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[Regnum] The President of the Central African Republic, Faustin-Archange Touadera, refused, at the request of his French colleague Emmanuel Macron , to withdraw Russian instructors from the CAR, radio station RFI reported on September 16.
As the publication says, Touadera, during a meeting with Macron, explained that he was interacting with the Russian authorities within the framework of an agreement in the field of defense and personnel training between the two countries and added that the rest was “none of his (Macron’s – Ed.) business.”
Macron regarded the possible withdrawal of Russian instructors from the African republic as a condition for its rapprochement with France, RFI clarifies.
As Regnum reported , an open letter to President Emmanuel Macron signed by 92 French senators states that France's diplomatic and military efforts in Africa have led to an increase in anti-French sentiment in the region and an increase in the influence of Russia, China and the United States.
According to French senators, Africa has ceased to be a continent friendly to France. In addition, African countries began to increasingly challenge the role and presence of the French contingent.
On July 28, at the Russia-Africa summit in St. Petersburg, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the level of interaction in all the most sensitive areas with the Central African Republic will remain. At the same time, he added that even more can be done; the Russian Federation and the Central African Republic have many opportunities for this.
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According to French senators, Africa has ceased to be a continent friendly to France. In addition, African countries began to increasingly challenge the role and presence of the French contingent.
Who could have possibly seen this coming. Please enjoy your new Russian masters.
[RT] The head of Russia’s Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, published a video of himself walking in the rain on Sunday. Earlier this week, several Ukrainian and Western media outlets reported that he had been hospitalized due to a kidney disease and had “fallen into a coma.”
“I strongly advise anyone incapable of telling the truth from a lie on the internet to take a walk in the open and clear their heads,” the Chechen leader wrote in a Telegram post featuring a video of himself walking in the rain. “The rain is wonderfully invigorating,” he added. "and helps flush the polonium"
On Friday, Ukrainian news outlet Obozrevatel claimed that Kadyrov “had fallen into a coma,” citing a spokesman for Ukraine’s military intelligence, Andrey Yusov, who claimed that the Chechen leader had seen his “existing illness worsened,” leading to a “serious condition.”
Yusov added that Ukrainian intelligence confirmed this information through “various sources in medical and political circles.”
The rumors were shared by Western media outlets, including the New York Post and the Washington Examiner. The Post went even further and claimed, citing a Kazakh journalist, that the Chechen leader could have been poisoned and had “serious kidney problems.”
Kadyrov has had to repeatedly dismiss rumors about his health. In March, similar rumors were sparked by a small device he was carrying, which turned out to be an electronic Muslim prayer counter, according to the Chechen leader.
“I am alive and kicking,” Kadyrov said at that time. “A doctor is needed for the authors of these fantasy theories,” he added.
You got to live in order to learn.
You have got to demonstrate you learned by changing to suit the environment.
A 'mother may I' institutionalized command environment does not adapt quickly enough to handle a dynamic tactical situation.
Mostly by throwing more bodies at the enemy than they had. That is how they have conquered their immediate neighbors as they has smaller populations.
When they have a near peer enemy with good technology, Russia has performed very poorly. The one exception is WW2. With Ukraine, Russia currently had similar war material at first, but now the scale has swung towards Ukraine. While Russia has managed to ramp T-90 and BMP-3 production up to replace the newer shit they lost, they are still being heavily attrited in the older equipment. Basically not enough to keep that level of troops on the field with what they are producing and pulling out of storage.
The west immediately suspending aid to Ukraine will bring a Russian win through numbers. If they don't, Russia will bleed to death.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] Defense forces are having success in the Kleschiyivka area of the Donetsk region. In addition, Ukrainian defenders repelled 10 Russian attacks near this settlement. This is stated in the report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, published on its Facebook page on Saturday, September 16.
Over the course of 24 hours, the enemy launched eight missile strikes and more than 50 air strikes, and carried out 22 attacks from multiple launch rocket systems on positions of Ukrainian troops and populated areas.
Seversky and Slobozhansky directions
The enemy maintains a military presence in the border areas and continues shelling populated areas from Russian territory. Conducted air strikes near Stepka, Sumy region and Malaya Volcha, Pletenovka, Kharkov region. More than 20 settlements were subjected to artillery and mortar shelling, among them Galaganovka, Chernihiv region; Rudak, Seredina-Buda, Bachevsk, Sadki, Ryasnoye, Sumy region and Streleche, Gatishche, Volchansk, Khar'kov region.
Kupyansk direction
The enemy launched air strikes near Sin'kovka and Kopanka, Kharkov region. He fired artillery and mortars at the settlements of Figolka, Liman Pervy, Petropavlovka, Zapadnoye, Kondrashovka in the Kharkov region.
Liman direction
The enemy did not conduct offensive actions. The areas of settlements Novoegorovka, Nevskoe in the Luhansk region and Serebryanka, Spornoe in the Donetsk region were subjected to air strikes. More than 10 settlements were damaged by artillery and mortar shelling, including Nevskoye, Belogorovka in the Lugansk region and Dronovka, Seversk, Verkhnekamenskoye in the Donetsk region.
