Russia-Ukraine Reports - 2023-09-24
❗️Analysis of remaining Su-25s in Ukraine, incl foreign supplied and potential foreign supplies from a Russian military blogger
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In terms of combat. Analyzing recent photos and videos, I counted 11 combat Su-25s, including aircraft handed over by the Macedonians (50 and 51 blue).
The Ukr-AF had a reserve of 60-67 aircraft in storage (not operational)
The ARZ in Zaporozhye, which is capable of overhauling the Su-25, continues to function to a degree. The quantity may increase.
The Ukrainian has plenty of pilots for this fairly simple type of aircraft.
Theoretically, there is an opportunity to receive new aircraft from Georgia and Bulgaria. 7 and 17 aircraft respectively.
Plus or minus 2-3 on the black market in Africa.
I suspect that work has been intensified with Iraq, which has 20-30 Su-25s and is under US control.
There's an outside chance that Uzbek and Kazakh Su-25s will be sought as well
https://t.me/CyberspecNews/43017
❗️An air alert sounds again in Sevastopol, presumably a new missile attack.
@Slavyangrad
🇷🇺🇺🇦Meanwhile, Ukrainians are openly adjusting where and at what coordinates to hit. They created an anonymous bot so that information could be passed on.
Everyone else simply takes footage from there to quickly post the news.
In the picture is the Inkerman fuel base in the Sevastopol area.
@Slavyangrad
Europe blinks as support for Ukraine fades
Vladimir Putin's plan seems to have worked, writes Politico (https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-poland-central-europe-eastern-kyiv-baltics-zelenskyy-war-invasion/). Europe's once seemingly unwavering support for Kiev is beginning to shrink. The most striking changes are in Poland, which has refused to supply Zelensky with new supplies of weapons.
But the problem for Kiev is that support is drying up not only in Poland. The same can be said about Estonia, Slovakia, and Hungary. Of course, in Kiev, they pretend that everything is in order, and the ranks of its patrons are not thinning. “But somewhere out there, Putin is watching and rubbing his hands,” the authors of the material assure.
@Slavyangrad
Russia's move threatens to shake up global markets
This year, Russia shipped more than a million barrels of diesel fuel per day, Bloomberg reports (https://inosmi.ru/20230922/dizel-265774334.html). But now it has introduced a ban on its exports. The decision could disrupt diesel and gasoline supplies ahead of winter. The extent of the consequences will depend on how long the ban lasts.
The loss of supplies and the subsequent rise in prices will have implications for more than just oil traders and truck drivers. Diesel powers ships and trains and is also used in agriculture, industry, and construction. Simply put, this fuel powers huge parts of the world economy.
@Slavyangrad
🇺🇸 🇺🇦 Over the entire period since the beginning of the SMO the West has trained more than 84,000 Ukrainian military personnel - Politico
These are the data as of September 20, 2023, said Pentagon spokesman Colonel Martin O'Donnell.
They were trained in “Western weapons and tactics,” Politico writes.
The US military is currently training hundreds of Ukrainians in Europe: from American combat tactics to the use of Abrams.
Also, several dozen Ukrainian pilots and maintenance specialists will soon begin training on F-16 fighters in the United States.
@Slavyangrad
The New York Times writes that the United States will be able to produce 1.2 million shells a year by 2025 alone. Russia already produces 2 million shells annually.
In addition, the cost of production in Russia is much lower than in the West.
Producing a 155-millimeter artillery shell costs Western countries between $5,000 and $6,000 per artillery piece, while producing a comparable 152-millimeter artillery shell costs Russia about $600.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/13/us/politics/russia-sanctions-missile-production.html
An FPV drone arrives at the position of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Bakhmut direction.
@Slavyangrad
#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: Avdiivka-Donetsk
🕰 Date: ~23.09.2023
📌 Coordinates: 48.1327809, 37.8077833
📝 Description: The Russians attacked Ukrainian positions in Donetsk filtration station with X-38 missile.
🖥 id: 23092023.1451
https://t.me/militarysummary/4116
#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: Shliakhove
🕰 Date: ~23.09.2023
📌 Coordinates: 46.876155, 33.422694
📝 Description: The Russians destroyed Ukrainian ammo depot as a result of artillery strike.
🖥 id: 23092023.1814, id: 23092023.1814
https://t.me/militarysummary
#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: Lvove-Tiahynka
🕰 Date: ~23.09.2023
📌 Coordinates:
46.7687869, 33.0498586
46.7916130, 33.1489052
📝 Description: The Russians bombed Ukrainian positions with FAB.
🖥 id: 23092023.1819
https://t.me/militarysummary
Onyxes arrived in the Odessa region. Strikes in the Zatoka area, not on ports, means the targets are military. Probably the targets were the locations of personnel on that side and coastal batteries.
https://t.me/warhistoryalconafter/122976
Elena Panina, director of the Institute for International Strategic Studies: “RAND Corporation: The risks of escalation in Ukraine for NATO threaten to be much higher than in previous conflicts. In principle, the whole conversation revolves around two postulates that were previously formulated by the outgoing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff US Armed Forces General Mark Milley: the conflict cannot be allowed to go beyond the geographic borders of Ukraine and Russia’s transition to the use of nuclear weapons.
