Ukraine Weekly Update, 11th Oct 2024: May be useful to some: https://robcampbell.substack.com/p/ukraine-weekly-update-6c7

Posted by: Dr. Rob Campbell | Oct 13 2024 15:08 utc | 4

Soviético | Oct 13 2024 15:17 utc | 8 translated:

Here in Brazil we call this “tabelinha”.

LOL 🙂 What in sam hell does ‘tabelinha’ mean ?

Posted by: Outraged | Oct 13 2024 15:30 utc | 6

Posted by: Outraged | Oct 13 2024 15:30 utc | 9+
A table for the little kids that don’t behave during meals or conversations around the table.
That is what we call it in Madeira.

Posted by: adesanto | Oct 13 2024 15:36 utc | 8

Yawn, I’ll return when there are thoughts worth discussing. Ill sidestep the sophomoric Western propagandist vomit on the floor. Watch your step, don’t slip in the desperation.

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Oct 13 2024 15:58 utc | 10

Anonymous (3):
[Yes, replying to myself…don’t be h8er!]
To be generous, they probably take Toretsk/NY complex this year, so call it three, assuming they get it done.
2025? Maybe Chasiv Yar, Kurakavo (too lazy to spell check). And MAYBE Pokrovsk/Myrnograd complex. I say maybe, because it really will take a huge amount of development of the flanks (massive swaths of land) to get a semi-encirclement. If anything, I think the chances of taking Seversk are higher. At least it is already within a “pocket”.
Kherson? Odessa? Kharkov? I mean really only the latter is in any sense near term feasible…and would still take a massive change in forces. Not the small amount dicking around inside Vovchansk.

Posted by: Anonymous | Oct 13 2024 16:11 utc | 12

Instead of calling people trolls and paid shills, it would be a good idea to present a factual refutation of what is being presented as objective facts.
At the current rate of ~500 km^2 of territory taken a month, Russia will take over the whole of Ukraine some time in the early 22nd century. Yes, you read that correct.
That is an objective fact – it is what the simple math works out to:
485,000 km^2/500 == 970 months
970/12 = ~81 years
It logically follows that for the war to be won, there will have to be some kind of massive acceleration in the rate of advance.
How is that going to happen?
Well, the hope/cope is that attrition works in a non-linear way and there will be a collapse of the AFU soon. The problem is that we have been waiting for that collapse for a third year now, and it is not coming, quite the opposite – the AFU went on the offensive in Kursk and it is a very difficult hard fight to flush them out of there. Meanwhile in the Donbass things accelerated a bit, but not nearly enough. Remember Putin proudly boasting in the early days of the Kursk fiasco how “the rate of advance in the Donbass has increased 1.5 times”? What a pathetic fool…
So we shifted from the war being projected to be won by the year 2160 to it being projected to be won by the year 2110 instead. Fantastic win…
We hear a lot of about Ukrainians lacking manpower, etc., but the front is not collapsing. And it may never collapse because with drones a few guys holed up in some crevice in the ruins can hold back the other side for quite some time. So you don’t need that much manpower.
There are military-technical solutions that will deprive the AFU of the means to continue fighting. They involve things like finally striking the command-and-control centers, finally rolling out the mythical EMP weapons to kill the drones, finally destroying internal Ukrainian logistics, and, most importantly, nuking Poland and Romania, or at the very least the border crossings with Poland and Romania, to block supplies from coming in.
All of that is off-limits for political reasons having to do with the Russian elites not wanting to burn their bridges with the West.
So, if Russian elites and the Kremlin are actively sabotaging the war effort by forcing the army to fight with two hands tied behind its back, and with the military-technical situation in the condition of not being allowed to disrupt the enemy’s logistics being the current drone-imposed stalemate, how is the deadlock goind to be broken?
Nobody who is foaming at the mouth about trolls and paid shills has provided an explanation.
Until you are capable of providing one, please shut the f*** up or crawl up into some corner and begin the process of decomposition.

Posted by: 1917 | Oct 13 2024 16:19 utc | 14

Technossomy @ 5
I rarely insult people at the bar, but congrats on attaining unbounded stupidity.
—
Saw that Germany will no longer send tanks to Ukraine. Germany is the country in the EU with the most tanks by far, they were the bulwark to stopping an imagined Soviet invasion, or spearheading one if NATO ever saw the opportunity, whatever they had a lot of tanks. Guessing they sent many more than claimed, and they all got a Lancet up the keister. Either Project 404 is winding down, or they are out of functional tanks.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Oct 13 2024 16:26 utc | 16

Nobody who is foaming at the mouth about trolls and paid shills has provided an explanation.

