Launcher-trailer of the 🇷🇺Russian UAV-kamikaze "Lancet" from the lens of the 🇺🇦Ukrainian UAV.

https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/...9639972949?s=20

When the Ukrainian war sponsor like the UK starts to post opinion piece such as this in their news site; things are not so rosy for the Zelensky regime in the near future.
UK is planning for an off ramp just like what they did in Afghanistan.

Ukraine’s army is running out of men to recruit, and time to win
Victory may be in sight for Vladimir Putin
by Robert Clark, Director Defense & Security Unit (DSU) at Civitas.
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The war in Ukraine is now one of attrition, fought on terms that increasingly favour Moscow. Kyiv has dealt admirably with shortages of Western equipment so far, but a shortage of manpower – which it is already having to confront – may prove fatal.

Broadly speaking, Kyiv’s highly anticipated counter-offensive has gathered much-needed momentum in recent weeks, with hard-fought gains around the strategically important village of Robotyne. If this falls, the road to the Azov sea will be in sight. If Ukrainian forces can reach the coast, they will split the land-bridge connecting Russia with Crimea, potentially routing Moscow’s troops.
There are 3 major defense lines after Robotyne which the author forget to mention...

Ukraine’s forces, however, are not just fighting massed defenses and artillery fire. They are also fighting against time. Having first penetrated the formidable Russian minefields four weeks ago, Kyiv is desperate to exploit its early successes before mounting casualties and autumn rains destroy its fighting capability.

It’s a brutal but simple calculation: Kyiv is running out of men. US sources have calculated that its armed forces have lost as many as 70,000 killed in action, with another 100,000 injured. While Russian casualties are higher still, the ratio nevertheless favours Moscow, as Ukraine struggles to replace soldiers in the face of a seemingly endless supply of conscripts.
Cool story on Ukrainian and Russian casualties.

Volunteers are no longer coming forward in numbers sufficient to keep the army at fighting strength: those most willing to fight signed up years ago. The latest recruitment slogan is “it’s OK to be afraid”, but there are still many attempting to dodge being drafted to fight on the front lines.

For all the difficulties the Kremlin has faced in its forced conscriptions, it still has hundreds of thousands of men to draw upon. This is a resource Ukraine simply cannot match, and one that the West cannot supply.
For Vladimir Putin, victory may at last be in sight as Western support begins to waver. If Kyiv cannot break through the Russian lines now, it may never be able to. If it runs out of willing men to recruit, the West cannot help.

Ukraine tells military-age citizens to 'overcome their fear' in recruitment campaign
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy announced a general mobilization after Russia's February 2022 full-scale invasion and military reservists between the ages of 18 and 60 are eligible for conscription.

'Overcome your fear': Ukraine targets teenage boys in recruitment campaign

Ukraine's defense ministry urged military-age citizens to update their data at army enlistment offices and "overcome their fear" in a campaign launched on Thursday (August 17) as a summer counter-offensive grinds through its third month.
The campaign, which draws on slickly-produced videos and photo testimonials of prominent soldiers describing their fears, aims to break down a major obstacle in army recruitment, Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said.
The campaign comes with Ukraine likely facing tougher challenges in recruiting as the war with Russia, now in an brutally attritional phase, nears the 18-month mark.
As she outlined the campaign, Maliar was careful to say that not all those who updated their personal data would automatically be mobilised into the army and that not all those who are mobilised would end up in a combat zone.

Zelensky's corrupt regime has no qualms sending teenagers to the meatgrinder at the frontlines.

🇺🇦Ukrainian military from the 110th separate mechanized brigade destroyed a 🇷🇺Russian truck with ammunition in the Avdiyivka direction

https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/...2669501799?s=20

The Turkish company Baykar congratulated the GUR on Independence Day of Ukraine and gave them a Bayraktar TB2 for free.

"The best gift for this special day is a new weapon that will help destroy the enemy and defend our freedom and independence," the GUR replied.

