TheOldGuy @TheOldGuy@qoto.org
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian Z fascist invaders.
I am a 73 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2992. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
🔱 Operational information as of 06.00 on April 10, 2024 regarding the Russian invasion
❗️ The main summary:
🔵 During the past 24 hours, 83 combat clashes took place.
🔵 In total, the enemy carried out 11 missile and 108 air strikes, carried out 149 attacks from rocket salvo systems on the positions of our troops and populated areas.
🔴 At night, the Russian invaders once again attacked Ukraine, using 17 unmanned aerial vehicles of the "Shahed" type. 14 of these attack drones were destroyed by the forces and means of air defense of Ukraine.
🔵 In the Kupian direction, our defenders repelled 3 enemy attacks in the areas of Kislivka, Ivanivka, Kharkiv region, and Andriivka, Luhansk region.
🔵 In the Lyman direction, our soldiers repulsed 3 enemy attacks in the Terna settlement of Donetsk region.
🔵 In the Bakhmut direction, our soldiers repelled 29 attacks in the areas of Belogorivka settlements of the Luhansk region; Verkhnokamianske, Viymka, Rozdolivka, Chasiv Yar, Novy, Klishchiivka, Andriivka of the Donetsk region.
🔵 In the Avdiyiv direction, our defenders repelled 14 attacks in the areas of Novokalynove, Berdychi and Umanske settlements of the Donetsk region.
🔵 In the Novopavlivskyi direction, the Defense Forces continue to hold back the enemy in the areas of the settlements of Krasnohorivka, Georgiivka, Novomykhailivka, Vodyane and Urozhaine, where the enemy tried to break through the defenses of our troops 28 times.
🔵 In the Orykhiv direction, the enemy attacked the positions of our defenders 5 times in the districts of Staromayorsky, Donetsk region, and Robotyny, Zaporozhye.
🔵 In the Kherson direction, the enemy launched an unsuccessful attack on the positions of our troops.
🔥 During the past day, the aviation of the Defense Forces struck 15 areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment, 2 anti-aircraft missile complexes of the enemy.
🔥 Units of missile troops damaged 1 area of concentration of personnel and 3 means of anti-aircraft defense of the occupiers.
Support the Armed Forces! Let's win together!✊
Glory to Ukraine!🇺🇦
AFU report.
🇺🇦@ukraine_report 🇺🇦🔱
Meanwhile Biden is securing our future
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/joe-biden-just-nailed-it-36/55413/
If Trump is too senile to hold a rally, isn't he far too senile to be president???
😡 US Defense Minister Lloyd Austin believes that Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries may affect global energy markets. It is allegedly "more profitable" for Ukraine to attack other targets
"These strikes (on Russian refineries - ed.) may have consequences for the global energy situation. It is more profitable for Ukraine to attack tactical and operational targets that can directly affect the current struggle," Austin said during a meeting of the Senate Armed Services Committee, reports Bloomberg.
Austin also repeated the US administration's request to Congress to approve additional military aid to Ukraine. He noted that such aid also provides jobs for American workers through increased US defense production.
Austin's remarks regarding the strikes on Russian refineries were condemned by Republican Senator Tom Cotton, who accused the administration of obstructing Ukraine's effective actions for political reasons.
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They are looking for a certain Bobr Kurva in the damage to the dam in Orsk. According to the latest data, Beaver is driving a white Renault towards Ukraine to get a million rubles.
👨🦰 Notes of the Oppositionist.
It's important that people know the meme behind this, it all started with a drunk Polish guy videotaping an encounter with a beaver at night. He wants to get the beaver but it doesn't work: Bóbr kurwa (youtube.com)
Then this meme became so popular that Ukrainians made a song about it using the original voice over. Mюслі UA - KURWA BÓBR | MEGAMIX (youtube.com)
Slavaua2022 explains on Reddit.
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“There may not be enough gasoline.” Russia asked for fuel in Kazakhstan after the collapse of production at the refinery
Russian authorities have turned to Kazakhstan for help due to the threat of gasoline shortages after Ukrainian drone strikes and floods crippled production at oil refineries. According to Reuters, Moscow has asked the Kazakh authorities to create a gasoline reserve in case there is a shortage in Russia. According to one of the agency's interlocutors, the volume of the request is 100 thousand tons. “We signed an agreement, everything was formalized within the framework of the indicative balance,” the source explained to Reuters.
At the end of March, Russia turned to Belarus for help with gasoline. According to the head of the State Duma Energy Committee, Pavel Zavalny, an agreement was reached on purchases in the amount of 100–150 thousand tons per month. Reuters sources note that the situation at Russian refineries promises a fuel shortage. Already “in May Russia may not have enough gasoline for the domestic market.”
⚔️ Complex and heavy battles continue in the Bohdanivka, Novomykhailivka and eastern Chasovoy Yar districts. The DeepState project writes that the russians are gradually advancing there, using scorched earth tactics with the help of aviation.
🇺🇦 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that there are the largest number of clashes in that direction, but indicates that the enemy is being held back.
🗡 Meanwhile, the 79th Airborne Assault Brigade showed a video of suicide attacks by russians in the Novomykhailivka area. In three days, 18 pieces of equipment were destroyed and disabled there.
The video shows airstrikes on Chasovoy Yar and russian attacks in the Novomykhailivka area.
@ukrainejournal
From "The Analyst":
RUSSIAN LOSSES STAGGERING DESPITE UKRAINIAN SHORTAGES
I can only imagine what Ukraine could have done with a full arsenal of artillery shells.