Posted by: 1917 | Oct 13 2024 16:19 utc | 19
On the contrary, many folks here have repeatedly provided explanations, often including external links to other sources to support their explanations, something which you seem incapable of doing, incidentally.
However, you completely ignore, or fail to understand these repeated explanations as you continue to spam up the forum with the same old tripe day in day out. Whether or not you like the description, you are a tiresome shill for the ludicrous view that V V Putin should be overthrown, something which the CIA would be delighted to see. Holding this view you also reveal your supercilious Western contempt for the democratic wishes of the Russian people, who returned President Putin with an overwhelming mandate in the last election.
~~~
BTW, would you like a superscript ² to copypaste, as you seem unable to work out how to make one appear?

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Oct 13 2024 16:39 utc | 18

reply to 1, 17
It is deeply frustrating to watch this war. There is a lot Russia can do to wreck Ukraine rather easily that isn’t happening. I am driven to conclude that they have a patient game plan in operation. I notice that Mercouris largely thinks the same thing. No final Blitzkrieg yet.
IF the reports about Ukr. conscripts is true – that they almost entirely run away or go AWOL – then Ukraine can’t replenish their forces. A Google search reveals a huge amount of stupidity as with lengthy reports about Ukraine that don’t use any accurate or even believable numbers in regard to their military (as with a Congressional Report that just skips it).
If they are fielding 250K now, then at a rate of 60-70K per month, they are done in about five months. I find the 2K per day losses credible, given poor training, lack of air cover, lack of air defense, lack of ammo and so on. Russia would then face minimal troops and mine fields and the occassional missile.

Posted by: Eighthman | Oct 13 2024 16:55 utc | 20

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Oct 13 2024 16:43 utc | 20

In Russia such kits have been produced by the score for years already.
One of the producers – Moscow CITO
CITO Telegram

Posted by: Bim | Oct 13 2024 17:09 utc | 22

@ adesanto | Oct 13 2024 15:36 utc | 8
Thank you kindly. Cheers
@ Shadowbanned/1917/et al | Oct 13 2024 16:19 utc | 14
Instead of calling people trolls and paid shills, it would be a good idea to present a factual refutation of what is being presented as objective facts.
What, do your job for you, feed the troll & further repeat by refutation, pollute & disrail threads ?
PS You wouldn’t, cannot be permitted to, recognize an objective fact/s if it was chained to the grill of prime mover that impacted you full on at 100Mph. FO.
@ LoveDonbass | Oct 13 2024 16:23 utc | 15

1917/Shadowbanned makes MoA unreadable.

Alas, ’tis so.

Posted by: outraged | Oct 13 2024 17:15 utc | 24

Bim | Oct 13 2024 17:09 utc | 23
My understanding is that the UCL kit is quite cheap, and that’s it’s USP. I never doubted that Russia makes them.
“external ­fixators are complex and expensive. A single device can cost more than £2,000 and in conflict zones they are difficult to access. Sometimes homemade fixators are made but they often lead to serious complications.”
“We designed simple ways to make external fixators and tested them in Sri Lanka,” said Bull. “It was looking good. Then the Beirut explosion happened and there was an immediate call for hundreds of fixators to be sent there. We were not ready to help at this stage. Fortunately, other countries were able to step in and eventually send ­supplies. Nevertheless, it hit home that our ­initial idea had been the right one.” Since then, Bull and Saeidi have developed sets of instructions that can be used to manufacture fixators with limited skills and resources. “All that is needed is a supply of aluminium and some stainless steel rods,” said Saeidi. “It is very straightforward.”

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Oct 13 2024 17:22 utc | 26

Honestly why do people keep falling for the bait?
The troll traffic surges when things are going particularly wrong for the AFU/NATO side. Regardless of Russian shortcomings.
The lines about the 22nd century and Ukraine rearming were amusing though. Rearming with what & whom?
Considering NATO’s degraded & expensive manufacturing capacity and Ukraine’s hideous demographic situation.
Perhaps 52 million to less than 30 million these days? There’s your “muh attrition” right there, most of it self-inflicted…

Posted by: Urban Fox | Oct 13 2024 17:33 utc | 28

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Two Majors #Summary Overview for the Morning of 13 October 2024; 02:45 (GMT+3)⚡️
🗓 Over the past week, a series of RFAF counterattacks in the Kursk region came into focis. #Olgovka and several villages near #Lyubimovka have been liberated, and attacks are in progress near #Plekhovo. The AFU has been pushed back to the Glushkovsky district border. In heavy battles, observers note the increased skill of our command. The foe receives blows from several directions, gets surrounded, or is forced to withdraw under the threat of it. We are still far from the liberation the region, but the foe is forced to withdraw elite units for replenishment, replacing them with mobilised ones. The foe’s logistics are reported to be hampered, it becomes harder to move heavy equipment to the region. The #Sudzha GMS, the only remaining route for gas transit to the #EU remains an important object under AFU control.
