Russia Ukraine Update Thread - part 3

a reply to: Imhere

You forgot to mention Azov Nazis, Bandera, and street names.

Or bridges.

a reply to: andy06shake

Since Moscow just tested the blast doors on the underground system . It looks like this fiasco is going to go all the way.

a reply to: annonentity

And where do you imagine that would take Putin but somewhere very deep in the Earth for the remainder of his days.

a reply to: andy06shake

I do not give a toss what Putin or anyone else does. I just don't want to be collateral damage.

originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
a reply to: Imhere

"Ukrainian forces advanced within Chasiv Yar, and Russian forces recently marginally advanced near Kreminna, Pokrovsk, and Donetsk City."

Keep on supping the Kremlin Kool stuff to get your jollies.

I’m looking at “ISW” map from the website that you keep quoting lol


Look what happened in Avdiivka, where the current Pokrovsk advancement sprung from. Which you can see the advancement on the “ISW” map. If you actually cared to look at it.

Zelensky kept throwing the “poor sods” in a small area and kept getting FAB’d on into oblivion.

And now Pokrovsk is coming up. Which is one of the key cities in Donetsk. You can see the pretty substantial advancements past days. Think Russian forces are now within less than 15-20km

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Military authorities in the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk urged civilians to speed up their evacuation Friday because the Russian army was quickly closing in on what has been one of Moscow’s key targets for months.

Pokrovsk officials said in a Telegram post that Russian troops are “advancing at a fast pace. With every passing day there is less and less time to collect personal belongings and leave for safer regions.”

apnews.com...


So, no it wasn’t some “pyrrhic victory” Carpy lol. Which you claimed in the past.

originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
a reply to: Imhere

Chasiv Yar?

Ukraine is advancing.

Meanwhile, Russia is making "creeping" and "marginal" advances on the Eastern front.

lol

It looks like Russia and Putin may have a very difficult time supplying it's front line troops if Ukraine can keep up this pressure.

www.independent.co.uk...

Russia-Ukraine war latest: Third Kursk bridge hit by Kyiv as Ukrainian forces aim to create ‘buffer zone’

A Russian investigator confirmed that Ukraine on Sunday had struck and damaged a third bridge over the River Seym in Russia’s Kursk region.

A video statement from a representative of Russia’s Investigative Committee was posted on Russian state TV anchor Vladimir Solovyov’s Telegram channel.

Ukraine’s commander said on Sunday that the Ukrainian air force had destroyed another strategic bridge over the Seym River in Russia’s Kursk region, limiting the supply capacity of a Russian group opposing the Ukrainian advance.

It comes as Russia launched its third ballistic missile on Kyiv this month in retaliation for Ukraine’s shock incursion, with preliminary data showing that all the air weapons were destroyed on their approach to the city.

a reply to: annonentity

Are you sure?

Because then all that doom porn you cant stop posting about may actually come to pass.

End of the day annonentity i dont think what you, or me for that matter, wants, factors much into Putin's day.

You're missing the point however, which is if Putin were stupid enough to start a third world war, via the use of nuclear weapons he would become a marked man, and will need to go hide in a hole.

And you can't run Russia, or what is left of such, from a smoldering radioactive hole in the ground.

18 August Update

Ukrainian forces continued assaults throughout their salient in Kursk Oblast on August 18 and marginally advanced southeast of Sudzha. Geolocated footage published on August 17 shows Russian forces striking a Ukrainian armored vehicle in northern Martynovka (northeast of Sudzha), indicating that Ukrainian forces recently advanced into northern Martynovka. A Russian milblogger claimed on August 18 that Ukrainian forces seized Troitskoye (south of Korenevo and roughly two kilometers from the international border) and advanced to Semenovka (north of Sudzha and roughly 24 kilometers from the international border).

Ukrainian forces struck a Russian oil depot in Rostov Oblast that supplies oil to the Russian military on the night of August 17 to 18. The Ukrainian General Staff reported that the Ukrainian military and Ukraine's Main Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR) struck the "Kavkaz" oil depot in Proletarsk, Rostov Oblast, causing at least two explosions at the facility.

Russian forces recently advanced near Kreminna and Donetsk City. Ukrainian forces regained previously lost positions near Siversk.

More at URL above.

ISW overall look at current operations here.

Cheers

Thats Ukraine hit another key bridge in the area meaning Russian reinforcement from the West may present somewhat of an issue for Mad Vlads team.

a reply to: Kurokage

When bridges go Bang.

I wonder if Ukraine will take the whole of the Kursk region while Russia continues to battle in Donbas.

a reply to: gortex
All you have to do is wait and see. Pretty sure they will be marching on Moscow by the end of the month, right?
Here is some more recent combat footage release following Ukraine Special forces and some other stuff.

a reply to: worldstarcountry

I might be stating the obvious but surely its Nuke time soon?

originally posted by: gortex
a reply to: Kurokage

When bridges go Bang.

I wonder if Ukraine will take the whole of the Kursk region while Russia continues to battle in Donbas.

I don't know about the entire provice or oblast, maybe not, but they are probably going to take a lot more of it up to the river where the bridges were taken out. As mentioned, without the bridges, Russia can't re-supply their troops so it will be like Russia having to give up Kherson when their supply lines to that city were mostly cut off. There, they tried to make pontoon bridges and use ferries, but that wasn't enough, since those were constantly attacked.

Inside Russia channel on youtube posted an interesting update. Here's the video, I'll mention some of the highlights below:

The Kremlin Is Panicking | This Is A Kursk Update!