Bakhmut direction
The defense forces successfully repelled more than 10 enemy attacks in the Kleshchievka area of the Donetsk region. The enemy tried to restore the lost position in the Kurdyumovka and Andreevka areas of the Donetsk region. Conducted an air strike near Kleshchievka, Donetsk region. More than 20 settlements came under artillery and mortar fire, including Orekhovo-Vasil'evka, Bogdanovka, Ivanovskoye, Kleshchievka, Kurdyumovka in the Donetsk region.
Avdeevskoe direction
The enemy conducted unsuccessful offensive operations in the Northern Donetsk region. Avdeevka and Severnoye, Donetsk region, were subjected to air strikes. About 10 settlements were damaged by artillery and mortar shelling, including Alexandropol, Keramik, Stepnoe, Avdievka, Nevelskoye, Pervomaiskoye in the Donetsk region.
Maryinsky direction
Ukrainian defenders successfully repelled more than 10 enemy attacks in the Mar'inka area. The enemy launched an air strike near Krasnohorivka, Donetsk region. About 10 settlements were under artillery and mortar fire from the occupiers, including Krasnogorivka, Mar'yinka, Pobeda, Konstantinovka, and Elizavetovka in the Donetsk region.
Miner's direction
Staromayorskoe, Donetsk region, was subjected to enemy air strikes. About 10 settlements were damaged by artillery and mortar shelling, including Ugledar, Bogoyavlenka, Novoukrainka, Prechistovka, Zolota Niva, Urozhaynoye in the Donetsk region.
Zaporozhye direction
The enemy carried out air strikes in the areas of the settlements of Svetlaya Dolina, Malaya Tokmachka, Orekhov and Rabotino in the Zaporozhye region. More than 20 settlements were subjected to artillery and mortar shelling, in particular Charivnoye, Malaya Tokmachka, Orekhov, Pavlovka, Kamenskoye, Stepnogorsk in the Zaporozhye region.
Kherson direction
The enemy carried out air strikes in the areas of the settlements of Berislav and Lvovo, Kherson region. About 10 settlements were subjected to enemy artillery and mortar shelling, including Antonovka and Kherson.
Ukrainian Armed Forces offensive
The Ukrainian Defense Forces continue to conduct an offensive operation in the Melitopol and Bakhmut directions. Based on the results of offensive operations, Ukrainian soldiers are successful in the Klishchievka area of the Donetsk region.
Events
In some settlements of the Berdyansk district of the Kherson region, Russian occupation troops are quartered in the private houses of local residents, and the practice of forced relocation of residents into one dwelling is spreading.
Russian losses
During the day, Defense Forces aircraft carried out two strikes on control points, 12 on areas where weapons and military equipment were concentrated, and five on enemy anti-aircraft missile systems. The missile force units destroyed three Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile systems and five enemy artillery weapons.
As already written, the Ukrainian military had partial success in the Verbovoy and Novoprokopovka areas of the Zaporozhye region, as well as in the Bakhmut area of the Donetsk region.
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(Yahoo) Ukrainian soldier says US-made Bradley fighting vehicles are 'priceless' in nighttime assaults, offering visibility better than in daylight
Kyiv's soldiers have credited the vehicles with keeping them alive in battle, saying that they wouldn't survive the same threats in Ukraine's Soviet-era troop carriers.
"It's a serious machine, a very serious machine," a soldier said.
One soldier described the Bradley's thermal imager of being "very high quality," allowing the crew to clearly see targets several miles out.
"The shrapnel density is crazy, the firepower density is just insane," the soldier said. "Target acquisition takes seconds, just seconds. At night, this machine is absolutely priceless, simply invaluable. You capture targets much faster, visibility is better than during the day."
Another soldier said comparing the Bradley to its Soviet-era counterparts is like "night and day."
The US announced in early January that it would send Bradleys to Ukraine, and because it is a tracked vehicle, it was initially misidentified by some observers as a tank. "It's not a tank, but it's a tank killer."
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It's official. The Ministry of Internal Affairs confirmed the liberation of Klishchiivka. Probably means the Ukrainians have cleared out the Russians east and north all the way to the railroad tracks. The RR defensive itself has been penetrated in 3 or 4 places north and south of Andriivka and north of Klishchiivka.
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[Korrespondent] Within 24 hours, the Ukrainian military destroyed 57 occupiers and wounded another 138. 19 units of enemy military equipment were also destroyed.
In the Tauride direction, over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed 57 Russian occupiers and 19 units of enemy equipment. This was announced by the commander of the operational-strategic group of troops of Tavria, Alexander Tarnavsky.
According to him, in just the past 24 hours, the enemy attacked the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces 15 times, carried out 535 attacks, and carried out 15 airstrikes.
“The artillery units of the Tauride Defense Forces completed 791 fire missions during the day. Over the last 24 hours, enemy losses amounted to 196 people (irrecoverable - 57, wounded - 138),” he said.
