War Reports - 2023-12-02
Fighting resumed in Gaza with the Israeli Air Force attacking Hamas targets near Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis. Secretary of State Blinken left Israel minutes after the fighting began. The next destination is the United Arab Emirates.
https://t.me/infantmilitario/114054
Ukraine's air force, deemed untrainable and unintelligent, brought its Su-25 to Dolgintsevo airfield in Krivoy Rog again.
Guess what happened? It, too, was destroyed by the Lancet.
Video by @Dnepro_Rub
@Slavyangrad
🇷🇺🇺🇦🔥 Ukrainian aviation lost an attack aircraft and a transport helicopter
➖At the Dolgintsevo airfield in the Dnepropetrovsk region, a Ukrainian Su-25 was hit by the Lancet.
➖In the Kherson region, near the settlement. Tyaginka, on the right bank of the Dnieper, a Ukrainian MI-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was destroyed.
#Source (https://t.me/btr80/12517?single)
🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦The Ukrainian Armed Forces are losing the initiative in the battles near Rabotino and Verbovoy: the infantry of the Southern Military District and the landing force are attacking, capturing support positions, destroying and pushing back the enemy
▪️In recent days, the enemy has remained inactive on the Zaporozhye front, and our units continue to build on their success by conducting a series of intense counterattacks on the Kopani-Rabotino-Novoprokopovka-Verbovoe line.
▪️In the Rabotino-Kopani - Novoprokopovka area, attack aircraft from the Southern Military District attacked enemy positions, capturing trenches and destroying enemy infantry.
▪️At Verbovoy, the landing force, with the support of artillery and armored vehicles, also does not stop attacking the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, capturing enemy strongholds in forest belts.
▪️The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine began to admit that it was losing the initiative; the evening report reported that Russian troops launched 11 attacks, trying to restore the lost position near Robotino . 3 attacks were recorded west of Verbovoy .
▪️The Russian Ministry of Defense reports in a summary that our troops defeated the forces of the 118th infantry brigade, the 46th infantry brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the 15th brigade of the National Guard in the areas of the settlement. Rabotino and north of Novopokrovka.
▪️AFU losses: up to 30 militants and 3 vehicles.
▪️Fierce fighting continues.
#Source (https://t.me/RVvoenkor/57490)
⚡️Geraniums are flying towards Krivoy Rog
⚡️ Explosions in the Dnepropetrovsk region
Air defense operations are also reported.
⚡️ A group of Geraniums flies in the direction of the Nikolaev region
#Source (https://t.me/ukraina_ru/178651)
The enemy is attacking head-on: Soldiers from near Rabotino spoke about the “counter-offensive” of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and showed the destruction of the enemy’s attacking forces
▪️Russian military personnel performing combat missions in the Rabotino area spoke about the situation on the contact line.
▪️The attacking units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces suffer significant losses in manpower and equipment during the assaults; Russian troops continue to confidently repel attacks.
#source (https://t.me/RVvoenkor/57308)
(https://t.me/yurist_yug/622)
OPEC+ Agrees to Additional Cuts
- Additional production cuts will start Jan 1 and are to last for Q1 of 2024.
- As the budget was recently signed I'll note the Economic Development Ministry is forecasting Urals oil to average $71.30, but Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said Russia would return to following its budget rule in 2024, envisaging an oil price of $60 per barrel.
- 🇧🇷 Brazil to join OPEC+ in 2024 as they seek oil price stability.
- 🇦🇴 Angola, Africa’s second-largest crude producer, will pump 1.18 million barrels a day from January, Pedro said, above the 1.11 million quota set out in the OPEC agreement on Thursday.
@Slavyangrad (http://t.me/Slavyangrad)
The latest development of the domestic military-industrial complex - "Product 53" - is beginning to arrive in the troops.
This is a new model of Lancet-type kamikaze drones.
#source (https://t.me/MilitaryThemeZ/13467)
(https://t.me/yurist_yug/622)
⚡️ New Geraniums are flying to Krivoy Rog
⚡️ Ukrainian TG channels report explosions in the Nikolaev region and the part of the Kherson region occupied by the Ukrainian Armed Forces
⚡️Geraniums fly in the direction of Zaporozhye (occupied by the Ukrainian Armed Forces)
#Source (https://t.me/ukraina_ru/178667)
The enemy confirms the RF advance into Stepovoye!
@Slavyangrad
The Russian army has begun the formation of high-power artillery brigades, the main task of which will be to break into enemy defenses. The new units will be armed with large-caliber artillery.
The first high-power artillery brigade - 17th brigade - was formed as part of the 3rd Zaporozhye Army Corps. Several more similar artillery brigades will be formed in the near future in other army corps and armies in the special operation zone.
The brigades are armed with large-caliber artillery - self-propelled guns of 203 mm caliber 2S7 "Pion" and 2S7M "Malka", as well as heavy mortars 2S4 "Tulip" of 240 mm caliber. In addition, the brigades will include unmanned aircraft units to conduct reconnaissance and fire adjustments.
