Recon unit SHADOW of the 36th Marine Brigade flew an FPV drone into a Russian anti-drone base, hitting one soldier.

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1697...8014110870?s=20

EXCLUSIVE! Captured Ukrainian Soldiers Speak Out, Forced to Take Drugs To Fight

Russia today says that it has intercepted a Ukrainian commando team, seeking to conduct sabotage operations in Russia’s Bryansk Region. Redacted correspondent Mike Jones is in Russia and he’s been speaking to members of the Ukrainian army that were captured and are now in Russia.

"Every time the enemy tries to reconnoiter what is happening on the left bank, they send their sabotage and reconnaissance groups on boats. Over the past day, they lost seven such boats. That is, every time an enemy group goes on a mission, it never returns," said Humenyuk.

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1697...8790827501?s=20

Soviet UR-77 "Meteorit" mine-clearing self-propelled rocket launcher in service with the Armed Forces of 🇺🇦Ukraine

https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/...4662825243?s=20

Morning briefing of the Ministry of Defense of Russia (September 2, 2023) ❗Text only❗
⚡️Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation

(2 September 2023)

▫️The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.

▫️In Zaporozhye direction, the Russian Group of Forces' units, artillery and aviation repelled four attacks by AFU 47th, 65th mechanised brigades, the 46th Aeromobile Brigade, the 82nd Air Assault Brigade and the 15th National Guard Brigade near Rabotino and Verbovoye (Zaporozhye region).

▫️Over the past 24 hours, up to 115 AFU servicemen, two armoured fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, two M777 artillery systems, one U.S.-manufactured M119 towed howitzer, as well as two howitzers: one Msta-B howitzer and one D-30 howitzer were eliminated.

▫️One U.S.-manufactured AN/TPQ-50 counterbattery warfare radar has been destroyed near Charivnoye (Zaporozhye region).

▫️In South Donetsk direction, the Vostok Group of Forces' units, supported by Army Aviation and artillery, launched attacks at the AFU 72nd Mechanised Brigade near Ugledarn (Donetsk People's Republic).

▫️In addition, one ammunition depot of the AFU 117th Mechanised Brigade has been destroyed near Kamyshevakha (Zaporozhye region).

▫️The enemy losses were more than 105 AFU militants, four tanks, three infantry fighting vehicles, six motor vehicles, two Akatsiya and Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems, as well as two howitzers: one D-20 howitzer and one D-30 howitzer.

▫️In Donetsk direction, Russian troops actively improved positions along the front line close to Klescheyevka (Donetsk People's Republic.)

▫️Over the past 24 hours, the Yug Group of Forces' units, artillery and aviation repelled five attacks of AFU 129th, 241st territorial defence brigades' assault groups near Artyomovsk (Donetsk People's Republic), as well as three attacks of the AFU 109th Territorial Defence Brigade'units and the 79th Air Assault Brigade's units close to Maryinka (Donetsk People's Republic.)

▫️More than 250 AFU servicemen, one tank, one infantry fighting vehicle, four armoured fighting vehicles, two motor veicles, one Strela-10 surface-to-air missile system, one Polish-manufactured Krab self-propelled artillery system, two D-20 howitzers, one D-30 howitzer, as well as one U.S.-manufactured M119 howitzer were eliminated.

▫️In Kupyansk direction, the Zapad Group of Forces' units, supported by Army Aviation and artillery, launched attacks at the AFU 103rd Territorial Defence Brigade's units near Kislovka (Kharkov region).

▫️The enemy losses were up to 40 servicemen, three armoured fighting vehicles, two motor vehicles, one U.S.-manufactured M777 artillery system, and one D-20 howitzer.

▫️In Krasny Liman direction, as a result of coordinated actions by units of the Tsentr Group of Forces, Army Aviation, artillery and heavy flamethrower systems, two attacks by assault groups of the 5th National Guard Brigade's units and the 67th Mechanised Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been repelled close to Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic).

▫️In addition, AFU 63rd and 67th mechanised brigades' units have been hit near Torskoye (Donetsk People's Republic), and Kuzmino (Lugansk People's Republic).

