Romanov (russian) with a worrying post:

“What kind of ***** is happening right now in the Kherson direction. Interaction, reaction speed, it is all completely absent. The enemy launches boats along the Dnipro river. Is making rotations, lands DRGs.

There are simply no words.”

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1694...8606368090?s=20

note
there are unconfirmed reports that Robotnye has gain by Ukrainian forces.

Soledar direction
: situation as of 12.00 on August 24,2023

In the vicinity of Bakhmut, the situation has relatively stabilized. After several unsuccessful attempts, the Armed Forces of Ukraine again moved on to replenishing units and preparing for new attacks.

🔻The large number of killed and wounded in the assault formations forced the Armed Forces of Ukraine to adjust their plans. In the 2nd battalion of the 3rd brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, only 28% of combat-ready personnel remained, and less than half of the standard equipment.
Pasukan Ukraina menderita banyak korban akibat pertempuran.

Now in the area of Kostiantynivka and Belaya Gora, there is an active training and coordination of the assault detachments of the 92nd Mechanized Brigade, the 57th Mechanized Brigade and the 24th Aidar Battalion of the 5th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which are planned to be used on the southern flank of Bakhmut in the second wave.

🔻In the first echelon, 14 assault groups of the national police brigade "Lyut" are now preparing for an attack. Eight of them intend to storm Hill 195.4 near Kleshcheyevka in order to force Russian troops to retreat from the village.

And the rest plan to move along the railway tracks in the direction of Andreevka and Kurdyumivka to block the approaches to the Kurdyumovsky triangle.

🔻At the same time, in the north, in the vicinity of Seversk, there is also a concentration of six enemy assault groups, which indicates a possible activation from Razdolovka. In recent weeks, the 10th OGSBR and the 54th Mechanized Brigade have been intensively preparing reserves for the attack, so it is quite possible that an offensive from several sides is synchronized in time.

📌 The 🇺🇦Ukrainian military struck the positions of the 🇷🇺Russian Armed Forces south of Pyatikhatok with cluster munitions

📍47.49760755780952, 35.477844291850616

https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/...9906663828?s=20

🇺🇦Ukrainian military destroyed another 🇷🇺Russian tank, reportedly using the Ukrainian Grim-2 kamikaze drone

https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/...2895343942?s=20

On the landing of Ukrainian DRGs on Tarkhankut and the consequences of false reports

At night, two to four high-speed boats landed in the Olenevka area at Cape Tarkhankut, conducted demonstrative firing from a grenade launcher on camera and departed back, from where they went to Burlachya Balka.

This is the second incident in the area of the cape in the last few days. Only recently, the Armed Forces of Ukraine conducted a combined attack, as a result of which the S-300 air defense system was destroyed, and now they have landed on the shore.

🔻The activity of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the Crimean peninsula is becoming more and more high. Statements about the destruction of four boats are, of course, good, but false reports make you turn a blind eye to the existing gaps in the defense.

It is not without reason that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been testing the ground near the Crimea for several weeks, looking for loopholes for the landing operation, for which the British were preparing them. And Tarkhankut is the most convenient place for this kind of action.

🔻The coastline of the cape is almost on the same level with the sea, which makes it ideal for the approach of small boats. And if now it was just an ostentatious sortie, then what prevented them from climbing the hill and hitting a military facility there?

The fact that Ukrainian formations are planning operations in Crimea is already a fact. And in this case, instead of rosy reports, it is more expedient to do everything possible to curb such activity. Especially in places with large concentrations of civilians.

Apparently, Zelensky's corrupt regime chose to ignore the advice of their master whom bankrolled the counteroffensive to stop pointless attacks on Crimea. Their compulsive obsession with Crimea and Bakhmut are going to be their downfall.

Ukraine’s recent focus on Crimea draws skepticism from corners of the Biden administration
Key highlights:

For some military and Biden administration officials, Ukrainian attacks on Crimea are at best a distraction, and at worst, a valuable waste of resources in a strategy that many analysts now believe has left Ukraine stretched too thin between multiple axes of attack.
“It’s knocked the Russians off balance a bit, but it is not doing anything decisive,” a senior defense official told CNN. “And it would probably be better for everyone for them to just focus on the counteroffensive.”

Ukraine has conducted “some pretty good attacks on logistics and command and control” in Crimea, one US military official said, but “I don’t think those effects have fully come to bear.”
But so far, some US officials and outside analysts say, the attacks do not appear to be having much of an impact. In 10 weeks of fighting, Ukraine has failed to break through Russian defensive lines – something some critics believe is because Ukraine failed to prioritize any one effort and instead spread their resources too thin across multiple fronts.

