Russian special military operation in Ukraine #51

Wonder if this will generate a response?

Best radar target since WW!

Fun comments at https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1736075367218020690/photo/1

Ukraine announced the start of serial production of the AQ-400 kamikaze UAV.
Warhead - 32 kg, flight range - 750 km. It is planned to produce up to 500 drones per month.

@Slavyangrad

URGENTLY
Nikolaevkskaya area. Su-25 shot down. 17.12 18:15

It is reported that in the area of ​​the settlement. Elizavetovo, a Su-25 attack aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force was hit.

Our Buk-M3 worked perfectly.

That's 2S1

If this were a western SPG it wouldn´t work anymore.

Wonder if this will generate a response?

The general response to such incidents is the killing of 500 to 1.000 Ukro fighters daily.

It is planned to produce up to 500 drones per month.

It took them nearly half a year to produce this 3 examples.

The warhead is like half of a Geran-2.

Got camo netting but it seems that its well prepared dugout was below groundwater level. Oops. At least the engine started but maybe it got winched out. That's 2S1, Soviet 122mm SPG?

It is amphibious, so it either got stuck in the mud as the water rose up or the rear door was left open and it flooded...

But after this boasting the guy was sent to the Avdeevka area, where he spent only a few days. Now here’s his photo with a candle and a funeral table. - FRWL reports

So an idiot Ukrainian soldier boasted on Tiktok that he had a cushy assignment that made him safe and comfortable and days after posting that to Tiktok his photo and a candle are shown indicating he got killed. Karma works fast there I guess.

The general response to such incidents is the killing of 500 to 1.000 Ukro fighters daily.

But the information can be stored for retrieval when things get a bit harder and nastier and Russia needs to escalate to get the job done.

Posting for the clip at the bottom. This was some local meeting in ukraine. 

ALAMO wrote:

kvs wrote:The Kiev and north-east "parade" with around 100,000 troops was designed to shock and awe the Kiev regime into a peace deal.
It succeed in this regard until NATzO instructed the Kiev regime to tear it up.   I do not think it is a mistake to try to avoid bloody war.
The world knows what went down when BoJo visited Kiev.   Attempts to cover it up by claiming there were some other negotiations
that nobody every heard about before which Putin "broke off" are pathetic.
There was no military mistake.   No collection of Russian generals would believe that 100,000 troops are enough to take over the whole
of Ukria in a blitzkrieg.   Give them some credit, they are not internet fanboi wankers.

The worst in this story is a fact, that people with this kind of harsh statements are living in a bubble filled with own farts, unable to smell the roses.
First, you have a moron from the Pentagon claiming that Kiev will fall in 3 days.
One applies that moronic statement to the Russkie as a second step.
And call them ignorant because they have not succeeded in something that was never their goal.
It is fukin amazing, how short memory and lack of linking the dots some people can represent.


A fukin' 400+k strong army, national guard and other military, battle hardned, trained, equipped, motivated and nazi lead/oriented.
They have been  smashed. Simply crushed, as a pig challenging RAM truck.

By April 2022, this army was non existing

I know you'll call me an idiot for asking this but anyway...

Why is there such a contrast between the war now and the war in the first 3-4 months ? It is like total opposites. Yes there was overly aggressive thunder runs into Ukraine. But those thunder runs got tangible results. Russia was taking on a Ukraine military in its best shape. A military that Ukraine could only dream of now in 2023. We seen what Russia was capable of. Mariupol was a fortress and the pride of the regime. With the best forces. And Russia went in there and just took in 2 months and 3 weeks. The speed of the capture saved most of the city from being destroyed.

Couldn't there be an intermediate step between the war we have today and that ? It took over a year to take Bakmuht. Why can't Russia take its time to gather a force and then go Mariupol style on another one of these cities ? Especially since the Ukraine army isn't anything close to what it was in April of 2022.

An epic air strike with a 1,500 kg high-explosive bomb on an elevator on the right bank of the Dnieper, where Ukrainian Armed Forces reserves are being accumulated for transfer to the bridgehead in Krynki.
https://t.me/lost_armour/1934

wo Majors #Report for the Morning of 18 December 2023; pub. 07:00:round_pushpin:

Once again, a night attack by a Geranium UAV hit the military airfield of #Starokonstantinov in #Khmelnitsky region.

In the #Kherson direction, fighting continues near #Krynki, with enemy channels reporting the involvement of armoured vehicles by the RF Armed Forces. Our UAV operators do not stop destroying the enemy's manpower on the water. Yesterday the enemy concentrated on replenishment of personnel and evacuation. Reported the destruction of an enemy aircraft in the sky above #Yelizavetovka, which is in the rear of the enemy's direction.

