Posted by: Anonymous | Aug 6 2024 0:11 utc | 200
Sigh, Anonymous those pockets as you call them, cauldrons for the Russians, are designed for the UAF to escape.
“When you surround an army, leave an outlet free.” – Sun Tzu

Posted by: Johnny Guitarplayer | Aug 6 2024 1:04 utc | 203

203:
I disagree. But even if so, your comment is one more reason why it’s silly to hear people talking about the Ukrops habitually staying in pockets too long.

Posted by: Anonymous | Aug 6 2024 1:12 utc | 205

Posted by: GW | Aug 5 2024 17:16 utc | 166
Newsweek is known as a zombie mag because about 10 years ago it was sold for $1 US. The lowest price for a legitimate sale.
It no longer is published on any type of paper product, all digital.
The writers have low or no salaries, they make their money by the old internet click system. While some have been interesting and more or less accurate, many simply are funded by “unknown sources” to write up plausible articles that will never be fact checked.

Posted by: BroncoBilly | Aug 6 2024 3:22 utc | 207

Excellent and scholarly compendium of the Crimea situation. Totally squashes the western/NATO lies.
https://www.academia.edu/49850769/The_Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Russian_Federation_Before_behind_and_beyond_the_Conflict?email_work_card=abstract-read-more

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 6 2024 4:12 utc | 209

“When you surround an army, leave an outlet free.” – Sun Tzu
Posted by: Johnny Guitarplayer | Aug 6 2024 1:04 utc | 203
Right! It’s a lot of work to bag up 1000 dead soldiers. Better to let them run away and capture the now empty land.

Posted by: DiggerDan | Aug 6 2024 5:30 utc | 211

The pace of mobilization in Ukraine does not allow the Ukrainian Armed Forces brigades to be fully staffed for combat operations. This was stated by the Secretary of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence Roman Kostenko.
“We need new brigades, we need three sets: some are fighting, some are in reserve, and some are being restored. Unfortunately, with the current mobilization pace, we cannot do this,” Kostenko said in an interview with NV.
According to the secretary, the Ukrainian brigades on the front lines are forced to endure and perform tasks without reinforcements.
As a result, the fact that we are seeing new reductions in the list of categories entitled to a deferment from mobilization is precisely the result of the monstrous losses at the front. However, Ukrainians, increasingly realizing that they do not live in a democratic country, but in fact in a “concentration camp”, will flee in even greater numbers, and hatred of the authorities will outweigh the “Stockholm syndrome” that a significant part of the population is currently experiencing.
Thus, the indiscriminate and mass capture of men has caused irreparable damage to the production, agricultural, transport and utilities sectors. And now, more than ever, Ukraine is threatened by a full-scale collapse and a protracted crisis.

https://t.me/rezident_ua/23752

Posted by: Down South | Aug 6 2024 6:18 utc | 213

Ornot @ Aug 6 2024 0:54 utc | 202
This is pretty much bags or cartridges of propellant, you need up to 8 per shot fired.
As this stuff ages it needs to be replaced periodically – some NATO states noticed their cold war stocks may no longer be viable or have been handed to Ukraine.
A little more than normal replacement but also not more than 6 weeks of intense war.

Posted by: SOS | Aug 6 2024 6:24 utc | 215

While our journalists are silent about the situation at the front, Western media write about the objective reasons for yet another failure of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Ukrainian fighters accuse the command of the 41st Brigade of the Russian breakthrough near Toretsk, writes The New York Times.
They claim that the attack began two days after the end of the rotation in this area: the 24th Brigade was transferred from this direction to Chasov Yar, and from there – the 41st. Although the fighters saw signs of preparation for an offensive and warned the command about it.
“It was a big mistake that we were taken from there,” said Sergeant Lyakhovich.
As a result, the 41st Brigade was not ready to defend Toretsk, since it did not know the area. The brigade commander was also criticized for giving “vague orders and not reacting quickly to the changing threat environment.”
“The battalion suffered losses due to the senseless orders of the senior commander” of the 41st Brigade, said Senior Lieutenant Evgeny Strokan, commander of a combat drone platoon of the 206th Territorial Defense Battalion, whose fighters were transferred to the 41st Brigade.
“This is already an axiom of war – senior commanders in the overwhelming majority cannot or refuse to objectively assess the capabilities of the personnel subordinate to them,” wrote Roman Kulyak, deputy commander of the 206th Battalion, on social media.
The 41st Brigade said it was “outraged by this incomprehensible and strange campaign to discredit the command of our unit and our fighters.”

