Russian special military operation in Ukraine #60

There were no attacks on government buildings as many on the wires speculated.



Ukrainian UAVs Hit Residential Buildings in Saratov

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Just an observation about where exactly F16 should be taken down . In my view , Russia concentrated on defeating the weaker or lesser part of the enemy forces . This was and is the Ukrainian proxy forces in Ukraine , especially the Nazi element .  Russia knows who destroyed the North Stream pipeline , and they know where these F16 flying coffins fly from . But knowing and saying are different things . Some said if , F16 fly from NATO territory , then they can or should be taken down in their airspace . Yes it is justified to do so , but it risks bringing NATO forces ( the larger and stronger portion of enemy forces ) into a direct fight . The stronger force added to the weaker force ! But as long as the weaker element is being defeated , and it is being defeated , then all efforts should be made to keep NATO , out of the fight . Therefore for now , it is best to destroy these F16 , over Ukrainian airspace , unless NATO presents enough of a threat , directly or indirectly , that it derails the defeat of Ukrs , or poses an existential threat to Russia . This situation has not arrived yet . Once the weaker force is defeated , then the stronger force can be dealt with much better .

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I have watched that again, and it looks like I was wrong.
It is probably Challenger 2, but the case is that the picture is mirrored.
That fooled me  
Challenger is quite easy to identify because it has a big box of laser rangefinder above the gun on the frontal part, and a wide cover of gunner's sight left to it if we are seeing the tank head on.

It looks more like a T-80 to me.

Russian MoD reporting 2330 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 26, 2024)

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

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 Kremyanoye, Malaya Loknya and Nechaev, as well as thwarted attempts to attack in the direction of Komarovka, Sleeping, Korenevo, Pogrebki and Olgovka.

As a result, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 30 people killed and wounded. Destroyed: a tank, three armored combat vehicles and one car.

Reconnaissance and search operations are continuing to identify and destroy enemy sabotage groups in the forests that tried to penetrate deep into Russian territory.

Air strikes, artillery fire and troop actions defeated concentrations of manpower and equipment of the 22nd and 115th mechanized, 82nd airborne assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as the 1004th brigade of protection and support in the areas of the settlements of Apanasovka, Borki, Vishnevka, Viktorovka, 10th October, Kruglenke, Loknya, Mikhaylovka, Novaya Sorochina, Plekhovo, Snagost and Yuzhny.

Tactical air strikes were carried out in the Sumy region on the areas of concentration of personnel and military equipment of the reserves of the 22nd, 41st and 54th mechanized, 17th tank, 80th, 82nd and 95th airborne assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the 36th Marine Brigade and The 1st brigade of the National Guard, as well as the 103rd, 106th and 129th air defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Belopolye, Bunyakino, Boyar-Lezhichi, Baranovka, Druzhba, Zapselye, Katerinovka, Malushino, Pervomayskoye, Orlovka, Pustogorod, Svessa, Sumy, Khoten, Chervonoye and Yastrebinoye.

During the day, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine amounted to more than 400 military personnel and 27 armored vehicles, including: a tank, two infantry fighting vehicles, three armored personnel carriers and 21 armored combat vehicles, as well as 5 artillery pieces, two mortars, 11 vehicles and a US-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar.

In total, during the fighting in the Kursk direction, the enemy lost more than 6,200 soldiers, 73 tanks, 33 infantry fighting vehicles, 61 armored personnel carriers, 404 armored combat vehicles, 188 vehicles, 42 artillery pieces, five anti-aircraft missile systems, 11 multiple launch rocket launchers, including three HIMARS MLRS and one MLRS, 9 electronic warfare stations, two counter-battery radars, an air defense radar, five 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=12526784@egNews

Big Serge
@witte_sergei

So, the Russians hit Ukraine with one of the largest strike packages of the war - over 200 launches including drones and a wide spectrum of missiles. It looks like they mostly hit power generation and transmission, with a few military facilities sprinkled in.

A few notable things that stand out against other strikes (besides the size) were hits on three separate 750kv substations in western Ukraine, including one in Vinnytsia. This is very important, because sufficient damage to transmission in the western oblasts will prevent Ukraine from importing European electricity to replace its own lost generation. They've relied heavily on imports to prop up their grid.