Some US and western officials insist that the Russian defensive lines are limited to a single line of forces, suggesting that if Ukraine is able break through, Russia will be vulnerable from the rear. But after 10 weeks of fighting, the front lines remain fixed. And eventually, the brutal math of warfare – the plain number of bullets and bodies that an army has to throw into the fight – may not be on Ukraine’s side. “It puts into question how much Ukraine will have available in combat strength to exploit any breakthrough,” said Michael Kofman, a senior fellow in the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “Russian forces proved far less brittle than hoped over the past several months.”

Miles of minefields laid by Russia have kept Ukraine at bay and for weeks now, and the two sides have been engaged in a grinding fight within a narrow, unchanging band along the frontlines.
Ukraine has for now largely abandoned more complex maneuvering that the US had trained its military to use in favor of smaller-unit engagements and heavy use of artillery, which US officials are privately concerned about, CNN has reported.
Billions of dollars wasted, countless Ukrainian lives lost...

🇺🇦Ukrainian soldiers from the Svoboda battalion of the National Guard of Ukraine destroyed a 🇷🇺Russian tank at night using the 🇺🇸American FGM-148 Javelin ATGM

https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/...0435872833?s=20

1/2 Recently, our military encountered what appears to be a slightly modified version of the russian loitering munition "KUB." While I'm unable to share details, it appears that certain adjustments have been made to improve certain systems.

https://twitter.com/Tatarigami_UA/status/16...3130612144?s=20

🇩🇪German BMP "Marder" 1A3 with a camouflage cape in service of the newly created 82nd separate amphibious assault brigade of the Armed Forces of 🇺🇦Ukraine

https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/...4868148483?s=20

I think Catnip winning, keep it up.

i like how you keep thinking this is a race based on reports 😂😂😂

well, at least you are less delusional like kding2 over at the othe thread that not even any supporters wanna back him up lol

This post has been edited by chaosneo: Aug 24 2023, 11:26 PM

Look at this brave fellow, certainly not cowering in der Fuhrerbunker, dare to fly all over the world...

🇺🇦Ukrainian military from the 110th separate mechanized brigade destroyed the 🇷🇺Russian MT-LB in the Avdiyivka direction

https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/...1125595571?s=20

tell me this is not an actual picture... 😂😂😂
this is the man that putin supporters are rallying to?

This post has been edited by chaosneo: Aug 24 2023, 11:28 PM

Ukrainian military also making its own lancet.

https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/...5893409981?s=20

crowdfunded bomber drones.

Germany updated their aid supplied to Ukraine:

➡️Patriot Missiles
➡️10 drone detection systems
➡️40 RQ-35 HEIDRUN recon drones
➡️16 Mercedes Zetros
➡️510,000 small arms ammo

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1694...5774306815?s=20

this MAY probably explain why there was a Ukrainian drone video of a russian air defense base in Crimea getting bomb at.
i got this feeling the special forces went there just to confirm the destruction by drone usage... maybe

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1694...0985723382?s=20

i think we may see more incidents at Crimea in near foreseeable future.

"We have the ability to hit any part of temporarily occupied Crimea as of now. We can reach the enemy at absolutely any point. Those who have done stupid things, it is better for them to leave," head of the GUR Kyrylo Budanov said in a statement.

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1694...4124055665?s=20

Official footage. Robotyne is liberated! 🇺🇦👍

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1694...6504659113?s=20

Good points here on cost efficiency & why GLSDB will fill a useful role when it comes online in the fall, filling that gap between GMLRS and Storm Shadow. Could be more impactful than other systems commonly mentioned.

As this war has now extended beyond a year and a half, the issue of cost efficiency becomes even more important. Using the illustration of a russian logistical facility located in Yakymivka, Zaporizhia Oblast, I will explain this challenge in a straightforward manner.

2/ Since 2022, this logistical node has operated as a russian vehicle repair facility, primarily focusing on armored vehicles. Through a comparative analysis of imagery, it becomes evident that the facility is operational, although its capacity remains somewhat limited.

3/ This leads us to the subsequent question: can we dismiss this facility as insignificant in terms of targeting? Simultaneously, is it truly justifiable to deploy 2-3 million dollar Stormshadow missile, limited in supply, against a relatively basic repair shop setup?

4/ The present dilemma, wherein the target is too small to warrant the use of costly weaponry yet too significant to be disregarded, underscores the lack of scale of cost-efficient resolutions for such scenarios at this moment.

5/ There are at least two solutions to this issue: the long-range loitering munitions and the deployment of the GLSDB. Both of these options are relatively cheap, with a range that surpasses that of GMLRS, equipped with a sufficiently large payload to inflict serious damage.

7/ In my view, both these solutions will be pivotal in 2024. The delivery of GLSDB is expected in the fall, and local production needs time to ramp up. I believe ally support in production could be mutually beneficial, particularly within the future sales of a loitering munition.

https://twitter.com/KofmanMichael/status/16...2688672830?s=20