Russia-Ukraine Reports - 2023-09-10
T-80BVM tank with factory visor and electronic warfare equipment.
Ukranian female fighter proudly shows off Nazi Germany inspired patch. While her friend is sporting Blood and Soil Right (Ukranian nazi organization) sector patch. In WW2 Western Ukraine sided with Nazi & their cruelty was stunning to Germans. This is a revival of the past
The Ukrainian authorities are ready to negotiate with Russia to end the war - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
“When it comes to negotiations, it takes two to tango. And so far we have not seen any signs of interest in diplomacy from Vladimir Putin. If he shows interest, then I think the Ukrainians will be the first to enter into negotiations, and we will be right behind them. Everyone wants this military conflict to end, but it must end on fair and sustainable terms that reflect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine,” Blinken said. The "counteroffensive" crashed and burnt so now the Americans are pushing for "negotiations"... Negotiations are fairly straightforward:
Ukraine surrenders
Crimea, DLPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye are immediately recognised as Russian territory.
All Ukrainian war criminals are handed over to Russia.
https://twitter.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1700918707588071732
Fresh off her big trip to Ukraine, Victoria Nuland says one "axis" of current US strategy is to “put some of Russia's most precious assets at risk." This as strikes on Russian territory have increased sharply, and the US will reportedly be sending long-range ballistic missiles
https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1700955293922869341
An entire dugout full of Ukrainians is caught by surprise causing a MASS SURRENDER 4 Russian paratroopers followed a pair of Ukrainians to their position unnoticed and gave them the option to surrender instead of filling the hole with grenades. Dazzled and ignorant about the pickle they were in, Ukrainians chose to give up without a fight. ELEVEN of them found a way out of Zelensky’s war.
https://twitter.com/narrative_hole/status/1700954051796500509
CNN's Jake Tapper says Elon Musk “effectively sabotaged a military operation” and asks Blinken if there should “be repercussions" for his actions which likely saved the world from nuclear war.
https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1700937855772840165
Center Donetsk being shelled by Ukrainian forces again right now
Grads just rained on a civilian neighbourhood in Donetsk. We arrived on site to meet one of the injured still bleeding. Full report later on https://t.me/CafeRevolution
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday/2195
⚡️📣Massive Ukrainian Rocket attack injures young woman in Donetsk as last day of elections come to an end⚡️📣
My full report coming soon
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday/2196
The Chief thinks about a damaged tank in the war with Russia. Why doesn’t the Chief think that the answer for this war can come to the UK from Russia?
British Chief of the General Staff Patrick Sanders speaks about his shock at the destruction of the first Challenger 2 tank in Ukraine: Now we have seen the first Challenger tanks in action. And in many ways it is one of the most advanced tanks in the world. And, of course, the most secure. And so you see, you know, when one of them, when the first Challenger was destroyed in battle, and although the crew managed to get out... [Yes. When you saw it destroyed, what did you think?] It caused me emotional distress. Because it was like I was in this tank myself. Do you understand what I'm talking about. We have a deep attachment to the technology with which we have been fighting in recent years. But I understand that this happens in war.
https://t.me/dimsmirnov175/54338
Forest belt along Rabotino-Verbovoye.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are filming a video for tik-tok accompanied by sad howls.
Everything is littered with corpses and burnt equipment. The losses are incredible. “There is no prospect of a peaceful solution to the conflict in Ukraine in the near future; the parties have decided to continue,” said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
No one cares about the colossal losses, both in manpower and in Western technology. The United States, in turn, continues to throw wood on the fire. They are thinking of sending ATACMS long-range missiles to Kiev. At the same time, the guys still don’t need World War III. They need a protracted conflict on foreign territory, which can be observed from across the ocean.
Let’s not even start about the “decision-making centers” in the White House, which is waiting for a Russian missile...
https://t.me/condottieros/931
Italian anti-fascists in Milan disrupted an exhibition dedicated to the Nazi Azov brigade.
Not all Italians liked the Hitler tattoo. Mussolini was enough.
t.me/mriya24/30815
Military expert Alexander Zimovsky: "Why ATACMS? Why now? That is the question.
Yes, because ATACMS was/began to be delivered to Ukraine because the spring-summer-autumn offensive failed.
When the plan failed, but the task remained, ATACMS was introduced."
https://t.me/zimovskyAL/26970.
And when this does not help, the Ukrainian US and NATO armies will receive tactical nuclear weapons.
🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺 Enemy offensive near Rabotino and Verbovoy: “🅾️brave” arrived and launched a counter-attack on the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Zaporozhye front
Direction of the main attack of the Ukrainian Armed Forces: Orekhovsky section.
➨ The enemy has been steadily conducting artillery bombardment since the morning and launching small groups from the 82nd Airborne Brigade, 47 and 65 mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the 15th brigade of the National Guard to attack our positions.
➨ “They are reporting from the localities that reinforcements have arrived from the Russian side from the Kremen direction. They have already entered the battle,” enemy resources report.
➨ In the Rabotino area, the fighting is still predominantly positional in nature; the enemy carried out local attacks, trying to advance through the plantings with the support of armored vehicles. The Ukrainian Armed Forces tanks fired from a safe distance.
➨ West of Rabotino , the Ukrainian Armed Forces are trying to push Russian troops out of the defense line in the direction of the village of Kopani.
➨ Heavy fighting continues south of Rabotino , the Russian army repels the blow and proceeds to counterattack.
➨ Northeast and east of Novoprokopovka, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are pressing in the direction of the Surovikin line, and the attacks are repelled by artillery fire.
➨ Near the western outskirts of Verbovoy , shooting battles continue; the enemy is rushing through the plantings in the direction of the village, but is covered in fire.
➨ Artillery and army aviation are actively working on both sides.
#source:
https://t.me/RVvoenkor/52851?single
ATACMS - Another obsolete wunderwaffe
There has been a lot of talk about the ATACMS missile and now that the US has confirmed it will in fact deliver this weapon to the Kiev regime, it is worthwhile considering the facts about it.
ATACMS development began in 1980, when the US Army decided to replace its aging MGM-52 Lance arsenal. After more than 30 years in operational service, ATACMS is now EOL and is being replaced by the new PrSM (Precision Strike Missile) which in 2023 reached initial operational capability.
ATACMS in its most modernized M57E1 form is a GPS-guided tactical ballistic missile with a maximum range of 300km. The M57E1 variant carries a 250kg, unitary fragmentation warhead, and has a CEP radius of 9 meters. It can be fired from the tracked M270 MLRS and wheeled M142 HIMARS platforms. The M270 can carry 2 ATACMS, HIMARS carries 1 missile.
A total of 3700 ATACMS missiles have been manufactured. Approximately 1750 of those were exported, 600 were fired in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, with an approximately equal number fired in training. The US Army and USMC terminated their ATACMS programs in 2007, so remaining US stocks of this missile are not replenished and do not currently exceed 750 units.
It can be expected that the US Army and USMC will only begin to release their ATACMS stockpiles when they receive deliveries of PrSM systems. Even if foreign ATACMS operators agree to give up some of their missiles to Ukraine, it can be expected that this system will be given to the AFU in dribs and drabs.
@Slavyangrad
🔞 Enemy diversionary reconnaissance group destroyed in Bryansk forest. 🔞
Soldiers of the Russian Army, FSB, National Guard, and border guards continue to destroy enemy saboteurs.
It is interesting that this time the seasoned professionals of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were unspooled in pursuit and firefight not by great specialists in the fight against the underground and illegal militants, but by ordinary Russian Guardsmen from the headquarters, reports A. Sladkov (https://t.me/Sladkov_plus/8509).
Let us recall that it was previously reported that the intelligence of the Russian Guard took part in the operation to eliminate the bandit group.
@Slavyangrad
An emotional and unequivocal response from the residents of Crimea to the information spread by UkroReich.
It is noteworthy that Crimeans clearly separate the “Ukrainian ruling regime” from the residents of Ukraine themselves
#source
(https://t.me/RtrDonetsk/20201)@Slavyangrad
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The Ukrainian Armed Forces offensive has 30-45 days of combat left before it begins to be hampered by the weather, - US Chief of Staff Mark Milley
According to him, after this, it will be much more difficult for the Ukrainian Armed Forces to maneuver. At the same time, he noted that Ukraine “is advancing at a very steady pace across the Russian front lines.”
“At the very beginning of this war, I said it would be long, slow, hard, and with a lot of casualties, and that’s exactly what is happening,” he stressed.
@Slavyangrad
Russian troops quadrupled the depth of the minefields - from 120 meters to 500. Their density was also increased.
New defensive tactics of the Russian Army thwarted Kiev's plans - Forbes
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The State Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine confirmed that they are actively using Starlink terminals to attack Russian targets.