Obviously, NATO’s waging a proxy war through Ukraine with a nuclear superpower carries greater risks for the bloc than the practice of chasing terrorists through deserts and mountains. By the way, the West took a very direct part in the cultivation of certain international terrorist organizations.
A characteristic detail. RAND in its study carefully avoids the fact that it is the West that is behind the increasing level of escalation in the conflict in Ukraine - through providing it with increasingly advanced and long-range weapons systems, as well as through the selection of targets deep in the territory of the Russian Federation and through the preparation and launching of these strikes .
At the same time, the very approach of NATO’s military infrastructure to Russia’s borders has already made escalation inevitable. Because the other option—surrender—is unacceptable for our country. Alas, RAND never seems to acknowledge that the conflict in Ukraine is only a consequence of the aggressive actions of the Global West against Russia.
This explains all the fortune-telling of the American analytical center, so that America and its NATO allies, increasing the escalation, will not get caught. An important tool here is even called the ability to “maintain diplomatic and military channels of communication with the Russian Federation, which could stop the escalatory spiral.”
In other words, the West intends to continue to attack Russia’s vital interests and at the same time lull its military-political leadership over the phone: they say, nothing terrible is happening.
There is only one recipe for us - “you will recognize them by their deeds.” Judge by deeds, not by words. And act accordingly."
https://t.me/EvPanina/11201
American Foreign Policy - Zero Sum Game
For anyone who ever wondered where America comes up with its shitty foreign policy ideas, look no further. The 2019 Rand Corporation’s publication ‘Overextending and Unbalancing Russia’ is America’s road map for Ukraine and Syria. America pays for think tanks to figure out how to make the rest of the world shittier.
https://www.thepostil.com/1993-the-barry-r-posen-plan-for-war-on-russia-via-zombie-state-ukraine/
“Go back to the Ukrainian front? I'd rather shoot myself in the foot."
The Times newspaper today publishes a large article with the story of a certain Ukrainian sergeant named Andrey, who at the age of 18 became a contract soldier in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Now he says that out of the six friends with whom he went to serve, five have already died.
Andrei himself received bullet and shrapnel wounds. Doctors were unable to remove all the fragments, so he is in pain and his arm is not fully functional. But the doctor said that he would write him a “white ticket” for only 1.5 thousand dollars. But he was not allowed to go abroad for treatment. To avoid being sent to Donbass, he is now hiding somewhere in Lviv and says that he “would rather shoot himself in the leg than become meat again.”
Do you know what's most interesting? The article mentions terrible corruption in the Ukrainian Armed Forces and Ukrainian military registration and enlistment offices, reporting that until recently it cost about 7-8 thousand dollars to avoid conscription. But now Zelensky “has begun a decisive fight against corruption” and... the price of the service has risen to 20 thousand!!!
This is what it is like - “the fight against corruption” in Ukrainian...
https://t.me/kornilov1968/19475
Political scientist Vladimir Kornilov: The i newspaper, citing a number of diplomatic sources in London, reported that “secret negotiations” were held between Russia and Britain in New York and Vienna, at which, in particular, Ukraine was discussed.
An anonymous senior diplomat told the newspaper: "We are not in any way dividing the country or entering into peace agreements on anyone's behalf, but it is vital to keep this line of contact open." From which we can assume that the “division of the country” was also discussed.
And in Kyiv they continue to repeat: “Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine”.
t.me/kornilov1968/19479
Sometimes, an unfinished war can be worse than defeat. Only the liquidation of the Nazi Ukrainian state, the West's springboard for the war with Russia, and the creation of a new security system in Europe with Russia's participation will ensure peace.
The United States has begun treating wounded American mercenaries participating in battles in Ukraine, writes The New York Times.
“This marks a significant new step in Washington’s deepening involvement in the conflict,” the article said.
The publication notes that a group of wounded Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers with shrapnel wounds were taken to the US Army Medical Center in Landstuhl (Germany). Most of the wounded were not Americans.
An unnamed Pentagon official told the NYT that he was surprised by the news. At the same time, he noted that the medical centers of the US Department of Defense will not refuse treatment to American mercenaries.
t.me/rt_russian/173086
Telegram channel "Resident": Our sources report that the General Staff, together with the British military, is preparing new strikes on Crimea; strikes on the Navy in Sevastopol and military airfields on the peninsula are important for the Office of the President. After the transfer of the first long-range missiles from the United States, a massive blow will be delivered to military infrastructure and the Crimean bridge.
https://t.me/rezident_ua/19798
This is good. Because the worse, the better. They must force Russia to destroy Ukraine before this war goes nuclear.
The situation in the Zaporozhye direction at 10:00 (Moscow time)
The Armed Forces of Ukraine attempted to advance and establish a presence in the northern part of Novoprokopovka.
