Russian special military operation in Ukraine #59

The only advantage that F-16 gives to Ukraine is that they'll now be able to use weapons like J-SOW that they couldn't use previously.

To challenge RuAF they'll have to enter Russian air space, which they will avoid. F-16s will target drones like Shaheen etc.

Sujoy wrote:The only advantage that F-16 gives to Ukraine is that they'll now be able to use weapons like J-SOW that they couldn't use previously.

To challenge RuAF they'll have to enter Russian air space, which they will avoid. F-16s will target drones like Shaheen etc.

They should launch drones and oblige them to use all their amraam. They will quickly run out of them.

Easy and very effective tactic.

Russian forces take out another Leopard2-A4

JohninMK wrote:From: https://voenhronika.ru/ via Translate Web Pages.

Enemy channels write that this night was the most massive Geranium attack since the beginning of 2024. More than 30 "Geraniums" entered the city. The air alert lasted 7 hours, but apart from one short video, there is no confirmation of massive damage yet. It is known that the strike was inflicted in particular on the base of foreign mercenaries in the capital's Boryspil airport.

30 is not many. Have they scaled back the use of Gerans?

This is a good summary of the present situation I think.

So apparently according to military summary zelensky wants to hold a referendum In each area to determine if they want to stay part of Ukraine. Is this his way of getting out of this war and get the blame but rather blame the population in those territories. Of course it will be corrupted and planned outcome by the west. This will be done so this doesn't look like the defeat of the Ukrainian army but rather the will of the people. And they will be hoping it will be enough to satisfy Putin. But I would say unless Odessa, Niko, Kherson, zapo, Donetsk, Lugansk, kharkiv, Sumy, is included at the very least then Putin should keep going. I would even push for Poltava dnipro, Kirovograd, cherniv, as a punishment to Ukraine and then of course transnistria and gaughaz declared independence from Moldova

Isos wrote:They should launch drones and oblige them to use all their amraam. They will quickly run out of them.

Easy and very effective tactic.

Overkill! Drones will be engaged with the Vulcan gun and Hydra rockets.

That is when drones are not fighting against drones.

Add a fragmented warhead and you will see how dumb it is to go with godfight weapons.

They already lost a mig-29 this way.

The-thing-next-door wrote:

JohninMK wrote:From: https://voenhronika.ru/ via Translate Web Pages.

Enemy channels write that this night was the most massive Geranium attack since the beginning of 2024. More than 30 "Geraniums" entered the city. The air alert lasted 7 hours, but apart from one short video, there is no confirmation of massive damage yet. It is known that the strike was inflicted in particular on the base of foreign mercenaries in the capital's Boryspil airport.

30 is not many. Have they scaled back the use of Gerans?

I suspect it was a comment re all 30 going to one place, Kiev, rather than spread around. Given the time span they could have been double tapping.

An interesting look at how individual brigades are building their own internal special forces unit in the Russian military

https://maratkhairullin.substack.com/p/russian-special-forces-the-remedy

    For example, this week, our troops quickly broke through to Konstantinovka (on the Marinka-Ugledar highway) and took a bridgehead on the outskirts. This was preceded by powerful artillery preparation. At the same time, DRGs entered behind enemy lines (near the highway) and began actively assaulting the AFU. This caused real panic!

    In some cases, our saboteurs work at a depth of up to 10 kilometers, and we see this, for example, in the Slavyansk direction, where our people regularly attack the AFU at the border between Rai-Alexandrovka and Nikiforovka.

    The use of special reconnaissance groups is becoming a widespread practice. There's an interesting backstory here. Starting in the summer of 2022, the AFU actively used this tactic - the near rear was literally swarming with enemy DRGs. This was a serious problem, the front was just being formed, and it was openly leaking, since ours had not yet added sufficient numbers of troops.

    At the junction of the zones of responsibility of different units, gaps in the defense regularly formed, and the enemy actively took advantage of this. Now the situation, we see, has swung in the opposite direction. This means that the enemy is in serious trouble.

    To make it clear, the entire more than thousand-kilometer front line is a very serious fortification structure. Rows of barbed wire, continuous minefields, trenches, strongholds - both on their side and on ours. And if we switched to the tactics of actively using DRGs, this clearly shows that gaps have formed in these continuous lines of enemy defense. There were no longer enough forces to contain the entire front.

    And, among other things, there is one more interesting detail (I say this from personal observations). In the summer of 2023, in addition to the formation of special Storm units, each brigade began to form its own elite units. This was, as I understand it, a special program - the best fighters of suitable age were collected into a special detachment, subordinate directly to the brigade commander. They were trained according to a special program by special GRU instructors.

    I still thought then that it was such a fashion for brigade commanders to start their own special forces units, but today, it becomes clear why this whole strategy was needed.

    The army is primarily about long-term planning. That is, when preparations were underway for the future big offensive last summer, our strategists even thought through such a thing in advance - the mass training of special forces. So that when the time comes, put them into action. Our guys are now increasing pressure on the enemy by all possible means, and we see the results along the entire front line.

JohninMK wrote:
    The use of special reconnaissance groups is becoming a widespread practice. There's an interesting backstory here. Starting in the summer of 2022, the AFU actively used this tactic - the near rear was literally swarming with enemy DRGs. This was a serious problem, the front was just being formed, and it was openly leaking, since ours had not yet added sufficient numbers of troops.

