Russian special military operation in Ukraine #44

Because making mockups/decoys in the U.S. and shipping them over to UA sounds like an awfully roundabout way of doing it. Any decent sized workshop in nextdoor Poland could provide those, faster and cheaper.

I assumed they were captured items or from Kievs inventory sent to the US for inspection...

Ruskie fooled Javelins by attaching a wood lodge with iron pot filled with burning wood/coal at the end.

Those Javelins were looking for the engine bay of the vehicle so a hot spot nearby was good enough to attract them to the wrong side of the tank.

I don't think radar guided weapons would have the detailed discrimination to see the bumps and dimples to tell a TOR from a metal box of similar size and roughly similar shape.

Most suicide drones or missiles simply don't have that level of discrimination in IR or radar.

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Extremely realistic models of Russian air defense systems were again seen on American railways. Plush models of the 9A331 combat vehicle 9K331 Tor-M1 air defense system and the 5N63S command post from the S-300PS air defense system got into the frame

This is CGI, and bad CGI at that they forgot to model the Tor's turret ring, you can see the container behind it between the turret and hull.

what is going on right now? Is there truly a pause in the "offensive"? Seems some new narratives have been crafted and pushed thru thr usual channels. Globohomo is obsessed with optics to an insane degree. The fog of war is thick right now.

The-thing-next-door wrote:
This is CGI, and bad CGI at that they forgot to model the Tor's turret ring, you can see the container behind it between the turret and hull.

Well spotted!

In the middle you can see it is attached to the vehicle.

That's a fake Tor, they just reproduce external apparence. And the turret must be 20kg if not less so it doesn't need much support but that little part in the middle.

TMA1 wrote:what is going on right now? Is there truly a pause in the "offensive"? Seems some new narratives have been crafted and pushed thru thr usual channels. Globohomo is obsessed with optics to an insane degree. The fog of war is thick right now.

So far it seems UA exhausted 3-4 brigades dedicated to so called “probing”, they can’t mount anything bigger, not sure what their losses in the rear areas, but it must be nasty. We will see if they can continue longer. Something seems not to be working for them. Give it a month until blame game begins

Podlodka77 wrote:Lvov digs up graves of soldiers killed in past wars to make room for the recently fallen - NYT

How much land owned by public still remains in Ukraina, anyway ?

I heard that after the massive 2017-18 privatization the amount of public-owned land was significant reduced in Ukraina.

Don't know if that result in the lack of land for cemetery in Lvov.

To Papadragon.....

Watch your vocabulary, you idiot..
I usually upload the original link when I upload some news, and the reason for that is so that it wouldn't be like I made something up.
Whether someone has Telegram or whether or not he will open the link I sent is his personal matter.

3 more days to the liberation of Mariupol

More POWs

Our source reports that on the front line, many soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to complain about the provision and banal food.
There is a constant interruption in the supply of food, often brought late. Soldiers are sometimes forced to eat either at the expense of volunteers or at their own expense.

Because someone in the rear writes off billions and submits reports that the soldiers are provided with everything and eat according to NATO standards.
https://t.me/legitimniy/15672

Regular wrote:

TMA1 wrote:what is going on right now? Is there truly a pause in the "offensive"? Seems some new narratives have been crafted and pushed thru thr usual channels. Globohomo is obsessed with optics to an insane degree. The fog of war is thick right now.

So far it seems UA exhausted 3-4 brigades dedicated to so called “probing”, they can’t mount anything bigger, not sure what their losses in the rear areas, but it must be nasty. We will see if they can continue longer. Something seems not to be working for them. Give it a month until blame game begins

it's already started they have blamed it on NATO for supplying damaged weapon platforms, the comedian war criminal is saying they have to repair most of what is supplied to them and not recieving the weapons they have bought from other countries

Belisarius wrote:Our source reports that on the front line, many soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to complain about the provision and banal food.
There is a constant interruption in the supply of food, often brought late. Soldiers are sometimes forced to eat either at the expense of volunteers or at their own expense.

Because someone in the rear writes off billions and submits reports that the soldiers are provided with everything and eat according to NATO standards.
https://t.me/legitimniy/15672

the only NATO rations worth eating are the French & Italian and possibly the German rations ,.... the rest are unappetising

It looks like the Ucryin counteroffensive has quietly transitioned into a Russian offence

The Ukroshitstanian offensive is going great...






* 21:49 Dnepropetrovsk and Nikolaev region 20.06 22:25 (Moscow time)

The geraniums are reported to be working.
The characteristic sound of the engine can be heard on the southern borders of the region.
But evil tongues say that it is the AFU who transport some bacon on mopeds.
Who knows...




* 21:54 Reportedly victims of overnight Geran blossoms. Looks like official AFU photography.

POW: from 500 men in his batallion only 150 survived

Budanov still alive! 

* 22:23 Geranium-2 kamikaze drone strike on SSU building in Lvоv

As it turned out by evening, the SSU building on Dmytro Vitovsky Street in Lvov was struck by a Geranium-2 drone overnight. The shell hit the left end of the building and caused significant damage.

The hitting of the UAV caused great agitation among the Ukrainian security forces - the entire area around the building was quickly cordoned off.

Following the strike, movement on Vitovsky Street itself was closed for an hour from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. for passenger cars and until 10.30 a.m. for public transport.

Co-ordinates of the facility
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49.831578, 24.019333

However, the Ukrainian authorities attempted to turn the situation to their advantage by complaining in public about the lack of air defence facilities in the rear cities.

So, it confirms that the bulk of Western air defence systems have been drawn to the front line to counter active Russian aviation.


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