Russian special military operation in Ukraine #34

Hole wrote:The Ukrainian Bureviy is an upgraded version of the Soviet Hurricane with an improved fire control system and mounted on a Czech Tatra T815-7T3RC1 armored chassis.

Improved fire control? What did they improve? Just another stolen Russian technology.

Post Broski Today at 7:54 am
@sepheronx
Lets not forget that most Russians didn't support the SMO in February and thought that Putin was making a big mistake, it literally took 30-40 countries showing their visceral hatred towards Russians for 10 months straight, Billions of dollars of Russian assets stolen, 25000 sanctions, 1000's of western companies leaving the Russian market, getting banned from every single "international" organization controlled by the west and countless photos and videos of their Ukrainian "brothers" torturing and executing Russian soldiers with the full support of western news outlets and social media to change most of their minds.

Not sure if you have noticed that, but ...
This is a funny part of the story.
The "300 bln frozen Russian reserves" seems to be ... a myth.
Nobody can find those.
Only fixed assets were some $18 billion in Swiss, but those have been defrosted already, as the Swiss federal court ordered.
There are no "$300bln"
Nobody knows where those are.
And - what is even funnier - more and more talking that the western assets left in Russia overrun the mythical "frozen reserves" by a factor.
And those are actually easy to find
Lease payments for aircraft fleet are being steadily paid. Only in rubles and to the escrow accounts in the Russian banks.
This whole situation is a joke.

Chronicle of the Special Military Operation for 9 Dec 2022

#Belgorod Region:

Ukrainian militants shelled #Pankov farmstead in the Shebeken municipal district and damaged a residential house. No fatalities or injuries.

#Starobelsk Direction:

In the #Lyman area, Russian forces moved in to attack and take control of AFU positions in the forest belt on the #Kremennaya - #Makeyevka line.

Artillery duels continue along the entire line of contact. Russian artillery has hit enemy positions in #Stelmachovka, #Sinkovka, #Novoselovskoye and #Ternoye.

#Soledar Direction:

Wagner PMC troops are cleansing the village of #Yakovlevka. The RF Armed Forces have dislodged units of the AFU's 10th Mountain Assault Brigade from three strongholds north of #Berestovoye.

The Ukrainian command is moving reinforcements and strengthening its defences to prevent encirclement of #Soledar from the northeast.

In the #Bakhmut (#Artemovsk) sector, the AFU attempted to counterattack in #Opytnoye, the Russian forces held their positions.

Fierce fighting continues in the southeastern outskirts of #Bakhmut. The enemy is throwing newly arrived units into the attack in and trying to stabilise the front.

Hospitals and infirmaries in #Kramatorsk, #Slavyansk, #Konstantinovka and #Kiev are overcrowded due to heavy casualties across the front.

#Lugansk People's Republic:

Ukrainian militants shelled the town of #Svatovo with barrel artillery, damaging a residential building and a gas distribution station.

#Donetsk Direction:

In preparation for a possible offensive, the AFU command is redeploying units of the AFU's 59th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade to the vicinity of #Donetsk.

In the #Toretsk (#Dzerzhinsk) sector, the enemy moved two BMPs with personnel to #Toretsk to strengthen the defence.

In the centre of #Maryinka, motorised rifle units of the RF Armed Forces continue fighting with Ukrainian formations.

In the #Ugledar sector, the AFU are moving forces into the area of #Vremyevka ledge. Enemy UAVs are operating along the entire frontline.

Ukrainian militants shelled populated areas of #Donetsk agglomeration with rocket and barrel artillery, including residential buildings and the gas pipeline of #Donetsk, at least three civilians were killed.

#Zaporozhye Direction:

English-speaking units of the "International Legion of Defence of Ukraine" are engaged in small groups at the Bolshaya Lepetikha - #Konstantinovka line to search for and sabotage rear facilities of the RF Armed Forces.

Artillery duels continue along the line of contact. The RF Armed Forces worked on enemy positions in #Orekhov, #Dorozhnyanka, #Gulyaypole and #Novodanilovka.

#Kherson Direction:

SRG boats of the "International Legion of Defence of Ukraine" reconnoitre RF Armed Forces' fire positions along the left bank of the #Dnipro River and guide Ukrainian artillery from the direction of #Ochakov.