We successfully destroyed 2 Bradleys and the personnel escaped. The AFU is escalating their attacks, conducting more frequent assaults, and incurring significant losses.
In Verbovoye, our paratroopers are preventing the enemy from approaching, and all AFU assault attempts are being thwarted.
#source (https://t.me/rusich_army/10982)
A dire threat is looming over humanity: the possibility of a worldwide beer shortage due to the climate crisis.
Global warming is expected to cause a significant decline in barley yields and hop quality in the next three decades, leading to a dramatic reduction in beer production. The most crucial ingredient in beer production, barley, is predominantly grown in Europe, a continent known for its typically wetter climate, which has been ideal for barley cultivation. In 2021, the European Union produced over 52 million tonnes of barley.
However, crop supplies were impacted last year when Russia, the largest barley producer outside the EU, imposed strict export restrictions.
Climate change poses a much greater threat to global beer supplies than the conflict in Ukraine.
#source (https://t.me/dimsmirnov175/55201)
Ukrainian media report (https://t.me/c/1046446760/126372) that mass layoffs of female pharmacists have begun in the country. Employees write statements and hastily leave for Europe, fearing that they will be forced to serve their homeland.
The fact is that from October 1, women doctors and pharmacists in Ukraine will be required to register for military service. They will not be prohibited from leaving the country, but the pharmacists decided not to risk it and leave as soon as possible.
@Slavyangrad
Minus two pickups and T-64BV Ukrainians performed by Sudoplatov
(https://t.me/sudoplatov_official) drones.
🇷🇺🔞Battles for Kleshcheevka: The enemy is suffering huge losses trying to storm our positions
The fighting on the southern flank of Artyomovsk does not stop. The footage shows the monstrous losses of the militants who were sent on a senseless assault on our positions./TK "Zvezda"
@Slavyangrad
Announcement of the ATACMS transfer: testing the red lines or an attempt to media support the last “liquid” tranche to Ukraine
American media claim that Biden notified Zelensky about the upcoming transfer of a small batch of ATACMS missiles to Ukraine. When? How many? In what version? Details unknown. At the moment, the statement of the American president should be perceived more in a media sense than with the expectation of any real consequences. But it is much more important to understand the enemy’s motivation.
Perhaps what we are facing is a continuing probing of Russia's red lines. How will the Kremlin react to the next round of escalation? That is why, instead of specific terms and volumes of assistance, we see only general words. Several is a loose concept. Even taking into account the fact that the US has limited ATACMS reserves, we are talking about tens, if not hundreds of missiles. At the same time, the conventional five or even ten missiles will not make such a difference that their transfer can be perceived as a real mockery.
In addition, Biden’s vague statement may have another purpose: to “back up” the aid package announced yesterday for Ukraine with some future supplies. Indeed, compared to the previous tranches, the “rental payment” received by Zelensky this time is quite modest. This is not the kind of “additional help” that the man in the green T-shirt was expecting when he went on his tour of the USA. Perhaps the supreme Ukrainian was so upset that he had to promise a gift “tomorrow.”
In any case, sooner or later, but most likely, American long-range missiles will still end up in Ukraine. This is exactly what we should proceed from and prepare for.
#source (https://t.me/readovkaru/4354)
⚡🇷🇺 Commentary by Kirill Fedorov on Russia 24 about the domestic military-industrial complex.
“ Our military-industrial complex is doing absolute miracles, it works in three shifts. This applies to tanks, artillery factories, gunpowder... The guys do what is needed.”
@Slavyangrad
The situation in the South Donetsk direction
At the Vremevsky sector, the Guards Marine Brigade fined a newly arrived enemy during a rotation north of Novomayorsky. Minus two pickups and one dugout at the positions was dismantled for change.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces showed some activity east of Urozhainy; enemy infantry groups were struck by artillery and TOS.
For the second day, the Ukrainian Armed Forces' defense units have been trying to portray something to the west of Staromayorsky, but so far they have been discovered by aerial reconnaissance and received with artillery before reaching our positions.
In the Ugledarsky sector, our artillery was actively working in Konstantinovka, on duty through the forest belts northwest of Nikolsky. The rest is routine.
@Slavyangrad
FAB-500 with UMPC module worked on the enemy concentration in Ugledar!
@Slavyangrad
Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation (17–23 September 2023)
Part I
▫️ In the period from 17 to 23 September 2023, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out 12 group strikes with long-range ground-based and air-launched precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles against facilities for the repair of aircraft and armoured vehicles, oil refineries, storage depots for ammunition, precision weapons, and weapons of foreign manufacture, centres for the reconnaissance and training of Ukrainian militants, as well as locations where foreign mercenaries were stationed.
▫️ As a result of the strikes, significant damage was inflicted on the logistics system of the AFU groups operating in Kherson and Zaporozhye directions, the capabilities of the enemy's repair and recovery bodies were reduced, and part of the stocks of cruise missiles and depleted uranium ammo, launchers of multiple-launch rocket launchers, and anti-aircraft missile systems transferred by the West to Ukraine were destroyed.
