advanced along the Borki-Spal’noe-Krupets line and confirms our
|expectations from yesterday, that the fighting would be somewhere near
|Krupets. We will adjust our map accordingly with an update later
|today.](https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1823630712546771241)
|u/Ithikari - 1 month
|
|The last video was the aftermath of Ukraine's strike on Akhmet forces
|in Giri.
|u/green_pachi - 1 month
|
|Footage from an Italian journalist crossing the border and reaching
|Sudzha: https://x.com/Tg1Rai/status/1823789746813857817 The girl
|interviewed at the end says that the Russians told them to wait there
|and left, and that the Ukrainian soldiers are treating them well. The
|soldier at the end observes that the houses are intact as opposed to
|what the Russians do.
|u/M795 - 1 month
|
|> Morning report by Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi on the
|situation across all major directions, particularly in the Toretsk and
|Pokrovsk areas, as well as the operation in the Kursk region. > We are
|not forgetting our eastern front for a second. I have instructed the
|Commander-in-Chief to strengthen this direction using the equipment and
|supplies currently provided by our partners. > We are advancing in the
|Kursk region, one to two kilometers in various areas since the beginning
|of the day. We have captured more than 100 Russian servicemen during
|this period. I am grateful to everyone involved; this will accelerate
|the return of our guys and girls home.
|https://x.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1823668437219979491 > Meeting on the
|situation in the Kursk region. We discussed key issues: security,
|humanitarian aid, and, if necessary, the establishment of military
|commandant’s offices. > Ukraine is defending itself and the lives of
|its people in border communities while also taking active steps on
|Russian territory. Our forces strictly adhere to the requirements of
|international conventions and humanitarian law.
|https://x.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1823706153588518944
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|[Even more
|POWs](https://x.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1823643250374094939)
|u/SirKillsalot - 1 month
|
|*Ukraine announced the opening of humanitarian corridors for the
|evacuation of civilians from the Kursk region both towards Ukraine and
|Russia* https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1823819012939375097
|u/piponwa - 1 month
|
|Easy choice if you're Russian. You can literally upgrade your life
|instantly by detecting to the west. Anyways, this is occupation done
|right. Ukraine is not there to destroy anything except the Russian
|military and that's it. They take care of civilians. They feel sorry
|for them.
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|[Russian forces are rapidly digging a network of trenches in Kursk
|Oblast, with only one catch: The trenches are 45km behind the border.
|Russian forces have been developing a trench network that, if fallen
|back to, would cede Ukraine a massive amount of
|territory.](https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1823548238433050845)
|Includes geolocation of digging sites. Ripe for some drone attacks
|u/piponwa - 1 month
|
|I can't remember who said it but this placement of trenches is very
|stupid. The trenches are within walking distance of the only highway
|in the area. So if you have to defend your trenches, it means you
|already can't use that highway.
|u/Forsaken-Action8051 - 1 month
|
|Well yes but you cant dig near the NPP either. They are forced to
|dig there. It doesnt matter tho. They are not pulling enough real
|troops to defend right now. They will lose more land.
|u/androshalforc1 - 1 month
|
|I feel as though it was a knee jerk reaction. The highways there so
|we can get heavy equipment in easily and start digging right now.
|I don’t think they were planning to use the highway as a supply
|line, however i wouldn’t put it past them.
|u/KGB4L - 1 month
|
|I mean i guess it makes sense to dig there. Those roads are what
|Ukraine is after. As you wrote somewhere, if you control those 3
|highways, you pretty much control Kursk and Belgorod.
|u/TheHammerandSizzel - 1 month
|
|Fun part is, they don’t need to fully control it, as long as they
|are in range to shoot it they can deny access to it. That’s why the
|supply lines are usually 3 defensive lines back
|u/KGB4L - 1 month
|
|Yeah that’s what I mean. Someone did and ElI5 yesterday explaining
|what each road means and why it’s important.
|u/SemanticTriangle - 1 month
|
|Is going deeper into Kursk a useful strategic objective? Based on the
|known control map from yesterday, isn't there an opportunity to flank
|Kharkiv border forces and rout them, essentially linking up to
|Ukrainian forces there, on and on along the border, until the Russians
|can produce enough resistance to hold their lines against pressure
|from the sides? That's a lot of shit to wreck that's more valuable
|than some holes in the ground in Russia.
|u/TheHammerandSizzel - 1 month
|
|It’s maneuver war fare. It’s really going to depend on the Russians.
| You can kinda think of it like water, Ukraine is a flood going down
|a slope, it’s going to constantly take the path of least resistance.
|They likely have a list of objectives, and will keep going, cutting
|supply lines, flanking, taking strategic points, damaging Russia
|until and they are getting serious resistance everywhere. At that
|point they probably/hopefully have identified defensive points they
|can fall back to. Right now, there’s a strategic power nuclear
|power plant, and two highways and a railway line they can take while
|additionally potentially causing an evacuation on Kursk.  There
|likely better off pushing there now because that area is where
|Russia is going to harden first. Also if the lines are that deep
|they can prepare their own lines further back, just need to make
|sure that highway is in artillery range
|u/Iwillrize14 - 1 month
|
|Exactly, it's all about guerrilla warfare and making them divert
|resources. Russia is already bad at allocation without them
|having to deal with this. It seems UA was paying a lot of
|attention to Wagners little attempt a while back.
|u/TheOtherManSpider - 1 month
|
|The city of Kursk has a population of 440k. If they can get close
|enough to cause an evacuation, it would be a logistical nightmare
|and a political disaster for Putin. That is quite far from today's
|situation and who knows if that is worth the risk and the resources.
|Actually taking the city is most certainly too difficult, so maybe
|Russia would risk it and not evacuate at all.
|u/BasvanS - 1 month
|
|If they don’t evacuate they run the risk of people fleeing by
|themselves in an uncontrolled manner. That’s an even bigger
|problem, because then they lose control over the narrative.
|u/Nume-noir - 1 month
|
|And if people start fleeing on their own and congest the very
|highway the russian army is using to resupply the front, that's
|another big oopsie.
|u/--ThirdEye-- - 1 month
|
|If Ukraine could gain control of the Kursk NPP with minimal losses
|then it would be useful, however, given that Russia was willing to
|both attack ZNPP while it was active and start a fire at it while it
|was inactive, I don't think it is a valid objective currently.
|Their best current objective is to both reduce troop numbers and
|destroy military targets / caches used for sending missiles into
|Ukraine with the added benefit of scaring the shit out of local
|Russians. Ideally, they could get nice and close to show "we could
|end you, but we're not the assholes in this war so run to Moscow now
|and share the truth" Kind of like inglorious bastards carving
|swastikas into the Nazi foreheads, but a little less Tarantino.
|u/thisiscotty - 1 month
|
|"Kursk Battle Map (August 14) Ukrainian Forces 🇺🇦 have liberated 17
|more settlements in the past 3 days; they control at least 46
|settlements in the Kursk Region, with 28 more being contested or having
|a Ukrainian presence Russia has lost at least 654 and up to 1,027km2 in
|Kursk" https://x.com/ukraine_map/status/1823792499967844664?t=fcZBoFh3
|BVnZcM7RfsMuNw&s=19
|u/Personal_Person - 1 month
|
|Context of "Liberated" is funny here but I still think its fair, as
|taking these towns will help to barter for their own territory, its
|100% deserved
|u/Cortical - 1 month
|
|Americans marching into German towns were often seen as liberators.
|The Russians there may not be occupied by a foreign power, but
|they're still oppressed.
|u/flukus - 1 month
|
|Where are all those people telling us the offensive had stalled?
|u/SirKillsalot - 1 month
|
|[Ukrainian] *T-90M Breakthrough on the Kursk front*
|https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1823862473180766560 No
|context though.
|u/zertz7 - 1 month
|
|As far as I know the only T-90s that Ukraine got are the ones they
|captured from Russia
|u/Windaturd - 1 month
|
|Given that an the huge cope cage, feels like this is a new addition
|to the UAF.
|u/_EnFlaMEd - 1 month
|
|Fuck yeah Triangle squad!
|u/Sensitive_Election83 - 1 month
|
|Brotherhood of steel has arrived
|u/Not_Cleaver - 1 month
|
|That’s some cope cage.
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|(Commander of local Akhmat troops) [Alaudinov called Syrsky a turkey and
|said Zelensky is
|gay.](https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1823643328254005448) 12 year
|old kid vibes, when they are losing at Call of Duty
|u/Pilzmann - 1 month
|
|I love when they say that majority is destroyed etc. And then they
|end up getting assfucked by a stryker,bradley,marder. Cant wait to
|see this guy in a black and white picture.
|u/snarpygsy - 1 month
|
|Everything is fine, going exactly to plan.
|u/Logical_Welder3467 - 1 month
|
|Bro, you guy just got cooked by a turkey?
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|[Ukrainian drones active at Sudzha-Belaya, Sudzha-Oboya
|roads](https://liveuamap.com/en/2024/14-august-ukrainian-drones-active-
|at-sudzhabelaya-sudzhaoboya)
|u/stirly80 - 1 month
|
|Ukrainian forces have taken more territory on the left flank of their
|attack vector into the Russian Kursk region. The Russian flag has been
|torn down from the administrative building of Vnezapnoe. https://x.com/
|Tendar/status/1823770513920962916?t=P9naFICNnsUymkS6lcuIPg&s=19
|u/dj_vicious - 1 month
|
|Off topic but It would be cool to have one of those flags as a
|souvenir. Either a Russian flag torn down by the UA in the invasion or
|a Ukrainian flag that replaced it.
|u/green_pachi - 1 month
|
|More details on the robot dog we saw few days ago: >Ukraine deploys
|over 30 British robot dogs in Donbas combat >The results are
|impressive. Our robot dogs are carrying out reconnaissance missions on
|the front lines, reducing risks for human soldiers. This not only
|increases combat efficiency but also boosts the army’s morale,”
|>According to journalists, there are currently over 30 robot dogs on the
|front lines of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Thanks to thermal camouflage
|produced by the German company Concamo, they are nearly impossible to
|detect. The robots can move across the battlefield at speeds of up to 15
|km/h and conduct reconnaissance missions within a 3.5 km radius for up
|to five hours. https://english.nv.ua/nation/ukraine-deploys-
|over-30-british-robot-dogs-in-donbas-combat-bild-50442967.html
|u/FadingStar617 - 1 month
|
|Just as tanks bevcame the symbol of modern wars in WW2, so are drones
|now in this war. I think the best thing here is the thermal
|stealth. And the speed ( 15 km per hour is no joke).
|u/throwaway177251 - 1 month
|
|The battery life of legged drones is a huge improvement over copters
|too. One of these robot dogs could walk 5km to a location, wait and
|observe an area for *hours* and then walk back to base on a single
|charge.
|u/arkangel371 - 1 month
|
|There is something soooo wild about having autonomous robo dogs
|lurking in a battlefield.
|u/Kumimono - 1 month
|
|Dogs, robot or not, will boost morale. :)
|u/flukus - 1 month
|
|How expensive are they? Would be great to teach them to bury their
|robot bones in minefields.
|u/green_pachi - 1 month
|
|Not that much: >Depending on the modification, the gadgets range in
|price from 4,000 to 8,000 euros.
|u/Mongladoid - 1 month
|
|I read the first ten lines of the article for you, 4,000 - 8,000
|Euro.
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|[New ISW update](https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-
|offensive-campaign-assessment-august-13-2024) [Yesterday's map](https:/
|/www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/UAF%20Kursk%20Incursion%20
|August%2012%2C%202024.png); [today's map](https://www.understandingwar.o
|rg/sites/default/files/UAF%20Kursk%20Incursion%20August%2013%2C%202024.p
|ng) [The size of the main pocket](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachment
|s/1174024705380978758/1273148714118287380/calcmaps_main.png?ex=66bd8fa3&
|is=66bc3e23&hm=afa616dcfab3b116f3686c80dc8ed18e3b2422f0aace25057c6ada511
|ee78c37&) - Nearly 846 km^(2). Add to that the Slobodka-Ivanovka and
|Kucherov pockets (8.4 km^(2) and 1 km^(2) respectively) and the total is
|855 km^(2). Increase of 37 km^(2) from yesterday's 818 km^(2) Smallest
|daily advance thus far... then again, the fact that 37 km^(2) is small
|shows how much Ukraine has spoiled us these past few days, if Russia had
|an advance of that size it'd be in the top 5 of their daily advances
|this year.
|u/AgentElman - 1 month
|
|The AFU is blocked by Korenovo and Giri (west and east) so their
|advance is slowed. If the AFU takes either of those towns the AFU can
|probably rapidly seize territory again as it will open up new open
|spaces to attack and the roads to supply the attack.
|u/SirKillsalot - 1 month
|
|*Kursk update 1/3 - Korenevo/Snagost* *➡️ The AFU has taken the fields
|in between Snagost and the Korenevo highway under control. Leading to
|further advances north and west.* ➡️ *According to Russian sources, AFU
|reached Krasnooktyabr'sko, likely attempting to perform a flank
|operation towards Korenevo.* ➡️ *Heavy fighting is reported in the
|eastern outskirts of Korenevo, with rumors of the civilian
|administration in the city already evacuating coming in.*
|https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1823825710429167715
|u/SirKillsalot - 1 month
|
|*Kursk update 2/3 - Gordeevka* ➡️ *Rumors circulated already for
|several days, but the AFU has passed the Gordeevka crossing and now
|controls Gordeevka, Viktorova and Vznezapnoe, the latter was also
|visually confirmed.* *Controlling this border crossing, strengthens
|the position of AFU troops fighting from Snagost, protecting their
|flanks.*
|u/SirKillsalot - 1 month
|
|*Kursk update 3/3 - Borki/Giri’* ➡️*The AFU has taken Cherkasskaya
|Konopel'ka while also operating deeper towards Ulenok.* ➡️*With
|confidence we can confirm that the AFU has taken most of Borki and
|Spal’noe.* *Taking OPSEC into consideration, the fighting has moved
|further east. But this needs to be clarified.*
|u/jeremy9931 - 1 month
|
|I’d be very surprised if there were any civilian admin left in
|Korenevo considering they were evacuating civilians a few days ago.
|Does seem like it’s probably a matter of time before Ukraine enters
|the town proper though.
