TheOldGuy @TheOldGuy@qoto.org
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian Z fascist invaders.
I am a 72 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
🤬"Very good to see you", - the head of the IAEA Grossi arrived at the occupied Zaporizhzhya NPP and joyfully hugs the Russian occupiers there
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Operational information of the General Staff of Ukraine as of 08.00 on 05.09.2024 regarding the Russian invasion
On the border with the Chernihiv and Sumy regions, the occupiers maintain a military presence, fire on populated areas from the territory of the Russian Federation, and carry out sabotage and intelligence activities against Ukraine.
Fighting continues almost along the entire contact line. Ukrainian soldiers hold back enemy attacks. Our artillery, intelligence, aviation, and unmanned systems conduct combat work while exhausting the enemy's forces.
In general, the losses of the Russian invaders amounted to 1,200 people last day. Ukrainian soldiers also destroyed six tanks, 21 armored combat vehicles, 31 artillery systems, 42 UAVs of the operational-tactical level, 7 missiles, 37 vehicles and ten units of special equipment.
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Operational information of the General Staff of Ukraine as of 08.00 on 05.09.2024 regarding the Russian invasion
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Glory to Ukraine!
The nine hundred and twenty-fifth day of the large-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine has begun.
During the past day, 138 combat clashes were recorded.
According to detailed information, yesterday the enemy launched three missile strikes with 14 missiles and 72 airstrikes against the positions of Ukrainian units and populated areas, using, in particular, 100 anti-aircraft missiles. In addition, he carried out more than 4,100 attacks, 107 of them from rocket salvo systems.
The aggressor carried out airstrikes in the areas of settlements Nova Sloboda, Yampil, Yunakivka of the Sumy region; Tokarivka, Kruglyakivka, Kharkiv region; Makiivka, Nevsky, Luhansk Region; Novosadove, Chasiv Yar, Druzhba, Diliivka, Toretsk, Grodivka, Mykhailivka, Georgiivka, Krasnohorivka, Ukrainian, Bogoyavlenka, Ugledar of the Donetsk region.
Yesterday, the aviation and missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces struck six enemy manpower concentrations, two anti-aircraft vehicles and two more important enemy targets.
In the Kharkiv direction, the enemy continued offensive and assault actions. Two combat clashes took place here. All - in the districts of Vovchansk. The occupiers actively used anti-aircraft missiles for strikes.
In the Kupyansk direction, the number of attacks per day increased to 17. The defense forces repelled all enemy assaults near Sinkivka, Hlushkivka, Lozova, Berestovo, and Myasozharivka.
In the Lymansky direction, our troops stopped 27 attacks by the occupiers near Druzhelyubivka, Grekivka, Makiivka, Novosadovo, Nevsky, and Torsky.
In the Siversk direction, the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled four assault actions. The enemy tried to advance near Verkhnyokamyanskyi and Ivano-Daryivka.
In the Kramatorsk direction, Ukrainian soldiers stopped six enemy attempts to break through our defenses. The main efforts of the occupiers, with the support of aviation, were applied in the area of Chasovoy Yar and Kalynyvka.
Yesterday, the invaders continued to actively operate in the Toretsk direction. In total, the enemy attacked the positions of our defenders in the areas of Nelipivka, Toretsk, and New York 15 times. He carried out airstrikes with KABs.
In the Pokrovsky direction, Ukrainian soldiers repelled 52 assaults and attacks in the areas of Vozdvizhenka, Zeleny Pol, Novogrodivka, Grodivka, Selidowo, Mykolayivka, and Myrolyubivka, where the invaders, with the support of aviation, tried to dislodge our units from the occupied lines.
In the Kurakhiv direction, the Defense Forces stopped enemy attacks near Georgiivka, Kostyantynivka, and Krasnohorivka, where the enemy tried to break through the defenses of our troops 46 times.
In the Vremivsk direction, the enemy carried out four assaults on our positions near Kostyantynivka and Vodyanyi.
In the Orihiv direction, two combat clashes took place in the areas of Robotyny and Novoandriivka.
In the Dnieper direction, the occupiers will continue to try to knock out units of the Defense Forces from the occupied lines. Five Russian attacks were unsuccessful.
The operational situation on the Volyn and Poliske directions has not changed much. There were no signs of the formation of enemy offensive groups.
Defense forces of Ukraine continue the operation in the Kursk region.
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Ukrainian channels continue to insist that Kursk hasn’t made any difference to the situation in Pokrovsk and it has pulled in Russian troops that could have been used there instead. It’s an argument. Saying that Ukraine’s assault troops would have made no difference at Pokrovsk is also an argument but one easily dismissed. They could have been used in a counter attack if commanders in Pokrovsk had not been lacking in imagination.
But if’s and buts and maybes don’t make any difference now, it’s entirely academic and one for the history books.
The situation is what it is and dealing with realities is now all that matters.
