Even I ,an armchair general , would have expected this potentiality occurring ie US entering the war. If so, why did Russia have an SMO at all? You either have a plan , or you shut up and take it. I know Russia relies on bluff as does the US , but surely we need more than just bluff to be relatively likely to win a war. Yes, wars have been won just on bluff ,but you sure hope you have a good chance of winning or causing your enemy a lot of pain ,BEFORE you start firing a shot in anger.
Way too many mistakes for my liking , the main one being fighting with one arm tied behind your back- maybe not any fatal, but in combination? A death of a thousand cuts that may bring Russia to its knees and us reasonable sincere barflies with it .

Posted by: Brother Ma | Nov 10 2022 8:08 utc | 404

The people in Kherson have lost their jobs and homes because of Putin. He dipped his toe in war and thought he could win that way. He refused to even call it “war”.
“We prioritize the lives of our soldiers” means “we don’t give a shit about anyone else who gets caught in this”.
Until this fall, all the fighting in Donbass was done by the men in Donbass. The Russians only handled artillery.

Posted by: Hegar | Nov 10 2022 8:16 utc | 406

Posted by: Down South | Nov 10 2022 7:36 utc | 460

What is noteworthy about the Russian withdrawal from Kherson is that it was not done under fire or attack. It was calm and orderly an apparently was pre-planned. Perhaps this explains the rumors that circulated a few weeks back that Russia was going to leave Kherson city.

So, contrary to what a lot of NAFO trolls and their retarded hangers-on on this forum are claiming, there was no “fall of Kherson”.
There is an army:
– intact,
– unharmed,
– undefeated in actual battle
repositioning itself very close to the city for reasons that will unfold clearly within the coming week.
What the demented ADH-afflicted drama queens who keep wailing about the mythical “fall of Kherson” are too retarded to ask is:
“What happens if the AFU moves into Kherson City? What next”

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 10 2022 8:20 utc | 408

Don Bacon @ 414

@ LightYearsFromHome – The trolls are throwing their shit like monkeys from a cage
So you’re in a cage?

I’m not a monkey, just a visitor. It’s feeding time, here’s a banana.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Nov 10 2022 8:23 utc | 410

Posted by: averros | Nov 10 2022 7:15 utc | 444
“And if you want something better than corporatism (aka state capitalism) read Murray Rothbard.”
Correct.
Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Nov 10 2022 8:18 utc | 472
“I’m just an old, grumpy, idealistic, irritable, depressed insomniac.”
So am I.
Also, Martyanov deflected from responding to my points, as I knew he would. He seized on one sentence and dismissed me like he does everyone. Well, in my case, this is not acceptable. I made specific points and if he can’t answer them, he’s doing copium, I don’t care how much knowledge he has about operational art (which I respect greatly – but not at the expense of bullshit.)

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Nov 10 2022 8:25 utc | 412

@Tenet | Nov 10 2022 7:21 utc | 447

a PR victory will lead to more and more Western funding for Ukraine.

So, with many Twitter posts, you suddenly have a lot of money to spare?
There is something called reality lurking here. Btw., nice palindrome moniker.

Posted by: Norwegian | Nov 10 2022 8:45 utc | 414

There is an army:
– intact,
– unharmed,
– undefeated in actual battle
repositioning itself very close to the city for reasons that will unfold clearly within the coming week.
Arch Bungle | Nov 10 2022 8:20 utc | 474
Thousands died for nothing, it’s far from intact or unharmed. Even 1:10 ratio is embarrassing. This isn’t a tactical move, it’s surrender. They’re not going back and it won’t be the last retreat.
The combination of retards (I hope not traitors) in general staff and government shows that nato can easily defeat Russia without using their own soldiers and modern weapons.
Please name a single thing Russia achieved after almost a year. Don’t say economic pressure on EU because that is purely EU’s own mistake. Don’t say it’s draining nato weapons because most of them were Soviet and US is already selling replacements at great profit. The killed nazis are also the result of idiots in nato, forcing them to attack until the last one.
So show me something that was created by a Russian general and that was successful in Ukr, achieved some goal. Show me where are the new 300k recruits and what is the result of their work. “training”, right…
“Russia’s latest decision to pull its forces back from Kherson is a positive moment (…) Turkey will continue its mediation efforts to resolve the conflict in Ukraine” – Erdogan.

