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
Recruitment for Ukrainian Legion officially open.
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/recruitment-center-for-ukrainian-legion-opens-up-in-poland/
I think it's only important to Mauritius
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/uk-cedes-chagos-island-sovereignty-to-mauritius/
I think it's only important to Mauritius
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/uk-cedes-chagos-island-sovereignty-to-mauritius/
Air defense activity was reported in Kurchatov, the city where the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant is located.
The Kursk region authorities have officially confirmed that the shelling of Kurchatov did not affect the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant in any way.
It was likely that the missile hit an ammunition depot several kilometers from the nuclear power plant.
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⚔️ Operational information as of 08.00 on 04.10.2024 regarding the Russian invasion
❗️ The main summary:
🔵 During the past day, 142 combat clashes took place.
🔵 According to detailed information, yesterday the enemy launched three rocket strikes using three rockets, as well as 67 air strikes, including 135 guided air bombs, on the positions of Ukrainian units and populated areas. In addition, it carried out more than four thousand attacks, including 105 from rocket salvo systems, and used 1,585 kamikaze drones for strikes.
🔥 Fifteen strikes on the areas of concentration of personnel and anti-aircraft defenses of the enemy were made in the past day by missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces, in addition, two warehouses of fuel and lubricants, an artillery system, an anti-aircraft vehicle and a radio electronic warfare station were hit.
🔵 In the Kharkiv direction, the enemy carried out offensive and assault actions four times in the districts of Staritsa and Vovchansk.
🔵 The number of combat clashes per day in the Kupyansk direction reached eleven. The defense forces repelled the attacks of the occupiers in the areas of Sinkivka, Kurylivka, Pischany, Vyshnevo, Petropavlivka, and Pershotravnevo.
🔵 In the Limansk direction, our troops stopped 13 enemy attacks. The invaders concentrated their main efforts in the areas of the settlements of Makiivka, Novosadove, Torske, Druzhelyubivka, Grekivka, and Dronivka.
🔵 One attack near Spirny was repulsed by the Defense Forces in the Siverskyi direction.
🔵 Six attempts by the invaders to advance near Chasovoy Yar, Andriyivka, Bila Hora and Stupochky were stopped by Ukrainian soldiers in the Kramatorsk direction. The situation is under control. The enemy acted with the support of aviation - hit with anti-aircraft guns in the area of Chasovoy Yar.
🔵 The aggressor's aircraft bombarded the areas of Katerynivka, Druzhba and Kleban-Bik settlements in the Toretsk direction, and the enemy tried to advance nine times in the Toretsk, Dachnoi and Nelipivka areas.
🔵 30 attacks, this number over the past day were repelled by our defenders in the Pokrovsky direction. The enemy tried to advance in the vicinity of Sukha Balka, Hirnyk, Promeny, Novotoretsky and Krutoy Yar. The main efforts of the enemy were concentrated in Mykolaivka and Selidovoy districts, where nine and seven skirmishes took place, respectively.
🔵 Defense forces continue to restrain the enemy in the Kurakhiv direction. In the districts of Novooleksandrivka, Tsukuryny, Georgiyivka, Kostyantynivka, Trudovoy, Vozdvizhenka, Antonivka, and Katerynivka, the occupiers tried to break through Ukrainian defense lines 23 times.
🔵 Three enemy attacks were stopped by our defenders in the area of Bogoyavlenka and one - near Maksimivka, in the direction of Vremivsk.
🔵 In the Orihiv direction, enemy units twice tried to advance in the districts of Kamianskyi and Novodanilivka.
🟠 Defense forces of Ukraine continue operations in the Kursk direction. Over the past day, the enemy launched one rocket and fourteen airstrikes on its own territory, using 30 guided air bombs; in addition, they fired almost 300 shots.
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AFU report.
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Vovchansk.
It ended in disaster—for the Russians. Assaulting Ukrainian positions northwest of the 30-building chemical campus, the equivalent of half a Russian battalion—17 MT-LB armored tractors, three tanks and no fewer than 100 infantry—crashed into a wall of Ukrainian firepower.