▫️ In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces have repelled 28 attacks launched by assault groups of the 53rd and 110th Mechanised, 79th Air Assault, and 3rd Assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces close to Kleshcheyevka, Avdeevka, and Maryinka (Donetsk People's Republic) during this period.
▫️ Over the past week, as a result of air, missile, and artillery strikes in this direction, the enemy's losses amounted to more than 1,455 Ukrainian troops killed and wounded, 16 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 25 motor vehicles, 15 field artillery pieces, and three MLRS combat vehicles. In addition, three ammunition depots and two military echelons of the 37th AFU Marine Brigade were destroyed at loading stations.
▫️ In South Donetsk direction, Russian units have repelled five enemy attacks with concerted action during the week, continuing to defeat clusters of AFU manpower and hardware. The enemy's losses in this direction amounted to over 950 Ukrainian servicemen killed and wounded, 14 armoured fighting vehicles, 32 motor vehicles, and five field artillery pieces. In addition, two ammunition depots were wiped out.
▫️ As a result of the significant losses and the low morale, the Kiev regime is withdrawing units of the 38th Marine Brigade and the 110th Territorial Defence Brigade of the AFU to rear areas to restore combat capability.
▫️ In Zaporozhye direction, Russian troops repelled eight attacks by combined assault groups of the 71st Jeager, 47th Mechanised, and 46th Airmobile brigades of the AFU near Rabotino and Verbovoye (Zaporozhye region). During the fighting, more than 515 Ukrainian servicemen, 24 armoured fighting vehicles and 19 motor vehicles were destroyed. In addition, 35 enemy field artillery pieces were neutralised as part of counter-battery warfare.
▫️ In Kupyansk direction, Russian units continued to hit the manpower and equipment of the 14th, 30th and 32nd mechanised and 25th airborne brigades of the AFU in the areas of Sinkovka, Ivanovka, and Berestovoye (Kharkov region). More than 215 Ukrainian troops, six armoured fighting vehicles, 18 motor vehicles, 24 field artillery guns, and one U.S.-made M1097 Avenger missile system were destroyed in this area.
Russian Defence Ministry (https://t.me/mod_russia_en)
Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation (16–23 September 2023)
Part II
▫️ In Krasny Liman direction, units of the 63rd and 67th mechanised brigades and the 12th Special Operations Brigade made unsuccessful attempts to attack the positions of Russian troops near Yampolovka and Torskoye (Donetsk People's Republic) Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic) and Serebryansky forestry. As a result of courageous action by units of the Tsentr Group of Forces, air strikes, artillery fire and heavy flame-throwing systems, 15 enemy attacks were repelled.
▫️ The enemy's losses in this direction amounted to up to 435 Ukrainian servicemen killed and wounded, 15 armoured fighting vehicles, 16 motor vehicles, and eight guns.
▫️ In Kherson direction, the enemy made unsuccessful attempts to seize bridgeheads on islands and the left bank of the Dnepr River. In military operations, the AFU have lost up to 445 Ukrainian troops, nine armoured fighting vehicles, 35 motor vehicles, 11 field artillery guns. In addition, eight sabotage and reconnaissance groups were disabled.
▫️ During the week, the enemy attempted to strike facilities on the Crimean Peninsula with cruise missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles. In the course of repelling the attacks, Russian air defence systems destroyed five cruise missiles, one Neptun anti-ship missile, and 37 attack drones.
▫️ Fighter jets of the Russian Armed Forces and air defence system have destroyed the following aircraft over the past week: Su-24m, Mig-29, and two Su-25 ground-attack aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force near Novovladimirovka (Nikolayev region) and Novorozovka and Novopokrovka (Zaporozhye region).
▫️ In addition, Russian strike drones hit a Ukrainian Mig-29 fighter jet at the Dolgintsevo airfield (Dnepropetrovsk region), as well as two ST-68 radar stations for detecting low-altitude aerial targets near Volnyansk (Zaporozhye region) and P-18 and PRV-16 radar stations for detecting aerial targets near Novopetrovka (Kherson region).
▫️ Air defence and electronic warfare systems have shot down and suppressed 257 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles during the week and intercepted 46 HIMARS MLRS shells, nine Storm Shadow cruise missiles, two JDAM air bombs, and three HARM anti-radiation missiles.
Russian Defence Ministry (https://t.me/mod_russia_en)
@Slavyangrad
U.S. Army Col. Lawrence Wilkerson on U.S. involvement in strikes against Russia: The closer NATO gets to a conflict, the more likely it is to get involved in it itself. I have no doubt that we're probably providing at least intelligence information from airplanes that are flying in the area, if not more, and maybe pointing at targets. This is an act of war by NATO against Russia and its allies. We are playing a very dangerous game. Russia has the right to perceive North Atlantic Alliance aircraft or any other airborne equipment as a legitimate target within the confines of the armed conflict in Ukraine.
