https://t.me/rybar/48045 (3 AMX10-RC destroyed)
https://t.me/voenacher/46205 (Addional photo of 2 destroyed AMX10-RC)

Posted by: A200 | Jun 8 2023 13:20 utc | 3

Two indications in the media this morning of the way that the cookie is crumbling in the USA.
(I quote from these stories in the knowlege that RT and Sputnik are inaccessible to many readers.)
1/ RFK Jr. Reveals Terrible Truth About Ukraine Pentagon ‘Concealed From Americans’
“”What we’re doing in Ukraine now is just a massive assault on Ukrainians. We have trapped Ukraine in a proxy war against [Russia] and they are being devoured by the geopolitical machinations of neocons in the White House who have this comic book depiction that a lot of Americans have swallowed about what is happening,” RFK Jr. said, speaking to Canadian psychologist and media commentator Jordan Peterson.
“Explaining what separates his position on Ukraine from that of the incumbent, Joe Biden, RFK Jr. said that although he understood many ordinary Americans’ support for Ukraine out of “compassion” and as a “humanitarian mission,” in reality, “every step we have taken, every decision we have made appears to have been intended to prolong the war and to increase the bloodshed.”
RFK Jr. recalled Joe Biden’s slip of the tongue that the US’s real goal in Ukraine was to cause regime change in Moscow – an aspiration which he recalled neoconservative advisors in Washington have been pushing for “decades” now.
“”Zbigniew Brzezinski…their doyen and philosopher said that US strategy should be to suck Russia into a series of wars in little countries where we can then exhaust them. Lloyd Austin, who is president Biden’s defense secretary, in April 2022 said our purpose in being in Ukraine is to degrade the Russian army, to exhaust it and degrade its capacity to fight anywhere in the world. Well that is the opposite of a humanitarian mission. That is a war of attrition, and that’s what it’s turned out to be. We have now turned Ukraine into an abattoir that has devoured 350,000 young Ukrainians…”
This is a Peace platform which has a very good chance of winning popular support. Its inmpact id doubled by re-iterating this old, but true, story.
2/Washington banned Kiev from signing truce with Moscow
“Nikolay Patrushev, one of Russia’s senior security officials, has accused the US and the UK of standing in the way of peace. Unlike the peoples of Russia and Ukraine, the two English-speaking countries are interested in prolonging the violence and do not care about human suffering, he alleged.
“I can identify the nations that are most interested [in continued hostilities] – they are the US and England,” he said on Thursday during a press conference in Belarus. “And one should clearly realize that they do not care about people dying, because it’s not their people, they are not waging the war on their own soil.”
I mentioned in a post last night that Tucker Carlson’s political gyrations are indications of his sense of what comes next.
These stories confirm his judgement: what comes next is a popular movement demanding an end to this sadistic and useless conflict, the legacy of a Nazi strategy adopted by the US and relentlessly pursued for eighty years.
It is time Operation Barbarossa was put to an end.

Posted by: bevin | Jun 8 2023 13:23 utc | 5

American politicians work on commission. Former V.P. Pence is doing his best to make an F16 sale.

Posted by: Elmagnostic | Jun 8 2023 13:25 utc | 7

Recent 3 minute video of Russian trenches ==> How Russia Is Preparing for Ukraine’s Counteroffensive.
Anyone know what trenching machine is shown?

Posted by: too scents | Jun 8 2023 13:36 utc | 9

Waiting for Inkanazi1969 to come here and declare Ukranazistan is winning.

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayast | Jun 8 2023 13:39 utc | 11

@ Odo, #10
Totally agree – it seems he has only been reading western versions of the story.
The huge challenge to Russia on day 1 was to get enough artillery in between Donbas and the deep dug in artillery of Ukraine which was waiting for the false flag signal to attack Donbas.
Clearly no one expected the Russian invasion – because there were no Ukrainian forces on north or South borders – the CIA had been forecasting the false flag.
So the “Great Distraction” on Hostomol airport and areas around Kiev with very limited forces may have been presented in the west as a failure, but in terms of getting enough artillery in place and defeat Ukraine’s strongest forces it was an amazing success to be written up in military books for the next few hundred years.