🔹The ongoing RFAF counterattacks in the #Kursk region was the backdrop for Zelensky’s #EU visit, whose credibility in the West continues to fall due to his feckless ‘victory plan’ he presented in the #US before. The plan contained nothing new and resembled a ‘shopping list’, according to the Western press. It contained, as expected, #Ukraine’s demands to be taken into #NATO and given even more arms and equipment. Nevertheless, the West continues military supplies. New large aid packages are allocated (by US and their satellite #Germany), they write about France’s plans to deliver its aircrafts in 2025.
🔹#NATO supplies, the RFAF are trying to destroy. During the week 4 days in a row the #Odessa region’s port infrastructure was under our strikes, depots with arrived ammo were hit, a sea container ship in the port was damaged.
🔹In the #Pokrovsk direction, the RFAF continue their offensive. #Tsukurino is occupied, battles around #Selidovo, ours are on the edge of #Mirnograd. A ‘pocket’ east of #Zhelannoye2nd will be closed. To the south ours occupied #Ostrovskoye, opening the way to #Kurakhovo. Southwards the RFAF develop success after the capture of #Ugledar. We are going to #Katerinovka and #Antonovka, from #Vodyanoye to #Bogoyavlenka, and extending the control zone from #ZolotoyaNiva.
🔹Unpleasant were the ‘beautiful reports’ from the #Seversk area, which led to the impossibility of hitting the ‘occupied’ areas, as the command was informed about ‘full control’. After a series of publications by comrade Rybar, the situation has not changed. From the field they write: ‘They wrote off, shrugged off with fake videos. Reports on fiction continue.
🔹In addition, the head of the State Duma Committee on Defence Andrey Kartapolov’s judgment that the ‘blocking of the Discord messenger will have no effect on the communication between the military’ became strange. He said that ‘For the most part, fighters use ordinary button phones and radio stations.’ This is extremely strange, as there are a lot of photos on the Web of Discord being used at the front. By the way, there are alternatives, but the blocking of the software in use pointed to some inconsistency in the federal executive bodies’ actions.
🔹On the foreign policy floor, the joint statements of the military leaders of #Poland and #Lithuania about the need to prepare for war with #Russia and the determination to strike St. Petersburg without waiting for #NATO permission became indicative. So the West is prepares new countries for military action against us, without applying Article 5 of the NATO Charter on Collective Defence.
📌 Thus, despite the increasing talk in the Western media about plans for a peaceful settlement, the real #NATO actions show continued pumping of arms and equipment into #Ukraine, the condition for which is clearly for Kiev to send more meat to the front and to lower the mobilisation age. #EU countries are also taking measures to push Ukrainians to the front by reducing economic support. The whiny statements of Kiev and the West should not be trusted. Same tactic the foe used ahead the #Kursk region invasion.

https://t.me/two_majors/33655

Posted by: Down South | Oct 13 2024 17:47 utc | 30

According to our information, Ukraine is trying to approach the Kremlin with ideas on launching a negotiating track. They are trying to convey Zelensky’s initiatives through Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
However, the Kremlin refuses to even discuss Kiev’s proposals until the Ukrainian Armed Forces are driven out of the Kursk region. The President’s Office proposed another prisoner exchange and a ceasefire in order to begin negotiations on the current demarcation line.
Earlier, we reported that Moscow would not negotiate until the situation on the front fully corresponds to its interests. Any attempts to launch a negotiating track through “peace summits” will be blocked and marginalized. The West has failed to create leverage on Russia through its BRICS partners.
Ahead lies the capture of important settlements in the Donbass, the driving out of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from the Kursk region, and Moscow’s tightening of demands on Kyiv. It is pointless to wait for the start of negotiations until the end of the US presidential elections and the final formulation of the new administration’s course towards Russia and Ukraine.

https://t.me/Taynaya_kantselyariya/11243

Bankova is trying to reach the Kremlin through the Turks and Saudis. With their help, Zelensky hopes to put Moscow on a “peace track”.
However, the Kremlin rejects any proposals from the Office of the President of Ukraine. Putin will not negotiate until he drives the Ukrainian Armed Forces out of the Kursk region and achieves a strategic triumph in Donbass.
According to our information, China, India and other unofficial leaders of the “global south” in communications with the Russian leadership demonstrate complete solidarity with the Russian Federation and promise not to change course, especially in view of the latest escalation from Kyiv and the West.
The Russian Federation is awaiting the results of the US elections. If Trump wins, we will see some form of detente by spring. If Harris wins, the war may drag on for another couple of years, until the start of a new large-scale conflict in the world (contours of Israel/Iran, China/Taiwan, North/South Korea).
Hoping that someone will follow Zelensky’s formula is sheer madness. Kyiv will not be able to gain support in other parts of the world except the West.

https://t.me/legitimniy/18848

Posted by: Down South | Oct 13 2024 17:53 utc | 32

The result of the Kursk adventure is the loss of the country’s industrial potential. Together with the Donbass cities, Ukraine will lose two-thirds of its steel production. This will be a serious blow not only to exports, but also to the country’s defense capability – due to the lack of steel, it will be problematic to build concrete fortifications.
