Here we go again-Ukraine once again

[Dargo]

Manifest of the National Republican Army claiming responsible for the attack on Darya Dugina the Russian former MP Ilya Ponomarjov, who now resides in Ukraine, said in a TV broadcast last night that the NRA is responsible for the bombing, and is planning more armed actions.

We, Russian activists, soldiers and politicians, now partisans and fighters of the National Republican Army, stand up against warmongers, robbers and oppressors of the peoples of Russia! We declare President Putin a power monger and war criminal who has altered the Constitution, unleashed a fratricidal war between the Slavic peoples and sent Russian soldiers to senseless death. Poverty and coffins for some, palaces for others - all this is the essence of his policies. We believe that people whose rights have been taken away have the right to revolt against tyrants. Putin will be deposed and destroyed by us! Our goal is to stop the destruction of Russia and its neighbors, to stop the activities of a handful of Kremlin businessmen who are draining our wealth and committing crimes inside and outside the country. We declare that officials of the Government of the Russian Federation and regional authorities are complicit in this overwhelming. Those who do not resign their powers will be destroyed by us.

We label businessmen who make their money through corruption and connections with officials - as traitors to the motherland. Those people and their property who do not repent and speak out publicly against this government and its war, we will destroy. We declare people in the power structures as accomplices of the usurper. Those who do not lay down their hands and take off their shoulder straps will be destroyed by us. We state that we will destroy military cargoes and the cargoes of those who make money in the war. We remember the bombing of homes in Russia that brought Putin to power. We know that the regime will not stop at one of the most heinous crimes. And we declare: we will carry out actions only against persons in power. We will not attack civilian objects and citizens. If Putin's security forces engage in provocations and attribute the victims to us, do not believe them! We call on the soldiers of the Russian army to stop shooting at our brothers from other countries - Georgia, Syria etc.

We call on all Russians to join our ranks and raise the white-blue-white flag of the new Russia instead of the tricolor disgraced by Putin's government We call on those who are willing to fight to follow our example and overthrow this inhumane, hypocritical and anti-people regime! We find it unacceptable that Russians around the world have been vilified for war crimes committed by those who have neither nationality nor homeland, and who love only money and power. The world is not an enemy of Russia and Russia is not an enemy of humanity, and we will prove this with deeds. We will offer protection to all who follow our call. Anyone who carries out our program until the regime change is exempt from liability under the laws of the usurper. After our victory, we will immediately release anyone who has been illegally convicted by the Putin authorities.

We will give freedom to all peoples living in Russia and build a new society - a society without oligarchs, without corruption, without arbitrariness of officials, without degrading poverty. A society where everyone is rewarded according to his work. Society without wars and violence. A society where power will belong to the people, where citizens will choose their own leaders and organize the life of their towns and villages themselves. A society where the rulers cannot sacrifice human lives for their own greatness, but will think about issues. Education, medicine, scientific progress. A society in which everyone will be proud to have been born on the territory of Russia and want to live in it! Long live free Russia! Wherever you are - fight like us, fight with us, fight better than us! Let's cleanse our motherland of dirt! The victory will be ours!

Translated from Russian to Dutch to English, can not say it is exactly the same.

[Dargo]

Originally Posted by mapuc

This doesn't come as a surprise.



https://twitter.com/WarMonitor3/stat...37216395632643

Markus

Russian-appointed “Deputy Department of Internal Policy of the Kherson State Administration” was assassinated by partisans https://twitter.com/WarMonitor3/stat...67435283451910 Install killed, Install killed, Install killed, etc. They drop like flies

[Dargo]

Retired U.S. Army General Mark Hertling said Saturday that Russia is currently on "defense" while Ukraine is able to "pick where they attack" as the war between the two continues to rage on.

"Early RU [Russia] goals were beyond their capability. Reducing the goals didn't help. Now, RU's defending in more places against a growing conventional UA [Ukraine] threat & an expanded guerilla war. UKR has transitioned to the offense & can pick where they attack; RU is now on the defense," he wrote on Twitter in a thread.

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-now-...rtling-1735426

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by Dargo

Need to create account to read this article. https://time.com/6207115/ukraine-tra...pilots-russia/
Without accounts:
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...hog-simulators
https://czechia.postsen.com/world/33...ing-on-it.html

Thank you Dargo for the links.

Looking at the pictures made me wonder-Is it DCS they are using ?

TV2News writes:

Here is the most likely scenario for the next few weeks of war

Ukraine is probably preparing thoroughly right now how an offensive could be approached. The question is where and when it will come.