As we close on 1,000 days of war Russia has won what? Not one major city. It has wrecked its economy, expanded NATO, slaughtered its men and caused an already perilous demographic crisis to become a long term national disaster with multi-decade consequences.
It has unified Ukraine in a way nothing else could and failed to prove any of its equipment is worth buying. They are where they are only because of the trillions of dollars worth of soviet era arms spending. Without it they would never have sustained this war. And it’s nearly all gone. Equipment analysts say there’s under 24 months of repairable and refurbished equipment left and that’s being generous.
Pokrovsk may prove to be the over reach that breaks Russian forces irretrievably.
‘The Analyst’ MilStratOnX
Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦!
MILITARY & STRATEGIC:
POKROVSK OFFENSIVE IS RUSSIAS BIGGEST EFFORT YET - A STEP TOO FAR?
The Russian offensive against Pokrovsk is the largest operation they have conducted so far. The scale of attacks and the repetition of those attacks is unlike anything yet seen. Clearly the Russians are in make or break mode.
Attacks by 200 or so troops with armoured vehicles numbering as many as 12-20, backed up by heavy artillery are common. On top of that there are massed FPV drone attacks and the Russians have started using tear gas and chlorine gas canisters dropped from drones - attacks have risen from just a handful a month to as many as 4,000 in August. Chlorine makes it impossible to breathe and Russia is a signatory to the ban on chemical warfare: just another example of their willingness to ignore their own rules and ensure nothing they say can ever be believed.
The Russians have a reserve force of some 50-70,000 men they are collecting from anywhere and everywhere to push the Pokrovsk front forward.
However the scale of losses they are suffering are vast, with Ukraine wiping out attack after attack in men and machines. It’s estimated the Ukrainians are outnumbered roughly four to one if not five to one in some sectors.
The Russians have become so determined to force this front now because time is running out. It’s using up everything they can spare and the rains are not far off which will make the frontlines impossible in thick mud, then winter will come. Nobody knows how severe that might be this year after two relatively mild ones.
Ukraine has it seems finally stopped the advances but not until after issues have come to light that I didn’t discuss before.
I was reluctant to mention them because it just added more negativity to an already critical discussion of Kursk. I still see that operation as a long term problem.
In the past weeks the Ukrainian 11th Brigade was forced to withdraw after a heroic fight against Russian forces that had lasted weeks in southern Pokrovsk sector. The commander was fired for doing so even though he had no choice.
His men were infuriated because they blamed the Pokrovsk command overall, which consists of three groups, north, south and centre, all of which have demonstrated rather poor coordination and communication with each other during the whole defence operation. This was backed up by yet more testimony from other sectors, implying lack of coordination, lack of judgement, unwillingness to believe field commanders, inflexibility of thinking and so on. The accusations of ‘soviet era thinking’ were rife and clearly evident if you look deeply enough. This old school command approach sits completely contrary to the training and initiative based operations Ukraine’s young officers and newly trained troops use, to maintain their edge against the barbarity of Russian meat attacks and relentless repetition.
Some blamed Syrski for getting so caught up in the Kursk excitement he let lesser officers do their own thing at Pokrovsk.
Either way if anything changed the Ukrainian side kept it in house. But it was notable that just after this the Russians started facing a reduction in the speed of their advances and Ukrainian coordination markedly improved, so something happened, as well as units being brought in from other parts of the front.
Pokrovsk is still and will remain immensely challenging but overall it’s looking like it’s becoming less likely the Russians will reach it and take it this year as their resources are expended. They cannot keep this pace up indefinitely and they know it. It’s starting to look increasingly desperate.
Meanwhile at Kursk, Russian units have continued to resist in Kornevo, Ukraine appears to be trying outmanoeuvre them. They need to cut the road north of the town to cut the Russians off. Elsewhere there are indications the Russians are starting to create points of resistance and slowly a front is being established by both sides.
Ukraine must then determine if its mobile assault groups are what’s needed for the eventual defence of what they’ve taken.
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Eternal Memory Serhiy
Serhiy Rozhok was born in the village of Velyka Zahorivka, Chernihiv region. He worked at a sawmill, then as a forager, and later got a job on a farm.
In 2007, Serhiy got married. Together with his wife Olena, they raised their son Stanislav and daughter Maryna.
"We have a large farm, so he worked on it in his spare time. He also liked carpentry. He was hardworking, he could come to help when someone needed it," said his wife Olena.
Since August 2023, the man was in military service. He defended Ukraine in the Donetsk direction as part of the 110th separate mechanized brigade. He held the position of a grenade launcher.
On December 28, 2023, soldier Serhiy Rozhok died near the city of Avdiyivka, Donetsk region. The soldier was 42 years old.
I think this is where Donold has his final meltdown. Think nuclear.
I don't agree with her politics but respect her tremendously.
https://youtube.com/shorts/zH2s9_x9X98?si=PkxgDLjsQZLYVolK
Funny. Donold telling you you have to vote for him. Followed by Kamala.
Kamala loves caramel cake
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian Z fascist invaders.
I am a 72 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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