Daily Report from the Ukraine Field for 2022-12-16 & 17
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Chronicle of strikes and mutual shelling in the SMO zone during the night of December 15-16, 2022
▪️Russian troops hit the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the villages of Zapselye and Popovka, Sumy region.
▪️In the Kharkiv region, the Russian Armed Forces attacked enemy targets in Staritsa, Vysoka Yaruga and Morokhovets.
▪️In the Starobelsk direction, Russian units worked on concentrations of personnel and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Tabaevka, Berestovoye, Stelmakhivka and Yampolovka.
▪️In the Bakhmut (Artyomovsk) direction, Russian missile forces and artillery hit the concentration sites of Ukrainian units in Verkhnekamensky, Sporny, Bakhmut and Kleshcheevka.
▪️In the Lugansk People's Republic, the enemy attacked an ammunition depot in Irmino at night, and also fired rockets from the HIMARS MLRS at residential buildings in Stakhanov and Lantratovka: at least eight people died and 23 were injured.
▪️In the Donetsk direction, the Russian Armed Forces hit the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Avdeevka, Nevelskoye and Krasnohorivka.
In turn, at night, Ukrainian formations fired on civilian targets in Donetsk, Gorlovka and Makeevka.
▪️In the Yuzhnodonetsk direction, Russian troops worked on targets in Novomikhailovka, Vremyevka and Vugledar.
▪️In the Zaporozhye region, the Russian Armed Forces attacked enemy positions in Dorozhnyanka, Gulyaipolsky and Gulyaipole.
▪️In the Dnipropetrovsk region, Russian artillery worked on firing points of Ukrainian units in Nikopol and Ilyinka.
▪️On the southern sector of the front, the RF Armed Forces hit enemy concentrations in Kherson, Tokarevka and Novotyaginka.
At night, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked the civilian infrastructure of Kakhovka.
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Massive Russian strikes on the infrastructure of Ukraine. What is known so far:
🔻 The mayor of Kharkiv confirmed attacks on critical infrastructure, there were several explosions in the city, it is completely de-energized;
🔻 Ukrainian media report explosions in Kyiv, Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk, Kirovohrad, Poltava, Ternopil and Mykolaiv regions;
🔻 The governor of the Odessa region reported hits on energy infrastructure facilities;
🔻 A number of sections of the railway are de-energized in Kharkiv, Kirovohrad and Dnepropetrovsk regions, diesel locomotives are put on the routes;
🔻 There are power outages throughout Ukraine. In particular, Kharkiv and Poltava are completely de-energized as per local media reports.
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The special operation, 16 December. Main:
▪️Air alarms sounded across Ukraine in the morning, with local publications reporting explosions in several regions. Ukrenergo said there had been a loss of more than 50% of power system consumption.
▪️Ukrainian troops fired 3 HIMARS rockets at Lantrativka in LNR in the morning: latest reports say 11 people dead, 17 injured.
▪️The Russian Defence Ministry has reported a total of around 160 Ukrainian casualties in various directions overnight.
▪️Russian forces continued their offensive in the Donetsk direction, dislodging the enemy from their positions, the Russian Defence Ministry said.
▪️The White House has said that the new military aid package to Ukraine will include air defense assets.
▪️ The EU has imposed a new package of sanctions, including the Russian Armed Forces, Navy, Air Force, and Ground Forces.
▪️Ex-Secretary of State Kissinger has outlined his vision for future peace between Russia and Ukraine; the Kremlin said it would study his ideas with great interest.
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Zin: LOL that overdub!
