Russian special military operation in Ukraine #51

Speed is no defence

A hanger queen, not a robust fighting vehicle, but then we knew that.

Zlatti71
@djuric_zlatko
Abrams tanks are the AFU's new biggest problem.

According to Forbes, the air filters on the engine intakes have to be cleaned every 12 hours or the tanks will soon have to be sent for overhaul.

"All those things can be taught to the crew, but if ever they make a mistake—and they will—it blows a million-dollar engine that can't be repaired in the field," former U.S. Army General Mark Hertling stressed.

@ukraine_watch

JohninMK wrote: Looks like this lot, the State Agency for Rehabilitation and Infrastructure Development, have turned themselves into a military target for Geraniums et al.

Zaluzhny was able to push through the decision to build defensive structures along the entire front line; we wrote that the Office of the President opposed it, considering such a step as Ukraine’s refusal of Zelensky’s strategy to return the borders to 1991.

   The Ministry of Digital Transformation and the Ministry of Defense have created a joint working group on the construction of fortifications. It is no secret that over the past 2 months the Russian army has become more active in many directions of the front; the Russian Federation is especially fiercely trying to capture Avdeevka in the Donetsk region, and in Bakhmutsky to regain lost positions.

   In this confrontation, not only weapons and equipment are important, but also well-equipped fortifications. According to all the rules of military affairs, there should be three lines of defense, but the military alone cannot cope with such a scale of construction work. Therefore, according to the head of the Ministry of Digital Development, Mikhail Fedorov, they decided to create a working group from the Ministry of Defense for the construction of defensive structures. As Fedorov clarified, he will lead the group together with Defense Minister Rustem Umerov.

   The group will work as an operational headquarters and will coordinate the efforts of the authorities and the military in matters of construction of fortifications. As Fedorov emphasized, they plan to introduce reform to define areas of responsibility.

   Thus, on the first line of defense, the construction of fortifications will continue to be carried out by military units. On the second and third line is the State Agency for Rehabilitation and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine through the involvement of private contractors. And the working group will coordinate everyone.


https://t.me/rezident_ua/20659

Excellent find.

So we have confirmation that they are indeed switching to a full defense

IMO, it doesn't mean much, as without aviation, defensive belts won't work for them like the surovikin line did for Russia

Either way, it means donbass must be liberated, in order to deprive them of contiguous defensive positions and a stronghold to hide their manpower

Arkanghelsk wrote:
Excellent find.

So we have confirmation that they are indeed switching to a full defense

IMO, it doesn't mean much, as without aviation, defensive belts won't work for them like the surovikin line did for Russia

Either way, it means donbass must be liberated, in order to deprive them of contiguous defensive positions and a stronghold to hide their manpower

Thanks.

At this time of year, with the mud and difficulty of moving using earth moving equipment, and slower cement setting times, constructing said defensive belts, even if just laying mines, is going to be a lot harder than when the Russians did it in early summer.

Superficial damage

Masno
@NovichokRossiya

“The amputation stump of the right leg is above the level of the upper third of the lower leg. Fit for military service. Limited functionality"

Even with one leg, the Ukrainian was recognized not as disabled, but as “limitedly functional.”

Hadn't thought about this aspect of the closed border. If these are Ukraine bound then it looks like hundreds of unhappy customers, spending their 'hot' US$, are screaming at their car dealer "Where is my car". Desperate to get it before the axe comes down.

JohninMK wrote:Masno
@NovichokRossiya

“The amputation stump of the right leg is above the level of the upper third of the lower leg. Fit for military service. Limited functionality"

Even with one leg, the Ukrainian was recognized not as disabled, but as “limitedly functional.”

Yet more evidence that Ukraine is winning and that Bad Vlad will soon be in a prison in Kyiv. Slava Kokaini...

JohninMK wrote:A hanger queen, not a robust fighting vehicle, but then we knew that.

Zlatti71
@djuric_zlatko
Abrams tanks are the AFU's new biggest problem.

According to Forbes, the air filters on the engine intakes have to be cleaned every 12 hours or the tanks will soon have to be sent for overhaul.

"All those things can be taught to the crew, but if ever they make a mistake—and they will—it blows a million-dollar engine that can't be repaired in the field," former U.S. Army General Mark Hertling stressed.