Average death rate so far this month for the Russians is 890 per day.
The total is just short of 450,000 since the war began.
Yesterday alone saw the loss of 24 APC’s, 13 tanks, 40 pieces of artillery and 39 fuel tankers and support vehicles. And they gained little more than a treeline.
This is happening without US aid. How much more could we have seen with it?
There now seems to have been 7 aircraft at the Yeysk airbase officially destroyed. At least 1 Tu-160 was said to have been damaged at Engels-2 airbase with possibly two more involved, but not badly.
The Russians lost a major piece of EW warfare in occupied Kherson, hiding under a petrol station awning, knocked out by a HIMARS strike.
Ukrainian artillery use dropped to a near all time low in late March but seems to have picked up again in the last week.
A fully operational Lancet-3 drone was captured intact so that will now be dismantled to find out how it works.
There’s a little talk that the Lancet’s cross wings have actually proved to be less than ideal. The system caused drifting and a number have been seen missing targets badly.
In other bizarre Russian news, their own incompetence is now regarded as the cause for the collapse of the Omsk dam. Obviously someone is being investigated and prosecuted because there has to be blame - but not who is really responsible. That shut down another oil refinery.
Saboteurs blew up another oil pipeline from Siberia.
In other news, there is confirmation that Russian missile targets are being supplied by Chinese reconnaissance satellites. Chinese satellite positioning and use suggests this is now ongoing.
There’s now belief that Kharkiv is now the subject of a Russian culture war offensive. They know they can’t take it but it’s been the subject of much speculation on Russian TV. They see the city as a cultural, scientific and educational centre - which it has long been. Erasing it and everything that makes it part of Ukraine is entirely in line with Putin’s weird philosophy and views on Ukrainian non-existence as a separate people, with their own language and culture.
This is why Ukraine needs air defences and others.
Culture and identity matter, destroy the buildings and infrastructure that maintain it is their way of saying you don’t exist.
They can say it but it’s not true. Culture is people and people have memories. Look how fast Russia reinvigorated its own imperial past and religions when communism collapsed 70 years after its supposed destruction of that culture.
You don’t break people so easily.
Especially Ukrainians.
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦!
From "The Analyst":
JET DRONE DEBUT
Perhaps one of Ukraine’s most interesting drone developments made its debut in daylight yesterday.
A sleek black carbon fibre drone powered clearly by a micro jet engine - similar to those model jet enthusiasts use. If you’ve never seen on of these they’re quite remarkable. The power to weight ratio is ridiculously high - probably ten times that of the real life equivalent. I’ve seen scale models of Concorde and 747’s take off in a handful of metres and then fly at extraordinary speeds for long periods.
Well yesterday this long range version of an armed drone was filmed
on its way to a target in Belgorod, clearly jet powered its high pitched whine gave it away, its jet black body moving far to quickly to be shot at by men with guns.
Yet another step up in the technology of war drones.
The Russians have been boasting of their jet powered shaheed which has yet to appear - and Ukraine is clearly past the stage of developing this version.
The lightweight carbon fibre and wood body - which also makes it harder to see on radar, apparently contains a sizeable fuel tank, a single rear central engine and a front end warhead and guidance package. The Delta wing configuration is efficient and ideal for speed as well as providing the lift needed to carry the payload.
Russia brought these drones on itself. They moan and complain about how unfair it is yet seem oblivious to the fact they were doing this to Ukraine for years now - and largely against civilians. They just don’t seem to grasp this is all their own fault.
It’s only going to get worse. Ukraine lacks artillery so it’s making up for it in ever more innovative ways with drones. The laws of necessity and supply and demand inevitably lead to innovations. War has always accelerated developments that peace time would never create the conditions to have happen.
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦!
From "The Analyst":
ITS DO OR DIE IN CONGRESS THIS WEEK
Speaker Mike Johnson has done his best to delay and obfuscate anything to do with aid for Ukraine.
This week he has promised to put down a bill that will aid Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
Lend-lease style funding is more palatable to republicans but a core group who are basically conspiracy theorists and beholden to Russian propaganda, want zero - ever again. It will have to pass with a mix of republicans who have a brain - an increasingly rare phenomena, and Democrats. However if Israel aid is included 39 Democrats won’t vote for it either because of what’s happened in Gaza.
Meanwhile the Senate is saying it’s not interested in anything but the bill it’s already passed and the House should vote on that. It would struggle to pass as it contains aid for Israel and most republicans are opposed to it.
And if the Speaker didn’t have enough to contend with, Marjorie Traitor Greene has set a motion to vacate, forcing him out of his job if he brings any of these options to a vote. Now he may not lose this vote for his job. Republicans can’t find anyone else to do it, and democrats could rescue him if he agrees to the aid bill going forward.
And if that wasn’t complicated enough the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act expires on April 19th and is a must pass piece of legislation. Many republicans want to see it watered down - Traitor Greene amongst them.
Even if the House eventually passes a lend money based bill to Ukraine, with Russian funds used to pay for it, it’s still got to pass a senate that doesn’t want to go down this route, and would struggle to get 60 votes.
Traitor Greene faces a credibility problem - if these votes pass she has no choice but to force a vote on the speakership. That may well backfire on her big time, potentially risking the one last instant retirement from the republican majority of one, that hands the House to the Democratic Party. Then the senate bill will be passed and aid will flow.
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian Z fascist invaders.
I am a 73 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2992. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
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