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|Today's advances were mainly towards the west/southwest of the pocket.
|If we pair it with the Glushkovo evacuation, I feel like Ukraine might
|start pushing there, probably immediately after Korenevo falls.
|u/SirKillsalot - 1 month
|
|https://x.com/prestonstew_/status/1823818177647661067 *Ukrainian
|tactics in Kursk according to Russian milblogger Two Majors.* *He says
|that Ukraine knows the mixed nature of forces attempting to stop them
|and they're taking advantage of that. Small groups push into areas
|between Russian formations, make their presence known and wait to see
|how Russia responds.* *If Russia sends in a large force, the Ukrainians
|withdraw or shift left or right to avoid a major confrontation and test
|out a new axis of advance. However, if few or no Russian forces
|respond, they move a reserve element forward to further defend this new
|terrain.* *In essence, Ukraine is continuously probing for gaps.
|When they find one, they're exploited and we see forward progress by
|Ukrainian forces. Two Majors says this is a problem as there are
|communications issues between Russian units so it's not always clear who
|is responding to the nearest threat and with what capabilities. This
|has allowed Ukraine to continue advancing even as more Russian forces
|deploy to Kursk.*
|u/AgentElman - 1 month
|
|This works well if your opponent is not mobile. If they are mobile
|you end up creating dozens of salients they can pinch off. I assume
|this is also leading to Russia thinking the AFU is everywhere and also
|thinking they have fended off attacks. In a sense they have as they
|push back recon forces.
|u/Personal_Person - 1 month
|
|In fact Russia is not mobile, their attempt to move towards modern,
|maneuver warfare totally failed with their "battalion tactical
|groups" organizational structure. It was SUPPOSED to lead to more
|control on the lower officer level to exploit mistakes your enemy
|makes and move more fluidly, call for supplies/artillery more
|efficiently but it fell apart really quickly. Why did it fall
|apart? Morale was low, officer training was incredibly poor, in
|practice a lot of the pieces broke down and force units to avoid
|moving around to much and they couldn't accurately call in support.
|They switched mostly back to a more soviet style of fighting, big
|gigantic defensive lines and move up in mixed armored and infantry
|groups supported by artillery. Overall that strategy shift "worked"
|for them, and they can hold onto and slowly take land elsewhere in
|Ukraine, but when being invaded it doesn't seem to work for them,
|and forces them to send way more units to the area than if they had
|more capable, mobile units like they had originally intended.
|Couple that with Russias ABYSMAL, almost non-existent, NCO corp and
|you have a recipe for failure on every level.
|u/JoshuaZ1 - 1 month
|
|> officer training was incredibly poor > Couple that with Russias
|ABYSMAL, almost non-existent, NCO corp and you have a recipe for
|failure on ever level. Connected aspect: maneuver warfare also
|requires pretty high levels of initiative at a wide variety of
|levels, and the Russians really aren't trained or even deeply
|allowed to do it.
|u/RealApostate - 1 month
|
|Russia is past desperate if they are sending 70-year-old disabled men to
|the front. >ASTRA reports that hundreds of 'refuseniks' have been held
|at Kamenka near St Petersburg, where the 138th Separate Motorised Rifle
|Brigade is based. Relatives say that some are unfit to fight, one man is
|70 years old and can barely walk, and another has only one eye.
|u/Njorls_Saga - 1 month
|
|There was a POW from around a year ago who had stage IV lung cancer.
|Fucking wild.
|u/Logical_Welder3467 - 1 month
|
|Your country demand this one last service from you. Put down the
|oxygen tank and move towards that trench
|u/zertz7 - 1 month
|
|They need to pay less pensions if old people die so economically it
|makes sense
|u/jcrestor - 1 month
|
|Wrong perspective. For Putin this is a double win. He does not have to
|mobilize higher caste people, and every 70 year old or one-eyed less
|is a relieve for his social services. Meat is meat.
|u/eggyal - 1 month
|
|Killing off the older generation is definitely one way to solve
|Russia's demographic crunch/lack of younger people.
|u/BossReasonable6449 - 1 month
|
|Yeah, now they can lack both.
|u/unpancho - 1 month
|
|Unrolled thread from the live thread here [https://threadreaderapp.c
|om/thread/1823860031223386532.html](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread
|/1823860031223386532.html) 1/ Hundreds of Russians who have refused
|to fight for various reasons – age, sickness, mental health – are
|reported to have been taken from a military base where they were being
|held and flown to Kursk, where they will likely be used in efforts to
|repel Ukraine's incursion. ⬇️
|u/machopsychologist - 1 month
|
|They use undesirables as bait then use shock troops to flank. This is
|a core design of their tactics.
|u/smurf-vett - 1 month
|
|Minefields not gonna clear it's self....
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|[Additional info about the Kursk region according to Russian sources.
|The AFU has taken control over Cherkasskaya Konopel'ka (in red) east of
|Sudzha. “The enemy is gradually turning Sudzha into their support and
|logistics center. This will really make our situation even more
|complicated,” they
|note.](https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1823612654235091357) That is
|some 6-7 km southeast of Sudzha, and outside the pocket
|u/C0wabungaaa - 1 month
|
|~~Is it just me or does it sound really risky to turn a town rrrrright
|on the frontline that's already nearly surrounded on three sides by
|Ukraine into a regional support and logistics center? Especially
|because it's Ukraine that has momentum and the initiative there, not
|Russia.~~ Edit: I misunderstood I thought the AFU said that the enemy
|was turning Sudzha into their support and logistics center. But it's
|the Russian sources that said that. The AFU is doing that to Sudzha,
|which makes perfect sense.
|u/rhatton1 - 1 month
|
|Big urban Center defended by topography and a good sized river in a
|“major” highway into Ukraine makes it a great forward operating base
|to push on from. Defense lines will likely be built up to around
|10km out from this if it does become the base.
|u/OrangeBird077 - 1 month
|
|The rail lines are why it’s so valuable for logistics and since the
|front line is still expanding it will be more in the rear in time.
|Without a set trench and mine system nearby the Russians won’t be
|able to station artillery close enough to hit it without getting
|destroyed.
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|[Russian forces have repeatedly (reportedly?) again accidentally
|targeted their own supply convoys going into Kursk region of
|Russia.](https://x.com/WarMonitor3/status/1823774311703867842) (someone
|posted a photo of it in the replies) Edit: [More
|evidence](https://x.com/DefMon3/status/1823784370391396541) With
|enemies like these...
|u/ElectroStaticz - 1 month
|
|Simply beautiful.
|u/Jung_69 - 1 month
|
|Repeatedly because couple days ago they did cas mission on their own
|convoy and destroyed sp arty
|u/Cmonlightmyire - 1 month
|
|War is hard when you're stupid. Or to pull out the ever quotable
|Ukrainian soldier "We are very lucky they are so fucking
|stupid"
|u/m48a5_patton - 1 month
|
|I hope that legend is still still alive and doing alright.
|u/SirKillsalot - 1 month
|
|*We lost a convoy quite deep inside Kursk, it's sad and tragic, however
|the location is very significant and may indicate further advances of
|Ukrainian military inside Kursk*
|https://twitter.com/Teoyaomiquu/status/1823784516097597738
|u/AgentElman - 1 month
|
|It is likely that Ukraine has scout vehicles deep in Russia like this.
|u/taurine_bitch - 1 month
|
|In this context, who is _we_? Ukraine lost a convey or russia did? It
|kind of reads like russia did since it mentions Ukrainian military
|later but it's a little unclear.
|u/M795 - 1 month
|
|> Today, I held a meeting with government officials—including the Prime
|Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister, the Minister of Internal Affairs,
|and the Ombudsman of the Verkhovna Rada—regarding support for our
|military actions in the Kursk region. It is crucial that Ukraine fights
|according to the rules, and that humanitarian needs in that area must be
|met. > Today’s report from the head of the Security Service of Ukraine
|was positive. I want to thank all our SBU warriors, as well as the
|warriors of the Defense Forces of Ukraine, the Main Intelligence
|Directorate (HUR), and all the structures involved. I thank for the
|precise, timely, and effective strikes on Russian airfields. > Our
|Ukrainian drones are working exactly as needed. However, there are
|things that drones alone cannot achieve, unfortunately. We need other
|weapons—missile systems. We continue to work with our partners to secure
|long-range solutions for Ukraine because these are forward-looking
|decisions essential for our victory. This must be done. The bolder our
|partners' decisions, the less Putin can do.
|https://x.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1823779258981908493
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|[The AFU captured a command post, reportedly of the 28th Rifle Battalion
|of the 60th Motorized Rifle Brigade, part of the 'Kursk'
|group.](https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1823601851671236961)
|u/jani00 - 1 month
|
|One of the funniest things I've seen recently: The AFU captured a
|command post, reportedly of the 28th Rifle Battalion of the 60th
|Motorized Rifle Brigade, part of the 'Kursk' group. [https://x.com/NOEL
|reports/status/1823601851671236961](https://x.com/NOELreports/status/182
|3601851671236961) Sorry for x link.
|u/lI3g2L8nldwR7TU5O729 - 1 month
|
|I don't know a word Ukranian, but I'm laughing with them! I'll forgive
|you the X link, since I stopped using it myself. Thank you for
|exposing yourself to that toxic environment to share the few gems with
|me.
|u/localghost - 1 month
|
|They're speaking Russian, mocking Prigozhin and likely referencing
|other stuff I don't recognize.
|u/gradinaruvasile - 1 month
|
|The one that picked up the phone said something with "Shoigu,
|Gherasimov", i suppose the famous angry phrase with the ammo.
|u/lI3g2L8nldwR7TU5O729 - 1 month
|
|Thanks!
|u/greentea1985 - 1 month
|
|It feels like they are recreating the [Reply of the Zaporozhian Coss
|acks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_of_the_Zaporozhian_Cossack
|s?wprov=sfti1#). It’s a legendary incident where supposedly the
|Cossacks responded to an ultimatum by telling the Turkish emperor
|who made the ultimatum multiple ways he could go F himself.
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|[Ukrainian media teams are on the ground in
|Suzdha](https://liveuamap.com/en/2024/14-august-ukrainian-media-teams-
|are-on-the-ground-in-suzdha)
|u/greentea1985 - 1 month
|
|It’s noteworthy that they are walking around openly and aren’t even
|wearing body armor. Sudzha is now well behind the front lines even if
|Russia doesn’t want to admit it.
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|[Russians report that the situation for their soldiers at Kinburn Spit
|is particularly
|bad.](https://x.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1823677846268559831)
|Ukrainians are pressing there
|u/b_bozz - 1 month
|
|Dumb question, but can someone explain the significance of the Kinburn
|Spit from a strategic standpoint and why Ukraine keeps attacking it?
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|If Ukraine somehow managed to liberate Kinburn Spit ([together with
|Tendra spit and that general area](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attach
|ments/1174024705380978758/1273247510307278991/image.png?ex=66bdeba6&
|is=66bc9a26&hm=53e2d836f260d8c64a9964db6e033cab8ba3691494ce1c2592aa4
|a693669d317&)), they could effectively unblockade the ports of
|Ochakiv and Mykolaiv, or at least unburden them. As Russian guns are
|right across the strait, using those cities as ports has become very
|risky, and as such Ukraine only uses Odessa and Chornomorsk in the
|southwest.
|u/Bdcollecter - 1 month
|
|It would also serve as a potentially unfortified area to strike
|out from. Theirs so many logistical problems with that though,
|and even just keeping a group on the spit to defend it, that it
|wouldn't be worth it.
|u/Louisvanderwright - 1 month
|
|Look at a map, everything North and West of the spit is controlled
|by Ukraine. Everything South of it is open ocean. Only the inland
|(East) is controlled by Russia which means, if Ukraine can drive
|Russia off the spit, they get a large stretch of estuary to bring
|across equipment and troops without being under Russian fire. Would
|be an excellent stepping off point for an attack on the neck of
|Crimea.
|u/green_pachi - 1 month
|
|From the Kinburn Spit Russia is shelling southern Mykolaiv and
|Kherson. From there they also limit the access to the Dnipro-Buzka
|estuary.
|u/No_Amoeba6994 - 1 month
|
|It's hugely important for Ukraine to recapture the Kinburn and
|Tendra spits. If Russia controls them, they can basically completely
|choke of Mykolaiv from the sea, and it puts them uncomfortably close
|to Odesa in terms of drone and long range rocket attacks. If Ukraine
|can capture the spits and also the first 25 miles or so of the south
|bank of the Dnipro, they can also open up Kherson somewhat.
|u/machopsychologist - 1 month
|
|I think it's about building tension. In order to stretch Russian
|troops you need to have as much tension as possible across the entire
|line. So pulling on the Kinburn Spit is needed to pull even more
|resources from the rest of the line. I guess that they really did
|want to keep Krynky but just had to let it go.
|u/AgentElman - 1 month
|
|I assume it is not a coincidence that Ukraine is attacking on the
|opposite end of the line as Kursk. That's how they did the Kherson
|+ Kharkiv attacks.
|u/thisiscotty - 1 month
|
|https://x.com/EuromaidanPR/status/1823610412547350963?t=IWqikYWQSwiZzxLh
|2B-Mpw&s=19 "They say at least 10 arrivals reported at the Russian
|airfield Slavasleika. UA drones worked well."
|u/Burnsy825 - 1 month
|
|The shock Ukrainian invasion of Kursk has the Kremlin pulling some
|troops out of Ukraine to defend Russia, per reports - Business Insider
|>Russia is withdrawing some of its troops from Ukraine in response to
|Ukraine's counter-invasion into Russia that started last week, the Wall
|Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing unnamed US officials.
|>Politico Europe also reported on Tuesday that an official in Kyiv said
|a "relatively small" number of Russian units were withdrawn to respond
|to the incursion in Kursk. US officials told the Journal it was still
|unclear how many troops Russia was pulling back from Ukraine.
|https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-withdraws-some-troops-from-
|ukraine-after-counter-invasion-wsj-2024-8
|u/Canop - 1 month
|
|The real news is probably that they don't feel the need to pull out
|more of them, especially not the troops engaged on the Donetsk front.
|u/eat_dick_reddit - 1 month
|
|They can't afford to pull them. Doesn't mean pulling them from
|somewhere else won't create an opportunity for UA. It's too early
|to tell. If UA breaks through in Kursk, they might have to pull
|more. We'll see.
|u/C0wabungaaa - 1 month
|
|I think the biggest question is whether Ukraine has enough troops
|to fuel a push towards the biggest prizes in southern Kursk
|without compromising other fronts. It seems to be the most
|recurring topic in expert interviews, at least in the one's that
|I've read. The word "gamble" is thrown around a lot.
|u/KGB4L - 1 month
|
|I think it also comes down to logistics and how easy it is to
|transfer troops from each area. It’s borderline impossible to safely
|move thousands from Donetsk, but you can get a few from Kharkiv or
|anywhere South.
|u/Logical_Welder3467 - 1 month
|
|Pulling from the front would led to collapse, they would be moving
|reserves. Which give Ukrainian opportunity to exploit weak points.
|The troops on Donetsk front, either on the line or in reserve must
|be tired from the months of offensive. They need to rotate out to
|rest and reconstitute. Racing them to another front to fight hastily
|organized counter offensive would not be ideal for effectiveness
|u/StickAFork - 1 month
|
|Exactly. Ukraine does not need Russia to pull troops from
|Donetsk, just the Russian reinforcements. This also slows the
|Russian offensive there.
|u/stirly80 - 1 month
|
|This is the most recent furthest extent of the Avdiivka advance compared
|to the advance in Kursk.