https://t.me/rezident_ua/23754

Another failure at the front due to the stupidity of staff officers who throw units into the meat grinder for the sake of personal interests and toadyism to their superiors.
We have been writing for a long time that there is a contradiction between soldiers and officers in the army, which could develop into a soldier’s rebellion in the future.
By the way, the last failure in defense, which occurred in the Kharkov region, was blamed on the soldiers of the Troitsky Defense Ministry.

https://t.me/legitimniy/18477

Posted by: Down South | Aug 6 2024 8:34 utc | 217

@guest | Aug 6 2024 8:44 utc | 218
Bojo is back in action. He has a fixation with these useless boat and jet ski attacks. What no Ukro can explain is what will they do after? Let’s say no one sees them and all of them land. Then what? Kill a guy walking his dog, burn a car? Take a selfie then run back?

Posted by: rk | Aug 6 2024 8:57 utc | 219

map and pics
https://t.me/rybar/62484
Kherson direction: thwarted landing of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Tendrovskaya Spit
The situation as of 10.00 a.m. on August 6, 2024
For the second time in a year, Ukrainian formations have attempted to land on the Tendrovskaya Spit west of the Kinburn Peninsula.
These places are on the outskirts: only a lighthouse, where a small group of Russian marines sits and monitors the airspace from the sea.
Given that the previous operation was planned by the Main Intelligence Directorate, there is reason to believe that this one was planned in exactly the same way. And its result was the same.
From midnight, Ukrainian formations began to conduct reconnaissance of the landing area, using a Bayraktar TB2 drone in the vicinity of Ochakov.
To distract the attention of the lighthouse garrison on the Tendrovskaya Spit west of the Kinburn Peninsula, the BEC was launched.
Actually, one of the tasks of the garrison is just to observe cruise missiles, UAV flights and BECs of the enemy.
At about three o’clock in the morning, twelve boats with troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine moved to the spit, intending to land.
As a result of a fleeting battle, the first three boats were destroyed – they were washed ashore. The other nine turned around and moved in the opposite direction.
The enemy’s losses during the next failed landing are estimated at up to 20 people.
As for the lighthouse garrison, five Marines escaped with minor injuries received during the skirmish.
The incident once again proves a simple truth: Ukrainian formations do not abandon attempts to occupy individual points in the Kherson region.
At the same time, there were no long-term plans, and there are no long-term plans: the main thing, losing people, is to occupy some point, and how people there will be supplied and defended from Russian forces is secondary.
The media component is paramount.

Posted by: guest | Aug 6 2024 9:16 utc | 221

Summary for the morning of August 6:
Chasov Yar. The fighting along the Seversky Donets-Donbass Canal and positional fighting in the Kleshcheyevka area remain highly intense.
Toretskoye direction. In Pivnichnoye, the enemy has consolidated its positions west of the railway (clarification to yesterday’s publication), occupying a section up to 1.73 km wide and 700 meters deep.
In Zaliznoye, Russian troops have advanced in the western part of the city along Pavla Chubinskogo and Respublikanskaya streets to a depth of 500 meters.
East of New York, the enemy has taken control of a section up to 3.39 km wide and 1.6 km deep. Heavy fighting continues in the western part of the village.
Pokrovskoe direction. In Ivanovka and Sergeyevka, fighting is shifting to the central part of the villages.
North and east of Zhelannoye, the enemy advanced along forest belts in an area up to 2 km wide, reaching the northern and eastern outskirts of the village. In the western part of the village, Russian troops are pressing in the direction of the center.
Kurakhivske direction. In the western part of Krasnogorovka, drone operators of “Vovka Da Vinchi” inflicted fire damage on the enemy in a building on Sedova Street
📍48.016949, 37.496350
After occupying the main part of the city, Russian troops are pressing in the western direction.
Yuzhnodonets direction. Near Konstantinovka and in the southeastern part of the village, the Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled a number of attacks by enemy motorized rifle units. The situation has not changed significantly.
🔵Petrenko

https://t.me/geromanat/30920

Posted by: Down South | Aug 6 2024 9:29 utc | 223

Woops. Wrong thread.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Aug 6 2024 11:10 utc | 225

US just agreed to give Ukraine a $4 billion grant (straight outta the tax payer’s pocket) and EU agreed to give Ukraine a €3.5 billion grant (straight outta the tax payer’s pocket).
The grift continues…

