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Re: Ukraine 4
« Reply #4275 on: August 23, 2024, 12:57:02 pm »
Is there still something like a "Radio Free Europe" where Russian citizens  can get some real war news?
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Re: Ukraine 4
« Reply #4276 on: August 24, 2024, 12:59:02 am »
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Re: Ukraine 4
« Reply #4277 on: August 24, 2024, 12:59:41 am »
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Re: Ukraine 4
« Reply #4278 on: August 24, 2024, 01:02:32 am »
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Re: Ukraine 4
« Reply #4279 on: August 24, 2024, 01:03:31 am »
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Re: Ukraine 4
« Reply #4280 on: August 24, 2024, 01:07:04 am »
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Re: Ukraine 4
« Reply #4281 on: August 24, 2024, 01:09:26 am »
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Re: Ukraine 4
« Reply #4282 on: August 24, 2024, 01:10:48 am »
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Re: Ukraine 4
« Reply #4283 on: August 24, 2024, 01:14:31 am »
Invasion? What invasion? Putin is downplaying Ukraine’s Kursk offensive

Peter Dickinson  •  August 21, 2024  •  7:38am ET

In the space of just two weeks, Ukraine has claimed more Russian land than Putin’s army managed to seize in Ukraine since the start of 2024. Kyiv’s bold summer offensive caught the Kremlin completely off-guard and has transformed perceptions of a war that many believed was moving slowly but surely toward an inevitable Russian victory. Rarely in the history of modern warfare has any military succeeded in pulling off such a stunning surprise.

Since Ukraine’s invasion of Russia first began on August 6, it has dominated the international headlines and has been one of the top news stories around the world. Everywhere, that is, except Russia itself. While the global press has been reporting breathlessly on the first invasion of Russia since World War II, the Kremlin-controlled Russian media has been instructed to minimize the significance of Ukraine’s offensive and convince domestic audiences that the presence of Ukrainian troops inside Russia’s borders is the “new normal.”

This strategy has been all too evident on Russia’s federal TV channels throughout the past fortnight, with comparatively little coverage of Ukraine’s cross-border operation. Any mentions have typically been accompanied by euphemistic references to “the situation” or “events in Kursk region.” The Kremlin’s intense discomfort was perhaps most immediately obvious on last weekend’s episode of Russia’s flagship current affairs TV show, Sunday Evening with Vladimir Solovyov, with Russian MP and studio guest Andrey Gurulyov declaring, “the most important thing is for everyone to shut up.”

Russia’s propagandists are taking their lead from Putin himself. The Kremlin dictator has remained remarkably tight-lipped over Ukraine’s invasion, and has limited himself to only a handful of public statements. Notably, there have been no attempts to rally the Russian people against the invader or engage in the kind of historical grandstanding that Putin normally favors. On the contrary, he has opted for a strikingly understated approach.  .  .  .

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/invasion-what-invasion-putin-is-downplaying-ukraines-kursk-offensive/
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Re: Ukraine 4
« Reply #4284 on: August 24, 2024, 01:21:56 am »
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Re: Ukraine 4
« Reply #4285 on: August 24, 2024, 12:26:15 pm »
Unconfirmed but a rumor says the 448th Missile Brigade based in Kursk has been converted to an infantry unit after they were unable to obtain any new Iskander missiles for their launchers.
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Re: Ukraine 4
« Reply #4286 on: August 24, 2024, 07:52:43 pm »
Ukraine Launches New Offensive against Russian Forces

Matthew Impelli  •  1d

Ukraine has reportedly launched a new offensive operation against Russian forces, amid the ongoing war between the two nations.

On Friday, the Kyiv Post reported that Ukraine's Third Separate Assault Brigade shared a post on Telegram detailing how they have executed several successful attacks against Russian forces in the Kharkiv Oblast.

"The main task of the operation was to knock down the offensive potential of the 20th army of the Russian Federation. For the time being, this task has been accomplished," Colonel Andriy Biletskyi, commander of the Third Separate Assault Brigade, said in the Telegram post.

According to the Telegram post, Russia has lost 300 troops, "and a significant amount of equipment and weapons were destroyed or damaged" during the brigade's offensive operation in Kharkiv.  .  . 

.  .  .  Earlier this week, Maria Zakharova, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, issued a warning to Ukraine following their offensive operation in Kursk.

Zakharova said that the operation has ended "any possibility" of peace talks between Ukraine and Russia.

"Who will negotiate with them after this, after the atrocities, the terror that they are committing against peaceful residents, the civilian population, civilian infrastructure and peaceful facilities," Zakharova said, per the Associated Press (AP).  .  .

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-launches-new-offensive-against-russian-forces/ar-AA1pk7Ae


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Re: Ukraine 4
« Reply #4287 on: August 24, 2024, 08:05:30 pm »
Russian Troops Captured One Of Ukraine’s Dutch Armored Vehicles, Rode It Back Into Battle—And Promptly Got Killed

The Russians are increasingly desperate for armored vehicles.

David Axe  |  Aug 23, 2024  |  09:03pm EDT


A destroyed YPR-765 in Russian service. Via social media

In 1977, a consortium of Dutch companies led by U.S. firm FMC began building the first of more than 2,000 YPR-765 tracked armored personnel carriers for the Dutch army.

Thirty-five years later, the Dutch retired the last of the 15-ton, 10-person APCs. And 10 years after that, The Netherlands pledged the first of 269 surplus YPR-765s to Ukraine.

In the 29 months since Russia widened its war on Ukraine, Russian troops have captured at least five intact YPR-765s. And on or shortly before Friday, the Russians rode one of their ex-Dutch, ex-Ukrainian APCs back into battle in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast.