|https://x.com/AndrewPerpetua/status/1823708864979853536?t=Rin-
|loyWFoyXAUvnv9CAlQ&s=19
|u/SirKillsalot - 1 month
|
|*According to this AFU soldier, another 30 Russians surrendered.*
|https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1823815789046329436
|u/FuckHarambe2016 - 1 month
|
|I've found the critique that Ukraine is wasting the brigades they've
|been using when they could've been used to reinforce the lines in
|certain places. The brigades that they're using were designed and
|trained by NATO for the exact type of offensive they're carrying out.
|Throwing them into a trench warfare is a waste of their lives and
|training.
|u/ced_rdrr - 1 month
|
|2023: Why they are attacking Robotyne? They should attack in
|unexpected places! 2024: Why they are attacking in unexpected places?
|They should attack Robotyne!
|u/kuldnekuu - 1 month
|
|Ukraine is wasting troops, they should be defending in Donbas, they're
|totally not doing anything in Kursk and Ukraine is just throwing away
|troops, it's not doing anything positive for the war effort, really
|ukraine should go back to the trenches where they can be bombed by
|glide bombs. Russia is not hurt by this invasion at all, but please
|pleaaaase go back? /pro-russian concern trolling
|u/JoshuaZ1 - 1 month
|
|That's likely accurate. Also, using them this way forces Russia to
|react, where just keeping them defensively lets Russia keep the
|initiative.
|u/Canop - 1 month
|
|Some nuance might be necessary. For example it looks like UA kept some
|advanced drone and jammer systems just for the incursion. And some
|soldiers sent towards Kursk left their position in Donetsk only a few
|days before the incursion.
|u/Mutley1357 - 1 month
|
|agreed, Ukraine needed to make the Russians do the adjustments and
|shoring up their lines. Attritional warfare is to Russia's benefit,
|they are the ones making incremental advances the last couple months
|over multiple fronts. Its no longer feasible to expect Ukraine to make
|major advances in Donetsk, and Zaporizhzhia, or even constant
|incremental advances we've seen Russia do. Russia just has too many
|bodies annd material loaded in those areas. At this point making ANY
|sort of gains (including inside of Russia) for Ukraine will be
|beneficial to any sort of negotiated land trades that may happen in
|the future. Because it looking more and more in doubt that Ukraine
|will make major advance in occupied areas anytime soon without major
|changes in support from their allies.
|u/fredrikca - 1 month
|
|Attrition is to the benefit of the defender. Ukraine needs to make
|sure russia continues their attacks, preferably with a lot of
|unprotected travelling in tight groups. Thus Kursk incursion.
|u/Infinaris - 1 month
|
|The Simple Truth is that the Russians are too concentrated in the east
|to smash through so thr best idea is to not bother attacking there but
|in the North where they're much weaker and Flank and Spank then from
|there. In addition theres no massive minefields or reinforced defences
|to deal with so maneuver warfare is most certainly viable.
|u/AgentElman - 1 month
|
|Korenevo - the terrain and roads. Looking at google maps (screenshot
|at bottom), Korenevo is a very distinct battleground. The AFU is coming
|from Sudzha to the SE. They are following a major road. It is mostly
|open fields to the north, east, and south of Korenevo. But west of
|Korenevo is the Reka Seym river and that whole area seems to be river,
|marsh, etc. With some fields. It seems unlikely the AFU will surround
|Korenevo to the west - but that terrain would make supplying Korenevo
|from the west very hard. If the AFU links up to the Reka Seym they may
|be able to fight their way west along it and cut off the Russians along
|the border with Ukraine (which is to to the SW and west). Rylsk to the
|NW seems very protected by forest. It looks like it will be far easier
|for the AFU to turn north and seize the E-38 and try to cut off Rylsk.
|I have heard of Russia entrenching along the E-38 but I am not sure if
|that is a place they are doing it. It would make sense - they need to
|hold it. But the trench lines in front of it would not stop the AFU
|from hitting any vehicles on the E-38 with artillery. So my prediction
|for the AFU is - split north and south at Korenevo. Loop around the
|open ground to the north to cut off Korenevo from its one supply road to
|the NW. Head north across the open fields to close off the E-38 to
|Rylsk. Head SW along the Reka Seym to pocket the Russians along the
|Ukraine border to the SW. https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%
|2Fi.redd.it%2Fe6n1hbevunid1.jpeg
|u/thisiscotty - 1 month
|
|https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1823647895305822328?t=0DYn2f2Ew-62lS-
|YaCJOaA&s=19 "Ukrainian report from Sudzha, where many residents were
|left to deal with hunger and Russian air strikes until Ukrainian aid
|arrived together with journalists."
|u/purpleefilthh - 1 month
|
|Wonder who would win a legit referendum.
|u/Menithal - 1 month
|
|It will be ironic that once UA leaves the area, Russia is just gonna
|leave the residents as is most likely. They will overall get more
|aid from UA during this period than after they are "freed" from UA.
|u/C0wabungaaa - 1 month
|
|And also important; it shows another destroyed Russian column. It
|seems that Ukraine has those dialed in pretty well.
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|[Mandatory evacuation has been announced in the whole Glushkovo district
|of Kursk region](https://liveuamap.com/en/2024/14-august-mandatory-
|evacuation-has-been-announced-in-the) That was fast. Just an hour ago
|it was just Glushkovo town, now the entire district
|u/throwaway177251 - 1 month
|
|> Glushkovo district of Kursk region Population (2010 Census): [5,349
|](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glushkovo,_Glushkovsky_District,_Kursk
|_Oblast)
|u/FadingStar617 - 1 month
|
|Okay, Russia assume it lost Koronevo and is worried about Rylsk, I was
|wondering wheter or not they,d evacuate it
|u/jeremy9931 - 1 month
|
|The entire Rylsk district started voluntary evacuations 5 days ago
|https://x.com/intelcrab/status/1821691491133046966?s=46&t=atIpeQGVIh
|aOOydeLGsHZw
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|Posted that photo of a Ukrainian soldier in the captured Russian command
|post over on interestingasfuck. My goodness, the amount of people who
|spew pro-RU talking points (how media is lying about Ukrainians, how
|they need to give up, how they have huge losses in Kursk, you know the
|rest) is quite notable. Russian propaganda really chewed through some
|people's brains so much that they are incapable of understanding that
|Ukraine can actually conduct successful actions in this war. Either
|that, or it's mass cope. Probably both
|u/DerivativeCapital - 1 month
|
|A lot of those posts are prob from Russia themselves.
|u/Deguilded - 1 month
|
|It's bots/social manipulation.
|u/eggyal - 1 month
|
|The smartest woman in Russia explains why Ukraine will win.
|https://twitter.com/jayinkyiv/status/1823654790762528934 > F: Do you
|know why YouTube is not working? > M: I know why. > F: Are you in
|Kursk? > M: I am in Kursk. > F: Are you aware that YouTube stopped
|working for me in Ufa? What is that??? > M: Are you aware that
|Ukrainian forces are stationed in our Kursk? > F: Of course, I know
|that. I knew this (would happen) on the first day of the war. I said:
|"Ukraine will win. Why the f\*ck did you go in there?" Nobody believed
|me. An FSB officer even argued with me. I said: "Ukraine will win!"
|He said: "Why? We have so many weapons!" I told him: "Ukrainians will
|thank us for the free scrap metal, kick our as\*es and we'll even end up
|paying the reparations." You see? I told him about the role of Ukraine
|in the Soviet Union. It was an intellectual outpost. They discovered
|the cosmos. Tsiolkovsky was Ukrainian. Korolev was Ukrainian. All the
|scientists were Ukrainian. All the great people were Ukrainian. They
|were the ones inventing different planes. I said: "You feline f\*ckers
|haven't even learned how to produce nails up till now!" "What did you
|get yourselves into with your gherkins instead of a d\*ck?" I said. >
|M: And laptis! > F: I said it directly: "You Russians need to learn how
|to f\*ck your women first." "They are the angriest women in the world
|because they have not experienced an orgasm even once in their lives
|from your gherkins the size of a belly button." I said: "Why are you
|intervening in the whole world?" Do you know how the FSB guy responded
|to me? "For you it's big," he says, "Ours is not small. It's just that
|yours is big!" > M: Gotcha. Thank you. It was good. Let's move on.
|> F: Hold on. Let me say something else. It turned out that I became
|the guilty one for Ukraine's guilt. Do you know why? They said:
|"You're a clairvoyant, you're a witch and you jinxed it." So it's my
|fault that Ukraine is winning. Here's a 'hello' for you. > M: And
|thank you for this!
|u/TheBalzy - 1 month
|
|I mean this is basically every conversation I've had with my Russian
|friends.
|u/igotfiveonit - 1 month
|
|gherkins the size of a belly button is a solid burn
|u/eggyal - 1 month
|
|I never realised cornichons were Russian.
|u/Osiris32 - 1 month
|
|I like that lady. She seems fun.
|u/Intensive - 1 month
|
|Old ladies don't hold back haha.
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|I'm seeing pro-RU folks on social media now claiming (after panicking
|the other day about 1500+ of their soldiers being captured by Ukraine),
|that Ukraine only took around 100 POWs, and that RU forces also took
|around 100 Ukrainian POWs, so the exchange will be just between Kursk
|captives. The narratives of these bots keep resetting every single day
|and I am all here for it.
|u/StepDownTA - 1 month
|
|Stupidpol has gone remarkably silent on Ukraine, since pretty much
|exactly the same time that Putin released footage of himself
|dressing down a regional governor for daring to publicly discuss
|regional military issues.
|u/vegetable_completed - 1 month
|
|They’re also taking advantage of Ukrainian opsec by spamming videos of
|Russian strikes on UA positions in Kursk to try and make it look
|lopsided in Russia’s favour. Additionally claiming that Ukraine is
|trotting out the same group of POWs over and over again to inflate the
|numbers. I’m happy with that because it means they are very worried
|about controlling panic domestically.
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|I've even seen them steal videos from Ukrainians (their advances,
|how they are shooting and attacking Russians etc.), and just
|stamping a pro-RU logo in the corner of the video and claiming it's
|"their boys beating up the enemy!" Then they post that into a tg
|channel, and we have pro-RU folks unknowingly cheering for
|Ukrainians killing Russians.
|u/SirKillsalot - 1 month
|
|*Russian forces publish combat footage of one of their choppers
|destroying their own Kamaz trucks.* Obviously they were disguised
|Ukrainian trucks carrying a full Battle Group of Ukraimericanato neo-
|nazi azov spec ops.
|https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1823767248919478411
|u/thisiscotty - 1 month
|
|[https://x.com/Maks\_NAFO\_FELLA/status/1823810012260786266](https://x.c
|om/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1823810012260786266) "This is how Ukrainian
|Heroes captured another 30 Russian soldiers in Kursk region!"
|u/linknewtab - 1 month
|
|Given how successful cheap "lawn mower drones" have been during this
|war, have western arms manufacturers started to make their own?
|Obviously we have much better weapons but it seems like a swarm of cheap
|drones to overwhelm enemy air defence would still be a useful tool for
|western militaries.
|u/munkisquisher - 1 month
|
|Yeah did you see the Australian cardboard drones? shipped to the front
|flat packed and can be unfolded and flown quickly
|https://theconversation.com/ukraine-war-australian-made-cardboard-
|drones-used-to-attack-russian-airfield-show-how-innovation-is-key-to-
|modern-warfare-212629
|u/maximum-pickle27 - 1 month
|
|The US just buys what the defense contractors sell and the defense
|contractors would never sell something for so cheap in bulk. $80k for
|a switchblade is their idea of cheap.
|u/MaryBerrysDanglyBean - 1 month
|
|[Already working on it ](https://www.army.mod.uk/news-and-
|events/news/2022/09/british-army-carries-out-successful-swarming-
|drone-capability/) [Also planning on incorporating them with fighter
|jets](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAE_Systems_Tempest)
|u/NATO_CAPITALIST - 1 month
|
|Read his comment again, cheap lawnmower drones in quantity.
|u/MaryBerrysDanglyBean - 1 month
|
|[Mean like this?](https://uk.mammotion.com/products/luba-2-awd-100
|0-perimeter-wire-free-robot-lawn-mower?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw
|q_G1BhCSARIsACc7NxpZfToqdW8OdEiM88LCZ05C2T2BBPOkI0ReoGGFLGnTAPt_hW
|tMKHIaAhDNEALw_wcB)
|u/NATO_CAPITALIST - 1 month
|
|Damn, they got outside roombas now? But yes, around that price.
|Switchblades are like 50k+. FPVs are like $500. We need
|production lines that can output tens of thousands weekly if not
|more.
|u/jdubbs84 - 1 month
|
|I guarantee the US has drone swarms already. I mean, there was a movie
|about that where an AI swarm targets the president, and I doubt they
|came up with the idea.
|u/Moff_Tigriss - 1 month
|
|Honestly, you could DIY the whole thing already. Budget would be
|crazy, you need a bit of miniaturisation, and a solid radio system
|to interact with a central IA (no way you could embed that in a
|drone). DIY ultra small drones are absolutely insane without
|anything fancy. So, if it's "easy", what is the response to THAT
|already? That's where the US is probably. The results of UK's anti-
|drone laser is a hint, but i think it's only a step toward something
|"complete".
|u/jdubbs84 - 1 month
|
|I think lasers /EW will start match drones in cost but it will be
|interesting to see what comes from that.
|u/Nurnmurmer - 1 month
|
|**The total combat losses of the enemy from 02.24.22 to 08.14.24
|approximately amounted to:** personnel - about 594,400 (+1,240)
|people, tanks ‒ 8,476 (+21) units armored combat vehicles ‒ 16,402
|(+17) units artillery systems - 16,821 (+57) units MLRS – 1,151 (+5)
|units air defense equipment ‒ 921 (+1) units aircraft – 366 (+0) units
|helicopters – 328 (+0) units Operational-tactical UAV – 13,548 (+57)
|cruise missiles ‒ 2,426 (+0) ships/boats ‒ 28 (+0) units submarines ‒
|1 (+0) units automotive equipment and tank trucks - 22,710 (+61) units
|special equipment ‒ 2,813 (+7). The data is being verified. Beat
|the occupier! Together we will win! Source
|[https://www.mil.gov.ua/news/2024/08/14/zagalni-bojovi-vtrati-rosiyan-
|za-dobu-1240-osib-57-artsistem/](https://www.mil.gov.ua/news/2024/08/14/
|zagalni-bojovi-vtrati-rosiyan-za-dobu-1240-osib-57-artsistem/)
|u/AlpsSad1364 - 1 month
|
|These numbers are crazy. Over a thousand casualities every day. This
|is easily Russia's bloodiest war since WW2, losses are hugely in
|excess of the US's in Vietnam or Korea. I know they technically have
|the population to sustain it but death on this scale must be really
|taking its toll mentally on the country.
|u/DGlennH - 1 month
|
|Whew! A hefty amount for today’s report. Thank you for continuing to
|share the reports with us here in the thread!
|u/SirKillsalot - 1 month
|
|https://x.com/MalcontentmentT/status/1823829383884541955 *Anywhere
|you're seeing Ukraine drop pictures or videos showing territorial
|control happened days ago, and Ukrainian forces are 5 to 10 kilometers
|further from that point.* *Ukrainian OPSEC has been amazing, there is
|almost no Internet access, and that's the rules.*
|u/greentea1985 - 1 month
|
|Exactly. Ukraine doesn’t drop pictures until the location is no longer
|in shelling range, which is 5-20 kilometers back from the front lines.
