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Russia begins Invasion of Ukraine

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Liljagare

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Additional NASAMS air defense systems have been put on combat duty — President Zelenskyy.
We are grateful to our partners for the timely reinforcement of our air defense before winter.





Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 07 November 2023.




"Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed."Arthur Schopenhauer

 
FunkMiller

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Forsete said:
SCALP fucking up a Russian ship. :messenger_smiling_hearts:

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Oop. More new, extremely expensive Russian military hardware being targeted and destroyed while in dock at a Russian base on 'Russian' soil.

I'm sure the nukes will be flying any minute now...

zooey deschanel waiting GIF
 
Liljagare

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Total tragedy, more generals lost




Russia is actually summoning the UN.....




Pro-Russia leader of Bosnia Serbs threatens again with break-up of the country.

dtt-net.com

Pro-Russia leader of Bosnia Serbs threatens again with break-up of the country

Sarajevo, 07 November 2023, dtt-net.com – The President of the Serb entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Milorad Dodik, today threatened again with declaration of independence by the entity if the western-backed envoy would impose a law over ongoing dispute related to immovable property in entiti
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E-Cat

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Liljagare said:
A Russian battalion comprised of Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) will likely deploy to #Ukraine in the near future in an apparent violation of the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War.

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Murder-suicide is the only moral/viable option at that point. Take out as many officers of the Russian command as possible before you go.

Or, you could try escaping and hope you don't get shot by either side.
 
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Liljagare

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Another round of high losses.





They really seem to want Avdiivka.

Russians assault Avdiivka from three fronts, deploying infantry and lots of drones

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/11/9/7427977/



Weekly Frontline Update: Russia burns resources in Avdiivka, while Ukrainians expand bridgehead in Kherson Oblast.
Russia continued to throw more troops into the Avdiivka meat grinder on the eastern front, while Ukraine began moving armored vehicles across the Dnipro River in the south, less than 90 kilometers from Crimea.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/11...expand-bridgehead-in-kherson-oblast/?swcfpc=1
 
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Liljagare

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Hopefully they can't start anything before next week, its expected to be massive rains all week. Another grinder.. :\


40,000 Russian troops poised for major assault on Avdiivka

www.telegraph.co.uk

40,000 Russian troops poised for major assault on Avdiivka

Russia has amassed an estimated 40,000 troops around Avdiivka as it prepares for a third wave assault on the shattered eastern town, the Ukrainian military has said.
www.telegraph.co.uk www.telegraph.co.uk
 
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dem said:
Avdiivka is fucked.

Russia will keep throwing meat at it.. just like Bakhmut.
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Yup, this is the way . Putin likes to send at least 2 million soldiers to their deaths . This was always going to be like this . The west could have had a knock-out, with full support and f16s within a year.

But this goes right as I envisioned when the war began. Russia will have these 4 oblasts and the NATO expands .. sad state of affairs.
 
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Liljagare

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New: The RUS mil. command will likely struggle to redeploy combat-effective reinforcements to respond to ongoing UKR ops in E. #Kherson Oblast while conducting def. ops in W. #Zaporizhia Oblast & sustaining other offensive efforts in E. UKR.





The Russian military has committed all available reserves to the frontlines in Ukraine, Ukrainian Armed Forces reserve Colonel and military expert Roman Svitan said in an interview with NV Radio on Nov. 8. Thereby, according to Svitan, Moscow is limited in how it can respond to Ukriane’s growing presence on the left bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson Oblast. He added that transferring troops from combat to other directions results in a loss of at least half their combat capability. He mentioned that the frontlines' locations are particularly inconvenient for the redeployment of Russian troops because there are nearly no roads running parallel to the front at a depth of 40-50 kilometers, beyond the range of Ukrainian artillery.

On Nov. 7, Ukrainian intelligence reported that Russians were rigging critical infrastructure in the occupied areas of Kherson Oblast with explosives, suggesting the invaders are planning for a potential retreat.

https://news.yahoo.com/russia-deployed-available-reserves-military-191000819.html
 
FunkMiller

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sinnergy said:
Yup, this is the way . Putin likes to send at least 2 million soldiers to their deaths . This was always going to be like this . The west could have had a knock-out, with full support and f16s within a year.

But this goes right as I envisioned when the war began. Russia will have these for oblasts and the NATO expands .. sad state of affairs.
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Russia will absolutely not keep the oblasts, and there’s nothing wrong with NATO expanding.
 