Also, according to Tarnavsky, 19 units of enemy military equipment were destroyed. In particular, two armored fighting vehicles, two artillery systems and mortars, 13 UAVs, one unit of automotive equipment and one unit of special equipment.
Let us recall that the day before the General Staff reported that at least 350 Russian aggressors were destroyed over the past 24 hours.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title
[Korrespondent] 21:12 The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the location of enemy equipment on the outskirts of Tokmak, Zaporozhye region, said the mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov. He also said that this week the invaders evacuated the “passport office” from the city, took out FSB officers and part of the administration.
19:31 Russia moved three large landing ships from the Black Sea to the Azov Sea after the defeat of two ships in Sevastopol, said Dmitry Pletenchuk, spokesman for the Ukrainian Navy. According to him, the damaged large landing ship Minsk cannot be restored, including because of its “venerable age.” This large landing craft participated in the delivery of Russian military and equipment to Syria and has a high percentage of wear and tear.
19:28 Zelensky said in an evening video message that participation in the Defense Industries Forum, which will be held in Ukraine this fall, was confirmed by 86 leading defense companies in the world from 21 countries. According to the president, interest in the Forum is very high: “Our task is absolutely obvious - to give Ukraine every opportunity to produce weapons and shells, to provide modern technologies in order to have reliable protection against any form of aggression. But besides this, of course, to disseminate our defense experience, experience Ukrainian defense among allies and partners."
19:20 The third separate assault brigade showed new footage of the operation to liberate Andreevka, Bakhmut district, Donetsk region. The video contains 18+ language
18:06 Forbes calculated that in a year and a half, Russia spent 167.3 billion dollars on the war, of which 51.3 billion were for military operations, 35.1 billion for military salaries, 25.6 billion for payments to the families of those killed Russians and 21 billion - for payments to the wounded. In addition, Ukraine destroyed $34.5 billion worth of enemy equipment.
17:19 In the East, active hostilities are taking place in the Bakhmut direction, Anna Malyar reported. In particular, offensive operations continue south of Bakhmut, with fierce fighting taking place in Kleshcheevka and Kurdyumovka. In the Kleshcheevka area, the Defense Forces were successful. The enemy unsuccessfully tried to break through the defenses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Yagodnoye and Bogdanovka areas of the Donetsk region.
In the Maryinsky direction, the enemy unsuccessfully tried to advance in the Maryinka area. Defense forces are holding positions and conducting assaults in the Avdeevsky and Maryinsky directions. In the South, in the Melitopol direction, the Defense Forces continue to advance and have partial success in the Verbovoy and Novoprokopovka areas of the Zaporozhye region.
In the North, in the areas bordering the Russian Federation, the enemy continues to hold a group of troops to cover the border and is carrying out active sabotage work in order to prevent the transfer of Ukrainian troops to hot areas.
16:23 The Russians fired at an apartment building in Berislav, Kherson region, one person was wounded, the OVA reported.
15:57 The Russians attacked a civilian vehicle with a guided anti-tank missile near the village. Strelechye, Kharkov region - two people were killed, one was injured, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. In addition, today the enemy fired on the village. Petropavlovka, Kupyansky district, one person was injured.
14:55 The first civilian ships used the temporary corridor towards Ukrainian ports, said Minister of Infrastructure Alexander Kubrakov. After using a temporary corridor to exit the ports of Odessa, Chernomorsk and Yuzhny, bulk carriers Resilient Africa and Aroyat confirmed their readiness to use the route to enter the port of Chernomorsk to load almost 20 thousand tons of wheat for the countries of Africa and Asia. The ships fly the Palauan flag and have crews of citizens of Turkey, Azerbaijan, Egypt and Ukraine.
13:34 The Russians launched five attacks with S-300 missiles on the Kholodnogorsk district of Kharkov. According to preliminary information, five people were injured, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
12:46 Minister of Digital Transformation Mikhail Fedorov announced in an interview with Reuters further attacks on Russian ships: “There will be more drones, there will be more attacks, there will be fewer Russian ships. That’s for sure.” He also said that in 2023, the production of drones in Ukraine increased by more than 100 times compared to last year, and by the end of this year the growth will be approximately 120-140 times.
11:40 British intelligence states that since April of this year, Russia has reduced the rate of consumption of air-launched cruise missiles in Ukraine, while accelerating the production of such missiles. Analysts suggest that in this way the Russian Federation can create a significant stockpile of missiles for winter attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure.
10:39 The United States does not plan to announce the transfer of long-range ATACMS missiles to Ukraine during Zelensky’s visit, Axios reports, citing sources. According to them, Ukrainian officials hoped for precisely this outcome of the visit, and Kyiv raised this issue during Blinken’s visit. But, according to US officials, the debate regarding the supply of ATACMS is still ongoing.
09:17 Soldiers of the Special Operations Forces helped carry out an attack on a ship repair plant in Sevastopol, where two Russian ships were destroyed. The MTR told the details of the attack .