▫️More than 60 AFU servicemen, as well as two armoured fighting vehicles, two pickup trucks, and two D-30 howitzers were eliminated.

▫️In Kherson direction, the enemy losses were more than 30 Ukrainian servicemen, two motor vehicles, and one D-30 howitzer.

▫️One field ammunition depot of the AFU 106th Territorial Defence Brigade was destroyed near Tyaginka (Kherson region), as well as one UAV control post close to Otradokamenka (Kherson region).

▫️Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have neutralised manpower and military hardware in 108 areas.

▫️Two command and observation posts of the 28th Mechanised Brigade of the AFU have been destroyed near Dyleevka (Donetsk People's Republic).

▫️One communications center of the AFU 110th Mechanised Brigade has been destroyed near Avdeyevka (Donetsk People's Republic).

▫️Air defence systems intercepted two U.S.manufactured HIMARS rocket-propelled projectiles and one HARM anti-radar missile.

▫️Over the past 24 hours, 25 AFU unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down near Trudovskoye, Kodema, Klinovoye (Donetsk People's Republic), Pshenichnoye, Ocheretovatoye and Tarasovka (Zaporozhye region), as well as Tavolzhanka (Kharkov region)

📊In total, 466 airplanes, 247 helicopters, 6,318 unmanned aerial vehicles, 435 air defence missile systems, 11,607 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,147 fighting vehicles equipped with MLRS, 6,182 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 12,620 special military motor vehicles have been destroyed during the special military operation.

The Fall | Insidious Breakthrough Plan. Tank Duels In Svatove. Military Summary For 2023.09.02

i think we may be seeing even more explosions in russia...

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"Ukraine has been working on its own missile programme and drones for a long time now, so hitting targets in Russian territory, even if they are located 1,500 km away, is no longer a problem," says Oleksii Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council.

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1697...1361699126?s=20

🇺🇦Ukrainian soldiers from the 8th separate mountain assault battalion showed their work for August

https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/...7972638739?s=20

The brigade of the National Guard of 🇺🇦Ukraine "AZOV" practiced landing from the 🇺🇸American MRAP International MaxxPro

https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/...5691117662?s=20

Ukraine’s Big Summer Offensive Won’t Win The War Against Russia

As the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) celebrate the complete capture of the village of Robotyne, the long-anticipated offensive that began on June 5 could be nearing its culmination. After nearly three months, we can now make some preliminary assessments about the results of Kyiv’s attack, as well as assess potential courses the war may take for the rest of 2023.

Bottom line: The counteroffensive netted marginal tactical success and exacted no meaningful change in the line of contact. No end to the fighting is in sight.

How Did the Offensive Play Out?

Ukraine had been signaling since at least March that it planned to launch a major offensive in the early summer. After a delay in late May to increase stockpiles of ammunition and other supplies, Ukraine launched its attack on June 5 across a broad front, centering on four major axes of advance: Kamianske in the west, Orikhiv and Velyka Novosilka in the center, and Bakhmut in the north.

Ukraine had reportedly assembled 12 mechanized brigades for the operation, manned with up to 40,000 troops. They had spent the better part of a half-year preparing for the attack, and their preparation featured training on combined arms warfare in NATO countries. They were equipped with British Challenger 2 tanks, German Leopard 2 tanks, U.S. Bradley Fighting Vehicles and Stryker armored troop carriers, and other modern NATO kit. Given the circumstances, Ukraine was as prepared as any nation fighting an invasion could be.

But in May, Czech President Petr Pavel ominously warned that it would be “extremely harmful to Ukraine if this counteroffensive fails, because they will not have another chance, at least not this year.” Similarly, a leaked classified report cautioned that U.S. intelligence officials believed the Ukrainian offensive may only produce “modest territorial gains.” Nearly three months after the offensive began, those concerns have been borne out.