There are some interesting video clips from Russian state media. If anybody is not familiar with that, it's not like free media or even like Russian media used to be before 2022 where the media had some freedoms, Putin has really clamped down and eliminated freedom of the press in Russia and they almost exclusively broadcast state-sponsored propaganda now. If you've ever listened to that before, they aren't allowed to go off-script and panic the population with some non-approved rhetoric.

So it's really interesting to hear what the Russian state media is saying now, for example:
Look at how much territory Ukraine took, and compare that to the size of Russia. Russia still has plenty of land left.

My jaw dropped when I heard that, how would that make you feel if you are one of the hundreds of thousands who had to leave your home and everything in it and are wondering how you're going to avoid freezing in the coming months? Those makeshift tents aren't going to keep people warm in Russia's brutal winter. Think Ukraine will be gone by then? Well, who knows, but here's another thing they said on Russian state media.

Ukraine may be there for another 6 months.

I don't know how they came up with that, but those evacuated people living in tents are going to be freezing to death 5 months from now.

The Inside Russia guy added that the $112 one time cash payment (10k rubles actually) is only for officially evacuated Russians, and won't be paid to the thousands who ran away from the invasion without getting any official evacuation order. Some residents of Sudzha getting humanitarian relief from Ukraine's soldiers like food and water were telling Ukrainians they never even got any evacuation order, they were hiding in the basements.

Speaking of Sudzha, Russia was trying to claim that Ukraine only partially took Sudzha, and Russia still controlled part of it. Some journalists from Italy went to Sudzha and there was no fighting at all there, Ukraine had total and complete control, and the Italian journalists were making this video available to the entire world. This really angered the Russians because it exposed their lie about claiming they still partially controlled the town, so they issued arrest warrants for the Italian journalists for some trumped up charge, essentially illegally reporting the truth without a permit or whatever. That's along the same lines as getting 7 years in jail for calling the war a war, truth is not allowed in Russia.

Another interesting video is played of a woman who tried to run for president against Putin, but she wasn't able to get on the ballot. The interesting part is she is talking about this war starting on August 6 2024 as if she has no concept that the war was started long before that, by Russia. The "Inside Russia" guy still has friends and contacts that still live in Russia, and he says they are similar, they were living in some kind of bubble where they didn't even want to know what was going on with the special military operation in Ukraine, until the war came home to Russia and now suddenly their bubbles have burst and now they want to know what is going on. He thinks that's the case for many if not most Russians.

He points out the deafening silence since Putin's meeting with Gerasimov was broadcast a few days after Ukraine's counter-offensive, where Gerasimov said the army had stopped Ukraine and was pushing them back to the border, which everyone else in that meeting like Putin and the head of FSB knew was a complete lie. Since those first few days, there is nothing from Russia's leadership as Ukraine continues to advance. Putin isn't saying anything, he's not even in Russia, he's in Azerbaijan, and Peskov is off some where on vacation. The regional province governors are having to deal with the emergency in an information vacuum with no guidance from the Kremlin.

He has one idea why the Russian military response may be so slow, he said part of the military is off doing joint training exercises and parades with Mongolian troops! That's your priority Putin? Having your army keep its date with the Mongolian joint parades instead of defending the fatherland? And same with Putin's personal priorities, off meeting with some other country's leader instead of handing the crisis at home? I think there's a good chance Putin's slow response to this may come back to haunt him.

People here already posted about Russia's hypocritical plea to the UN to condemn Ukraine's "invasion" of Russia. Not one single country supported Russia's request for this, not even the countries sending him support, not even China, or India, not even Iran or N Korea. The collective UN response was something like "Russia, you're the aggressor here and a hypocrite. To end this simply pull all your Russian troops back into Russia and you won't have this problem of counterattacks in a war you started."

In the last segment about the Kremlin panicking, he points out Putin making rash and rapidly changing decisions about who to replace Gerasimov with after Gerasimov handled the whole thing so incompetently.

originally posted by: worldstarcountry
a reply to: gortex
All you have to do is wait and see. Pretty sure they will be marching on Moscow by the end of the month, right?
Here is some more recent combat footage release following Ukraine Special forces and some other stuff.

Inside Russia said Gerasimov was so incompetent that maybe Ukraine would be marching toward Moscow by now if he was still in charge. I couldn't tell if he was joking. But playing musical chairs with Gerasimov's replacement isn't helping much either.
Do that guys videos get age-restricted? Denys Davydov censors a lot more out than that, and his videos still get age restricted sometimes. He posts the uncensored videos on his telegram channel.

19 August Update

Ukrainian forces continued to marginally advance in Kursk Oblast on August 19 amid continued fighting throughout the Ukrainian salient in the area. Geolocated footage published on August 19 indicates that Ukrainian forces advanced in Vishnevka (southwest of Koronevo and 14km from the international border).

Russian forces recently advanced near Kupyansk, Svatove, Pokrovsk, and Vuhledar.

More at URL above.

Cheers

Steamrolling time. Russian forces advancing so fast families are under orders to leave nearby towns and villages..............

"Civilians flee Pokrovsk as Russia’s army bears down on key eastern Ukraine city
Hello, welcome to our rolling coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war.

Civilians with small children in their arms and lugging heavy suitcases have fled from Ukraine’s eastern city of Pokrovsk, where the Russian army was bearing down fast despite a lightning Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk region, Associated Press reports.

Local authorities said Russian forces were advancing so quickly that families were under orders to leave the city and other nearby towns and villages starting Tuesday. Around 53,000 people still live in Pokrovsk, officials said, and some of them decided to get out immediately. We will have more detail on that shortly." www.theguardian.com...