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
Russian UAV crashed in Latvia on Saturday.
According to the Latvian defence ministry, the incident occurred on Saturday in the Rezekne region in eastern Latvia.
The competent institutions are still investigating the event, but preliminary data indicates that a Russian military drone entered Latvian airspace from Belarus.
In accordance with established procedures, Latvian defence forces notified high-ranking government representatives, law enforcement officers, and NATO commanders.
As far as it is known, this is the first time a Russian military drone has violated Latvian airspace since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
In light of this, Latvia's Minister of Defence, Andris Sprūds, emphasised the importance of continuing the work initiated to fortify the country's eastern border, particularly the development of air defence capabilities and electronic warfare.
Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics emphasised the necessity of a unified reaction to incidents involving Russian drones, stating that "the number of such incidents on NATO's eastern flank is growing".
⚡️Ukrainian Military Intelligence has carried out a cyber attack on Russian infrastructure
According to Kyiv Post source in Ukrainian intelligence, on September 4, a cyber operation by the Main Directorate of Intelligence (HUR), targeted network infrastructure in Russia.
The attack hit Lukoil, the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate (GIBDD), and the Bank of Russia.
A total of 18 servers were destroyed beyond recovery, and the infrastructure of the company Antenna, which provides services to numerous government agencies and commercial enterprises involved in supporting Russia's aggression against Ukraine, was also compromised.
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Vovchansk: Another Ukrainian City Wiped Off the Map by Russia
Vovchansk is located about 5 kilometers from the Russian border. Over 17,000 Ukrainians lived here before the war.
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Lessons from Ukraine: How to Build a Global Brand in Times of Crisis
On Saturday, Sept 21, at the Weekend Media Festival in Croatia, Luc Chénier, CEO of Kyiv Post, will share insights on how crises can become catalysts for brands to grow and how Ukrainian businesses are doing this by becoming global players with influence.
"Today, Ukraine is not just a country but a global brand," Chénier believes.
In an era of instability and challenges, Ukraine sets the standard: Never giving up, moving forward, and becoming even stronger on the global stage.
Amid the war, with daily rocket and bomb attacks, Ukrainian businesses are showing that it is possible not only survive, but also to advance on the global stage under the harshest conditions.
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While the US continues to forbid Ukraine from striking Russia’s launchers and airfields, Russians increase the massacres across the country, an hour ago launching 5 Iskander/North Korean ballistic missiles onto a residential neighborhood in the town of Pavlohrad.
There are now at least 55 victims, the youngest, 4 year old child, the oldest an 82 year old woman.
Rescue efforts ongoing.
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Today, a father buries his 3 daughters and wife that were killed when Russians targeted the center of Lviv with hypersonic missles.
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Today, a father buries his 3 daughters and wife that were killed when Russians targeted the center of Lviv with hypersonic missles.
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🔱Kyiv oblast. The village of Velyka Oleksandrivka
The world's largest coat of arms of Ukraine and the inscription Glory to Ukraine
Good Morning!
Peskov promised that the announcement of a new mobilization in Russia is not under discussion.
Just like he promised there would be no mobilization previously. And that Russia wasn't going to attack Ukraine. A man of his word, definitely.
Too often it’s taken waves of frontline complaints to get attention to problems in the field and Ukraine clearly has a problem with old soviet era mentality trained officers who need retiring. They have no place in this war anymore.
It’s also a little bit damning that Kursk which has gained hectares of farmland, had the general staff’s attention while in effect the Pokrovsk front burned and was left to less than capable commanders. Now that’s been rectified - just about as last minute as you could manage. I can’t help but see the history books condemning Kursk not just as a strategic folly but as having been responsible in yet another way, for what’s gone on in the central front.
Thank god that sense and resolve has been restored to the centre and that Syrski I hope, has learned a valuable lesson about not taking his eye off the ball.
We can only be intensely grateful for the junior officers and frontline troops who have held the line despite terrible odds and conditions, who had the guts to speak up and save the day.
‘The Analyst’ MilStratOnX
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦!
Volodymyr Terelyuk worked as an oncodermatologist in a private medical center in Kherson.
He had a higher category and about 30 years of experience. He was a bright, sensitive person and a highly qualified specialist.
The man was killed by Russia on September 2, 2024. Then the occupiers launched an attack from a drone on the Kindyika area.
"A wonderful person and a doctor from God. It is impossible to believe in this grief. It is impossible to realize that the life of such a wonderful person was taken away. I am grateful to have worked with you. We will never forget you," said colleague Tetyana Shahina.
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The former defence secretary of the United Kingdom writes:
"I have a concern that has grown ever larger this summer. It is now so pressing that I cannot stay quiet about it any longer.
Given the way that Putin is targeting men, women and children using glide bombs frequently launched from Russia, we must now urgently approve the use of our long-range weapons into Russia.
Just last week, a devastating Russian missile attack targeted the city of Poltava, striking a hospital and surrounding residential area, killing at least 51 people and injuring more than 200, marking one of the deadliest attacks of the year.
We know that many attacks are launched from Russia itself. And yet, with the exception of our giving permission to allow UK missiles to strike Crimea, we have remained cautious about allowing our Ukrainian allies to target the source of these attacks.
It is no longer credible for us to cheer on Ukraine, invite the president to No 10, and yet fail to allow our defensive weapons to be used where they would be most effective.
It’s time to stop asking President Zelensky’s brave population to fight with one arm tied behind their backs.