Thus, the loss of Pokrovsk alone threatens Ukraine with a shortage of coking coal. In this regard, steel production will fall by half, to 2-3 million tons per year – that is, Ukraine will reduce steel production by half due to a coal shortage. Yes, the territory controlled by Ukraine still has resources to achieve a steel production level of 12 million tons per year, but in the event of the loss of Pokrovsk, these figures may decrease to 2-3 million tons per year. And the whole point is that in Pokrovsk there remains the only mine controlled by Ukraine that produces coking coal, that is, the loss of the settlement threatens a shortage of such coal.
It should be understood that the total damage to the Ukrainian economy since the beginning of the military conflict has reached $1.164 trillion. A study by the Kyiv School of Economics shows that the greatest losses were suffered by the manufacturing sectors: trade – $450.5 billion, industry together with construction and services – $410 billion, agriculture – $83.1 billion. Significant damage was also inflicted on key infrastructure sectors: energy lost $43.1 billion, and transport – $38.8 billion.

https://t.me/rezident_ua/24599

Losing Pokrovsk means a collapse of the Ukrainian economy. This is what the Western press writes.
We believe that the loss of Pokrovsk will not kill what is already dead. It will simply increase the budget deficit and the need for Western loans. This will happen against the backdrop of a large-scale decline in the domestic economy, the bankruptcy of small and medium businesses.
We wrote in 2023 that each year of the Ukrainian crisis will become more expensive.
Also, since the end of 2022, we have been getting inside information that the rising cost of the Ukrainian crisis will ultimately lead to the West stopping giving money at one point and the Ukrainian economy will collapse to the bottom.
Everything is currently developing according to this negative scenario.

https://t.me/legitimniy/18846

Posted by: Down Douth | Oct 13 2024 18:00 utc | 34

If Ukraine manages to force Russia into a ceasefire(official or non-verbal) it would be a massive loss for Russia. Basically any time US wants to get back at Russia for the next 50 years they will be able to phone the proxy and order a strike inside Russia. They would have them by the balls so to speak

Posted by: UndeniablyReasonable | Oct 13 2024 18:05 utc | 36

UAF has failed to break through to its encircled troops at
The Ukrainian Armed Forces failed to unblock the Ukrainian army units that were encircled in the Lyubimovka area; all attempts failed. Their fate is currently unknown. This was reported by the Ukrainian TG channel “Resident” with reference to a military source.
According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the command of the Ukrainian group did not give the order for the withdrawal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine units from Lyubimovka in time, hoping that Russian troops would not be able to block them, and in the event of encirclement, it would certainly be broken through. However, all attempts to break through to them were stopped by Russian troops, and at the moment the fate of the encircled Ukrainian soldiers is unknown.
Some of the Ukrainian Armed Forces units were unable to leave Lyubimovka and were surrounded, the attempt to break the blockade failed, and now the fate of the military is unknown,
– the channel writes, adding that, despite the reserves being transferred by Kiev, the Russian Armed Forces have completely turned the situation around in the Kursk region, and now it is a matter of time before the entire region is finally liberated.
According to our resources, the enemy really was unable to break through to the encircled Ukrainian Armed Forces units in the area of ​​Lyubimovka and Tolsty Lug. As a preliminary, this morning our forces cleared Tolsty Lug and proceeded to Lyubimovka, attacking the Ukrainian Armed Forces troops entrenched there. drones and mines. There is no information yet on how things are going there at the moment. Another similar group has taken up residence in one of the buildings in Olgino, but everything is also heading towards a denouement there.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian military publics almost unanimously complain that everything in the Kursk region is against them: the weather, the slush, the fog. And even Western equipment has stopped driving in the mud. Everything is exactly like the Nazis near Moscow in 1941.

Posted by: HERMIUS | Oct 13 2024 18:09 utc | 38

Alas, ’tis so.
Posted by: outraged | Oct 13 2024 17:15 utc | 24
Then 1917 is a sockpuppet of sob and will be banned quite soon. Right?

Posted by: Naive | Oct 13 2024 18:16 utc | 40

Posted by: Down South | Oct 13 2024 17:47 utc | 30 &C
Thank you very much for posting all these reports, much appreciated.
This one in particular caught my eye:

It should be understood that the total damage to the Ukrainian economy since the beginning of the military conflict has reached $1.164 trillion. A study by the Kyiv School of Economics shows that the greatest losses were suffered by the manufacturing sectors: trade – $450.5 billion, industry together with construction and services – $410 billion, agriculture – $83.1 billion. Significant damage was also inflicted on key infrastructure sectors: energy lost $43.1 billion, and transport – $38.8 billion.

as it highlights the financial attrition Ukraine is undergoing, something that certain commenters refuse to even acknowledge.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Oct 13 2024 18:29 utc | 42

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Oct 13 2024 16:23 utc | 15
