Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 8 2024 19:37 utc | 102
The way the US is sanctioning itself out of chips, the washing machines probably have a lot of recycling value now 🙂

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 8 2024 19:43 utc | 103

– In Bolshaya Soldatovka, the enemy faced resistance.
– Fighting has started in the Sudzha area.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 8 2024 18:45 utc | 91
Please explain…
Bolshaya Soldatovka is 20 kms north of Sudzha on the R200.
Do you mean AFU forces ignored Sudzha, went 20 kms north, were beat and returned south to try to take Sudzha?

Posted by: Newbie | Aug 8 2024 19:49 utc | 105

Posted by: Membrum Virile | Aug 8 2024 18:08 utc | 79
Sometimes doing nothing is worse, if he’d gone too early though, or too late then the consequences would have been far worse for Russia. A soldiers ultimate responsibility is to die for his country, hence the contracts of unlimited liability they sign, as part of their service agreement, therefore their deployment should never be delayed for fear of losing them.
As for tank platforms, I think Russia is fielding machines that are superior in practically every aspect to the ones they had pre-SMO. As for numbers left stop watching Covert Cabal and other sites that just regurgitate open-sources or rumours, Russia never throws away anything. Whilst travelling towards Moscow, in IIRC the late Seventies (lots of prep for the Mockba Games) I drove on an elevated piece of roadway that allowed me to see the armour stored outside their sheds, there were row upon row of T-34 85’s!
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 8 2024 18:41 utc | 90
If that was the aim they need their head examining, possibly it was a spoiling attack because they feared a Russian build up was about to become a multi-axes offensive. The wheeled APC’s would then make sense, using speed as a shield they could rapidly advance to attack vulnerable rear-area targets.

Posted by: Milites | Aug 8 2024 19:52 utc | 107

Wait, what? Ukr. troops changing into Russian uniforms for sabotage ? I guess that seals the Battle of The Bulge analogy.
Nazis doing nazi stuff. Hope they get caught and put in front of a firing squad
Posted by: Eighthman | Aug 8 2024 19:33 utc | 100
Depends, but in most cases they’ll, at least, lose the POW status (if they’re mercs they’d already be out of that protection so…)
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule62

Posted by: Newbie | Aug 8 2024 19:57 utc | 109

Remarque : j’espère que l’avancée de l’Ukraine sera stoppée le plus tôt possible. Votre Emporeur soutient un cessez-le-feu immédiat.
The Ukrainian offensive is a brilliant move tactically, strategically, and geopolitically. Think Vietnam … this is the Tet Offensive! And back then, as today, the bar flies hovering around General Westmorland were stuttering the same excuses:
“Muh … this is strategically illogical. Muh … suicide mission. Muh … Charlie is desperate. Muh … we will wipe out any gains. Muh … the enemy is suffering staggering losses. Muh … attrition! Muh … DeCommiefication.”
This is the Tet offense. Putin is reeling. Actually, it is a super-Tet, since Charlie didn’t invade Texas. The Russian people’s long humiliation of being bombed will soon bubble to the surface. Is there a Walter Cronkite in Russia bold enough to say the SMO is unwinnable?
How embarrassing. I keep repeating myself. And if the UAF can dig in and bring this hellish World War I front into Russia, it will be a great coup. It is refreshing seeing the offensive minds of the US and UK use modern tactics, rather than the unending fight for castles the medieval Russian generals engage in. Chasif Yar!
I don’t want to gloat. I came here as a compassionate emperor, First Citizen, to drink with you barflies. The truth is never nice. I wanted to ease the Russia fans into the simple truth that the SMO is an epic failure. Reality, such as this Slavic Tet Offensive, is much less kind.
Never fear, this new front will eventually lock. If you are a Putin fan, hope that this happens behind the Russian border, anything else would be laughable and very 404.

Posted by: Napoleon | Aug 8 2024 20:01 utc | 111

I find it really encouraging that someone like Medvedev doesnt realise that the enemy gets a vote. It will, and already has, blow up on their faces spectacularly.
Posted by: Membrum Virile | Aug 8 2024 17:25 utc | 61
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You must be specific when you say the “enemy.” Are you referring to the Kiev regime, Nato, or the US specifically? Zelensky has already conceded Kiev’s authority to the US, the UK, and most importantly the Nazis in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. All who now may have a vote, but not the remaining 20 million civilians who remain in Ukraine: The US, the UK, and Nato have no moral, or right, to vote on anything concerning Ukraine, they are just interlopers selling military weapons and equipment for the MIC.