A vast majority of Russian POWs in the first stage of war were logistics troops when those DRG targeted them.
Freshly mobilized republican rear units were easy prey for them.
A side story is a fact, that for every armed forces, special units are recruited among the most motivated, patriotic and psychically capable soldiers. They get the best training and equipment, and those guys received intense and competent training in NATO special forces training programs.
In the case of banderastan, "patriotic" was replaced by nazi in most of the cases.
It is what has been reported a long time before 240222, by multiple events when things went so bad that Canadian or German units refused to train with them, calling openly nazi.
This is how the armed forces have been reshaped after 2015 disastrous campaign. A regular Ukrainian soldier often denied fighting against their own population, which led to the disbanding a whole units after. And making them new by saturating intensively with the most determined and notorious nazi elements that could be supplied.
First materials covering executing POWs, torturing them etc were provided by those individuals.

Being cynical, this could be the mainstream UA management deciding that they wanted access to the potential bribes from those buying their way out of service.

Also many more press gangs operating in areas regarded as too dangerous by the current teams.

Not only military registration and enlistment offices will be able to draft Ukrainians into the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The General Staff announced that they will allow the commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine units to do this, and without the participation of TCC employees in this process.

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Today's laugh time. This epitomises Ukraine since 1991.

The coat of arms on the "Motherland" monument in Kiev may fall off - Director of the Paton Institute Igor Krivtsun

It turned out that the coat of arms was welded without the consent of specialists. The welds are already damaged by corrosion. The welding work was not carried out according to scientific technology.

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It seems that welding equipment and stainless steel electrodes imported from the West were stolen after crossing the border. So the coat of arms was welded with "made in Bangladesh" quality electrodes, that is, they were welded together with car repair gear. Streaks of rust stain will probably be the first evidence.

Looks like he stupidly believed that the money was all his. As that's now been corrected...........................  


Ternopil Regional Council Head Mikhail Golovko, who was fired after being detained for taking a bribe of UAH 2.4 million, has been reinstated

According to the court's decision, he will be paid a salary of UAH 591 thousand for the period of "forced absence".

Earlier, UAH 805 thousand bail was posted for him.

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Perhaps this is Germany and others getting fed up with pouring money into the bottomless pit that is Ukraine, plus tens of thousands extracting money from their social security systems with many refusing to work. Probably not as much chance of bribing German bureaucrats than Ukrainian. Mind you this is another potential source of bribes in UKraine.

Deja vu from the 1940s, men living in Germany having to go and die on the eastern front.

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“You can go home to get a passport,” Germany decided not to issue German identity cards to Ukrainian men instead of expired Ukrainian ones

“The Hessian Immigration Office, as a rule, does not issue a German replacement identity card to Ukrainian men of military age; it is reasonable for them to go to Ukraine to obtain a passport and undergo compulsory military service,” reads the response to a request from deputies of the Hessian Landtag from the Alternative for Germany party. . Der Tagesspiegel points out that this is, in fact, a response to the 20 thousand Ukrainian men in Hesse who have applied for such “ersatz passports”.

“If Ukrainians return to their homeland with expired passports, they will be subject to active martial law and will not be allowed to leave the country again,” the publication continues. However, the Hessian government believes that it is necessary to “understand Ukraine’s interest in recruiting people for the defensive struggle against Russia.” Therefore, the relevant authorities in Wiesbaden decided that they had the right to motivate male refugees to return to Ukraine.

Rudi Friedrich of Connection, an organization that brings together military draft dodgers, believes Ukrainian male refugees have only one option left. He believes they should file a separate application for asylum as “conscientious objectors.” “Ukraine does not recognize the right to conscientious objection to military service,” explains Friedrich, “this is a clear violation of human rights.” But Der Tagesspiegel notes that the “success” of such a request in the current situation is doubtful.

A Red Cross convoy of refrigerated trucks.

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The Ukrainian side announced the return of the bodies of 250 military personnel

JohninMK wrote:Today's laugh time. This epitomises Ukraine since 1991.

The coat of arms on the "Motherland" monument in Kiev may fall off - Director of the Paton Institute Igor Krivtsun

It turned out that the coat of arms was welded without the consent of specialists. The welds are already damaged by corrosion. The welding work was not carried out according to scientific technology.

@ukr_leaks_eng

It seems that welding equipment and stainless steel electrodes imported from the West were stolen after crossing the border. So the coat of arms was welded with "made in Bangladesh" quality electrodes, that is, they were welded together with car repair gear. Streaks of rust stain will probably be the first evidence.

Truly scum.
A monument build to mark the defeat of Nazism.... has the badge of Nazis put on it.
Russia should order the execution of these vermin at the end of the war.

JohninMK wrote:Today's laugh time. This epitomises Ukraine since 1991.

The coat of arms on the "Motherland" monument in Kiev may fall off

This is terrible news

I was looking forward to seeing Russian troops dynamite this shit symbol after Kiev is liberated...

Maybe Russia can send them a few USD and a box of decent welding rods and they can make some (very) temporary repairs?

Big_Gazza wrote:

JohninMK wrote:Today's laugh time. This epitomises Ukraine since 1991.

The coat of arms on the "Motherland" monument in Kiev may fall off

This is terrible news

I was looking forward to seeing Russian troops dynamite this shit symbol after Kiev is liberated...  

Maybe Russia can send them a few USD and a box of decent welding rods and they can make some (very) temporary repairs?  

Also, why they are calling it mother ukraine?
The name Is Rodina-mat (motherland).

Hopefully it will be changed back after Kiev is liberated.
(I do not know if makes sense to put back the hammer and sickle will be put back, but russian symbols instead of the trident from 404 will be great).

Possibly the Russians will put back the soviet symbols, as they are not ashamed of their past, and as an example, Aeroflot has still the hammer and sickle in its official logo in 2024.