Since early August, it has been widely believed among observers that Ukraine was preparing an offensive in the south of the country.

Ukraine's defence minister, Oleksij Reznikov, even said that the major city of Kherson would be recaptured by the end of August. Yet the fronts in both southern Ukraine and the Donbas have been largely stagnant for three weeks.

Despite the stalemate, the Ukrainian attacks deep behind the front line and the shelling of the bridges over the Dnipro river in particular give a clue as to how the war will develop.

But what do the sensational attacks mean for the war? And will there even be an offensive at Kherson?

Attacks are high risk
During July, there was dynamism on the southern frontline. Ukrainian troops were quietly gaining ground and the introduction of the advanced HIMARS missile system in early July meant that Russia was finding it harder to resupply its troop

Pressure in Kherson province prompted Russia to transfer large numbers of forces there from the front in the Donbas. As the size of Russian combat units varies more and more as the war progresses, it is difficult to get reliable figures. The most educated estimates are around 20,000 troops in the part of Kherson province north of the Dnieper River. This is a large concentration of troops.

It is clear that Russia will try to hold on to Kherson city, and probably hope to hold a referendum to incorporate Kherson into Russia. The Russian reinforcements mean that a Ukrainian attack would carry a high risk of heavy casualties. This has undoubtedly influenced Ukrainian decisions on how to approach an offensive.

Battlefield prepared far from front line
What the Ukrainians are doing now is probably a thorough preparation of the battlefield. Since Ukraine got the HIMARS system, Russia has not been able to adjust its supply lines, and thus they have lost the initiative in the war.

In the last two weeks, Ukraine is believed to have been able to carry out spectacular and highly effective attacks deep inside Russian-controlled areas - far deeper than the 80 kilometres or so that the previously recognised HIMARS missile can reach.

It started with a number of attacks on ammunition depots located along the railway network just north of Crimea, supplying both the front at Kherson to the west and Melitopol to the east. This was 100-150 kilometres from the front line. On 9 August came the signature attack on the Russian airbase at Saky in Crimea, which took out 10-15 Russian fighters. From Saky it is just over 200 kilometres to the front line.

Since then, there have been a number of attacks both in Crimea and on the supply and rail hubs just north of the peninsula.

How they were carried out is not clear. All indications are that special forces, local resistance cells and drones have all been used. Most recently, a drone was shot down on Saturday, hitting the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol.

Missiles are also likely to have been used. Either the US has supplied Ukraine with the so-called ATACMS missiles, which can be fired from the HIMARS platform, or Ukraine has been helped to equip a homegrown missile type with GPS technology.

The battlefield is also being prepared closer to the front line
Closer to the frontline, HIMARS and its British, Norwegian and German counterparts continue to have a major impact. Ammunition dumps are being hit and, in addition, the Ukrainians have managed to take out a number of forward military headquarters both in the Donbas, Kherson and at Melitopol.

At Kherson, it is clear that the Ukrainian General Staff has given priority to taking out the bridges over the Dnieper River. This is partly to make it much more difficult to resupply Russian troops west of the river, and partly to make any withdrawal much more difficult.

So where and when will the Ukrainian offensive come?

The sad answer is that it is impossible to say. As I said, it seems that the Ukrainian General Staff is proceeding cautiously and wants to avoid launching an offensive where it risks suffering heavy casualties. Defence Minister Reznikov's prediction that Kherson will be in Ukrainian hands by the end of August is unlikely to come true.

If Kherson becomes a target for attack in the next few weeks, it will be because the Ukrainians have managed to make the supply situation so impossible for the Russians that it is a tender force they face. It is also possible that the Ukrainians will choose to launch their main offensive elsewhere. It could be, for example, east of the Dnieper River down towards Melitopol or towards the strategically important town of Izium just north of the Donbas.

The most likely scenario
So far, the Russian ability to make heavy artillery attacks is going down. They can still get supplies to the front, but on a much smaller scale than before. Supply lines are badly hit all along the front line.

The most likely scenario for the next few weeks is that we will see the thorough Ukrainian preparation of the battlefield continue - including with more spectacular Ukrainian attacks well behind the front line. We will also continue to see the Ukrainians laying smoke screens to create as much uncertainty as possible among the Russians about their intentions.

Since July, the Ukrainians have succeeded in taking the war away from the degrading front line where Russia was strongest. When Ukraine resumes frontline warfare in earnest, they will be sure that that relationship has changed. Russia is unlikely to be able to adapt to the capabilities that the Ukrainians now possess.