Posted by: Ed | Aug 8 2024 20:02 utc | 113

Posted by: Áobh Ó’Sheachnasaigh | Aug 8 2024 19:23 utc | 97
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 8 2024 19:32 utc | 99
One of the snags with this is that the forces of Mordor keep closing down strategically useful sites like ammo factories and steelworks, at least here in Britain.
Not to mention the lack of skilled workers, competitively priced and easily available energy supplies and raw materials, or the sheer inability of the managerial classes to look further than the next quarterly bonus.
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Thanks Jeremy. I did not mean to imply that the Russians should target decent hard-working English folk, whom I assume want nothing to with trying to exterminate Russians. More ruthless in condideration of response yes, but not evil.

Posted by: Áobh Ó’Sheachnassigh | Aug 8 2024 20:08 utc | 115

Thetoppassenger | Aug 8 2024 20:09 utc | 116
The trolls are clowns. I guess these threads will be swamped with the likes of you until these two mighty Nato offensives are nothing more than maggot eaten corpses.
May as well cheer your nato dog meat on while they still have a pulse.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 8 2024 20:14 utc | 117

Posted by: Thetoppassenger | Aug 8 2024 20:09 utc | 116
“A small country of farmers”; hmmm, I must have missed Russia invading Guernsey, could you kindly update me please?

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 8 2024 20:18 utc | 119

Milites
What stuns me a bit are the amount of low intelligence types that are willing to die in a futile fight. Several reports of the forces in Kursk being Polish and I think English speakers.
Its like they are some sort of religious extremists.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 8 2024 20:19 utc | 121

Thetoppassenger | Aug 8 2024 20:09 utc | 116
“The trolls are clowns.” Don’t mind my typos. That was supposed read – You trolls are clowns.
Thought I had better fix that as you idiots are obviously low on intelligence.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 8 2024 20:25 utc | 123

Ukraine is ALL IN. This is everything they have in Kursk. Everything.
The Pokrovsk front is literally void of any sort of fire support on AFU side.
If RUAF stabilizes this, they have won.

Posted by: unimperator | Aug 8 2024 20:25 utc | 125

Posted by: Micron | Aug 8 2024 16:34 utc | 39
Amazing that Operation Barbarossa, the Charge of the Light Brigade, and the British willful slaughter of the Canadians at Dieppe made not one scintilla difference to the outcome of the war.
There is only one outcome here. Russia wins, Ukraine loses. Ukraine picked a bunch of wannabee Princes and Princess as their partners. A fatal, strategic mistake.

Posted by: kupkee | Aug 8 2024 20:34 utc | 127

Ermak explained Ukranian demands:
– 1991 borders
– reparations
– all-for-all prisoner exchange
– trials for Russians
– security guarantees
– a new security architecture in Europe
Source
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 8 2024 20:18 utc | 120
You forgot a blowjob and a nice fat line of colombian’s best 😀
There is a full special military grouping created at the end of 2023, it is located at the border of the Voronezh-Kursk-Belgorod regions, less than 200kms from Lgov (train available)nominally at 90-120 thousand bayonets. Then still train to Korenovo, drive down to Gordeevka and wedge to straighten the border by yablunivka. Add thyme and FAB’s to the cauldron and let it stew…

Posted by: Newbie | Aug 8 2024 20:35 utc | 129

Ukraine is ALL IN. This is everything they have in Kursk. Everything.
The Pokrovsk front is literally void of any sort of fire support on AFU side.
If RUAF stabilizes this, they have won.
Posted by: unimperator | Aug 8 2024 20:25 utc | 125
So october/november it is. They could have held to february without the clown act but…

Posted by: Newbie | Aug 8 2024 20:37 utc | 131

It’s a 1,300 mile front-no country can plug very hole. This is a de minimus attack and I agree with b yjat in 2 or three days it will be over.
You guys are way off base.
Posted by: canuck | Aug 8 2024 7:56 utc | 267
Continuing from last thread, the main point of mine was that Bernhard explicitly said he had no doubt they’d be kicked out of the country in a day or two. Are they out? Do they show signs of getting out within the next day?
And that was the mentality I was commenting on, not on whether Russia could defeat Nazi Ukraine.