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|[Entrance to Savasleyka village of Nizhniy Novgorod region was closed
|after violent explosions in the
|area](https://russia.liveuamap.com/en/2024/14-august-entrance-to-
|savasleyka-village-of-nizhniy-novgorod)
|u/green_pachi - 1 month
|
|>The Ministry of Defense introduces new rules for submitting and
|reviewing military reports. The changes are aimed at protecting the
|rights of servicemen and introduce clear deadlines for consideration of
|appeals. >Protection of the rights of a serviceman The procedure
|guarantees the impossibility of prosecution for the fact of submitting a
|report. Heads of military administration bodies, commanders of
|military units and subdivisions are responsible for compliance with the
|terms and procedures for consideration of reports.
|https://www.rbc.ua/rus/news/minoboroni-vvodyat-novi-pravila-
|podannya-1723650086.html Stark difference with Russia where even high
|ranking officers are afraid to report issues
|u/jeremy9931 - 1 month
|
|This is almost certainly in response to the criticism they got for
|taking so long to dismiss Yurii Sodol despite the months of complaints
|from the various units operating under his command in the East. Great
|reform on paper but we’ll see how well their implementation goes in
|practice.
|u/INVADER_BZZ - 1 month
|
|It was kinda fun seeing in the feed Apti Alaudinov saying Sudzha is not
|under Ukrainian control, immediately followed by Ukrainian TV crew
|reporting from inside Sudzha. Russians adore this guy. He's soft-spoken
|Chechen general, with sort of calming aura about him (no, really).
|u/Accomplished-Sun9107 - 1 month
|
|Baghdad Bob vibes..
|u/SoulessHermit - 1 month
|
|To give it the benefit of doubt, both could be true. I saw a report
|two days ago (Obviously outdated) that half the town of Sudzha is
|occupied by Ukrainian. So, in this context, both statements are
|true.
|u/INVADER_BZZ - 1 month
|
|It's no longer the situation. Well, at least according to everything
|i've seen. No russian forces in Sudzha at all. Plenty of Ukrainians
|comfortable enough to be filmed by TV crew that came from Ukraine in
|the very middle of this small city.
|u/unpancho - 1 month
|
|New thread from ChrisO\_Wiki [https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/182377
|8819649503440.html](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/18237788196495034
|40.html) 1/ Numerous adverts have appeared on Avito, Russia's
|equivalent of eBay, seeking workers to dig trenches in the Kursk region.
|It's likely that this is related to the rapid construction of a trench
|network located well behind the current front line. ⬇️
|u/featherhatfelon - 1 month
|
|there is NO DANGER but we need these like fucking asap why do you keep
|asking about combat there is none in the area we RAPIDLY NEED MILITARY
|DEFENSIVE STRUCTURES WHERE WE WE HAD NONE now comrade once you are
|finished why not have a seat inside and admire your work. Hey i gotta
|go but take this gun in case of bears. For your safety comrade perk of
|job ya? We take care of our own in protecting the MOTHERLAND from
|danger. Speaking of danger...
|u/Not_Cleaver - 1 month
|
|During WWII my grandfather did something similar probably around the
|same area until he was wounded. And it’s a long story, but he ended up
|in what became West Germany in 1945.
|u/Aedeus - 1 month
|
|The funniest part about this is that they could ostensibly just open
|up another front elsewhere along the border like this and have them
|doing the funny to each area they drive into.
|u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh - 1 month
|
|> "Let's defend the honour of OUR MOTHERLAND" Should be easy, as they
|haven't got any. Jobs done, last one to leave switches off the lights.
|u/Typical-Swordfish-92 - 1 month
|
|The bulbs, fixtures, copper, and walls were looted by retreating
|Russian soldiers. Sorry.
|u/jcrestor - 1 month
|
|If only 90 % of the money dedicated for building fortifications along
|the Ukrainian border had not disappeared into the pockets of
|politicians, oligarchs, and other war profiteers. It would be very
|unfortunate, if this was also the case in other segments of the
|Ukrainian-Russian border.
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|[Over 117 drones and 4 missiles attacked Russia last night. Local
|residents reportedly shouted, "Guys, at least shoot down one!" The
|drones flew too low to be detected by air defense systems, though
|Russia's Ministry of Defense claimed to have shot some down. The drones
|targeted the "Borisoglebsk" and "Baltimore" airfields in the Voronezh
|region, as well as the "Savasleyka" airfield in the Nizhny Novgorod
|region.](https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1823614165090513007)
|[Meanwhile, Ukraine was attacked by 23 drones and 2 missiles last
|night](https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1823613370030805201).
|u/Tokyogerman - 1 month
|
|I hope they hit as much as possible on those airfields and that we'll
|have some footage at some point. The Russian numbers look almost like
|they are saving up again for some big temper tantrum attack again.
|u/lI3g2L8nldwR7TU5O729 - 1 month
|
|It's bizar to witness how Ukraine must bring mother Russia completely
|to her knees to stop this madness. Even if Ukraine collapses today
|tomorrow, Russia paid such a high price, Russia will never recover
|from this. Keep going heroes, I'll keep donating...
|u/herc6 - 1 month
|
|>"Savasleyka" airfield in the Nizhny Novgorod region. That's 300km
|East of Moscow. Is it usual for strikes so deep into Russia?
|u/ThePoliticalFurry - 1 month
|
|Yeah, they actually hit Chkalovsky the other night and FSB buildings
|INSIDE Moscow have been hit in the past
|u/PinkOwls_ - 1 month
|
|Yep, as far as St. Petersburg
|u/Routine_Slice_4194 - 1 month
|
|So 4 times as many drones flying east as flying west. Is this a first?
|u/A_Sinclaire - 1 month
|
|Ukraine using more long range drones than Russia has been a thing
|last month already. Though not to this extend. >For the first
|time, Ukraine is launching more long-range drone attacks than
|Russia. Published figures suggest that Russia sent 426 Shahed-type
|drones into Ukraine in July. Over the same period Ukraine hit back
|with over 520 drones. [Source](https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidha
|mbling/2024/08/01/ukraine-launched-more-long-range-attack-drones-
|than-russia-in-july/)
|u/XXendra56 - 1 month
|
|Dark Brandon was trolling Putin when he said today - Putin has a dilemma
|in Kursk. 
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|[According to Russian reports, Ukrainian forward units managed to reach
|Krasnooktyabr'sko, north west of Snagost’. The probability of AFU
|controlling the unhabitated fields north east of Snagost up to the
|highway near Korenevo, becomes more likely by the
|minute.](https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1823720121199944043)
|u/Louisvanderwright - 1 month
|
|If this is true and they hold their position, then Ukraine has secured
|their left flank on the Reka Seym, something that was subject of
|speculation as one of their objectives when the news of this operation
|first started leaking out. That is huge because it means they can
|now turn the majority of their attention to advancing North and then
|East following the river. Ultimately they would also advance West and
|liquidate all Russian territory South of the Reka Seym as well. Theres
|no bridges for 10+ miles upstream and downstream of Krasnooktyabr'sko.
|That's a huge natural fortification especially considering the river
|lies in decent little valley giving the Ukrainians the high ground on
|any attempt to cross.
|u/hobbitdude13 - 1 month
|
|Russia really be out here naming villages like bad fantasy writers
|u/hypatianata - 1 month
|
|Krasnooktyabr’sko is pretty fun to say though. I would 100% name a
|D&D town Krasnook.
|u/poke133 - 1 month
|
|it means red (krasno) october (oktyabr) with -sko being an ending
|typical for place names. I don't really know Russian, but with
|this "3 days operation" I had time to pick up on things.
|u/piponwa - 1 month
|
|I found Borki to be a very cute puppy name
|u/kuldnekuu - 1 month
|
|Sudza silly thing to say.
|u/jeremy9931 - 1 month
|
|Day 8 of the Kursk incursion and surprisingly enough, Russia still
|hasn’t tried their usual mass missile tantrum strikes on random civilian
|targets. Think they finally realized that it only pisses the Ukrainians
|off more?
|u/StepDownTA - 1 month
|
|Maybe not mass but still tantrum strikes against civilians in
|retaliation for military losses, [2 deaths and 13 more wounded near
|Kyiv a few days ago](https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20240811-two-
|killed-in-kyiv-region-including-four-year-old-boy-in-russian-attacks).
|u/Artistic_Worker_5138 - 1 month
|
|They need to make those missiles first, or buy more from NK.
|u/OrangeBird077 - 1 month
|
|They’re expanding them up north to try and hit supply lines in Sumy
|to no avail. The UA has taken so much land they have their pick of
|roads and chances are they’ll probably build more roads to confuse
|the enemy.
|u/jszj0 - 1 month
|
|Or they simply don’t have the stockpiles yet to do it
|u/ElectroStaticz - 1 month
|
|Was just about to say this. I saw a graphic from some think
|tank in Europe a few months ago that showed Russia has burned
|through nearly 2/3 of their financial reserves. By now they must be
|at a point where they must choose what is worth spending on, and
|since their recruitment keeps offering more and more money for
|volunteers it seems they think meat grinding beats missile tantrums.
|u/uryuishida - 1 month
|
|Yeah. Ukraine should be given the green light to blow up factories
|and as many warehouses as they can
|u/Soundwave_13 - 1 month
|
|I wish this was the case or they were running short, but I am
|concerned they are once again stockpiling for a major attack. They
|always throw their tantrums.
|u/shryne - 1 month
|
|Allegedly Iran has been begging for missiles to launch at Israel.
|Maybe they actually ran out
|u/senfgurke - 1 month
|
|Iran has enough missiles. If anything it's the other way around,
|there have been reports that Iran sold hundreds of close range
|ballistic missiles to Russia.
|u/INVADER_BZZ - 1 month
|
|Jinxed it. :( Odessa, Kherson. And looks like attack towards Kyiv.
|Hopefully AA works their magic.
|u/AskALettuce - 1 month
|
|Maybe they're running out of missiles?
|u/ArchitectNebulous - 1 month
|
|From what I can tell, those usually take a decent amount of time to
|stock pile and plan a decent attack. Right now Russia is on the back
|foot and scrambling - less than ideal to launch a coordinated missile
|strike. They will surely try again, but they will need to get their
|footing again first.
|u/Jamuro - 1 month
|
|well there was a bigger shahed wave initially but no followups ...
|which is strange (then again i am no expert but previously big drone
|waves usually were followed through with missile attacks) if i were
|to speculate i would say that the iran deal may be less final than the
|media speculated. it's not like irans leadership hasn't backtracked
|previously when put under pressure ... and so far at least we see
|russia using predominatly glide bombs even in the kursk area.
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|It's Day 9
|u/jeremy9931 - 1 month
|
|I don’t number too good sir
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|[Russian Telegram channels: reportedly FSB director Bortnikov said to
|Putin Russia should assassinate Ukrainian blogger who are running
|funding campaigns for Ukrainian
|military](https://liveuamap.com/en/2024/14-august-russian-telegram-
|channels-reportedly-fsb-director) Yes, that will truly help
|u/Logical_Welder3467 - 1 month
|
|I need to see a video of Putin reaction to this suggestion. He must
|be facepalming so hard that FSB seem to have taken some stupid pill
|u/Canop - 1 month
|
|Seriously, why should we think we have an idea what Putin was told by
|Bortnikov ? What is the credible source for that ? *("Russian
|telegram channels" is not a source)*
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|What red lines are left to be crossed?
|u/Cortical - 1 month
|
|direct Western military involvement. very unlikely to bed crossed
|though.
|u/MarkRclim - 1 month
|
|Theoretically nuclear-capable western weapons lobbed over the border?
|I read some stuff on nuclear doctrine and one reason you avoid
|surprising people e.g. with ballistics is that the pressure might make
|them nuke you back to be safe. (That sounds dumb to me. Ukraine isn't
|going to strap a nuclear warhead to an ATACMS. The whole argument is
|stupid and Biden needs to stop this stupid aspect of his policy)
|u/boomsers - 1 month
|
|> one reason you avoid surprising people e.g. with ballistics is
|that the pressure might make them nuke you back to be safe. I think
|that applies to longer range ballistic missiles, like ICBMs. Both
|Tomahawk and Kinzhal missiles can carry nuclear warheads, and Russia
|has used the Kinzhal extensively. ATACMS do not have nuclear
|capabilities.
|u/SirKillsalot - 1 month
|
|Gotta wait for Putin to tell us.
|u/Disastrous-Bus-9834 - 1 month
|
|Putin, after 10 days of Kursk catastrophe, summons Stalin’s ghost :
|Stalin: “What’s happened?” Putin: “Nazis are at Kursk! My army is
|beaten! What should I do?” Stalin: “Do like me 1943. Send best Ukrainian
|troops to the front, and ask the US for arms!”
|u/Delicious-Ganache606 - 1 month
|
|This war really revealed how much of USSR's strength came from the
|subjugated nations.
|u/Nico198X - 1 month
|
|It really was Ukraine all along. Turns out they are the older
|brother in this relationship, not Russia.
|u/Opaque_Cypher - 1 month
|
|Given the respective ages of Kyiv and Moscow, Ukraine always has
|been the older brother no matter how Putin wants to lie about
|history.
|u/Bullymongodoggo - 1 month
|
|It’s a text book example of how to tank your nation when you had so
|many other things going for you, like all that natural gas. Russia
|could have been a real leader in Europe but they let their drunken
|hubris get the better of them. Fuck em. 
|u/ptcalfit - 1 month
|
|https://www.weaponstoukraine.com/kampane/thermonator Let's help finish
|up this ongoing crowdfund for a 100-unit squadron of thermal vision
|drones. These help with supporting night operations as well as providing
|real-time intelligence on Russian troop movements across a wide area of
|the front line, both day and night. That's for defense (and offense
|support). For offensive air assault drones, you can support those
|initiatives through this project: https://pullstrons.okko.ua/en
|u/stirly80 - 1 month
|
|The Ukrainian Armed Forces offensive operation in the Kursk region has
|shown that the red lines apparently no longer exist, a former US Army
|Commander in Europe Ben Hodges suggests in an interview with DW. https:
|//x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1823803025296617512?t=ht2g6hYyW80sD2hp2E0
|Tkg&s=19
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|[New Andrew Perpetua losses
|list](https://x.com/AndrewPerpetua/status/1823709816855896490) 81 RU vs
|37 UA Slightly higher than usual UA losses, since they are on
|offensive. So many surveillance losses too 13 RU vs 6 UA
|u/MorienWynter - 1 month
|
|4 to 1 ratio on tanks though. 6 to 1 on IFV's. That's incredible
|considering Ukraine is attacking.
|u/Glxblt76 - 1 month
|
|Russia is still attacking on Donestk. They haven't pulled any of
|their attacking forces from the frontline. Both forces are attacking
|in fact.
