The War in the Ukraine

OTCDebunker

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One of the things I read was that the attacks were causing the interruption of the water supply to the cities, because in the absence of water passing through the pipes, the water that remained in the pipes froze and when it froze, it destroyed the pipes. I don't know how true that was.
Water can definitely freeze in pipes and then since water expands when frozen the pipes burst...cost me a ton of money one winter when I left for extending traveling and didn't realize to turn off the water nor keep the house at a temperature above freezing.

But that's residential construction...who knows for commercial or industrial.
 

plawolf

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If Putin is, now, directing Russian operational strategy, it seems we may have a repetition of the Hitler vs German Generals scenario; and we all know how that turned out!

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An insider claims Putin ordered his defense minister to stop Ukraine's counteroffensive within a month — and it may explain why Russia is making costly attacks, war analysts say

Sonam Sheth
Mon, September 25, 2023, 9:47 AM CDT

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And, no, I don’t endorse BI; I’m, well, aware of their bent!

Putin orders Russian Defence Minister to halt Ukrainian counteroffensive before early October – ISW

Ukrainska Pravda
Sun, September 24, 2023, 11:34 PM CDT

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And, yes, this outlet has a “bent”, as well!

What kind of bait and switch BS is this? You plaster a big ‘Business Insider’ banner in your message that just leads to the BI homepage, when the article is from Yahoo, citing the ISW of all sources.

Even if it was from BI, is credibility is still BS since the original source is the ISW, which would be far better named the Institute for the Study of Cope based on the kind of utter nonsense they have been spewing regarding the Ukraine war.

And this is indeed next level cope nonsense from the ISW.

The Russians stopping the much vaunted Ukrainian Grand Offensive dead in is tracks before it even managed to reach the Russian main defensive lines is now evidence of Russian incompetence. And now that Ukraine has stupidly, wastefully and needlessly thrown all of its strength into Russian purpose built meat grinders trying to score political points to please western politicians, the Russians mounting their own offensives to take advantage is evidence of political interference.

Truly Orwellian level inversion of reality.
 

Stealthflanker

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and Russians have resurrected the dead BSF Admiral.



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Supposedly the BSF should move to Novorossiyisk, with deadline set at 2017. I guess 2014 changed that but these days i guess BSF command and control are already evacuated to Novorossiyisk. Leaving the Crimea headquarters to perhaps some non-critical managerial task.
 

ZeEa5KPul

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and Russians have resurrected the dead BSF Admiral.



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Supposedly the BSF should move to Novorossiyisk, with deadline set at 2017. I guess 2014 changed that but these days i guess BSF command and control are already evacuated to Novorossiyisk. Leaving the Crimea headquarters to perhaps some non-critical managerial task.
Turns out the Russian-North Korean deal wasn't about artillery shells. DPRK sold Russia the secrets of Juche necromancy.
 

Tam

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The Kh-38 air to ground missile is one munition we are seeing more lately but has been unjustly eclipsed by other munition systems in the media and often misidentified, including by me. After some thought, we may actually have seen more Kh-38 attacks in video but are mislabeled by something else such as FAB or KAB, or not properly credited at all, with the attacks being generically labeled as air or artillery strikes. My apologies, I am starting to think some attacks I posted previously might be actually be Kh-38.

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The guidance system can be active radar, infared imaging, satellite navigation or semi active laser.

I believe in the case of semi active laser, the Orlan drone is used to find the targets, then lase the targets similar to a Krasnopol, then record the results.

The road bridge over the Oskol River at Kupyansk gets destroyed by a Kh-38 strike. An Orlan drone is lasing the target, and recording the footage.

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Ukrainian temporary deployment points in Zaporozhye are lased and targeted by Orlan drones. It is likely the actual munition executing these two attacks, and similar ones in the past, are Kh-38.

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Mykolaiv region. Ukrainian ammo depot destroyed.

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Krasnopol knocks out this Bradley.

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No brainer summary. Massed attack of Gerans aimed at Izmail at transportation infrastructure, destroying port, offices, warehouses, and trucks.


Ferry crossing at Orlovka-Isakcha near the city of Reni was hit by Geran drones, with results recorded from the Romanian side. Offices, warehouses, trucks are destroyed.

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Putin awards the title 'Guards' to the 58th Combined Army deployed in Zaporozhye.

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Successful hunt of Ka-52 against a Bradley.

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Following attack on the Black Sea headquarters, Russian admiral declared liquidated in the attack by Ukrainian Special Operation Forces, is now seen in discussion meeting in the Russian Ministry of Defense.

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aqh

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I have been reading the RUSI report on Russia and I have some thoughts. It seems like generally speaking Russian arty is large enough that they likely have the suppression needed against the AFU. What they don't have is enough infantry and armour that have been trained enough in tactics and aggression. When the Russians have done their barrage of firepower they should really be advancing with their infantry and armour with appropriate aggressiveness to pick apart the supressed Ukrainians however they don't. They use tanks as adjunct arty units to give more precise fires instead of breakthroughs and they use infantry defensively instead of using it to take advantage of the effects created by their artillery. Part of the reason is they simply don't have enough manuvere units in terms of too few men/tanks to actually be able to go on the offensive as they desire.
Essentially the issue is that : Russian firepower is effective and does its job > manuvere elements can't take advantage > they return back to using arty for attirtion instead of using manuvere elemnts to clean up the forces.
 

Atomicfrog

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I have been reading the RUSI report on Russia and I have some thoughts. It seems like generally speaking Russian arty is large enough that they likely have the suppression needed against the AFU. What they don't have is enough infantry and armour that have been trained enough in tactics and aggression. When the Russians have done their barrage of firepower they should really be advancing with their infantry and armour with appropriate aggressiveness to pick apart the supressed Ukrainians however they don't. They use tanks as adjunct arty units to give more precise fires instead of breakthroughs and they use infantry defensively instead of using it to take advantage of the effects created by their artillery. Part of the reason is they simply don't have enough manuvere units in terms of too few men/tanks to actually be able to go on the offensive as they desire.
Essentially the issue is that : Russian firepower is effective and does its job > manuvere elements can't take advantage > they return back to using arty for attirtion instead of using manuvere elemnts to clean up the forces.
The issue is also the amount of mines that make any maneuvre a suicide wish... whatever you throw on that wall will just explode. If Russia go all in with maneuvre warfare, it will be another front or they will just crawl inches per inches.
 

aqh

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No.

Russia has a much larger firepower complex. They should on at least a narrow part of the front be able to supress enemy arty enough to reduce mines.

The acronym for this is SOSRA
 
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