I think i saw a video of same convoy before the bombing but cant find it anymore..
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I think i saw a video of same convoy before the bombing but cant find it anymore..
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Russian telegram channel "Win-Win":
"A destroyed column of Russian military personnel was hit by ATACMS missiles with a cluster warhead while marching at night. The strike was guided by a drone.
At night, a military airfield in the Lipetsk region was struck by ATACMS and Storm Shadow missiles supported by an aircraft-type UAV.
The day before, Washington, through the mouths of some half-witted women named Singh, gave Kiev the go-ahead to use its missiles on Russian territory.
The United States has already effectively become a party to the conflict.
So what, Comrade General?"
It will end with Russian strategic nuclear missiles flying to the United States. That's what you want, right?
https://t.me/vicktop55/25759
https://x.com/vicktop55/status/1821884191098765362
Volodymyr Zelensky told the newspaper "Le Monde" that he does not rule out holding a referendum on the future of Ukrainian territories to end the war, but "it requires the will of the Ukrainian people."It was and is doubtful that Zelenski really wants to make peace. In talks with the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban he had pointed to a theory of victory over Russia. As Orban explained (machine translation):
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According to the president of the country, Ukraine should not liberate all its territories by "force and weapons," because this option "costs us a lot of time and human lives." Zelensky added: - We can return our territories through diplomatic means. This is another groundbreaking statement from the Ukrainian leader. On July 22, he said in an interview with the BBC that Ukraine is ready to negotiate the end of the war with Russia, even if Vladimir Putin leads the latter. According to the president of Ukraine, the most essential thing in this matter is a genuine desire for peace on terms consistent with international law.
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He added that the "hot" stage of the war could end before the end of 2024, but the peace plan must be fully agreed with Ukraine's allies "so that no one plays with their own initiatives for ending the war."
According to Hungarian Prime Minister Orban, in reality Zelensky assumes that Russia will have to resort to general mobilization in the middle of next year. And this can lead to internal destabilization in the Russian Federation. Therefore, Zelensky is confident that time is playing on the side of Ukraine in the war - as Orban wrote in a letter to EU leaders after meeting with the Ukrainian president. A source in diplomatic circles informed Strana about the existence of such a letter.I find the Zelenski's theory of victory rather fancy.
"As for the outcome of the war, the President of Ukraine is confident that the Russian armed forces will be forced to resort to general mobilization in the middle of next year, which will lead to internal destabilization. He believes that the Ukrainian forces are stable, prepared and able to maintain combat effectiveness even in the long term, if Western arms supplies continue. He believes that time is on the side of Ukraine, not on the side of Russia," the letter says.
At the same time, Orban notes that Putin's assessment of the situation is diametrically opposed. The Russian President believes that time is on Russia's side.
Ukraine has said nothing about the mission or its goals. Theories abound, from an attempt to seize territory as a potential bargaining chip in future negotiations with Moscow, to a diversionary tactic to ease pressure on stretched defenses in Ukraine by drawing Russian forces away from the frontline.But the Bloomberg writer comes up with a different theory - that the attack was made to unbalance Russia:
The episode exposed the fragility of Russian border defenses with growing numbers of its soldiers fighting in Ukraine. It has boosted Ukrainian morale. And it has also punctured the Kremlin’s carefully constructed image of Putin as the protector of ordinary Russians.The daily summary author at Strana suspects an only slightly different motive (machine translation):
Instead, the war he started in Ukraine now spills increasingly into Russia, where people in border regions live under constant risk of shelling and drones strike key industrial facilities.
For Ukraine, it’s likely to bolster Kyiv’s argument that US and European allies shouldn’t fear Kremlin threats of escalation and that it should be allowed to take the fight to Putin in any way it sees fit to hasten an end to the war.
Much indicates that Kiev's real strategy is quite different – to wage a long war in the hope of internal destabilization in the Russian Federation. And here the task is to convince Western partners (including such skeptical ones as Trump) that this is not a dream, but a real calculation. Therefore, Ukraine should not be pushed to negotiate, but give the Armed Forces of Ukraine more weapons and lift restrictions on missiles. The offensive in the Kursk region, apparently, is designed to prove this to the West.In an interview last night, the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine (and brain behind Zelenski), Andrey Yermak seemed to confirm that view (video).