Posted by: Michael Droy | Jun 8 2023 13:48 utc | 13

Anyone know what trenching machine is shown?
BTM-4M Tundra

Posted by: b | Jun 8 2023 13:51 utc | 15

Mikael Valtersson propagates a lot of US/NATO talking points. Russia did not underperform in the beginning. They did however do some risky moves particularly as part of their pinning movement to put pressure on the city of Kiev. They went deep behind enemy lines.
At no point did Ukraine fight well as an army though individual soldiers showed courage.
I personally suspect the Russians intentionally did things to feed the NATO propaganda machine because although they escalated gently to allow a peaceful solution I’m sure they knew it was an exercise in futility and Russia’s intent was a prolonged conflict to degrade NATO industrial capacity and arms and EU economies

Posted by: Alaric | Jun 8 2023 13:55 utc | 17

Our source in the OP said that the Office of the President was forced to classify all video materials of the visual control of the Kakhovskaya HPP, due to the requirements of Western intelligence.
The situation with the destruction of the dam is ambiguous, negotiations are underway between the Biden Administration and the Kremlin.
In this track, the Russian side provided its proofs to the United States, which is why Ukraine did not receive unequivocal support from the West, as it was after the tragedy in Bucha.

https://t.me/rezident_ua/18182

Posted by: Down South | Jun 8 2023 13:59 utc | 19

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Enemy Advances on #Zaporozhye Front: Heavy Fighting at Positions of Heroic Company from 291st Regiment does not stop⚡️
▪️ The armored fist of the AFU has been trying for 12 hours to break through the defenses of our troops near the town of #Orekhov in the area of #Rabotino – #Verbovoye.
▪️ The AFU armoured groups are attacking the junction between two company strongholds, having managed to take only one height 178.2 in half a day of fighting.
▪️ Our fighters of the heroic company of the 291st Regiment withdrew from the front line of trenches to reserve positions under heavy pressure, these trenches the enemy was continuously pounding for another 3 hours before the offensive with all kinds of weapons.
▪️ The soldiers of the company of the 291st Regiment, with the support of neighbors from the 70th Regiment, intelligence soldiers of the 42nd Motorized Rifle Division and 22nd Special Forces Brigade, are holding the next support, this maneuver was planned in advance to deter just such a powerful offensive, the enemy broke off his teeth on the first support for many hours and now is breaking them on the second one.
☠️ According to preliminary reports, the AFU has already lost up to 16 tanks and 15 other vehicles.
▪️ Support is breaking through to our guys from neighbouring areas.
▪️ The heavy fighting has not stopped for many hours, artillery from both sides is not silent.
📜 Boris Rozhin; 8 Jun 2023, 14:07

https://t.me/sitreports/9920

Posted by: Down South | Jun 8 2023 14:00 utc | 21

Just finished reading this:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/05/29/two-weeks-at-the-front-in-ukraine
Definitely changing narrative since March 2022, when talk was of Kyiv university students zipping off in their cars to blast a few Russian tanks with Javelins, then back to the city for celebrating over beer and pizza.
Story might also explain why Ukrainians don’t frag their commanders. Imagine being exhausted yourself, surrounded by other soldiers equally exhausted, your commander suffering from recent battle wounds but keeps his chin up and fights on, everyone repeating rumors about Russians castrating POWs, Russians raping and suffocating babies in front of their mothers, etc, etc. If civilians in the USA are so easily bamboozled into foaming at the mouth Russo-phobia, despite easy access to alternative sources of information like this site, just imagine the mental state of soldiers in the trenches with limited internet access.
Remember also that all the poor Ukrainians with energy to think for themselves long ago left Ukraine. What’s left are rich Ukrainians, who buy their way out of conscription, and poor Ukrainians who never had energy to think for themselves. Type of men who just let themselves be carried along by life’s currents until they die. Good news is that such men are not capable of waging a guerrilla war. So Blissex’s idea of 10-20 year insurgency won’t materialize from these types of men.

Posted by: Revelo | Jun 8 2023 14:10 utc | 23

What’s left are …
Posted by: Revelo | Jun 8 2023 14:10 utc | 22
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Please don’t forget about the people with an attachment to the land. In the videos I have seen they are the ones waiting to be emancipated by the Russians.
Sadly, the younger ones also seem to be the conscripts.

Posted by: too scents | Jun 8 2023 14:15 utc | 25

@bevin 23
Who’s going to conduct this palace coup? Zaluzhny was popular among the troops and probably had the spine to conduct one, but he’s, shall we say, unavailable. So who’s going to do it, Syrsky? I can tell you that’s not going to happen.