Posted by: unimperator | Aug 6 2024 12:06 utc | 227

❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 The situation in the Kursk region – what is known as of 13:00
This morning, Ukrainian formations attempted an offensive in the Kursk region – at the moment, the main events are unfolding in the Sudzhansky and Korenevsky districts . Information about the enemy’s attempt to break through was confirmed by the acting head of the region, Alexey Smirnov .
▪️At night, the Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out strikes across the Kursk region, launching at least 26 drones . Most of the strikes were in Sudzha , where five civilians were injured, including three children. Footage of severe destruction of residential buildings is circulating online.
▪️Later, Ukrainian formations launched attacks in several areas. In the Korenevsky district , the enemy began moving from Vladimirovka in the direction of Gordeyevka. In the Sudzhansky district, the enemy’s offensive is developing from the Sudzha checkpoint and the Glubokoe tract .
The main attack of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is aimed at Goncharovka and Kurilovka . According to incoming information, the enemy managed to wedge in along the 38K-004 highway , where at least three Ukrainian tanks and a group of infantry were spotted near the Sudzha checkpoint . Several armored vehicles were destroyed.
Another direction of enemy attacks was the Nikolayevo – Daryino – Sverdlikovo line: according to preliminary information, battles are taking place on the outskirts of populated areas. Armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with a new tactical identification mark in the form of a triangle were also spotted in this area.
▪️In the Ukrainian media, what is happening is presented from diametrically opposed positions: while some call the offensive an information and psychological operation on the part of the Russian authorities, others, in their usual manner, exaggerate the successes, talking about the beginning of the fighting almost in Sudzha itself.
❗️Against the backdrop of the Ukrainian attacks, several Russian media outlets reported that during the night and early morning, Russian Armed Forces drone operators noticed a concentration of enemy forces along the border, but due to bureaucratic red tape and fear of making a decision, no one gave the order to use firepower.
🔻Nevertheless, the Ukrainian offensive in the Kursk region is nothing new – another PR campaign by the enemy, following the example of last year’s attacks in the border area. And the goals of such actions by the Ukrainian Armed Forces are obvious: distracting the attention of their own population from failures in other parts of the front, as well as an attempt to stretch the forces of the “North” group, forcing them to redeploy units from Vovchansk and Glubokoye .
All previous attempts by Ukrainian formations to enter the border areas of Belgorod and Kursk regions always ended with significant losses and retreat. And although the outcome of the enemy’s new attempt is not in doubt, the threat of new offensives by the Ukrainian Armed Forces will continue to support the issue of the need to create a “sanitary zone” around the Russian border.

https://t.me/two_majors/29065

Posted by: Down South | Aug 6 2024 12:17 utc | 229

@227
In ‘EU’…the politi then ‘have to’ make a show of how ‘invested’ ‘EU’ population is in the territory, to sell their corruption. Anyway, there are hardly any ‘taxpayers’ left, they just hand back part of what the ‘governments’ hand out. ‘All’ very ‘virtual’ nowadays ”””””. Those who stand out for any kind of independent direction get whipped, the bureaucracies have an insatiable appetite for the innocent time and energy of others, it freshens them up…and if we didn’t agree we would not be paying them…so.

Posted by: Ornot | Aug 6 2024 12:37 utc | 231

Every single time, it looked like they would get surrounded and obliterated (or a big surrender), they were able to get out at the last minute.
Posted by: Anonymous | Aug 6 2024 0:11 utc | 200
That’s because if you surround an enemy completely they sit in basements and bunkers for months and you risk a fight to the bitter end but if you give them a way out you can hammer them with artillery as they try to flee to safety leaving their heavy weapons behind.

