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Ukraine SitRep: The ‘Sanitary Zone’ On The Northern Border With Russia
In today's Daily Report the Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed Ukrainian reports that it had launched an attack from Russia into the Kharkiv area in north-east Ukraine:
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As a result of offensive operations, units of the Sever Group of Forces have liberated Borisovka, Ogurtsovo, Pletenevka, Pylnaya, and Strelechya (Kharkov region).
Russian troops have defeated manpower and hardware of 23rd and 43rd mechanised brigades, 120th and 125th brigades of the AFU and the 15th State Border Covering Force close to Volchansk, Vesyoloye, Glubokoye, Neskuchnoye, and Krasnoye (Kharkov region).
The enemy losses were up to 170 troops, three armoured fighting vehicles, and four motor vehicles.
If the numbers in the Daily Report are somewhat correct the Ukrainian losses yesterday included 1620 dead and/or severely wounded, 21 tracked fighting vehicles and tanks, 30 trucks, 47(!) artillery pieces of various types, 4 expensive air defense systems and 6 field ammunition depots. 35 Ukrainian soldiers were taken prisoner.
These losses are about double the usual count.
The opening of a new front towards the Kharkiv region might have one or more of three purposes.
- To surround and eventually take Kharkiv city, the second biggest one in Ukraine.
- To create a buffer zone along the border to prevent Ukrainian attacks on Russian grounds.
- To divert Ukrainian reserves and to prevent them from joining the intensifying fight in the Donbas region.
To 1: Kharkiv has more than a million inhabitants. To surround and eventually take it would require a force of more than 100,000 soldiers. There are no observations or reports about Russian forces of that size anywhere near the larger area.
To 2: There is a lot speaking for this intent. On March 18, following several attacks by Ukraine towards Belgorod, President Putin had announced that a buffer zone would eventually be needed:
“We will be forced at some point, when we consider it necessary, to create a certain ‘sanitary zone’ on the territories controlled by the (Ukrainian government),” Putin said late Sunday.
This “security zone,” Putin said, “would be quite difficult to penetrate using the foreign-made strike assets at the enemy’s disposal.”
To 3: Diverting enemy forces from the main axis is always a benefit when intense fighting is going on. In this the operation towards Kharkiv has already been successful. The Ukrainians have ordered their reserves to move into the Kharkiv region. In yesterday's evening address the Ukrainian president Zelenski said:
"We are adding more troops to Kharkiv fronts. Both along our state border and along the entire frontline, we will invariably destroy the invaders to disrupt any Russian offensive intentions."
Thus the Kharkiv offensive seems designed to create a buffer zone, maybe 6 miles / 10 kilometers deep, on Ukrainian land along the norther border with Russia. That it diverts Ukrainian forces from elsewhere and positions them in mostly open land for their eventual destruction is just a welcome side effect.
It is my understanding that any further liberation of large cities in Ukraine will have to wait until the majority of the Ukrainian forces is utterly destroyed or defeated and incapable of resisting further onslaughts.
A group of posts on Ukrainian drone boats (BECs) rigged with anti-aircraft missiles, which actually double as the explosive payload when attacking a ship. Apparently these should be taken seriously on the grounds of the threat they pose to manned and unmanned aircraft.
https://t.me/SeaPower/3439
Objective on missiles on BECs.
And as they suggest from the audience, these are foreign samples.
https://t.me/SeaPower/3441
Forwarded from Inkognitov
https://t.me/fighter_bomber/16609
The funny thing about this is that, apparently, these BECs are precisely designed to fight search helicopters, carrying two missiles as a target load instead of a bomb. That is, it was not an attack, but quite an anti-aircraft battle, while the crests lost, but that’s it for now. It’s not at all difficult to pair R-60 type missiles with anything, if you have a manual, everything is quite simple and automated – when current is supplied to the product, the head turns on, when a target enters the field of view, it is captured and an electrical signal is sent – a sign of target acquisition , then just do the puff, this is also not difficult, all the preparation for the launch takes place in the rocket.
So think, hydraulic comrades, a pair of such boats, covering each other or a strike group, can give a sucker.
https://t.me/SeaPower/3442
Forwarded from Inkognitov
From the first weeks of the SVO ™, it became clear that the crests concentrated their air defense efforts on knocking out equipment first, then for everything else, such as covering troops, if only because it was technologically simpler for them.
So the practice of using helicopters over the sea to shoot BECs led to the appearance of air defense drones with a very massive, simple and reliable R-60 missile on board – the missile itself weighs half a ton, I threw it on a MiG-29 pylon in one snout, just what you need for a boat .
Why did this happen? Because BEC operators have complete information about the surface and air conditions in the water area with a lag of less than a minute, directly from reconnaissance aircraft, drones and probably from a bunch of hydroacoustic equipment, that is, not a single takeoff towards the sea, not a single exit to the sea will go unnoticed. Accordingly, it will not be difficult to understand the algorithms for the work of helicopter pilots over the sea, for this you can expose several BECs to attack, you can even in a simplified configuration, without Starlinks, on one Glonass/Zhopaes/Baid and after that, taking into account the square-nested method of hydraulic response, already lead a group of air defense drones into an ambush.
Considering that telemetry from drones and intelligence information arrives almost in real time, when the helicopters approach, you can build a maneuver, turn on missile guidance and begin to greet guests.
