Russian special military operation in Ukraine #60

That incursion in Kursk is a benediction. They loose a shit ton of equipement there for free. When you think thry are dumb to go on the ground, they surprise you by going in the air too.

Let's wait for the video.

https://x.com/gnovosibir79446/status/1826323886507540715?s=46

Kursk being reversed

billybatts91 wrote:This is the result of when you let NATO cross all your red lines and you do nothing about it...

https://x.com/witte_sergei/status/1826275241175462299

I guess we know what happens when a missile designed to take down a jet fighter hits a cessna full of gas.

Glenn Diesen
@Glenn_Diesen
In a war of attrition, the objective is to exhaust the adversary. Any territorial conquest comes after that as well-defended defensive lines are costly to break in terms of manpower and equipment
- The journalists who have reported on a stagnant conflict and celebrated whenever Ukraine goes on the offensive (and often enters into artillery pockets) are obsessed with territory
- After exhausting the Ukrainian military, Russia opened another front in Kharkov to further stretch the depleted Ukrainian army
- Ukraine's Kursk offensive is a risky move because it predictably comes at an extremely high price as men and machines are destroyed in the open and without reliable supply lines, and the territory cannot be held. These troops could have been used to defend crumbling frontlines in Donbas
- It is nearly impossible to make this argument in the West as the journalists and public have been trained to clap as seals every time Ukraine conquers territory. This is mandatory to display loyalty and proof of being "pro-Ukrainian". Dissent is immediately denounced as "Russian propaganda" and punished with high social costs
- Zelensky has wasted many troops on PR battles, yet it is not entirely his fault as the PR stunts are necessary to acquire attention and more weapons from the West as our politicians and public get excited every time Ukraine acquires some territory
- The assumption is that Russia will be demoralised and make great concessions if it loses some territory. But Russia considers NATO expansion to be an existential threat and can therefore not stand down before Ukrainian neutrality is restored. As NATO rejects any negotiations on NATO expansion, the only path for Russia to achieve its objective is attrition warfare. Yes, this war is also a territorial conflict now, although that is a symptom of the failure of a diplomatic path to end NATO expansionism. This should all be obvious, but it is not permitted to state the obvious anymore as it is criminalised as "legitimising" the Russian invasion
- If we survive this proxy war with Russia (not a certainty as we keep escalating against the world's largest nuclear power), we should reflect on how our sloganeering, war propaganda and censorship have crippled our ability to conduct rational analysis required to maximise security
- Anyways, the attrition war has already entered a new stage as the Ukrainian army has been exhausted and the frontlines are collapsing without much resistance.

mnztr wrote:
I guess we know what happens when a missile designed to take down a jet fighter hits a cessna full of gas.

It’s in Murmansk, so not much fuel left. It’s was loaded with explosives. If it was lifted from Finland or Estonia, even less so.

By the way, another vehicle spotted in Kursk. BTR-D

Russians continue to advance in Pokrovsk

Regular wrote:I think Estonians let Ukrainians use their airspace for small  suicide drones.

In which case, Russia should use Estonian landmarks for munitions testing. Its only fair...

Russian units involved in fighting in  Kursk per Viktor Murakhovskiy
https://t.me/Viktor_Murakhovskiy/673

155 обрмп
ВКС омсп
346 мсп(то)
22 мсп
1009 мсп(то)
232 мсп
9 мсп
1434 мсп(то)
204 омпсн
часть сил 200 омсбр(а)
810 обрмп
30 мсп
272 мсп
488 мсп
часть сил 15 омсбр
часть сил 2 обрсн
1428 мсп(то)

БР - brigade
П - regiment
МП - marine infantry
СН - special forces

So, 2 marine brigades, regiment and part of brigade of special units, interestingly, separate RuAF motorized rifle regiment ( fighting around Korenevo- someone here mixed them up for VDV), rest are motorized rifle regiments or parts of moto rifle brigades (arty, tanks).

A lot of those units have only a battalion present so far. The 204th and the 1434th regiments are the Chechen units. The 22nd regiment is the third regiment of the new 72nd Division and has just entered the zone.

ucmvulcan wrote:
Arrow my man, can I ask one small favor when you post a telegram link? I don't really like telegram so could you tell us what's in the link in case we want to get into it at a later time? It would be greatly appreciated.

It is the destruction of a small commercial plane converted to a drone in the Murmansk region.
Speculations revealed that it was released from either Finland or Estonia.

There are rumors that Russia is preparing to strike Ukrainian government targets in the coming days.However, this is very unlikely.


https://lostarmour.info/news/boi-konopelka-zogrussia-9995

The first American M1A1 Abrams tank of the Ukrainian army was destroyed in the Kursk direction.

This was stated today by the commander of the special forces unit "Akhmat" Apti Alaudinov.

There have been no previous reports of American tanks being used by the invading forces.

https://t.me/intelslava/65398

Probably getting closer to the actual number

There are 541,600 military personnel of the Russian Armed Forces in the zone of the special military operation in Ukraine. Such data are provided by Ukrainian sources. According to their estimates, the most numerous is the Russian group of troops “Dnepr”, which numbers 130 thousand military personnel.

The second place in terms of the number of military personnel, according to enemy data, is occupied by the “South” group of troops, which includes 114 thousand soldiers and officers performing combat missions. The group of troops “Center”, numbering 87 thousand military personnel, closes the top three in this indicator.