🇺🇸Tucker Carlson showed Americans how sanctions affect Russia
▪️From January to September, Russia's trade turnover was $120 billion higher than in the same period of the previous year. Doubled previous record in 2008
▪️The American reporter showed the shelves of our stores with genuine delight, converted his basket into dollars and was shocked;
▪️He visited suburban shops and made sure that their assortment is richer than in some New York stores;
▪️Jeremy Alfredo denies that Russia has returned to the Soviet era;
▪️He stressed that the purpose of the EU and American sanctions is to make the life of ordinary citizens unbearable, so that they take to the streets and overthrow the government;
▪️I talked to people and learned that there are three categories:
1️⃣Patriots - they fully support the SMO and are on the side of the authorities;
2️⃣ Liberals are against sanctions, SMO, but only because they are deprived of the usual benefits like Spotify and Netflix;
3️⃣ Apolitical people who do not notice any changes in life do not follow politics. Sanctions didn't affect them at all.
▪️The reporter noted the low cost of fuel for the population. He singled it out: "they can go anywhere";
The Tucker Carlson show noticed that sanctions harm the citizens of the countries that initiate them, not Russia.
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I’m beginning to write this on day 296 of the SMO:
This will be the first of 3 posts that I want to make on the issues of the SMO and the major problems and solutions as well as my own, humble future predictions. The first part will focus on the major problems and solutions. The second will be my view of the mobilization and its effects, purposes, and impacts. The third will be a short set of my own personal predictions.
Part 1
Weaknesses of the Russian War Machine and Solutions Implemented
General Weaknesses:
It needs to be remembered that the Russian military spending is a small percentage of US military spending even after adjusting for cost differences. It’s an even smaller percentage of NATO military spending as well. The Russian military suffers also suffers from more than a fair amount of corruption, just as other militaries do, however the relative poverty of Russia exacerbates this problem within the context of Russian society. To be frank, Russia is a poor nation relative to the Western powers.
Solutions: While Russia can’t increase it’s per capita GDP overnight, the strength of the Russian economy and the reliance of the West on Russian hydrocarbons has been demonstrated during the SMO. Therefore, the Russian economy has both strengths and weaknesses. Even before the SMO, Russia took great strides to limit its dependence on oil revenues and strengthen the resilience of the War Chest. This foresight has paid dividends.
As far as corruption is concerned, the SMO has had cleansing effect, within the realm of the possible, as corruption will most likely never be irradicated. As we’ve witnessed the neoliberal rats as well as some of the most egregious oligarchs being running from what they perceived to be a sinking ship (as they cared not for Russia or her overall well being, but only for their own personal wealth and comfort), much of the toxic elements of Russian society are being cleansed from her bloodstream. Over the near and long term, this will make the War Machine stronger and more resilient in the face of adversity.
Drones and Drone Countermeasures
Quickly after the SMO began, it was apparent that Russia had underinvested in autonomous drone technology. In the modern battlefield where Air Supremacy can’t be or hasn’t been achieved, combat resembling that of WW1 becomes the norm. In this event, expensive fighter jets and bombers are incredibly vulnerable, and each loss is costly, especially for a nation that doesn’t have an endless amount of money for such luxuries. One can’t help but notice that drones are being used much of the same way that biplanes of early military aviation functioned, in the realms of reconnaissance as well as targeted bombing of enemy infantry in trenches and bunkers. The loss of a drone pales in comparison materially relative to the loss of a fighter jet that costs orders of magnitude more in terms of resources both financial and material.
Solutions: As we’ve seen, Russia has plugged much of this gap with assistance from Iran as well as by spinning up its own drone production. Russia is not beginning to focus on an array of autonomous vehicles that will be the future of military operations. I believe that Russia has turned this weakness into a strength since the beginning of the SMO.
The Battalion Tactical Group
As many have commented, the Battalion Tactical Group has, in recent decades, become the main arrangement of Russian tactical groupings in recent decades. This grouping has certain advantages when facing poorly equipped opponents with poor training, primarily irregular infantry with weak defenses. Basically, the BTG consists of lots of heavy machinery but also reduced infantry to defend the flanks. The purpose is to multiply the effect of artillery at the cost of being more vulnerable to shock attacks on their flanks. Defense of the BTG flanks was mostly left to the militia groups of the DPR/LPR. This strategy has proven inadequate in the face of a well trained and well supplied Ukrainian defense.