Momentum will therefore remain on the Ukrainian side, and they will choose time and place.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

Markus

[mapuc]

44 of their attack helicopter arrived yesterday to the Danish town Esbjerg a port city who will be the link between US and Scandinavia-East Europe.

It was these guys who will fly over Denmark to Poland(refueling of course)

https://home.army.mil/bliss/index.ph...mored-division

Markus

[Jimbuna]

[Jimbuna]

Putin reeling as EU tipped to SLASH his cash with new Cyprus gas in major breakthrough

Energy giants TotalEnergies and ENI reported making a huge gas discovery off the coast of Cyprus. The find at the Cronos-1 well in Block 6, 160km off the Cypriot coastline, involved a well encountering an important gas column in a carbonate reservoir. The companies say this is part of a successful effort to boost Europe's gas supply, which comes as the EU scrambles to wean itself off Russian energy.

Kevin McLachlan the Senior Vice President of Exploration at TotalEnergies, said in a statement: "This successful exploration well at Cronos-1 is another illustration of the impact of our Exploration strategy which is focused on discovering resources with low technical cost and low-carbon emissions, to contribute to energy security including to provide an additional sources of gas supply to Europe."

It comes as Putin has been slashing gas deliveries to the bloc, on which it still heavily relies (Russian gas accounted for 40 percent of the EU's total supplies last year).

And in a bid to sanction Russia for its Ukraine invasion, the EU is hoping to wean itself off Russian gas by following its REPowerEU energy strategy.

The blueprint to slash billions worth of funds from Russia as it continues to unleash havoc on its neighbours partly involves diversifying its gas sources.

The Cyprus gas find could then mark a huge win for the bloc in the face of looming threats from Putin.

Putin is still raking in billions of EU cash amid the Ukraine conflict, despite the bloc trying to batter the Russian economy and end the despot's war efforts.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...out&li=AAnZ9Ug

[Jimbuna]

Putin ‘torn’ between accepting defeat and using nuclear weapons as Russian death toll hits 60,000

Vladimir Putin will soon no longer be able to hold meetings due to his sharply deteriorating health according to sources, and is spiralling due to the war in Ukraine. The Russian president is said to be torn between using tactical nuclear weapons and accepting defeat as officials warn he is ‘out of good options’. As the Russian death toll reached 60,000, Putin reportedly raised the ‘extreme’ option of handing back newly invaded territories in private conversations with top officials.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...out&li=AAnZ9Ug

[Jimbuna]

The US state department warns Russia is planning to launch fresh attacks against Ukraine's civilian infrastructure and government buildings.

The warning comes ahead of Ukraine’s Independence Day on Wednesday - which also marks six months since Russian troops invaded.

Kyiv has already banned public events to commemorate Ukraine's independence from the Soviet Union.


Ukraine's President Zelensky has warned Russia could do "something particularly ugly" ahead of Wednesday's holiday.

Tensions are particularly high following a string of explosions and attacks in Russian-occupied Crimea.

A memorial service is held in Moscow for political commentator Daria Dugina who was killed in a car bomb outside the city on Saturday.

Russia has blamed Ukraine for the attack, but Kyiv denies involvement.

[Jimbuna]

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Putin ‘torn’ between accepting defeat and using nuclear weapons as Russian death toll hits 60,000

Vladimir Putin will soon no longer be able to hold meetings due to his sharply deteriorating health according to sources, and is spiralling due to the war in Ukraine. The Russian president is said to be torn between using tactical nuclear weapons and accepting defeat as officials warn he is ‘out of good options’. As the Russian death toll reached 60,000, Putin reportedly raised the ‘extreme’ option of handing back newly invaded territories in private conversations with top officials.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...out&li=AAnZ9Ug

Lets hope Skybird is very wrong in his psychological profile of Mr. Putin. That Mr. Putin is man for his age and accept he lost the war and withdraw his troops.

I'm afraid to even thing about the other scenario.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

[mapuc]

^ NO to do so they need to change attitude from general down to the soldier and the need to adapt another way of fighting.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

No attitude or tactic changes will be possible without prior permission from the dictator.

[Jimbuna]

Turkey claims that several NATO member countries want the Ukraine-Russia war to continue

Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Tuesday that several member countries of the Atlantic Alliance, not just the United States, want the war between Russia and Ukraine to continue.

"There are those who wanted to sabotage the grain deal. But it is not the United States. The contribution (of Washington) has been the removal of restrictions on export of Russian fertilizers, unblocking of ports, (removal of restrictions) on banking operations," he stressed.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...d9bcf707af994d