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|Large Russian equipment and personnel losses today. At [Kurakhove
|](https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1823744524029722867)(southern
|Donetsk), and [Lyptsi
|](https://x.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1823739059459776963)(north
|Kharkiv)
|u/Cogitoergosumus - 1 month
|
|An under appreciated aspect of all of the strikes on Russian Airfields
|is how much it degrades the pilots as well, even if they don't hit the
|airframes. Russia typically scrambles as many of the airframes into the
|air during these attacks as they can. If these pilots are up all night
|doing those tasks they're all the more unready the following day to
|sortie for CAS.
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|[Mandatory evacuation announced in Glushkovo of Kursk
|region](https://liveuamap.com/en/2024/14-august-mandatory-evacuation-
|announced-in-glushkovo-village) About time lol, they would've been
|encircled otherwise
|u/FadingStar617 - 1 month
|
|Does that mean that Russia will abandon the border trenches in that
|region too, to save the manpower commited in there? I mean, they
|clearly assume ukraine gonna encircle the whole area.
|u/Wermys - 1 month
|
|They should. Those soldiers are not going to be effective being
|cutoff and Ukraine isn't going go digging after them with winter
|coming fairly soon. If they are evacced you setup a blocking force
|with body bags ready for when they freeze to death.
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|[Russian Avdiivka/Ocheretyne advance this year placed on top of the
|Kursk pocket](https://x.com/AndrewPerpetua/status/1823708864979853536/ph
|oto/1). To think how many tens of thousands of Russians died to acquire
|that, how much equipment was lost... and Ukraine took more land than
|that in a week and with minimal losses.
|u/XXendra56 - 1 month
|
|Ukraine land is very expensive while Russia appears to be quite cheap
|. 
|u/forvirradsvensk - 1 month
|
|Same for lives.
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|Decided to hop on over to that pro-RU report sub... Looks like pro-RU
|folks are back in charge and posting so many purported videos of
|Ukrainian losses... the thing is, if you take a closer look, they are
|basically reposting the same destroyed BTR, same KIA Ukrainians, and
|same POWs but with photos from several different angles pretending like
|it's all new stuff. Ran across the same things like 3-5 times The
|desperation is uncanny
|u/AskALettuce - 1 month
|
|Completely disagree. The desperation is, in fact, canny.
|u/Joezev98 - 1 month
|
|It's an absolute shame that participating in that sub gets you
|instantly banned from several others. Otherwise I would happily
|participate in trolling the pro-RU users there.
|u/Sorlic - 1 month
|
|You could always make a secondary account for that purpose.
|u/DillBagner - 1 month
|
|I looked at some Russian state propaganda outlets the other day, and
|they're all pretty much saying Ukraine failed and controls nothing.
|u/eggyal - 1 month
|
|I'm sure they'd still be saying the same thing if tanks entered Red
|Square.
|u/M795 - 1 month
|
|> Held a meeting with the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European
|and Eurasian Affairs @StateEUR, who is visiting our country. We
|discussed the current situation on the battlefield and the status of
|defense agreements between Ukraine and the United States.
|https://x.com/AndriyYermak/status/1823650582604726319
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|[Ukrainians hoist a flag in Vnezapnoye, south of
|Snagost](https://x.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1823765634473181192)
|u/SirKillsalot - 1 month
|
|*GeoConfirmed UKR.* *Ukrainian soldier removed Russian flag from
|community centre building in Liubimovka.* (Not new advance, just video)
|https://x.com/GeoConfirmed/status/1823773852243042363
|u/Cogitoergosumus - 1 month
|
|My best guess now that Russia is evacuating Glushkovo is that everything
|south of the Reka Seym is going to be falling into Ukrainian hands
|without a ton of fuss. Only three bridges appear to be crossing points
|within the region and it appears that Russian's main fortification line
|runs long said river. Wouldn't take much to trap those forces in that
|pocket with just three bridges over the river.
|u/The_Sadcowboy - 1 month
|
|Isn't NPP south from the river? I don't think Russians will give it
|away.
|u/Cogitoergosumus - 1 month
|
|you're looking way down the river, the Glushkovo district borders
|Ukraine.
|u/AgentElman - 1 month
|
|If Russia care about its troops that would certainly be the case. As
|is, would taking that territory significantly help ukraine supply
|lines? I don't think so. Pulling out the troops to hold rylsk
|would make sense if Russia is short on troops.
|u/Cogitoergosumus - 1 month
|
|It shouldn't be a priority, but it would be an easy defensible land
|grab that Russia would struggle to gain back via Counter attack.
|Tetkino is also the terminus to a now unused rail line that could be
|reestablished. Basically grabbing it all but guarantee's they
|wouldn't need to worry about that flank.
|u/Burnsy825 - 1 month
|
|Ukraine deals blow to Putin’s narrative with Kursk offensive - The Hill
|>Putin claims Ukraine trying to 'sow discord' in Russia with offensive
|into Kursk region >Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reported
|Tuesday that 74 settlements have been taken in Kursk. >Russian
|officials have said 180,000 people are evacuating from Kursk, which has
|been in a state of emergency since the Aug. 6 offensive. Putin has
|tasked the Federal Security Service (FSB), the Russian national guard
|and the military with restoring order to Kursk. >“This war has left
|Russia’s borders weak, the army engaged in Ukraine and not immediately
|available to defend border regions, and FSB border troops not
|supported,” said Dara Massicot, a senior fellow in the Russia and
|Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in a
|thread on the social platform X. “The Russian system’s instinct will be
|to overcorrect and swing harshly at Kursk.” >Putin on Monday vowed a
|“strong response” as he referred to the Kursk attack as a plot to
|“create discord and division within our society, to instill fear, and to
|undermine the unity and cohesion of the Russian people.”
|https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4826388-ukraine-offensive-russia-
|kursk/
|u/postusa2 - 1 month
|
|Sort of half the picture. The biggest part of the narrative that the
|Kursk operation exposes is that Putin has run this entire war on the
|premise Ukraine is an existential threat..... yet his border is was
|left totally unguarded. He doesn't believe his own lies. Not only
|that, it is perfectly clear that he expected NATO to hold Ukraine
|back. German lawmakers who hold back Taurus, or US officials putting
|limits on HIMARS should look at this and realize they are part of
|Putin's defence plan. That's what has allowed this war to continue
|900+ days. Putin can act like Russia is a different dimension to stage
|his war with no consequence other than the casualties who mean nothing
|to him.
|u/ttbnz - 1 month
|
|> ...as he referred to the Kursk attack as a plot to “create discord
|and division within our society, to instill fear, and to undermine the
|unity and cohesion of the Russian people.” Great job Ukraine, keep
|it up! 🇺🇦
|u/BujuBad - 1 month
|
|If Putin doesn't like it, all he needs to do is gtfo of Ukraine.
|u/TotallyNauticalDude - 1 month
|
|Water supply at German military base found to be contaminated after
|discovery of hole cut in fence. (https://www.dw.com/en/german-military-
|base-on-lockdown-after-suspected-sabotage/a-69935608)
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|[Damage at Borisoglebsk airfield confirmed by satellite images by Planet
|Labs, obtained by cxemu, Project of the Radio Free Europe/Radio
|Liberty](https://liveuamap.com/en/2024/14-august-damage-at-borisoglebsk-
|airfield-confirmed-by-satellite)
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|[Russian Ministry of defense reports clashes with Ukrainian military at
|Skrylevka, Levshynki, Semenovka, Alekseevskiy, Kasmyshny and Martynovka
|of Kursk region](https://liveuamap.com/en/2024/14-august-russian-
|ministry-of-defense-reports-clashes-with) >Levshynki Big if true.
|~~That would mean Russia is in big trouble, as that is 36 km away from
|the border, the deepest Ukraine has been thus far.~~ Edit: Looks like
|LiveUA made a mistake but has now corrected it, there is Levshynki and
|Levshinka, both in Lgov raion. Levshynki is closer to the Ukrainian
|pocket (27 km from the border), but they initially marked Levshinka.
|Still, it's an advance, but a smaller one
|u/helm - 1 month
|
|Levshinka towards Lgov. Makes sense.
|u/AgentElman - 1 month
|
|Yes, getting Lgov or just the road from Lgov to Korenovo would cause
|a massive shift in the fighting.
|u/thesouphasgonecold - 1 month
|
|The main target of Russia's information warfare is its own population:
|An acquaitance, who is a Russian citizen living in Russia, has told me,
|that there there are reports of Poland hitting **Kaliningrad**.
|u/INVADER_BZZ - 1 month
|
|It was a reading comprehension problem. Poland yesterday trained and
|simulated retaliatory strike at Kaliningrad. Jets turned back the
|whole 40 km from the border. News in Russia made confusing headlines
|and social media hysteria didn't help either.
|u/redredgreengreen1 - 1 month
|
|God, I think we might be witnessing the birth of a conspiracy theory
|in real-time period, Because it's gonna be a hell of a job
|convincing anyone who heard that it wasn't true if they don't get
|corrected for 20 odd years.
|u/Spo-dee-O-dee - 1 month
|
|Good luck with that if it begins to take hold. I was talking with
|a Russian on another sub earlier tonight. I've had more
|productive conversations talking to crazy homeless people. It was
|like talking to someone from an alternate reality.
|u/dkuznetsov - 1 month
|
|Poland should do it more. Keep some Russian troops tied in there. 
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|[Video showing one of the drones hit Savasleika
|airfield](https://liveuamap.com/en/2024/14-august-video-showing-one-of-
|the-drones-hit-savasleika) (lower your volume, Russians are screaming
|loudly)
|u/Critical_Freedom_738 - 1 month
|
|So when I click on these links in the map nothing happens…what am I
|doing wrong? On mobile btw
|u/TTGG - 1 month
|
|You have to doubletap on the text in the bubble.
|u/Critical_Freedom_738 - 1 month
|
|Thank you! 
|u/SirKillsalot - 1 month
|
|Supposedly UA in Vnezapnoe, South of Korenevo and Snagost. (alt source)
|https://twitter.com/Teoyaomiquu/status/1823768002174873815
|u/bobpsycho100 - 1 month
|
|That would be quite nice. Fully controlling the road from the border
|to snagost and then koronevo would improve logistics
|u/SirKillsalot - 1 month
|
|Extreme copium on Russian propaganda tv
|https://x.com/NatalkaKyiv/status/1823534703103652256
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|Alaudinov needs to lie so that he can save himself. A bunch of
|Russians put a great deal of blame on him and his Akhmat unit as that
|border near Sudzha was there original post, but they ran away and are
|now hiding in the forests near Giri
|u/sjajsn - 1 month
|
|Pretty much zero of the area Ukraine is attacking would be mined right?
|Makes operations much easier than eastern Ukraine
|u/piponwa - 1 month
|
|Yep. And actually, Ukraine is now remotely mining certain areas, via
|artillery shells that dispense land mines. So it's actually Russia
|hitting minefields.
|u/SirKillsalot - 1 month
|
|Correct.
|u/maxinator80 - 1 month
|
|Russia might also be less likely to flatten cities there.
|u/AnticitizenPrime - 1 month
|
|I really wish the live feed could be replaced by anything other than
|Twitter, or at least not be exclusive to it. Why can't any of the
|content of the live feed be direct links to actual journalistic
|articles, instead of some tweet?
|u/--ThirdEye-- - 1 month
|
|Agreed, even before Twitter became not twitter I fucking hated it for
|this reason - mostly for sports. I'd see a headline and click on it
|only to realize the content is literally what I read before clicking.
|Now posting a twitter link guarantees I won't click it.
|u/canadaduane - 1 month
|
|Agreed. It takes FOREVER to load. One. At. A. Time. Sometimes 20 to 30
|seconds per Tweet. (and I have google fiber!)
|u/AnticitizenPrime - 1 month
|
|I'm more concerned about Twitter being a poisoned platform due to
|ownership and recent behavior of said owner, but yeah, it sucks in
|technical terms as well. It's concerning to me that the feed ONLY
|consists of Twitter links. What if there's important stuff reported
|but it's not on Twitter? Does that news just never make it here? I
|just don't get how we ended up with an exclusively Twitter-based
|framework for the live feed here.
|u/kaukamieli - 1 month
|
|That's why you read the comments too. :p
|u/GoldCoinDonation - 1 month
|
|it's because the live thread thing only works with twitter. It's an
|almost completely forgotten 'feature' that's barely supported by
|reddit anymore.
|u/AnticitizenPrime - 1 month
|
|I suppose what I'm asking is for that to not be the case anymore.
|u/Dhghomon - 1 month
|
|How about Threads? Lots of people use it now and plenty of the Twitter
|accounts posted here use it too. E.g.
|https://www.threads.net/@thestudyofwar/post/C-nYcKFufPg/
|u/AnticitizenPrime - 1 month
|
|I don't see why it's exclusive to a single platform at all. Why
|can't there be a link to an actual article that is published by a
|real journalistic platform? Why does it HAVE to be a Twitter link,
|even if the only thing in that Twitter link is just itself a link to
|an article? Why are we driving traffic to Twitter exclusively?
|u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh - 1 month
|
|Just about the only thing I wouldn't want to replace Twitter with is
|Meta. I'd consider two tin cans and a piece of string before getting
|that desperate for news.
|u/p251 - 1 month
|
|Maybe you missed the musk groveling at trump, Putin’s lap dog
|yesterday. As much as it might sound edgy to hate in meta, Elon is
|as much of a Russian asset as trump. 