The head of Ukrainian intelligence, Kirill Budanov, said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces use terminals along the entire front line.
“They have done quite well at the front. You can say a lot, whether they are good or bad, but there are facts - absolutely the entire front line is working because of them,” Budanov said at a conference in Kiev.
However, according to him, “for a certain time,” the network did not work near Crimea.
The intelligence chief suggested that this was due to a “lack of coverage.”
“I can absolutely confirm that the Starlink systems did not work for some time near Crimea. We immediately realized that there was simply no coverage there, that’s probably all I can say,” concluded Budanov.
The head of military intelligence does not believe that SpaceX founder Elon Musk “ operated some mythical buttons and stopped the movement of some devices ” in the Crimea region.
@Slavyangrad
Andrei Medvedev writes (https://t.me/MedvedevVesti/15203)
It is very likely that for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the small settlement of Rabotino and its surroundings are turning into a new Bakhmut. Just as the Ukrainian authorities - both military and political - killed combat-ready units in Bakhmut, a similar picture is emerging in Rabotino.
It is difficult for an outsider, far from the army, to understand what the fundamental significance of this settlement is for Kiev. But it is no less difficult for a military man to understand why the Ukrainian Armed Forces are so stubborn and certainly want to raise the yellow block flag over the charred ruins.
The fact is that by the beginning of the offensive, everything was going very, very well for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Western technology, detailed intelligence data, and a sufficient number of personnel. Everything pointed to the fact that the Ukrainian Armed Forces would try to deliver two main strikes, and in the most vulnerable directions. Kherson region and Zaporozhye, for example.
I believed that the Ukrainian Armed Forces would definitely not strike in the direction of Crimea (this is a stupid idea). It seemed logical to me that the first strike would be in the direction of Melitopol/Berdyansk to cut through the group and the land corridor to Crimea (this is a serious problem when attacking a bridge). But the second blow, as for me, would be logical for the enemy to strike either in the Belgorod/Kursk region with an attempt to take two or three populated areas and establish control there for at least a few days. Or an attack on Donetsk from the Avdeevsky fortified area, with an attempt to catch on to the outskirts of the city. Both options would be very much in the style of Kiev: PR, hype, information war (something that we are bad at fending off), and if the circumstances are bad for us, causing real damage to us.
There were attempts to penetrate into the Kursk and Belgorod regions, yes. Punishers from the RDK carried out raids. But these were not serious military operations. The Ukrainian Armed Forces had enough Western long-range missiles, but the Ukrainian Armed Forces did not implement the idea of striking our rear areas. We couldn't do it right away. And then our air defense quickly reorganized.
Why all the possibilities were not realized, and why the Ukrainian Armed Forces decided not to use the two-strike tactic, one can only guess. It is possible, and most likely, that the decisions were not made in Kiev at all, but NATO has its own vision of how to fight with free Ukrainians.
Moreover, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine already in the first days of the offensive realized that nothing would work out. What is worth taking a break from now and preparing for a new operation? Maybe even next spring. But who asked the opinion of the Ukrainian generals? NATO decided otherwise.
As a result, success was not achieved in the southern direction. And a new offensive requires additional resources. People first of all. They are now being caught on the streets of Ukrainian cities.
But still, it is very interesting to understand who exactly made the decisions about what and where to attack. Because now Kiev and the West blame each other (and together Russian fortifications and Russian bushes). It will be funny if many years later it turns out that the plan for the summer offensive should have been developed by NATO, but out of laziness, they simply took some old exercise plan from the archive, simply hoping that the Russians would be scared anyway.
@Slavyangrad https://t.me/MedvedevVesti/15203
UNCONFIRMED
“They started sending extradition notices to Ukrainians”:
Now it has officially begun - a Ukrainian subject to military service living in Ireland has received a letter of happiness.
“The basis for extradition is an agreement between Ireland and Ukraine by the 1957 European Convention on Extradition.
In case of evasion, the man will face imprisonment in both Ireland and Ukraine for at least a year.
Extradition is not a politically motivated act and can be challenged in the Supreme Court."