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayast | Jun 8 2023 14:21 utc | 27

Valtersson appears to be making an effort to be an honest broker, and there is something to one barfly’s comment above to the effect that any army at the outset of action will be shaking out the cobwebs.
There is the related but broader point that each conflict is its own unique case–configured by starting conditions, histories, logistics, politics and technology. Drones, ISR and mines that can be forward disbursed by artillery fire are three in particular that force adjustments in doctrine.
That said, both doomer and Westards tend to proceed from the presumption that there is something fundamentally weak or wrong with respect to Russia’s conduct of the conflict. Much of what is presumed to be weakness or incompetence indeed may derive from the incompetence of the analysis of political goals and strategic intent–‘failed siege of Kiev’, etc.
If we survive to the point where a fulsome assessment of Russia’s conduct of the conflict can be made, I am currently inclined to think that Russia will have set new standards of military performance in a number of areas: urban & siege warfare; attritional warfare; minimization of civilian casualties; SEAD; air defense; EW; strategic air campaigning; battlefield technological innovation loops; effectiveness/reliability of field weapons; escalation management; war *as* politics by other means.
If we do not eventually get such a picture of Russia’s performance it may well be because no one survives to compose it, or Russia’s performance will be judged as that of the defeated party.

Posted by: Paul Damascene | Jun 8 2023 14:24 utc | 29

Who’s going to conduct this palace coup?
Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayast | Jun 8 2023 14:21 utc | 26
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I would not be surprised that Zelinsky is protected by an insane splinter faction of Mossad.

Posted by: too scents | Jun 8 2023 14:25 utc | 31

RE: US Chamber of Commerce/USAID
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-economy/3719515-creation-of-fullfledged-stock-market-discussed-at-government-meeting-shmyhal.html
This article reflects the US/UK/Ukr intent to fully implement a long term money laundering investor Ponzi scheme.
In short, it would appear, West looking to prolong SMO for years if possible. All of it of is of course that instead of a “shell corporations” it a “shell nation” and the EU/US will use this newly created stock market as grift processing entity for the rape coming up full steam on EU.
Perhaps that was always the plan.
Russia believes that there is a need to remove & replace the “Nazi” Zelensky governance. However, the “replacement” will be just as corrupt, unless Russia makes the decision to occupy & control ALL of Ukraine, the economic interest will supply & support funding for years, NATO or not, and it will drain Russian economy as they have displayed over & over with terrorist, ecoterrorism, & sanctions, the ability to make Russian “occupation” of the Novorrosyia region a VERY expensive proposition.
We will see by fall where Russia decision making bodies and direction end up, but this is telling of the US “business” community, and USAID is notoriously a CIA outfit, both ready to further imbed themselves with frankly billions, if not trillions of money laundering schemes coming up.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Jun 8 2023 14:30 utc | 33

Posted by: too scents | Jun 8 2023 13:36 utc | 9
MDK-2M looks similar as well: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8sv-wRXVvV0

Posted by: anon2020 | Jun 8 2023 14:35 utc | 35

“What’s left are rich Ukrainians, who buy their way out of conscription, and poor Ukrainians who never had energy to think for themselves.”
Posted by: Revelo | Jun 8 2023 14:10 utc | 22
Let’s suggest that the “rich Ukrainians” are rich Jews in Ukraine who are waiting to grab Ukraine for themselves, again, as it was under Kolomojsky (financier of Zelensky), Yatz ( Nuland-Kagan’s selection of a president of Ukraine), et al. As for the “poor Ukrainians,” they are cannon fodder for a war waged by the Zionized Empire of Lies against the Russian Federation.
Here is a sample of “rich Ukrainians:”
“From the roof of the world’s largest Dnepropetrovsk synagogue, Jews are already openly singing that Ukraine is their land.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWUzPXMUAFg
It looks like the ongoing genocide of Ukrainians has several goals, including the depopulation of Ukraine to clear place for the usual suspects. It is astonishing how well American Zionists and Ukrainian Banderites have been collaborating since the 1990-s when the Kagans clan invited a prominent Banderite Dobriansky to be a signatory of the supremacist PNAC.
Zionists and Banderites (self-proclaimed Nazis) have been the bestest friends for many years. Recently, the Jewish Lobby has qualified Banderites as “freedom fighters.” https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-lobby-group-adl-rehabilitates-hitlers-accomplices-ukraine/35021
This is how ziocons spit on the memory of victims of WWII.