Ukrainian forces hit the YPR-765, burning it and killing at least two Russians. A Ukrainian drone observed the gruesome aftermath.

Besides being an historical oddity with a storied past, the Russian-operated YPR-765 is yet another data point in one of the most important trends as Russia’s wider war on Ukraine grinds into its third year: the Russians are running out of armored vehicles. It’s not for no reason that they had to repurpose a captured Dutch vehicle from the late 1970s.

The Russian military went to war in Ukraine in early 2022 with around 11,000 infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers—the main vehicles for transporting infantry into battle and supporting them with gunfire.

On the drone-infested, artillery-peppered battlefields in Ukraine, IFVs and APCs are arguably more important than tanks.  .  .  .

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/08/23/russian-troops-captured-one-of-ukraines-dutch-armored-vehicles-rode-it-back-into-battle-and-promptly-got-killed/
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Re: Ukraine 4
« Reply #4288 on: August 24, 2024, 08:05:36 pm »

Putin declares state of emergency after huge kamikaze drone strike [video]

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Sara Odeen-Isbister
August 24, 2024

A state of emergency was declared in the Voronezh region of Russia after akamikaze drone strike caused a major blaze at an ammunitions warehouse.

There were several explosions and huge flames for hours after the Ukraine hit in Ostrogozhsk overnight.

At least 200 people were evacuated and two people were injured, one seriously, in the district.

Regional governor Aleksandr Gusev acknowledged there was a ‘detonation of explosive objects’ and claimed the ignition came from the falling debris from a drone.

Russian channels, meanwhile, confirmed that an ammunition warehouse had been struck.

Ukrainian forces are engaged in a long-term campaign of drone strikes aimed at damaging Russia’s military infrastructure and oil industry.

Earlier this week, drones hit ammunition supplies at Marinovka military airfield in the Volgograd region.

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Re: Ukraine 4
« Reply #4289 on: August 24, 2024, 08:17:08 pm »
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« Reply #4290 on: August 24, 2024, 08:24:35 pm »

Eyewitness Account of Ukraine’s Invasion of Kursk That Putin Wants to Hide

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Aug. 24, 2024

SUDZHA, RUSSIA—We piled out of the Ukrainian armored personnel carrier to a scene of devastation. The sculpture of Lenin in the main square had been defaced, his name crossed out with and “pidor,” an obscene curse word scribbled below it. The streets were full of broken glass and branches of blown-up trees. On the wall of one house was graffitied “Ukraine Above All.” The streets were almost completely quiet, except for the crack of artillery and drone fire in the distance.

Until August 6, this was Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Now it is Ukrainian-held territory.

After seeing countless towns in Ukraine reduced to rubble, it was a shock to see such destruction hit Russia itself. Not since the Nazis launched Operation Barbarossa in World War Two has Russian territory been invaded, let alone since Russia became a nuclear power.

But now I was standing in Russia—a place where Putin’s goons would normally be on alert to seize me and turn me into another of the journalists and other innocent Westerners he holds hostage.

Less than two months ago, I was banned “in perpetuity” from the territory of the Russian Federation after writing a series of articles—including many for the Daily Beast—exposing the depraved secrets and torture perpetrated during President Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and the remarkable fight back against it.

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« Reply #4291 on: August 24, 2024, 08:30:01 pm »

Ukraine keeps crossing Russia’s red lines. Putin keeps blinking.

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Story by Robyn Dixon, Catherine Belton
Aug. 24, 2024

Ukraine’s resistance to Russia’s invasion keeps crossing President Vladimir Putin’s red lines.

Kyiv’s lightning incursion into Kursk in western Russia this month slashed through the reddest line of all — a direct ground assault on Russia — yet Putin’s response has so far been strikingly passive and muted, in sharp contrast to his rhetoric earlier in the war.

On day one of the invasion in February 2022, Putin warned that any country that stood in Russia’s way would face consequences “such as you have never seen in your entire history,” a threat that seemed directed at countries that might arm Ukraine.

If Russia’s territorial integrity were threatened, “we will certainly use all the means at our disposal to protect Russia and our people. It’s not a bluff,” he said a few months later in September. “The citizens of Russia can be sure that the territorial integrity of our Motherland, our independence and freedom will be ensured — I emphasize this again — with all the means at our disposal,” making a clear reference to Russia’s nuclear weapons.
But Ukraine’s punch through Russian defenses in the first foreign invasion since World War II exposed Russia’s military flaws and laid bare Moscow’s apparently illusory red lines.

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Re: Ukraine 4
« Reply #4292 on: August 24, 2024, 08:32:04 pm »
Very interesting:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VEyGaxiNjM

It looks like that oil refinery is due to two or ?? separate drone attacks, and possibly by a new type of drone that Russian air defenses find even more difficult to spot, track, and respond to.
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« Reply #4293 on: August 24, 2024, 08:45:35 pm »
It doesn't look quite like this, but you get the point.

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« Reply #4294 on: August 24, 2024, 10:37:07 pm »
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« Reply #4295 on: August 24, 2024, 10:41:09 pm »
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« Reply #4296 on: August 24, 2024, 10:42:54 pm »
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« Reply #4297 on: August 24, 2024, 10:44:43 pm »
Someone tagged the fence around Kursk's nuclear power plant with some pro-Ukraine graffiti

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« Reply #4298 on: August 24, 2024, 10:46:39 pm »
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« Reply #4299 on: August 24, 2024, 10:47:34 pm »
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