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
🟢🇳🇱 Mark Rutte confirmed as NATO Secretary General
Stoltenberg welcomed the election of Mark Rutte as his successor and said that he leaves NATO "in good hands"
⚡️ 🤯 Ukrainian M2A2 Bradley crew shot down a Russian FPV drone with its 25mm cannon
From "The Analyst":
KHARKIV: RUSSIANS SURRENDER & DESERT IN LARGE NUMBERS
With supplies short and food and water a vastly reduced commodity even by Russian meagre standards, morale in the their lines, especially in the Liptsy sector of the front has been dire. This resulted in a a rapidly increasing number of surrendering units.
Ukraine had also been targeting the barrier troops and their headquarters so that these were so reduced, they were in no position to stop the Russians retreating without permission.
The first collapse came after the 7th Motor Rifle Brigade lost most of its forces and equipment being forced into meant grinder attacks against Ukrainian defences around Liptsy.
They lost so many troops that the Russians had to withdraw them to reconstitute the unit, but they failed to replaced them with anything, leaving the remaining units feeling abandoned and vulnerable.
Ukrainian counter attacks placed extreme pressure on the remaining units and they started to collapse.
Russians have been conditioned into not surrendering in most cases, having been fed a bucket load of lies about what will happen to them, including torture, especially genital mutilation, and eye removal, so they have often become too scared to try. Instead they go AWOL, abandoning their positions and fleeing, especially without barrier troops to stop them.
The Chechens were brought in to try and restore some discipline but instead seem to have ended up in the frontline fighting, not Ukrainian but Russian troops trying to retreat without permission.
The Ukrainians quickly isolated where the Chechens were deploying from and targeted that, reducing their numbers and abilities in devastating HIMARS strikes inside Russia.
Another thing that became clear over the past week is that pieces of units form all around the front have been stationed here. Platoon level numbers have been brought up from as far away as Kherson and pretty much everywhere along the front. Detached from their units and commanders the Russian system doesn’t really work well when it comes to communications and resupply and becomes an every man for himself environment behind the lines, while being an incoherent and unstable frontline, far from ideal to defend against determined Ukrainians.
This situation has resulted in Ukrainian gains and a reduction in Russian held territory. Ukraine has opted for the attrition strategy, wearing the Russians out of equipment and progressively weakening them forcing them to keep deploying new units - here where they can contain them rather have them exploit a frontline position elsewhere.
Eventually it’s hoped they will become so weakened that an offensive retake all of the captured areas will be possible.
Yet rumours persist the Russians still want to expand the frontlines here to create their so called buffer zone. If they can’t even maintain what they have without bringing in units from
around the entire front, how will they create enough of a force to widen the operation? Let alone stabilise their own front in Kharkiv.
This farce of an operation has been catastrophically bad for the Russians. They have locked themselves into it and don’t have the humility or common sense to see this is no longer a viable campaign. One of the key aspects of being a good military force commander is knowing when you are wrong and accepting it. That doesn’t happen in Russia without severe consequences. They are too afraid to admit failure.
Kharkiv continues to be the death zone for Russian units - in an area where the commanders are seemingly nervous of new ideas or any common sense, resorting to brutal tactics to control their own forces.
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦!
Zelensky:
Home is not just words. Home is Ukraine. Today, another 90 of our people returned home from Russian captivity.
Soldiers of the National Guard, Navy, Army, National Guard, border guards. Those who defended Mariupol. Those who defended the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Those who were on the Kherson, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhya and Luhansk directions.
We remember all our people in Russian captivity. We continue to work for the liberation of each and every one. We are looking for the truth about everyone who can be held by the enemy. Thanks to our exchange team: Budanov, Yermak, Malyuk, Klymenko, Lubinets. To all the helping partners, the UAE for assisting in the release of these people of ours. Together we can achieve even the most difficult results.
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From September 29, the United States will ban the use and sale of Kaspersky Anti-Virus in the
country
Kaspersky Lab, a Russian-based antivirus and cybersecurity company, has received two rounds of sanctions from the U.S. government. Kaspersky Antivirus products have been banned from sale in the U.S., with users having 100 days to find a functioning replacement before all functionality is ended.
Fearing connections with the Russian government, the United States Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued the first sanctions on Kaspersky on Thursday, issuing a Final Determination banning Kaspersky from providing antivirus or cybersecurity solutions to anyone in the United States. The sweeping ban was the first of its kind issued by the BIS after expanded powers were granted by the last two presidents of the United States.
The U.S. also placed Kaspersky Lab and its U.K. holding company on the Entity List, cutting them off from any U.S. trade entirely. The next day, twelve members of Kaspersky Lab’s board of executives and leadership were individually sanctioned, with most of Kaspersky Lab’s C-suite receiving individual punishment for their association with Kaspersky and suspected association with the Russian government.
CEO and founder Eugene Kaspersky was excluded from this round of sanctions. At the moment, he is only included in the sanctions lists of Ukraine as responsible for the annexation of Crimea, as well as due to suspicions of corrupt ties with representatives of the Russian special services and espionage in the interests of the FSB. In addition, Kaspersky is under Polish sanctions for indirectly supporting aggression against Ukraine.
The US authorities stated that the company posed a threat to the country's security, saying that the Russian authorities could gain access to US government documents through the software of this company. Kaspersky Lab itself denied the accusations, saying that none of its management had ever had "inappropriate ties" with any government.
"More than 30 oil refineries, terminals, and oil depots in Russia have already been hit," - President Zelenskyy during the presentation of state rewards to soldiers of the SBU Special Operations Center "A."
"For SBU drones, a distance of 1,500 kilometers is no longer a problem. Together with the successes of our Ukrainian Armed Forces and our intelligence agencies, these are very significant results that bring a just end to this war closer for Ukraine and ensure that Russia is held accountable for everything it has done against Ukraine and our people in a real, tangible, painful way," the President said.
Glory to Ukrainian Defenders
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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