Darius87

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sinnergy said:
But why do you think , they will care ? They don’t .. they will go over 2 million casualties if they want .
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i think wagner was more motivated at dying because other option stay at prison storm z mobics are just hostages of commanders which are hostage of kremlin, there's higher chance that ua breakthrough in south then russia losses 2 million.
 
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Darius87 said:
i think wagner was more motivated at dying because other option stay at prison storm z mobics are just hostages of commanders which are hostage of kremlin, there's higher chance that ua breakthrough in south then russia losses 2 million.
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I wouldn’t be so sure, sadly.
 
winjer

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Russia lost it's seat in the UN World Court.
All the political influence Russia managed to gather in the last decades, is just fading away.


ARussian judge on Thursday lost his re-election bid for the UN’s top court, marking the first time in the legal body's 78-year history that a justice from Russia has not served on the bench.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ), also known as the World Court, was created after the end of World War II to settle disputes between countries.

Five of the 15 sitting ICJ judges are up for re-election every three years.

ICJ Judge Kirill Gevorgian of Russia failed to secure the absolute majority of votes required in both the General Assembly and the Security Council, the UN said Thursday, with Bogdan Aurescu of Romania replacing him as vice president of the court.

Gevorgian’s absence will mark the first time that either Soviet or modern-day Russia will not have any representation in the World Court.
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Liljagare

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Every little bit helps:

According to the document, between February 24, 2022 and October 9, 2023, Czechia transferred:
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  • 4 helicopters manufactured in 2005 and 2006;
  • 62 tanks from 1968, 1977, 1985-1989, 1993;
  • 131 IFVs from 1973-1989, 1993, and 1999;
  • 16 air defense systems from 1973-1993;
  • 47 vehicles from 1977-1993, 1997;
  • 13 self-propelled artillery howitzers, 1980-1986;
  • 84,860 shells for cannons and gun howitzers 1986-1992, 1999-2002;
  • 12 rocket systems from 1977-1985;
  • 4,900 rockets for rocket launchers 2016-2019;
  • 645 anti-tank guided missiles from 1988;
  • 8,022 anti-vehicle launchers from 1991;
  • 128 mortars from 1971-1979;
  • 17,400 mines for 1992-2004 mortars;
  • 4.2 million rounds of handgun ammunition;
  • other equipment.


The moment has come — Ukrainian pilots start training on the F16 aircraft.
Some humor on this topic from @United24Media.
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Sweden also reports training of ground crews and pilots for Griffon, again.


Sea Drones Attack Russian Landing Craft In Crimean Port
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/sea-drones-attack-russian-landing-craft-in-crimean-port
Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence Directorate now says it sunk two ships docked at a port in western Crimea.
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Russians in Kherson complain they are helpless to the continuing advance of Ukrainian forces.



Was reading a interesting report today regarding Leopards and other tanks given from the west to Ukraine, they are really using them smartly, standing off out to 4 km and supporting, just as they were intended to be used by the Swedish armed forces in case of a invasion, thereby maximizing the defence support of the SAAB Barracuda MCS. No Leopard using the Barracuda system has been reported as "lost" yet.

Also, not a single CV90 with Barracuda defence has been hit yet.

It appears they RuSSkies simply can't see them. (source only in swedish),
 
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P:axMagellanic

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Ukraine needs half a million 18-25 yr olds, 500 -preferably a thousand Abrams. And millions of shells. This talk of piecemeal f16s is nonsense.

We can't give them the kids, but we're two years on now and the entire west supposedly can't even get the ammunition situation sorted?

We're at risk of being clowned on here by the likes of North Korea and Iran FFS.
 
winjer

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Bitmap Frogs said:
It's astounding the amount of materiel and personnel russia has burnt in their war. We're talking decades of accumulated build up by the soviets being destroyed in less than two years.
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And the funny part is that they are losing so many ships and aircraft, to a country with barely any navy or airforce.
When Ukraine gets those F16, it's going to be a epic.
 
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Kraz

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Liljagare said:
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Numbers speak for themselves..
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310650 / 10041 = 30.9 personnel loss per apv for the war

1130 / 24 = 47.1 personnel per apv yesterday

At the start of the war the ratio was 10:1 and stayed fairly steady trickling upward about a tenth of a point a week and I speculated the Russian imperial christofascist invaders would keep this up to 50:1(over the war) before being pushed back. After their first mobilization last fall the ratio reached 20 fairly quick before leveling. It's almost 50:1 in the daily ratio now, a number that shows desperation, if it stays steady trickling upward then it's only a short time to 50:1 overall as more signs of their regression show causing accelaration of their losses.
 