Posted by: HB_Norica | Aug 6 2024 13:44 utc | 233

“This Tweet shows a picture of the NY pocket taken:
https://x.com/DefensePolitics/status/1820601181997252727 (bottom, middle)
P.s. Note that you see a lot of online comments about the UKR getting trapped in pockets, but it really seems more the opposite insight. Every single time, it looked like they would get surrounded and obliterated (or a big surrender), they were able to get out at the last minute. There really hasn’t been a significant encirclement on either side (a real one, that they coudn’t escape from) other than the Mariupul seige. So, it’s really less of a danger than people think.”
Posted by: Anonymous | Aug 6 2024 0:11 utc | 200
I have an opposite opinion on this issue.
The Russians were only completely defeated by one army over 1,000 years-the Golden Horde-the Golden Horde, like all Mongol armies practiced the ‘Golden Bridge” tactic where the Mongols get a town or an army surrounded but they leave one small part of it open so that the defender can escape.
The Russians learned from the Mongol tactics which they, in turn, had learned from Sun Tzu:
“The idea of giving your opponent a golden bridge comes from Sun Tzu’s, The Art of War. This interpretation usually comes from Sun Tzu’s advice about engaging in battle and in chapter 7 of the original text (“Armed Struggle”), he advised that “A surrounded army must be given a way out. The ancient rule of the charioteers says, “Surround them on three sides, leaving one side open, to show them a way to life. Show them a way to life so that they will not be in the mood to fight to the death, and then you can take advantage of this to strike them.”
Even an exhausted army will fight if they feel there is no other option.” (1)
1.https://the-conflictexpert.com/2019/03/03/giving-your-opponent-a-golden-bridge/
The idea of giving your opponent a golden bridge comes from Sun Tzu’s, The Art of War. This interpretation usually comes from Sun Tzu’s advice about engaging in battle and in chapter 7 of the original text (“Armed Struggle”), he advised that “A surrounded army must be given a way out. The ancient rule of the charioteers says, “Surround them on three sides, leaving one side open, to show them a way to life. Show them a way to life so that they will not be in the mood to fight to the death, and then you can take advantage of this to strike them.”
Even an exhausted army will fight if they feel there is no other option.

Posted by: canuck | Aug 6 2024 13:56 utc | 235

Posted by: Anonymous | Aug 6 2024 0:00 utc | 197
Dima is unique in that for the first time in history during a major war we get to see how the war is being fought from the “enemies” perspective in real time.
I’m not talking about his mapping or accounts of battles but the Telegram gossip that ordinary Russians are having. We never got the perspective of the Germans or japanese during WW2 or even what ordinary Iraqi’s thought during the “Saddam wars”.
In a war no one has a copyright on the truth … it’s all perspective and propaganda … the truth may come out years later if at all. With Dima we’re watching a Russian speaker sort through the bullshit from both sides and at least try to seperate it out. Obviously he doesn’t have all the information and gets it wrong from time to time but that’s part of what makes his perspective interesting.

Posted by: HB_Norica | Aug 6 2024 14:04 utc | 237

You armchair general excuse-makers are silly. The siege is one of the most efficient types of warfare.
In surrounded siege, your enemy is incredibly demoralized and often he will surrender. Or as he is pinned down and concentrated, you can effectively eliminate him with concentrated fires of your choice (artillery, mortars, bombing, and heavy machine guns).
Even if he wants to make some Alamo stand, he is inhibited by the lack of supply (ammunition, water, food, medical supplies, wounded evac, etc.). You have all the control and he has none, so you can select how to effectively eliminate him with minimum danger to yourself and maximum to him.
If you eliminate the enemy (supposedly what you muh attrition copers want!), then you don’t have to fight him later. Let him escape and he can return the favor and raid or try to ambush you.

Posted by: Anonymous | Aug 6 2024 14:40 utc | 239

“Dima is pretty weak on analysis and I get very sick of his presentation (zooming in too close, so you can’t even see the context, covering the map with the little videos,”
Posted by: Anonymous | Aug 6 2024 14:48 utc | 240
I feel the same way-why doesn’t the guy put his videos in the corner or separately cause it drives me nuts when he covers the center of the map

Posted by: canuck | Aug 6 2024 15:05 utc | 241

⚡️🇺🇦: The popular Ukrainian account ‘Tatarigami_UA’ has described the attempt to attack Kursk region as “mental retardation”, in light of the critical situation in the Pokrovsk direction.
As of now, this attack appears to have been repulsed.