Posted by: Tichy | Aug 8 2024 20:41 utc | 133

Ermak explained Ukranian demands:
– 1991 borders

the fixation on those 1991 borders (without the people in it of course, as “ukrainians” dont want the ukrainians that live there, go figure) is the main us/uk demand, not “ukraines”.
ermak only proves that he is a good little lapdog. a nazi lapdog, but a lapdog nonetheless.

Posted by: Justpassinby | Aug 8 2024 20:43 utc | 135

NATO must be laughing its ass off at this fiasco.
Posted by: bored | Aug 8 2024 20:38 utc | 132

judging by the french and polish speaking idiots that were driven back via ambulance, and the constant flight of planes from poland to germanies hospitals over the course of their little misadventure, i am not sure that nato is laughing its ass off at their fiasco.

Posted by: Justpassinby | Aug 8 2024 20:45 utc | 137

Re: NATO, remember this military “power” couldn’t pacify illiterate goat herders in Afghanistan after 20 years.
Reminds me of the US Navy getting owned by the Houthis. Again, illiterate goat herders.
Maybe Russia’s problem is that they are too educated and need to switch to sandals to defeat this “AWESOME” Western military. /s

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 8 2024 20:50 utc | 139

Posted by: Micron | Aug 8 2024 16:34 utc | 39
You have some point but this isn’t 2022, where the Russian forces were actually heavily outnumbered on the LoC and Ukraine was using reservists not press-ganged meat predominantly.
Russian bloggers are excessive in their complaints, it’s the Russian way As for “Skywalker” WTF do I care the deluded ravings of the émigré equivalent of a Banderite?
Honestly this is like Jubal Early’s the Confederate cavalry kicking up dust near Washington DC circa 1865 or John Bell Hood’s quixotic attempt to recapture Tennessee & then invade Kentucky.
It’s a bad use of limited forces by the outnumbered side, when they’re clearly in the shit elsewhere and on the road to losing the war.

Posted by: Urban Fox | Aug 8 2024 20:59 utc | 141

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 8 2024 20:19 utc | 121
Possibly the same motivator as those who planned this op, a desire to make an impact on the world, instead of slipping away into the annals of historical irrelevance. I’ve talked to many veterans and although they tell stories of horror and hardship many say their only regrets were for the ‘blokes who didn’t make it back’. Listening to them you really feel a sense of personal pride and achievement, guess it’s the paradox at the heart of humanity.
Posted by: bored | Aug 8 2024 20:38 utc | 132
I will bet you a substantial amount of imaginary coins that NATO planners are privately aghast at this move, which is something you do in a planning simulation, just to see if it might work. Russia has air superiority, Russia controls the clock, Russia has reserves nearby, Russia has fire superiority in ALL conventional platforms. Ukraine has drone superiority at a tactical level. Can you guess what the outcome is likely to be?
Just a point about the paradox of mech infantry, they are superior to the leg variety until they loose their APC. Leg infantry spend more time training being infantry, mech infantry spend a lot of time training in infantry armour cooperation. Leg infantry have to carry everything, mech infantry ‘live off their wagons’ meaning a forced dismount leaves them normally short of everything. If they’ve raced ahead to seize KP’s (Key Points) and have lost their mounts then they are in deep trouble. Still Ukraine has the multi-function drone, (now with added AD capability) so game over Russia, you might as well surrender now!

Posted by: Milites | Aug 8 2024 21:00 utc | 143

Well, as a lot of you’re guessing, this ukro-nazi attack finally will make a lot of things easier for the Russians, for example the Chinese factor is now neutralised. Elena Panina complements Medvedev here:

Ukraine’s aggression near Kursk – masks off. No longer SVO, but war
The events in the Kursk region, the crossing of the Russian border, the invasion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces into its territory and the full-scale military operation of the enemy’s regular troops allow us to draw the following political conclusions.
1. The period of the Special Military Operation is over. A new Patriotic War has begun. And this dictates completely different approaches not only on the front line, but also in all domestic politics of Russia.
2. The mask of “victim of Russian aggression” has been finally thrown off the Zelensky regime. Now no one should have any doubts that aggression against Russia was prepared before the SVO and was planned immediately after the completion of the rearmament of the Ukrainian Armed Forces by the United States, including the supply of armored vehicles, missiles and fighters. On February 24, 2022, by starting the SVO, Russia postponed this aggression.
3. The high level of organization of the invasion by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the nature of the forces involved, including the best Western weapons, a whole horde of drones, powerful air defense and electronic warfare, the absence of PR campaigns prove that the attack was prepared in Washington, not in Kiev , without tying it to a specific tactical situation on the front line. Neither in terms of time nor in terms of logistics does it have anything to do with the idea of ​​”diverting the resources of the Russian Armed Forces” from other areas of the LBS and was tied to only one factor – the timing of the rearmament of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to Western models. The US plans for the destruction of the Russian state have not changed. Hiding behind the information noise about “Russian aggression”, they were re-arming Ukraine. And as soon as Kiev received the F-16, the invasion near Kursk began.
4. The situation suggests that the invasion of the Kursk region is not a one-off – it may be followed by other ground operations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Russian territory . In this regard, it may be worthwhile not to limit ourselves to declaring a state of emergency in the Kursk region, but to consider the possibility of declaring martial law in all border regions of the Russian Federation, with all the corresponding plans and actions, including for the civilian population, in the event of an enemy attack. And in the country as a whole, it is no longer possible to postpone the transfer of the entire control system to a war footing.
5. And most importantly. Russia has no more restraining motives to destroy the aggressor using all available forces and means . The arsenal of which is far from exhausted by the range of weapons already deployed during the SVO. The enemy who sets foot on Russian soil must not simply be stopped and thrown back beyond the state border. He must be destroyed in Sumy and Kharkov, in Kiev and Dnepropetrovsk, in Nikolaev and Odessa…

Posted by: Boo | Aug 8 2024 21:06 utc | 145

Can a drone UAV destroy jet aircraft?
-others may have noticed the tactic of fighters washing out drones with their down draft, and maybe this same tactic was used or threatened against the large surveillance drones over the Black Sea.
-increasingly drones are used to clip other drones mid flight, or knock them down from above;
– this anti drone tactic may give rise to antidrone drones; since already combat requires multiple UAV actions the ubiquitous kamikazes and the surveillance drones, it seems plausible a third category will surface of strictly enemy drone repelling drones.
– should a drone be built exclusively to disable drones, why not manned aircraft as well? These drones would be aircraft hunters, UAV hunting drones, plausibly all aircraft within certain distances will become prey, even the iconic birds of prey fighter jets.
-Drone war is in its infancy.

Posted by: Nothingburgers | Aug 8 2024 21:11 utc | 147

Posted by: Membrum Virile | Aug 8 2024 21:10 utc | 146
ah, you mean biden?

Posted by: Justpassinby | Aug 8 2024 21:14 utc | 149

Posted by: Boo | Aug 8 2024 21:06 utc | 145
Hmm, isn’t calling the Ukraine operation a war punishable by quick removal to gulag in russia ?
I know putin called it that, but laws of course don’t apply to the dictator. Elena though might not be immune.

Posted by: Membrum Virile | Aug 8 2024 21:16 utc | 151

Boy, howdy, the trolls certainly are out in force.
Posted by: Hunsdon | Aug 8 2024 20:48 utc | 138
Of course, they go out when they smell shit to post more shit.

Posted by: Naive | Aug 8 2024 21:20 utc | 153

southfront has a nice article up about french dying in droves to russian longrange strikes. no wonder napoleon is so frustrated.

Posted by: Justpassinby | Aug 8 2024 21:23 utc | 155

The AFU began engineering the terrain on the so-called “Surovikin line”, building a fortified area there. Most likely, tonight they will attempt to drag engineering equipment further and begin equipping another line, from which it will be more difficult for the AFU to be dislodged.
The combat potential of the AFU grouping is far from exhausted: the introduction of the second and third echelons is expected in the near future. At the same time, the danger to other sections of the Kursk direction is not ruled out.

Posted by: MiniMO | Aug 8 2024 21:25 utc | 157

Barflies, please skip posts by anonymous, napoleon, and vargas.
Why? You write more interesting comments when you reply to other contributors.

