TheOldGuy @TheOldGuy@qoto.org

Mopping up in Klishchivka

https://mil.in.ua/en/news/armed-forces-and-national-police-assaultmen-mop-up-klishchiivka-near-bakhmut/

🌾 EU calls on Poland, Hungary and Slovakia to be constructive on grain from Ukraine

"It is now important that all countries work in a spirit of compromise and cooperate constructively. We are now focused on implementing and making work the new system that has just been announced," said the European Commission spokesperson.

She added that the meeting with EU representatives on Monday will provide an opportunity to discuss restrictions on imports of Ukrainian grain.

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He left 50 days ago from Amsterdam to Kyiv to raise money to buy ambulances for Ukraine

During this time, Dutch ultramarathon runner Boas Kragtwijk covered 2,500 km. With his run, he also sought to draw the attention of Europeans to how close the fighting was taking place.

Kragtwijk ran from 40 to 60 km daily, and along the route he was accompanied in a car by a manager and a photographer. As a result of the race, Boas raised €65,000. That's the cost of two ambulances, each of which will help save up to 25 lives a day.

📹Voice of America

Our rescuers are the first to go into fire, danger and to where people are waiting to be rescued.

They are fighting the consequences of russian shelling, saving lives, extinguishing fires — they do everything for the sake of the state and the people.

We thank you for your courage and chosen life path. We are proud and appreciate every feat!

Congratulations on the Rescuer's Day!
Glory to Ukraine! 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

The First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Oleksandr Korniienko

Denmark and U.S. to conduct joint exercises.
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/the-united-states-and-denmark-to-conduct-joint-naval-exercises/

On this day in 1939, the USSR initiated its aggression against Poland. The catalyst for this invasion was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, inked in August of the same year, where representatives from the USSR and Germany agreed to carve up spheres of influence in Europe. This pact effectively served as a blueprint for the subsequent expansion of aggression.

During the night of September 17th, Soviet forces crossed Poland's western border, occupying territory designated in the agreement with Germany. Moscow's actions violated numerous treaties established with Poland over previous years and decades, rendering the Soviet invasion utterly deceitful and treacherous.

The Russian Federation claims to be the successor of the Soviet Union, and one of the few aspects they maintain continuity with is their invasion of a nation they had once pledged to be friends with.

However, in a twist of irony, as of September 17, 2023, Poland will no longer permit Russian-registered vehicles to enter its territory.

Many points of breakthrough of the Russian defense line are appearing along the entire front line. Andreevka is one of them, - Timochko

The liberation of Andreevka in the Donetsk region disrupted the logistics and defense lines of the Russians. The loss of a settlement is noticeable for the RF Armed Forces - the strength of the front in this area depended on it.

“The loss of a small settlement for the Russians could turn into a wide springboard for our troops,” said Ivan Timochko, Chairman of the Council of Reservists of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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In Hostomel, Russia lost 200 elite specialists during the capture of the airfields, — the commander of the special purpose unit of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

According to him, in February 2022, the Russians planned to repeat the scenario with the capture of the airfield, as during the "Pristina attack" in Kosovo in June 1999, as during the unrest in Kazakhstan in early January 2022.

However, in the battles for the Antonov airfield, the aggressor state lost elite specialists who had been participating in this type of training for decades.

A video of a factory in Pennsylvania where 155mm shells are made.

https://t.me/United24media/13693

https://mil.in.ua/en/news/artillery-of-the-armed-forces-of-ukraine-to-receive-new-ukrainian-made-112l4-radar/

Moscow and Oryol under attack by drones.

https://mil.in.ua/en/news/moscow-and-oryol-regions-of-russia-attacked-by-drones/

Ukrainians destroyed two more BUK launchers

https://mil.in.ua/en/news/ukrainian-armed-forces-destroy-two-buk-m3-launchers-and-a-russian-facility-in-svitlodarsk/

It will take 18 months to convert and deliver the promised M1117s

https://mil.in.ua/en/news/ukraine-will-need-another-18-months-to-convert-the-promised-m1117s/

"FROM THE ANALYST"

