Russian special military operation in Ukraine #61

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

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.

TCC workers mobilized the chief engineer for the development of counter-UAV systems in Kyiv

The man was taken to the military registration and enlistment office right on the street when he was going to work.

"The engineer is officially employed, there are certificates of civil-legal obligations to military units, unfinished contracts for the supply of attack drones."

The company added that they showed all the documents and explained the situation, but "Goloseevsky TCC of Kyiv decided that tomorrow this "shooter" would be more useful in training."
- RVvoenkor

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

But 9000 sells much better and generate more clicks...

And even that is not enough, because the information they give is for the Father of All Bombs, which is not just a version of the FAB-9000, it is a different weapon that is supposed to be about 11,000kgs in weight with a payload performance equivalent to 44 tons of TNT.

Are we now allowed to directly insult each other or is that an administrator privilege?

First of all you quoted one sentence, but omitted the next sentence where I apologised for being rude and explained why I was annoyed, but you clearly only read what you want to read.... so...

OK, you want to play, lets play... when you signed up to this forum you agreed to abide by the rules and one of those rules is to do what Mods and Admin tell you to do... so dance little bitch.

If you want to keep complaining that Putin never responds then you need to back it up with facts... not the whiny bitching of a little girl with sand in her vagina.

If you support American and think Kiev is wonderful, keep up with their agenda to get Putin removed so some less talented leader can make their job easier.

Indeed. Russians have made significant progress in solid rocket fuels which are made possible to make hypersonic weapons like kinzhal. One must remember whining from the west, that the missile itself had greater range than 500 km from the begining. These kinfd of statesments maybe based on physical dimensions of the missile which may indicate that it can carry fuel much more than restricted range would require. Third poin is that missiles payload affect also the range...

The Iskander is almost 4 tons so if it was ballistic its range should be significantly better than 500km. It is not ballistic and flys all the way to the target like an aircraft does, which limits its range.

its control surfaces are inside its rocket exhaust nozzle and therefore can only steer the missile while the rocket motor is operating.

The tiny external fins are fixed stabilisers.

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

It is delusional to think the US can protect anyone anywhere... they can't even defend themselves in the Red Sea...

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

Did they think this was ever about anything other than money?

Thanks to the Ukraine, the Biden family is much richer, and companies like Blackwater and the MIC companies are making money hand over fist.

The solid rocket fuel issue has come up several times on this forum. It looks to me like a roughly factor of 2 increase in energy density was achieved relative to the 1980s
Soviet level. That is why the railway ICBM project no longer required heavy rail infrastructure. I think the trick is nanoparticle additions to the fuel. For example copper
nanoparticles. The magic with nanoparticles is that they change the combustion energy barriers. For example it is possible to burn them in pure CO2 as they can utilize
the O2 part of CO2 even though under bulk conditions no combustion can occur since the energy to strip the carbon atom is too high.

American wankers are still terminally delusional about Russia's economy and military capacity. These retards really believe that China somehow explains Russian development.
How? By buying Russian natural gas? What weapons system is China supplying? As for micro chips, GTFO. Russia can make all the 65 nm, 90 nm and 180 nm parts it needs for
its systems. It does not need to import from China since volume is not an issue. The drivel about Russia stripping washing machines of low grade processors highlights the
retardation.

As for F-16, what an imbecilic spin. Upgraded junk is still junk. No variant of the F-16 can exceed anything Russia can field against it. The F-16 is also fully prone to Russian
AD systems. Naval gazing Americans think that their lack of investment in AD systems still makes them superior to Russia in this regard. Exceptionalist masturbation in all its
glory.

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

And pretty soon, we can expect 1000 km Iskander and 2000+ km Volga in new brigades to be formed.

Judging by the latest developments at least the Iskander units will form detachments for the artillery units on divisional level.

would come away from this thinking that this kind of experience should be replicated elsewhere

Russians and Chinese don´t act like Americans.

going to be somewhat vulnerable to grounded defense

Somewhat.
He means getting hit by AD missiles every time.

In the basements of Ugledar, our soldiers found 116 civilians

The first video from the basement of Ugledar, which was turned into a dormitory for civilians who remained in the city.

The commander of the assault unit "Apostol" Yuri Gagarin, call sign "Angel", explains to people what awaits them in the near future. He has a Cheburashka attached to his back - as a symbol of Russia, which came to these places.

Almost all the civilians who remained in the city are old people, they have nowhere and no one to go to. Those who have relatives in Russia could not do this because the Kiev authorities are holding people hostage.

Now, Gagarin explains, those who want to go to relatives in Russia will leave, those who want to go to Ukraine will not be held. And those who want to stay will have to endure a little until the city is restored. In any case, the military promised to feed everyone, provide medicine, things and fuel for the stoves.
https://t.me/vicktop55/27050

You know you are on the right side when this happens to you. Great comments.