On the Velyka Novosilka and Orikhiv fronts, Ukrainian troops managed to push about 10 km, while in the Kamianske and Bakhmut fronts, barely 4 km have been gained. Yet the cost to Ukraine in men and material has been exorbitant. The New York Times reported that a full fifth of the offensive strike force had been damaged or destroyed in just the first two weeks. Shifting to an infantry-centric push did carve a few more kilometers out of Russia’s holdings, but the cost to Ukraine’s troops has been high.

In mid-August Forbes reported that Ukraine’s 82nd Mechanized Brigade had been committed to the battle on the Velyka Novosilka front, possibly Ukraine’s last operational reserve for the offensive. Almost the only axis where Ukraine is still making slow progress is the Velyka Novosilka front, where Ukraine captured Robotyne. While any victory is welcome, the situation facing Ukraine now is much more daunting than appears.
Ukraine and senior Western officials claim the capture of Robotyne represents a puncture in the first major line of Russian defense, implying that now the battles will get easier and progress faster. But Ukraine faces significant hurdles to push any further.

What Is the Status Today?

First, it is not enough to break through a line of defense and push deeper into enemy lines. Every kilometer of territory captured must be garrisoned and held against expected enemy attacks from the flanks.

Ukraine has apparently used up most of its offensive potential just reaching Robotyne. It is not clear they have sufficient strength in equipment, ammunition, or manpower to both push deeper into Russian lines and still hold the flanks against counterattack. In all likelihood, Ukraine is at the end of its push. It might soon be forced to revert to the defensive to ensure it holds the territory it has wrested back from Russia.

Second, some Ukrainian advocates seem to believe that the Russian side is a static entity, so that each meter of land the UAF recovers is a deepening wound on the enemy. The truth, however, is that Russia is constantly adjusting to new and emerging battlefield realities. The Russian high command likely observed that three of the four axes of attack have largely failed and have been reinforcing the subsequent layers of defense ahead of Robotyne. Thus, the farther Ukraine penetrates in this area, the more difficult and costly will be additional progress.

Third, the main reasons for Ukraine’s lack of success in this offensive are their fundamental disadvantages in air power, air defense, and artillery ammunition, and especially a dearth of mine-clearing equipment. Those problems have not been solved.

What Next?

Combined with the high level of casualties sustained — and the approach within weeks of Ukraine’s rainy season — it is likely the Ukrainian offensive will be spent before the end of September. The net result of Ukraine’s large-scale offensive has been marginal gains in some areas. From the strategic point of view, the 1,000 km-long line of contact remains largely as it was at the beginning of 2023.

As the Czech president warned, the chances are extremely remote that the UAF will be able to do anything beyond defending for the remainder of the year. Ukraine will hope to rebuild strength for 2024. The problem for Kyiv is that Russia, too, is rebuilding its strength for future offensive thrusts. It has weathered the best Ukraine and the West could throw at them in the occupied territories and surrendered very little territory.

Some are clinging to the hope that the appearance of American Abrams tanks and F-16 fighter jets in 2024 will finally be the game-changer Ukraine has been looking for. Sadly, they will be disappointed. A mere battalion’s-worth of Abrams were promised, with the first reportedly arriving in early fall, and there might be a small number of F-16s delivered to Ukraine in 2024. (Pilot training might not be completed before next summer). Those may provide tactical utility at the margins but will do nothing to move the needle strategically.

The harsh reality is that no matter how just and righteous Ukraine’s cause, it is likely a militarily unattainable task to seek the ouster of Russian forces from illegally occupied parts of Ukraine liberated parts of Russia 😐. At present, unfortunately, neither Kyiv nor Moscow shows any willingness to enter into serious negotiations to end the war, as neither is willing to compromise on its main objectives.

The chances are high, therefore, that the war continues in an attrition model, where the two sides will continue positional battles in key geographic locations, launching drone and missile strikes into the rear areas of each country and engaging in pulverizing artillery duels all along the line of contact. That type of war will inflict hundreds or thousands of casualties per day on both sides, continue wiping Ukrainian villages and cities off the map, and keep alive the possibility that an error, misjudgment, or miscalculation could result in the war expanding beyond Ukraine.

