Russian special military operation in Ukraine #56

Belisarius wrote:



Defeat of the Patriot air defense system and the AN/MPQ-65 radar of the Ukrainian Armed Forces by a missile strike from the Iskander OTRK in the area of the village. Gulyaypole in Zaporozhye region.

https://t.me/intelslava/59717

flamming_python wrote:

Karl Haushofer wrote:One thing that I have thought for a long time is that why do the Ukrainians allow themselves to be slaughtered like this?

Do they actually think it is worth sacrificing an entire generation just to keep Russia out? Do they actually WANT to fight Russia until the last Ukrainian?

Or are they being unwillingly sent to die? If yes, then why aren't they able to revolt against the regime? Are they not able to organize? Why isn't Russia more actively helping underground partisans in Ukraine? Or do these partisan groups even exist?

My uneducated guess is that the current nationalist regime  in Ukraine is a well-organized and western-supported minority, while the majority of Ukrainians are apathetic and unorganized.  

A well-organized minority can rule over an entire country even if they represent just 5% of the population, if the rest of the country does not care and is apathetic. It happened in 1917 in Russia with the Bolsheviks. This is the reason why I find it difficult to understand why Russia refuses to kill the representatives of Ukrainian regime. Why kill thousands of conscripts instead of cutting the head of the monster.

The only Ukrainians with any guts are the Nazis. This explains 80% of everything that's going on.

There are many anti-Zelensky and anti-Bandera Ukrainians in fact. They're just mostly outside the Ukraine by now, that's all.

Well there is a small core of informers in the Ukraine that feeds Russia intel of course. Especially in large Russian-speaking cities such as Odessa and Kharkov.

Kiko wrote:"They are in a panic”: the US named two cities with which Ukraine will part ways, 05.10.2024.

Johnson: Russia won't stop until it reaches Kyiv and Odessa.
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the ratio is more than 10:1 in favour of the Russians. 

It is just like arguing with a rock - they share the IQ level.

Interesting.

It exploded nicely, so there were missiles inside for sure - the question is what type?
AMRAAM?

Very big logistics problem for the Ukies.

White elephant must be protected 

Additional missiles for the Patriot air defense system
Additional HIMARS MLRS and ammunition for them

HARM anti-radar missiles

PapaDragon wrote:Kiev is a distraction, Odessa is what matters

They will get closer to Kiev just to force Ukrs to divert troops from more important areas of the front

White elephant must be protected

Arkanghelsk wrote:Kharkov offensive begun

Recon in force/DRG is clearing the border area

The sanitation zone is being enforced

The first prisoners appeared on the border, a dozen and a half soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces surrendered to our forces, unable to withstand the blow. Several dozen dead soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, killed in a shooting battle, how many Ukrainians were destroyed by artillery and aviation is still unknown.

For example, ODAB 1500, which flew straight down the Ukrainian road in Volchansk at about one in the morning, probably evaporated almost everyone who was at this facility.

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Seems RU has 150k troops to clear out the north zone

Expect south donetsk to run concurrently to Kharkov

“The West is in panic, it has no idea what to do,” he concluded.

By the way, just take a look at the fragmentation pattern.
It is some ... 300-400m radius?

Kiev is a distraction, Odessa is what matters

They will get closer to Kiev just to force Ukrs to divert troops from more important areas of the front

According to the report, the average viewing depth was 91%.

Why keep they sending such crap?

Kub and Buk are somehow interoperational.

Tying up 150,000 cannon fodder in Kiev will prevent the Nazis from sending reinforcements to Odessa

Russia didn't want this bloody fratricidal war (NATO did) but will sure as hell finish it, and will finish it to their satisfaction.

Ukraine a ‘corrupt s**thole’ – ex-Boris Johnson adviser
Backing Kiev pushed Russia and China into an alliance, Dominic Cummings has said

The UK and its allies got tricked into backing a “corrupt mafia state” in Ukraine and getting into a war of attrition against a Moscow-Beijing partnership, Dominic Cummings has said in an interview.

The longtime Tory political strategist led the Vote Leave campaign for Brexit and was one of the key aides to then-PM Boris Johnson until resigning in November 2020.

“We should have never got into the whole stupid situation,” Cummings told the outlet I News in an interview published on Wednesday, commenting on London’s full-throated support for Kiev. He also described Ukraine as a “corrupt s**thole that doesn’t matter at all.”

“This is not a replay of 1940 with the pumpkin [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky as the Churchillian underdog,” he added. “This whole Ukrainian corrupt mafia state has basically conned us all and we’re all going to get f**ked as a consequence.”

Western sanctions have been “more of a disaster” for the EU than for Russia, driving up the cost of living while pushing Moscow and Beijing closer together, according to Cummings. All the West managed to do is get into a war of attrition with Russia, “who we pushed into an alliance with the world’s biggest manufacturing power.”

Cummings also addressed the argument that Russian President Vladimir Putin needed to be “taught a lesson” about invading neighbors.

“The lesson we’ve taught Putin is that we’re a bunch of total f**king jokers,” he said. “I mean, Putin already knew that before the war. But this has emphasized it and broadcast it to the entire world, what a bunch of clowns we are,” he added.

Between the sanctions regime and the US trying to seize frozen Russian assets, the West is encouraging the emergence of alternative global financial systems, he explained.

Cummings slammed Johnson – with whom he is no longer on speaking terms – for using the Ukraine conflict for “acting out his Churchillian fantasies,” as well as the Parliament, which “swallowed all of his total bulls**t on Ukraine and actually took it seriously.”

Johnson was the key figure in getting Kiev to reject a peace deal with Russia in April 2022, according to the top Ukrainian negotiator, as well as Ukrainian media.

The former PM denied his role in scuttling the talks, calling the account “total nonsense and Russian propaganda.” However, he confirmed that he told Zelensky the UK would back him “a thousand percent” and that any deal with Moscow would be bad.