Russian special military operation in Ukraine #18

Arsenic wrote:Why the Russian army does not target the presidential palace with 4 or 5 missiles? It is a legitimate objective.

In addition, the entire railway network in the west should be targeted intensively...

Podlodka77 wrote:RIA Novosti; 11:25 05.06.2022

Putin named highly effective weapon against Ukrainian drones

Putin: "Buks", "TORs", "Pantsyr" are highly effective against Ukrainian UAVs




Putin: "Buks", "TORs", "Pantsyr" for the suppression of Ukrainian drones are working extremely effectively.
Putin: Ukrainian reconnaissance drones that have been flying there since the beginning of the special operation are all foreign-made.
Putin: reconnaissance drones were used by the West over the Black Sea even before the start of the operation, why transfer them to Ukraine is not very clear.

https://ria.ru/20220605/ukraina-1793248707.html

Ispan wrote:Okay I stumbled about this "Murz" in Strelkov telegram.
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PapaDragon wrote:

Ispan wrote:Okay I stumbled about this "Murz" in Strelkov telegram.
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Dude, please stop wasting server space with Girkin's bullshit

His salty butthurt has reached astronomical levels

He is a fuckin nobody

Ispan wrote:Okay I stumbled about this "Murz" in Strelkov telegram.

He keeps a blog and is allegedly a Lugansk militia fighter.

I do not deny there are problems. From what my contact in Donbass told me, I know both the militias and the Russian army had serious flaws. In war screw-ups are common.

I am just taken aback by the negativity, and somehow the bitching doesn't fit in with observed progress

https://kenigtiger.livejournal.com/2147032.html

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First, that the People's militia of the LPR and the People's militia of the DPR, if we take the composition as of February 24, really mostly died in the first days, if not weeks of the war. They died precisely because of what I wrote about all these years, what was the report of the KTSPN and a lot of other similar documents written during the years of service in the LPR by the late " Dobry”, as co-authored with me and akela2017, and separately. Poor training, poor equipment, poor corps supplies, and the misery of most of the advisers sent, which systematically reduce the actual combat readiness of the troops instead of increasing it…

It is worse than defending with such a " background” – only to attack. Which was done. The vast majority of those who are now on the front line in infantry companies are people who returned to the service or first got there after February 24 or as part of the February “mobilization”. Most of our old infantry, those who had at least some experience of service, who were at least somehow prepared for what was happening, have already fallen to their graves and hospitals. Now in the People's Militia brigades, where companies replenished with "mobs" are the size of platoons, these companies are commanded by sergeants, or even privates, if you take the ranks at the beginning of the SVO.


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First of all, he criticizes aircraft work, what an infantryman would know about aviation? Ok, as much as me. But this grates:

"The Russian Armed Forces are permanently losing about half a thousand tanks only, mainly the latest models, and most of the existing BMP-3 fleet. A monstrous amount of expensive special equipment, including communications complexes and air defense systems.

Three months of the war have passed, and the Russian Armed Forces on average fight with armored vehicles of the same type as the APU, or worse. Basically - the same BMP-1 and BMP-2 as the Ukrov and T-72/T-80 old versions against the T-64."


I could buy heavy tank losses in the hundreds due to the intensity of the fighting and urban combat. But if the Russians have lost a few hundred tanks, then the Ukrops lost as much, as most of their force.

I am smelling a rat here. Russia is using older equipment from the start, because it suffices to fight the zombies, and these claims do not fit at all with the available facts.

I think either this guy if genuine is a defeatist, and Strelkov seized on him for his agenda. Strelkov is a blind patriot, but this "Murz" guy sounds very fishy.

PapaDragon wrote:

Ispan wrote:Okay I stumbled about this "Murz" in Strelkov telegram.
...

Dude, please stop wasting server space with Girkin's bullshit

His salty butthurt has reached astronomical levels

He is a fuckin nobody

PapaDragon wrote:

Backman wrote:...If Putin doesn't make the executive decision to pound Kiev govt buildings and make Kiev inadmissible for western govt leaders then I cant continue supporting him.

Govt buildings across Ukraine have to be devastated. Any pro Ukraine mayors offices. Kharkiv, Odessa, Lviv , Kiev , you name it.

Wrong

Priority must be extermination of Ukrainian troops

Only thing that will keep Euros from starting another war after this is knowledge of massive amount of dead Ukrops as a warning

Anything else is just invitation to invasion (again, Finland)

Zelensky must survive to sign the papers and then be released to live happily ever after in France as a reminder to common Ukrainians about their place in the food chain and the price of arrogance

Ispan wrote:Alleged to be from Kherson, T-62 tanks marching to the front, notice, five wheels

https://t.me/swodki/110426?single

now there are videos and photos of the arrival of Russian tanks in the Kherson region.

Tanks are moving both in the direction of Nikolaev and Krivoy Rog. It is difficult to estimate their number, but armored vehicles have not stopped moving for the third day and day and night, most likely Russian troops are preparing something large.

Comment: Either after destroying the Ukrainian "counteroffensive" the Russians send reinforcements to advance to Nikolayev, or they are just reinforcements to repel new Ukrozombie attacks. A Russian offensive towards Odessa seems premature to me, but still they have seen that the Ukrainian forces are weakened and there is an opportunity.

It would make sense to send the T-62s there if the Ukros are so weakened that they have no tanks left. Although I personally expected to see them on the Donbass front.