Instead the UK must issue a straightforward warning to Putin. If you continue to murder men, women and children with glide bombs launched from Russia, then we will lead the rest of the world to authorise our long-range missiles to take out your launchers, regardless of where they happen to be — even inside Russia.
Now is the moment to remind ourselves that what is happening in Ukraine isn’t just about them. It is about us too. It is about defending our entire way of life. Our imperfect, often frustrating system of self-government. The same system that sometimes leads to the governing party being booted out of office due to underperformance.
Putin is wrong about us. Maintaining a system with democratic winners and losers isn’t weakness. It is strength. But we can only maintain that legitimacy if we stand up for others whose democracy is under attack. And that does need raw muscle. So Britain must regain her place as the country willing to lead again.
We should provide permission for our Storm Shadows to be used, and invite the French, the Americans and even our more reticent German partners to follow us. With a simple ultimatum to Putin: stop your inbound attacks on Ukraine, or we will support Ukraine’s response.
I know that freedom, democracy and elections are complete anathema to Putin. But we are stronger because we willingly accept that elections may not always go our way. He would rather impose his autocracy on Ukraine, but if you value freedom, this is not just a battle for Ukraine, it matters the free world over. Or to put it another way, this is a battle for the right to be a political loser."
Romania did not shoot down the russian Shahed UAVs that entered the country's NATO airspace
One UAV flew all the way to Sabangia in Romania and then entered Ukraine through Vylkove and moved in the coastal waters of the Sea of Odesa.
A Shahed is an airborne weapon with a high-explosive warhead that weighs 30–50 kilograms (66–110 lb).
Allowing the enemy to fly this attack weapon unchallenged poses an obvious risk to life, all too often experienced by the people of Ukraine.
MILITARY & STRATEGIC:
BATTLE FOR POKROVSK ENTERS NEW STAGE
Russian assaults on a wide front designed to push their lines closer to Pokrovsk have increased to as many as 28 per day in many parts of the front. The war here is intense with some of the most demanding fighting so far encountered. Russian desperation to break the lines here is palpable.
Pokrovsk is the centre of six major highways that supply the frontlines over a wide area as well as a major rail junction. Its loss would be a strategic blow of some significance. It is the domino that should it fall, has the potential to take down so many others along the front. This is why Russia is expending so much effort on it.
Ukraine’s defence in the centre hangs on two villages currently in the heat of the battle - these are the last urban areas before open land and Pokrovsk itself.
The Russians are also trying to force their way south of the salient to widen it because they’re aware it’s become too extended and risks counter attacks and spoiling operations.
Their fear is that if the salient remains too narrow the Ukrainians will have too easy a time of hitting their artillery as they move it forward for the assault on Pokrovsk itself. Widening the salient is just as important as moving it forward.
They’re already trying to move artillery up but it’s quickly spotted and destroyed by FPV drones.
Moving south from the salient and west from the front below it also puts pressure on the important town or Kurakov.
The problem the Russians are facing is that months of repair and refurbishment work on hundreds of soviet era BMP type armoured vehicles has largely disappeared- the loss rate has been phenomenal during these offensives and there’s clearly a lack of vehicles to support secondary operations if the main Pokrovsk front is to proceed.
The result of the level of intensity the Russians have maintained is rapidly increasing exhaustion of its fast dwindling armour reserves. It’s becoming difficult to find any of the many Russian stockpiled armour bases with anything but dregs left in them.
Their own pace of operations in trying to do too much is undermining their ability to achieve their primary goal.
Part of Ukraine’s problem has been its own commanders from the regional to the three tactical commands.
This became such an issue that Syrski and his staff - obsessed with the Kursk operation had to down tools and head for the Pokrovsk command to sort it out. This resulted in some changes in structure and after banging a few heads together a new vigour and sense of purpose was created. This had reasonably rapid results and Ukrainian coordination and defence capabilities rose noticeably.
Russian manpower losses just in the Pokrovsk front are close to 1,200 per day, let alone the rest of the frontline. It simply isn’t sustainable.
Ukraine has placed rested combat ready formations into the line and recommenced counter attacks against weaker areas of the Russian lines - actually halting the Russian advance for almost eight days now. One inventive Ukrainian tank commander used his vehicle to drag destroyed Russian armour under a railway bridge so that the Russians couldn’t get through.
It’s a little early to declare the Russian offensive culminated but it’s certainly looking like they have no chance of reaching Pokrovsk this year - and maybe they never will. The vast expenditure of men and material is finally sapping their capacity to attack.
Russia is likely reorganising accepting that the Pokrovsk target is unviable. They will therefore have to carry on trying the southern expansion of the salient because it’s vital to Russia to prevent Ukrainian counter attacks. Ukraine knows this and isn’t going to make it easy for them.
The fact it took Syrski and the General Staff weeks to identify what was happening at Pokrovsk because they were so caught up in the Kursk offensive, and that it took their personal intervention to put it right - and then only after a wave of complaints publicly aired by frontline troops, is not an encouraging sign.
Former British defense minister calls for lifting restrictions on Storm Shadows strikes against Russia
Former minister Grant Shapps also called on the British government to encourage France, the US and "more restrained" Germany to also lift restrictions on long-range weapons for Ukraine "with a simple ultimatum to Putin: stop your constant attacks on Ukraine or we will support Ukraine's response."
In recent weeks, Ukraine has actively urged its allies to lift all restrictions on strikes with their long-range weapons against Russia, explaining that this would allow it to hit, in particular, aircraft that launch cruise missiles and guided aerial bombs.
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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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