> 1917/Shadowbanned makes MoA unreadable.
Well he wants your beloved Donbass to be liberated quicker and sooner, to put the end to its suffering and devastation.
Don’t you want that too?

Posted by: hopehely | Oct 13 2024 18:38 utc | 44

Posted by: hopehely | Oct 13 2024 18:38 utc | 44
Have you ever heard of cost/benefit analysis? And the fact that the Russians are not into indiscriminate bombing like the anglo-saxon faggots. BTW, if they’re under the same (self-imposed) constraints as the Russians, the AS turds would be still attacking Bakhmut/Artemevsk 3 years into the SMO…

Posted by: Boo | Oct 13 2024 18:50 utc | 46

Posted by: hopehely | Oct 13 2024 18:38 utc | 44
First, 1917/Shadowbanned is not he, it is she, and infirm old cat lady sitting in a cubicle earning pennies on a Sunday to supplement her meager pension, resentfull of rich and successful Russians.
Second, no, a lot more fascist ukrops need to be taken out of the genetic pool for the benefit of humanity.
Third, no, a lot more NATO adventurers must fertilize the black soil of the Ukraines for the benefit of future Russian and Chinese agri-investors (and their partners).
Fourth, I forget fourth, wait! no I forget, Here it is! Fourth, a lot more Mickey-Mouse-worshipping ukrops have to run to Poland and Germany, including those hot blondes at 300 euros plus a bag of potatoes the night.

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Oct 13 2024 19:00 utc | 48

Everything Russia is not doing to win may be because Ukraine is the theater not the show. Keeping the black hole that is Ukraine sucking in nato resources and men,bankrupting the EU and US while exposing the weakness and moral bankruptcy of the west is setting table for a new world order which the defeat of Ukraine does not achieve.

Posted by: NewWorldDisorder | Oct 13 2024 19:12 utc | 50

Muh European unity…

Zelensky ‘Left Seething’ After Meeting With Polish Minister Over WWII Massacre by Ukrainian Fascists
Poland’s political class has generally been at the forefront of powers cheerleading Ukraine’s entry into Western institutions including NATO and the European Union, notwithstanding underlying tensions over the World War II-era massacre of tens of thousands of ethnic Poles by Ukrainian ultranationalists lionized by the post-2014 regime in Kiev.
Volodymyr Zelensky was reportedly “left seething” after last month’s meeting with Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, who impeded the Kiev regime’s aspirations to join the EU by tying the issue to demands that ethnic Poles killed by Ukrainian fascists during WWII be exhumed from their final resting places in what is now western Ukraine.
Sources told Bloomberg about the tensions, which are said to have coincided “with mounting war fatigue” among Kiev’s Western sponsors, and growing uncertainty over post-2014 Ukraine’s constitutionally-mandated pursuit of membership in the EU and NATO.
As many as 100,000 ethnic Polish civilians and tens of thousands of Russians, Jews, anti-fascist Ukrainians were murdered en masse by members of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Ukrainian acronym UPA) – an ultranationalist militia operating in Nazi-occupied western Ukraine during the second World War. Killings and terrorism largely took place between 1943-1944, but continued into the early 1950s. Between 100,000 and 200,000 Ukrainians would fight in the UPA, compared to over six million who served in the Red Army.
In post-2005 Orange Revolution Ukraine and especially after 2014, UPA leaders Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych have been idolized as heroes and fighters for Ukraine’s independence, with monuments erected in their honor and streets renamed to carry their names in cities across the country. Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich revoked his predecessor’s decision to posthumously award Bandera and Shukhevych ‘hero of Ukraine’ titles in 2011 prior to his ouster in a coup three years later.
Polish Minister of Defense and Deputy Prime Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz announced publicly last week that Kiev “will not join the EU if it does not address the Volyn issue, if there is no accord, no exhumations and no remembrance.”
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk hinted as much at a press conference in August, saying “there is a need to dig into this history [of the WWII-era massacres, ed.] if we are about to build a good future,” and warning that “as long as there is no respect for those standards from the Ukrainian side, then Ukraine will certainly not become part of the European family.”
But the matter could be a risky endeavor to undertake for Zelensky, who discovered shortly after taking office in 2019 the power wielded by pro-Bandera ultranationalists in Kiev, nearly getting ousted for expressing support for the Steinmeier formula for peace in the Donbass. An admission of guilt for UPA’s crimes against Poles may trigger similar protests from the powerful informal lobby of jackbooted thugs.
A Polish government official told Bloomberg that failure to resolve the bitter history will create “an opening for extremists” and could undermine Warsaw’s support for Kiev.
Despite their strategic partnership, officials and politicians in Warsaw have not shied away from slamming Kiev’s displays of affection for Bandera and the UPA. Last year on the 80th anniversary of the massacres, former Sejm lawmaker Mateusz Piskorski suggested that the Zelensky regime’s “war as anti-Russian puppets of the Anglo-Saxons is none of our business,” and that it was “idiotic” for Warsaw to “talk about some kind of brotherhood and strategic partnership” with a country that considers Bandera and Shukhevych heroes.