Given the failure of the offensive to achieve decisive results, Washington should reconsider its policies and objectives. The United States likely cannot continue indefinitely to provide large stocks of tanks, armored personnel carriers, aircraft, air defense missiles, as well as millions of rounds of artillery shells and other ammunition.

The Biden administration should devise new plans based on the battlefield realities and come up with a plan that protects America’s security interests and economic prosperity. Blindly supporting Ukraine “for as long as it takes” was never a strategy and is now appearing less sustainable than ever.

Daniel L. Davis is a Senior Fellow for Defense Priorities and a former Lt. Col. in the U.S. Army who deployed into combat zones four times. He is the author of “The Eleventh Hour in 2020 America.”

In this article: Europe, featured, Russia, Ukraine, War in Ukraine

Amusing comments by Bandera sycophants in the linked article.

the issues that former Russian Ground Forces Major General Ivan Ivanovich Popov raised are mainly:
1. lack of counter battery fire.
2. russian soldiers not getting troop rotations or rest.
3. massive death due to enemy artillery fire.

lets hope these issues continue to prevail.

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Russian fighter Egor Guzenko confirms that the AFU is advancing in the area between Novoprokopivka-Verbove. While also moaning that the issues of which former commander Popov spoke are still not resolved. Popov was dismissed due to criticism on the Russian battlefield strategy

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1697...0602526196?s=20

A sapper of the 128th separate mountain assault brigade of the Armed Forces of 🇺🇦Ukraine in mine-resistant boots of the Ukrainian manufacturer

https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/...2020469869?s=20

Verbove - Novoprokopivka axis somewhere.
Another unit from the🇺🇦Air Assault Forces reported in the area is the the 78th Special Purpose Regiment 'Herts', here in a trench reportedly recently captured from a Russian VDV unit. The usual mess, a PKM + 2🇷🇺corpses left behind.

https://twitter.com/Danspiun/status/1697918977148592542?s=20

Ukraine has rebuffed claims made by Western officials over Ukraine's ongoing counteroffensive. Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian troops were moving forward in the fightback against Russia. This as Western nations reportedly blamed Kyiv's strategy for the slow progress of the fightback. Ukraine's ongoing counteroffensive operation is nearing the three-month mark. Reports say that Ukraine has retaken over a dozen villages, but no major settlements.

Affirmative. The nefarious Bandera regime is definitely moving forward on the road to perdition and total annihilation. 😵

Dolomitne, Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian forces flatten a Russian supply dump with done-spotted fire.

https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1...8948131249?s=20

US-supplied M7 Bradley Fire Support Team (BFIST) SA in Ukrainian service.

The BFIST is equipped with the Fire Support Sensor System, aimed at providing indirect fire assets with highly precise target information.

https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1...2752280741?s=20

"The battle at dawn. Bakhmut direction. We cover the holes with the Russians until they are completely eliminated. The enemy shoots at the landing zones, but the assault groups clear the dugouts and continue to advance."

Footage from the 3rd separate assault brigade.

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1697...1346744779?s=20

Russian airborne units prevent advance of Ukrainian troops near Artyomovsk
Airborne units widely use both various optical reconnaissance devices and UAVs

MOSCOW, September 3. /TASS/. Russian airborne units, acting on the defensive, are preventing the advance of enemy sabotage and reconnaissance groups on the outskirts of Artyomovsk, the Russian Defense Ministry told TASS.

"The airborne units continue to confidently hold the defense and prevent sabotage and reconnaissance groups from entering the settlements adjacent to Artyomovsk. Every day, scouts advance in small groups to the outskirts of the city to monitor the enemy, who is on the defensive in close proximity to our positions," the statement says.

Airborne units widely use both various optical reconnaissance devices and UAVs. When units of the Ukrainian armed forces move, their coordinates are transmitted to the artillery control point.

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The GUR released footage of the destruction of a 9S18 mobile target assignment radar for the 9K37 BUK and a 9K37 launcher. Reportedly done by Polish Warmate kamikaze drones.

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1697...9038818450?s=20

The Russian field ammunition was destroyed on the territory of the 🇷🇺Russian Federation

https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/...3382232539?s=20