Posted by: Cerena | Jun 8 2023 14:40 utc | 37

Posted by: JustAMaverick | Jun 8 2023 13:28 utc | 8
Nato media can just say: “look there, UFO!” and no one in NATOstan will remember anything about Ukraine after a week. That seems to be the plan actually. It’s like the memory eraser device in the first “Men In Black” movie.
Posted by: young | Jun 8 2023 14:22 utc | 27
The Russians have endless amount of targets to shoot from their helicopters fighters and bombers. Only the available amount of sorties is the limit. Which is still a relatively large number of sortie, even compared to US sorties in Vietnam. IIRC someone calculated Russians fly at least same amount of sorties as US in Vietnam.

Posted by: unimperator | Jun 8 2023 14:49 utc | 39

As a humble ex-rifleman many moons ago (73-75) I haven’t kept up with weapons as I have no interest in them However, there is something I’d like explained to me, if possible.
One sometimes sees videos of Ka-52 helicopters firing their rockets. They appear to elevate the nose before firing and then turn away. The targets are apparently 5km away or more, I believe. You don’t get to see the targets. But there are videos, usually black and grainy, apparently from these helicopters and you see the rockets strike their targets. But the platform appears static or nearly static. My question is, how are the strikes filmed from a helicopter that has fired and turned away yet appear static?

Posted by: Vragtes | Jun 8 2023 14:51 utc | 41

I think the US built up a military in Ukraine that they reckoned they’d not be able to defeat themselves short of using nukes. And they thought they themselves had a better army than the Russians. So that the Russians would lose. Hence Boris and all scuppering the peace talks and all the “as long as it takes” talk. But the truth may be dawning on them now?

Posted by: Guy L’Estrange | Jun 8 2023 15:01 utc | 43

Guy L’estrange no. 42
Pride goes before a fall.

Posted by: ThusspakeZarathustra | Jun 8 2023 15:06 utc | 45

Gehlen was not a Nazi propagandist. He was the head of intelligence for the OSH — the German Army in the east. Gehlen ran signal and human intelligence and air reconnaissance operations and produced intelligence reports to Hitler and the rest of the German leadership. The Red Army grew to be adept at fooling him.

Posted by: William Verick | Jun 8 2023 15:08 utc | 47

Down South no. 45
“Former Pentagon chief Mark Esper has said that without a successful counter-offensive, funding for Ukraine will end.”
And in not so blunt a way, Macron intimated the same thing a couple weeks ago. I posted what he said on here; unfortunately didn’t keep the link.

Posted by: ThusspakeZarathustra | Jun 8 2023 15:10 utc | 49

Posted by: unimperator | Jun 8 2023 14:49 utc | 38
The Russians have endless amount of targets to shoot from their helicopters fighters and bombers. Only the available amount of sorties is the limit. Which is still a relatively large number of sortie, even compared to US sorties in Vietnam. IIRC someone calculated Russians fly at least same amount of sorties as US in Vietnam.
Yes but the Russians are loosing only a fraction of the aircraft that the US lost in Vietnam.
Big difference between then and now. In Vietnam the US faced modern effective Russian Anti Aircraft weapons which downed many thousands of aircraft.
In Ukraine Russia is facing Western designed junk. That shoot only propaganda missiles which miss their targets and leave a bad smell in the air.

Posted by: Golddigger | Jun 8 2023 15:19 utc | 51

There will be and doesn’t need to be a coup against Zelensky, he’s exactly what he was hired to be, a media created figurehead no more than that. If there needs to be a change he will be handed a new script, if the show has bombed so bad the star needs to be replaced he will bow out in some presentable “democratic” way, he’ll lose in concoted elections most likely. At worst, for him at least, he’ll be offed in a way that can be blamed on the Russians and go out a hero with a grand internationally attended funeral. Ukraine is a “model democracy” and any ugly mafia-like exigencies will have to fit to that – just like in the west itself. The ugliness will be behind the scenes.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Jun 8 2023 15:21 utc | 53

Re: Posted by: Cerena | Jun 8 2023 14:40 utc | 36
“This is how ziocons spit on the memory of victims of WWII.”
Agree entirely and very sad. The UK/Zios WW2 plot to destroy, split & take over Russia went haywire when Hitler went “off script” and did his own thing after all the UK/uS money weapons s dealers loaded him up.
As WW2 was an un-resolved, continuation of WW1, this is the continuation of WW2 global game.
It seems Russia, China, Mid-East and even used to be colonized India are set on ending it for good this time.
We will see.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Jun 8 2023 15:24 utc | 55

