WASHINGTON, October 2. /TASS/. The US has essentially put on ice the contracting programs for providing assistance to Ukraine over a long term, said Matthew Miller, a spokesman for the US Department of State.
"While we have the ability to continue to support Ukraine's ability to defend itself in the immediate term, we have already exhausted much of the existing security assistance funding," he told reporters.
Miller said the US now can’t execute "contracting programs that allow us to contract for Ukraine in the long term."
EU Slams U.S. Congress Over Military Aid To Ukraine; Says 'Will Increase Aid To Ukraine…’ | Details
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell assured that the bloc would increase military support to Ukraine, after the U.S. Congress passed a stopgap funding bill late on Saturday that omitted aid to Ukraine. He urged the U.S. lawmakers to reconsider their decision to strip financial support for Ukraine from a stopgap budget bill.
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The Russian defence ministry has released footage of its latest operation in Donetsk. The Ukrainian armoured vehicle was taking cover among the trees on the battlefield. But it was reportedly identified by the Russian drone crew, which alerted the artillery. The clip shows how the hidden Ukrainian hardware was gutted in the woods. A cloud of smoke erupts from among the trees after Russia's precision strike.
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The Führer of the corrupted nefarious Bandera regime, puppet 🤡 diktat Zelensky is getting more isolated... 🤣
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Ukraine has run out of men to die in NATO's war, so it's now turning to women and younger boys to fill the ranks. Blackrock is raking in billions from the destruction of Ukraine while profiting massively on the rebuilding too. What a business model.
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The United States may have avoided a government shutdown on Saturday – but the lack of additional funding for Ukraine in the spending bill has left some residents in the war-torn nation nervous. Some believe it is due to the upcoming US presidential election, while others believe it's because of America's strategic interests. When the flow of money stops, the war and killing ends
Morning briefing of the Ministry of Defense of Russia (October 3, 2023) ❗Text only❗ ⚡️ Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
▫️ In Donetsk direction, the Yug Group of Forces in close cooperation with aviation and artillery has successfully repelled three enemy attacks close to Kleshcheyevka and Krasnogorovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy's losses have amounted to up to 285 Ukrainian troops, and seven motor vehicles during the day.
◽️ In counterbattery warfare, the Russian troops hit: one Grad MLRS vehicle and one French-made Caesar howitzer.
▫️ In Krasny Liman direction, the Tsentr Group of Forces in coordination with helicopters and artillery repelled three attacks launched by the 67th Mechanised Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 5th National Guard Brigade of Ukraine close to Torskoye and Grigorovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
▫️ Up to 65 Ukrainian servicemen, two armoured combat vehicles, and two pick-up trucks were neutralised.
▫️ One Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer, one D-20 and one D-30 howitzers have been obliterated during the day as part of the counter-battery warfare operation.
◽️ In South Donetsk direction, the Vostok Group of Forces repelled an attack launched by AFU assault group of the 128th Territorial Defence Brigade close to Priyutnoye (Zaporozhye region).
▫️ Moreover, ground-attack aircraft inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of the 58th Motorised Infantry, 72nd Mechanised Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Urozhainoye and Novomikhailovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
▫️ The enemy losses amounted to over 120 Ukrainian troops killed and wounded, two armoured fighting vehicles, six motor vehicles, and one D-20 gun.
▫️ In Kupyansk direction, aircraft, artillery, and heavy flamethrowers of the Zapad Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of the 25th Airborne, 14th, 92nd, and 115th mechanised brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Sinkovka, Zagoruikovka, Berestovoye (Kharkov region), and Novolyubovka (Lugansk People's Republic).
▫️ The enemy's losses amounted to up to 60 Ukrainian troops, two tanks, and one Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system.
▫️ In Zaporozhye direction, the Russian Group of Forces supported by helicopters and ground-attack aircraft struck manpower and hardware of the 65th and 118th mechanised brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Malaya Tokmachka, Novodanilovka, and north of Rabotino (Zaporozhye region).