Posted by: rk | Nov 10 2022 9:00 utc | 416

What is this obsession with Martyanov. ?
He has proven himself an ill-informed, irascible, irrelevant, almost certainly irredeemably flatulent, old fart.
Posted by: Melaleuca | Nov 10 2022 4:58 utc | 415

I think Mr. Martyanov is well informed and insightful. He has interesting insights into the mathematical nature of a land war, and he’s quite correct that the U.S. military has little expertise in a land war.
Yes, he’s irascible (and quite amusing), certainly not irrelevant, and with age comes wisdom (and he often expresses wisdom).

Posted by: Contrarian_Ed | Nov 10 2022 9:02 utc | 418

Kherson was taken and held, primarily to guard Crimea.
That even Kadyrov and Prigozhin can see that, is my guess.
Surovikin did put this move (pulling out of Kherson) on the table as his precondition to accept to take over as head of the Ukrainian theater. So this does not come as a surprise, even if it doesn’t add up (in my mind at least).
That the US might have successfully blackmailed (or bargained) Russia into doing this, is wild guess at this point. Doesn’t sound plausible.
Other obvious explanation is the simple one : impossibility to hold the position any longer. Everyone can accept that. As a fact. If this is as things stand on the ground.
Only, this explanation doesn’t tally with the Russian new commander hinting very strongly at it a month ago.

Posted by: lahire | Nov 10 2022 9:14 utc | 420

Napoleon took Moscow, waited for the Czar to surrender & then Moscow burned with no word from the Czar.
Only 2 of every 12 French soldiers made it home.
Posted by: Triple X MagnumMAGA | Nov 10 2022 5:00 utc | 416

I’m sure General Surovikin is very familiar with the history of the abandonment of Moscow in 1812 to Napoleon, which was a major factor leading to Napoleon’s defeat. Napoleon didn’t have to fight for Moscow, the Russian army and civilians retreated before he arrived.
The temporary abandonment of Kherson seems to be a similar strategy, and will similarly lead to the defeat of Ukraine.

Posted by: Contrarian_Ed | Nov 10 2022 9:18 utc | 422

The intensification of the information war that invariably happens in these situations (cf. Kharkov) is instructive. The most eloquent information warriors clearly show their cards, demonstrate what is in their minds and hearts. Not the war, but the information war.
Their triumph is not about what is happening on the ground, but concerns the battle against the pro-Russian analysts. See, we have won, they say, against Larry, Smoothie, Saker, b. People will see, people will think, that we are right! We earn our pay.
Unfortunately, for you, no. The battle is not about minds anymore. What we do and say here mean little or nothing to Russia, China, India, RoW, and even the West. It does not matter what people think. In weeks, they will have forgotten. You won’t win against reality with words anymore.

Posted by: veto | Nov 10 2022 9:19 utc | 424

I suggest the new moniker of “Baghdad Andrei” to collectively address the one sided Russia fanboy brigade.
Feel free to use it and see if it catches on.
It honours the proto war bs artist “Baghdad Bob” aka former Gulf War Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, while using the first name of the 2 worst known offenders in the blogosphere.

Posted by: Et Tu | Nov 10 2022 9:20 utc | 426

worth repeating in case it was missed
#Donetsk Direction:
▪️ AFU militants shelled the #Donetsk agglomeration once again. The capital of the DPR, #Makeevka, #Gorlovka, #Staromikhailovka, #Golmovsky and #Yakovlevka were attacked.
▪️ After yesterday’s AFU attack on a power substation in #Yasynuvata, authorities called on citizens to limit electricity consumption and said they are prepared to introduce regular rolling blackouts.
The Russian Military cannot protect citizens or infrastructure of Russia from ongoing Ukraine attacks. Not in Donetsk, not in Crimea, not in Belgorod, and not in Luhansk nor in Kherson.

Sergei Surovikin said that the RF Armed Forces are resisting all attempts to attack the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this direction, the enemy has suffered heavy losses. Russian air defense systems shoot down up to 80-90% of enemy missiles in the Kherson direction, but 20% of them still reach their targets.
From August to October, the Russian army have lost (approx 1,900 people) in the Kherson defense. AFU maybe 9500.
More than 115 thousand people left the area of ​​hostilities in the Kherson region.
https://t-me.translate.goog/rybar/41018?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp

War is Hell. So is a SMO by the look of it.

