Gotta wonder at which point the Russian security structure decides to cut their losses with Putin.

Drone drops.

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Another impressive mechanized assault by the \uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDE6Ukrainian 30th Mechanized Brigade in the Soledar direction at the north of Bakhmut, Donetsk Region.

Again UAVs save soldiers and help destroy enemies pic.twitter.com/eJVHumCryi

— Cloooud |\uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDE6 (@GloOouD) September 14, 2023

Tea for one? A window with a view, perhaps? How about a gift bottle of wine for the flight home?

Admiral Vladimir Sokolov is commander of the Black Sea Fleet. He is considered by his peers to be battle-tested and highly competent. But several recent defeats show how he's lost the initiative and is hampered by systemic challenges and probably failure of imagination. 1/10 pic.twitter.com/xDWDBJpWAK

— Mike Petersen (@Mi_Petersen38) September 14, 2023

Unrolled thread for X poors :)
Tuesday, Ukraine again took advantage of systemic challenges & that lack of imagination. Limits on Russian dry dock space restrict repair options, but the failure of imagination in placing two critical warfighting assets in a fixed dock within strike range is astonishing.

Zelensky made a cryptic statement a few days ago, saying that “We know what you have planned and we’re ready for it.”
Hard to say what he meant until something unusual happens.

Back to Novorossisk or Rostov-on-don.  No doubt Ukraine is under an obligation not to use Stormshadow against Russia proper, so they’d be left with Neptune, Grim, small drones, or kamikaze boats.  And the first two probably can’t reach those targets.

Savage business in the moonscape north of Bakhmut. Day after day for months these guys have kept after them. Much respect. VIDEO

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Another impressive mechanized assault by the \uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDE6Ukrainian 30th Mechanized Brigade in the Soledar direction at the north of Bakhmut, Donetsk Region.

Again UAVs save soldiers and help destroy enemies pic.twitter.com/eJVHumCryi

— Cloooud |\uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDE6 (@GloOouD) September 14, 2023

That's the way I took it. "500" or "five hundredths" is how they refer to refuseniks. 200 = KIA, 300 = wounded, 500 = refusenik. I never heard a 400 though.

They didn’t actually say anything in particular was hit, they said they had to be repaired outside the country.  Could be an engine swap, computer failure, who knows.
We did see at least one M270 right in with the Kharkiv spearhead, could’ve gotten damaged there any number of ways.

This is a hard to watch, the language is less than fluid.  It will however give you a new level of contempt toward the Russian apologists.  The writing is on the wall and Russia and China know it.

https://www.csce.gov/international-impact/events/decolonizing-russia

Who wants to tell the Czar that they have lost 40 billion rubles worth of military hardware this week?.

Ukrainians have this week so far
Destroyed Landing Ship Tank Minsk,
Destroyed Improved Kilo Class submarine Rostov-on-Don
Destroyed a S-400 air defence system
3x patrol… pic.twitter.com/FHAau9Qcz1

Intelschizo  (@Schizointel) September 14, 2023

3x patrol boats damaged
This isn't counting the electronics captured from the oil rigs or any other losses.

Best part the week is not even over yet!

And Schneider? Where is he with his army corps? In the north, yes? He will come down through the land bridge and CRUSH the enemy!!   Get me Schneider immediately!

Welcome sir!

In the post-explosion videos, the Moskva's aerial tracking antennas were still in the stowed position.  In all likelihood, they were only running surface navigation radar.  So, tough to say whether they might have defeated the attack as typical Russian competence took that off the table.

Could also be something high risk high reward for the Ukes.

Quite frankly, I hope it is something rather daring to break open that southern front.

Israelis in 67 moved through an 'impassable' area and it worked out big time. I think something similar by the Ukrainians could do something similar for them

Desperation is in the air. Sending the best and brightest from the dark holes of misery.

Russian authorities will now be able to send deaf, oligophrenic and schizophrenic people to the front line

Yesterday, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu approved a list of diseases with which citizens will not be able to serve under contract during mobilization, martial law… pic.twitter.com/SwmRLNybgq

— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) September 14, 2023

Russians reporting incoming Storm Shadows.

Thanks for posting the threadreader link.