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|[More POWs in
|Kursk](https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1823749746931937585)
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|[According to Russian channels, the AFU has taken control over
|Mykhailovka, south of Martynovka. This village was considered a gray
|zone for a while since information didn’t
|appear.](https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1823767103666839688)
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|Pro-RU folks are also trying to spin (for whatever reason), [that the
|press report recorded in Sudzha today
|](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=203aM726_aQ)by the Ukrainian press was
|actually recorded in Sumy. You can find it on tg channels and the pro-RU
|sub. They drew some squares on the image which make no sense, and with
|it they want to point out that it's not what it seems and is fake
|propaganda. Anyhow and anyway, you can find the school in the video
|report on [Google street view](https://www.google.com/maps/@51.1897489,3
|5.2750652,3a,75y,322.01h,87.44t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipMwbG-f3uN6025z
|j5GmiCiaEXsaOcXMPC_zV5h_!2e10!3e11!6s%2F%2Flh5.ggpht.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipMwb
|G-f3uN6025zj5GmiCiaEXsaOcXMPC_zV5h_%3Dw900-h600-k-no-pi2.564094689735611
|6-ya49.93492091634238-ro0-fo100!7i5376!8i2688?coh=205410&entry=ttu), and
|it is in central Sudzha.
|u/ced_rdrr - 1 month
|
|The report was commented live by the journalist talking to the studio.
|At the time she was indeed in Sumy, but while she was talking they
|showed the recordings from the Sudzha she and her crew took earlier.
|So, pro-RU folks are both right and wrong. Yes, she filmed at Sudzha
|and yes she was back in Sumy doing the live. They just prefer to tell
|half of the truth.
|u/LeftLane4PassingOnly - 1 month
|
|This is consistent with the fact that most pro-RU don't don't know
|right from wrong.
|u/Willythechilly - 1 month
|
|They don't know much of anything given their stupid opinions I
|would say Useful idiots I guess
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|Yeah that's what I figured too. Yet they keep insisting all of it
|was in Sumy lol
|u/SirKillsalot - 1 month
|
|Rumors continue to circulate about Ukrainian helicopter landings behind
|the Russian defenses in L'gov.
|https://x.com/WarInUkraineYet/status/1823821312546246849
|u/FadingStar617 - 1 month
|
|I've seen the video about it ( you can find it earlier in the thread),
|it REALLY look like old training footage. It'd be great if true...but
|I'm doubtful. So...nah, not buying it.
|u/No_Amoeba6994 - 1 month
|
|This all seems to be based on one random Telegram post and a video
|that is clearly not of an actual combat operation. As far as I can
|tell there is no basis whatsoever to actually believe these claims.
|Even if they did, it's certainly not a full brigade like the link
|claims. Even an understrength air mobile brigade would be 1,000 men.
|An Mi-8 can carry 24 men, so they would have needed 42 helicopters
|(or multiple trips with fewer helicopters) to transport that many
|soldiers.
|u/FadingStar617 - 1 month
|
|That being said. if russia think it's true and rush assets to
|protect against a nonexistent operation, still, a plus.
|u/piponwa - 1 month
|
|I don't buy it. How would you even resupply those guys once they're
|there and the threat is know from Russia? They can send a couple guys
|with manpads to the area and take out any resupplies.
|u/SirKillsalot - 1 month
|
|One would assume this would be done in tandem with an armored thrust
|moving North. I don't buy it either, but it's still a possibility.
|u/Logical_Welder3467 - 1 month
|
|Looking at the straight line trench that are being dug hastily, one
|shell go in and everyone is KIA
|u/VerySluttyTurtle - 1 month
|
|it's illegal in Russia to be a gay trench
|u/Leather_Concern_3266 - 1 month
|
|Note the flamboyant curvature of the gay trench, a significant
|evolutionary advantage...
|u/jasonridesabike - 1 month
|
|If nothing else, Russians are at least efficient in their meat grinder
|tactics.
|u/machopsychologist - 1 month
|
|In the end it all comes down to mines which are the most effective
|against equipment poor Ukraine. Most likely they will avoid mining
|roads too heavily (or ... maybe not, as if russia cares about
|civilians amirite) so if Ukraine sticks to the roads they may be able
|to progress slowly... and hope there isn't too much concentration of
|artillery.
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|[Grandma in Kursk insults Putin. Many local residents perfectly remember
|their native Ukrainian language, speak it well, hate Putin and support
|Ukraine.](https://x.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1823696991060189192)
|u/ShredOrSigh - 1 month
|
|Looking at the map, if UA captures Korenevo, everything to the West of
|the pocket, all the way back to the Ukranian border is protected by the
|river.
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|Speaking of Korenevo, [there might be some very good
|news](https://x.com/AndrewPerpetua/status/1823662938533556460)... but
|we will have to wait.
|u/azag11 - 1 month
|
|Sudzha-Korenevo-Rylsk line. Man can dream.
|u/machopsychologist - 1 month
|
|I see some juicy potential there. Finger's crossed.
|u/No_Amoeba6994 - 1 month
|
|It looks like a Ukrainian MiG-29 was shot down somewhat recently,
|confirmed by Ukraine: [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-
|loses-mig-29-fighter-jet-and-pilot-in-combat/ar-AA1oObL9?ocid=entnewsntp
|&pc=U531&cvid=e07c2c1e9db24fb1885bc516e40a9c26&ei=12](https://www.msn.co
|m/en-us/news/world/ukraine-loses-mig-29-fighter-jet-and-pilot-in-
|combat/ar-AA1oObL9?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=e07c2c1e9db24fb1885bc516
|e40a9c26&ei=12) Edit: Here's a Ukrainian Pravda article on it: [https:/
|/www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/08/13/7470280/](https://www.pravda.com.
|ua/eng/news/2024/08/13/7470280/)
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|Interesting how it went unreported. Just saw one post on Twitter
|saying it happened on August 12th and that the plane was shot down by
|a Russian Su-30, but not where
|u/raresaturn - 1 month
|
|Is it really Russia's plan to give Ukrainians in captured territories
|guns?
|u/socialistrob - 1 month
|
|Yes and they've been doing it for awhile. In the parts of the Donbas
|that were occupied in 2014 and became the so called "DNR and LPR"
|Ukrainian men under 65 were forcibly conscripted in mass and used as
|cannon fodder early in the war. What's new is that Russia is
|presumably thinking of trying this in areas that they just captured in
|2022. Gang pressing reluctant people into fighting wars is actually
|a very old trick and it's one that has long and infamous history in
|Russia. Typically when this happens there's not a whole lot that can
|be done by the individual conscript and if they did turn their guns on
|their officers it would be automatic death for them as well.
|Surrendering is often much easier said than done especially in an
|artillery war.
|u/SoulessHermit - 1 month
|
|They already kinda do that, they have used captured Ukrainian POWs
|and try to force enlisted Ukrainians in occupied areas to fight for
|them.
|u/--ThirdEye-- - 1 month
|
|Do the guns work? I'd imagine these POWs are at the very front I
|can't see how the Russians wouldn't get shot in the back any other
|way.
|u/SoulessHermit - 1 month
|
|I recall from the reports, POWs are just dressed in Russian
|uniform and used as cannon folder to expose Ukrainian artillery
|positions. Which is quite sickening.
|https://kyivindependent.com/russian-state-media-ukrainian-pows-
|will-fight-for-russia-in-ukraine/
|u/Lexx2k - 1 month
|
|You assume they will be handed guns. Russians could just force
|them to "walk forward until you step on a mine or draw fire" and
|that's their part in the war.
|u/RickyWinterborn-1080 - 1 month
|
|If true, sounds unwise but I am not a war scientist.
|u/MarkRclim - 1 month
|
|Claimed new T-80 captured by Ukraine in Kursk. Some confusion over
|whether it's the same as a previous one, but reliable source seems
|convinced it *is* additional. I desperately hope for more mistakes by
|Russia. Ukraine needs more armour donations.
|https://x.com/moklasen/status/1823800258910150943 (post is a thread,
|same author later says in a response "update: some more knowledgeable
|people tell me this is a *new* captured tank")
|u/Acceptable-Pin2939 - 1 month
|
|So Russia are building their defensive line along the E38 which is also
|the MSR. That is generally considered to be a shit idea. As you
|can't resupply, rotate (lol) forces when your opponent has fire control
|over your MSR.
|u/search_facility - 1 month
|
|<we are lucky they so fucking stupid.jpg> moment :)
|u/TheBalzy - 1 month
|
|Some guys and girls at the pentagon are giddy with excitement watching
|the Russians make so many stupid mistakes. The US investment in
|helping Ukraine defend itself is like 1000-fold.
|u/Deguilded - 1 month
|
|One half of the administration is watching this clusterfuck with a
|sloppy smile in the corner, the other half have locked themselves in
|the shower hoping the ceramic tiles will save them from the imagined
|nuclear blast.
|u/Intensive - 1 month
|
|Russia is going to have a fun time running their usual mantra of,
|"just invade and take everything you want from the local people".
|u/MarkRclim - 1 month
|
|I'm not getting too excited yet. It makes sense to dig defences
|further back, that doesn't stop you pushing further forwards. If
|Ukraine had just done this more behind Avdiivka things would be loads
|better.
|u/piponwa - 1 month
|
|Also, it's a highway that leads directly to Ukraine. So Ukraine can
|attempt to breach the border in that area and run up the whole line.
|u/SeasOfBlood - 1 month
|
|Is it possible that Ukraine's incursion into Russian territory could
|inspire some sort of internal removal of Putin and an end to the war? It
|is my understanding that a key of his public image is that he has given
|Russia stability, but with their international reputation tarnished and
|now Russia itself being breached by Ukrainian forces, isn't that entire
|image eroded? I am ignorant as to Russian internal politics, but just to
|an outside perspective this makes the Putin regime look extremely weak,
|and I wonder how it's being perceived by the common folk and Putin's own
|inner circle.
|u/Carasind - 1 month
|
|Yesterday, Maksim Katz [released a
|video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA8frACWpeg) (english subtitles
|available) where he discussed the public reaction to the news of the
|Kursk invasion. The response was largely apathetic, with many adopting
|a 'not our problem' attitude. This reflects how, in recent years,
|Russians have been conditioned to disengage from such issues to avoid
|potential trouble. So if something happens it will likely happen
|because of Putin's internal circles.
|u/Cortical - 1 month
|
|directly contradicting people who earlier claimed that Ukraine
|attacking Russia proper would drive lots of Russians to sign up for
|the military to defend Russia. The reality is that they don't care.
|u/Kageru - 1 month
|
|No one knows. The Russian people are somewhere between deluded,
|apathetic and suppressed. There's not going to be polling, free media
|or protests to let us gauge the mood of the Russian people. There may
|be a breaking point at which latent dissatisfaction erupts into
|action. But no one knows if or when that might happen. Which is a
|great shame as it would likely end this pointless war, though it would
|create a massive power vacuum in Russia.
|u/serafinawriter - 1 month
|
|From my Russian perspective, I agree there will be no popular
|uprising - too much apathy as you say. I think it's more likely that
|the pro-war and traditionally pro-Putin people would be more likely
|to take action at Putin's perceived failures, but I think that ship
|sailed too with Prigozhin. However, I don't think there will be a
|power vacuum as long as the FSB are in charge, especially
|considering that ousting Putin could likely only come from within
|that faction. Nikolai Patrushev's son Dmitri has already been
|speculated as a potential replacement. He has the credentials
|(Petersburger, FSB academy, a degree in an adjacent related field,
|and he's spent the last decade in various administrative roles). I
|think if the FSB elite decided to remove Putin, it is exactly
|*because* they see Putin as a threat to their continued position of
|power, and I expect the transition would be fairly smooth. Mishustin
|would step in as a rubber stamp under their influence, and meanwhile
|they start building up Dmitri Patrushev (or someone else) as the
|replacement. They still control the media, and they won't let any
|opposition take shape. Come the next election, voters would only
|have one choice. Also I wouldn't be surprised if on the surface they
|take a remorseful tone, blame the war on Putin (good opportunity to
|purge any old Putin-loyalists - goodbye Medvedev), and try to claw
|back some stability in the economy. At that point, there's no
|telling how successful they would be. To remove sanctions and
|normalize the economy, they'll really have to agree to Ukraine's
|fundamental right to its 1991 territory and the right to secure its
|own defence partnerships, and if Nikolai Patrushev still has sway,
|he will be unwilling to go that far, as he is as much an architect
|of this war as Putin was.
|u/sim_pl - 1 month
|
|This is the correct answer. People on Reddit seem to think that
|since we all echo the same activist remarks and actually commit
|mental energy towards things like, you know, maintaining freedom and
|civil liberty, that everyone else must too. Unfortunately, in a way
|similar to why a huge number of US people don't vote, an even
|greater majority of Russians just don't care - through either
|personal circumstance ("I can't change anything, why bother") or
|political culture ("If I speak out, I'll be arrested, and my family
|depends on me.") For real political unrest, it would take a
|massive disaster - e.g., Ukraine retaking all lost territory
|including Crimea plus destruction of Kerch bridge, or, complete
|failure of Russian economy coupled with some sort of food crisis
|(drought, late freeze, etc.) that would lead to massive price
|increase of locally produced staple foods. Otherwise, people are
|fed, have a job, a place to live, and enough other day-to-day
|distractions that the conflict doesn't matter to them.
|u/machopsychologist - 1 month
|
|A prerequisite of that scenario is that the situation gets so bad and
|Putin is forced to utilise Rosgvardia units (which are like internal
|suppression units). It's possible but at this point still unlikely.
|u/Oh_ffs_seriously - 1 month
|
|Nope.
|u/search_facility - 1 month
|
|"palace coup" is always on table, this is deeply rooted in russian
|history. Especially when everyone realizing that "akella promahnulsa"
|(russian proverb for hard-failed leadership). So it is possible, and
|signs of tension can be seen from time to time, imho. Although such
|things are unpredictable by their nature
|u/azag11 - 1 month
|
|it's possible, but not by general population. There maybe come a
|moment when his inner circle will realize that Putin is more danger to
|their lives and wealth, that some political instability. This
|already happened to Prigozhin. This may happen to Shoigu or to some
|other high ranking general.
|u/Glxblt76 - 1 month
|
|No. He'll say that the situation is under control and Russian heroes
|are making the necessary sacrifices, and he'll get away with it.
|u/Canop - 1 month
|
|I don't think anybody would take the seat of the Czar right now:
|there's no obvious defeat so the new czar would appear as the one
|losing. And there's no way to win either. A removal would require
|that the defeat is large and obvious.
|u/CathiGray - 1 month
|
|From: girkingirkin: Moses | UAV “A turning point has arrived in the
|history of modern Russia. Right now it is necessary to purge the senior
|command staff within the Ministry of Defense, and I am not for Shoigu’s
|former deputies. Right now it is necessary for the whole country to
|unite and find like-mindedness, no matter how much the country’s
|leadership wants, but citizens need to know the truth, because
|admitting guilt and mistake is half won war. I don’t have any political
|ambitions, and I’m not interested in it, but it’s time to start looking
|at things more radically and adopting equally radical methods. There is
|a problem that needs to be solved as quickly as possible... And Europe
|should no longer exist...”
|u/piponwa - 1 month
|
|Russian fascist is sad that his fascist government sucks at war.
|Proposes purge to more efficiently prosecute war and commit additional
|war crimes. Color me shocked.
|u/No_Amoeba6994 - 1 month
|
|He'd best avoid windows in the near future.....
|u/SirKillsalot - 1 month
|
|Kinda feel like things are speeding up again.
|u/Cogitoergosumus - 1 month
|
|The craziest thing is Ukraine has everyone, but probably most of all
|the Russia, scratching their heads about what the overall plan is. I
|think they have Russia believing another strike is coming somewhere
|else, and this is just Kherson feint round two. However because of
|that Russia isn't taking this seriously and seemingly isn't moving
|around the proper amount of resources to stop it. To that end, as
|long as Russia isn't taking it seriously the UA is just going to hit
|the chaos button and continue the initial attack.