08:53 Over the past 24 hours, the enemy hit Orekhovo with two aerial bombs and fired at Novodarovka, Gulyaipolskoye, Novoivanovka and Levadnoye in the Zaporozhye region with MLRS. As a result of the airstrike on Orekhov, two people were wounded, said the head of the OVA, Yuri Malashko.
08:45 Six children who were illegally detained by Russia and who were returned to Ukraine met with European leaders in The Hague and told their stories to draw attention to violations of children's rights by the Russian Federation, the President's Office reported.
08:32 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of September 16:
personnel - about 271,790 (+350) people,
tanks - 4616 (+4),
armored combat vehicles - 8824 (+10),
artillery systems - 5988 (+16),
MLRS - 774 (+0),
air defense systems - 521 (+0),
aircraft - 315 (+0),
helicopters - 316 (+0),
UAV of operational-tactical level - 4738 (+24),
cruise missiles - 1455 (+0),
ships/boats - 20 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 8525 (+33),
special equipment - 891 (+2).
07:47 Over the past 24 hours, 24 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report . In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy unsuccessfully tried to break through the defenses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Yagodnoye and Bogdanovka areas of the Donetsk region. In turn, the Defense Forces were successful in the Kleshcheevka area.
In the Maryinsky direction, the enemy unsuccessfully tried to attack in the area of Marinka and Urozhayny, Donetsk region. At the same time, in the Avdeevsky, Maryinsky and Shakhtarsky directions, Ukrainian forces maintain the initiative and carry out assaults. In the Melitopol direction, the Defense Forces continue their offensive and have partial success in the Verbovoy and Novoprokopovka areas of the Zaporozhye region.
00:15 Since the Russian Federation’s withdrawal from the grain agreement, it has struck Ukrainian ports 118 times. As a result, every third port infrastructure facility is damaged or destroyed, writes Reuters.
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Big wheels from the West are running to Kiev last two weeks. Promoting standstill. Rainy season fast approaches this promotes a standstill also. War is lost and other priorities have arose. Let Russia keep territories they have acquired. Protect Z from Western Kiev Bandera's. Key here is to have Russia go along with this deal. Knowing Russian ways it is my belief Russia will continue till this little war is done to their satisfaction. Removing sanctions big deal, they haven't worked anyway. The new priority is China. The DC war mongers want a new war to put China back in it's place.
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Forbes financial analysts are saying that Russia's spending on this war since its inception stands at US$167.3 billion.
This includes compensation to the families of the dead (US$25.6 billion) and wounded (US$21 billion) and the cost of destroyed equipment (US$34 billion).
With the fall of the ruble, the cost of compensation to the military in US dollars decreased significantly. If at the rate of 60 rubles/$ the cost of compensation to the family of the deceased in the Russian Federation was about US$110,000, now it is only about US$65,000 (the rate now is 100 rubles/$). The amount of compensation to the wounded, respectively, decreased from US$45,000 to US$27,000.
You can do the math on the number of 'compensated' dead and wounded.
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Re #6: The source for the info is the Ukrainian MoD, so I would be view it with skepticism. The dollar compensation figure matches the Russian casualty claims given by the Ukrainians.
Not entirely sure Musk can stand the accolade. by David Norman
[RIA] Russia, as you know, has two allies: Donald Trump and Elon Musk. The former's problems with the law accompanied him throughout his entire presidential term - due to the “hand of the Kremlin”, which rigged the election results. Now he faces more than 500 years in prison. And, apparently, the only chance for him to remain free is to exchange the dock for the Oval Office.
The richest man on the planet has not yet revealed any political ambitions, but an investigation has now also begun against him. But first things first.
A real information bomb for the American media was the publication by CNN of an excerpt from Musk’s biography - they say that the crazy billionaire last year ordered the operation of Starlink to be limited during the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ attack on Crimea. Because of this, unmanned boats were unable to hit Russian ships, because they lost contact and, like whales, “threw harmlessly onto the shore.” According to the TV channel, the reason for this decision on the part of the businessman was fears that the Kremlin, in response to a kind of Pearl Harbor, would decide to use nuclear weapons.
Then the private space pioneer himself decided to bring some clarity. He clarified that he did not turn off any Internet tap for Ukrainians: Starlink did not work over Crimea due to anti-Russian sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies, and there is no talk of any shutdown. He only refused to activate it at the request of the “government”, without specifying where exactly the request came from - from Washington or from Kiev.
This whole story looks, to put it mildly, very suspicious. It is unreasonable to carry out an operation whose goal is nothing less than “the destruction of the Russian Black Sea Fleet” in conditions where a key aspect is not only not worked out - it even depends on whether it will be possible to get through to Elon Musk so that he activates the satellites. Whether they were located over the peninsula at that time and whether they could even provide the necessary signal quality is a separate question.
Moreover, based on the plot described by CNN, this had to be done at the last moment, when the Rubicon had already been crossed. More like the plot of "Iron Man" than real life, don't you think?