Russian artillery.
https://twitter.com/blackdiammon/status/1666564366479622146

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jun 8 2023 15:26 utc | 57

More Mikael Valtersson on Twitter
NEWS UPDATE NOVA KAKHOVKA EVENING JUNE 7
I don’t know who’s responsible for destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam, but if you do what you can to worsen the situation and destroy the remnants of the dam, you’re the prime suspect, not the victim.
Ukraine keeps the gates at Dnipro HDD open (video) and the water streams southward.
The already undermined remnants of the Novo Kakhovka dam risk to totally collapse from the water pressure and later on, the flooding of Kherson oblast are worsened.
That’s an clear indication that Ukraine on purpose worsen the situation and are also a clear indication that Ukraine was the original culprit.
The fact that the Ukrainians also increased the level of water in the reservoir before the destruction of the dam are not an proof of their guilt.
They couldn’t know that the Russians wouldn’t open the gates of the Novo Kakhovka dam.
There could be some natural cause for opening the gates at Dnipro HDD before the destruction of the Novo Kakhovka dam, but afterwards nothing could be more important than to lessen the flooding in Kherson oblast.
https://twitter.com/MikaelValterss1/status/1666510530444402708

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jun 8 2023 15:33 utc | 59

Posted by: Vragtes | Jun 8 2023 14:51 utc | 40
Cameras, gimbals, gyroscopes and computers.

Posted by: GT Stroller | Jun 8 2023 15:37 utc | 61

A new video has been released of a column some sort of combine harvester variants getting smoked… funnily enough they kind of look like Leopards though. Maybe they are developed from tractors, kind of like the Panzer III developed on the basis of Ferdinand Porsche tractors.
https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1666828744021901316

Posted by: unimperator | Jun 8 2023 15:40 utc | 63

Vid of smoking Leopards. NAFO are enjoying the “nah, farm equipment” meme.
But the kill count on leopards seems to be rising.:
>>>”The Russian army showed the defeat of the advancing Leopard column and other NATO equipment on the Zaporozhye front.
https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1666828744021901316
http://t.me/RVvoenkor

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jun 8 2023 15:42 utc | 65

About the “farm tractor” thing:
In the Sri Lanka civil war the Tamil rebels extensively used farming vehicles, especially tractors, for cross country travel. There’s no particular reason why the Ukranazis wouldn’t also use vehicles meant for use in rough terrain, like tractors, to move troops, supplies, or equipment.

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayast | Jun 8 2023 15:46 utc | 67

Ukrainians already complaining that Leopard’s are shit tanks, LMAO.
https://twitter.com/MapsUkraine/status/1666832014949974018
Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayast | Jun 8 2023 15:46 utc | 66
Last October there was a report of Polish mercs using a school bus to get around Donbass. It was tracked by a DRG patrol, they saw it driving along the road then turning on the edge of a forest. Sure didn’t look like a school bus route. Then they hit it with a ATGM.

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦💥 Polish Mercs demilitarised behind the Frontline⚡️
Once again our scouts work behind enemy lines. This time an ATGM hit a bus with personnel in which mercenaries were travelling.
According to the interception more than 20 representatives of Poland were killed.
I wonder if the Polish Foreign Ministry will announce this?
t.me/Slavyangrad /@RtrDonetsk/#VID
“>https://t.me/Slavyangrad/12452

Posted by: unimperator | Jun 8 2023 15:54 utc | 69

I take it that today was another zrada?

Posted by: leaf | Jun 8 2023 15:58 utc | 71

Biswapriya Purkayast | Jun 8 2023 15:46 utc | 66
Of course the Russian chopper was correct in removing what could easily have been a decoy of some type.
Shit, unfortunately for the farmers, is very fucked in eastern Ukrainian / new Russia this week.
The yanks certainly would have blasted it for absolutely no reason, because “yeehaah!, fuck you, that’s why”.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jun 8 2023 16:00 utc | 73

gpc | Jun 8 2023 15:50 utc | 67, oldhippie | Jun 8 2023 16:06 utc | 73
Thanks both of you. I’d assumed it was some sort of gunsight camera. Spotting drone males perfect sense. For an old hippie you know a lot. This old hippie learned to field strip a R1 blindolded but little else. 🙂