▫️ The enemy suffered losses of up to 90 Ukrainian troops, two armoured personnel carriers, and three motor vehicles.
▫️ Moreover, one Msta-B howitzer, one D-20 gun, and one U.S.-made M119 towed howitzer have been obliterated as part of counter-battery warfare.
▫️ In Kherson direction, the enemy suffered losses of up to 45 Ukrainian troops killed and wounded, three motor vehicles, one Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer, and one D-30 gun.
▫️ Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery, and unmanned aerial vehicles of the Russian Groups of Forces have inflicted fire damage on enemy manpower and hardware in 122 areas in the past 24 hours.
▫️ In addition, one self-propelled launcher of the Ukrainian Buk-M1 surface-to-air missile system was hit on the position close to Burlatskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
▫️ Armament repair and recovery facilities of the Kharkov Armoured Plant were hit by the Russian Armed Forces.
▫️ Workshops of an enterprise producing solid rocket fuel and explosives were obliterated near Pavlograd.
▫️ Moreover, an ammunition depot of the AFU 41st Mechanised Brigade was destroyed close to Kupyansk (Kharkov region).
▫️ Russian air defence forces have intercepted two HIMARS MLRS projectiles during the day.
▫️ In addition, 58 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were intercepted in the areas of Ploshchanka, Makeyevka (Lugansk People's Republic), Krasnaya Gora, Shevchenko, Pobeda, Oktyabrskoye (Donetsk People's Republic), Verbovoye, Mirnoye, Novoye (Zaporozhye region), Peschanovka and Golaya Pristan (Kherson region).
📊 In total, 483 airplanes and 250 helicopters, 7,417 unmanned aerial vehicles, 440 air defence missile systems, 12,275 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,160 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 6,634 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 13,721 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
NEW YORK, October 3. /TASS/. Russia's "elastic defense" on the battlefield hinders the so-called Ukrainian counter-offensive, The New York Times says.
According to the newspaper, Russian troops withdraw to a second line of defense and then attack when Ukrainian forces are at their weakest. This prevents Ukrainian forces from consolidating their new positions and using them for further advances.
"The defender gives ground while inflicting as heavy casualties as they can on the attackers with a view to being able to set the attackers up for a decisive counterattack," Ben Barry, a senior fellow for land war studies at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, explained. He noted that Soviet troops used similar tactics in 1943 during the Battle of Kursk.
The Ukrainian military and officials also cite extensive minefields and fortifications among the factors hindering the advance of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the newspaper states. Kiev also blames the lack of success on the West delaying deliveries of fighter jets and long-range weapons.
The Ukrainian army has been making unsuccessful offensive attempts since June 4. On September 12, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Kiev had lost 71,500 troops and about 18,500 tanks as well as other armored vehicles. On September 26, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said that Ukraine's losses had exceeded 17,000 people in one month, and that the "counter-offensive" had failed to yield significant results.
No surprises there, more than 4 month already, thousands of losses of men and materiel and no breakthrough since June 4. Meanwhile, Bandera sympathizers, sycophants and propagandist continue to insist that Ukraine is winning.
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The State Department has admitted that the U.S. is fighting in Ukraine in order to make money rebuilding Ukraine. They also admit that corruption in Ukraine is in the way of that. A new memo shows how the United States wants to be the one to make money rebuilding Ukraine, not those Russian oligarchs! But oligarchs ARE private sector investors!! An oligarch is just a powerful businessperson from the private sector. So what they’re saying quite clearly is that the U.S. wants Russian business people OUT in Ukraine and U.S. businesspeople IN. But in order for all of these wonderful things to happen, according to the State Department, Ukraine first has to “slay the corruption dragon.” Oh that little thing? It’s a housekeeping matter, really.
