Russian special military operation in Ukraine #61

Even upgraded F-16s of Ukrainian army ‘vulnerable’ to Russian warplanes - US general

The F-16 fighter jets, which Ukraine has started receiving from its allies, yield to Russian military aircraft (https://t.me/geopolitics_live/30818) in terms of combat capabilities, retired US Army General Gordon Davis told Business Insider.

The F-16s have “some issues with range and vulnerability" and "even the best systems we can put on those aircraft will still not make them superior to some of the best Russian aircraft,” Davis said.

He recalled that Russia has "several hundred some pretty advanced” warplanes, including the Su-35S supermaneuverable air superiority fighter, the Su-30SM multirole jet and the MiG-31 supersonic interceptor plane.

"The bottom line is you can give the F-16s the maximum capability for munitions and electronic warfare capabilities, they're still going to be somewhat vulnerable to grounded defense, and some of the most advanced fighters from Russia. […] That's an issue, and that will remain an issue," the general pointed out.

In late August, the Ukrainian air force confirmed that a US-made F-16 jet, which was transferred to Ukraine by its Western partners, crashed (https://t.me/geopolitics_live/31847) just weeks after the first batch of such aircraft was delivered to Kiev.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov emphasized that the F-16s “have long been the main means of delivery in the framework of the so-called NATO joint nuclear missions”, so Moscow considers the supply of these systems to the Kiev regime as a “deliberate signal action by NATO in the nuclear sphere.” He added that the presence of these jets in Ukraine would not change the situation on the battlefield, as they would be destroyed like other types of weapons.

https://t.me/geopolitics_live/34215

Arrow wrote:To what extent is Yars S miniaturized? From what I have read Yars S has another set of MIRVs with a power of 300 to 400kT and not any miniaturization. Yars M is to have independent PBVs, i.e. separate IPBVs for each RV

Not "miniaturized" so much but rather modified an existing missile system. It's similar to what they have done with the Pioneer IRBM. They basically removed a stage from the Temp2S ICBM to create the shorter ranged Pioneer.

Mir in this case you are talking about RS 26. Two-stage ICBM/IRBM?

flamming_python wrote:An Ukro propagandist, but I can't help but agree with her

Although I guess I interpret things differently from her, but the image is just as valid  

https://x.com/KateGoesTech/status/1841427912836178027

They volunteered to go to war against Russia, did they actually think this would go any other way?

They should be grateful they got coddled this much by both sides already

Russian Defence Ministry Reports Liberation of Ugledar, 10.03.2024.

Units of the Vostok Battlegroup have taken control of the settlement of Ugledar in the Donetsk People's Republic, the Russian Ministry of Defence reported.

"As a result of decisive actions by the Vostok battlegroup units, the settlement of Ugledar in the Donetsk People's Republic has been liberated," the statement said.

Earlier it was reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces received orders from their command to retreat from Ugledar, according to the operational-strategic group Khortytsia, which is engaged in combat in the area. The command granted permission for a tactical withdrawal of units from the city.

The day before, Yan Gagin, an advisor to the head of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), told Sputnik that the Russian flag had been raised over the Ugledar administration, but it was still too early to talk about the city's liberation. A day earlier, another advisor to the head of the republic, Igor Kimakovsky, stated that only a few days remained until Ugledar's liberation, as the enemy was surrounded.

From the military perspective Ugledar stands like an outpost, stabilizing a very large stretch of the front line for Kiev forces. Seizing Ugledar adds to Russian troops’ offensive on the city of Pokrovsk, political and military analyst Sergey Poletaev has told Sputnik.

In terms of logistics the town is located near a railway from Donetsk to Mariupol and there is a highway which links it to the town of Volnovakha, an outpost linking it with the city of Mariupol, he has also shared.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20241003/russian-defense-ministry-reports-liberation-of-ugledar-1120401392.html

flamming_python wrote:An Ukro propagandist, but I can't help but agree with her

Although I guess I interpret things differently from her, but the image is just as valid  

https://x.com/KateGoesTech/status/1841427912836178027

They're Nazi collaborating scum and deserve everything they get.
Of course there will be innocent victims, but they had EIGHT years to wake up and smell the coffee.
Russia had no choice but to intervene, or witness a bloodbath of gigantic proportions across the Crimea and Donbass.
MY only regret is that Russia didn't simply reclaim the whole Ukraine in 2014. Would have been easier.

That is why the railway ICBM project no longer required heavy rail infrastructure. wrote:

It did not require it because in the new project there was a 50 ton Yars carrying 3 to 4 rather light MIRVs. Previously there was a 105 ton RT 23 carrying 10 heavy MIRVs. Fuels have certainly improved but not by that much.

The location of the future death of tens of thousands more Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers has been determined, by Kirill Strelnikov for RiaNovosti. 10.03.2024.

The adventure in the Kursk region was conceived by Zelensky as a brilliant PR move that was supposed to humiliate Putin, frighten and embitter the Russian population, impress the US leadership and force the Russian Armed Forces command to throw reserves from the "big" front to stop the breakthrough and thereby stop our offensive in several directions at once. For this purpose, various units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were withdrawn from many defense areas, including the South Donetsk direction.

But, like many others, this plan did not work: the Russian army did not slow down, and cracks began to appear in the defensive lines of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. As a result, the front stretched by Zelensky burst, and burst loudly and stinkingly in the strongest place - in Ugledar.