“If we don’t interfere, let’s stop financing the state that appeals to neo-Banderism, let’s end the risky delivery of arms and equipment, the multi-billion [zloty] tranches of non-repayable aid. After all, we would not support Germany if the authorities in that country began erecting busts of Heinrich Himmler and monuments to Adolf Hitler,” Piskorski urged.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20241013/zelensky-left-seething-after-meeting-with-polish-minister-over-wwii-massacre-by-ukrainian-fascists-1120535618.html

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Oct 13 2024 19:18 utc | 52

Posted by: hole in head | Oct 13 2024 18:43 utc | 45
well, I got the privilege of playing starcraft in very young age and well I learned chess with 4 years
they can have their models, no problem but… I can see how the world transforms
so scaling is not something that organisations are the ones that can do it even alphabetical ones 😉
it is more about realizing how mass effects work, and this can happen with a flower in your garden

Posted by: Macpott | Oct 13 2024 19:38 utc | 54

Zero Nato troops killed.

Posted by: MoonieCultist | Oct 13 2024 19:31 utc | 53
Of course not, just hiking accidents and training accidents. Helpfully the Northern hemisphere is entering the season for skiing accidents…

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Oct 13 2024 19:49 utc | 56

Reading the relentless copium from the retarded cultists is sweet joy. Zero Nato troops killed.
Posted by: MoonieCultist | Oct 13 2024 19:31 utc | 53.

According to the Kiev regime’s ambitions, hundreds of thousands of ‘wannabe’ NATO troops have already been killed along with thousands of NATO trained & funded mercenaries, advisors and technicians.
Given your nom de plume, the use of the term ‘retarded cultist’ suggests your subconscious is desperately trying to tell you something.

Posted by: FakeBelieve | Oct 13 2024 19:58 utc | 58

A while ago it was the sensible consensus here that the conflict would go on more or less as long as the US wanted it too, that Team Zelensky could ramp up the fascism and press gangs so long as the US delivered necessary supplies, a literal exhaustion of mobilisation victims was seen as a long way off.
For some reason the consensus has slipped back to the earlier position of near-term Ukrainian mobilisation collapse, for which it’s always been possible to make at least a plausible sounding argument that later turned to be false.
The bar consensus has actually got dumber – or “stupider”, as it were – under the weight of hype and cope pedalled here.
It’d certainly be nice if some worthy past contributor were to take up commenting here again but this mostly a heal thyself kind of problem.

Posted by: anon2020 | Oct 13 2024 20:46 utc | 60

Posted by: 1917 | Oct 13 2024 16:19 utc | 14
All of that is off-limits for political reasons having to do with the Russian elites not wanting to burn their bridges with the West.
Posted by: vargas | Oct 13 2024 17:12 utc | 23
Probably Russia has also military industrial complex and oligarchs who do not want this war to end soon.
<=empire zionism (EZ) controls everything that happens inside of the nation state system; EZ is global in reach, and massive in influence. Seems to me it would be proper for the military to target oligarchs in enemy nations; and for the duration of war and during periods when international treaties and agreements are being negotiated it would be a good idea to deny domestic oligarchs access to any communication with either the domestic government or with persons or parties outside of the subject nation state? This is not practical it seems because the oligarch generally own the factories and have the expertise it takes to keep the factories running; the factories make the goods and provide the services the war needs? Supplying war needs is trade; trade provides the energy that makes EZ so powerful. This dilemma accounts for the strength of, the global nature of and the own all, take all, control all ideology I call EZ. The most greedy are for the most part the Oligarch. It is for this reason that a global 2nd government is needed to keep in check those who govern in each of the 256 or so nation states; because it is these governments that control the populations of the world. Traditional government must go on, but if war between oligarchs is to be averted every government in the world will need to be obligated to limit its activities to activities that do not violate human rights; otherwise war will always be on the table. (Greed leads to abuse, corruption and War all three of which violate human rights).

Posted by: snake | Oct 13 2024 21:07 utc | 62

I am uncertain about the MoA you are referencing, but it does not appear to be this one, Mr. Anon. Hype and Cope serves as a fundamental element of sustenance in Kiev and the west. Wasn’t it your lot that consistently asserted that Kiev was “winning,” claiming that Russia was engaging in combat with shovels and repurposed chips from washing machines? Was it not your group that asserted Putin was suffering from cancer? Was it not your group that asserted you would be sunbathing on the beaches of Crimea by the summer of 2022? What, then, of the purported million-man army that was said to be in the process of formation?
Now thats what you call hype and cope!
Posted by: HERMIUS | Oct 13 2024 21:11 utc | 63
And yesterday hermie elensky told a tv channel that russia lost 1200 troops in 24 hours. hehe. one lie after another.

Posted by: Ted from Liverpool | Oct 13 2024 21:13 utc | 64

Hype and Cope serves as a fundamental element of sustenance in Kiev and the west.
Now thats what you call hype and cope!
Posted by: HERMIUS | Oct 13 2024 21:11 utc | 63