https://x.com/baronitaigas/status/1820837552481243591

Posted by: unimperator | Aug 6 2024 16:13 utc | 243

https://t.me/rusengineer/4867

Here is what we should learn from the Americans, it is the ability to try to foresee potential threats and not wait for the roast rooster, and then run around like a scalded cat. Of course, this does not always work out, they do not always guess, but the experience of the war has already sobered up the shapkozaki approach to their weapons a little. Bradley is a very strong IFV with a very accurate autocannon, Hymers and Atakms are very accurate missiles, and the Patriot is a deadly air defense system.
Of course, this does not mean that they have an unequivocal dominance over our weapons. Experience shows that they are more or less at a comparable level, our systems are quite capable of fighting American ones. But at the same time, American weapons show quite stable quality, while many of our systems had to be treated for childhood diseases revealed during combat operations.
And in addition to this, the strong point of the Americans is the ability to systematically work on potential threats, to create comprehensive solutions for counteraction. So, realizing that they will have to face the mass use of drones in the coming years, they are essentially rethinking and creating micro-air defense. Which will operate at different levels, in different ways against different targets.
At the same time, on the pages of near-military TG channels, there has long been a public discussion on the place and significance of various anti-drone solutions. And electronic warfare and electronic reconnaissance, and interceptor drones, and anti-aircraft kamikaze drones, and laser installations, and programmable fuses for autocannons, and shotguns, and APS for equipment. Some of these elements are created by the people’s military-industrial complex, some at defense plants. But the system of working with testing of integral systems at the front has not yet been noticed. Although the price of each day is very high for us, while the Americans do not suffer such losses, and at the same time they are engaged in this research systematically, without chaotic twitching. Which shows the level of subsidence of our military science.
And here is the latest news, with the renewal of personnel in GUIR, and yesterday’s arrest, inspires hope that our approach will become more systematic and effective.
https://t.me/voenacher/69714

Posted by: anon2020 | Aug 6 2024 16:19 utc | 245

Dima is pretty weak on analysis
Posted by: Anonymous | Aug 6 2024 14:48 utc | 240
Well yea … he’s not a military analyst and he doesn’t have any military experience beyond the standard 2 year compulsory service.
He does however understand how the Russians fight which is not the way the Americans fight or the USA’s post WW2 mentors the Wehrmacht fought so there is none of that frustration that I get listening to a western analyst who decries the lack of “movement” by the Russians while at the same time calls a Russian retreat over a major river without a single casualty suffered by the main force a “defeat”.

Posted by: HB_Norica | Aug 6 2024 16:58 utc | 247

Posted by: gT | Aug 6 2024 16:53 utc | 246
If he left a way open it was for the enemy to leave their fortifications so that his bowmen could better come to grips with them.
That’s exactly what they did because if you lay siege to an enemy they fight to the death whereas if you gave them a way to flee you can mow them down as the run.
So no eyeball to eyeball braveheart stuff, just utter annihilation of the enemy’s support base and structures when the enemy was not even aware the Mongols were in the vicinity.
When returning western mercs are interviewed one of the most common things you hear is “we never saw a Russian” but if they so much as went out of the dugout to have a smoke they would be greeted with artillery fire or a tank round.
The funny thing is Russians avoiding “eyeball to eyeball” contact is being met with comments of “muh attrition” but when the mongols did it it was a brilliant tactic.

Posted by: HB_Norica | Aug 6 2024 17:13 utc | 249

Doesn’t seem like the Ukrainian forces are running out of men –

About 300 Ukrainian Armed Forces militants attacked the border in the Kursk region
MOSCOW, August 6. /TASS/. The Ukrainian Armed Forces sent up to 300 militants supported by 11 tanks to attack Russian positions near Nikolayevo-Daryino and Oleshnya in the Kursk region. Russian border troops are repelling the attacks, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
“Today, starting at 08:00 Moscow time, after a fire preparation by up to 300 militants from the 22nd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, supported by 11 tanks and more than 20 combat armored vehicles, the enemy attacked the positions of the units covering the state border of the Russian Federation in the areas of the settlements of Nikolayevo-Daryino and Oleshnya in the Kursk region, directly adjacent to the Russian-Ukrainian border. The troops covering the state border, together with units of the border troops of the FSB of Russia, are repelling attacks and inflicting fire damage on the enemy in the area of ​​the state border and reserves in the territory of the Sumy region,” the department reported.
https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/21543391

