Russian special military operation in Ukraine #2

Confirmation. Looks like Mariupol's time could well be tonight.


Marialvw@arktinentuuli·1hUkraine’s Leadership Has REJECTED Negotiations – Kremlin

Russia says it has RESUMED the military operation in Ukraine after Kiev refused to negotiate

TASS https://bit.ly/3HpUkZ1

No we didn't lie, the fog of war Maybe Russian comms jamming should be blamed;


Russians With Attitude
@RWApodcast
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The Ukrainian Ministry of Defence is CONFIRMING that the garrison of Snake Island is ALIVE and has surrendered to Russian troops

Zelensky has arrived at the front.

https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/1497590132332974085?t=fdO2etW7ajAN-xamMd5mew&s=19

Come on... Loaded Grads abandoned.

Ispan wrote:
I have been reading Cassad what else is there that you can recomend?

Losses I go following the Russian army reports. A good rule of thumb is to assume 10 casualties between dead and wounded for every tank, artillery piece or vehicle reported destroyed, so 200 units of materiel and 2.000 losses for the Ukrop side in two days sounds reasonable in view of the fighting reported, thank God its not yet the meat grinder that the battles of 2014-2015 were the daily casualty rate was even higher with the futile frontal attacks on entrenched positions and when the cauldrons (pockets) were destroyed.

I do my best in my blog, if you want to contribute some news source that I can add to my resources let me know!

I`m somewhat prejudiced against that blog.
Its more of fast-paced stream propaganda of our, mine, side. I prefer to read more sterile articles at bmpd.livejournal.com at the beginning and the end of the each day, as far as LJ concerned.

Hole wrote:Russian troops are now at Berdyansk and Volnovakha.

War Gonzo's report on this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktL89ZEqc6A&t=9s

The regime forces are retreating, as per Zelensky's orders.

teh_beard wrote:
I`m somewhat prejudiced against that blog.
Its more of fast-paced stream propaganda of our, mine, side. I prefer to read more sterile articles at bmpd.livejournal.com at the beginning and the end of the each day, as far as LJ concerned.

I agree with you. I think I do a better job than Cassad and Chervonec but I am not Russian and my audience is very limited.

I know BMPD livejournal, it had a lot of stuff I wish I could have found about in 2014-2015 but so far he is not publishing anything new.

I rely mostly in antimaydan.info but it needs a lot of filtering to sort out the chaff from the wheat, so every additional resource is welcome.

PD the last report is that the Russian army coming from Crimea has arrived at Volnovakha and joined the Donetsk forces, so Mariupol and any other enemy forces south are in a pocket now.

Seems they are also arriving at Zaporozhe though that's only the first of the Dnieper bridges to be taken, the enemy army in Eastern Ukraine has to be prevented from fleeing to the west, so the bridges up north must be taken.

Carnage in the capital is of upmost importance for the puppet masters.

Not to mention that the West is more developed in general and more conductive to urban warfare + the source of greatest support.

The retreat (s), if they materializes in any direction should be intercepted and blown to smithereens by the Russian air force.

If correct I suppose that it is a combination of Zelensky's orders plus exhaustion from defending trenches whilst under fire from guns with perhaps now unlimited supplies of ammo.

If Azov is down there in force, no doubt there are unseen moves to cut them off.

@Suriyak
@Suriyakmaps
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After three days of combats in the eastern front #Ukrainian defenses began to fall, which results in new advances of #DPR north of #Mariupol. Meanwhile #RussianArmy managed to take full control over #Melitopol & are advancing from three axis towards #Donetsk oblast.

Military Advisor
@miladvisor
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Approximate map outlining the front lines in #Ukraine
Blue dots=Ukraine forces presence/siege of military HQ or control of all main roads around.

Orlan wrote:https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/1497590132332974085?t=fdO2etW7ajAN-xamMd5mew&s=19

Come on... Loaded Grads abandoned.

So. A twatter account of supposed Igor Girkin (aka Strelkov) - a Russian nationalist, formerly separatist commander, "retired" when he got the idea he'll get retired for realz like Mogovoy, Motorolla and Givi were later. Spewing clearly pro-Ukrainian tweeps. Sometimes IN Ukrainian.
..except he is already on a personal sanctions lists and banned on western social platforms.
But does maintain account on VK, where he reported shelling loses and casualties for 8 years, among other very unflattering opinion-pieces on situation and personalities.