THATS TRUE. MOST FOLK TURN OFF WHEN ZELENSKY IS IS THE TV. THEY KNOW ITS ALL BUNKUM WHAT HE SAYS

Posted by: The Flying Scotsman | Oct 13 2024 21:20 utc | 66

THATS TRUE. MOST FOLK TURN OFF WHEN ZELENSKY IS IS THE TV. THEY KNOW ITS ALL BUNKUM WHAT HE SAYS
Posted by: The Flying Scotsman | Oct 13 2024 21:20 utc | 66
We’re sick of watching the insane bastard zelenski and his band of western happy clappers on our screens. he’s not gonna be around for much longer i suspect. I know something……
Who looks the more stressed Zelenski or Pre Putin?

Posted by: Ted from Liverpool | Oct 13 2024 21:27 utc | 68

(SEP should be 409. Typo.)

Posted by: Anonymous | Oct 13 2024 21:39 utc | 70

@ Anonymous, §§69, 70:
We´re only half-way through October . . .

Posted by: John Marks | Oct 13 2024 21:53 utc | 72

@ Anonymous, §§69, 70:
We´re only half-way through October . . .
Posted by: John Marks | Oct 13 2024 21:53 utc | 72
😂Classic….typical of NAFO trash

Posted by: Fyador | Oct 13 2024 22:06 utc | 74

Posted by: Anonymous | Oct 13 2024 21:38 utc | 69
JUN: 108
JUL: 181
AUG: 363
SEP: 209
OCT: 275
September should be 409
October is only half way through
Well, Mr Anonymous, seems its the opposite of what you claim and in fact the numbers are INCREASING

Posted by: The Flying Scotsman | Oct 13 2024 22:10 utc | 76

Posted by: Anonymous | Oct 13 2024 22:14 utc | 77
Thats a total of 1,136 square kilometres in 4 and a half months. I’d say thats not bad at all.

Posted by: HERMIUS | Oct 13 2024 22:19 utc | 78

The Russian government is planning for 2.6 million of its people to have fought in Ukraine by 2027, according to new projections for the draft state budget. It anticipates more than doubling monthly payments to veterans to 267 billion rubles ($2.78 billion) by 2027.
‘We Can Explain’ reports that explanatory notes for the draft state budget indicate an increase in monthly payments to veterans from the current 120 billion rubles to 267 billion rubles. All veterans are entitled to 4,188 rubles ($43.71) a month, indexed to the inflation rate.
There were already an estimated 540,000 veterans of the Ukraine war by June 2024. This is a significantly higher figure than the Finance Ministry had expected, so the 2024 budget expenditures had to be increased.
According to Putin in December 2023, 617,000 people were then currently at the front and according to recent Wall Street Journal reports, an estimated 400,000 have been demobilised due to injuries. About 1 million people are thus currently eligible for veterans’ pensions.
The demobilised can already claim veterans’ pensions. Their numbers are calculated to increase by about a million in 2025, reaching 1.5 million. By 2027, it is calculated that 2.6 million people will have served in the war (or about 4% of Russia’s entire male population).
As the figures indicate, the huge number of war veterans and war wounded is likely to put a strain on the Russian economy for decades to come, unless their pensions are cut drastically. The increase alone between 2024 and 2027 amounts to an extra $1.5 billion a month.

Source : https://t.me/mozhemobyasnit/19082

Posted by: Chris O | Oct 13 2024 22:47 utc | 80

The ranks of Russia’s super-rich are reported to have grown substantially during the war in Ukraine, with the number of billionaires growing by 53% and their collective wealth increasing by nearly 65%. At the same time, small businesses and pensioners are struggling.
The ‘Chelyabinsk of the Future’ Telegram channel reports that since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the number of Russian billionaires has increased from 88 to 135 (of whom 10 have moved abroad and renounced their Russian citizenship).
The combined wealth of the billionaires has increased from $350 billion to $576.8 billion, a 64.8% growth. Not surprisingly, figures from the official state agency Rosstat show that the Gini coefficient, which shows the level of income inequality, has risen significantly.
At the same time, small businesses have been hit hard by the economic impacts of the war such as inflation, logistical disruption, difficulties in making payments, and high interest rates. They are reported to have suffered a 25% drop in income.
Pensioners are also suffering – despite an inflation rate of over 9% in August 2024, the real purchasing power of pensions has only increased by 0.6%. This is reportedly due to the authorities indexing pensions well below the level of real price growth.
At the start of the war, proponents of sanctions on Russia hoped that pressure on Russia’s super-rich would turn them against Putin’s war. However, rather than suffering, they seem to be doing better than ever before.
It’s likely that Putin is consciously allowing them to profit in order to keep them on board with the war effort. In short, the war may be binding them closer to Putin, while increasing repression is discouraging the economic losers from complaining.

Source : https://t.me/ChelFuture/7361

Posted by: Chris O | Oct 13 2024 22:56 utc | 82

Posted by: HERMIUS | Oct 13 2024 23:07 utc | 83
I saw a video on YT from a young man living in marupol and the way the city has been rebuuilt and so quickly is quite amazing.

Posted by: Ted from Liverpool | Oct 13 2024 23:21 utc | 84

Thats a total of 1,136 square kilometres in 4 and a half months. I’d say thats not bad at all.
Posted by: HERMIUS | Oct 13 2024 22:19 utc | 78

There are 480,000 square kilometers left to take.
At that rate, how long will that take?
Not bad at all, yeah…

Posted by: 1917 | Oct 13 2024 23:52 utc | 86

Also, while the numbers remained small in magnitude. And the amount of acceleration was not breathtaking. I still gave RFA credit for the JUN-JUL-AUG-SEP progress. Saying that it looked like perhaps those who thought attrition was having an effect might be starting to be right.
