TheOldGuy @TheOldGuy@qoto.org
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian 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 2993. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
Russia is recruiting women from Africa to produce drones
An investigation by the Associated Press reveals that Russian officials lured women aged 18-22 under false pretenses to work in Russian defense factories. Initially, social media ads promised young African women free plane tickets, money, and “adventures in Europe.” Instead, the women ended up at a defense facility in Tatarstan. According to the report, this refers to the “Alabuga” plant, one of Russia’s main UAV manufacturers.
The AP also reports that some women complained about constant surveillance, underpayment, and working with harsh chemicals that caused skin irritation.
In total, Russia has reportedly recruited about 200 women from Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, South Sudan, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria, as well as Sri Lanka.
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Russia claims downing over 90 Ukrainian drones amid reports of airbase strike.
Russian forces shot down 92 Ukrainian drones launched overnight on Oct. 10, Russia's Defense Ministry claimed amid mounting reports of successful strikes against Russian military targets.
Recent achievements:
Overnight on Oct. 9, a Ukrainian drone strike set ablaze a Russian weapons depot storing North Korean ammunition in Bryansk Oblast, Ukraine’s General Staff reported.
"According to available information, missiles and artillery weapons, including those that came from North Korea, as well as guided aerial bombs, were stored on the territory of the warehouse," it said.
Ukraine's military also struck a base storing Iranian Shahed-type drones Russia used for daily attacks against Ukraine near the village of Oktyabrsky in Russia's Kranodar Krai on Oct. 9, the General Staff reported.
Tehran has provided Moscow with thousands of Shahed kamikaze drones since the start of the all-out war. Russia attacked Ukraine with more than 1,300 such drones in September, launching them on a daily basis for an entire month.
About 400 attack drones were reportedly stored at the Russian base.
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It's been four days and the oil terminal in Feodosia is still burning after a Ukrainian strike.
The terminal supplied fuel to Russian military units on the peninsula, including aviation kerosene.
Now supplies will come by road which complicates logistics and could disrupt the regularity of fuel supplies to the military.
Crimea wind 🌬️ report.
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Kyiv confirms death of Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna held in Russian captivity
Viktoria Roshchyna, a Ukrainian journalist held captive by Russia, has died, said Petro Yatsenko, a spokesperson of Ukraine's Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, on national television on Oct. 10.
The circumstances of her death are still being confirmed, Yatsenko said.
Roshchyna disappeared in August 2023 while reporting in Russian-occupied territory. Her father received a letter from Russia's Defense Ministry in April of the following year confirming that she was being detained by Russian authorities.
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Rebekah Jones hits the nail on the head
In a video taken by a Ukrainian surveillance drone, a Kasta 2-E2 radar vehicle (known by NATO as the "Flat Face") is seen in Donbas, moments before it’s struck by a HIMARS missile. According to reports, the missile was a standard guided version rather than the longer-range ATACMS.
The Kasta 2 radar is typically used for low-altitude detection, but now it’s been reduced to debris at ground level.
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Kyiv has scored a significant political victory in Kursk, regardless of whether it remains in the area or decides to withdraw troops in the coming months. This move has exposed Putin's bluff and ridiculed his "red lines" and nuclear threats, according to Foreign Policy.
However, some other strategic goals have been less successful. President Zelensky had hoped that this operation would accelerate the decision to allow Ukraine to strike deep into Russian territory using Western-provided cruise missiles. Although the White House has refused to change its stance on this issue, Ukraine's growing domestic long-range capabilities have increasingly inflicted damage on Russian rear positions in recent weeks, further unsettling the Kremlin.
The Kursk operation also aimed to divert Russian resources from the Kremlin's campaign to capture the remainder of Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region. Despite staggering losses, Russia continues to make slow progress in eastern Ukraine, maintaining a steady advance for several months. Ukrainian defenses in the east are gradually buckling under the relentless pressure of Russian attacks, with depleted positions resembling a meat grinder.
Nonetheless, the Kursk operation could contribute to achieving a broader strategic objective. By occupying Russian territory—and if Ukraine can successfully defend that territory—Moscow will find it difficult to claim victory in this war. If Ukrainian troops remain on what is de jure Russian land and the conflict is frozen at the current lines of control, it alters the narrative.
Much of the Western foreign policy perspective hinges on the belief that Ukraine and Russia must eventually negotiate and make concessions to end the war. However, no real efforts have been made by Ukraine's allies or Russia to formulate mutually acceptable terms for a peace agreement.
In the Kursk region, the Ukrainian theory of victory is beginning to take shape, albeit in a conceptual embryonic state. Similar to the many successful prisoner exchanges conducted by Kyiv and Moscow since the war began, the Ukrainians believe they can exchange captured Russian land in the Kursk region for their occupied territories. While they may not obtain Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk, they aim for at least the Kherson region and Zaporizhzhia.
The attack on Russian territory has significantly strengthened Ukraine's position in any future negotiations. Despite the absence of recent elections, Ukraine remains a democratic state, and the number of Ukrainians considering territorial concessions to Russia to end the war is growing. However, these voices remain in the minority, and opinions on what those concessions might entail vary widely. After two and a half years of war, the Ukrainian people are not ready to surrender.
Thus, if capitulation is off the table and a complete military victory for Ukraine still seems unlikely, negotiations based on the mutual exchange of territories may offer a viable path out of this war.
Ukraine's Kursk operation remains under threat, and the course of the war may not favor Kyiv in 2024. However, by occupying Russian land, at least in theory, Kyiv has established a precedent that could—despite numerous setbacks—ultimately lead to an end to the war in its favor.
UKRAINE DESTROYS ANOTHER MASSIVE DEPOT
The 67th Arsenal of the Ammunition Directorate was destroyed today in Bryansk.
The detonations are massive and the sound alone is indicative of thousands of shells progressively detonating.
The site is a sub-arsenal and not the largest but the quantity wiped out is just another major blow to Russian operations.
Quite separate to that the Nginsk Market in Moscow - a huge site used by thousands of people, was burnt to the ground - reason unknown, spreading thick smoke across the city.
One of my favorite writers at Palmer.
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/a-post-trump-world/58464/
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian 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 2993. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
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