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Russia once again targeted Southern Ukraine overnight with drones and missile. Russia unleashed 31 Iranian-made Shahed (Kamikaze) drones and Iskander cruise missile on Mykolaiv and Dnipro regions. The Ukrainian Air Force claims to have shot down 29 of these Shahed drones. Meanwhile, Russia accused Ukraine of using U.S.-made cluster bombs on Russian civilians living in the border regions such as Bryansk.
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Russia has been breathing fire ever since Volodymyr Zelensky's autumn attack plan surfaced. Moscow is on a mission to destroy Kyiv's weapons and troops for a new counteroffensive. A new video from the battlefield shows Ukraine's thermobaric nightmare. Russia located a hidden Ukrainian weapons centre and destroyed tonnes of stock. The video shows a powerful blast in which Kyiv's weapons for the new offensive got gutted.
It seems that Russian troops have taken up the destruction of crossings across Oskol in the Kupyansk area. Over the past couple of weeks, at least five crossings have been destroyed by air strikes, which cannot but affect the supply of the Ukrainian forces on the eastern bank.
It is difficult to guess whether any active offensive operation is planned in this area, since this would require the transfer of significant forces to break through the enemy’s defenses. Current activity so far boils down to attempts to push through the front line.
Having partially disrupted the logistics capacity of the AFU, Russian troops will have the opportunity to somewhat increase the pace of advance. However, even taking into account the attacks on the bridges, it is not yet possible to talk about the assault on Kupyansk.
On the night of October 3-4, Ukrainian formations again attacked the Crimean peninsula.
First, in the area of 20.25, the calculation of the Pantsir-S1 air defense missile system of the 31st Air Force and Air Defense Division shot down one Neptune missile on approach to Cape Tarkhankut.
And half an hour later, Russian units shot down another Ukrainian anti-ship missile (not a drone) in Engineering Balka in Sevastopol. The wreckage of the Neptune damaged several civilian vehicles.
At that moment, the American RQ-4B UAV was in the air, which tracked the results of the strikes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Crimea, and the target of the missiles, judging by the areas of their destruction, were the positional areas of air defense.
🔻 Closer to midnight, four landing groups on three jet skis and one boat moved out of the Ovidiopol area south of Odessa in the direction of Cape Tarkhankut.
Only this time the enemy units intended to land northeast of the cape. It was in the area where their reconnaissance group monitored the coast on September 22-23.
❗️ In the area of 01.22 near Cape Priboyny, Russian border guards discovered four surface objects. As a result of the ensuing shooting battle, at least one saboteur was eliminated.
To strike a group of boats and jet skis, a Su-30SM aircraft of the Black Sea Fleet naval aviation was lifted into the air, which attacked the retreating enemy units.
There is currently no exact data on the targets hit. However, of the four boats, at least two reached the Tendra Spit and the gas production unit, and requested evacuation. Through the joint efforts of the units of the 31st Air Force and Air Defense Division, the Black Sea Fleet and border guards, the attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was successfully repelled.
What role do satellites play in the run-up to Ukrainian attacks?
Against the backdrop of the night attack on Crimea and Sevastopol, we again raise the question of the role played by TOPAZ military satellites in planning missile strikes and airborne landings.
From October 1 to October 3, 45 photographs of various objects on the peninsula were taken. These include air bases and the proposed locations of air defense systems and personnel.
❗️ The activity of “Topaz” at Cape Tarkhankut on the night of October 2, that is, a day before the GUR landing attempt to land in Crimea, looks especially interesting. Chernomorskoye, Olenevka, Kalinovka and Novoselskoye were filmed - it was there that they tried to attack the recon groups.
Also, increased attention is being paid to monitoring airfields in Crimea and geographic heights (it is logical to place air defense systems in such places) . In this way, the West determines the most suitable targets for possible cruise missile attacks.
Therefore, by monitoring the activity of a satellite constellation, it is possible not only to roughly understand the enemy’s short-term plans and which attack directions can be chosen, but also to take countermeasures and camouflage measures.
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