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
Doctors removed 156 pieces of shrapnel from the body of a Ukrainian Defender.
A Warrior from the 20th Separate Battalion, Oleksandr, call sign "Koshchei," was seriously wounded in action near Urozhaine in Donetsk region. Russians attacked with gas and stormed the positions, supporting their attacks with artillery. During a battle with drones, the man received numerous injuries, including serious damage to his right arm and debris in his right lung.
Despite his injuries, Oleksandr continued to fight, destroying the enemy. On his way to evacuation, he was attacked by a drone again, but he survived and managed to get to medics. His life was saved.
His son, who is also a Ukrainian Defender, brought Oleksandr an award from the President of Ukraine.
Glory!
📷: 20th Separate Battalion
Time will tell
Speaker of Ukrainian Parliament, Stefanchuk has met with his US counterpart, Mike Johnson in Italy regarding ending the US policy that protects Russia's airfields and launchers.
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From "The Analyst":
RUSSIANS OPEN SECOND VUHLEDAR ATTACK
With the northern pincer attack already underway the Russians launched the second pincer move future south and west, by striking at the village of Prychistivka. Ukraine knew this was likely as they’d observed Russian forces massing for the attack.
Once captured the next village to the north is Novokranka and from there they can begin the swing northeast towards Vuhledar and come in from behind it.
Prychistivka, by the time you go through the months of combat reports, has been under almost daily bomb and artillery assault for three months so there is little left in terms of defensive positions. The Russians do this and signal their intention only when they want to take a settlement relatively quickly so they can move on to the next.
The trouble with Russian old style thinking is that they don’t account for the fact that by doing this and making it impossible to defend, they push the Ukrainians to find another defence line and prepare other fortifications that the Russians even if they see them, largely ignore.
The Russians have been given a target and that’s what they’re going to work on, that’s how success or failure is measured in their world.
Part of the Ukrainian defence was to move to a small river just above Prychistivka and install defences in the village of Novokranka.
Prychistivka is in a shallow valley, the Ukrainian defences look down into it, so the Russians are faced with a literal uphill battle against prepared defences in open farmland that’s also probably mined- and they have a river to cross they seem to have forgotten even existed. This is what happens when all initiative is removed and nobody is allowed to question or offer up advice to higher command. You do or die, you don’t ask why.
An armoured group of 12 vehicles with 100 supporting storm troopers assaulted the village - and they took it inside if two days because the Ukrainians weren’t stupid enough to defend a pointless ruin at a disadvantage. A covering force did as much damage to the advancing Russians as it could then slipped away to prepared defence lines over the river.
However there have been noticeable changes to the way the Russians operate.
They have finally become aware they have manpower limits. This is reflected in other areas too.
Operations have a reserve force, large meat wave attacks have stopped and while still wasteful in their approach because men are not well trained and prone to higher loses, they are better organised and less haphazard in their approach. There is even evidence of improved coordination. In a word the Russians are showing a degree of ‘semi-professionalism’ in their approach rather than throwing mud at the wall and hope it sticks. This is going to help them stretch out their obviously dwindling resources by being more efficient and ultimately productive. It still doesn’t stop them making stupid mistakes and they still rely on numbers.
The Ukrainians have long recognised that the Russians would eventually have to operate differently to the way they have in the past and have adapted their defences and strategic outlook to match it. Russian behaviour has evolved because they have no choice. The war they have waged has been wasteful, high cost and ineffective for the most part - now they no longer have the luxury of being so wasteful and that means the cost of the war is starting to increasingly effect their behaviour and reduce their capabilities.
Ukraine made some excellent defensive preparations locally and the Russians obtained a minor success that’s brought them no advantage. Despite operating more efficiently, their overall planning and performance is still hampered by centralised command and lack of initiative.
‘The Analyst’ MilStratOnX
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦!
J.D. needs to take a class on how to impersonate a person.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jefftiedrich/p/this-week-in-stupid-september-7-edition?r=70k1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Trump has one thing he stands for. CORRUPTION!
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/trumps-got-nothing/58050/
From "The Analyst":
AMERICA ISN’T CHANGING ITS MIND
Nothing says ‘no’ more clearly than the SecDef Lloyd Austin repeating the same thing America has been saying for weeks.
The Russians have moved their aircraft so you don’t need ATACMS (and by default anything else) supplied by the West to hit their airbases.
And then have your own efforts pushed back at you, ‘because Ukraine clearly has weapons of its own that can reach those targets anyway’. So you don’t need our stuff and the risk of escalation we think comes with it.
There is no way the US is crossing that line this side of an election and I’m not sure it will even after it.
They’re not bothered about Ukraine using anything it makes domestically- that’s their business. But at the moment they are using the ‘over my dead body’ approach to frankly tell the Ukrainians they are fed up with being asked and they won’t change their minds, so let it go.
Zelensky was at the Ramstein meeting in person and it was clearly a message delivered to him to stop embarrassing the administration by asking for what he is never going to get.
The Americans are so intransigent over it I can’t help but wonder if the Russians have actually made it a red line the Americans believe this time.
History will tell us eventually.
The "UA_REG TEAM" has provided footage of an attack against the pontoon crossing in the Kursk region of russia, which we wrote about yesterday.
It would appear that the crossing is no more. It somehow disappeared. 🤷♂️
Zelensky:
Military Intelligence Day of Ukraine. We thank each and every one who obtains important information for our state, inflicts significant losses on our enemy, significantly weakens his potential, and protects the interests of Ukraine and Ukrainians.
We are proud of you and your results. Glory to the military intelligence of Ukraine!
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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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