🇬🇧🇺🇦🩸💡 And again about the situation with the wounded and the dead - an analysis of Rybar and the Military Chronicle
Despite the obvious problems of the Ukrainian healthcare system due to power outages, the situation is catastrophic for more prosaic reasons.
The situation with the wounded in the Armed Forces of Ukraine is critical. The most difficult situation is developing in the Soledar direction, where daily losses in the battles for Bakhmut range from 50 to 100 people on average.
And there is no place to store corpses either: they don’t deal with centralized burial, and it’s forbidden to give the bodies to relatives, so as not to excite Ukrainian society with the facts of losses.
🔻Problems with medical staff
Doctors and physicians buy a huge part of the materials and medicines with their own money.
The salaries of the medical staff are small - even for those who work on the front lines at the risk of their lives. For example, a practicing surgeon's salary is about UAH 8,000.
In Western Ukraine, no serious efforts are made in the treatment - doctors simply do not care about the wounded. And if the patient is from the central or eastern part of the country, then you should not count on a normal attitude.
For the Westerners, these are second-class people. The medical staff does everything through their fingers, and at the first opportunity writes out and sends them back to the front line.
🔻Relation to the wounded
With luck, high-ranking officers can be evacuated by helicopter to hospitals in the Poltava and Dnipropetrovsk regions. With medium or light wounds, they try to take them as far as possible to the rear to hospitals in Western Ukraine or to Kyiv.
Hospitals on the frontline in the Donetsk and Kharkiv regions are overcrowded, there is no proper provision.
Seriously wounded are operated on directly on the ground in the field. Priority is given to foreigners if there is a need to provide assistance on the spot.
Soldiers may not even count on such an attitude. If they are taken out, then only on ordinary transport, storing the bodies in KAMAZ and URAL trucks.
Because of this, at best, some remain disabled, and at worst, they die due to untimely assistance and unsanitary conditions. In most cases, gangrene occurs, followed by amputation of the limbs or an abscess.
🔻Huge number of bodies
Morgues don't work. The staff is sorely lacking. There is not enough equipment, storage conditions are violated. They try to distribute the corpses not only to morgues, but also to municipal hospitals.
Most of the bodies have to be kept outside. The facts of devouring corpses by rats and the deterioration of the epidemiological situation in cities have been recorded.
No one is engaged in baiting rodents, since the administrations in the regions do not care about the lives of ordinary citizens. The most important thing is that the data on the number of dead is not leaked to the network. Relatives can take the bodies, but for a bribe of $ 300 (it came to threats of cremation in case of refusal to pay after voicing such scrupulous bodies).
Pathologists in hospitals and morgues do not perform autopsies. Conclusions based on the results of the “expertise” are written by eye, which allows you to indicate the necessary reasons and omit unnecessary data.
🔻 The situation in Ukraine is close to critical due to the huge number of dead, improper storage of bodies and the lack of proper measures for their maintenance and burial.
Growing unsanitary conditions and a deepening energy crisis are bringing the country closer to an epidemiological catastrophe that no one is trying to fight. In Kyiv, it was decided not only to keep silent about the losses, but also to hide in every possible way the true attitude towards the wounded and the dead.
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Nice piece.
Sounds like newkraine nUkraine is getting to be a rather pleasant cemetery or crematorium....
I am sorry on behalf of America that we did this to the world. I am terribly sorry.
Really useful detail here and detail counts, especially in countering the false counter-narratives of The Western Mainstream Media.
In one year's time looking back, this operation belongs to Russia and The West is slowly and systematically degraded. Judgment shall be by outcomes and outcomes alone.
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A more strategic, historical take here A.S. that may be of interest.
Much, much longer and more abstruse. Reading these will leave one looking visibly older, possibly wiser although that remains entirely speculative . . . https://les7eb.substack.com