Posted by: MiniMO | Aug 6 2024 17:16 utc | 251

Have a blast, HB. I tried it and quit. And no, it wasn’t from some sort of fear of what he said. All the people are basically giving the same news. Sometimes, with slightly different flavors. But it all washes out in the end, all the maps change. Now that I’ve learned how to scan the DS map daily updates (the little bell thing in the corner) and how to generate the cross-hatch patterns for changes, I really get most of the info very well from that.
Given that, I really prefer to listen to someone who has interesting added insights. Willy is excellent in that he is much more seasoned as a military type, really has a feel for things better than some video gamer. He also looks at both sides (not just the one he likes). And he’s even had in depth interviews with working soldiers from each side. Just today, he had excellent analysis (and presentation) of the defensive works takeovers near NY and Progress. It’s clearly a level above Dima’s treadmill.
I also like to have effective presentation. Dima is just really hard to track (can’t even see what is going on!) In contrast, Theti, DPA, and Willy all do very watchable map views.
I was watching Theti for a while, but he really drones on in a monotone. In contrast DPA is funny and engaging. Also, Theti has decided that his “niche” is unit identification. But that is almost entirely random factoid noise, sans insight. As I don’t have a good feel for the 100s of numbered units on each side. (It’s the opposite of analytical information, is laundry list detail, sans critical import.)
Plus on top of that, there’s some pretty good articles that show that both sides (especially the Ukrops) are not really operating at the brigade level any more. They swap battalions/companies around like crazy, so it’s not even like the 147th Kossacks (made up random name) means something. Yeah, 3rd Azov means something. But that’s the rarity and interesting. And how the others (all of them) talk about units. But Theti is (literally) a high school kid and has not learned the difference between data and analysis.
Anyhow…feel free to look at what you want. I’m just explaining my media consumption.

Posted by: Anonymous | Aug 6 2024 17:28 utc | 253

Posted by: Anonymous | Aug 6 2024 14:40 utc | 239
>The siege is one of the most efficient types of warfare.
Problem with sieges is similar to that of narrow salients. Namely, if you leave a besieged site in your rear, the enemy can break out and cause all sorts of havoc in your rear. So you have to allocate huge numbers of troops to prevent this. If you have unlimited troops, that’s possible. Otherwise, troops (plus logistics to support those troops) tied down maintaining the siege reduce your ability to move forwards. Multiply this by dozens of sieges, which can each take months or years to resolve, and it becomes a major problem when resources are limited. And the attrition might be negligible, because a small garrison can hold a strong fortress a very long time.
Note that Russia didn’t just besiege AzovSteel in Mariupol and wait a year for it to fall but made an effort to speed up the fall. Likewise, Israel isn’t just besieging Gaza and quietly waiting a few years for it to fall but actively destroying it to speed up the fall. Long sieges pose political as well as military problems.
Each situation must be looked at individually and in context of the big picture. But it could easily make sense for Russia to prefer allowing some Ukrainians to escape New York versus risking the own troops in the assault that would have been required to surround that town.

Posted by: anonposter | Aug 6 2024 18:17 utc | 255

@Anonymouse
There is no point in watching any of the YouTube mappers daily because it’s just noise. They need to fill the space drive likes. I stopped watching them but pick your favorite, and tune in weekly or bi-weekly. Dima gets too excited and ahead of himself. But he’s entertaining.

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Aug 6 2024 18:55 utc | 257

Posted by: unimperator | Aug 6 2024 17:04 utc | 248
Upgraded model with wheels for feet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaBDDpuJglY
For close surveillance they’d need to be quiet and visually inconspicuous, dirt on sensors might be a difficult problem to solve, plus difficulty with comms due to being low down, and then there’s overall cost.
Maybe there’s a cheap / generic design that could put legs on a warhead and be dropped to the ground from an FPV carrier that also acted as a reusable comms relay.
Being able to quietly walk a warhead into a structure or dugout might be a worthwhile specialisation.

Posted by: anon2020 | Aug 6 2024 19:27 utc | 259

New York has been liberated.
Posted by: unimperator | Aug 6 2024 19:40 utc | 260
“They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway.
They say there’s always magic in the air.
But when you’re walking down that street
And you ain’t had enough to eat,
The glitter rubs right off and you’re nowhere.”
~ George Benson (SMO Remix)

Posted by: Napoleon | Aug 6 2024 19:49 utc | 261

https://t.me/dva_majors/48978

Kursk Region
Apparently, the enemy and our forces are pulling reserves, reloading and consolidating their current positions. Information from the field is coming in less intensively compared to the previous day of heavy fighting. Both sides suffered losses in personnel and equipment, as can be seen from open sources.
Apparently, the Ukrainian Armed Forces will consolidate their positions on our territory as much as possible.
Civilians should listen carefully to the instructions of regional authorities and not read enemy channels. At dusk, enemy UAV crews were clearly preparing night drones, which they have in abundance, and everyone already knows about the terrorist nature of the actions of regular units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Strength and patience to our troops.

Posted by: anon2020 | Aug 6 2024 19:59 utc | 263

https://t.me/s/dva_majors/
Two Majors TG seems to have a special interest in the events taking place in Kursk and some contacts in the Russian forces involved. I haven’t been following it so I won’t cross post a lot older material now but it’s all there for anyone willing to enable auto translation and scroll back through the history.