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1694...9647970733?s=20

🇺🇦Ukrainian minefields with a very high density of installation of TM-62 anti-tank mines on the ground somewhere in the Kharkiv region

https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/...0096434287?s=20

The 🇺🇦Ukrainian Shadow unit together with the "Birds of Magyar" unit damaged a 🇷🇺Russian armored personnel carrier

https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/...3294863738?s=20

Morning briefing of the Ministry of Defense of Russia (August 24, 2023)
⚡️ Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation

(24 August 2023)

▫️Last night, the Russian Armed Forces have launched a long-range sea- and ground-based high-precision group strike against a decision-making centres of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

▫️The goal of the attack has been reached. The facility has been neutralised.

▫️In Kupyansk direction, assault detachments of the Zapad Group of Forces continued successful offensive operations in the assigned areas of responsibility.

▫️As a result of courageous actions by units, Army Aviation and artillery, 5 enemy attacks have been repelled close to Novosyolovskoye, Novoegorovka (Lugansk People's Republic) and Sinkovka (Kharkov region).

▫️The enemy losses were up to 50 Ukrainian servicemen, 2 infantry fighting vehicles, 3 pickup trucks, and 3 U.S.-manufactured M777 artillery systems.

▫️In Zaporozhye direction, as a result of active and well-coordinated actions by units of the Russian grouping of troops, supported by artillery, 5 enemy attacks have been repelled near Rabotino and Uspenovka (Zaporozhye region).

▫️The enemy losses were up to 110 Ukrainian servicemen, 4 tanks, 3 armoured fighting vehicles, 4 motor vehicles, 1 Polish-manufactured Krab self-propelled artillery system, and 4 U.S.-manufactured M777 artillery systems.

▫️In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces, supported by Ground-Attack and Army aviation, 6 attacks by the AFU have been successfully repelled close to Severnoye, Berestovoye and Nevelskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).

▫️The enemy losses were up to 125 Ukrainian servicemen, 1 tank, 4 infantry fighting vehicles, 4 motor vehicles, and 1 Msta-B howitzer.

▫️In addition, 1 ammunition depot has been destroyed near Verkhnekamenskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).

▫️In South Donetsk direction, as a result of actions by units of the Vostok Group of Forces, Operational-Tactical and artillery, 1 enemy attack has been repelled near Priyutnoye (Zaporozhye region).

▫️In addition, units of 37th and 38th brigades of the AFU Marines have been eliminated close to Urozhaynoye and Oktyabr state farm (Donetsk People's Republic).

▫️The enemy losses were up to 230 Ukrainian servicemen, 2 armoured personnel carriers, 3 motor vehicles, as well as 2 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems.

▫️In Krasny Liman direction, as a result of active actions by units of the Tsentr Group of Forces, Army Aviation and artillery, 3 enemy attacks have been successfully repelled near Grigorovka, Torskoye (Donetsk People's Republic) and Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic).

▫️The enemy losses were up to 80 Ukrainian servicemen, 3 armoured fighting vehicles, and 2 pickup trucks.

▫️In Kherson direction, the enemy losses were up to 30 Ukrainian servicemen, 2 motor vehicles, as well as Msta-B and D-30 howitzers.

▫️In addition, the actions of 1 Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group have been suppressed.

▫️Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have neutralised manpower and military hardware in 153 areas.

▫️1 control point, one radar station, and two launchers of the S-300PS SAM system have been destroyed near Zeleny Gai (Nikolayev region).

▫️4 enemy ammunition depots have been also destroyed near Lvov (Kherson region), Mikhailovka (Kharkov region), Iskra (Dnepropetrovsk region), and Krasnogorovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

▫️Air defence facilities have shot down 4 projectiles launched by HIMARS MLRS.

▫️In addition, 42 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have been destroyed close to Kudryashovka, Lisichansk, Shishkovo (Lugansk People's Republic), Gorlovka, Nikolskoye, Artyomovsk, Berestovoye, Klyuchevoye (Donetsk People's Republic), Pologi, Tokmak (Zaporozhye region), Dobropolye (Kherson region), and Tavolzhanka (Kharkov region).