Ahead of the U.S. presidential election, Ukraine is working with the Democratic and Republican parties to keep them aware of the developments in Ukraine. This was stated by the Head of the Ukrainian President's Office, Andriy Yermak, who spoke in an interview with European Pravda, Ukrinform reports.The plan in Kiev is not to negotiate but to prolong the war and to convince the west to further finance it. This would have the advantage of moving billions of additional dollar from western sources into the various pockets in Kiev with Zelenski and Yermak cashing in the largest share of it.
"We are working today both with people from the team of candidate Donald Trump, and – even before the nomination – with Vice President Kamala Harris, who is already a candidate from the Democratic Party. It is very important for us that both headquarters, both candidates and those around them clearly understand what is happening in Ukraine, that they clearly understand the current stage of the war and our strategy. I believe it is very important that both candidates have a plan for Ukraine's victory," he said.
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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Kherson direction:
For the second time in a week, the AFU attempted to land an assault group in the west of the Kherson region, this time on the Kinburn Peninsula.
▪️The goal of the operation was to capture the marine terminal building and secure a bridgehead for further landings.
By 7 a.m. the threat from the enemy was eliminated: one of the boats with the landing group was destroyed, and the rest withdrew.
https://x.com/rybar_force/status/1821867644133257604
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🔻In the Korenevo district, the AFU did not attempt a breakthrough: as of this morning, there was no fighting near Korenevo, but the sounds of explosions were still heard near the village.
▪️Russian units counterattacked in the direction of Malaya Loknya. At the moment, clashes are continuing, and air and artillery strikes are being carried out against the identified enemy positions.
▪️At night the AFU hit a Russian convoy with HIMARS MLRS near Oktyabr'skii, east of Rylsk. Later, Federal Security Service officers promptly identified and detained a 48-year-old local resident who deliberately filmed the results of the incoming strike and transmitted them to Ukrainian media resources.
The Russian command continues to transfer forces to Korenevo and Sudzha districts - observers confirm a noticeably increased presence of troops in the area where a few days ago there were none at all. At the same time, the configuration of the front is in some places unclear both because of the shortage of objective control and the pressing problems with management and communications.
📌 Russian troops have also increased the intensity of strikes on the border areas of Sumy Region, where a significant concentration of the AFU remains. According to local authorities, over the last two days alone, the Russian Air Force dropped over a hundred gliding bombs on the region.
❗️It is very premature to draw conclusions about the stabilization of the situation - the fighting in Kursk region continues, the enemy is introducing new forces and still has the opportunity to strike at another section of the state border. At the same time, the Ukrainian armed forces are entrenched on the captured frontiers, and the Russian troops arriving in the area will only have to drive them out of there.
https://x.com/rybar_force/status/1821866250332405996
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 The crests publish a video of an attack on our column in the Kursk region.
https://x.com/TobiAyodele/status/1821945846646092264
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🇷🇺🇺🇦And again TikTok victory!
The VSU soldiers are caught red-handed.
As we said, the fighting is taking place on the western outskirts of Sudzha. The Gazprom office building in the video is located there.
In addition to this, in the comments on the Ukrainian channels, the crests themselves write that the video is from yesterday. What could this mean?
It seems that something is not going according to plan for the crests, because “information hygiene” is a thing of the past. 🐽
https://x.com/TobiAyodele/status/1821954809232040134
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🇷🇺 🇷🇺Sudzha is not under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, said the city's head, Vitaly Slashchev. I told you folks Ukraine are just releasing propaganda clip from yesterday .
https://x.com/TobiAyodele/status/1821954386257408323
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❗️Key statements by the Russian Defense Ministry concerning the situation in the Kursk region:
▪️Russian soldiers struck Ukrainian manpower and equipment in the areas of Darino, Gogolevka, Melovoy, Nikolsky settlements, and the western outskirts of Sudzha.
▪️In the Yuzhny area, the Russian Army Aviation destroyed five Stryker armored personnel carriers; in the settlement of Martynovka. Russian troops eliminated a Ukrainian column comprising a tank, four armored personnel carriers and a Kozak armored combat vehicle.