Posted by: SeanAU | Nov 10 2022 9:37 utc | 428

@ Arch Bungle
Putin has fought and won more wars than any leader alive today.
You are saying Putin is a warmonger? Just what the world neither needs nor wants 🙂
Oh, and my posts were blocked from showing a while back after I posted that it looks like the Russians would fall back from Kherson and Ukraine would take the city. Seems karma is a bitch. Wonder if this post will make it?

Posted by: Tom UK (again) | Nov 10 2022 9:39 utc | 430

Yuri Podolyaka on the situation on the fronts:
– It is very difficult to fight across the Dnieper. The main battles will now fall on the section from Ugledar to Svatov. The front of active hostilities will be reduced. Both we and the enemy will transfer their troops. Our weak point is that the Armed Forces of Ukraine operate on domestic operational lines. It will take a week for the Ukrainians to transfer troops from Kharkov to Kherson. We need 3-4 weeks for this. Maneuvering, the enemy always has an advantage
– If we stabilize Kherson along the left bank, the advantage in communications will go away. Now we are surrendering the city, but we are getting the opportunity for new strikes this winter. Artillery and drones will continue to operate. There is no point in aviation in passive sections

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/19489

Posted by: Down South | Nov 10 2022 9:42 utc | 432

lahire @ 488

Other obvious explanation is the simple one : impossibility to hold the position any longer. Everyone can accept that. As a fact. If this is as things stand on the ground.

Sitting around the bar talking all options are viable, but if you’re betting a bottle of Remy for the crowd safe bet is to go with the simple explanation.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Nov 10 2022 9:49 utc | 434

harryash | Nov 10 2022 9:28 utc | 496
They can’t do anyting from the sea, too many mines and drones and anti-ship missiles. Another retarded Russian general lost Moskva that way. No one will go to Odessa, there’s no need to talk about it.
China, Turkey and probably India will milk Russia for everything for free/cheap now. Russia simply moved from being a slave for West to a slave for East.
And where is that proof about UK and NS1/2? Did they exchange silence for something already? Or it wasn’t real?

Posted by: rk | Nov 10 2022 9:52 utc | 436

Evacuating the citizens to remove them from flooding danger, and reinforcing the defensive line on the side of the river you can reliably and more easily resupply look like the practical and strategic move to me.
I would anticipate a lot of AFU vehicles are going to be taking a quick trip into the city’s sewers when they roll into town.

Posted by: Gt Stroller | Nov 10 2022 10:01 utc | 438

Void-Infinite @ 506

I think it is not a bad decision.

“Think nothing, listen to the rustle of the autumn leaves” Joe Tzu.
It’s a very pragmatic decision, without knowing the inside details but knowing the value of what RF is giving up I’d say it was their only option, Surovikin appears to have seen it from his first day on the job, which is a good sign. Whether this pragmatic decision pays off or just continues a list of failures is anyone’s guess. For now observers only have their sentiments.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Nov 10 2022 10:05 utc | 440

Looks like the Jew-haters are out in force, trying hard to discredit this fine site with their heinous bile.

Posted by: CM of Berlin | Nov 10 2022 10:19 utc | 442

Posted by: SeanAU | Nov 10 2022 9:43 utc | 502
Exactly.

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Nov 10 2022 10:28 utc | 444

Posted by: Gt Stroller | Nov 10 2022 10:01 utc | 508
The flooding threat is way over now. The Russians have had ample time to remove the excess water before the Ukros cause dam destruction . I remember the exact dates being mentioned at the time at which point flooding from a destroyed dam would be way too unlikely.
Posted by: Void-Infinite | Nov 10 2022 9:52 utc | 506
We have heard that many a time. The ukies will get slaughtered. We heard they will be slaughtered once the Russians left Kiev, we heard they would be slaughtered once they left Kharkov, Liman etc Now we hear they will be slaughtered at Kherson. The cauldrons will boil them … yet it never happens. Sure ,we hear about all these Ukies being slaughtered yet new armies of ukies appear out of nowhere. Why ?