Posted by: anon2020 | Aug 6 2024 20:13 utc | 265

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dhbGZUtNNZA
Claims of hundreds or burning cars, that protesters are marking them for destruction at night, that this has extended to Kiev.
Also, claims of a power facility set ablaze. Finally ! Maybe ordinary Ukr. folks are rising up to stop the slaughter. Russia can’t do it alone.
Posted by: Eighthman | Aug 6 2024 14:19 utc | 238
Now we’re talking!
I now have a firm date for “ukie protests” to make my tangential analysis vs WWI
.
1. The surrender is 25/02/2025, day 1100 of the war
2. AFU will have slightly under 1.200.000 KIA in the war
3. Ukraine started with a theoretical population of 45.500.000
4. As it is stated that it started with 48.500.000, The date could be as close as 05/02/2024 ( but on another side of the parallel it would be as close as 01/11/2024, but protests should have started on 21/07/2024, KIA would be only 90% of the full estimate)
SO… no good news for Z, and on the second scenario catastrophic for Biden.
I would bet that is the reason why Z is being pushed so hard, that extra 10% can leave the problem/defeat for Trump…

Posted by: Newbie | Aug 6 2024 20:24 utc | 267

So looks like Danilov has decided to invade Russia with “his” special forces!

Posted by: Don Firineach | Aug 6 2024 20:33 utc | 269

So looks like Danilov has decided to invade Russia with “his” special forces!
Posted by: Don Firineach | Aug 6 2024 20:33 utc | 269
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To be pedantic, it’s a border raid not an invasion. The poor-stupied will just get used up to no great effect.
Just like the other times, they’ve tried this shit.

Posted by: Urban Fox | Aug 6 2024 20:45 utc | 271

Dima, says that this last attack on Kursk means that Ukraine is never going to negotiate with Russia. Just more war.
Russia would have a lot of problem with an opponent that decided to fight to the last and live without electricity.

Posted by: vargas | Aug 6 2024 21:30 utc | 273

Dima, says that this last attack on Kursk means that Ukraine is never going to negotiate with Russia. Just more war.
Russia would have a lot of problem with an opponent that decided to fight to the last and live without electricity.
Posted by: vargas | Aug 6 2024 21:30 utc | 273
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That sounds like Ukronazistan’s problem, not Russia’s. Especially the living-without-electricity part.

Posted by: malenkov | Aug 6 2024 21:55 utc | 275

According to generalized data from all open sources, the enemy forces gathered for the invasion amounted to several thousand people (including artillerymen and UAVs in the Sumy region) and dozens of armored vehicles, a couple of air defense systems, several air defense systems with MANPADS for ambushes on our aviation, footage of the death of a helicopter spread by the enemy. He allocated elite brigades armed with Bradleys for the invasion. The enemy paid special attention to electronic warfare and evacuation groups, which, as in the spring in the Belgorod region, dragged away corpses.
That is, at present, regular units of the enemy army have invaded Russian territory and are holding their positions. Right now another convoy of equipment is being destroyed on our territory.
Kyiv embarked on a serious escalation of the conflict, hiding behind sweet speeches about negotiations.
Posted by: unimperator | Aug 6 2024 21:32 utc | 274
“Several thousand people” is at least times more than the initially reported 300. So this is a major attack and not a small diversionary one.

Posted by: MiniMO | Aug 6 2024 22:32 utc | 277

Daily DS dropped.
0. No coverage of the border raid/invasion. Seems strange, but I guess they have to follow orders, given their funding.
1. Pretty decent RFA advance in NYC proper. (No, not the whole city that cheerleaders are saying, but still several blocks further.)
2. Small advance in Zhelane outskirts (Progress area).
3. Small advance in the Vulehdar sector (a field).
4. Sort of a strange “clarification” of Heleboke area. I think clarification is meant for map updates correcting an error, but not a recent gain. Anyhow, was taking a wide grey zone and giving part to RFA and part to UFA. With strange UFA control line running down the middle of a lake. Not sure what it all means. Don’t think that is an active area. Not sure if it is DS fessing up to being disengenuous earlier.. Or just honestly fixing a mistake.