Posted by: despondent | Aug 8 2024 21:29 utc | 159

I get a bad feeling about this Kursk invasion. It starts to look like an Anwar Sadat headfake.
A situation in which there’s a huge load of BS pounding away at Russia, making them complacent. Next thing you know the Sinai gets crossed and you’re in trouble – from a guy you thought was a loud mouthed idiot.
The reported force is invasion level, with assault superiority numbers against what? Border guards? Brigades might have been reconstituted with the mobilized. 300 APC’s ? Is this real? Dunno.
Did they capture 40 – 50 Russians already? That’s too many too soon and suggests huge local superiority to me.
Can Russia get anybody/anything there in force? Looks to me like this may not be as crazy as it looks and they planned to get to Kursk from the beginning.

Posted by: Eighthman | Aug 8 2024 21:30 utc | 161

Posted by: Membrum Virile | Aug 8 2024 21:10 utc | 146
Of all the trolls, you’re the most vile.
Explain how entering kilometres into Russian territory and shooting dead in cold blood an unarmed pregnant Russian woman in front of her husband and son is in any way “defending Ukraine”.
You can’t. Not even a miserable trolling excuse for a human being such as you can in any way justify this murderous war crime.
You must know very well that the “defending Ukraine” narrative is entirely bullshit fed to western populace in order to cover for the disgraceful proxy war that has been promulgated by the the grifting elites of the United States for well over ten years.

Posted by: Lev Davidovich | Aug 8 2024 21:31 utc | 163

Posted by: vargas | Aug 8 2024 19:50 utc | 106
Did you enjoy beating your wife?
It’s the same sort of question.
Posted by: anonymoud | Aug 8 2024 20:26 utc | 126
The only thing vargas ever beats is him/her/itself. He/she/it is a masterbeater.
Posted by: Ново З | Aug 8 2024 20:35 utc | 130
Please behave normally. I never insulted anybody here.
This whole situation can in the end be good for Russia as the corrupted officials shall be forced to leave the army. Dima’s conclusion is that it is now a poker game. The one who removes army units from the existing lines of combat loses the game/war.
Why is it forbidden to criticize Russia?
The real friend is the one telling truth.
We should just remove that fake narrative of Saker/Martynov about the almighty Putin.

Posted by: vargas | Aug 8 2024 21:35 utc | 165

House!!! Troll Bingo….the full set
It seems nothing brings out fascist cheerleaders in a frenzy more than the cold blooded murder of pregnant Russian civilians.
Posted by: Lev Davidovich | Aug 8 2024 18:31 utc | 85
You forgot Micron.
Btw it is very good news that elite troops are participating rather than waiting hidden behind. Thus they will be destroyed. And it will be easier.

Posted by: Naive | Aug 8 2024 21:37 utc | 167

Posted by: alek_a | Aug 8 2024 21:28 utc | 158
##############
Maybe if you do your war simulations on a Risk game board.

Posted by: a stone | Aug 8 2024 21:38 utc | 169

Peter AU1 | Aug 8 2024 20:19 utc | 121
*** What stuns me a bit are the amount of low intelligence types that are willing to die in a futile fight. Several reports of the forces in Kursk being Polish and I think English speakers.
Its like they are some sort of religious extremists.***
Maybe them and the Azov types don’t worry too much since they are by now confident of, when captured, being returned (with little or no damage) to their masters in a swap.
Even after they murder as many civilians as they can, and torture POWs.
Perhaps a series of very olden-days executions might alter the rest of them’s thinking.

Posted by: Cynic | Aug 8 2024 21:43 utc | 171

Dear Barflies, as so. o. posting rarely but reading rather continiously I beg you: Don´t feed the nafo trolls. They´re not worth any second of your precious lifetime and will disappear earlier when not getting reactions.
Dear B., all the best for the further recreation of your health, weiterhin gute Besserung!