Posted by: Brother Ma | Nov 10 2022 10:30 utc | 446

I think there is a deal in the works between the US and Russia. Pulling back from Kherson is part of that deal, that is not a military necessity. Russia will keep all other gained territories, but wont go further, eg Kharkov and Odessa wills tay Ukrainian. The US will go back to Russia’s proposal from december 2021: Pullback to end of Cold War lines wont happen, but further NATO enlargments wont happen neither, eg Georgia and Ukraine will be lost in a status quo ante.
Ukraine will be the biggest loser, 100k dead, power grid destroyed, economically done. Ppl will flee from the country to either Russia or EU. It will be a wasteland. Second loser will be EU, since Russian natural gas and oil wont come back. BRICS is emerging and these markets will get Russian commodities, especially China and India. EU will be priced out from world markets, since they cant produce goods as cheap as China or even US.

Posted by: Arne Hartmann | Nov 10 2022 10:45 utc | 448

1. Wars are fought to achieve political ends.
2. Battlefield tactical events are not wars and no, they do not make wars.
3. Logistics, industrial economy, political support of allies, munitioms and morale–not territorial turnover–are critical for maintaining the operational supremacy and escalatory dominance required to leverage combined arms war to achieve a political end.
When you hold in your mind at once these three laws of war, it is clear who is “winning in Ukraine.”

Posted by: TGL | Nov 10 2022 10:55 utc | 450

Peter AU1 | Nov 10 2022 7:42 utc | 462
Interesting take. The freebies have to run out sometime for the ukies.
That would mean than the Corporation/Oligarchs, have decided that they are not going to get the profits they had imagined, and worse, from now on a black (green shirted) hole cannot deliver. The only ones still profiting from the Ukrainian war are the US Military/industrial complex.
Done deal in Ukraine? I am not sure, yet it may be possible. If so the recent attacks on food and fuel supplies to Lebanon via Syria, and on a fuel tanker with free oil off Lebanon (30 dead?), possibly by Israeli F-35’s (plus US Embassy statements), are signs that the Israelis are trying to keep the US on board for future wars in the middle east. “Agreements” with Russia might start a trend.
So a “pivot” to China may still not yet be on the cards?