Russian units struck enemy staging areas in #Chernobaevka, #Kazatskoye, #Antonovka and #Berislav.

Ukrainian militants fired from mortars at civilian facilities in Novaya Kakhovka and Golaya Pristan.


https://t.me/sitreports/1900

The Russian army is advancing in the Liman direction; the enemy is losing ground and trying to counterattack

   The Russian Army has been on the offensive at Kremenna for several days now, successfully breaking through and gaining better positions for further advance.

    Advance in some areas was over 3 km. After significant breakthroughs at Ploshchanka and Chervona Dibrova, Ukrainian foot soldiers were captured.
   The command minimized losses due to the clever use of a wide range of means of destruction from all types of howitzers, TOS Solntsepek to guided missiles Krasnopol, aerial bombs, and guided missiles from helicopters and PTRCs.
   Intense artillery battles and counter-battery warfare are taking place, with our howitzers firing heavily across the entire frontline from Kupiansk to Lysychansk.
   / According to the AFU General Staff: the Russian Armed Forces are shelling AFU positions in the areas of Ploshchanka, Novoselivske, Stelmakhivka, and Nevske (where AFU armored vehicles and infantry are concentrated) in the LNR, as well as Torskoye and Hryhorovka in the DPR/.
    The Ukrainian armed forces have amassed a strike force and are attempting to advance near Chervonopopivka, with artillery and aviation striking.
    In previous days, our aviation actively worked on AFU positions and concentrations, on 08.12, due to weather conditions, aviation use was limited, but even so, the Russian Air Force destroyed enemy armored vehicles and manpower, supporting the ground troops' offensive.
   For two days, the offensive destroyed at least 200 Ukrainian military and mercenaries, five APCs, and four vehicles.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/24319


Back in March, representatives of the US Air Force offered to transfer American MQ-9 Reaper UAVs to Kyiv, but the Pentagon has not yet completed consideration of such a possibility, the American newspaper Politico reported.

The Air Force thought they had the perfect plan: take the old Reaper drones they've been trying to get rid of for years and send them to Ukraine, which has been asking for long-range weapons.

As follows from the publication, the United States has "concerns about the transfer of secret technologies" to the Ukrainian side, as well as the fact that "some [drones] are almost guaranteed to be shot down." The article notes that immediately after the start of the special military operation of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, Kyiv used Turkish Bayraktar TB2 UAVs, but later "they became a target for Russian air defense systems and electronic warfare systems." This "raised concerns at the Pentagon about how American drones would perform in such an environment."


https://t.me/Slavyangrad/24363

I like this title, I think it should be promoted, Zaluzhny, the “Bakhmut Butcher”. In WW1 such names were given to UK Generals and stuck to them.


"Bakhmutsky butcher" Zaluzhny does not take into account the losses near Artemovsk - Shurygin

In the battles near Artyomovsk (DPR), which received the unspoken name "Bakhmut meat grinder", in addition to the fact that constantly arriving fresh untrained reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are being ground, the most elite units also suffer crushing losses.

This was announced on the TV channel "Russia 1" by military expert Vladislav Shurygin. The expert cited incredible numbers of losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Artyomovsky direction.

“It is high time for the current commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Pan Zaluzhny, to give the honorary name “Bakhmut Butcher”. Because what he did near Bakhmut is a monstrous crime. That is, on a front of 10 by 10 kilometers to put 10 thousand Ukrainians in a month - these are not even the trenches of the First World War, this is something more transcendent. This bet on war with people, when the resource is endless, and you can throw it and throw it, fill it up with bodies, this is an indicator of degradation, including the Ukrainian military school.

It is easy to report to the people when no one knows the losses, no one knows the price, and you tell how glorious the "offensive" was, and how much we took away. But, as we remember, they took a little bit at once, and since then there has been a battle in which every week Ukrainians lay down their lives by the thousands,” Shurygin said.

Nevertheless, according to him, the results of the winter campaign will be decisive for the course of the war.

“This is clear to everyone, that’s why Zaluzhny doesn’t want to go on the offensive so much, that’s why he puts people so furiously in order to report at least somewhere that they are standing to death. But this "Bakhmutsky butcher" cost Ukraine dearly. Of course, they put a lot of people through this meat grinder, who were simply taken from the street and sent on the second day. But after all, very experienced units also died there, they were ground.