@ukraine_watch

The generalfeldmarschal will be relieved to know that the Abrams won't be in the field long enough to worry about engine filters or overhauls.

Great discussion hosted on the Duran with Glenn Diesen, Alexander Mercouris and guest - retired US Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson.

Wilkerson comes across as an honest man and a clear thinker, its a great discussion and well worth spending the 1 hr 27 mins. His insights and opinions regarding the fools in charge in the US elite are simply pricessless, and his honesty about the stupidity of US/NATO "policy" towards Russia is a breath of fresh air.

My biggest criticism of the Lingiust system is why the *uck are they using a droning male voice. These guys have been stuck at the front hearing male voices. Don't the Russians realize the power for a motherly female voice? for fucks sake. How can Russians be so smart and so dumb at the same time.

My biggest criticism of the Lingiust system is why the *uck are they using a droning male voice. These guys have been stuck at the front hearing male voices. Don't the Russians realize the power for a motherly female voice? for fucks sake. How can Russians be so smart and so dumb at the same time.

The west has turned you mate... your biggest criticism is you don't agree with their gender choices for a computer programme... guys at the front follow orders from mens voices all the freaken time, do you think they will hear another male voice and simply refuse?

Russian pilots are used to nagging nadia, but do you think they would ignore warnings to eject from a male fake computer voice.

I believe they call it a first world problem being upset about the gender of a computer generated voice providing instructiions and advice to soldiers in combat.

I did delete a double post of Johns at the start of this page BTW.

Abrams won't be in the field long enough to worry about engine filters or overhauls.

Or a refill of their tanks.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) lost more than 125 thousand people in six months of their counter-offensive, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on December 1.

He noted that total mobilization in Ukraine, supplies of Western weapons and the use of strategic reserves did not change the situation on the battlefield, but only increased the number of losses of the Kyiv regime.

“During six months of the so-called counteroffensive, the enemy lost over 125 thousand people and 16 thousand units of various weapons,” said the head of the Russian Ministry of Defense at a conference call with the leadership of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

Russian troops inflict effective and powerful fire damage on the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which significantly reduces the combat capabilities of the Kyiv regime. The RF Armed Forces, acting competently and decisively, continue to occupy a more advantageous position and expand control zones in all directions.

The Minister of Defense also noted that over the past month, during the fighting, units of the 810th Marine Brigade, 150th Motorized Rifle Division, 4th, 15th, 114th and 123rd Motorized Rifle Brigades particularly distinguished themselves.

“We will continue to conduct active defense and increase the combat potential of the Armed Forces, taking into account the experience of a special military operation,” Shoigu concluded.

Earlier, on November 21, the head of the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 13.7 thousand people and about 1.8 thousand units of various weapons and military equipment in just three weeks of November. The Ukrainian military, realizing the pointlessness of attempts to break through the defense of the Russian Armed Forces, are surrendering en masse , Shoigu noted.

On November 13, The Economist, citing American officials, reported that, according to Washington, the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces during the conflict with Russia amount to 190 thousand killed and wounded . Before this, on November 8, The New York Times wrote that Ukraine is trying to attract an increasing number of women into the country’s army, which indicates huge losses among military personnel.

On October 16, Russian President Vladimir Putin estimated Ukraine's losses during the counteroffensive as eight to one . He emphasized that the Ukrainian army did not achieve any results, but only suffered huge losses. In addition, the Russian leader noted that the Russian Armed Forces continue to improve their position along almost the entire line of contact in the special operation zone.

The special operation to protect Donbass , the beginning of which was announced by the Russian President on February 24 last year, continues. The decision was made against the backdrop of an aggravation of the situation in the region due to shelling by the Ukrainian military.

https://iz-ru.translate.goog/1613972/2023-12-01/shoigu-otcenili-poteri-vsu-za-polgoda-kontrnastupleniia-v-125-tys-chelovek?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

Since the beginning of 2023, military police officers of the Russian Ministry of Defense have identified more than 220 collaborators of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) and discovered 60 caches of weapons. On Thursday, December 1, the law enforcement agency celebrates its 12th anniversary.

Created in 2011 by decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the military police were supposed to solve problems of ensuring law and order and military discipline, as well as combating crime. In addition, military personnel of this structure organize the search and detention of those evading military service, provide security for Ministry of Defense facilities and perform garrison service tasks.