@Slavyangrad
https://t.me/new_militarycolumnist/116876
We have collected the main points from the statements of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a press conference following the G20 summit:
◾️ The G20 summit is a success for all G20 countries; the group is undergoing internal reform;
◾️ The results of the G20 summit will give a very serious impetus to IMF reform;
◾️ The G20 summit in New Delhi was a watershed;
◾️ Thanks to the countries of the global South, it was possible to prevent the implementation of Western attempts to Ukrainize the G20 agenda;
◾️ The West will not be able to remain hegemon;
◾️ In the G20 declaration, stopping attacks against energy facilities means, among other things, terrorist attacks against Nord Streams and attacks on Zaporizhia NPP;
◾️ The online G20 summit is likely to take place before the end of November;
◾️ Among the developing members of the G20 there is a correct understanding of what is happening in Ukraine;
◾️ The assertions that the West presented an ultimatum to the Russian Federation in the G20 declaration are ridiculous;
◾️ The content of the UN Secretary General's letter on the grain deal gives the impression that they are trying to use it to promote unilateral approaches;
◾️ The West is trying to persuade the Russian Federation to agree to an unrealistic scheme to reconnect Rosselkhozbank to SWIFT through a branch in Luxembourg;
◾️ India invited the Russian Federation to invest the rupees that Moscow had accumulated, and is ready to offer areas for investment;
◾️ The agreements between the Russian Federation and India on military-technical cooperation remain in force;
◾️ Lavrov said that he did not seek contacts with representatives of Western countries at the G20 summit;
◾️ There can be no talk of negotiations on strategic stability in the current conditions;
◾️ The Russian Federation regrets Armenia's intention to conduct military exercises with the United States;
◾️ There is nothing good about NATO trying to penetrate the Transcaucasus;
◾️ Lavrov hopes that allied obligations towards Russia will prevail in Armenia's foreign policy;
◾️ Lavrov called the statements of Armenian representatives that Russia “gave” Karabakh to Azerbaijan incorrect;
◾️ Lavrov did not rule out that the EAEU will be considered in the future as a regional structural member of the G20.
https://t.me/SLGmaps/397
#source (https://t.me/tass_agency/208825)
Tonight, kamikaze drones "Geran" destroyed a military arsenal in the Rakitnyansky district of the Kyiv region, NASA satellites recorded more than ten sources of fire in the territory of ammunition depots after 3 am.
Local authorities confirm the arrival at an “infrastructure facility” in the Kyiv region, without specifying where and what arrived. Only the consequences of the blast wave in the form of damaged private houses are mentioned.
#source:
https://t.me/milinfolive/106226?single
Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation (10 September 2023)
Part I
In the Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces, jointly with aviation and artillery, repelled two attacks launched by assault groups of the 53rd and 110th mechanised brigades of the AFU close to Vodyanoye and Krasnogorovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
AFU personnel and military hardware were hit near Kleshcheyevka, Krasnoye, and Maloilyinovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
During the combat actions, the enemy lost up to 260 servicemen, two armoured fighting vehicles, and five motor vehicles.
▫️ In Zaporozhye direction, as a result of active action by units of the Russian Group of Forces, supported by aviation and artillery fire, six attacks launched by assault groups of the 65th Mechanised Brigade of the AFU near Rabotino (Zaporozhye region) have been repelled during the day.
In addition, enemy personnel and hardware were inflicted fire damage close to Novoandreyevka, north of Rabotino and north-west of Verbovoye (Zaporozhye region).
Up to 80 servicemen, two armoured fighting vehicles, and two pick-up trucks have been neutralised during the day.
In counter-battery warfare, the following vehicles were eliminated: one Akatsiya self-propelled artillery gun; U.S.-made M198, M119, and M777 howitzers, as well as Msta-B and D-20 guns.
Also, a Swedish-made ARTHUR counter-battery radar station was destroyed near Shirokoye (Zaporozhye region).
Ammunition depots of the 82nd Air Assault Brigade and the 9th Army Corps of the AFU were obliterated near Trudovoye and Rizdvyanka (Zaporozhye region).
▫️ In South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok Group of Forces repelled an attack launched by units of the 37th AFU Marine Brigade near Novodonetskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
In addition, air strikes and artillery fire struck clusters of manpower and equipment of the 72nd Mechanised Brigade and the 38th Marine Brigade of the AFU close to Nikolskoye, Novomayorskoye, and Ugledar (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy's losses in this direction totalled over 130 servicemen, four motor vehicles, and one Msta-B howitzer.
▫️ In Krasny Liman direction, units of the Tsentr Group of Forces, in co-operation with aviation and artillery, repelled an attack launched by an assault group of the 67th Mechanised Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic).