No, Elon Musk is, without a doubt, an outstanding person. Man and the Internet. But it’s really hard to believe in all this.
And now about the most interesting thing - the consequences. After the publication of this whole story, firstly, some of the satellites were simply squeezed out of the billionaire. The share of Starlink equipment came under the control of the Pentagon with a flick of the wrist.
But the American establishment did not stop there. According to Bloomberg, the Senate Armed Services Committee has begun an investigation into the incident and has already requested data from the Pentagon about what happened.
“Neither Elon Musk nor any private citizen can have the final say when it comes to U.S. national security,” committee chairman Jack Reed said. In general, Atlanta was hit in the neck.
It would seem that such a reaction from the current American authorities should convince us that everything is for real, that he is a hero - Elon Musk. Second after Peter the Great! Pyotr Alekseevich created the Russian fleet, and Ilon Errolovich saved it in difficult times.
In fact, it is important to understand that Ukraine, the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Crimea and Russia with the Black Sea Fleet are just figures of speech in this whole story. The point of the whole narrative is that supposedly an American entrepreneur of fair fortune from a Hollywood film saved the United States from a nuclear war, to which the country is being pushed by the current democratic leadership. And this movie is purely for the American audience. It’s just that the conflict in Ukraine is a very convenient landscape for this.
It’s hard to believe in Musk’s rebellion, because the billionaire’s very success, even taking into account his talents, would have been impossible without the active support of the American authorities - in word, deed and dollar. They are the main sponsor and customer of his space projects. And the emerging drift from the Democrats, whom he actively supported, to the Republicans could not go unnoticed.
Actually, the story itself was supposed to shape this drift in a more specific direction: the plot convincingly tells that the Democrats and Biden can bring the country to the brink. And therefore, the President of the United States and his supporters in Congress react in this way - they take control over part of the property of Musk-owned companies with the utmost rigidity. So that he and others would be disgraced. Here, of course, we can once again dwell on the topic of how America has pointedly trampled on its own ideals, but this is already obvious to everyone.
And all such stories need to be looked at exclusively from the point of view of the inexorably approaching American elections, and not the stalled Ukrainian counter-offensives.
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Musk just decided that while he's willing to sell Ukraine ammunition, he's not willing to personally load their weapons. Kinda makes you a participant.
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Text taken from Russian ministry of defense website (available only through a VPN)
[EngMilRu] Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation (9–16 September 2023)
In the period of 9–16 September 2023, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out 11 group strikes with long-range air- and sea-based precision weapons, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles, against port infrastructure facilities, production and storage sites for unmanned boats, POL, ammunition, Western weaponry and locations where AFU personnel were stationed.
As a result of the strikes, logistical support for the Ukrainian groups of troops operating in the Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, supplies of Western-made weapons were disrupted, and a large arsenal of technical ammunition of the AFU was destroyed.
On 11 September 2023, the Russian Aerospace Forces launched a strike on the Dolgintsevo airfield near Krivoy Rog (Dnepropetrovsk region).
The strike destroyed two MiG-29 fighters and three Su-25 ground-attack aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force, according to revised data.
In Donetsk direction, the enemy did not abandon plans to capture Artyomovsk (Donetsk People's Republic) and continued to conduct assault operations by groups of the 28th, 93rd Mechanised, 80th Air Assault and 3rd Assault Brigades, unsuccessfully trying to dislodge Russian troops from Kleshcheevka and Andreevka (Donetsk People's Republic).
Over the past week in this direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces repelled 34 attacks launched by AFU units, as a result of which the enemy lost more than 1,700 servicemen killed and wounded, 16 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 34 motor vehicles, and 12 field artillery pieces.
In Zaporozhye direction, Russian troops repelled 18 attacks launched by the Ukrainian Armed Forces close to Rabotino and Verbovoye (Zaporozhye region).
As a result of significant manpower losses, the Ukrainian command was forced to begin withdrawing the 82nd Air Assault Brigade to the rear area in order to recover combat capability.
The 71st Jaeger Brigade of the AFU from the strategic reserve, along with combined assault groups of the 47th, 65th Mechanised, and 46th Airmobile Brigades of the AFU, are now involved in this operation to hold locations.
? The enemy suffered losses of about 740 Ukrainian personnel, 20 tanks and armoured fighting vehicles, and 20 motor vehicles throughout the battles.
In addition, 38 enemy field artillery guns were eliminated as part of counter-battery warfare.
In South Donetsk direction, Russian troops repelled eight enemy attacks with concerted action during the week, continuing to defeat clusters of AFU manpower and hardware.
During interrogations, Ukrainian servicemen who voluntarily surrendered complain about the psychological condition and extremely low morale of the 36th and 38th Naval infantry Brigades of the AFU Marines due to considerable losses in manpower.
Over the past period, the enemy in this direction has lost over 1,100 servicemen killed and wounded, 15 armoured fighting vehicles, 22 motor vehicles, and seven field artillery pieces.