It's not simply "tactical failures." They have no counter to advanced western missiles. As Solovyov said, even if you shoot down 7 out of 10 cruise missiles, that means three critical hits against you. (And do we truly believe they shot down 7 out of 10?)

Giving up that land strike in NW Crimea was in deed a huge security failure, though. Allowing attack boats to cross the Black Sea, make land, and conduct a major sabotage op is a pretty ugly stain on the record. BSF hasn't made the adjustments and brought the right resources to the right actions. Putting out to sea to lob some cruise missiles at markets and apartments might play well in Moscow, but it doesn't help the war effort, and it doesn't defend their assets. The big picture is that Ukraine is on the initiative, and Russia is just hitting back and defending. Seems like some of Command hasn't accepted that reality. The poor admiral did not adequately defend his assets, so scratch one more admiral. Who's next?

Shell shocked/psych casualties

Yeah it is amazing that Russia stubbornly sticks with using its best missiles against civilian targets. Can’t imagine what the situation would be if those hundreds and thousands of missiles and larger drones had been focused on military targets.

As a recent article noted, wars are won by capturing cities. They are the economic, communications, political and transportation hubs. But you take them militarily not by attacking civilians in malls and apartments.

That pretty much defines genocide, on your own country. I recon if you want to clean out your country of all the undesirables, drafting them
into war service is one way to do it.

Wow, maybe we need to build more Bradley's.
It is a good video to watch,  for many reasons.

Neither did the storm shadows..
*EdMcMahonHeyYo.gif*

Interesting. I`d have thought "lack of limbs" would get someone a pass.

It does. That's one of the prohibited issues/disorders.

Russia has an extensive canal system, anchored by the Volga-Don canal, which gives them transport from most anywhere in the Don and Volga watersheds, including passing ships and subs between the Caspian and Black Seas, to deep within Russia's interior west of the Urals, and all the way out to the Baltic using their "Unified Deep Water System". Twists and turns, and a long way around, but they can move ships without going past Turkey, as long as they're not too big to fit through the canals.

I don't know the specifics on draft and beam limits, but someone in this thread said they could have moved anything except cruisers like the Moskva and similar very large ships, like the Kuznetsov. Not sure about oil or gas tankers.

I had my own unique throwing sport I engaged in as a kid. I lived on a farm, so I had access to all the dirt clods I could ever want. One of my favorite activities was setting up plastic army men (not the regular little tiny ones but the bigger figures that were 4 or 5 inches tall) on the ground and backing off a good distance before launching an "artillery barrage" against them with dry dirt clods. Sometimes I would hit them with high angle dirt clod fire. Other times I would engage in more direct fire mode. When the dry dirt clods would impact the ground, they would produce a big cloud of dust and a spray of dirt fragment shrapnel that would knock over the plastic army men. To my imaginative mind, they actually looked like artillery rounds impacting. I even got good enough I could do MRSI before that was even considered a thing. I would toss one really high, toss another on a more medium trajectory and another on a shallow trajectory and have all 3 land basically at the same time. Throwing dirt clods made me a much more accurate thrower than playing baseball, and I played baseball just about every day. It is actually quite amazing the ways a bored kid can find can find the means to entertain himself while rolling solo.

Another of my favorite activities was setting up plastic army men and sniping at them from a distance with an old Daisy 770 (or maybe it was an 880?) BB gun. I got so much damn trigger time on that gun that it made me a better marksman than all my other shooting activities combined. I could shoot the hair off a gnat's ass with that Daisy. We're talking way back in the 1980s. Even to this day I prefer the V-Notch type sights on a rifle to peep sights and shoot them better. And that is all because of the time I spent whacking plastic army men with that damn Daisy. I used it so much I had to replace most of the screws in it multiples times, as they'd simply work loose and fall out from all the action. I think I still have that old Daisy tucked away somewhere in the back of a closet. That was the best damn BB gun I ever had. And with 10 pumps and a regular steel BB, you could shoot through multiple tin cans with it. I loved that little air rifle.

Anyway, sorry for the reminiscing. We'll get back on topic.

Russia's willingness to take the infirm is starting to resemble my Tinder profile.

That'll buff right out.  New coat of paint... right as rain.

Bravo!

If that's not some fraternity paintball team somewhere in Alabama, i'm going to be shocked.