|u/Kevin-W - 1 month
|
|No kidding and they're not getting much resistance either. I wonder
|how far into Russia they'll keep going.
|u/cagriuluc - 1 month
|
|Ukrainian failures in Donbas are highly exaggerated as shown by this
|Kursk invasion. There are “problems” with manpower among Ukrainian
|units. I am sure there are positions open in many units of Ukraine, BUT,
|it is not like they cannot man their borders. They can even go on the
|offensive. In Donbas, Russia is losing a lot to have their gains. If
|Ukraine was adamant in their defence, if they like Russians said: defend
|here at all costs… It would not be in Ukraine’s best interests. Just
|giving into Russian aggression when they overcommit is much more
|beneficial. The land Ukraine loses is not significant. They can sustain
|such land losses for months and months before they are even close to
|losing all of Donbas. It’s a trade… I wouldn’t call these failures at
|all. I also think Ukraine is leaning into this narrative that they are
|in a very hard situation in Donbas. Don’t get me wrong, it is really a
|hard task to defend Donbas, BECAUSE Russia is willing to lose so much
|for it. The defenders there work in harsh conditions. I am not
|minimizing their hardships. But Ukraine could do much more to defend
|Donbas, they could have sent their elite units who invaded Russia, for
|example. They did not, it was a choice. It was a right choice. But the
|situation is not “very hard” in the sense that they are about to
|collapse, or the rate of Russian advance will improve. It is not out of
|control. There isn’t a situation that Ukraine cannot find men to defend
|Donbas, nor do they lack ammunition right now. But the narrative keeps
|west on their toes, gives Ukraine a more solid reason to ask for more,
|gives Russia the impression that if they just make these suicidal
|attacks for some more time they will win… They are baiting Russia!
|This is my very much armchair general take so feel free to attack it…
|u/Uhhh_what555476384 - 1 month
|
|This is correct.  One difficulty with trench warfare is how to keep
|the opponents on the offensive so that you can attrit them.
|u/putin_my_ass - 1 month
|
|With which Russia obliges because political goals (capturing 100% of
|Donbass) are received from the highest level. It's absolutely the
|wrong way to wage a war and comes with high costs.
|u/paypaypayme - 1 month
|
|I agree, it would be stupid to use SPFs or expensive armor in static
|positions when we all know that russians rely so much on artillery.
|These assets are far better used in maneuver warfare, combined arms
|assaults, etc. No offense to the average infantryman, they have their
|own job to do. But it’s expected that the trench defenders will have
|losses due to russian artillery coordinating with drone surveillance
|u/SirKillsalot - 1 month
|
|David D is showing Korenevo and maybe Tolpino captured.
|https://x.com/secretsqrl123/status/1823801896051859949/photo/1 - He's
|hit and miss though, and I'm not sure what he's basing this on.
|u/ComsyKKu - 1 month
|
|David d is extremely unreliable and the OSINT community doesn’t really
|like him
|u/Burnsy825 - 1 month
|
|If UA rolls up Belgorod in this whole effort, redrawing the line from
|Belitsa down toward Korocha somewhere, that would provide quite a
|buffer zone for Kharkiv.
|u/_e75 - 1 month
|
|Before they get to Belgorod wouldn’t they have entirely encircled the
|northern karkhiv front? That seems like a better more immediate and
|achievable objective.
|u/OrangeBird077 - 1 month
|
|They don’t necessarily have to encircle it, just target the main
|arteries where Russian supply lines are feeding the northern Kharkiv
|soldiers. If the Russian incursion force doesn’t get any ammo for a
|few days in a row they’re going to crumble.
|u/Pave_Low - 1 month
|
|OK, nobody is 'rolling up' a Russian city of 340,000 people. Ukraine
|took nearly a week to 'roll up' Sudzha with a population of 6,000.
|Russia could not capture Sumy at the pinnacle of its strength.
|Ukraine is not capturing any major Russian population centers.
|Besides, if they did how the hell would Ukraine supply and feed
|hundreds of thousands of Russian civilians?
|u/AgentElman - 1 month
|
|If the UA takes Belgorod it is a massive win. They could hold
|Belgorod for a long time.
|u/SirKillsalot - 1 month
|
|Ukraine in Korenevo.
|https://twitter.com/AndrewPerpetua/status/1823662938533556460
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|Any reason why Putin still hasn't sacked Gerasimov? Why does he keep
|this incompetent fool so close?
|u/PrrrromotionGiven1 - 1 month
|
|Because he is loyal and that's far more important than competence in a
|dictatorship
|u/JoshuaZ1 - 1 month
|
|Loyal, and also doesn't have enough of his own power base to be a
|threat to Putin, so even if he was not loyal, Putin doesn't need to
|worry as much about him attempting a coup.
|u/greentea1985 - 1 month
|
|Exactly. A loyal but incompetent idiot is more useful to Putin than
|someone who is a competent military commander but is ambitious and
|gunning for the top job. Putin’s biggest fear is getting replaced as
|that generally means death or disgrace.
|u/postusa2 - 1 month
|
|If you read between the lines, his anger is actually directed at the
|West. He full expects NATO to hold Ukraine back, which is why after
|900 days and 500 000 casualties, he had an unguarded border with this
|"existential threat". He is literally like a spoiled toddler who is
|surprised he isn't getting what he wants. Gerasimov is useful because
|he can blame him, and if put someone competent in charge, they'd be as
|likely to turn on him as Prigozhin.
|u/Hodaka - 1 month
|
| At this point holding Ukraine back is simply enabling Russia.
|u/FreakySpook - 1 month
|
|Also doesn't this Ukrainian incursion show they don't even have air
|superiority inside their own borders? That a Ukrainian ground
|force can be running around inside Russia without getting smashed
|from the air is pretty nuts.
|u/Plappedudel - 1 month
|
|You think the rest of that rotten bunch is actually competent? This is
|a mafia state, people don't get to wear a general's uniform out of
|merit.
|u/ElectroStaticz - 1 month
|
|Shhhh "Never interrupt your enemy when they making a mistake" -
|Napoleon
|u/The_Bard - 1 month
|
|Dictators can't have competent subordinates as they are in constant
|fear of a coup
|u/INVADER_BZZ - 1 month
|
|Because Gerasimov is unpopular. When Wagner reached peak popularity
|(after taking Bakhmut), Prigozhin felt condident enough to march on
|Moscow. It's the same dilemma Stalin had with Zhukov back in the day.
|u/Geo_NL - 1 month
|
|Zhukov wouldn't have stopped unlike Prigozhin. Zhukov was also
|waaaay more popular. Prigozhin was popular in certain fringe areas
|and within Wagner but not within the main military branch. Zhukov
|had enough clout to march on Moscow and have a huge following
|overall. Pretty much why Stalin couldn't get rid of him. Getting rid
|of Prigozhin worked, because he wasn't popular enough that people
|would mind.
|u/postusa2 - 1 month
|
|Gerasimov has more in common with a dumpling than he does with
|Zhukov and that's like why he is staying.
|u/INVADER_BZZ - 1 month
|
|Exactly my point. Putin can't afford the risk of someone like
|Zhukov in command.
|u/eggyal - 1 month
|
|The last thing Putin wants is any shift in the careful balance of
|competing fiefdoms that ensure he's kept in office.
|u/Logical_Welder3467 - 1 month
|
|Gerasimov is there to be blamed, why would Putin remove him when he
|doing his job perfectly
|u/Nachtzug79 - 1 month
|
|You answered yourself - because he is incompetent. A good general
|could become a threat to Putin himself.
|u/secretlyjudging - 1 month
|
|Anybody have data on how much worse Russian conscripts are against
|modern battle-hardened Ukrainians? Must be really big difference
|training when you expect to actually fight vs doing it for show as well.
|u/Bdcollecter - 1 month
|
|Their was an article the other day with a captured PoW claiming they
|had fired a gun twice in training. Just a single bullet each time.
|Take it with a grain of salt though obviously
|u/devious_204 - 1 month
|
|But they only got 1 grain of salt, if we take that, they have
|nothing
|u/Nathan-Stubblefield - 1 month
|
|“Save the last bullet for yourself.” /s
|u/Acceptable-Pin2939 - 1 month
|
|To actually be prepared and trained sufficiently for a peer or near
|pear combined arms war takes at least a year for an infantry man. It
|takes even longer of you want to be command a tank troop. And even
|longer (4 years) if you want to operate air in these environments.
|This doesn't even include the C2 Staff which are at the military
|equivalent of a PhD.
|u/findingmike - 1 month
|
|Training? We don't have time for that!
|u/kaol - 1 month
|
|I think it's more like "we don't expect these guys to be ever used
|for anything, let's pocket the budget and nobody can tell the
|difference" this time.
|u/Forsaken-Action8051 - 1 month
|
|Korenovo has fallen, we are going to Lgov boys .
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|Sauce?
|u/SirKillsalot - 1 month
|
|There is none.
|u/jeremy9931 - 1 month
|
|Link? Because none of the reliable groups are stating that has
|happened yet.
|u/Ubehag_ - 1 month
|
|Reports of ukrainian helicopters landing behind enemy lines in lgov
|now. If this is true, Ukraine is just embarrassing russia at the
|moment. Sauce http://youtube.com/post/UgkxEi6vec1MmOiCdBFaVeMhM9xpFOf
|VseR6?si=uCbvnf4XIPozl-Ms
|u/FadingStar617 - 1 month
|
|Wait...I heard about this before in the thread, but the video that
|was showing it was EXTREMLEY sus. ( looked like footage from
|exercise) Are you sure were not being bambozzled right now?
|u/Lazar_Milgram - 1 month
|
|Pardon me. Heli…what? How the flying fuck is that possible? What
|the air defense doing?
|u/aresev6 - 1 month
|
|It's on a 3 day vacation.
|u/Wermys - 1 month
|
|Part of why I speculated IF that air assault happened they are
|making a beeline for that bridge north of there along with an
|armored assault south of that.
|u/XXendra56 - 1 month
|
|Ukraine’s one-night stand with Mother Russia is turning into a real
|relationship lol
|u/featherhatfelon - 1 month
|
|oh lala
|u/Njorls_Saga - 1 month
|
|Mother Russia is probably pregnant by this point.
|u/DennisMoves - 1 month
|
|Sorry for the vulgarity here but can butt stuff cause pregnancy?
|u/Njorls_Saga - 1 month
|
|I suppose if there’s a rectovaginal fistula it’s possible.
|u/silentcarr0t - 1 month
|
|Big time.
|u/SereneTryptamine - 1 month
|
|Always a risky move putting your dick in crazy
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|New DeepStateMap update. In the past 24 hours or so, Russia is
|confirmed to have taken some 15.7 km^(2) of Ukrainian territory in
|Donbass. [They've taken central and western New
|York](https://deepstatemap.live/en#13/48.3279522/37.8254128); [they
|finally managed to defeat AFU at Zhelanne, and they also took
|Orlivka](https://deepstatemap.live/en#13/48.2100321/37.4050140) So far,
|they took 133 km^(2) in these two weeks of August. 9.5 km^(2) daily
|average. I don't know what's happened that they have these near double
|digit advances ever since August 4th. Very worrisome. They took 131
|km^(2) in all of April, and that was when the Ocheretyne breakthrough
|happened.
|u/Edgarfigaro123 - 1 month
|
|I hope Donbass is Napoleon's deceptive right at Austerlitz.
|u/No_Amoeba6994 - 1 month
|
|Yeah, this Kursk incursion better work, because the Donbass defenses
|seem awfully soft lately.
|u/tidbitsmisfit - 1 month
|
|Ukrainians can't compete against glide bombs, it is as simple as
|that
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|Everything has a weak spot. So do glide bombs. It isn't some
|invincible weapon. It just needs to be figured out and exploited
|u/No_Amoeba6994 - 1 month
|
|Honestly, there are fairly obvious solutions (sufficient
|Patriot/IRIS-T batteries that they can be risked closer to the
|front because their loss would not be catastrophic, and/or
|sufficient F-16s with appropriate weapons and training to allow
|Ukraine to make the airspace within 50 miles of the front too
|dangerous for Russia to operate in), they just happen to require
|a lot of money, resources, and time.
|u/AgentElman - 1 month
|
|Yes, I wish we knew what had changed there. The pace is still really
|slow but it has sped up. And it is continuing in spite of the
|invasion of Kursk.
|u/jeremy9931 - 1 month
|
|We know what happened. Ukraine had a lot of negative factors (some
|of which weren’t necessarily their fault, some that were) all hit at
|once causing them to lose specific areas that underpinned the
|defense in that part of the Eastern line. Just a few 1) Failed
|rotations of troops causing them to lose Ocheretyrne. 2) Delayed
|weapons/ammunition shipments slowing their ability to respond 3)
|The delayed mobilization bill & lack of prepared fortifications to
|fall back to after Avdiivka and the surrounding suburbs fell.
|Failing to listen to the military when they told them at the end of
|last year that they needed more troops/funds to build trenches
|behind the lines they expected to fall probably plays the most into
|why we’re seeing the Russians move so much right now.
