so, now approaching autumn
where is that game changing ukraine offensive?

This post has been edited by desmond2020: Aug 3 2023, 12:19 PM

Approaching Autumn... Summer in Ukraine ends on 31st August... Still a long long way to Mariupol. 🥱

Artillerymen of the 11th Brigade of the Southern Operational Territorial Unit of the National Guard of 🇺🇦Ukraine destroyed the 🇷🇺Russian ammunition warehouse.

Special Unit M2 at least damaging a BMP-2 in the village of Kodema, occupied Donetsk region.

RU positions shelled east of Robotyne.

Indicating slight advance for UA units (according to my map)

Location: 47.47600, 35.93359

I read the local news sources in the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republic, so you don't have to. Some of it is brain-damaging Russian propaganda. Some of it is what you would read in your local news. And some of it provides hidden military intelligence.

The spokesperson explained that motor fuel for the DNR is bought from the St. Petersburg Stock Exchange using spot market pricing. The reason?

Local fuel depots in the DNR have been degraded to the point they can't make margin purchases. They have to buy just in time.
3/7

If you're buying commodities, that's the most expensive way to purchase things. Logistics disruptions are causing additional problems, but of course, they assured: "There will be and are no fuel shortages."
What does this tell me as a journo/analyst?
A lot.
4/7

Ukrainian strikes on fuel storage facilities in the occupied territories are having a material impact. Fuel moves through the same logistics networks for the military, and the Russian military has to get its fuel from further and further away.
5/7

Which, ironically, burns up more fuel when you get to the metaphorical "last mile" moved by trucks that have to travel greater distances.
If continued Storm Shadow strikes push large logistic hubs further back, that will consume more fuel in the occupied territories.
6/7

Reading the local news in the DNR informs me:

1) Ukraine strikes on fuel depots are working
2) Russian fuel supplies are fragile
3) Further disruption could impact Russian logistics
4) The more you can make Russian dependent on trucks traveling longer distances, the better
7/7

The 5th Separate Assault brigade destroyed a Russian ammunition site in the Bakhmut direction.

The 128th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade showed a captured Russian (T-72B3?) tank.

The 57th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade bombs Russian trenches in the direction of Bakhmut. Literally smoking them out.

A 2A36 Giatsint-B was destroyed. The amount of Russian artillery destroyed in Ukraine is staggering.

More from the guys from the 72nd mechanized near Mykil's'ke. Targeting Russian troops and their hideouts with FPV drones and mortar/artillery fire.

📍47.75590897530151, 37.291937015184025 and 47.75449925502118, 37.28877333704359

From my friends at the 72nd mechanized. FPV drones doing a good job. Enjoy, south of Mykil's'ke.

Nighttime Ukrainian DPICM cluster munition strike on a Russian position

Three Ukrainian tanks - presumably a Leopard 2A4/2A6 & two T-72-series tanks - and a YPR-765 armored personnel carrier were destroyed by the Russian army in #Zaporizhzhia Oblast.

Two Russian tanks including at least one T-80BV were destroyed by the Ukrainian army during the attempted Russian attack on Novoselivske, #Luhansk Oblast yesterday.

The 🇺🇦Ukrainian military destroyed a 🇷🇺Russian MT-LB on which a 23-mm twin ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft gun was installed

yawn, to be continue next year lor
winter too cold tabuli, and winter also Rusky's traditional "ally"

Another group of Russians surrendered near Kreminna where Russia is throwing everything with little to show for it.
Now the men are safe, no one will shoot them for disobeying the criminal orders.