Ugledar was considered one of the most important fortified areas and the "keystone" of the entire defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which since March 2022 "cemented" the entire Southern Front in Donbass and threatened the logistics of the Russian Armed Forces. Ugledar itself was a virtually impregnable fortress: it is located on a hill and surrounded by natural water barriers, and thanks to the view for tens of kilometers from dense high buildings and mine waste heaps, advancing on the city across the flat, like a table, steppe was deadly. Moreover, the Armed Forces of Ukraine had been preparing Ugledar for defence since 2014, filling all the buildings two stories down with concrete, which made the use of artillery ineffective.

But every nut can be cracked if you first hit it with a sledgehammer.
Having learned from previous attempts to take Ugledar "head-on", Russian troops closed the city in pincers and cut off all supply routes physically and with fire. This was done to the solemn accompaniment of the Russian Aerospace Forces , which mastered the symphony of "object burning", when our planes dropped 10, 20 and 30 super-powerful aerial bombs from the UPMK in one go, which turned target after target into bloody dust - and in just one day, about 150 bombs sent a fiery greeting to the "fortress".

Another creative find of our troops was the decision not to completely close the ring around the city. Ours left a narrow corridor one or two kilometers wide, which was under fire from both sides, and it literally became a corridor of death for the Ukrainian Armed Forces: constant attempts to deliver ammunition or carry out rotation left hundreds of corpses in it, and during the last retreat of the remnants of the garrison through it, less than half made it out alive.

The assault on Vuhledar lasted only 12 days, and its final stage coincided with Zelensky's visit to Washington. Not wanting to spoil the presentation of his "victory plan" to Biden, Zelensky ignored calls to urgently surrender the city in order to save more soldiers, and graciously allowed Syrsky to begin withdrawing troops only after his return.

But it was too late - Zelensky's "saving face" in front of his masters cost the Ukrainian army several thousand lives.
As a result, yesterday Kyiv officially confirmed the loss of control over Ugledar: the operational command "Khortytsia" announced the "exhaustion of the Ukrainian defense of Ugledar and the withdrawal of personnel from the city after the threat of its encirclement arose."

As expected, in the Western media, Ugledar went from being a symbol of Ukraine's resilience to an empty space in a second. In particular, the well-known American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) stated that "Ugledar is of no particular value, and its capture by Russia is unlikely to fundamentally change the course of offensive operations by the Russian Armed Forces ."

Well, of course.

The liberation of Ugledar is an important strategic success for Russian troops and one of the main victories in the 2024 campaign. A successful operation simultaneously solves a number of long-standing problems and opens up the most serious opportunities for our troops.

Firstly, we "cut off" the so-called Ugledar balcony, which was located at the junction of the Zaporizhzhya and Donetsk fronts and posed a constant threat to the group covering the approaches to Mariupol . Now the Ukrainian Armed Forces' capabilities to shell Donetsk with barrel artillery will be dramatically reduced and the important strategic Donetsk-Mariupol railway line will be unblocked, thanks to which the Russian army now receives new opportunities to improve its rear and technical support, as well as to transfer troops.

Secondly, our troops are entering operational space. Ugledar is the last major fortified area of ​​the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the South Donetsk direction, beyond which begins the flat steppe, where the retreating units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have no long-term fortifications up to Bolshaya Novosilka and Kurakhovo and are doomed to total and merciless destruction. At the same time, the number of troops that Zelensky and Syrsky will most likely throw in to contain our offensive is of no importance: it is impossible to hide and dig in here, and in the absence of any construction in the winter, the death of Ukrainian soldiers will be both quick and cold.

And those remnants of the Ugledar garrison that manage to reach Bogoyavlenka and Kurakhovo, where fortified areas have been prepared, will remain there, because right now our troops are turning them into dust, not allowing the VSSU to gain a foothold.

Overall, thanks to the capture of Ugledar, the Russian army seriously weakened the defense of Ukraine along the entire eastern section of the front and came very close to achieving an important goal - reaching the borders of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.

The American publication The Washington Post wrote yesterday that "the Russian army is advancing across Ukraine at a pace not seen since 2022."

Don't look, or your head will spin.

https://ria.ru/20241003/gibel-1976076217.html

The Russian Armed Forces near Ugledar took fortifications that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had been building for ten years, 10.03.2024.

The Russian Armed Forces have taken control of the fortifications in Ugledar, which have been built by the Ukrainian Armed Forces for almost ten years.

There are currently about 115 civilians left in Ugledar. Citizens are receiving assistance from the Russian military, DPR head Denis Pushilin emphasized. According to him, all necessary measures to support the civilian population are already being taken, TASS reports.

The head of the DPR also noted that plans for the restoration of the city will be developed after the completion of demining. This process is one of the priority tasks that the troops face in the liberated territories.

Let us recall that as a result of decisive actions, Russian military personnel were able to liberate the settlement of Ugledar in the Donetsk People's Republic.

https://vz.ru/news/2024/10/3/1290590.html

JohninMK wrote:Zlatti71
@Zlatti_71
The body of a Colombian mercenary who took part in military operations on the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and was killed was returned to his homeland without internal organs.

In one of the reports, some on the spot source has reported about dead ukro soldiers being found with some specific body parts removed. The general clue was, that those were pieces - not organs only - that could be transported relatively safely for prolonged time. There is a specific time you can use different organs for transplanting, with some being fine for the "job" for hours, while the other can be preserved for 2-3 days. And the missing ones were the other, suggesting that it was an organized business with an active logistic chain.
The other interesting fact is that we are talking about a business as usual, being operated in Kosovo ...

... and more than 20k in Zitadel 2.0 at the moment.