The War in the Ukraine

[Fwiffo]

US officials concerned as Russia launches Iranian satellite

The US has warned Russia plans to maintain use of the satellite to spy on Ukrainian troop movements.

www.bbc.com

"But last week, US officials told the Washington Post that they feared the satellite could be used by Moscow to spy on troop movements in Ukraine.

Russia has struggled to achieve military objectives in Ukraine and the officials alleged that Moscow's space agency, Roscosmos, told Tehran that it planned to maintain control over the satellite for 'several months or longer' to assist with its war effort.

The unnamed sources added that the satellite could give Iran and Russia 'unprecedented capabilities' to almost continuously monitor troop movements and bases."

Russians need an Iranian satellite monitor troop movements in Ukraine? One satellite. They have their own version of GPS. They don't have any other spy satellites?

 

[Fwiffo]

Ukraine war must end with liberation of Crimea – Zelensky

Ukraine's president devotes nightly address to Crimea after explosions rock a Russian airbase there.

www.bbc.com

Surely this must be a negotiation tactic. Pre 2014 borders?

 

[Fwiffo]

9 Russian warplanes were destroyed in Crimea blasts, Ukraine says

Russia denied any aircraft were damaged in Tuesday’s explosions — or that any attack took place.

www.nbcnews.com

"Russia denied any aircraft were damaged in Tuesday’s explosions — or that any attack took place.

Ukrainian officials have stopped short of publicly claiming responsibility for the explosions, while poking fun at Russia’s explanation that munitions at the Saki air base caught fire and blew up and underscoring the importance of the peninsula that Moscow annexed eight years ago."

Spontaneous combustion.

 

[Fwiffo]

Ukrainian special forces operating 150 miles behind the front lines.

 

[Fwiffo]

Ukraine war: Crimea airbase badly damaged, satellite images show

New pictures show extensive damage to buildings and warplanes after explosions hit the Russian base.

www.bbc.com

No official claim for the attack. Medvedev threatening judgment day if it is Ukraine.

 

[Fwiffo]

UN alarm as Ukraine nuclear power plant shelled again

Ukraine and Russia trade blame as the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Europe's largest, is hit.

www.bbc.com

"In a statement on Thursday, Ukraine's nuclear agency Enerhoatom said that 'Russian invaders again shelled the Zaporizhzhia plant and territories near the nuclear facility'."

They shelled the plant that they themselves currently occupy?

"Ukraine says Russia has turned the site into a military base, launching attacks from there, knowing that Ukrainian forces are unlikely to retaliate.
....
The Russian-installed officials issued a mirroring statement, accusing Ukraine of carrying out the shelling."

Sounds more accurate.

 

[Dropbear]

 

[Fwiffo]

Ukraine hits Russian Wagner mercenary HQ in east

Russian and Ukrainian sources say a Wagner group base was hit in Popasna, Luhansk region.

www.bbc.com

"The Ukrainian daily Ukrainska Pravda reports that a pro-Kremlin Russian journalist, Sergei Sreda, revealed the Wagner HQ in a Telegram post on 8 August. He posted photos of his visit to the HQ and a sign in one of them identified its address as Mironovskaya 12, Popasna."

oops..

 

[Fwiffo]

It looks like the Chechens responsible for morale need to pay a visit.

 

[Fwiffo]

Ukraine war: Russia blames sabotage for new Crimea blasts

An arms depot is hit a week after an apparent Ukrainian attack on another military base in Crimea.

www.bbc.com

Probably same group as the airport. Lots of people going to get interrogated and roughed up by the FSB now.

 

[Fwiffo]

Ukraine war: Damage to nuclear plant would be suicide - UN chief

António Guterres makes the warning during a summit with Ukrainian President Zelensky in Lviv.

www.bbc.com

Besides taking an opportunity to state the blindingly obvious - why are they in Lviv instead of Kiev?