@Slavyangrad
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⚠️ The situation in the Kherson direction.
According to our sources behind enemy lines, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are transferring additional forces to the city of Kherson and nearby settlements.
Personnel and a significant amount of armored vehicles are being transferred, mainly Western-made wheeled armored fighting vehicles, as well as Soviet BTR-70, BTR-80 and infantry fighting vehicles; trains with equipment are moving both from the Odessa region and from the central regions of Ukraine.
According to our calculations, which are fascinating and clearly do not cover the whole picture, over the last week at least 150 units of equipment arrived in Kherson, in addition to the already existing ones and over 3 thousand people.
#source (https://t.me/negumanitarnaya_pomosch_Z/10658)
Battles near Kleshcheevka: 4th brigade destroys the enemy
Fighting on the southern flank of Artemovsk continues.
Kamikaze drones of the 4th brigade of the Southern Group of Forces destroy Ukrainian Armed Forces militants with precise hits.
#source (https://t.me/RVvoenkor/53542)
In the zone of a special military operation, a MTLB with a ship-borne MLRS installed on it was spotted for the first time.
#source:
https://t.me/new_militarycolumnist/117886
In order to incentivize American industry, congressmen are calling for the transfer of weapons production to a “military basis” instead of peacetime volumes.
The official reason is that without such a decision, the United States will not be able to confront China in the Asia-Pacific region.
Arms supplies to Ukraine failed to give American industry the necessary impetus in conditions of virtual stagnation. It needs a larger consumer - the US Armed Forces.
Every time a crisis begins in the United States, a “saving” war for the American economy begins in the world.
#source (https://t.me/new_militarycolumnist/117890)
Battles near Kremennaya: the “🅾️” group inflicts fire on the Ukrainian Armed Forces and prevents them from improving their tactical position
➖In the area of the Torsky section, the enemy is trying to find a shortcut in order to cut off the ledge we occupy. Thus, the enemy made another attempt to attack our units with the forces of one platoon of the 67th infantry brigade with the support of an infantry fighting vehicle. As a result of the shooting battle and artillery fire, he suffered losses and retreated to the west.
➖Artillery is actively working in Serebryansky forestry. Our units destroyed the Kozak armored car and other militant vehicles . Sporadically, our units make daring raids on enemy positions and take them by surprise.
#source (https://t.me/btr80/10815?single)
Another destroyed American M2A2 Bradley ODS-SA infantry fighting vehicle in the Rabotino area in the Orekhovsky direction. Of the 109 vehicles of this type available to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, about half have already been lost.
#source (https://t.me/voenacher/52710)
❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Attempt to disembark the Armed Forces of Ukraine on a boat near Tarkhankut
Last night an interesting incident occurred at Cape Tarkhankut , which until now had not been known.
Under the cover of darkness, a Ukrainian boat with a DRG of the Ukrainian Armed Forces again tried to land troops on Cape Tarkhankut.
The speedboat moved along the coast towards Chernomorskoye at low speed: the bet was made on stealth.
However, the group was discovered by our border guards: a fighter opened fire on the craft. A shooting fight ensued, and the DRG was forced to retreat. The boat was escorted by a drone almost to the Odessa region.
🔻In this situation, the reaction of the serviceman who immediately opened fire on the DRG is pleasing. However, the question arises as to how the boat passed so far from the Ukrainian shores undetected, given that in recent times attacks on the landing force were carried out almost immediately after they left the Odessa region .
Either the boat was sailing in pitch darkness without means of navigation and communication, or it was using gas production and drilling rigs in the Black Sea to provide logistics for the boats. The infrastructure on the towers makes it possible to place not only weapons and equipment there, but also supplies to accommodate advanced groups.
Using them to their advantage to attack Crimea is more a fact than a theory. Do not forget that this happened immediately after the attack on the Black Sea Fleet headquarters in Sevastopol . All the sailors' efforts were focused on this, and the movement of the lone boat came as a surprise.
🔻In the context of intensifying attacks on Crimea, such attempts to land and drop a DRG on Cape Tarkhankut , which is extremely convenient in this regard, will happen more and more often. Moreover, for many months the British intelligence services have been preparing the Main Intelligence Directorate and Special Operations Forces units specifically for the landing operation in Crimea.
#rybar (https://t.me/rybar/52287)
Things are far from calm south of Bakhmut either.
The AFU continue to utilize elevated positions for attacks within the grey zone in Klescheyevka, along with conducting active assaults on the eastern railway line. There are also ongoing conflicts in the Andreevka (grey zone) and Kurdyumovka areas. Periodically, the Russian Armed Forces launch counterattacks, and both artillery and aviation remain highly active.
In fact, this direction today bears little difference from the Zaporozhye direction, sometimes even surpassing it in terms of attack frequency. All of these actions serve a specific purpose: to encircle Bakhmut from the south and threaten the garrison's supply lines. Currently, the situation is complex but mostly under control.