In Kupyansk direction, as a result of active operations, the units of the Zapad Group of Forces improved their tactical position in their areas of responsibility.
Five counterattacks launched by the enemy's 30th Mechanised and 25th Airborne Brigades have been repelled. AFU units suffered severe damage as a result of the effective deployment of army aviation and artillery.
Enemy losses amounted to up to 400 troops, five armoured fighting vehicles, 17 motor vehicles, 17 field artillery pieces, and one multiple rocket launcher.
Seven field ammunition depots of AFU units were also destroyed.
In Krasny Liman direction, the AFU made unsuccessful attempts to regain lost positions near Torskoye (Donetsk People's Republic) and Serebryansky forestry.
The Tsentr Group of Forces, air strikes, artillery fire, and heavy flame-throwing systems managed to successfully repel 13 enemy attacks. The losses of the AFU were more than 400 servicemen, 18 armoured fighting vehicles, 12 motor vehicles, and ten guns.
In Kherson direction, the main efforts were concentrated on preventing the enemy sabotage and reconnaissance groups from landing on the islands and the left bank of the Dnepr River, as well as conducting counter-battery warfare.
In this direction, the AFU lost up to 360 servicemen, one tank, two armoured fighting vehicles, 26 motor vehicles, as well as 12 field artillery pieces.
A Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter was intercepted by Russian fighter jets on 13 September 2023 near Krasny Liman (Donetsk People's Republic).
Black Sea Fleet naval aircraft and ships have located and destroyed 12 unmanned semi-submersible boats and three fast boats that were transporting landing groups of the AFU special operations forces in the Black Sea.
Air defence systems intercepted 19 HIMARS projectiles and shot down 270 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, 472 airplanes and 249 helicopters, 6,810 unmanned aerial vehicles, 437 air defence missile systems, 11,881 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,150 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 6,403 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 13,035 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
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[NewsFront] 23:55 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 09/16/2023 to 00:00 09/17/2023
Over the past 24 hours Representative office reported about 67 facts of firing by the Ukrainian Federal Unitary Forces.
Information was received about the death of six civilians in the Kirov and Kuibyshev districts of Donetsk and Svetlodarsk.
Nine civilians were injured of varying degrees of severity, incl. child born in 2010, in the Kirov and Kuibyshev districts of Donetsk.
A total of 11 residential buildings were damaged in the Kuibyshevsky and Kirovsky districts of Donetsk, Svetlodarsk, Nikitovsky and Tsentralno-Gorodsky districts of Gorlovka, as well as three civil infrastructure facilities.
The areas of seven settlements of the Republic were under enemy fire: Svetlodarsk, Gorlovka (Nikitovsky and Tsentralno-City districts), Yasinovataya, Yasinovatsky district, the capital city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Kievsky, Petrovsky districts), Staromikhailovka, Makeevka (Chervonogvardeisky district).
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy carried out 40 attacks from 155mm artillery, incl. with a cassette warhead.
At Gorlovska there were 19 artillery attacks from MLRS, 152mm and 155mm artillery, incl. with a cassette warhead.
On Yasinovatsky there were six artillery attacks from 155mm artillery.
In Svetlodarsky there was one artillery attack from the MLRS. 241 units of various ammunition were produced. A previous 35 artillery attacks were recorded from the VFU per day.
21:50 From Zaporozhye direction reports Archangel of Special Forces:
During the day, a Bradley infantry fighting vehicle was hit. During these days, the enemy carried out a rotation in the early morning, was discovered and destroyed. At the same time, the enemy is identified in a timely manner in the forest belts, and the artillery inflicts fire damage.
Today the enemy began to change groups, no longer entering as a whole group, but in groups of 2-3 people towards the south of the settlement. Rabotino.
The situation in the Verbovoy and Rabotino districts is also being monitored Front bird:
The enemy is still biting forward. Still suffering serious losses both day and night. The artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine shoots a lot, not particularly caring about the consumption of ammunition. We respond in moderation.
21:30 Captured Armed Forces soldiers taken in the Kherson region by fighters of the Dnepr group.
21:25 Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andrey Borisovich Ermak posted “meme about counterattack“.
20:45 To illustrate the battles we present video from one of the brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from Andreevka: please note that they are still located at least in part of the village, but there is absolutely nothing to grab onto there; formally, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are almost in the field. The Russian Armed Forces retreated further east beyond the railway line and periodically counterattacked, while simultaneously actively using artillery.
19:40 Wereboy:
Ukrainians are under constant fire from artillery, aerospace forces, loitering ammunition and FPV drones.
19:10 At Priyutny for our guys managed to push the Ukrainians into the forest plantations and regain their positions.
18:35 “Alligators” inin fact: combat work of the crews of Ka-52 attack helicopters of the Russian Aerospace Forces
Army aviation pilots launched missiles at detected targets. As a result of combat use, the control center and armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed.
18:00 Infantry fires at Ukrainian positions -video.