 

[güero]

Daughter of Putin ally killed in Moscow blast - BBC News

A car carrying Alexander Dugin's daughter exploded on the outskirts of Moscow, investigators say.

www.bbc.com

Noice

 

[Fwiffo]

If Ukraine is behind it then it's a silly escalation. They should keep the battle to front lines. Hitting targets outside of the main fight will open up their own refugee and diaspora community as targets for Russians and their many allies who won't hesitate to do the dirty work.

 

[Dropbear]

Russia’s ‘most hidden crime’ in Ukraine war: Rape of women, girls, men and boys

Ukrainian authorities believe cases of sexual assault by Russian occupiers are vastly underreported. Shame and many factors underlie survivors' unwillingness to report rapes.

www.latimes.com

 

[Dropbear]

If Ukraine is behind it then it's a silly escalation. They should keep the battle to front lines. Hitting targets outside of the main fight will open up their own refugee and diaspora community as targets for Russians and their many allies who won't hesitate to do the dirty work.

 

[Fwiffo]

Ukraine war: Russia appeals for new recruits for war effort

Hefty rewards are offered to volunteers to sign up as the army sees significant losses in Ukraine.

www.bbc.com

"The problem for the Kremlin is that most Russian people are not going to die for Putin or for the restoration of 'the great Empire'. Recruitment isn't possible in current circumstances because there is no civil consensus in Russia for the war."

That's depressing. Plenty of people seem to want to die for the 45th President.

"They just send them in like dumb little chickens! They'd hardly even held a gun before. They're cannon fodder. The generals think, 'We've got a volunteer: great, in you go!'"

Interestingly the 50 year old Ukrainians fighting a defensive retreat in Luhansk a few months back said the same thing.

 

[Fwiffo]

Polish President Duda in Kyiv to discuss more aid for Ukraine

Polish President Andrzej Duda arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday to discuss further support for Ukraine, including military aid, his office said, as Russia's invasion of the country approaches the six-month milestone.

www.reuters.com

We have a few more MIGs and Soviet hardware we can pass on to you so we can exchange it for free American equivalents.

 

[prince nez]

Whatever - Darya was hot. Would bang (not ka-boom). 🍆

 

[Fwiffo]

Putin boosts Russian troop numbers by more than 10%

The Russian president signs a decree to add more than 137,000 service personnel to the million-strong army.

www.bbc.com

Reinforcements....

 

[Fwiffo]

Ukraine war: Russian recruitment drive unlikely to have impact - UK

Vladimir Putin recently pledged to increase Russia's armed forces personnel by 137,000.

www.bbc.com

Let’s get some Syrians and Belarusians.

 

[Fwiffo]

Kherson: Ukraine claims new push in Russian-held region

The reported advance is part of a long-planned offensive by Kyiv to retake the southern Kherson region.

www.bbc.com

"On Monday, Ukraine's Kakhovka operational group in the south said that one regiment of Russian-backed forces had left its positions in the Kherson region.

It added that Russian paratroopers providing the back-up had fled the battlefield.

Ukraine's Hromadske TV said three of its sources in Ukraine's military confirmed that the first line of defence had been broken."

It's a rout! They're running all the way back to Rossiya...

"According to Western military sources, Kyiv's strikes on the river crossings are part of a targeted effort to isolate Russian troops on the right (western) bank of the river with the ultimate goal of recapturing the entire Kherson region. Moscow relied on the bridges to resupply their troops stationed west of the Dnipro river, who are now at risk of becoming isolated from the rest of Russia's occupying forces."

Another couple thousand rounded up to face trial at Ukrainian courts.

 

[Fwiffo]

Russian Proxy Leader Reportedly Flees Amid Ukraine’s Kherson Offensive

Kirill Stremousov, the deputy head of the region, posted a video message claiming Ukrainian forces had already been defeated—apparently from a hotel in Voronezh, Russia.

www.thedailybeast.com

The Kremlin's man in Kherson has fled to Russia in the face of Ukrainian advances.