On the #Zaporozhye front, the state of the ground did not allow the AFU to fully engage armoured vehicles. The infantry attacks on #Verbovoye were repelled, at #Rabotino ours counterattacked, there are local battles. Enemy artillery continues to work on our positions.

In the #Maryinka sector, the RF Armed Forces are developing success, they have begun advancing towards #Kurakhovo, the enemy is fighting back with strikes by FPV drones on our equipment. To the south, our troops are fighting near #Novomikhaylovka.

In the #Avdeyevka sector, the RF Armed Forces are conducting an offensive on the northern outpost of the front near #Stepovoye, enemy resources have reported attacks by our troops near the Coke Plant. On the southern edge of the front, there is fighting near #Pervomayskoye and #Vodyanoye.

West of #Artyomovsk (#Bakhmut) the RF Armed Forces are attacking the settlement of #Bogdanovka and are advancing towards the settlement of #Ivanovka along the route to Chasov Yar. Heavy fighting is taking place near #Kleshcheyevka for control over the heights.

In the #Kupyansk sector, fighting near Sinkovka and also in the area of #Kislovka, no significant changes in the frontline.

In the #Belgorod direction, an action by the Ukrainian Defence Ministry's GUR near the village of #Terebreno in the Krasnoyaruzhny district was stopped. The enemy attempted to hold events involving traitors who had previously defected to its side, but the attack was repelled. On the #DPR civilian population, the enemy fired 129 rounds of ammunition, and a resident of #Donetsk was wounded.

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I know you'll call me an idiot for asking this but anyway...

The battles in the past year took so long because the aim was to maximize the losses of Ukro/NATO.
The current speed of some operations is faster because that aim was achieved to a large extent.
The Ukros are burning through their last reserves.

Backman wrote:Why is there such a contrast between the war now and the war in the first 3-4 months ? It is like total opposites. Yes there was overly aggressive thunder runs into Ukraine. But those thunder runs got tangible results. Russia was taking on a Ukraine military in its best shape. A military that Ukraine could only dream of now in 2023. We seen what Russia was capable of. Mariupol was a fortress and the pride of the regime. With the best forces. And Russia went in there and just took in 2 months and 3 weeks. The speed of the capture saved most of the city from being destroyed.

Couldn't there be an intermediate step between the war we have today and that ? It took over a year to take Bakmuht.  Why can't Russia take its time to gather a force and then go Mariupol style on another one of these cities ? Especially since the Ukraine army isn't anything close to what it was in April of 2022.

The difference is back then the Ukrainian army was mostly located right next to the Donbass. The Russians basically caught them with their pants down. That's why Russia could make such deep thrusts into Ukrainian territory in the north and south. If you look at it, the front line next to the Donbass itself, where Ukraine had most of their forces, didn't move nearly as much.

After Ukraine mobilized they started attacking the rear areas of the Russian combat lines. It would have been hard to sustain those advanced positions without Russian general mobilization to guard the rear. There was also the (wrong) expectation that the peace talks would be successful.

Anyway this should also work. The main difference is progress is slower, but it will also be a lot less costly to Russia, and more costly to Ukraine.

From the file of VP's War Crime Charges....

Since the beginning of the special operation, the Office of the Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights has helped reunite 48 children with their Ukrainian relatives living in Ukraine and other countries .

This was reported by the Children's Ombudsman of the Russian Federation Maria Lvova-Belova.

“There are also the opposite situations, when children live in Ukraine, but want to visit their loved ones in Russia,” said Lvova-Belova, as quoted by the press service.

According to her, serious support in the reunification process is provided by the International Committee of the Red Cross, Qatar, the envoy of Pope Francis, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, and the State Border Committee of the Republic of Belarus.

https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1736735471131144642

Could be 20-30 depending on spares etc. High maintenance vehicles.

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Denmark and Sweden agreed on the purchase and transfer to Ukraine of an additional batch of CV90 BMPs, - the Swedish government

The allocated amount is $263 million. Taking into account the unit cost of $10 million, we are talking about approximately 25 combat vehicles

Su34 at morozovsk - rostov airbase, the ice protected the machine, but other sources say it is in fact inoperable and must be repaired

At the very least, concrete shelters should be built as bases like Saki, Morozovsk, belbek and other frontline bases

It's retarded to say it's not needed, sure cruise missiles would destroy such hangars, but a plastic drone won't

Also, VKS has lowered friendly fire but that su25 was downed because of poor IFF

This needs to be resolved by improving the IFF registry , I understand sanctions have hurt us in this regard, but it is necessary to find alternatives for this

A strange call for a grenade if you ask me ...

Time to get some flamethrowers out of storage.