“We help the local police <...> we help neutralize, confiscate: somewhere there are minefields, somewhere shells arrived and did not explode. They have to be destroyed if it is not possible to safely remove them. As a rule, everything is destroyed on the spot in order to protect themselves and the civilian population,” said the senior sapper of the commandant’s office of the Zaporozhye region with the call sign Altai.

According to the department, over the 11 months of 2023, military police officers conducted more than 2.5 thousand targeted checks, discovered 60 caches and seized 104 weapons and more than 11 thousand units of alcoholic beverages.

The “red berets” carry out their tasks in all garrisons of the country, including in new territories, as well as beyond its borders.

https://iz-ru.translate.goog/1613759/2023-12-01/voennaia-politciia-rf-vyiavila-bolee-220-posobnikov-vsu-s-nachala-goda?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

Seven modern training grounds for combat training are being equipped in the special operation zone, said the head of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Sergei Shoigu.
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“Seven modern training grounds are being equipped in the special military operation zone, at two of which the work has been completed in full. Additional training has been conducted with the personnel of the training grounds, which will improve the efficiency and safety of the operation of the training and methodological base,” RIA Novosti quotes the minister .

https://radiosputnik-ru.translate.goog/20231201/svo-1913170421.html?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

Once upon a time, in an alternative timeline, a fascist regime in Kiev managed to capture Moskva, capture Washington DC, became the new superpower in the world...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/26/ukraine-arms-boss-oleksandr-kamyshin-arsenal-of-the-free-world

Ukraine’s arms industry boss calls for country to be ‘arsenal of the free world’

Oleksandr Kamyshin, the man tasked with reviving Ukraine’s domestic arms industry, has a dream for his country’s future. Even when the war with Russia is over, he believes, Ukraine should focus on arms production, turning itself into the “arsenal of the free world” and providing weapons for export.

“For the next decades, defence should be the major industry in Ukraine. After the war it should be our core export product,” said Kamyshin, in a recent interview at his office in an unmarked building in central Kyiv.

After the war I really hope Russia addresses the scum that run that place on behalf of Uncle Satan of Washington DC.
Nuremberg style trials and executions. And if they have run off, just have killing squads for them.
Russia needs to be firm with these vermin to prevent a Kazak problem, a Baltic chihuahua statelets problem, an Armenia problem etc etc.


We've got actual Nazi collaborators trolling and talking about "the free world" whilst banning 13 pro Ru parties and having Nazi groups kill huge numbers. Absolute scum.

the man tasked with reviving Ukraine’s domestic arms industry,

Roughly 60% of the arms industry of Red Russia ( ) was concentrated in that area.
They managed to destroy most of it even before the SMO started.

Maryinka is liberated

BILD military analyst Julian Röpke states that the Russian army has completely captured Marinka.

“After 20 months of intense attacks, the Russian army has completely captured the city of Marinka in the Donetsk region. The last Ukrainian defenders were driven out of the once peaceful city of 10,700 inhabitants, which now lies in ruins,” he wrote.

Earlier, Russian military publics announced the advance of their troops to the western outskirts of Marinka, Donetsk region.

Moreover, some telegram channels claimed that Marinka was completely captured, while others claimed that the battles for the city were still continuing on the outskirts.

Ukraine did not comment on or confirm this information. The Russian Ministry of Defense has not yet made any statements regarding Marinka.

Zaluzhny Talking Peace With Russia Behind Zelensky and Biden’s Backs: Sy Hersh, by Ilya Tsukanov for Sputnikglobe.com 12.01.2023.

President Zelensky admitted this week that Ukraine’s counteroffensive failed to “achieve the desired results” and that Kiev is now in “a new phase” of the conflict with Russia. Meanwhile, Valery Zaluzhny, the general who enraged Zelensky by calling the crisis a “stalemate,” was absent from a Thursday meeting between the president and his generals.

Russia and Ukraine’s top generals have been holding secret discussions aimed at putting the Ukrainian crisis to bed, with Ukraine’s president, and the Biden administration, left out. That’s according to a new report by veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh citing informed US sources.