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Liljagare

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............. just ...........


There are reports of Ukrainian forces forming another bridgehead north of Hola Prystan.




The Armed Forces of Ukraine expanded their control on the left bank of #DniproRive in the Kherson region in the settlement of #Krynky and north of Pidstepne and other areas arround there.




Frontline report: Russia launched third wave of its offensive in Avdiivka, increasing the number and intensity of attacks.
However, in just the last day, Russia suffered around 800 killed and wounded soldiers in Avdiivka alone out of 1130 total casualties across all fronts.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/11...the-number-and-intensity-of-attacks/?swcfpc=1


Germany is going to double (!) the planned military help for Ukraine for the coming year. Instead of 4 billions of Euro, Germany will send 8 billions of Euro, making it by far the 2nd largest contributor of all military aid to Ukraine.

 
Liljagare

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Did they run out of steam again?



Today the 100th ship departed the Black Sea humanitarian corridor - an export lifeline for Ukraine that has delivered 3.7 million tons of food & goods to the world.




At dawn, the occupiers launched a "meat assault" on the position of the 58th Motorized Brigade [near Staromayorske].
The Russian infantry was covered by armored vehicles. But tanks and armored vehicles, as well as artillery and aviation support, ultimately didn’t help them. In a few hours, the "Russian heroes" fled in disgrace.
Not everyone managed to escape, though—there were about fifty Russian bodies left on the battlefield—some who came to us all the way from the Buryat city of Kyakhta, as part of the 37th "Separate Guard Motorized Rifles of the Budapest Krasnoznamyonnaya, Order of the Red Star of the Don Cossack Brigade named after E. A. Shchadenko."
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Zathalus

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sinnergy said:
And if true, good job. We needed a wake-up call from Russia gas anyway .
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Oh I agree Europe should be weaned off Russian gas, but if this is true the issue is that half of the pipeline is owned by Europe. Reparations might be asked for after the war is over.
 
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Ironbunny

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Zathalus said:
Anyone see the report by the Washington Post and Der Spiegel that Ukraine was responsible for the Nord Stream bombing and it's very likely Zelensky wasn't aware of it?

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Its really a rabbit hole when you start to search who are behind these accusations/articles. Road leads to St. Petersburg.

Zathalus said:
Oh I agree Europe should be weaned off Russian gas, but if this is true the issue is that half of the pipeline is owned by Europe. Reparations might be asked for after the war is over.
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I dont think there will be such things. The financial opportunity in Ukraine for Europe and Western world is so huge that any pipeline sabotage at the time of war will be hushed away..
 
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Liljagare

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In 35 days of the latest offensive RuAF have reportedly lost:

30390 troops
7 Planes
8 Helo
533 Tanks
876 Artillery
957 APC/IFV
74 MLRS
848 log vehicles
36 Anti-air systems
120 Spec equipment platforms.

All they have captured is the yellow area around Avdiivka




(Here's an Economist article from March that estimates that Russia could refurbish about 90 old tanks and build 20 new ones per month).
 
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Liljagare

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dem said:
I don't think its 300k killed.
Casualties include injured. So a far smaller number.
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Estimated 120K dead, 170-180K wounded for the Russkies, reported in August..

All in all, there are around almost half a million casualties so far in the conflict.. :\


The river crossing beach-head appears to cause alot of problems for the RuSSkies, it has pushed the RuSSkie artillery further from the front in the region.




Denmark may block access to markets for oil tankers from Russia.

www.pravda.com.ua

Denmark may block access to markets for oil tankers from Russia

The EU is planning to instruct Denmark to check and potentially block tankers carrying Russian oil passing through its waters amid Western countries’ attempts to set a price ceiling on it, which the Russian Federation has learned to circumvent.
www.pravda.com.ua www.pravda.com.ua

Insane how the oil is *still* flowing!!



This is pretty shamefull, Russia’s killer drones still boast Swiss components. How come?

www.swissinfo.ch

Russia’s killer drones still boast Swiss components. How come?

Ukrainian government documents show that Swiss components made in 2023 are still embedded in Russian drones.
www.swissinfo.ch www.swissinfo.ch
 
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300k Russian troops killed, crazy. Thats like Italy’s troop deaths in freakin World War 2!
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it's a mind-bogglingly large number, I struggle to wrap my head around Russia's level of incompetence, not that it isn't a good thing in this situation, but like no functional country would tolerate these losses
 
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