 

[Dropbear]

Russian soldiers had a drunken firefight with FSB officers at a bar in occupied Ukraine that ended with at least 3 dead: report

There have been a number of reports of alcohol-related issues involving the Russian military ahead of and during the war in Ukraine.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[Fwiffo]

Update from the eastern front. Only outnumbered 3 to 1 in Donetsk.

 

[Fwiffo]

Meet the Chechen battalion joining Ukraine to fight Russia — and fellow Chechens

Send in the Chechens.

 

[Fwiffo]

Ukraine war: Russia postpones 'referendum' in occupied region

A so-called referendum in Kherson is delayed, as Ukrainian forces retake a small town.

www.bbc.com

Not enough security to even pull off a sham vote.

 

[Fwiffo]

Russia is buying North Korean rockets and artillery to use in Ukraine

The move indicates that Western sanctions are severely hampering Moscow’s military supply effort, a senior U.S. defense official said.

www.nbcnews.com

How much of these North Korean arms are actually a buy back of prior shipments sold to them?

 

[güero]

With all the negativity in this thread, let’s remember Putin seems to be a genuinely funny guy:

 

[Fwiffo]

Saky airfield: Ukraine claims Crimea blasts responsibility after denial

August's attacks included one on a Russian base and confirm the conflict has expanded into the area.

www.bbc.com

It was fake news

 

[Dropbear]

IRA training squad: activated. 🤣

Car bomb leaves head of Russian-occupied Berdiansk 'fighting for life'

An official in the Russian-backed administration of the Zaporizhzhia region said Artyom Bardin was fighting for his life after suffering major blood loss and losing a leg.

www.euronews.com

 

[Fwiffo]

Zelensky hails 'good news' as settlements recaptured from Russia

Ukraine's president says his troops have recaptured several settlements from Russian forces.

www.bbc.com

Shh. It's not Izyum.

 

[Pimpernel Smith]

IRA training squad: activated. 🤣

Car bomb leaves head of Russian-occupied Berdiansk 'fighting for life'

An official in the Russian-backed administration of the Zaporizhzhia region said Artyom Bardin was fighting for his life after suffering major blood loss and losing a leg.

www.euronews.com

No idea whatsoever.

What a plant pot. The IRA are not active, or training anyone in the Ukraine.

 

[Dropbear]

The Kharkiv route continues, with Russian forces failing to reinforce the new front lines and hampered by the loss of artillery following the fall of Izyum. But what isn’t getting much media attention is the smaller but significant gains around Kherson:

 

[Dropbear]

Meanwhile, Azerbaijan and Armenia are going at it hard and no one is watching.

I actually saw some impressive footage of an Azerbaijani Bayraktar TB2 being used as an FO to guide in an Israeli suicide drone taking out an Armenian S300 missile launch system. Guessing they won’t be crowd funding their next Turkish drone though.

 

[prince nez]

Meanwhile, Azerbaijan and Armenia are going at it hard and no one is watching.

I actually saw some impressive footage of an Azerbaijani Bayraktar TB2 being used as an FO to guide in an Israeli suicide drone taking out an Armenian S300 missile launch system. Guessing they won’t be crowd funding their next Turkish drone though.

Those Azeri dogs will never get Nagorno (Kara)back!

 

[Dropbear]

Putin is now threatening to cut-off gas to Russia, because the Russians are still supplying Ukraine with massive amounts of arms and ammunition.

 

[Grand Potentate]

Putin is now threatening to cut-off gas to Russia, because the Russians are still supplying Ukraine with massive amounts of arms and ammunition.

???

 

[Dropbear]

???

Captured/abandoned arms and ammunition remain one of the UA’s biggest suppliers. Check out this list of confirmed haul (actual could be two or three times this) in just two weeks:

 

[Dropbear]

 

[prince nez]

When this happened in the West they were hailed as heroes.

Oh look, they recruited Pimpernel Simp!