Posted by: Stonebird | Nov 10 2022 11:08 utc | 452

Future generations- supposing that they exist- will wonder at the effects that waves of computer games had on the minds of our population.
Never having played any of them I am not in a position to do anything more than guess that they tend to erase moral sensibilities and lead to an obsession with short term outcomes.
I have not read all of the posts in this thread but I have read enough to notice the childish outrage from commenters who feel let down by Russia’s refusal to deliver them the swift and decisive battlefield outcomes that would allow them to howl “I told you so!!” in the ears of those-family, perhaps, or colleagues at work or playschool who have been slightly less critical in their absorption of NATO propaganda.
In Belgium yesterday there was a nationwide strike -see Gilbert Doctorow- protesting against the burgeoning and west wide depression. It was not a General Strike, the Unions are cautious to the point of political impotence and reluctant to contradict the Mighty Wurlitzer, but those are coming.
They would be here already were it not for the sterling work of social democrats and business union bureaucrats in promoting imperialism. But strikes are coming, as are changes in a political landscape in which the traditional working class movement has been taken over and hollowed out by imperialist agents and ideology.
The outcome of the conflict in Ukraine is not finally decided. But the context within which it will be is political- the working people of the NATO countries and their allies have been told that they must be prepared, out of solidarity with others, to make sacrifices for the suffering people of Ukraine. The extent of those sacrifices is only now beginning to become apparent. The blank cheques signed on behalf of every family in Europe are starting to be debited from household accounts. And this is just a beginning- the heating bills, the costs of personal transport and the mark up on everything in the supermarket aisles.
Next will come the adjustments needed to cover the costs of the hundreds of billions being pumped into the warzone in the form of arms, munitions, personnel and such services as training or, for that matter, the avalanches of propaganda in which society wallows. Signs of what this will amount to can be seen in central bank ‘responses’ to inflation.
Already the effects of higher mortgage rates can be seen in declining house prices- a mixed blessing in that they imply large capital losses to homeowners while being of little benefit to home buyers with mortgages. It is a lose, lose situation for all but the rentiers.
This in its turn is going to lead to depressed demand and either unemployment or rapidly declining living standards.
All of which, and more, are bound to lead to disillusionment regarding the war. The Butcher’s Bill is beginning to add up: of actual dead and wounded there are, as yet, very few. But there will be deaths, large numbers of them, as access to healthcare and adequate diets decline quickly, as the quality of ‘care’ programmes falls in the form of less cleaning, less nursing hours, quicker ‘pull the plug’ decision making. All through society services will become more expensive, less accessible. Education will cost more. The vast panoply of ‘privatised’ sub-contracted services, from prisons to probation services, will be subject to ‘economies’ as the need to maintain profits requires cutbacks and cheaper purchases just as prices are rising.
We are only scratching at the surface. And while it is possible that a stoic populace will simply steel itself to suffer for the innocent victims that Zelensky leads and the Azov Brigades drill into obedience, it is more likely that increasing numbers will blame ‘the war’ for their troubles- the higher prices in the market, the unavailability of surgical procedures, the need to postpone long anticipated vacations or retirement, the sacrificing of a University education in order to earn a living…
Wars, in the final analysis, are about much more than battles and positional jockeying, they are about the willingness and capacity to support armies and to supply them and reinforce them.
What this means in the current conflict is that the real questions have to so with what Russians feel about the war-do they see it as crucial to their future? Do they see it as having been forced upon them by their enemies? Or do they see it as ‘Putin’s war’? I suspect that they know better, and that, if they don’t, the truth will become apparent.
And that the opposite is the case in the “west.” Here it will become increasingly clear that far from wanting war, Putin and Russia did everything in their power-short of surrender and suicide- to prevent war. And that everything-perhaps too much- has been done to mitigate its pain.
People in the west will come to see, as reality forces them to think about the causes of their problems, that far from being an embattled ‘democracy’ the state that they are sacrificing so much to save, is a sordid rathole of fascists and criminal kleptocrats drooling over the ‘aid’ they get from NATO. That, far from being a persecuted minority, victimised by Russian chauvinism, they are a nasty gang of bullies torturing people for speaking their own languages and killing any daring to protest.
There comes a point-some will remember it from Vietnam- when all the propaganda in the world dissolves into reality. When the Imperial wardrobe becomes obscenely transparent and the actual nature of the powers that be, hideous and impotent, is revealed.

Posted by: bevin | Nov 10 2022 11:13 utc | 454

1. Wars are fought to achieve political ends.
2. Battlefield tactical events are not wars
3. Logistics, industrial economy, political support of allies, munitions and morale–not territorial turnover–are critical for maintaining the operational supremacy
When you hold in your mind at once these three laws of war, it is clear who is “winning in Ukraine.”
Posted by: TGL | Nov 10 2022 10:55 utc | 508
1 – Putin had no political reason, it was demilitarization of Ukr. He failed and now there’s terrorism added to artillery. Nato wanted a political end, destabilize Russia for many decades and regime change. So far it worked and regime change will come.
2 – If all battles are failures the war will also fail. Remind me where is general Baldie winning? He’s been losing thousands of soldiers, many civilians and territory since he was put in charge.
3 – nazis have infinite weapons and money, less than 100k dead and tens of thousands of mercenaries. Russia has none of those and they seem to have no drones left from Iran. And nato hasn’t even started yet.

Posted by: rk | Nov 10 2022 12:06 utc | 456

USA has already lost. I live in the northeast USA. My heating bill has more than doubled and so has my electric bill. Forget about Europe. The USA is going to suffer a serious economic collapse this winter.