Russia also struck the Kiev Hydro plant (finally) but they targeted the turbine hall, not the dam itself. Unclear how much of the power generation was taken offline.

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@Navsteva

Russian MoD: The targets of Russian aviation were power substations in Kiev, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytsky, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Nikolaev, Kirovograd and Odessa regions. In addition, the Russian Armed Forces attacked the storage sites of aviation weapons transferred by the Armed Forces of Ukraine by Western allies. Warehouses with weapons were located at airfields in Kiev and Dnipropetrovsk regions.

In addition, the ministry stressed that the Russian servicemen managed to hit compressor stations in Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Kharkiv regions. In particular, the gas transportation system of Ukraine functioned with the help of these installations.

All established targets were hit, and railway transportation of weapons and shells to the line of contact was disrupted.

DD Geopolitics
@DD_Geopolitics

- Nikolaev - emergency shutdown schedule has been fully implemented.
- Rivne - rocket inbound, explosions heard
- Power outages occurred on railway infrastructure in various regions of Ukraine. Reserve diesel locomotives have been brought out. There are delays on suburban electric trains.
- Lvov - power outages hang begun
- Transcarpathia - cruise missiles spotted
7:49 AM · Aug 26, 2024
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So they moved much of their armies reserves plus active units to Kursk and the Russian Army is taking advantage.

So they moved much of their mobile AD to Kursk and the Russian Air Force is taking advantage.

It can't have been a surprise, can it?

GEROMAN -- time will tell - --
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So far it seems that this is one of the largest Russian strikes we saw so far.
Almost all of Ukraine is under air attack.
Ukrainian air defense is only working near their Kursk bulge - a little in Kiev and a little in the Vinnytsia region.
Looks like Ukraine is going dark.

So no electricity to power water pumps. This means that those living in blocks of flats are going to face lugging water up the stairs as no doubt the lifts will stop along with the empty water tanks in the roof. Cancel that gym subscription!!!

We will probably see sewage in the streets again as the shit moving pumps also stop.

This will be worse than in the worst places in the third world as the for the locals there it is their way of life, whilst in Ukraine it is a new and painful experience that can only get worse as the colder weather approaches.

An interesting aspect will be how the wealthy or those in the higher ranks adapt. Will they turn their standby generators on and risk their neighbours wanting to share? Civil unrest is on the way.

CASEVAC now increasing in priority

On the road from Berlin to the south via Dresden, a transfer of 22 units of equipment was noticed. Medical and evacuation vehicles, as well as refrigerated body transports , are heading towards Poland. The further destination is clear.

Previously, Germany supplied mainly weapons and equipment. After the start of the suicidal operation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region, the need for this type of assistance from NATO has apparently increased. The enemy already has more than 5 thousand irreparable losses.

Germany is unsuccessfully trying to resist Washington's will to increase supplies to the Ukrainian Armed Forces to its own detriment. However, soon Germany will probably not be able to finance military supplies to Ukraine from the federal budget. Thus, the FAZ newspaper, citing an appeal by the country's Finance Minister Christian Lindner to the head of the Defense Ministry Boris Pistorius and the head of the German Foreign Ministry Annalene Baerbock, reported on August 5 that new measures to support Kiev " can only be taken if their financing is provided in the budget plans for this and subsequent years."

Two Majors

A miss or a special underwater target?

You can hear an Arab wedding in the background, and it is a close area to the local HPP reservoir.
I would call it miss

In the greatest Juro democracy, the will of the people is so clear and loud, that must not be voted!

Just what some here have been demanding   This is a really well thought out strategic attack covering a wide range of targets.


     The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation released another comment on today’s waves of strikes in Ukraine, revealing the targets of the attack. The Russian military officially confirmed that the targets included both military and energy infrastructure facilities that provides for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

    The targets of the strike included electrical substations in Kiev, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytsky, Dnepropetrovsk, Poltava, Mykolaiv, Kirovograd and Odessa regions.

    Gas compressor stations in Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Kharkiv regions, which ensure the functioning of the gas transportation system of Ukraine, were also damaged.

    In addition, the storage sites of aviation weapons transferred to Kiev by Western countries at airfields in the Kiev and Dnipropetrovsk regions were attacked.