MAJOR MOVE IN THE EAST

The final collapse of Russian resistance in the ruins of tiny Andrivka village - a place of barely 20 homes now pummelled into ruins running along two tiny streets, has greater significance than seems possible.
The fight was hard not because the village was defensible - anywhere else and it would have been long taken, but because the Russians had the railway embankment- some 6m high and 20m wide at its base, to defend from. They had also built a bunker under it which the Ukrainians couldn’t get down to. From this they resisted for weeks.
However in the past fortnight as I reported previously, the Ukrainians managed at great cost to breach the railway embankment north and south of the village. Russia tried over and over again to break these bridgeheads even using T-90 tanks, but in the past days with the last resistance eliminated in the space of northern Klieshievka to the rail line, Ukraine managed two more breaches.
With four breached positions the Russians knew their position in Andrivka was completely untenable. Ukraine offered a surrender option to those who remained and some 70% took it up - the remaining force included officers and they were eliminated.
There are key elements to what happened next. Ukraine managed to secure the embankment along the whole sector and push beyond it with resistance fading.
The reason is simple enough. For days now the Russians have been complaining about lack of ammunition, no food, no counter-battery fire and a feeling they were being left out in the open while everyone else stood back.
This strategy is not uncommon on the Russian side. What they do is look at the situation and consider it no longer worth the investment in resources once they’ve used what’s been allocated. They effectively saw the tree branch off while their men are sitting on it. They let them go through hell as an unwitting sacrifice, literally leaving them to die, while they get on preparing the next defence line. It’s unbelievable in its callousness, but that’s Russia for you, human life means nothing. Soldiers are a commodity, nobody at the top knows who they are or cares. For that matter only those in the trench with you, are probably the ones who might.
The Russians have suffered a setback here they really won’t want to deal with. Crossing that railway line is the last major obstacle to a wide flat area south of Bakhmut that puts the city in increasing danger of being operationally surrounded. Ukraine isn’t going to go in and fight house to house, ruin to ruin. Russia politically, can’t let it go - it’s been it’s only success this year. They are nervously watching the Ukrainian advance - and wondering when the hits will come from the north of the city. The salient containing Soledar to the north looks ripe for extinguishing.
In the south Ukraines forces are now regarded in the west as having possibly ten days left to make any real difference. If they don’t it’s going to be a tough winter on that salient around Robotnye. The mud will come by Octobers end and last well into December. The last winter was mild and muddy, this one could well return to the deep freezes of the past, but the modern climate is not what it was, nothing is certain.
Right now high pressure and good weather persist. But it won’t last forever.
A huge success in the East and hard fought, the heroes of Ukraine have won a victory worth its name.

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

Russia has so many it will be a shooting gallery for Ukrainians 🇺🇦
https://t.me/liveukraine_media/13884

Russia says they still hold this town
https://t.me/liveukraine_media/13891?single

Russian truck in the occupied territory. Hits a pedestrian and just keeps going

Rest in Peace Vyacheslav

🕯 9:00 - minute of silence

Soldier Vyacheslav Savytsky died on June 8, 2023 while performing a combat mission near the village of Bilogorivka in the Luhansk Region. The defender was 25 years old.

Vyacheslav lived in Chernihiv Oblast. He was a football player. In recent years, he played for FC "Kudrivka" as a defender.

In 2022, together with his team, he became the champion and winner of the Cup of the Chernihiv region.

In June 2022, the man was mobilized into the ranks of the Airborne Assault Troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Vyacheslav served as a gunner in the 81st separate air mobile brigade.

💭"A modest, quiet, but purposeful and fighting boy who was always ready to help", - noted on the page of FC "Kudrivka".

Vyacheslav is survived by his parents, brother, sister, other relatives and friends.

Good morning from Ukraine
https://t.me/WarriorsUkrainian/11265

Serhiy "Grygorych" is a military officer. Before the full-scale invasion of the occupiers on our land, he was retired for 13 years. However, at the age of 57, in the winter of 2022, he went to defend Ukraine. Serhii says: - "I understood clearly - you have to stand up for yourself."

Recently, "Grygorych" modernized the trophy armored personnel carrier by installing a turret made of a burned-out BMP. Before modernization, the armored personnel carrier was technically not equipped with weapons.

Serhii says: - "By specialty, I am a mechanical engineer repairing automobile equipment. I graduated from a higher military automobile engineering school, so repairing machinery is not a new thing for me. Since March 2022, we have already been repairing trophy equipment in Sumy Oblast.

"Grygorych" says: "Most of all, this armored personnel carrier, judging by the things inside, belonged to the chief of staff of the occupiers. They restored vaccination on him, and then they told me to install a machine gun on him. I thought it would hardly work. If installed, you need to get out and charge it. And the box with ammunition will be on the outside, because you can't load it from the inside. I walked, thought... And I say to my brothers: - "What if we make 2 in 1, weld the tower from a burnt BMP? The commander said it was not possible. But he knew that if I started, I would do it."

"Thank you for the concern of one of the enterprises of the Poltava region. From the very beginning of the war, and until now, they have been helping restore trophy equipment. We measured the armored personnel carrier, and took drawings from Russian websites. And then, with the help of a computer, they made all the calculations. And here he is, the moment when everyone understands - it was successful! The tower was dismantled from the BMP and the APC was prepared. Then everything was installed. Checked - everything works, shoots! - says Serhii and adds: - "Nothing is impossible if you want it!"