17:35 Statement of Head of the press center of the “West” group:
During the fighting in the Kupyansk direction, the motorized rifles of the group of troops "West", with the support of aviation and artillery fire, repelled two attacks by assault groups of the 95th airborne assault brigade and the 32nd Mechanized Brigade in the direction of Sin'kovka and Ol'shana.
The crews of the Ka-52, Mi-28 attack helicopters and attack aircraft carried out 13 missile and bomb attacks on the accumulation of manpower, weapons and military equipment of the 95th Air Assault, 14th Mechanized Brigades and territorial defense units in the Sin'kovka, Berestovoe, and Novoegorovka areas.
During the counterbattery fight, the group’s artillery destroyed an M109 “Palladin” self-propelled artillery mount, a mortar crew and two ammunition supply points in the area of level. Krinichki, Ivanovka, Berestovoe.
In addition, the reconnaissance and attack squad with Lancet loitering ammunition destroyed the 155mm towed howitzer M777 and the AN/TPQ-36 counterbattery radar station in the Shiykovka, Petropavlovka area.
The total enemy losses amounted to more than two platoons of manpower and six UAVs.
17:00 Heavy fighting is taking place west of Rabotino direction in Kopani village.
16:30 Fighting in the Belogorov direction: artillerymen apply fire damage to enemy positions
The crews work at the positions of the militants with rapid fire, not giving them the opportunity to raise their heads.
15:50 On the Rabotino-Verbovoe line without changes. Heavy fighting continues. The situation is under control.
15:25 In Opytnoye our advance from Pobeda Street to Nauchnaya Street in the direction of the stadium. The Ukrainians are backing away.
15:00 According to conditions at 15:00, difficult clashes continue on the southern flank of the Artyomovsky direction.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces have occupied parts of Andreevka and Kleshcheevka, and fighting is taking place directly in populated areas.
The Russian army is actively using artillery and trying to regain lost positions.
In addition, the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched a number of attacks to the north, which were repulsed.
We expect intense fighting to continue in this direction in the near future, the situation is tense...
14:05 RF Ministry of Defense: September 16 this year At about 13.00 Moscow time, an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack by an aircraft-type UAV on objects on the territory of the Russian Federation was stopped.
On duty air defense systems destroyed an unmanned aerial vehicle over the territory of the Belgorod region.
13:30 Video– Russian artillery destroys the Ukrainian Armed Forces infantry:
Rabotino. Mown forest plantations in which groups of Ukrainian Armed Forces are trying to gain a foothold.
Monotonous attacks on them from mortars, artillery and tanks. This is followed by the delivery of new enemy groups to replace the dead. These are the realities of all directions of the front where the “counteroffensive” is taking place, including the outskirts of Rabotino.
13:05 Death Road: FPV drone “Brave” flew in into the Ukrainian “loaf” at full speed.
12:30 Statement of Head of the press center of the "South" group:
Operational-tactical aviation of the “Southern” group of forces carried out strikes on the targets of the 28th Mechanized Brigade in Dyleevka and Andreevka. As a result, an ammunition depot, weapons and military equipment, and an enemy mortar battery were destroyed.
In addition, the forces of the group’s assault and army aviation struck concentrations of manpower and vehicle equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces assault groups in the areas of the settlements of Veseloye, Spornoe, Kleshcheevka, Bogdanovka, Andreevka, Krasnogorovka and Verkhnekamenskoye.
The group's artillery carried out fire raids on a field ammunition depot in Vesyol, a temporary deployment point of a unit of the 59th Motorized Infantry Brigade in Pervomaisky, destroyed a US-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, three armored combat vehicles of the 3rd Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as well as five vehicles in Predtechino, Chasov Yar, Krasnogorovka.
During the counterbattery fight, the enemy lost three American-made M777 howitzers in Seversk, Chasov Yar, Novodmitrovka, and also destroyed four 120mm mortars in Kleshcheevka, Pervomaisky, Druzhba and Georgievka.
Crews of the Solntsepek heavy flamethrower systems inflicted fire on two platoon strongholds of the assault unit of the 79th Airborne Assault Brigade in the Novomikhailovka area.
FPV drones and “kamikazda drones” destroyed an observation post, an armored combat vehicle and a machine gun crew of the enemy in Razdolovka and Avdeevka.
11:55 “Winged Infantry” destroys armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kherson direction:
Russian paratroopers struck a Ukrainian Armed Forces tank with loitering ammunition. After an accurate hit, the tankcaught fire.
11:25 According to Ukrainian monitoring channels, there were at least three powerful arrivals in the city, two of which presumably hit objects in the north and east of the city. Judging by the fact that an air raid warning was not declared in the region, supersonic ballistic missiles or other high-precision weapons could have been used against the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ facilities in the city.
10:50 Statement of Head of the press center of the Center group:
In the Krasnolimansky direction in the areas of the Torsky sector and Serebryansky forest, coordinated actions of units of the Center group of troops in cooperation with artillery, attack and army aviation thwarted and repelled five attacks by assault groups 63, 67 Mechanized Brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and 5 Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine.