    All designated targets have been hit, as a result of power outages, railway transportation of weapons and ammunition to the line of contact has been disrupted, the Russian Ministry of Defense concluded.

    Ukrainian sources are sharing more and more footage of the damage caused by Russian strikes throughout the country. Thus, more targets were clarified.

    As a result of precision strikes in the Kiev region, Russian missiles struck the engine room on the dam of the Kiev water reservoir near the town of Vushgorod on the northern outskirts of the capital. A large fire broke out as a result of the attack. The Kiev HPP, a key element in the region’s energy system, was seriously damaged, which led to the shutdown of electricity generation at the facility.

    More strikes destroyed industrial facilities used for production of aviation ammunition in the city of Kiev.

    Several Ukrainian facilities came under attack in the village of Usatovo in the Odessa region. They include a large depot and the local large energy substation.

    Railway infrastructure was heavily damaged in the border Sumy region.

    In the Vinnytsya region, Russian forces struck Ukrgasvydobych facilities in the settlement of Bazilovshchina. As a result of the attack, a pumping station and 12 railway tanks with combustible substances caught fire.

    At least eight missiles struck the large Stryi gas storage facility and the Dashava gas field in the Lviv region.

    The large energy substation that came uner Russian strikes throughout the country include:

    station in Usatovo in the Odessa region
    Khmelnitskaya 330
    Zhitomirskaya 330
    Severnaya 330
    Vinnytsya 750 and Bar 330
    Trikhaty 330 in the Mykolaiv region
    Pervomaiskaya 330 in the Dnepropetrovsk region
    Kievskaya 750
    Kremenchugskaya 330
    Zapadnoukrainskaya 750.
    Read another detailed overview of Russian strikes launched on August 26 HERE.

https://southfront.press/russian-defense-ministry-revealed-targets-of-massive-strikes/

There was some comment out there, that today's strikes focused od substations allowing import of the energy.
That would be some change I would say.

JohninMK wrote:Big Serge
@witte_sergei

So, the Russians hit Ukraine with one of the largest strike packages of the war - over 200 launches including drones and a wide spectrum of missiles. It looks like they mostly hit power generation and transmission, with a few military facilities sprinkled in. ....

It is war after all...

Yup, looks like superficial damage being done by that fire to me, just a bit of paint burning off 


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There is no significant damage to the Kyiv hydroelectric power plant in Vyshgorod after the Russian attack, said the head of Kyiv OVA Ruslan Kravchenko.

In Kyiv tomorrow 50-70% of consumers will simultaneously be left without electricity, - CEO of the energy company Yasno Kovalenko

Carry on, carry on, nothing to see here other than the pioneer strategy of intercepting cruise missiles with use of hydro power plants.
120% intercepted!

ALAMO wrote:Carry on, carry on, nothing to see here other than the pioneer strategy of intercepting cruise missiles with use of hydro power plants.
120% intercepted!

The hydro plant proudly rose to meet the standards of interception required by the Government.

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As a result of the missile attack on the Kyiv hydroelectric plant, the generator transformer, an important element of electricity production, was damaged.

Time for a smile and a reflection on what people like Zelinsky do to themselves.

JohninMK wrote:In addition, the ministry stressed that the Russian servicemen managed to hit compressor stations in Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Kharkiv regions. In particular, the gas transportation system of Ukraine functioned with the help of these installations.

I think this is new. So much for their plan to use gas fired power stations to generate power. At this rate they won't even have gas to heat themselves in the winter.
https://interfax.com/newsroom/top-stories/104144/

Here is a map of the relevant gas infrastructure in Ukraine. Includes pipelines, compressor stations, and gas fields.

Seriously organised corruption.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces discovered that their Western aid cargo had disappeared

Thus, 424 vehicles, 476 tons of various goods and six tons of food disappeared into thin air without a trace. The estimated amount of the missing goods is 171 million hryvnia or 4.1 million dollars.

The amount is residual, the cost of the decommissioned vehicles from the armies of Western countries was a pittance. But still, someone had their eye on this.
- Anna News
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Today was a second disco night, on a scale of yesterday's.
A hotel full of mercs has been demolished in Krivy Rog.

In total 9x Tu-95 reported, and rumors about up to 7 Kinzhals.

HIMARS


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