Fire also damaged hardware and personnel clusters of the 12th Azov Special Forces Brigade, the 5th Ukrainian National Guard Brigade, and the 67th Mechanised Brigade of the AFU in the vicinity of Kuzmino and Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic).
Over 50 servicemen, one armoured fighting vehicle, two pick-up trucks, two Gvozdika self-propelled launchers, and one D-30 howitzer were neutralised.
Russian Defence Ministry (https://t.me/mod_russia_en)
Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation (10 September 2023)
Part II
▫️ In Kupyansk direction, units of the Zapad Group of Forces, supported by air and artillery fire, repelled two attacks launched by assault groups of the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Kuzemovka (Lugansk People's Republic).
The AFU losses totalled up to 35 servicemen, one tank, two motor vehicles, and one Gvozdika self-propelled artillery gun.
In addition, an ammunition depot of the 1st Special Forces Brigade of the AFU was wiped out near Volchanskiye Khutora (Kharkov region).
Over 20 servicemen, two motor vehicles, and two D-30 howitzers have been eliminated by fire in Kherson direction during the day.
▫️ Operational-Tactical Aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Armed Forces' groups of forces engaged manpower and military hardware of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 117 areas.
In addition, a P-18 air target detection and tracking radar station was destroyed at a position uncovered by reconnaissance means near Lukashevo (Zaporozhye region).
Fire struck command and observation posts of the 77th Airmobile, 93rd Mechanised, 100th Territorial Defence brigades, and 15th Regiment of the Ukrainian National Guard in the vicinity of Spornoye and Serebryanka (Donetsk People's Republic).
▫️ The Russian Naval Aviation detected and destroyed three U.S.-made Willard speedboats in the Black Sea at night, each carrying up to 36 members of the AFU special operations forces in landing groups.
Air defence and electronic warfare systems destroyed and suppressed 42 unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of Ocheretovatoye, Novoye, Ulyanovka, and Kharkovo (Zaporozhye region), Ploshchanka, Belogorovka, and Rubezhnoye (Lugansk People's Republic), Spornoye, Soledar, and Gorlovka (Donetsk People's Republic), Novaya Mayachka and Velyka Lepetikha (Kherson region).
Russian Defence Ministry (https://t.me/mod_russia_en)
🔞Battles on the Zaporozhye front: An evacuation group of militants was blown up by a mine 🔞
Ukrainian fighters were carrying the already crippled Armed Forces soldier along the forest belt and came across a mine placed by our fighters. Then the militants are blown up again. Realizing that every step could be the last, the militant in a hurry begins to call sappers.
"At what price is each forest belt given? Fuck...everything is mined," Ukrainian militants lament
@Slavyangrad
🇷🇺 (https://t.me/vysokygovorit/12776)Footage of Russian tank being attacked by enemy drones
Two tanks from the 🅾️ group fired at enemy positions. At that moment, Ukrainian militants lifted two FPV drones with cumulative ammunition into the air and aimed them at our vehicles.
Despite the accurate hits, not a single charge worked.
@Slavyangrad
American economist Richard Wolff on the US attempt to weaken Russia:
You see, the American system is in decline and continues to deteriorate. And there is no end in sight. And there is growing dissatisfaction in the United States because they cannot do anything. They are plagued by failure and are very frightened by both the rise of China and China's alliances, as well as the failure of the United States and the G-7 countries to do anything. The culmination came in the form of a military conflict in Ukraine. This decision was taken by the United States to impose maximum political, cultural, and economic sanctions. They don't directly start a war with Russia because Russia has nuclear weapons. There are no other reasons. And then the best thing they can do is promise the Russians not to use nuclear weapons and arrange a military conflict between Russia and Ukraine, pumping Ukraine with money and weapons to start a military conflict. Without this, there would be no military conflict. And not a week would have passed before Russia would have finished everything. But they thought that they could win here and weaken one of the BRICS countries - Russia. But it didn't work. A year and a half passed and it didn’t work. The US had to escalate. Much further than the original plan. They gave them tanks, and now F-16s. Advanced missiles. But it still doesn't work. Russia has entered many, many kilometers into Ukrainian territory and no one is stopping it. And their mistake is that they do not understand that if they do not buy oil and gas from Russia, they will sell their oil and gas to someone else.
@Slavyangrad
Two Stryker armored personnel carriers were destroyed in the Zaporozhye direction
Enemy vehicles were destroyed by anti-tank missiles.