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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

Kiko wrote: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

You took a militarily insignificant settlement that was used by the Anderson Cooper rainbow hospital for orphan children named tiny tim and cuddly puppies for shame. I only paraphrase what John Kirby is saying. Seriously though, what's next. Does the war become one of maneuver now or is it yet another fall and winter of digging in and preparing firebags and killzones for the fourth NATO army. Also, what's up with the cheese eating surrender monkeys. Is Macaroni serious about sending them in to the meatgrinder, surrender flags at the ready?

I am back, my blog has been kept alive with daily military reports and analysis by a Spanish military officer now retired due to health issues.

Since he has become weary with the work, I made an effort to break the writer's block and wrote a short briefing, I don't promise anything, but when I am back from a trip to Budapest next week, I will try writing again, apparently I am that good that military professionals encouraged me to keep going

https://guerraenucrania.wordpress.com/2024/10/04/parte-de-guerra-03-10-2024-situacion-general-y-perspectivas/

EDIT: I liked the RIA report on Ugledar and tacked it onto the entry, thanks for sharing

They're Nazi collaborating scum and deserve everything they get.

It is funny that they don't understand that all they had to do was not ban the Russian language and not kill people who spoke Russian and they would remain a complete whole independent country like they were after 1991, but they poked the bear and murdered their own citizens for their choice to speak Russian and be Russian like.

The people of the Crimea were Russian and the first chance they got they had a referendum and spoke via the ballot box to join the Russian Federation... if that was fake they have had a decade to rebel and protest, but there has been nothing at all and they seem happy.

The people of the four other regions that have now joined Russia didn't want to join Russia 10 years ago, it was the anti Russian laws and violence and abuse from Kiev that led to them making that choice for their own future and the future of their children... kiev essentially pushed them away.

Now with this cartoon they are complaining that the US isn't sacrificing their blood to protect Ukraine from the situation they have created for themselves.

I understand that US politicians pushed the Kiev leadership to this stupid course, but why should American soldiers stand between Ukrainians and the Russian soldiers when Ukraine has the ultimate responsibility for all this.

At any stage they could have followed through on the Minsk agreements like they promised to, but they believed the Americans and the Europeans that Russias army is a paper tiger and the Russian people wont put up with thousands of body bags coming home and they would overthrow Putin and someone like Navalny would take office and beg for peace as their drunk army collapses and it is like WWI all over again... Ukraine can give its western parts to Poland and Ukraine can take big chunks of Russia in compensation... and US companies will own everything.

This situation the EU and Ukrainian people are in (economically and economically and militarily respectively) is what they were trying to deliver to the Russian people so I have no sympathy for either group of thugs.

You allied with nazis and created a war in Europe despite claims of defending peace...

MY only regret is that Russia didn't simply reclaim the whole Ukraine in 2014. Would have been easier.

Economically and militarily, Russia would have been in a rather worse state. I think the Ukrainian forces would have been easier to beat, but Russia would not be where it is now and I don't think the Russian economy would be going as well as it is now with all those sanctions all at once.

It would have been much more difficult, but I am sure Russia would still have won.

The magic with nanoparticles is that they change the combustion energy barriers. For example it is possible to burn them in pure CO2 as they can utilize
the O2 part of CO2 even though under bulk conditions no combustion can occur since the energy to strip the carbon atom is too high.

I would agree, but I would also say that they have realised that their missiles were very very capable and they didn't need to be, so a new class of simpler and much cheaper scud like missiles that accelerate to max speed and burn out and then just fall ballistically to the target with some manouvering to ensure direct or near direct hits.

So you launch the air launched capable missiles that are not hitting targets, they are hitting air defence systems that could deal with the simpler missiles on the way. Then the targets get destroyed by a mass volley of the cheaper smaller lighter missiles that can be launched in huge volumes.

Gyros and guidance computers used to be super expensive... these days the 6 axis gyros in cellphones for playing games would be enough to make a missile accurate and effective... for $100.

Does the war become one of maneuver now or is it yet another fall and winter of digging in and preparing firebags and killzones for the fourth NATO army. Also, what's up with the cheese eating surrender monkeys. Is Macaroni serious about sending them in to the meatgrinder, surrender flags at the ready?

It will be interesting... I suspect a lack of heating and electricity in most of the Kiev held parts of the Ukraine will lead to, if not civil unrest and political change, then a mass civilian exodus to the EU, for which of course Putin will get all the blame.

Fewer distractions means military activity becomes more obvious, and the falling of the leaves makes that easier to see... along with the fires needed to keep the toes and fingertips from falling off...

The other interesting fact is that we are talking about a business as usual, being operated in Kosovo ...

We talk about it so flippantly as if it is a normal part of war, but this is the sort of stuff of nightmares from the worst horror movies...

