The Ukraine war thread
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@Wim said in The Ukraine war thread:
Same could be said about Ukrainian railways....
Of course, yes. Taking a railway out, especially an electrified one, could be crippling.
I wonder, however, if Ukraine has similar "choke points" for movement of goods.
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Plus much smaller communication lines generally.
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Here’s Zakrevsky’s diatribe against Putin, in my translation:
“Our country is not just on the brink of disaster or already right next to it; our country is already in trouble. In big trouble. Drones are flying all over central Russia, right up to Moscow and St. Petersburg. They even attacked the Kremlin. Our Black Sea fleet is being pushed out. It’s being pushed out as if we were not a great power with a great fleet, but some third-rate country.
“Our air force is practically not working because it is also being pushed out. We are standing in the same positions that we took more than two years ago, and partly in those to which we retreated. The population is dying out, becoming impoverished, drinking itself to death: no one cares. All they have time to do is bring in migrants.”
Zakrevsky minces no words in assigning blame for this sad state of affairs: “And all this was done by the so-called ‘president.’ The ‘Great’ Putin.”
After accusing army officers of incompetence and worse, Zakrevsky concludes his screed with an appeal “to those who are in the trenches. You know very well what kind of indecency is happening there now….You know very well the faces that are mocking you and your relatives…. We call on everyone to join our union to save our country. The point of no return has already been passed.”
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144 Drones say hello to Moscow.
Ukraine struck the Moscow region on Tuesday in its biggest drone attack so far on the Russian capital, killing at least one woman, wrecking dozens of homes and forcing around 50 flights to be diverted from airports around Moscow.
Russia, the world's biggest nuclear power, said it had destroyed at least 20 Ukrainian attack drones as they swarmed over the Moscow region, which has a population of more than 21 million, and 124 more over eight other regions.
At least one person was killed near Moscow, Russian authorities said. Three of Moscow's four airports were closed for more than six hours and almost 50 flights were diverted.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the drone attack was another reminder of the real nature of Ukraine's political leadership, which he said was made up of Russia's enemies.
"There is no way that night time strikes on residential neighbourhoods can be associated with military action," said Peskov.
Oh....
Kyiv said Russia, which sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine in February 2022, had attacked it overnight with 46 drones, of which 38 were destroyed.
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Kursk incursion: a gamechanger?
https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/09/14/frontline-report-russian-forces-finally-sacrifice-pokrovsk-offensive-to-defend-kursk/ -
In the short run, yes.
Long run, no.
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Badaboom!
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@Wim said in The Ukraine war thread:
Badaboom!
Perfectly legitimate military target well inside Russia.
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The DPRK is not doing just because the goodness of their heart. There is some payment from Russia to North Korea for the troops.
(As a side note, there is actually a large number of DPRK citizens working in the Russia logging industry. If you think that Haitian immigrants are treated badly, check out the life of a DPRK logger in Russia.)
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Russians are ready to end it. I suspect that if 31% will answer in the affirmative the number that really feels that way is greater.
"My pronouns are FA/FO." - Mik, 2024
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Russian stealth drone Okhotnik (The Hunter) gone astray:
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Oh oh. I have no idea if the Kyiv Independent is a credible soutce or not.