@Slavyangrad
Drone pilots of the 143rd Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 127th Division disabled the Ukrainian Armed Forces' mortar with a well-aimed drop. The scene is forest plantations between Priyutny and Ravnopol.
@Slavyangrad
Via Two Majors:
Avdeevskoe direction , NGP razvedka reports :
In order to increase combat effectiveness and offensive potential, the enemy transferred units of the 36th separate marine brigade, as well as armored fighting vehicles of various types, including up to a company of French-made AMX-10RC wheeled tanks to the area of responsibility of the 110th brigade.
Currently, the combined forces of the 110th Infantry Brigade and the 36th Infantry Infantry Brigade are already carrying out assault operations in the area of Opytnoye , our units intercepted the DRG from the 36th Infantry Infantry Brigade, 4 saboteurs were eliminated, 2 were taken prisoner.
Enemy forces are expected to intensify in the near future in the area of Vodyanoye .
#source (https://t.me/dva_majors/25287)
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are faced with a shortage of sappers in Zaporozhye
The situation for Ukrainian troops in the Rabotino-Verbovoe sector is complicated for several reasons.
Firstly, all active movement of Ukrainian units is limited to an area of 105-110 square meters. km in the triangle between Novodanilovka, Orekhov and Malaya Tokmachka. However, it cannot be called safe: the entire area is covered by cannon and rocket artillery of the Russian Armed Forces.
Secondly, minefields are still an unsolvable problem for Ukrainian Armed Forces units. Remote mining systems continue to allow the Russian Armed Forces to complicate the entire logistics of Ukrainian ground forces in the area. It is impossible to clear the newly installed barriers: regular military sappers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are eliminated by reconnaissance groups and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces. It is impossible to train new sappers and quickly send them to the battlefield. As a result, key formations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' vanguard in this direction, including the 46th Airborne Shock Brigade, the 82nd Airborne Shrift Brigade and the 47th Mechanized Infantry Brigade, faced a sharp shortage of sappers.
The situation with minefield clearance is partially resolved through so-called live mine clearance, when mobilized recruits are sent to an unexplored offensive area in pickup trucks. The experienced sappers remaining at the disposal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine often work without fire cover and equipment, which is why they quickly die from artillery fire or during incursions by special forces units of the Russian Armed Forces.
Thirdly, the terrain features also affect the losses of sappers. The entire attack vector of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in this area is built to bypass the main heights occupied by the Russian army. As a result, Ukrainian troops are forced to advance in the lowlands (mainly only along the remaining part of the asphalt roads), which is under the fire control of the Russian Armed Forces. Due to the peculiarities of the terrain and the well-built surveillance system of the Russian Armed Forces, any activity of Ukrainian troops, including attempts to clear mines, is quickly discovered and stopped by Russian troops.
https://t.me/SLGmaps/343
#source:
https://t.me/TolkoPoDely/23208
Via Ukrainian Channel Strana:
The Economist publishes an interview with Zelensky.
In it, the President of Ukraine says that he does not want to think about a long war, but that is what he is now preparing for.
“I must be ready, my team must be ready for a long war, and emotionally I am ready,” the president said.
Zelensky believes that Russia will not withstand a long war economically. He also said that Ukraine will intensify attacks inside the Russian Federation and then “Russians will begin to ask uncomfortable questions about the inability of the army to protect them.”
In the preamble to the interview, The Economist journalist shares his impression of the atmosphere of the “Yalta European Strategy” in Kyiv, which he attended.
“A year ago, the mood was euphoric: news of the success of Ukrainian forces in the Kharkov region was ping-ping on every smartphone in the room. This year the atmosphere is completely different. Three months after its counteroffensive, Ukraine has made little progress along the crucial southern front line in the Zaporozhye region, where it is trying to cut Putin's "land bridge" from Russia to Crimea. The question of how long it will take and whether it will succeed weighs on the minds of Western leaders. They still promise that they will help Ukraine “as much as needed.” But Zelensky, a former actor with a keen sense of audience, has detected a change in mood among some of his partners. “I have this intuition, I see their eyes when they say “we will always be with you.” But I see that they are not with us,” writes The Economist.
The interview was published under the headline: “This is a bad moment for diplomacy.” Despite slow progress in the counteroffensive, the West must maintain its support for Ukraine, the president says.
#source (https://t.me/stranaua/122154)
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