▪️Russian aviation and missile forces defeated Ukrainian reserves on the territory of the Sumy region.
▪️During the day, Ukrainian losses amounted to more than 280 militants and 27 armored vehicles, including four tanks, five armored personnel carriers, 18 armored combat vehicles, as well as six vehicles, a 155 mm M777 howitzer, a 155 mm self-propelled artillery "Krab", and a 152 mm D-20 gun.
▪️In total, during the fighting in the Kursk region, the enemy lost up to 945 military personnel and 102 armored vehicles, including 12 tanks, 17 armored personnel carriers, six infantry fighting vehicles, 67 armored combat vehicles, as well as 12 vehicles, two self-propelled fire launchers of the Buk M1 anti-aircraft missile system, and three field artillery guns.
▪️The operation to destroy Ukrainian formations continues.
https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1821833575714484286
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❗️Ukraine’s attempted incursion into Russia’s Kursk region: What’s known so far
The operation to destroy Ukrainian forces that attempted to invade Russia’s Kursk region continues, with Russian forces thwarting attempts by Ukrainian troops to move deeper into the territory, Russia's Ministry of Defense said.
▪️Сolumns with Grad MLRS, towed artillery guns, tanks transported on trawls, and heavy tracked vehicles are heading to the Kursk region to build up the forces currently engaged in fighting against Ukraine's units in the Sudzha district.
▪️Earlier in the day, Russian soldiers destroyed Ukrainian troops and equipment in the areas of Darino, Gogolevka, Melovoy, Nikolsky settlements, and the western outskirts of Sudzha.
▪️In the past 24 hours, Ukrainian losses amounted to more than 280 militants and 27 armored vehicles, including four tanks.
▪️In total, during the fighting in the Kursk region, Ukraine has lost up to 945 military personnel and 102 armored vehicles, including 12 tanks, 17 armored personnel carriers, six infantry fighting vehicles, 67 armored combat vehicles, as well as two self-propelled fire launchers of the Buk M1 anti-aircraft missile system, plus three field artillery guns.
▪️The situation in the Kursk region has been recognized as an emergency at the federal level due to the attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the press office of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies told Sputnik.
▪️The operational situation in the region remained complicated, with local authorities taking additional security measures to evacuate people from hostilities-hit areas, Acting Kursk region Governor Alexei Smirnov wrote on Telegram.
▪️Heavy fighting persists near the city of Kurchatov, where a nuclear power plant is located, Mayor Igor Korpunkov pointed out, adding that the city administration is working as usual.
The Kursk region, which borders Ukraine in Russia’s western part, was attacked by about 1,000 Ukrainian troops and scores of armed vehicles on August 6. Russian troops swiftly retaliated by stopping the Ukrainian military from penetrating deep into Russian territory.
https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1821864697173299586
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Russia's Defense Ministry says build-up of forces engaged in active clashes against Ukraine's units in Sudzha district of the Russian Kursk region is underway
In columns heading to the districts of the Kursk region, there are Grad MLRS, towed artillery guns, tanks transported on trawls, and heavy tracked vehicles being transported.
There is a build-up of forces conducting active hostilities with Ukrainian formations in the Sudzha district of the Kursk region, the Russian MoD informed.
https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1821859219353559492
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Apti Alaudinov: “Some leaders of the Ministry of Defense lied and lied, so much so that in the end they deceived themselves.”
We even know which ones and why. The same ones who set up the Wagners and Surovikin with Mezintsev. And the same ones who arranged the showdowns within the RF Ministry of Defense that led to the arrests of ZMO. And those who locked up the combat general Popov.
But there is no time to sort this out now. First, the Kursk region needs to be cleaned up.
https://x.com/GeromanAT/status/1821963095821984044
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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦💀 Statement by the Wagner Group Commanders' Council on the situation in the Kursk region
From the very first day, from the very first combat mission, we had only one goal - to defend the interests of the Motherland, to help Russia prosper and to protect the Russian people. And we are ready to stand for this to the last drop of blood.
We declare the following:
Our forces are ready to come to the aid of the Motherland and deploy into combat formations at the first call. As it has always been.
WAGNER GROUP
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