Posted by: Kurt | Nov 10 2022 12:54 utc | 458

Trolls having a second field day indeed. In March Russia was out of precision missiles, now they are out of “Iranian drones”, tomorrow they probably haven’t a single tank left….well whatever! But what I find hard to understand is why these nagging Xanthippe’s keep posting here, like mice running in the same threadmill perpetually. They must obviously get paid for it (somewhat, because I don’t believe their bosses are that generous), but what a life they lead: repeating the same stuff over and over again, looking at a little propaganda robot in the mirror. Well at what time did Goebbels realise that he couldn’t make his propaganda true, maybe in 1941 already or in 1942 at the very latest? He still kept going strongly for some time…So this may be dreadful: we may be stuck by all the trolls here for ages still – enough to sour all the wine in the bar one would fear…! OK, let’s ignore them and hope the Russians next winter have some mercy on our energy bills…they sure won’t have mercy on the American and Polish mercenaries in the Ukrainian mud…

Posted by: Anthony | Nov 10 2022 13:33 utc | 460

@ red 481
‘The jew Red’.
It sounds quite fanatical to call all nazis jews. You have to stick to the definition, and then even a jewish father does not count.
Also I pay some attention to the ethnic origin of people of power and influence, since there is indeed a suspect overrepresentation of the tribe in these circles. But no more than that because I like to judge people by their actions and ideas. As long as people don’t think they are exceptional or the chosen people they just are people, like you and me.

Posted by: Rootman | Nov 10 2022 13:44 utc | 462

@401 The 1812 battle of Borodino was the deadliest ‘modern’ battle (French lost 30,000, the Russians 44,000) till the WW1. It was vicious affair Napoleon had to commit his reserve cavalry. The battle was a draw , basically, but the Russians did retreat so you can say it was a French victory , really a Pyric victory.
Only a few hundred Russians were taken as prisoners.
At the end of the day Nappy now held the lines that the Russians has defended from before him , but he was amazed when they stopped at a ridgeline immediately to the rear and prepared themselves for more fighting. The sun was setting so Napoleon decided to stand pat.
Napoleon wrote later in his memoirs, “The most terrible of my battles was the one before Moscow. The French showed themselves worthy of victory , but the Russians showed themselves worthy of being invincible”

Posted by: canuck | Nov 10 2022 14:13 utc | 464

Posted by: SeanAU | Nov 10 2022 2:35 utc | 348
RF intervened primarily to stop the killing and cultural destruction of Russian speaking population in the East of Ukraine. So no, the Azov types and the rest of Ukrainian population are not innocent, even if brainwashed.

Posted by: RB | Nov 10 2022 14:38 utc | 466

Posted by: Don Bacon | Nov 10 2022 4:29 utc | 407
Business Insider? You might as well cite the Military Industrial Complex Weekly.
Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Nov 10 2022 4:40 utc | 403
Bacon is a troll and a jerk.

Posted by: RB | Nov 10 2022 15:26 utc | 468

Opport Knocks@530
Schumpeter perhaps?
This isn’t the first ‘back to basics’ call from a neo-liberal on this thread but it looks as if it will be the last.
What is it about taking the economy out of the invisible hands of Providence and employing it as a set of tools for the benefit of humanity and the rehabilitation of the environment that is so difficult to grasp?

Posted by: bevin | Nov 10 2022 17:12 utc | 470

Don Keytale @514–
In no way did I disappear. I do have other responsibilities in my life that outrank commenting on MoA. And those of us who’ve been here for years know exactly who you are despite your childish attempt to cloak yourself. And that’s all the effort I’ll devote to you, for you are more than worthless–just another piece of Clinton.

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 10 2022 17:17 utc | 472

The Russians have evacuated the remains of Prince Potemkin – just like the Nazis removed the remains of General Hindenburg from East Prussia in 1944.

Posted by: paul | Nov 10 2022 19:37 utc | 474

What is it about taking the economy out of the invisible hands of Providence and employing it as a set of tools for the benefit of humanity and the rehabilitation of the environment that is so difficult to grasp?
Posted by: bevin | Nov 10 2022 17:12 utc | 529

The economy was never in the “invisible hands of Providence”, it remains the product of billions of individual and collective decisions made every day. Marshalling the individuals to support a “master planned” collective is the essence of fascism, or at least a road to serfdom for the majority.