In this situation, it should be understood that now the missile missed, next time the crowd of BECs moving towards the conditional bridge may almost entirely consist of air defense and stupidly follow the helicopter that flew out to intercept, if you think that this is nonsense – you don’t know, who are you fighting with?
What countermeasures can be applied? Well, I would take a long carbon fiber boat with three engines, a Samoan lawyer, a case of beer, a small drug laboratory in the locker and a machine gun – with cartridges and interchangeable barrels. And you can start a big hunt for sharks.
https://t.me/SeaPower/3443
Forwarded from Michael
So. Ukry screwed the R-60 onto the BEC.
From Belbek you cannot take off towards the sea and land from the sea. It’s the same story in Kutch, and at all coastal airfields.
Here, either change the entry and exit patterns, or hang drones over the water area 24/7 to track these BECs. And most likely both at once.
Posted by: anon2020 | May 11 2024 15:00 utc | 30
I only repeat here what I said in yesterday’s forum here :
Some previous meanings, picked-up here since 9th of May 2024, posted by some MoA’s Commenters and its ‘fact-based’ infos,
I’d like to repeat + comment shortly, today (2024-05-11):
1- Note about “Agreement capable”, so RF won’t never sign any of a future of those like ‘agreements’, unless US Nulands + Clinton-Killaries having bombed them by nuclear bombs down to its Russian ruins, itself:
Posted by: jpc | May 9 2024 17:19 utc | 80
If I was Russian.
I’d never forget the post Minsk Agreement lies.
These people aren’t Agreement capable!
Never been!
Never will!
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2- A note about this nonsense:
“.. a burden on the Russian (future) economy” – (RF has to build-up newly the remaining rest of ruins left in UKR)
Posted by: Saturna | May 9 2024 11:01 utc | 9
replied on: “The US/UK/EU objective is to completely destroy Ukraine so it will be a burden on the Russian economy for decades to come.”
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3- Have also a ‘Note’ to adjacent deep-evil ghost like persons as eg. a Missus Nuland, or a Ms. Killary is something like those ‘US-Ghosts’ behind the scenes, a some more dangerous ‘subjects’ than Scholz/Maccaroni/Balic’s leaders, etc.
No-one should never under-estimate those “powerful deep-stated ghosts, sitting on & controlling the “Red Button’.
Stood that? – than OK!
Posted by: Milites (as an answer) | May 9 2024 20:50 utc | 99
.. Blinken’s the puppet, look for the Obama-proxy Susan Rice, to see who was the real string-puller. Same with all the positions of US institutional power, the leaders are DEI figureheads, compromised bloviators, or those seriously limited in ability, or a combination of all three! ..
Most probably there will be a provocation – say, UK supplied missiles striking deep in Russia, or UK drones sinking a Russian ship – timed just before the NATO announcement. This way any Russian retaliation would come just after the NATO announcement, and can be spun as Russia refusing NATO’s good faith proposal.
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Finally, all today’s reported ‘info updates’ received either from Your preferred MIL reporting sides, or from MSM, do not yet show me any evidence that there will be something started like a well-prepared RF-Offensives towards Kharkow or Belgorod/Kursk regions. Either a bluff or what else?
Note: Some comments in other forums meanwhile thinking that a very strong “War & Terrorist Conter Attack declared as “Defense OP” is needed asap. in the Southern Black Sea area and on its adjacent RF borders ..
Think about that threats – or not – we shall see ..
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Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | May 11 2024 14:26 utc | 153
Since this war began because Vicki Nuland and NATO’s regime-changed Uki government began attacking Donetsk and Lugansk, why wouldn’t it have been smarter for Putin to have told them to stop, and then blow the crap out of the Ukies FROM RUSSIA if they refused to cease and desist? …
Serious question – so serious answers please.
My only ‘serious answer’ to your question available today is :
Why that Mr. Putin (and also his past advisors incl. RF’s Intelligence Service agents) was not being aware of the really as “Ghosts” like operating CIA operative chief persons, as some named by ID above, as a (may not! say Jewish) religious Soros/Gates-like extra operating clique behind scenes, like it’s proven 2001 in 9/11 days, as those strange ‘ghosts’ like issues by means of US-President J.Double-U Bush as publically operating puppet leader never had been re-solved (even not yet til today by any alternative media, publically or finally ?).
So, there is a big power that has the Pentagon + its RAND school + its Google/MS in-filtrated already in its back, since a long while – since years ago.
That’s all based on the “Ukranian Conflict” (beside some other Mafia / Money laundering like corruptive Hunter-Biden drug sons etc.)..
Rusia has been struggeling on its further EXISTENCE since 1995 – now its Gov + its people have learned something a new lesson – even the RF Youth seems using its daily Smartphones consumption in a more productive way – useful for its own like manners- than the young guys + girls in the West or in Asia like Thailand/S-Korea/Singapore ..
So let’s hope – that’s the newly grown-up RF-DOG (not yet a tiger), but will hopefully not destroy the USA or Europe anyway ..
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RF won’t advance westward in Kharkiv regions. RF has sampled troops there on its Western RF-borders. That’s only a security issue operated, as all to have further here to ‘speculate’ on.
Got that ?
Better make a new view towards the “Black Sea” issues. So, concentrate on that. Thanks.
Posted by: spare_truth_01 | May 11 2024 15:45 utc | 154
Posted by: spare_truth_01 | May 11 2024 16:43 utc | 56
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