The Ukrainian army’s 57th Motorized Brigade blasted the Russian assault group with hovering drones dropping grenades—among other weapons, most likely.
When the smoke cleared, 16 MT-LBs and a tank lay wrecked.
There were literal piles of dead and mangled Russians around the smoldering hulks. “Now the guys are finishing off the remaining infantry,” one Ukrainian blogger reported.
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Russia has launched 119 Kinzhal missiles at Ukraine, 28 of which have been shot down. Today, it has become known that another Patriot system has arrived in Ukraine that can shoot them down.
Unfortunately, Ukraine has not had such air defense systems for a long time.
Most of the objects hit by the Kinzhals are civilian: 68 civilian versus 15 military (latest available data, there may be more).
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Vovchansk. No, this is not the aftermath of a nuclear strike. This is a town that the Russian army came to “liberate” in May
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IS THE US ABOUT TO AUTHORISE LONG RANGE WEAPON USE?
The translated copy basically says that after Zelensky and Biden’s meeting, the two foreign ministers have met and are soon to announce a major move that will help Ukraine win the war.
When Ukraine talks that kind of language it’s almost always linked to permission to use long range weapons.
That will be the test of Putin’s red line on joint action with a nuclear power.
However the other day, the Kremlin press secretary Peskov, did rather water down the rhetoric over that, bizarrely sort of suggesting that it was OK for Ukraine to attack Russia as long as it was just Ukraine. It doesn’t make a lot of sense but it may well have been intended not to. This ambiguity is all part of Russian deception.
‘The Analyst’ MilStratOnX
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦!
ATTACK ON KOTLUBAN WORSE THAN REPORTED
A couple of days ago Ukraine launched around 120 drones at Kotluban ammunition depot deep inside Russia.
Russia claimed to have shot down almost everything and that nothing hit the base in the Volgograd region. Air defences were active and the Ukrainians admit they lost far more drones than in prior attacks - but to be fair if the Russians had failed by now to make some effort, it would have been beyond gross incompetence.
It did seem unlikely all the drones were shot down. And we know now they were not.
Part of the problem is this site is more remote and has fewer public roads, and the other is that a renewed effort to prosecute people who publish video or images online has been ramped up, deterring would be videographers.
However we know that several heavy explosions, artillery cooking off and detonations consistent with rocket fuel were seen and there have been some long distance images showing the site was hit.
No doubt Sentinel already confirmed it, but it’s the first public knowledge that it was more successful than the Russians let on.
The strike was apparently made after yet another batch of Iranian missiles was delivered.
On the subject of the Iranian missiles, the question why haven’t we seen so many in action has to be asked. They are short ranged and mostly only good for lobbing into defended towns or civilian targets. Their accuracy is low.
The answer is that Russia has to supply its own trucks to launch them from, Iran delivers the missiles and the canister but it’s up to Russia to get them into the field. They haven’t been able to do so, with insufficient trucks being manufactured.
This led to large build ups of missiles in depots and their storage in the open, hence the Ukrainians taking advantage of the situation while they can.
And there you have a prime example of how Russian industrial production problems have led directly to a stockpile of missiles developing, in turn providing a valuable opportunity to destroy not just the missiles but entire ammo dumps.
This is exactly why these things do matter and they do have an impact beyond the simple lack of trucks.
‘The Analyst’ MilStratOnX
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦!
Russian train with letter Z not allowed into Lithuania until it was cleaned
Border guards in Kyana noticed the inscriptions and symbols on the Moscow-Kaliningrad transit train. The letters "Z", "ZOV" and the inscription "Vilnius is a city of Russia" were painted on the carriages.
The border guards threatened to uncouple the graffitied carriages. As a result, the train personnel had to scrub off the graffiti. The train manager and his subordinates, under the supervision of the border guards, erased the inscriptions and letters with sand.
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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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