Arkanghelsk wrote:Another thing, the distance from Crimea to the Kherson frontline is more than 80km

How would M270 or HIMARS reach Crimea from that sector of the front? (It is the closest)

The only place they could really hit Russia from is Sumy and Chernigov regions

But Crimea is defended from those rockets by sheer distance

The MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) is a surface-to-surface missile (SSM) manufactured by the U.S. defense company Lockheed Martin. It has a range of up to 190 miles
(310 km) ,[7] with solid propellant, and is 13 feet (4.0 m) high and 24 inches (610 mm) in diameter.

The ATACMS can be fired from multiple rocket launchers, including the M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS), and M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS). An ATACMS launch container has a lid patterned with six circles like a standard MLRS rocket lid.

Vann7 wrote:

The MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) is a surface-to-surface missile (SSM) manufactured by the U.S. defense company Lockheed Martin. It has a range of up to 190 miles
(310 km) ,[7] with solid propellant, and is 13 feet (4.0 m) high and 24 inches (610 mm) in diameter.

The ATACMS can be fired from multiple rocket launchers, including the M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS), and M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS). An ATACMS launch container has a lid patterned with six circles like a standard MLRS rocket lid.

LMFS wrote:U.S. Officials Admit They Have Lied About Ukraine Success and Russian Failures

3 June 2022 by Larry Johnson

Told you so. The U.S. and NATO have been lying about what is actually taking place on the ground in Ukraine. For those not familiar with my early writings on the actual situation, go back a look at my previous articles written in March– Is Russia on the Ropes in Ukraine? and Update on the Military Situation in Ukraine.

NBC News, not known as a pro-Putin media outlet, published this bombshell this week:

   It was an attention-grabbing assertion that made headlines around the world: U.S. officials said they had indications suggesting Russia might be preparing to use chemical agents in Ukraine.

   President Joe Biden later said it publicly. But three U.S. officials told NBC News this week there is no evidence Russia has brought any chemical weapons near Ukraine. They said the U.S. released the information to deter Russia from using the banned munitions.

   It’s one of a string of examples of the Biden administration’s breaking with recent precedent by deploying declassified intelligence as part of an information war against Russia. The administration has done so even when the intelligence wasn’t rock solid, officials said, to keep Russian President Vladimir Putin off balance. . . .

   Just this week, national security adviser Jake Sullivan stood at the White House podium and read out what officials said was more declassified intelligence, asserting that Russia’s pullout from areas around Kyiv wasn’t a retreat but a strategic redeployment that signals a significant assault on eastern and southern Ukraine, one that U.S. officials believe could be a protracted and bloody fight.

NBC makes a desperate try to put lipstick on this pig and call it Marilyn Monroe, i.e. a thing of beauty and brilliance, but the bottomline is stark and simple–the U.S. Government lied to the American people and acheived NOTHING to change the tactical and strategic picture on the ground in the Donbas. This information did nothing to unbalance Putin or his military command. Instead, they grinded the defenders of Mariupol into dust and are reclaiming steadily territory in the Donbas that Ukraine once controlled. I am sure the United States cannot survive many more “successful” intelligence operations like the ones they have backed so far.

Jake Sullivan’s confirmation that Ukraine did not defeat the Russians and force them from Kiev speaks volumes. I would remind you that Andrei Martyanov, Scott Ritter, Doug MacGregor, Jacob Dreizin and I analyzed the Russian tank columns positioned north of Kiev as a feint that pinned key Ukrainian forces around Kiev while the Russians carried out a strategic redeployment to the Donbas to work on destroying entrenched Ukrainian troops.

If you think the West has learned its lesson and opted to focus on truth, think again. Germany’s Economy Minister, Robert Habeck, was peddling these whoppers to his own government this week:

   Western sanctions in response to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine are still taking a heavy toll on the Russian war machine. . . .The Russian economy is collapsing,” . . . adding that Germany had played its part here by reducing exports to Russia in March by 60%, with an even sharper fall expected in April.

The obvious question for any reporter with the brain power of a cretin would be, “what is the evidence that Russia’s economy is collapsing?” The truth is that all sectors are firing on all cylinders. Just because Germany has decided to commit economic hari kari by declining to purchase cheap Russian oil, does not mean that Russia is bleeding out financially. The Economist reported two weeks ago that Russia is running a record trade surplus.

Yes, Russia is importing fewer Mercedes and BMWs via the open market. First, Russia is not dependent on having western luxury items filling western owned stores. Second, the Russian mafia is more than willing to fill the gap and obtain such goods via the black market. Seems like the West never learns.

Habeck also forgets the first rule of crisis management–when you are in a hole, stop digging. He made this even more outlandish claim:

   Moscow had lost access to parts crucial to its ability to fight the war, . . . such as “security updates for airplanes, with the result that the planes will soon be grounded”.

He apparently did not get the briefing, widely available in the public domain, that Russia builds it own planes, rockets, space ships and tanks. Putin did not outsource critical industry to China or Mexico. Reality will remind the United States and its crazy European allies that Russia is the only superpower with a self-sufficient economy. The economy of Russia is not dependent on having a Russian version of Rodeo Drive filled with overpriced baubles.

https://sonar21.com/u-s-officials-admit-they-have-lied-about-ukraine-success-and-russian-failures/

Sprut-B wrote:High precision strike by a Su-57.