🇷🇺 Sofa General Staff
#Source (https://t.me/jnb_news/39266)
What inspired us to begin reporting. We were getting our news from ISW, until we did our research.
In October, Ukrainians complained that sometimes 100 bombs from the UMPC were dropped on them a day. It turns out that this was something like testing a new weapon, and then it will be used en masse:
The VSK Aerospace Forces of Russia will begin mass training of pilots in the use of aerial bombs with universal planning and correction modules (UMPC) in the special operation zone, an informed source told RIA Novosti.
Such a module is attached to a regular free-falling bomb, turning it into a controlled one. The module has a folding wing and rudders, as well as a control system that points the ammunition at the target in automatic mode. With the help of such a device, for example, a conventional FAB-500 becomes highly accurate.
The source noted that the combat testing of the UMPC in the special operation zone showed the high effectiveness of these ammunition - at a low cost, they provide high-precision destruction of targets of Ukrainian troops on the line of combat contact. Typical targets for such attacks were concentrations of enemy manpower, deployment points, fortifications, and command posts.
🇷🇺 Sofa General Staff
#Source (https://t.me/jnb_news/39269)
The Russian military destroyed a Ukrainian German-made Leopard 2A4 tank in the Rabotino area of the Zaporozhye region. Video from two drones: a kamikaze and a spotter drone was provided to RIA Novosti by a source close to the situation.
#Source (https://t.me/rian_ru/223307)
@Multi_XAM
✍️⚡️🗺️ The situation in the Avdeevsky direction based on materials from the French OSINT resource Pouletvolant . The authors created a 3D model of the Avdeevka coke plant, noting the main directions of the assault operations of our troops.
#Source (https://t.me/multi_XAM/996?single)
❗️⚠️ A group of attack UAVs "Geran" is heading towards the Nikolaev region through the Kherson region!
#Source (https://t.me/svorezevv/21907)
Arestovich notes there again talks about the peace deal, says it was quite a good deal for Ukraine as Russia made more concessions then Ukraine. That it was better than anything Ukraine will get now.
- He adds there would be another 200,000-300,000 alive still. (Note: He doesn't say Ukraine's military has that many KIA like some channels report. It is too vague IMHO to make that inference).
- That if they would have taken the deal half the country would not have been destroyed or mined.
It is important to note that while he has inside information, he has his own political agenda and will take a lot of shots at the King so he can take the throne.
@Slavyangrad (http://t.me/Slavyangrad)
Soldiers on ATV dodge Ukrainian FPV drone.
#Source (https://t.me/NeoficialniyBeZsonoV/31225)
Air-raid alarm is declared in entire 404 territory
@Slavyangrad
Poroshenko not allowed out of Ukraine for meetings in the USA and Poland
Despite an official document signed by the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, Poroshenko was denied exit by border guards. According to him, the command was given "from above".
@Slavyangrad
Hamas reports that Israel is resuming full-scale military action in the Gaza Strip, refusing any offers to release the remaining hostages.
Local media reports at least 29 dead in the three hours since the truce ended.
@Slavyangrad
Our final map guess remains
And for you to finally realize the futility of our existence, I suggest you listen to the talking head from NATO.
▪️ As Ukraine has moved forward, Russia has rolled back. It is now weaker politically, militarily and economically... All of this underscores Putin's strategic mistake in invading Ukraine.
▪️ Russia has lost influence over its immediate neighborhood
▪️ Russia has become dependent on China
▪️ Russia has lost a substantial part of its forces - hundreds of airplanes, thousands of tanks. More than 300,000 men.
▪️ Russia is under pressure. Oil and gas revenues have collapsed, assets under sanctions, thousands of foreign companies gone. 1.3 million units left the country last year.
▪️ The dollar is at 200 rubles, the economy is flogging.... ah, sorry, that's from another text
Here we go. Ukraine is moving forward, Russia is moving back. You have to understand.
@Slavyangrad
#sanctions #revenues
Russia's revenues are over!
Washington intends to halve Russia's oil and gas revenues by the end of this decade, said Jeffrey Pyatt, US Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources. Limiting Vladimir Putin's ability to finance an invasion of Ukraine should ensure that Russia can never again attack its neighbors.
The International Energy Agency predicts that oil and gas exports from Russia could fall by at least 40-50% by 2030 if Western sanctions on Russia's energy industry remain in place.
"We're going to do everything we can to help make that a reality," Payette said.
"The purpose of these sanctions is to change Russia's behavior and to ensure that Putin is not in a position, whenever any peace is achieved, to to use three or four years to rearm and prepare himself and his armed forces for a third phase of an invasion of Ukraine," he added.
Oh, and another...
"Impeding Russia's future revenues" was just as important as damaging its current finances. "This has huge geopolitical implications in terms of how the Kremlin is able to conduct itself on the international stage and Russia's ability to use its energy as a strategic asset, as well as the Kremlin's ability to continue to engage in revanchism against its neighbors."