Posted by: Blue Angel | Aug 8 2024 21:44 utc | 173

https://t.me/rybar_in_english/16818

❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Kursk Direction: Deployment of “Fire Brigades” and Hunting for AFU Recon Groups
What is known as of the end of August 8, 2024
By 6 PM, the Russian grouping of troops (forces) began clearing the breakthrough zone and eliminating the consequences. This task is primarily assigned to special forces units, as well as special operations forces groups. In addition, there have already been reports of the deployment of units from the “African Corps” (most likely, detachments from the Krasnodar Territory). The main efforts continue to be concentrated in the Korenevo and Sudzha districts.
Due to the fog of war, lack of objective control personnel, as well as “soldier’s radio”, the situation was only fully clarified by the end of the day: the previous advances of the AFU with the control of certain areas of the territory are explained by the activity of Ukrainian recon groups.
📍Ukrainian recon groups tied down Russian checkpoints in combat and bypassed them, entering as many empty settlements as possible. Due to confusion and control problems, the scale of the enemy’s advance was exaggerated, which played into the hands of sowing panic.
🔻In the Sudzha district, after building up the grouping in Bolshoye Soldatovo, the clearing of the highway began.
▪️Ukrainian formations maintain stable control over Goncharovka and western Sudzha. Footage of looting of houses and removal of stolen goods has appeared online.
▪️In eastern Sudzha, according to fragmentary information, there is a focal presence of territorial defense units and Russian troops. At the same time, the work of AFU recon groups is also noted there, whose task is not to capture and control the administrative center, but to sow panic and achieve a media effect.
▪️In the morning, Ukrainian mobile recon groups bypassed eastern Sudzha and went further along the highway. In the evening, Russian forces engaged a Ukrainian unit in Martynivka, while simultaneously clearing the forest area and surrounding villages.
🔻In the Korenevo district, attempts to occupy the administrative center actually turned into attempts by the AFU to quickly clear the strongholds and capture Korenevo. After repelling them, the main AFU forces dispersed in the area of the breakthrough section.
▪️In Snagost, Russian troops began clearing, trying to push Ukrainian groups out of this area.
▪️Online, footage was recorded of Ukrainian groups in Novoivanovka and Lyubimovka – these are the nearest settlements to Korenevo, which are under the conditional control of the enemy.
📌The AFU began engineering the terrain on the so-called “Surovikin line”, building a fortified area there. Most likely, tonight they will attempt to drag engineering equipment further and begin equipping another line, from which it will be more difficult for the AFU to be dislodged.
The combat potential of the AFU grouping is far from exhausted: the introduction of the second and third echelons is expected in the near future. At the same time, the danger to other sections of the Kursk direction is not ruled out.

Posted by: ? | Aug 8 2024 21:51 utc | 175

@Membrum Virile
Where have you been all this time?
– while Bucha has been debunked
– while Ukraine has defaulted on a major part of its international debt obligations
– while the Ukrainian population stumbles about in the dark, short of fresh dairy and meat products because the electricity supply doesn’t work properly, because the technicians capable of repairing the grid have been press-ganged and sent to die, untrained, on the front line
– while the press-gangs are having their vehicles and homes burnt out because the database of their personnel details wasn’t secured; wholesale doxxing ensued
Where have you been all this time?

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 8 2024 21:52 utc | 177

Forbes reports the 80th Ukr. brigade joins the invasion and that a Ukr brigade is 2000. Adding that to the reported numbers, there could be 24,000 invading with at least some heavy armor.

Posted by: Eighthman | Aug 8 2024 21:54 utc | 179

https://t.me/rybar_in_english/16819

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Chronicles of the special military operation
for August 8, 2024
Over the past day, Russian forces struck enemy targets on the territory of the so-called Ukraine with missiles and kamikaze drones.
In the North Ukrainian direction, reserves of the Russian Armed Forces began arriving by evening. Russian special forces units have already begun clearing the territory, pushing the enemy back towards Sumy.
In the Slobozhansky direction, on the contrary, the Russian Armed Forces broke through the Ukrainian border on the right flank and reported the capture of Sotnitsky Kazachok and Lukashovka.
In the Oleksandrivka-Kalinovo direction, fighting continues in Kirovo and Artemovo, from which Russian assault groups are trying to advance towards the northern outskirts of Novhorodske.
In the Pokrovsk direction, the Russian army advanced westward in the area of Timofeevka, as well as liberated Sergeyevka and is conducting a clearing operation in Zhelannoe.
🔻Detailed analytical report on the events in the Special Military Operation zone is available on our closed channel