Posted by: Opport Knocks | Nov 11 2022 4:35 utc | 476

⚡️ Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine (12 November 2022)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
💥 In Kupyansk direction, 2 enemy battalion tactical groups made attempts to attack Russian units towards Vladimirovka and Kuzemovka (Lugansk People’s Republic).
◽️ Comprehensive firepower operation has resulted in halting and driving the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) back to their initial positions.
◽️ Moreover, 1 company tactical group of the AFU has been neutralised near Peschanoye (Kharkov region).
The enemy has lost a total of over 160 personnel, 6 tanks, and 9 armoured fighting vehicles in the abovementioned direction.
💥 In Krasny Liman direction, intensive action of Russian forces has resulted in the prevention of attacks intended to be launched by 4 company tactical groups of the AFU towards Svatovo, Ploshchanka, Makeyevka and Chervonopopovka (Lugansk People’s Republic).
◽️ Attacks launched by Russian artillery and Army Aviation have resulted in the elimination of over 190 Ukrainian personnel, 1 tank, 6 armoured fighting vehicles, and 5 motor vehicles.
💥 In South Donetsk direction, foreign mercenaries attempted to halt the advance of Russian forces by counterattacks towards Stepnoye, Vladimirovka and Pavlovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).
◽️ Operation of artillery and Army Aviation has resulted in the elimination of over 85 militants, 7 armoured fighting vehicles, and 2 pickups.
💥 Operational-Tactical and Army Aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery have neutralised 4 AFU command posts near Gavrilovka, Aleksandrovka (Kherson region), Zhovtnevoye (Nikolayev region) and Cherneshchina (Kharkov region), as well as 58 artillery units at their firing positions, manpower and hardware in 236 areas.
◽️ 2 U.S.-manufactured AN/TPQ-50 and AN/TPQ-36 counterbattery warfare radars have been destroyed near Lozovaya (Kharkov region) and Zelyonaya Dolina (Donetsk People’s Republic).
◽️ 1 ordnance depot of 44th Artillery Brigade of the AFU has been destroyed near Varvarovka (Zaporozhye region).
◽️ 1 armament and hardware depot has been destroyed near Peschanoye (Kharkov region).
💥 Within the counterbattery warfare, 1 battery of U.S.-manufactured M-777 artillery systems has been neutralised near Kruglyakovka (Kharkov region).
✈️ Fighter Aviation of Russian Aerospace Forces has shot down 1 Mi-8 helicopter of Ukrainian Air Force near Yasnaya Polyana (Zaporozhye region).
💥 Air defence facilities have shot down 6 unmanned aerial vehicles near Novaya Tarasovka (Kharkov region), Petrovskoye, Kirillovka (Donetsk People’s Republic) and Chistopolye (Zaporozhye region).
◽️ Moreover, 3 rocket-propelled projectiles launched by HIMARS and Olkha multiple-launch rocket systems have been intercepted near Novaya Kakhovka, Novaya Mayachka (Kherson region) and Volnovakha (Donetsk People’s Republic).
📊 In total, 333 airplanes and 175 helicopters, 2,492 unmanned aerial vehicles, 388 air defence missile systems, 6,550 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 886 fighting vehicles equipped with MLRS, 3,574 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 7,187 units of special military hardware have been destroyed during the special military operation.

Posted by: Summary | Nov 12 2022 12:15 utc | 478

“road to serfdom for the majority”
The road to serfdom is for the rulers to NOT be thoroughly and immediately accountable to the ruled. When you have a class system, that is. “Inequality before the law.” Of course the law has been corrupted now, so you are on your own here. Good luck.
Nothing is more destructive to public morality for some, than the thought that you will be able to get away with it.

Posted by: Bemildred | Nov 12 2022 12:36 utc | 480

Oops.
Meant to observe that appears that Russia is down but recovering, europe is down and accelerating downward and US is about even but in danger of sudden and rapid decline.
This must have Blinkens attention if not Bidens – US in a corner.

Posted by: jared | Nov 12 2022 15:46 utc | 482

Does anyone out there study language? Noam Chomsky: The three views of language which shape instruction in reading and writing are the prescriptive, psycholinguistic, and sociolinguistic. Psycholinguistics is the study of the mental aspects of language and speech. It is primarily concerned with the ways in which language is represented and processed in the brain.
In military matters it’s interesting how words are used in a pejorative way. Opposing governments are “regimes,” and for opposing countries the opponents are personalized like ‘Saddam” and ‘Putin,’ for example. Opposing invasions by US fighters there have been “insurgents” and opposing Russian forces they are “Nazis,” and not “freedom fighters” which are American and Russian invaders. And so on.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Nov 12 2022 15:55 utc | 484