The 65th brigade was withdrawn, which fought from the first day and was considered one of the most trained, a brigade that had been trained by foreign instructors since 2014, in fact, an exemplary brigade. Therefore, yes, all the main fights are ahead, but I look ahead very calmly and confidently, ”the expert explained.


https://t.me/Slavyangrad/24344

Get your heads around this.

Claude-Frédéric Bastiat the 19th century French economist, writer had these words to offer that seem entirely appropriate now.

"When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe."

“Germany and France must pay compensation to the residents of Donbass. The current situation in Ukraine is a consequence of the deceitful policy of the leaders of these states,” said Viacheslav Volodin.

Andy Milburn, a retired US Marine Corps colonel now on the ground as I/C a mercenary unit in Ukraine, confirms enormous Ukrainian casualties.

"They've been taking extraordinarily high casualties. The numbers you are reading in the media about 70 percent and above casualties being routine are not exaggerated... Ukraine's "acute 'regeneration problem,' ... means getting new recruits into the line as quickly as possible.

They've got units on overwatch. We can be engaged by direct fire within up to four kilometers, and they have drones overhead and aircraft... We're like mice trying to find our way through a maze with this giant, malevolent cat pouncing and whacking at every potential pathway.""

This thing looks like a Maginot Line gun turret on wheels. But it is fully automatic with a magazine of 30 rounds.

Tony
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Germany will transfer 18 OKB-155 SP howitzers, 80 pickups, 7 trucks + 90 pieces of anti-drone equipment to Ukraine - the Embassy of Germany



Tony
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Media write that Rheinmetall has signed a contract for the manufacture of two new Skynex air defense systems worth $182 million. Skynex uses programmable 35mm ammunition to work on attacking drones or cruise missiles.

JohninMK wrote:...“It is high time for the current commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Pan Zaluzhny, to give the honorary name “Bakhmut Butcher”. Because what he did near Bakhmut is a monstrous crime. That is, on a front of 10 by 10 kilometers to put 10 thousand Ukrainians in a month - these are not even the trenches of the First World War, this is something more transcendent...

He should be given a medal (Russian one)

More of this, please

More strikes on food supplies, logistics and water facilities are needed. The Pukrainian Nazis need to starve to death.

Reporter: "Do you have something to keep you warm?"
Answer from the Ukro fighter:

Now is any of you folks had any doubts about the coverage of this whole tragedy in the Anglosaxon shitstream, here is a brilliant example :



Aired 5 days ago by The Sun, with 3.6 mln subscribers.

Ukrainian Air Force shoots down Russian aircraft and drops bombs on positions is the title.

Yet ... those are not Ukroluftwaffe, but Ruskie Su-25.
None of them was shot down.
Those are no bombs but artillery.
And being dropped not on Russkie, but Ukrs.
Actually, whole material was made by the republican side, and it is clearly written on the scene - yet in Russian Cyrillic, so nobody in the UK will figure out, right?
It is like the old joke :

Have you heard that there is a giveaway for free cars in Moscow?
Sure I did!
But not in Moscow but Kiev.
Not cars but bicycles.
And no giveaway but they steal those.

PhSh wrote:More strikes on food supplies, logistics and water facilities are needed...

You are supposed to hit water facilities after weather gets hot not before

Plus they still have abundance of electricity, that still needs to be taken care of

sepheronx wrote:

Russian people were very dumb indeed and blind to everything happening against them for over a decade and it took this blatant stupidity of the west for the Russian nationals to finally get it through their thick skulls that the west wanted them dead. Something the rest of us was telling them far longer than this war started.

That's how clandestine operations work, eg. the color revolutions, the West sending in NGOs with lots of $US and starts a broad disinformation campaign to change the minds of the Ukrainian and Russian citizens, in particular the younger naive ones that can't spot what is happening until it's too late.  The boiling frog analogy.

The US spend $5billion organizing the Maidan coups, as was admitted on TV by Victoria Nuland Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, at the time.

https://www.conservapedia.com/Maidan_coup

Column of T-90Ms, Svatovo direction

Warm greetings from 57mm gun