#source (https://t.me/rabotyno/287)
Sergey Lavrov's statements at the general political discussion of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly
▫️The United States of America and European countries often assume obligations but do not fulfill them; the West is an "empire of lies."
▫️Acts such as burning the Koran, insulting the Torah, and persecuting Orthodox Christians in the European Union are happening on a significant scale.
▫️Russia is alarmed by the escalating military tension generated by the United States and its allies around Korea, where they are amassing strategic resources.
▫️The European Union is currently imposing its mediation services on Azerbaijan and Armenia, which is causing destabilization in the South Caucasus region, in partnership with the United States.
▫️The Russian peacekeeping contingent will do everything possible to promote peace in Nagorno-Karabakh.
▫️Russia demands that Western countries immediately lift economic sanctions against Cuba, Venezuela, and Syria.
▫️Germany, Italy, and Japan voting against the resolution on the inadmissibility of glorifying Nazism is a regrettable fact that contradicts the conditions under which these countries were admitted to the UN.
Sergey Lavrov's statements at a press conference after his speech at the UN General Assembly
▫️Russia has participated in more than 30 meetings at the UN, and there are promising projects.
▫️The so-called Zelensky peace formula is unworkable, and this is common knowledge.
▫️If the West suggests that the conflict in Ukraine should be resolved through military means, it implies a military solution.
▫️During a Security Council meeting on Ukraine, the UN Secretary-General made several untrue statements, which surprised many.
▫️Lavrov asked Guterres to provide an explanation regarding the source of his claims about the "thefts" of Ukrainian children mentioned in his speech.
▫️The UN Secretary-General has not presented any evidence regarding the Bucha.
▫️Anti-Russian sentiments in Armenia are being artificially fueled by the pro-Western lobby, which aims to undermine Russia's influence.
▫️Russia has no intention of making any concessions to Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky to lift the ban on negotiations between Kiev and Moscow.
#source (https://t.me/opersvodki/17189)
Shlyakhovo , Kherson direction coordinates 46.876200, 33.422700
https://twitter.com/DrazaM33
AFU footage of a Russian FPV drone gifting their position.
https://twitter.com/Blackrussiantv
Commies in shambles, Rusich being based again...
https://twitter.com/_Surovikin_
Russian soldier of 70th Regiment of the 42nd Motorized Rifle Division finish off 2 Ukrainian soldiers near Novoprokopovka.
https://twitter.com/blackdiammon
Canada’s parliament gives a standing ovation to a 98-year-old Ukrainian Nazi collaborator likely to keep a music box at home stuffed with grainy black and white execution photos
If John Demjanjuk had lived a little longer he too could have been a hero
Brutal elimination of Ukrainian stormtroopers near Artemovsk with drone grenades
https://twitter.com/narrative_hole
#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: Vuhledar
🕰 Date: ~24.09.2023
📌 Coordinates: 47.780428, 37.244888
📝 Description: The Russians bombed Ukrainian positions with FAB-500.
🖥 id: 24092023.1117
https://t.me/militarysummary/4129
#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: Lvove
🕰 Date: ~23.09.2023
📌 Coordinates: 46.7971049, 33.1572238
📝 Description: The Russians bombed Ukrainian positions with FAB-500.
🖥 id: 24092023.0808
https://t.me/militarysummary/4133
#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: Novoprokopivka
🕰 Date: ~23.09.2023
📌 Coordinates: 47.4171512, 35.8433478
📝 Description: As a result of the counterattack, the Russian soldier managed to kill two Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers.
🖥 id: 24092023.0815
https://t.me/militarysummary/4136
#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: Sofiivka
🕰 Date: ~23.09.2023
📌 Coordinates: 46.6165052, 32.2185509
📝 Description: The Russians bombed Ukrainian M777 with Lancet strike.
🖥 id: 24092023.0747
https://t.me/militarysummary/4139
#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: Robotyne
🕰 Date: ~24.09.2023
📌 Coordinates:
47.445126, 35.822819
47.455951, 35.814807
📝 Description: The Russians launch artillery strikes on Ukrainian fortifications.
🖥 24092023.1436
https://t.me/militarysummary/4142
#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: Opytne
🕰 Date: ~23.09.2023
📌 Coordinates: 48.103585, 37.702514
📝 Description: Progress of the Ukrainian Armed Forces north of Opytne. The Russians launch artillery strikes on Ukrainian fortifications.
Source: https://t.me/creamy_caprice/2291
🖥 id: 24092023.0820
McCarthy decided to leave $300 million for training the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the American defense bill.
Speaker of the House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy has changed his earlier decision and will not exclude $300 million intended for training of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the defense appropriations bill for the next fiscal year (begins in the United States on October 1). The Hill newspaper reported this.
As noted, McCarthy was guided by the fact that the bill on funding the State Department also includes funds for Ukraine, and next week the House of Representatives is expected to hold a single procedural vote on four bills on appropriations for the activities of various government agencies, including the State Department and the Pentagon .
Zin Note: What's another $300 million?