According to enemy estimates, the smallest number of Russian military personnel is the cover group for the Crimea Peninsula, which includes 13,500 military personnel.

Let us recall that some time ago in Kyiv they announced that by the end of the year the number of Russian military personnel in the zone of military operations in Ukraine could be increased to 800 thousand people. According to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, at present, the bulk of the Russian military contingent consists of persons who voluntarily entered into a contract to serve in the Northern Military District zone.

Let us add that Ukraine currently has a total mobilization regime, which allows TCC employees to detain men on the streets, in public transport and catering establishments. In addition, employees of territorial recruitment centers often even break into the homes of Ukrainians. However, despite all these measures, the military command of Ukraine is unable to seriously replenish the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Moreover, after the new law on mobilization in Ukraine came into force, the male population of the country is trying to go abroad en masse.

https://topcor-ru.translate.goog/50792-na-ukraine-chislennost-rossijskih-vojsk-v-zone-svo-ocenili-v-541600-chelovek.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en

JohninMK wrote:Probably getting closer to the actual number

This number is slightly too low in my opinion, but the real one won't be much better - I would say it is around 20 mln.
"Funny" fact is, that under the rules of freedoms, democracy, and superb western values halving the population in 3 decades is nothing unusual.
It happened in all Pribaltic countries.
Russkie just helped the ukrs to "westernize" faster, as they fell behind if compared to the Wonderlands losing only 10 mln people by 2014

GarryB wrote:

Just so ironic that the safest place they could run to would be Russia...

It is impossible.
Russia has left only one border checkpoint where Ukrainians can pass the control - it is Sheremetevo airport. Every single one is being extensively questioned, including physical check of all electronic devices. FSB is checking all social media activities, and acting accordingly. Ukrs that were jumping on Maidan or published dumb comments about the events are just sended back.

Read somewhere (cannot locate now) in the past 24 hours where a Russian writer compared the fighting in Kursk to Robotyne in 2023 where the Ukrainians kept sending waves of attackers to get slaughtered by the Russian forces.
As the British Army once reported in fighting Napoleons Grand Army, "they kept coming in the same old way and we kept killing them the same old way."

Russian MoD reporting 2425 Ukrainian casualties over the past 24 hours including...

Summary of the Russian Ministry of Defense on the progress of repelling the attempted invasion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine into the territory of the Russian Federation (as of August 22, 2024)

The Armed Forces continue to repel the attempted invasion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine into the territory of the Russian Federation.

The units of the North group of forces, with the support of army aviation and artillery fire, repelled attacks by enemy assault groups in the direction of the settlements of Komarovka and Malaya Loknya, and also thwarted attempts to attack in the direction of Korenevo, Kremyanoye, Martynovka, Olgovka and Russian Porechnoye.

As a result, the AFU lost more than 45 people killed and wounded, destroyed: a tank and 4 armored combat vehicles.

Reconnaissance and search operations are continuing to identify and destroy enemy sabotage groups in the forests that tried to penetrate deep into Russian territory. An enemy sabotage and reconnaissance group from the 82nd Airborne Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was discovered and destroyed in a forest 1 km south-west of the village of Skrylivka. Two armored combat vehicles and 7 military personnel were destroyed, one was captured.

Air strikes, artillery fire and military actions defeated concentrations of manpower and equipment of the 22nd and 115th mechanized, 82nd airborne assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Apanasovka, Borki, Vishnevka, Gordeyevka, Mikhailovka, Plekhovo, Snagost and Loknya.

Tactical air strikes were carried out on the areas of concentration of personnel and military equipment of reserves in the Sumy region: 22nd, 41st and 61st mechanized, 80th and 82nd airborne assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 1st National Guard Brigade, 103rd, 106th, 107- the 11th and 119th air Defense brigades, as well as the 69th infantry battalion in the areas of the settlements of Basovka, Boyar-Lezhachi, Vorozhba, Druzhba, Zhuravka, Krasnopolye, Katerinovka, Miropolskoye, Loknya, Obody, Pervomayskoye, Sumy, Starikovo and Chernevoye.

During the day, the losses of the Armed Forces amounted to more than 300 soldiers and 23 armored vehicles, including three tanks, twenty armored combat vehicles, as well as one artillery piece and 15 vehicles.

In total, during the fighting in the Kursk direction, the enemy lost more than 4,700 soldiers, 68 tanks, 27 infantry fighting vehicles, 53 armored personnel carriers, 336 armored combat vehicles, 148 vehicles, 32 artillery pieces, five anti-aircraft missile systems, ten multiple launch rocket launchers, including three HIMARS MLRS and one MLRS, six electronic warfare stations, four units of engineering equipment, including two engineering barrier vehicles and one UR-77 mine clearance unit.

The operation to destroy the AFU formations continues.

https://function.mil.ru/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12526292@egNews

Russian Proryv tank is much better than Western ones — head of Rostec

The Russian tank "Proryv" (lit. - breakthrough) is head and shoulders above the American Abrams, the British Challenger and the German Leopard, said Sergey Chemezov, head of Russia’s state arms manufacturer, Rostec. He added that foreign customers are well aware of this.

In particular, the American Abrams tank and a dozen units of other Ukrainian equipment were hit in the Kursk region today, Apty Alaudinov, commander of the Akhmat special forces, said. 

Russia President Vladimir Putin, commenting on the Russian Proryv tank, said:

"We can now say with 100% certainty that the T-90 Proryv is the best tank in the world. Once it gets into position, there is nothing anyone can do."

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