Posted by: Anonymous | Aug 6 2024 22:34 utc | 279

If what happened today in the Kursk region is the beginning of the enemy’s implementation of the main plan, then in the near future we should expect another blow in the Northern direction. IMHO. Perhaps, there will be a second blow on the border with the Bryansk region. But there will also be a third and fourth. The idea of ​​creating a militia in the border areas was sound. But, unfortunately, it ended only with a media effect. Strength, fortitude and soldierly luck to our guys. These days will not be easy.
@NeoficialniyBeZsonoV

Posted by: MiniMo | Aug 6 2024 22:57 utc | 281

“Several thousand people” is at least times more than the initially reported 300. So this is a major attack and not a small diversionary one.
Posted by: MiniMO | Aug 6 2024 22:32 utc | 277
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Several thousand including “tail”, after all not everyone in a unit is “teeth”. The 300 are either a vanguard or in one particular direction.
Also it is a diversion, not a major attack. A couple of brigades will get chewed up quickly or they’ll need replacements.
Both of those are in short supply for the Donbass LoC. That’s why this is so stupid.
Russia has far more uncommitted reserves and doesn’t have to rely on press-gangs. Ukraine has to rob the LoC of scarce resources and send dudes with a week of “training” to get shot to bits at an ever more unfavorable rate.

Posted by: Urban Fox | Aug 6 2024 23:15 utc | 283

Posted by: Urban Fox | Aug 6 2024 23:15 utc | 283
Commander Apti Alaudinov claimed RUAF has enough resources to deal with the Kursk incursion without affecting other things.
But the same obviously is not true for Ukraine. They took troops from one active front, to deploy them to another, completely new non-active front (which is now active). If you look at isolated parts of the front individually, then from RUAF perspective something weakened in the Donbass.
If the Belgorod ‘invasion’ of May 2023 is similar, then it will end up in the AFU advance being stalemated. Their BUK systems covering it were already destroyed, leaving them only with MANPADS. We’ll see if RUAF stops them and hits them one-by-one with long range weapons.
Considering it’s Budanov and Nato, it wouldn’t be a surprise if he sends single troops into Russia and try to just kill everyone they come across. This is terrifying, but they could do that.

Posted by: unimperator | Aug 6 2024 23:27 utc | 285

With Ukraine and Gaza, Nato/western killing is now off the charts and very in your face.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 6 2024 23:37 utc | 286
Unfortunately, it’s nothing new. The US and UK have never had any issues with killing civilians by the thousands or more. Also recall the ISIS head choppers. No proxy is too evil or inhumane for NATzO and few Israeli or FUKUSNATO ‘troops’ have ever been held accountable for murdering civilians in cold blood, let alone anyone in the command structure who ordered it. And that’s a feature, not a bug.
Just in the past 2 days Covert Action Magazine has run stories to this effect.
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/08/05/u-s-backed-a-royalist-coup-and-massacre-in-nepal-in-2001/
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/08/05/newly-declassified-how-the-cia-sponsored-terrorist-raids-and-then-secretly-murdered-150000-cambodian-civilians-in-paving-the-way-for-countrys-decade-of-genocide/

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 6 2024 23:51 utc | 287

Ukraine is not on its last reserves, as it has been claimed to have been on its last reserves several times before, but they were wrong, again and again. Someone on twitter keeping track says

First they claimed “last reserves” were used on Bakhmut.
Next the claim was that Avdeevka was used to destroy all “last reserves”.
Then Vovchansk….now Kursk?

Posted by: MiniMo | Aug 7 2024 1:51 utc | 289

Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 6 2024 23:51 utc | 287
You are right on that. We just have to look at the fire storms in Germany and Japan when US unleashed war on the civilian populations. Not to mention saving three Japanese cities to test/demonstrate the atomic bomb.
But with the internet, we now get to watch the killing in real time….

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 7 2024 2:25 utc | 291

Re: Posted by: unimperator | Aug 6 2024 21:32 utc | 274

Kyiv embarked on a serious escalation of the conflict, hiding behind sweet speeches about negotiations.

What is this rubbish?
Ukraine has never made ”sweet speeches about negotiations “!! – that is Russia doing that!
Point me to any speech given by Zelensky in which he calls for peace negotiations with Russia immediately and without pre-conditions.
You can’t because he’s never done so – it is only Putin saying things like that and that Russia is ready to negotiate when there is a willing and able negotiating partner to negotiate with.
Why make up these lies about Ukraine wanting peace negotiations – they never have and certainly don’t want any at the moment!
Are you relying on perfidious Western media sources for these ridiculous claims?!?