📊In total, 462 airplanes, 246 helicopters, 6,012 unmanned aerial vehicles, 433 air defence missile systems, 11,476 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,144 fighting vehicles equipped with MLRS, 6,024 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 12,408 special military motor vehicles have been destroyed during the special military operation.

🇺🇦Ukrainian artillerymen from the 116th brigade hit a 🇷🇺Russian tank on the move

https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/...8886258692?s=20

russian soldier surrendering

Summer Operations | The Time Has Come. Armageddon And Wagner Are Back. Military Summary 2023.8.24

This war is going badly for Ukraine... They are closing hundreds of men everyday. Could be even more. No wonder pple are saying they already lost 200k since start of war and having to keep callling in reserves... I think 5-6 times already. Russia only did it once... in terms of men, Russia simply has way more.

This war has become one which see who has more men to die. Russia is still churning out tanks to replace etheir lost ones but Ukraine is depending on "donations aka buy now pay later"..... Lol

something big exploded in Tokmat.

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Tokmak from another angle

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1694...1216079002?s=20

The Ukrainian military is advancing south of the city of Bakhmut. As the spokesman of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Andriy Kovalev, said, in that area they are entrenched at the achieved boundaries.

On the southern front, the Ukrainian forces are conducting an offensive operation in the direction of Melitopol, and were successful in the direction of Novoprokopivka.

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1694...0211338270?s=20

The "Freedom of Russia" Legion fighting on the side of 🇺🇦Ukraine destroyed a 🇷🇺Russian BMP(?) in the Zaitsevo area

https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/...4677728747?s=20

lolz, if this photo is true, SA should have at least provide a stand for the monitor to be at shoulder level

a simple Google lens will yield a result that is not what the AMTK wishes to see, but can only desperately PS the photo to win the War .... KEK...

Only Sohai AMTK will believe...hahaha

Vladimir Putin took part in the meeting in the "BRICS plus/outreach" format via video link.

The event, held within the framework of the XV BRICS Summit in Johannesburg (South Africa), is attended by leaders of more than fifty countries of the world and heads of executive structures of regional organizations.

As a result of the summit, the second Johannesburg Declaration of the BRICS countries was adopted.


- Russian President Vladimir Putin declares opposition to US-led unipolarism in a speech at the recent BRICS summit in South Africa;

- President Putin notes the role the US pursuit of hegemony plays in global wars including the ongoing proxy war in Ukraine;

- Austria's foreign minister notes that European security architecture cannot exclude Russia and its national security concerns;

- Japan begins pumping radioactive water from the Fukushima disaster into the ocean despite protests both at home and abroad;

ps. asking for a friend 😂

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hey sayden... bengm2019
looking for a russian "experts" take on this...
1. ukranian commandos are in crimea
2. long range rockets in crimea were hit
3. russia has lost 10 times more land than they took last year
4. russian units are refusing to move
5. vid of russians smoking dope and refusing to take orders shows up
6. wagner broken
7. ukraine troops still on the left bank
8. russian rail hacked
9. drones over moscow every day now
10. russian long range aircraft moved to eastern russia out of fear.
11. crimea bridge now restricted over damage and incoming rockets.
12. 3 more senior commanders in the russian army dead or under house arrest.
13. the LAST major mobile reserve in the south (7th airborne) has been moved to zap and now is taking heavy losses without stopping the ukr advance....
14. reports say the 2nd and 47th divisions in the north attack (russian) are exhausted and can not push forward due to losses..
15. russia used a lancent on a T90M... a russian T90M (friendly fire)
16. ukraine has breached the russian line at 3 places
17. wagner is on the move for revenge
19. a great Parady account has popped up on twitter
20. turkey has offically (as policy) stated that the pre 2014 ukraine borders are the legal borders.
21. putin was too scared to show up at BRICS
22. the number of F16s to ukraine is nearing 100.

all this week, and we have 3 days to go.
so is russia winning still?
asking for a friend

Yesterday not only the Russian S-400 "Triumph" anti-aircraft missile complex was destroyed in Crimea. Three more Russian S-300 launchers were destroyed or damaged in the Kherson, spokeswoman of the Southern Defense Forces Nataliya Humenyuk said.

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1694...1321916621?s=20