Russia's oil and gas revenues are Russia's revenues. As is not hard to guess. An attempt to hit the revenues of the state is an attempt to hit the citizens of the state. That is, they openly say that Russian citizens should live in shit and their country should not have independence.
Actually, why am I saying this...? Those who understand, they already know long ago. And soy... there's bread.
@Slavyangrad
Shoigu: Total mobilization in Ukraine, deliveries of Western weapons and the introduction of strategic reserves by the Ukrainian command have not changed the situation on the battlefield. These desperate actions have only increased the number of losses in the units of the Ukrainian armed forces. For six months of the so-called counter-offensive, the enemy has lost more than one hundred twenty-five thousand people and sixteen thousand units of various weapons.
Groupings of Russian troops are inflicting an effective and powerful fire defeat on the AFU. As a result, their combat capabilities have been significantly reduced. Our servicemen are acting competently and decisively, occupying a more favorable position, expanding control zones in all directions.
@Slavyangrad
The Dubai Airshow confirmed the high interest of foreign customers in Russian military airplanes and helicopters. Domestic manufacturers presented in the United Arab Emirates more than 250 samples of military, dual and civil products
The stars of the Russian exposition were the Il-76MD-90A(E) military transport aircraft, which was shown to the public for the first time, and the export version of the Ka-52 Alligator attack helicopter. In the pavilion, visitors were presented with the Su-57E fifth-generation fighter, the IL-78MK-90A refueling aircraft, the Su-35 fighter, the Mi-171Sh military transport helicopter and the Mi-28NE "Night Hunter" helicopter, which proved its effectiveness in real battles.
According to Alexander Mikheev, Director General of Rosoboronexport, the portfolio of orders for Russian arms is stable at the level of 50 billion dollars. Middle Eastern countries traditionally occupy a significant share in Rosoboronexport's order portfolio, from 40 to 50 percent.
- We expect orders to grow, first of all, not in terms of share, but in absolute terms, given the active work in other regions of the world. Rosoboronexport sees technological cooperation - joint development and production of high-tech products with partners - as the main driver of growth until the end of the decade," Mikheev said.
According to Rostec State Corporation, contracts were signed at the exhibition for the supply of combat and military transport aircraft to 14 countries (the contract amount is 13 billion dollars), combat helicopters - to 18 countries for five billion dollars, aircraft engines - to 14 countries for 4 billion dollars.
Let's keep racketeering the arms market from our dear western partners, bgggg.
Seriously, though. It's cheaper, but the quality is the same. And it's been tested in a real war.
@Slavyangrad
🔴🤢 Zelensky :
Ukraine will build defensive structures from Donbass to Western Ukraine.
He discussed the construction of fortifications on the main defensive lines, including the Avdeevsky, Maryinsky and Kupyansk-Limansky directions , as well as along the borders with Russia and Belarus.
#Source (https://t.me/svorezevv/21947)
Belarus will change (https://t.me/octagonmedia/16425) its power structure considerably after the next parliamentary elections.
The People's Assembly, something akin to a senate, will become a body with constitutional powers and not just a consultative one. It will absorb some of the powers of the president, preparing ground for a life with Lukashenko in Belarus, and to despair of western experts, looks awfully similar to Soviet Union's Central Committee or China's National People Congress.
It is of course a reaction to the attempted coup in 2020, which has backfired in moving Belarus further away from liberalism. Western think tanks, which I will not link here for the sake of hygiene, are criticizing the "left wing populist" tone of the government, which has as priorities reducing living costs and taxing the rich. And in general have a very defeatist tone as they recognise the government has hardened its grip and it will be hard to repeat what they tried in 2020. The opposition will most likely boycott the parliament, people's assembly and presidential elections instead of trying to win them.
@Slavyangrad
The Israel Defense Forces have published an interactive map of the Gaza Strip divided into zones
The IDF will use it to “notify Palestinian civilians of active combat zones.” The new map is said to be intended to "make it easier for Gazans to evacuate certain areas" and will help better understand instructions issued by Israeli forces.
📝 “Dear residents of Gaza! Please pay attention to the map and find on it the number of the block in which you live or near which you are currently located,” the message says.
Residents must follow IDF instructions that will appear in the media. And if they didn’t see the message or didn’t have time to evacuate, that’s their problem.🤦♂️
-Ostashko News
#Source (https://t.me/OstashkoNews/108302)
Ours set up the Victory Banner in Maryinka.
There's nothing left. With God, brothers, don't be timid!
@Slavyangrad
🇷🇺⚔️ 🇺🇦The Russian flag is raised over Maryinka, turned into a fortress by the enemy in 2014.
▪️The fighters filmed footage of them occupying the western outskirts of the regional center of Maryinka and raising our flag over one of the destroyed buildings.
▪️The enemy still continues to hold positions in the northwestern part (this is 5-7%).
▪️The clashes in this locality consist of battles from basement to basement, since due to completely destroyed buildings, there are simply no shelters.
▪️However, the very fact that ours went through almost the entire Marinka from edge to edge suggests that soon the settlement may be completely cleared.
#Source (https://t.me/RVvoenkor/57518)
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