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Summary of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation (as of October 4, 2024)

From September 28 to October 4, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out 29 group strikes with precision weapons, including the Kinzhal hypersonic aeroballistic missile, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles. As a result of the strikes, energy facilities that provided the work of enterprises of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine, as well as the infrastructure of military airfields, were hit. In addition, arsenals, temporary deployment points, areas of concentration of AFU units, nationalist formations and foreign mercenaries were affected.

During the week, the units of the North group of forces continued to carry out an operation to destroy the AFU formations in the Kursk region. Attacks by operational-tactical, army aviation, UAVs and artillery fire on the areas of concentration of personnel and equipment of five mechanized, tank, three airborne assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a marine brigade and five air defense brigades suppressed attempts to conduct counterattacks and enter enemy reserves. Units of the motorized infantry, amphibious assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a marine brigade and two air defense brigades were defeated in the Volchansk and Liptsovsky directions. During the week in the area of responsibility of the North group of forces, enemy losses amounted to over 3,050 troops, four tanks, 43 armored combat vehicles, of which two Bradley infantry fighting vehicles manufactured by the United States and 77 vehicles. 28 field artillery guns were destroyed, as well as seven electronic warfare stations.

During the week, units of the Zapad group of forces improved the tactical position along the front line and liberated the settlements of Makeyevka of the Luhansk People's Republic and Vishnevoye of the Kharkiv region. They defeated the formations of six mechanized, tank, assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two defense brigades and a brigade of the National Guard. 11 counterattacks of the AFU assault units were reflected. The enemy's losses amounted to over 2,880 military personnel, four armored combat vehicles, including three M113 armored personnel carriers manufactured by the United States, 42 vehicles, as well as 37 field artillery guns, including 16 self-propelled artillery units and 155-mm howitzers supplied by the Armed Forces of Ukraine by NATO countries. In addition, 14 electronic warfare and counter-battery warfare stations were destroyed, as well as 29 field ammunition depots.

Units of the "Southern" group of troops liberated the settlement of Verkhnekamenskoye in the Donetsk People's Republic. The manpower and equipment of four mechanized, motorized infantry, two infantry, mountain assault, airmobile brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the defense brigade and the National Guard brigade were defeated. 20 counterattacks of the AFU assault units were reflected. The enemy lost up to 5,110 soldiers, two tanks, three armored combat vehicles, 44 vehicles, 47 field artillery guns, 30 of them Western-made. 13 field ammunition depots were destroyed.

The settlements of Nelepovka and Krutoy Yar of the Donetsk People's Republic have been liberated by the decisive actions of the Center group of troops. The formations of five mechanized, infantry, two jaeger, assault, airborne, amphibious assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two defense brigades and two National Guard brigades were defeated. 48 counterattacks of enemy assault groups were repelled. During the week, the losses of Ukrainian formations in this direction amounted to 4,210 servicemen, two tanks, 16 armored combat vehicles, 31 vehicles and 31 field artillery guns.

The units of the Vostok group of forces occupied more advantageous lines and positions and liberated the settlement of Ugledar in the Donetsk People's Republic. The manpower and equipment of the mechanized, motorized infantry brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, three air defense brigades and a National Guard brigade were defeated. They repelled 10 counterattacks by the assault units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The enemy lost up to 890 soldiers, two tanks, four armored combat vehicles, 60 vehicles, 12 field artillery guns, as well as eight field ammunition depots.

The units of the Dnepr group of troops defeated the formations of the infantry brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, marine and coastal defense brigades, three air defense formations and a National Guard brigade. The enemy's losses amounted to 510 soldiers, two tanks, 42 vehicles, three field artillery guns, five electronic and counter-battery warfare stations and 10 field ammunition depots.

During the week, air defense systems shot down seven ATACMS tactical missiles manufactured in the United States, six guided Hammer bombs manufactured in France, 22 HIMARS rockets manufactured in the United States, as well as 540 unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type.

During the week, 83 Ukrainian servicemen surrendered on the line of contact, 44 of them during the cleansing of the Ugledar settlement of the Donetsk People's Republic.

In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 646 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 32,816 unmanned aerial vehicles, 580 anti-aircraft missile systems, 18,524 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,469 multiple rocket launchers, 15,569 field artillery and mortars, 26,915 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. At about 12.00 Moscow time, an attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack using an airplane-type UAV at objects on the territory of the Russian Federation was stopped.

https://function.mil.ru/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12531677@egNews

Russian MoD reporting 16,650 Ukrainian casualties during the past 7 days.

JohninMK wrote:You know you are on the right side when this happens to you. Great comments.
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A classic ambush situation which "an occupation army" would avoid. Instead they stop and take the gifts. They are not fighting against the people who live there.

The occupants are the Kiev regime, propped up by NATzO and fluffed up with the Nazi Ukr diaspora.