Posted by: Vragtes | Jun 8 2023 16:13 utc | 75

@commandante55
Funny you should mention this. I found it on YouTube and rewatched it for the first time in decades. Amazing how prescient it was.
The original “Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future” movie from 1985
https://youtu.be/aZY-yQYVf38

Posted by: The Osprey | Jun 8 2023 16:18 utc | 77

Re: defensive fortifications
The few videos and other images I‘ve seen of the defensive positions created by the RF are honestly not much. They appear to be 3 razor thin lines spaced a mere 10km apart. This isn’t defense-in-depth, more like hasty thrown together trench lines.
I speculate that these trench ‚systems‘ we see are a distraction from the real defensive network which is hidden.
I‘m also going to guess that NATO is using the local conscripts as cannon fodder to probe.

Posted by: Exile | Jun 8 2023 16:21 utc | 79

@14 “now there is tool worthy of RSH’s idiot filter!”, LOL

A kind bar patron many years ago wrote a script for a browser that would let a person to “block” posts from people one didn’t care to waste their time reading or scrolling past. What a delight this was, the threads were readable and informative.
Unfortunately it quit working at some point a few years ago.
Could somebody with the applicable knowledge do this again? It would be greatly appreciated by many readers.
Posted by: David F | Jun 7 2023 21:17 utc | 206

That was me! (under a different pen name)
Comrade Zet wrote a Chrome Extension recently but it has the shortcoming of being “Chrome only”… my old tool is a userscript that runs inside the extension TamperMonkey that in turn runs in Firefox and Chromium browsers (all the rest). Better yet, it runs on Firefox mobile albeit being a bit clumsy to deal with.
This is the updated script: https://pastebin.com/raw/htQe7FHM
And this is the needed extension: https://www.tampermonkey.net/
1) Copy the script and ask the extension to create a new script.
2) Remove the default script, paste the new and save it.
3) Reload MoA website and there will be a small button icon at top right of the screen.
4) The button opens a popin window with all the commenteers in that particular thread page.
5) Select the offenders and close the window and offenders will be gone from all threads and pages.

Posted by: Madame Guillotine | Jun 8 2023 16:24 utc | 81

Re: Russian Order of Battle
Anyone have a handle on the Russian units being mentioned in the dispatched ? Are these erstwhile DPR/LPR militia units ? Are these first line RF units ?

Posted by: Exile | Jun 8 2023 16:29 utc | 83

@Exile

I‘m also going to guess that NATO is using the local conscripts as cannon fodder to probe.

I think we’re past that stage, 5-6 days in. Local conscripts don’t operate expensive NATO gear, especially Leopard tanks. More likely sheep-dipped NATO mercs.
The local conscripts may have been used as human mine sweepers. Literally, meat bombs. Their guts and brains now fertilize Zaporozhye.

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Jun 8 2023 16:34 utc | 85

Yesterday I neglected to post any of Zakharova’s Weekly Briefing items, which I’ll now rectify. Just one paragraph from her very long update on Ukraine:
“In this context [irrefutable evidence UKies raised water levels via extra upstream dam emissions], the statements made by Ukrainian General Alexander Kovalchuk in an interview with The Washington Post on December 29, 2022, as Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN Vassily Nebenzia has already mentioned, are indicative. So, A.T. Kovalchuk said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine even then launched “a test strike from the American HIMARS multiple launch rocket system on one of the locks of the Kakhovka dam in order to make a hole in it and see how much the water rises in the Dnieper.” I have a question. John Kirby, Christopher Jean-Pierre and all the people in charge of communications in the White House and the State Department are directly concerned with you, and you must give an answer. Did you know about it? Did you know how American weapons are used? Did you know how weapons supplied to the territory of Ukraine with the money of American taxpayers are used? Did you know that American weapons are used to carry out mock “tests” to commit a terrorist attack on civilian infrastructure in third countries? It is impossible not to notice. This was published six months ago by an American newspaper. All the talk about the fact that there is not enough information in the White House raises questions about mental health. If American newspapers and journalists publish and print materials that are not read in the White House and cannot be compared with the facts, then, indeed, it is time to call the orderlies. These are the questions that we directly raise in the public space in front of the White House. You must answer them.” [My Emphasis]
She’ll be ignored as usual. But will her demand be echoed by Carlson or some other American?