You see how this one is a fake-news propaganda piece, masquerading for something it isn't?

There is no snow and has not been there for a while in the Donetsk Republic. If video shows any substantial snow, it is fake.

This is doing the rounds on twatter when you search for Kherson

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1497508889260015616

A good example of misinformation/propaganga/ the information war

https://twitter.com/Lxwolf1/status/1497550688779476994#

Chechens executing Ukrs as per the original tweet? Or vice versa as per the replies? **** knows...

Likewise someone saying this is from 2014...

https://twitter.com/soleyman_1/status/1497454388088127490

The Seizing of Russian trade vessel carrying vehicles from France should be demanded back, otherwise, seize French vessels in exchange.

Yah know, I don't even look at a lot of the vids being tossed about. Some are patently false, some are so-so and a few are pretty damned good. However, in armed altercation it doesn't matter how good one side is and how bad the other side is, shit happens. 1 missed view of a tiny motion in the brush and you're dead. Looking the wrong way for a nanosecond and the contents of your skull are scattered all over the nearest and not so nearest flora. It happens.

War is not a 'rah rah' exercise in proving who is right and who is wrong or who holds the moral high ground, war is a nasty, bloody vocation. Bottom line is soldiers on both sides are paid to break things and kill people. Stop all the moralizing and stop all the criticizing. If you think the orcs did something stupud or are not doing enough, give Zelensky a call, he's down in Lemburg having a nice steak with good Krim wine for dinner. If you think Russia is 'not moving fast enough' or all the other myriad mistakes Russia is making in front of your quite expert eyes then ring up General of the Armies Shoigu and point out the errors of his ways. I'm sure he will listen.

Auslander

teh_beard wrote:

EkErilaz wrote:
can you suggest some good ones?
I can understand a tiny bit russian

Hmm. It took some doing (since I`m apparently a moss-covered boulder in terms of modern facespaceys) but here, try those three I have added:
t.me/voenkorKotenok
t.me/voenacher
t.me/milinfolive

Great source Beard

Courtesy of beard for the sources:
Going trough them to get the valuable stuff/highlights.

There is an ton of footage and info there i have not seen.

Someone has too much white paint

Posted this before...
- 1st casualty of war is the truth
- you have to wait for the fog of war to lift to see the truth

If you thought that this would be easy then wake-up, dreaming and wishful thinking don't work when the shooting starts:
- the West was claiming that Russia had 200,000 men to invade Ukraine (they were including the 35,000 Donbas fighters)
- while Ukraine had an armed forces of 200,000 (plus any reserves they had mobilized)
- Ukraine also has a Border Guard service with 42,000 and a National Guard of 60,000 (heavy with Nazis and Nationalist)
- so Russia is outnumbered in assets
- advantage is in technology and able to focus forces in attack areas while Ukraine try's to protect everywhere

Arkanghelsk wrote:WTF

It's time to take the gloves off guys this is dangerous now

Russia cannot afford to focus on Ukraine, the west is escalating dangerously, those missiles in Poland and Romania are extremely threatening in these circumstances

Ukraine needs to be ended so the main war effort can be directed towards europe

Calm down, professionals are in charge

Last map updated of the advances



Russian army official briefing:

The units of the Armed forces of the People's Republic of Lugansk continue their offensive in the direction of Rubezhnoye, they have expanded the offensive zone and advanced to a depth of 46 kilometers since the beginning of the operation, capturing the settlements of Happiness and Muratovo. A group of DPR troops advancing in the direction of Petrovsky advanced another 10 kilometers and captured the settlements of Starognatovka, Oktyabrskaya and Pavlopol.

https://twitter.com/IntelCrab/status/1497578721624141827

Major development tonight on the southern front:

Russian forces are rumored to have launched a massive armored spearhead: bypassing coastal cities like #Berdiansk in attempt to surround #Mariupol and complete land bridge with occupied #Crimea.

JohninMK wrote:
There are apparently 20,000+ US citizens, abandoned by the US to their fate, still in Ukraine and private chartered planes (shades of Afghanistan) are being deployed to get them out. Not sure which airfield. The TV cameras are sure to be there.

Biden warned those guys weeks ago to leave. Must be MAGAs that refused to listen to the fake President.