#source (https://t.me/tass_agency/211124)
@Slavyangrad
️Combat operations continue on the Rabotino-Verbovoe line. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are still trying to storm height 136.7, and are also attacking towards Verbovoyе. The fighting is taking place in forest belts near populated areas. In addition, the Ukrainian Armed Forces sometimes attack towards the outskirts of Rabotino in the gray zone. At the moment, the situation is generally under control , although quite tense. We are monitoring developments.
#source (https://t.me/polk105/11264)
‼️🇺🇸🇺🇦 Zelensky received a “mixed reception” in the United States, which could become a “harbinger of a coming storm,” CNN.
▪️ “The President of Ukraine arrived in the United States when the path to victory in the war against Russia seems increasingly distant,” writes CNN.
▪️The growing skepticism of the US elite, and especially Republicans, regarding Biden’s policy on Ukraine, “is fueled by the inability of the long-awaited counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to break the Russian army.”
▪️At the same time, “any hopes for a long-term peace agreement are undermined by Kyiv’s determination to regain lost territories.” And also the position of Russia.
▪️"Putin has incentives to continue the war: it is critical to his prestige and desire to recreate a larger Russian sphere of influence. He may also wait to see whether the change of power in the White House will result in what a returning President Trump will seek to end the end of the war on Russia’s terms,” the article says.
▪️"All this means that Biden's assurances to stay with Zelensky "as long as it takes" may not be as ironclad as they once seemed. With no end in sight to Europe's biggest war since World War II, Ukraine's fate appears to be all “is more in line with Biden’s political destiny,” CNN summarizes.
#source (https://t.me/RVvoenkor/53553)
Due to night shelling of residential areas of Donetsk, a fire started in a private house - a father saved his son from a burning building
During the shelling of the Kuybyshevsky district of Donetsk, a Ukrainian shell hit a private house. Due to the arrival, a fire started in the building and the roof collapsed. A young man who was on the second floor fell under the rubble and lost consciousness.
His own father saved him from a burning house. The young man was taken away by ambulance, he is in serious condition - his collarbone is broken. According to the father, this is already the second visit to their home.
#source:
https://t.me/readovkanews/66573
✍️📜 About the supply of ATACAMS complexes to Kiev
In October, the Pentagon plans to transfer up to 30 MGM-140 ATACMS ( Army Tactical Missile System ) missiles - tactical ballistic missiles produced by the American defense company Lockheed Martin, which also produces the M142 HIMARS MLRS . What is important is not so much the fact of the planned transfer - it is a matter of timing. The important thing is that the BBC was the first to publish information about this , and it was after the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched a strike on the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol. It's like it's aimed specifically at us.
ATACMS systems have a range of up to 190 miles ( 300 km ). Information about the United States’ readiness to supply this type of missile to Ukraine appeared online simultaneously with data about Germany’s planned transfer to Kiev of the first batch of 45 Taurus missiles in October. The second batch of 50 Taurus will be transferred to the Ukrainian Armed Forces by November 10. Apparently, the Pentagon hastened to make the decision to send a limited batch of ATACMS to Ukraine in response to the announced intentions of the German side. The same applies to the issue of supplies of American Abrams tanks , which, according to official statements from the American side, are already in the Polish city of Rzeszow, and the dispatch of the train is expected this night.
There is an opinion that the Joe Biden administration is currently discussing a reduction in arms supplies to Kyiv, due to the expected aggravation of the situation in the Taiwan region. The political establishment in Washington is already openly talking about the possibility of an armed conflict against China in the South China Sea. The United States might have delayed deliveries, but, apparently, it cannot give up the palm to Berlin.
@Multi_XAM
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66898029
@Slavyangrad
👼 This is what Rabotino looks like.
Maybe someone doesn't know.
#source (https://t.me/rusich_army/10992)
Russian Aerospace Forces pilots destroy Ukrainian Armed Forces militants in the vicinity of Avdeevka
Zin Note: Turn down your headphones!
#source (https://t.me/boris_rozhin/98388)
Situation on the fronts over the past 24 hours:
Svatovo-Kremennoe direction
There are no changes in the Kupyansky sector - the Russian army is gradually taking control of the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of Sinkovka and Petropavlovka .
In the area of the Karamzinovsky salient, our fighters managed to recapture a number of militant positions near Novoegorovka.
Artyomovskoe direction
The Russian army is fighting for the heights in the area of Dubovo-Vasilievka and Berkhovka .
Our fighters also, with the support of aviation and artillery, counterattacked in Kleshcheevka and Andreevka , where the Ukrainian Armed Forces suffered heavy losses.
Zaporozhye direction
In the vicinity of Rabotino , in the western part, there are oncoming battles.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are trying to break through at Verbovoy .
Meanwhile, ours resumed attacks in the Nikolskoye area.