Posted by: ? | Aug 8 2024 21:54 utc | 181

@Posted by: Micron | Aug 8 2024 16:34 utc | 39
Usual concern troll crap. The first phase of the SMO, when Russia was severely undermanned, has nothing to do with this phase of the war when Russia now significantly overmatches the Ukrainians while using tactics designed to keep Ukrainian losses to a maximum and Russian losses to a minimum in a war substantially changed by drones. Russia has now worked its way through approx. 1 million of the Ukrainian military while completely destroying the masses of equipment Ukraine started with, plus two Western replenishments worth. No further major replenishments are on their way. The Ukrainian army has been reduced largely to an infantry force reliant on “technicals” and civilian cars and with a rapidly diminishing artillery presence and hardly any air presence.
Russia is winning, rather than whining, while its losses are held to a minimum and the Russian economy grows faster than Western ones. And Germany de-industrializes.

Posted by: Roger | Aug 8 2024 21:56 utc | 183

The situation has become so bad that I think the fate of the current Russian leadership and direction will be decided in the coming week.
Posted by: alek_a | Aug 8 2024 21:28 utc | 158
Let’s wait – say – until 2024-08-18. Then I am sure I will write a comment about your prediction.
Btw the situation is excellent. Some of the best ukronazi brigades are about to be destroyed. An offensive without air support is a suicide mission. Aka a meat grinder. Only today 660 ukronazis liquidated. At least one Norwegian among them.
Remember Krinky?!

Posted by: Naive | Aug 8 2024 21:59 utc | 185

https://t.me/Eurekapress/29233

🇷🇺 Kursk region
A group of special forces Aida arrived (https://t.me/iamsniper/6187) in the Sudzhi area and entered the battle.
@voenkorKotenok reports that a van with enemy troops was destroyed by a direct hit.
Special forces are operating in the regional center, entering from different directions, which took the enemy by surprise.
And the information from елорусского силовика is confirmed (https://t.me/belarusian_silovik/38851).
💀 Wagner Ratibor is also active in the Sudzha area.
✨ In general, our units have entered into combat with the enemy. Now combat work is being carried out not only from the sky, but also by local conscript units, border guards and defence units.
The first reserves have arrived and have reached the outskirts of the enemy bridgehead from the Sudzha side. Heavy fighting is ahead.
@two_majors

Posted by: ? | Aug 8 2024 22:00 utc | 187

Posted by: Cynic | Aug 8 2024 21:43 utc | 171
One report says that French too was heard.

Posted by: Naive | Aug 8 2024 22:00 utc | 189

(Sorry, guess I’m getting a little too emotional. Nevertheless…)

Posted by: Tichy | Aug 8 2024 22:05 utc | 191

Posted by: alek_a | Aug 8 2024 22:00 utc | 186
Do you think that Russia is destabilized?
Do you think that Russia is vulnerable? How?
Do you think that Russia can be defeated?
Do you think that RUAF is incompetent?
Do you think that Russian villages can be turned into urkonazis strongholds?
Do you think that holding civilians as hostages is a war crime?
Which new phase in the war is starting now?
Btw several ukronazis generals and staff were destroyed near Kharkov in the night 6-7 August. So yes the leadershipt was “couped”, but not the one you expected.

Posted by: Naive | Aug 8 2024 22:09 utc | 193

Random theory: this whole Kursk escapade came about because someone heard that Ukraine’s national gold reserves might be held there…

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 8 2024 22:11 utc | 195

Naive | Aug 8 2024 22:00 utc | 189
Yep. French and polish. I read it a few times from different points. I think I might have put British voices in an earlier comment but that was wrong.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 8 2024 22:12 utc | 197

Russian troops have begun clearing the breakthrough zone and eliminating AFU DRGs. This task is entrusted primarily to special forces units.

Source
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‼️🇷🇺🔥Russian Army Defeats Ukrainian Armed Forces Column That Broke Through Kursk Region
▪️The enemy was moving in the Malaya Loknya area – this is approximately 15-20 km from the border.
▪️The equipment stopped, where it was overtaken. The vehicles were destroyed by Ka-52M helicopters, and the infantry in the forest was finished off by artillery.

SOURCE with video

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 8 2024 22:12 utc | 199