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|Yes but Avdiivka and Ocheretyne fell in February and April, and
|Russia still had pretty low daily advance rate of some 3.5 km2
|then. But something again happened at the turn of the month that
|made them increase that drastically.
|u/jeremy9931 - 1 month
|
|It’s been brewing in the background for a while unfortunately, I
|don’t think there’s a real single point that kicked off this
|advance. Ukraine’s lines just hit the overall breaking point.
|u/shryne - 1 month
|
|Can someone explain or link to a good resource that explains what a
|russian milblogger is?
|u/maximum-pickle27 - 1 month
|
|Social media influencer / war journalist that has the approval to say
|things about the war without being given a 10 year prison sentence.
|Don't generally say negative things about the Russian side very often
|due to the risk of losing their special status.
|u/MorePdMlessPjM - 1 month
|
|Russian military bloggers. Think amateur journalist that document
|Russian military matters like the war who have connections with
|Russian military soldiers and officials and often go on the ground in
|some operations to report on their side (grayzone was recently injured
|when he went to the front line). The major ones have huge followings
|and due to the unreliability and untrustworthiness of Russian state
|media, often folks have relied on Russian millbloggers to better
|understand the war. Since Prighozins attempted mutiny (not coup, two
|different things) the Kremlin has either cracked down (Igor Gerkin,
|architect of the Donbas war) on some of these millbloggers or co-opted
|them willingly or unwillingly (Rybar is a infamous example) into
|pushing Kremlin narratives about success and the war.
|u/SirKillsalot - 1 month
|
|Can anyone locate?
|https://x.com/secretsqrl123/status/1823776249795260883
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|There is one Novoivanovka [east of Lyubimivka](https://www.google.com/
|maps/place/Novoivanovka,+Kursk+Oblast,+Russia,+307818/@51.3227292,35.0
|853008,14z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m15!1m8!3m7!1s0x4128c0333e5234fb:0x9a4239a0b
|69014fe!2sNovoivanovka,+Kursk+Oblast,+Russia!3b1!8m2!3d50.956978!4d35.
|5364763!16s%2Fg%2F1hhkzxnrj!3m5!1s0x41292fd6a859a72d:0xf424cf0a8eba3b1
|2!8m2!3d51.3224203!4d35.1042225!16s%2Fg%2F1hhnqp5sd?entry=ttu).
|Confirmed, it's that one. Someone geolocated it in the comments there
|u/SirKillsalot - 1 month
|
|Let's hope it's the West one. (and real)
|u/MarkRclim - 1 month
|
|Machine translated quotes from Bakhmutskyi Demon today. He is near
|Chasiv Yar, so comments about elsewhere are second-hand. "According to
|my data, there are 111 prisoners in Kurshchyna today. There are also
|several in the Pokrovsky direction." [Note "today" - new??]
|"Pidarnyavs[russians] are crawling in the direction of Mirnograd, and
|are also accumulating in certain houses within Toretsk." "According to
|Chasik, the sorties continue, but so far the most active aviation is in
|Podarny.[Russia?]" My interpretation: Kursk sounds fine still, Toretsk
|is worrying, and Russia is still attacking Chasiv Yar hard but no
|progress announced.
|u/godiebiel - 1 month
|
|Doesn't really matter how far the russians stretch in Donbass, the
|plan is to bring down the russian regime from within. russian railways
|are already breaking down, cutting (under HIMARS fire control) the
|north-south connection to Belgorod, means freedom fighters in the
|North Caucausus can claim indepedence.
|u/nocturnalfrolic - 1 month
|
|In a nutshell, how will you compare the current size of Kursk region
|(territories under Ukraine) to a, lets says, a US state?
|u/JoshuaZ1 - 1 month
|
|Ukraine was generally estimated two days ago to control around 1000
|km^2 of Russia. That number has gone up in the last two days but
|unclear by how much (probably not a lot). The smallest US state is
|Rhode Island, which is around 2,678 km^2 . But area is not by itself
|the best metric. Some locations are more important than others. if
|Ukraine can get near specific major operational objective (in
|particular areas Russia would use for supply lines, or areas used for
|production, mining, refining, etc.) that matters. Right now, the
|sections of Kursk they have taken have little operational or strategic
|value. This is not like say Crimea or the Donbask which have a lot of
|natural resources and useful geography. Kursk is one of the largest
|producers of iron ore in Russia, and also produces some other metals
|(including some rare earth metals). If that production can be
|threatened, Ukraine will have gained a genuinely strategicly relevant
|section of Russia.
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|Not comparable to a US state as it is smaller. Let's just say it's
|almost the size of Hong Kong (which is 1'114 km2)
|u/Certain_Shake_8852 - 1 month
|
|Closest would be Rhode Island.
|u/Vryly - 1 month
|
|it's nice being from a state used as a unit of measurement so often,
|gives you a nice feel for the scale of things.
|u/No_Amoeba6994 - 1 month
|
|It is approximately equal to the average size of the average county in
|Indiana or Georgia (yes, I looked this up, not a joke). If you want a
|specific county, Owen County, Indiana, or Fannin County, Georgia are
|about the right size.
|u/thisiscotty - 1 month
|
|https://x.com/EuromaidanPR/status/1823777995225751678?t=g3GGdGj1ypy9ucXl
|yys34Q&s=19 "Another air threat for Kyiv"
|u/Glavurdan - 1 month
|
|[Russia strikes back at Ukrainian forces in Kursk
|region](https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-keeps-up-air-
|attacks-kursk-putin-lashes-out-west-2024-08-13/) In classic Reuters
|fashion, only in the body of the text do they explain that by strike
|back they mean "missiles, drone attacks, airstrikes vs Ukrainian
|troops".
|u/Dabbooo - 1 month
|
|[What is this now ?](https://x.com/osinterer/status/1823738897136017725)
|Russian sources are starting to talk about it now, so it's safe to post:
|"The Ukrainian Armed Forces have carried out a large scale air assault,
|landing troops by helicopter in the area of Lgov behind Ruzzian lines.
|I have seen video, will post when cleared."
|u/ElectroStaticz - 1 month
|
|The Russians do like claiming amazing Ukrainian advances only to
|"drive them back" to boost morale but if it is true then hot digitty
|dayum.
|u/No_Amoeba6994 - 1 month
|
|I am *extremely* dubious of this without some very firm evidence. A
|helicopter air assault 30+ kilometers beyond the line of contact
|inside Russia itself would be very nearly suicidal, bordering on
|insane.
|u/ObjectiveBike8 - 1 month
|
|I guess Russia is digging trenches in Lgov according to CNN, and our
|information is delayed on the line of contact.  “We need people to
|dig trenches in Lgov. They also have equipment but no drivers.
|Payment every week,” it added.  https://www.cnn.com/world/live-
|news/ukraine-russia-war-kursk-incursion-08-14-24/index.html
|u/Wermys - 1 month
|
|Why? Depends on the goal of the air assault. Right now Russia
|doesn't have any real control over the airspace in that area. If
|they have good drone coverage they can see and ingress and regress
|route that is suitable. The first question before even assuming its
|true would be what would there target be. Then working based on the
|possible target if its possible. Which I do think it would be as
|long as its going after a specific target and not to try and hold
|ground.
|u/piponwa - 1 month
|
|So was the Belgorod helicopter raid early on in the war. But it
|still happened.
|u/PinkOwls_ - 1 month
|
|Let's not forget the resupply of Mariupol which went on for like 2
|weeks.
|u/No_Amoeba6994 - 1 month
|
|Yes, but at least in Mariupol they controlled the landing area,
|they weren't landing in Russian controlled territory.
|u/No_Amoeba6994 - 1 month
|
|There's a big difference between a helicopter raid to destroy some
|oil tanks from the air and an air assault to land and recover
|troops in enemy territory. That's an order of magnitude more
|difficult.
|u/SirKillsalot - 1 month
|
|Ehhhh...... gonna file that under 'wait and see' Never heard of this
|account.
|u/AgentElman - 1 month
|
|This would be very bold. The helicopter part seems the least likely
|given air defenses in general but Russia may have little air defense
|in the hastily assembled defenses. Cutting off Lgov or just south of
|it would largely cut off Rylsk. With Russia not having troops
|available to react in open country, the AFU could place troops to
|interdict the main roads and railroads. I want to believe this is
|happening but it seems too good to be true.
|u/rrrand0mmm - 1 month
|
|Invade from SE of Sveso. Push through to the main effort. Open that
|entire area to be under UAF control. Force surrender of those in
|between.
|u/piponwa - 1 month
|
|The gang does maneuver warfare
|u/in_da_tr33z - 1 month
|
|I'm not an expert and have little knowledge of the forces available and
|their positions, but it would seem that it would be easy to take a whole
|bunch of territory - and POWs?- by crossing into Russia at Tyotkino and
|pushing to the Smyet river? They use the river to the north as a natural
|defense line and roll up everything between Tyotkino and Korenevo.
|u/jeremy9931 - 1 month
|
|If it’s the Tyotkino i think it is, Russia is using it as one of their
|strongholds in the area. Hence why they were bombing it with hammers 2
|days ago
|u/754175 - 1 month
|
|French Glide bombs :) As the famous saying goes Violence
|baguettes violence Or is it Violence begets violence I can't
|remember
|u/Invezto - 1 month
|
|AKA AASM Hammer
|u/ServantOfBeing - 1 month
|
|Too bad it’s only Ukraine in on this, if someone were to open up another
|front. Russia militarily would seemingly fall apart at this point. Not
|that it isn’t to some degree, but speaking in terms of haste.
|u/Past-Passenger9129 - 1 month
|
|Poland suddenly says "That looks like fun. Count me in!" Luckily
|Poland is smarter than that.
|u/DoggoNamedDisgrace - 1 month
|
|If I can be non-credible for a moment, I have a plan: 1. Kaliningrad is
|now basically free real estate 2. If Belarus can move russian troops,
|then Poland can also allow Ukrainian troops through our territory 3.
|Ukraine sweeps in in and takes all of Kaliningrad 4. Ukraine becomes
|instant nuclear superpower 5. Poland in return only asks for a supply
|of an oitment to cure our blue balls (bc Ukrainians keep pounding
|russian asses and we can only watch) 6. Finland remembers Karelia 7.
|Japan remembers Kuril islands 8. Aftermentioned countries
|unexplainably offer free plane tickets to select Ukrainian troops 9.
|Fucking entire russia is suddenly encircled by Ukrainians 10. Putin
|shits BRICS 11. After all is done and dusted, we all sit in a round
|table and discuss giving Kaliningrad to Czechs because it would be
|extremely funny
|u/jeremy9931 - 1 month
|
|1. Nobody wants Kaliningrad. It’s been neglected for decades and it’s
|full of Russians. Most other groups who had ties to the land got
|purged from it long ago. 2. Can they? Sure. Will they? No. 3. See
|#1. 4. Physically having nukes on hand doesn’t make you a nuclear
|superpower unless you can actually use them. Ukraine finding a way to
|use them would 100% see backlash from all other nuclear powers. 5.
|Fair. 6. Karelia has the same issue as Kalingrad, it’s not worth the
|trouble. 7-11. I’m not even sure anymore.
|u/yallmad4 - 1 month
|
|Truly noncredible, bravo
|u/Dizzy_Damage_9269 - 1 month
|
|Very non credible, but still a very refreshing comment compared to all
|the "f**k Putin" and Xitter copy/paste posters. Thanks for that!
|u/Yaaallsuck - 1 month
|
|https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13739165/a
|mp/Dramatic-moment-14m-superyacht-owned-founder-troubled-grocery-app-
|Getir-catches-fire-coast-Sardinia-sinks-16-passenger-crew-escape.html
|The tweet about Medvedev's yacht is a fake or at least the image is.
|Unless an actually reliable source is found, it should be removed.
|u/Osiris32 - 1 month
|
|I mean, your source is the Daily Mail. Just saying.
|u/ttbnz - 1 month
|
|As is tradition.
|u/Embarrassed-Toe-904 - 1 month
|
|The good thing about when Russia gets bombed is at least they have good-
|looking metro stations to hide in. It's probably like a 5 star hotel
|compared to what the average Russians live in.
|u/Logical_Welder3467 - 1 month
|
|that is only for Moscow and and St Peterberg, IIRC only 4 cities
|outside these two have metro system
|u/OmniaLoca - 1 month
|
|Mmmmm fresh thread smell is best smell
|u/owa00 - 1 month
|
|Agreed, now please read my hot-take post about why Stargate Universe
|was a great show that should have never been cancelled, and how it
|affects the Ukraine war...
|u/aisholee - 1 month
|
|i’m waiting.
|u/stevehockey4 - 1 month
|
|Eli still standing on the bridge of that ship for all eternity still
|haunts me. So sad it ended.
|u/xeothought - 1 month
|
|Just like with Star Trek Enterprise... we didn't know how good we
|had it. Great shows in hindsight (though I always loved Universe).
|Slava Ukraini
|u/SundyMundy - 1 month
|
|It's been a long road...
|u/spatenfloot - 1 month
|
|on the other hand, Sliders was never any good 
|u/Spo-dee-O-dee - 1 month
|
|*Sliders* was just budget bin *Quantum Leap*. And I didn't like
|that show either.
|u/GwynBleidd88 - 1 month
|
|Some interesting bits of information I've seen highlighted in [this
|article by The Wall Street Journal](https://archive.is/Rx5ZW) about the
|Kursk incursion: > For now, Russia is struggling to contain Ukrainian
|advances. But some Ukrainian soldiers waiting to join the battle from
|Sumy, the Ukrainian regional capital on the border, said they had been
|pulled from already threadbare units on the eastern front in Ukraine
|and > Another soldier said he was surprised to learn he was being
|transferred to the Sumy border region as his unit was so short of men
|that infantry spent as long as 45 days straight in a trench. The
|25-year-old had been stationed in Chasiv Yar, one of the hottest spots
|on the front line, until a week before the incursion. So it sounds like
|Ukraine are actually pulling some units away from the Donbass and into
|the Kursk offensive. This won't make much sense to any of us here since
|we have a miniscule amount of information available compared to the
|Ukrainian generals in charge, but I think it's interesting regardless.
|u/_e75 - 1 month
|
|Even Russia grabbing hundreds or thousands of square miles more of the
|Donbas won’t significantly impact ukraines ability to continue to
|fight except in as much as they’re throwing troops into the meat
|grinder. It might be preferable to sacrifice a ton of land in return
|for flooding more Ukrainian troops into Russia where they can shut
|down their infrastructure and logistics. If they cut off the train
|lines and flank the front lines they can just end the war.
|u/BossReasonable6449 - 1 month
|
|I don't think this is surprising. The initial reports from the first
|few days was that Ukraine was using seasoned troops for this rather
|than recent recruits. The WSJ's story just seems to be giving some
|detail to that. Sounds like that had some units that they were going
|to have to reconstitute, but just decided to take the remnants of and
|use for this operation.
|u/machopsychologist - 1 month
|
|Depends on their role I guess. If they're already battered so badly,
|rotating them to a cooler part of the front as a rear police unit
|might be ok. I assume they prefer being in Kursk and not Chasiv Yar
|right now.
|u/Additional-Duty-5399 - 1 month
|
|Seems like they're banking on that the Russians will also pull away
|some forces from the Donbass in response to protect Kursk, so it kinda
|levels off. It's a delicate balance on the front lines, you can't push
|one part without somewhat compromising another.
|u/stayfrosty - 1 month
|
|Well if the choice is between fighting a war of attrition on your
|soil or your enemy's, you would choose to fight on your enemy's
|every time
|u/forvirradsvensk - 1 month
|
|You don’t need heavily manned positions to face Russia’s meat waves,
|just fortifications and non-static defence when necessary.
|u/Comrade-McCain - 1 month
|
|Hello am Ivan from American Republic, I writing this to tell you we
|habben serious problem in Kursk and I am very concern about escalation
|with the Kremlin
|u/boomsers - 1 month
|
|St. Petersburg, Florida oblast?
|u/BroccoliFartFuhrer - 1 month
|
|No no Texas oblast with warm water ports.
|u/WorldNewsMods - 1 month
|
|[Previous post can be found here](/r/worldnews/comments/1eqyidc/rworldne
|ws_live_thread_russian_invasion_of/)
|u/jeremy9931 - 1 month
|
|Just GOAT things https://x.com/defmon3/status/1823773875357843543?s=46&
|t=atIpeQGVIhaOOydeLGsHZw
|u/Cogitoergosumus - 1 month
|
|Some fairly iffy sources are claiming Ukraine may have captured Apti
|Alaudinov. If true it would be a huge blow to the Russian Tik Tok
|world.
|u/jeremy9931 - 1 month
|
|Anyone with two brain cells knows that this rumor is false. Gonna be
|hard as hell to capture someone filming TikToks 100 miles away from
|the frontlines.
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