#source (https://t.me/polk105/11266)
🌟 Artyomovskoe direction
Southern and Northern flank
Situation at 8:00
🔴 Southern flank
Fierce fighting continues along the Ozaryanovka-Klescheevka line. The enemy is constantly trying to break through our defenses by bringing in more and more units that conduct so-called “meat assaults.” At the moment, the enemy has not had significant successes. Our army constantly counterattacks and does not allow the enemy to gain a foothold.
🔴 Northern flank
The situation on this flank has changed significantly over the past few days and the initiative has passed to our side. An assault was carried out on the settlement of Orekhovo-Vasilevo. Our army almost completely managed to take the village. But it failed to gain a foothold and the enemy counterattacked. Now the hottest spot is on the northern flank of Orekhovo-Vasilyevo, for which there are fierce battles. Ours remain in the northeastern part of the village and are trying to build on their success.
#source (https://t.me/rezervsvo/29860)
The Ukrainian Armed Forces have very few helicopters left – The Washington Post
An American publication published an article about the difficult life of Ukrainian helicopter pilots. In an interview, the military personnel admitted that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had very few helicopters and crews left. Each flight is fraught with great risk - Russian aviation and air defense actively oppose them and have much more extensive capabilities to detect and destroy Ukrainian aircraft. The helicopter pilots stated that the remaining helicopters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are outdated and not suitable for modern combat operations.
#source (https://t.me/interfresh/599)
Ukraine breaches Russia’s Zaporоzhye defensive line near Verbovoye - The Washington Post
DNEPR, Ukraine — Ukrainian forces and their armored vehicles punched through Russia’s main defensive line on the war’s southern front and are operating on the other side, a local commander said Saturday, in a modest but crucial gain for Kiev as it seeks a major breakthrough in its grueling counteroffensive.
A Ukrainian air assault unit commander fighting in the southeastern Zaporozhye region said that over the past week, the armored vehicles pushed through the so-called “Surovikin line” near Verbovoye, a small village located several miles from Rabotino, which Ukrainian forces liberated last month. Russia still has substantial defenses built south of the line, such as those surrounding Tokmak, about 25 miles southwest of Verbovoye.
The commander said that Ukrainian infantry passed the final line “two to three weeks ago,” but the vehicles have only recently been able to move through. He said that “the front line has also moved further back behind the dragon’s teeth,” but that this has taken place “more slowly.”
“You just have to understand that there is a saturation of antitank mines and a saturation of enemy forces, it’s just colossal,” the air assault forces commander said. “In the direction of Rabotino and Verbovoye, there’s a constant incoming traffic of assault troops.”
Analysts at the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War said in a report Thursday that geolocated photos indicated that “armored vehicles are operating beyond the final line of the Russian defensive layer,” but they were “not yet prepared to assess that Ukrainian forces have broken fully through” Russian defenses.
Since launching their counteroffensive in June, Ukrainian forces have made only incremental progress against Russia’s well-fortified defenses, which include areas saturated with tank and antipersonnel mines between three and 10 miles deep.
The slow pace of the assault, which aims to drive Russian forces from Ukraine entirely, has led Western officials to conclude that the counteroffensive will most likely not achieve its short-term goals — such as reaching the city of Melitopol near the Azov Sea — before winter starts.
https://t.me/SLGmaps/401
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/23/ukraine-breach-verbove-zaporizhzhia/
Zin Note: Apparently I have to explain this... This is an article written by the enemy, and I'm not saying that this is true merely by posting it. Honestly, I find it amusing that even in their propaganda, the tone is basically, "They're doing sort of alright, right?"
@Slavyangrad
🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺 The situation at the junction of Zaporozhye and the DPR : Our soldiers are rebuilding the defense system during a period of calm
▪️Members of the Vostok battalion report the situation on this section of the front :
➖"An unexpected respite makes it possible to put a fairly damaged economy in order. At the height of the battles, all they had time to do was plug holes: either communications would fail, then transport, then anti-drone equipment, but most importantly, the minefields were damaged... The entire established system was subjected to overload - now every quiet day is devoted to recovery. We don’t believe that the enemy will sit subdued for a long time - they simply won’t let us rest for long.”
#source (https://t.me/RVvoenkor/53558)
The high-altitude reconnaissance drone RQ-4B Global Hawk of the US Air Force is currently operating in the Crimean direction.
#source (https://t.me/new_militarycolumnist/117896)
🌟 Kherson direction
🔴 For more than 24 hours, our army has been delivering powerful attacks on the right bank of the Dnieper.
🔴 Applicable: Aviation FAB-500, heavy artillery and MLRS.
The destruction of enemy concentrations, locations, firing points, and warehouses (amplifiers and fuels and lubricants) is underway.
🔴 It looks like something is up. Don't jinx it!!!
#source (https://t.me/rezervsvo/29899)
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Russia-Ukraine Reports - 2023-09-25
❗️On the wreckage of one of the Storm Shadow / SCALP missiles, the production date is visible - May 2022. Indirectly confirms the fact of high consumption of the missiles transferred to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Acc to Turkish data a significant number of Storm Shadow and SCALP missiles are hit in warehouses and during transportation, plus the Ukraini…