The negotiations, said to be spearheaded by Russian Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov and Ukrainian Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluzhny, still have “a lot of questions” left to be ironed out, one source, a US businessman with years of experience dealing with high-level Ukrainian diplomatic and military issues in the government, told Hersh. These include what to do about war criminals, matters of citizenship, ordnance disposal, and cross border economics, as well wrangling to assure “peace with honor,” according to a second source.

Russian officials have made no official statements on the matter, and Sputnik could not independently confirm the veracity of this information at the time of writing. Moscow has repeatedly said throughout the crisis that Ukrainian membership in NATO would constitute crossing its security “red lines.”

Hersh’s sources also told him that Zaluzhny's bombshell interview in a British business magazine last month in which he admitted that Ukraine’s counteroffensive had reached a “stalemate” and that there would be no “deep and beautiful breakthrough” was “arranged” after Zaluzhny and Gerasimov had spoken several times.

The interview and accompanying op-ed written by Zaluzhny were “carefully orchestrated” by the Ukrainian commander to send a message to the Ukrainian government and the “madman who staked his life upon winning politically and militarily” at the helm that “the war is over and we want out,” according to a US official Hersh says was involved in the early stages of the general-to-general discussions.


“So the message that was sent to Zelensky is that we are going to have talks with the Russians with or without you and they are going to be military-to-military. Your neighbors are fed up with you, especially Poland and Hungary, and they want their Ukrainian refugees to go back to a peaceful country,” the official said. The state of Ukraine’s collapsed economy and the question of “how do you operate a country with no GNP?” was also driven home, the source added.

The US president and his foreign policy team have been left out of the talks, and “the White House is totally against the proposed agreement,” according to the US official who spoke to Hersh. “But it will happen. Putin has not disagreed,” the source said.

Zelensky has reportedly been told that “this is a military-to-military problem to solve and the talks will go on with or without you,” if need be. “We can finance his voyage to the Caribbean,” the official added.

Zelensky-Zaluzhny Spat

Hersh’s story comes after a month of escalating tensions between Zaluzhny and Zelensky after the publication of Zaluzhny’s interview and article in Western media on November 1, with Ukraine’s president first adamantly insisting that the conflict with Russia was “not a stalemate,” and emphasizing emphatically to US media that he would never negotiate with Moscow and Russian President Vladimir Putin under any circumstances.

The behind-the-scenes battle has come to include sackings of Zaluzhny allies, the mysterious bombing death attack of one of his aides, and a poisoning attack against Marianna Budanova, the wife of the Ukrainian military’s Main Intelligence Directorate chief.

On Thursday, Zelensky appeared to change his tune regarding the fate of Ukraine’s counteroffensive, saying it “did not achieve the desired results” as quickly as expected, that Kiev will be shifting to “a new phase of war” as winter sets in, and mobilize resources to build fortifications in Zaporozhye, Ukrainian-occupied areas of Donetsk, Kherson, Kharkov, Sumy, Chernigov, Kiev, Rovno and Volyn.

Meanwhile, Commander Zaluzhny was conspicuously absent from a meeting between Zelensky and his generals during a visit to a command post in Kharkov region.
One factor that the Hersh story did not account for is Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem. Veteran international relations expert Gilbert Doctorow told Sputnik this week that notwithstanding the political rivalries or conflicts in Kiev, they are just “a tempest in a teapot” given the power of the neo-Nazi street thug “grey cardinals” mobilized during the 2014 coup, who can and will do everything in their power to block any peace deal.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20231201/zaluzhny-talking-peace-with-russia-behind-zelensky-and-bidens-backs-sy-hersh-1115333803.html

ucmvulcan wrote:
The generalfeldmarschal will be relieved to know that the Abrams won't be in the field long enough to worry about engine filters or overhauls.

Actually, this is important in the field as well. FPV drone hit anywhere close to the engine deck can choke/seize the engine. Immobile tank = dead tank. Abrams in this regards is more vulnerable than Leo

RF drone strike at Ukrainian infantry at Bakhmut



below upscaled with ai enhancement and frame interpolated.

Ukrainian POV, Under fire at Avdiivka frontline



various RF drone strikes on Ukrainian targets



RF VDV troops take Ukrainian position in the Zaporozhye region



RF Airforce keeps striking ukrainian positions in Avdiivka with Glide bombs

Colonel Snow has arrived in western Ukraine.