But now? Sorry. OCT is backsliding. So much for the “breakpoint” hoper-copers.
Oh…and have fun during the mud season and the winter.
Posted by: Anonymous | Oct 13 2024 21:38 utc | 69

Attrition destroyed Germany in WWI and Germany and Japan in WWII because both of those were cut off from external supplies.
Not the case with Ukraine — any kind of weapon can and is brought in from NATO’s untouchable rear, mercenaries from all over the world are streaming in to earn some money and rape, kill and pillage across Russian lands, etc.
Until the Western borders are secured, forget about “attrition” really solving the problem any time soon.
There is plenty of meat to throw on the fire.
It may happen in 5-10 years, but by that time the eastern belt of NATO countries will have been ordered to join the fight, and with the Kremlin’s insistence on not using nukes, it will be more of the same shit show in perpetuity.
A remarkable success for Putinism…

“At the current rate of ~500 km^2 of territory taken a month, Russia will take over the whole of Ukraine some time in the early 22nd century. Yes, you read that correct.”
Based on movements until March 1943, how many centuries would it take the Russians to get to Berlin? Don’t forget to factor in the Battle of Kursk.
Posted by: Neven | Oct 13 2024 22:07 utc | 75

See above. Germany was getting supplies from all of Europe, but only France, Belgium the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway were on its western side. As the Soviets moved east, they took over territories that Germany used to supply its war effort, and thus the collapse accelerated.
Plus, extremely important, the Soviets were fully mobilized and on total war footing.
Meanwhile the current shit show features Putin insisting on maintaining “normalcy” and not doing a total mobilization.
I outlined the recipe for winning the war above, I am not going to repeat myself. One of the necessary conditions was a total mobilization.
If you only allocate just enough forces to slowly, slooowly, veeeery sloooowwwwly grind your way through the densest foritifcations while refusing to disable the enemy’s logistics, isolate the battlefield, and attack through Sumy and Chernigov, where defenses are much weaker, well, of course you are going to get current stalemate.
If you want more than that stalemate, you need to do all those other things. Simple as that…

Posted by: 1917 | Oct 13 2024 23:53 utc | 88

The poster with the year of the Russian revolution:
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
The same old, tired arguments we’ve read here from Putin critics on MoA for years, just made much more clumsily and inarticulate than shadowbanned did, before he disappeared.
Bring something original or just keep me n beclowning yourself. You’re wasting all of our time.

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Oct 14 2024 0:01 utc | 90

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Posted by: Ted from Liverpool | Oct 14 2024 0:09 utc | 92

Posted by: watcher | Oct 13 2024 22:29 utc | 79
Stupid people care about territory. Clever people care about people.
Stupid people did not study the history of Russia. Especially the year 1812.

Posted by: Naive | Oct 14 2024 0:23 utc | 94

This low rent dumb limey (looks like) pederast 1917 and his posse are writing from the same shitty MI6 script about territory gained. This post from the panzerwaffle TG channel succinctly summarizes that it’s end game for the ukro-turds and their Atlantic masters are panicking:

In connection with the statements of Polish General Andrzejczak about a possible strike on St. Petersburg, #КапитанДоктрина draws your attention to the following points:
1. Andrzejczak literally says the following: ” If Russian troops cross the border with Lithuania, the allies will strike strategic Russian facilities within a radius of 300 km in the first minutes. We will strike directly at St. Petersburg. ”
From the territory of Poland it is impossible to do either the first or the second for purely geographical reasons, which means that the Pole is in complete control of the fate of the Baltics.
In NATO planning, the Baltics have always been seen as a bargaining chip, but it is always good when there is clarity from the closest (heh-heh) allies.
2. There is no talk about Ukraine. Let us emphasize: Russian troops have not yet taken Pokrovsk, and Eastern Europe is already in full swing discussing the defense of the Baltics.
What does this mean? That the Russian army has already “chewed” two Ukrainian armies and is finishing up the third. And then there will either be a hastily formed fourth one from whatever comes to hand, plus direct NATO intervention, or a huge space that no one can defend and the collapse of Ukraine as a state.
And the territories? This conflict was never about territories. Any expert still measuring success or failure in the territories should look for a new job.

Posted by: Boo | Oct 14 2024 0:35 utc | 96

Posted by: 1917 | Oct 13 2024 23:53 utc | 88
Hey dumb pederast, I don’t read your vomit, but given that you leave your verbal diarrhoea on pretty much every page, van I ask you to go suck on your boyfriend’s cock and leave this blog in peace

Posted by: Boo | Oct 14 2024 0:39 utc | 98

I know this may not be verified Mr Surfeket, but ive seen recent reports that kiev has lost OVER ONE MILLION soldiers.
Posted by: HERMIUS | Oct 14 2024 0:36 utc | 97
Nah! I’d say not more than 800,000. Thats more realistic. I agree though, the ukes have taken a horrible beating recently. Reports say theyve lost 1,000 a day in kursk alone!!!!

Posted by: Fyador | Oct 14 2024 1:02 utc | 100