Posted by: karlof1 | Jun 8 2023 16:42 utc | 87

Concerning Wunderwaffe weapons .
Russian army ToDo list :
Himars : done
Patriot : done
AMX : done
Iris : done
Leopard : done
Abrams, F16: Waiting for you. Gentlemen please, hurry up
What else ?
Not exhaustive list.
just kidding in this dramatic moment

Posted by: FromFrance | Jun 8 2023 16:47 utc | 89

NATO cucks are going to need to wash down this bitter defeat with an extra-large cup of Copium-Cola.

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Jun 8 2023 16:52 utc | 91

@Melaleuca – re. Assange – wrong thread
One sometimes sees videos of Ka-52 helicopters firing their rockets. They appear to elevate the nose before firing and then turn away. The targets are apparently 5km away or more, I believe. You don’t get to see the targets. But there are videos, usually black and grainy, apparently from these helicopters and you see the rockets strike their targets. But the platform appears static or nearly static. My question is, how are the strikes filmed from a helicopter that has fired and turned away yet appear static?
Different weapons.
Nose up to fire a salvo (7-20) of unguided rockets (S-8, S-13) at area targets.
Sitting still to fire laser guided anti-tank missiles from a long (5-10km) distance.

Posted by: b | Jun 8 2023 17:05 utc | 93

Another item from Zakharova’s briefing was this Q&A about the ZNPP:

Question: IAEA Director General Robert Grossi has proposed “five conditions” for ensuring the safety of the Zaporizhzhia NPP. At the same time, he is not ready to admit that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are shelling the station. This “history of uncertainty” has been going on for many months. What solution can be found to protect the ZNPP from shelling?
Answer: It’s similar to I.Y. Nikolaev’s song “Five Reasons”: “the first reason is you, and the second is all your dreams”… IAEA Director General Rodrigo Grossi’s speech at the UN Security Council and his five recommendations to ensure the safety of the Zaporizhzhia NPP were the result of the Kiev regime abandoning its initiative to create a protective zone at the Zaporizhzhia NPP. In fact, the recommendations of the IAEA Director General are based on the provisions of this initiative. In general, they are in line with our approaches, including how the safety of the plant should be guaranteed.
Russia has never deployed military contingents and military equipment intended for offensive operations on the territory of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, and does not plan to do so. The station has only those forces that are necessary to protect it from attacks by the Kyiv regime, as well as to eliminate their possible consequences.
During the UN Security Council meeting, Grossi’s recommendations were rejected by Ukraine, which tried to alter them and dictate its terms, which once again demonstrates Kiev’s focus on continuing the provocation against the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
In the light of the recommendations of the IAEA Director General, we intend to ensure the protection of the ZNPP in such a way as to prevent Kyiv and the “collective West” that supports it from violating them. Russia will respond extremely harshly to any Ukrainian attacks on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, its critical infrastructure, including the power supply lines of the plant, as well as the city of Enerhodar, where employees of the nuclear power plant and their families live. [My Emphasis]

As I wrote yesterday, Russia awaits any attempt to cross the river and assault the ZNPP, and that is implied within Maria’s answer. IMO, specific Russian counter-strike elements are at the ready to “respond extremely harshly” that Ukraine would like to lure away by putting pressure on the FEBA elsewhere. But as we’ve seen, those attempts haven’t been anywhere nearly enough. Will the Ukies follow their Master’s order to commit suicide by attacking the ZNPP? Time will tell.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jun 8 2023 17:13 utc | 95

A tank is only as good as its crew, a crew is only as good at its training, their training is only as good as the instruction and the instruction is only as good as the instructors. Thus it was, is, and shall be ever thus. Hear endeth the lesson.
From the footage I think the Ukrainian crews are suffering from early Tiger tank syndrome, where the instructors stress on the tank’s thick armour meant the crews forgot tactical basics and suffered accordingly. Technological improvements often create the opposite of the desired effect, when fallible humans are introduced into the process.

Posted by: Milites | Jun 8 2023 17:21 utc | 97

Posted by: Exile | Jun 8 2023 16:29 utc | 83
I saw a map with this kind of information at the beginning of the year, but I can’t find it right now. Would indeed be nice to see the order of battle.
In the North, I think it’s still the 10th Guards Tank Army, and in the South, the 58th Army (Maj.Gen. Ivan Popov).

Posted by: Verdant | Jun 8 2023 17:34 utc | 99