Enemy losses amounted to about 40 militants. An infantry fighting vehicle and an electronic warfare station were destroyed. A high-precision projectile "Krasnopol" hit the UAV control center.
During the counterbattery fight, up to 20 artillery crews were exposed and suppressed, and an enemy 120mm mortar was hit.
10:25 The criminal Kiev regime continues to fire at the civilian infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired from cannon artillery:
in the village of Novaya Kakhovka, 14 cannon artillery rounds, a missile strike, as a result of which 4 apartment buildings were destroyed;
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the settlement of Novaya Kakhovka, settlement. Kakhovka, Kazachi Lagery, Golaya Pristan, firing a total of 32 rounds from cannon artillery
Civilian casualties and infrastructure damage are being determined
10:00 Chronicle special military operation: events of September 15, 2023.
In the southwestern part of the Black Sea, the Russian small missile ship Askold discovered an unmanned Ukrainian Armed Forces boat.
The enemy's craft was promptly destroyed by fire from standard weapons.
Russian troops used drones to destroy enemy targets in the western regions of Ukraine.
In the Khmelnitsky region, a series of explosions occurred in Starokonstantinov: according to some reports, the local airfield came under attack.
On the southern flank of the Bakhmut defense, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to try to expand the zone of control at Kleshcheevka and Andreevka.
Russian troops are launching massive attacks on enemy assault groups, preventing them from breaking through to the railway line.
In the Avdeevsky sector, the fighting north of Opytny finally acquired a positional character.
Nevertheless, the command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces continues to draw significant forces to the front line and is preparing for the resumption of attacks.
In the Vremevsky sector, the enemy again made several attempts to attack Russian positions in the forest belt north of Priyutnoye.
Each of them was met with concentrated small arms fire and ended with the retreat of the Ukrainian formations.
Attacks by Ukrainian formations continue in the Orekhovsky sector in the direction of Verbovoy.
Russian troops confidently hold the defense, preventing the Ukrainian Armed Forces from further advancing.
In the Kherson direction, enemy reconnaissance groups again tried to consolidate on the islands in the Dnieper delta.
Russian troops destroyed boats carrying Ukrainian troops near the islands of Aleshkinsky and Kozatsky.
09:24 “If fighters have children, this greatly gives them strength.” “Budulai”, who in civilian life was an orthopedic dentist, and at the front, goes with his guys on dangerous combat missions to be there and help “in case of anything”, talks about the everyday life of doctors in the North Military District zone.video
09:22 Official summary of Representative offices of the DPR in the JCCC from 00:00 09/15/2023 to 00:00 09/16/2023
Over the past 24 hours, the Representative Office reported 35 incidents of firing by the Ukrainian Federal Unitary Forces.
Information was received about the injury of a civilian, a man, in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk.
4 residential buildings were damaged in the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka. No damage to civilian infrastructure was recorded.
The areas of four settlements of the Republic were under enemy fire: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Yasinovatsky district, the capital city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Kievsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district).
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy carried out 26 attacks from 155mm artillery, incl. with a cassette warhead.
At Gorlivske there were seven artillery attacks from 152mm and 155mm artillery, incl. with a cassette warhead.
On Yasinovatsky there were two artillery attacks from 155mm artillery.
A total of 105 units of various ammunition were produced.
In the previous day, 70 attacks were recorded from the Ukrainian Federal Unitary Forces.
08:20 Simple and reliable: a machine gunner with the call sign “Tur” spoke about his weapon -video
“This machine gun is designed to work against lightly armored vehicles, and we also fire at those areas where there is the greatest concentration of the enemy. Our equipment is the most reliable and simple. It's convenient to work with her. Unlike the Western one, studying in which is much more difficult and takes longer. Their weapons will burn out faster than the soldier has time to thoroughly master them.”
“Let the people in the rear live in peace, and we will protect their peace as long as necessary!” – assured “Tour”.
08:07 Summary on the morning of September 16, 2023
On the Zaporozhye Front, the defensive operation of the Russian Armed Forces continues at the Rabotino-Verbovoe line. The enemy, delivering small groups of troops in armored vehicles to the LBS, is trying to break through our defenses, despite his heavy losses, artillery and air strikes of the Russian Army.In the Kherson direction, battles continue for the islands in the floodplain of the river. Dnieper, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are striking at our shores, the civilian population of the Kherson region is under Nazi fire.
Heavy fighting near Kleshcheevka and Andreevka on the southern flank of the Artemovsky (Bakhmut) direction.
There were artillery duels in the Kupyansk direction, and the American AN/TPQ-48 counter-battery radar station was destroyed.
In the Black Sea, the activity of small unmanned kamikaze boats of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has increased. Over the past 24 hours, the small missile ship Askold of the Russian Black Sea Fleet destroyed another enemy surface drone.
Artillery attack of Russia's frontline regions continues. In the Kursk region, a village was under fire. Elizavetovka in Glushkovsky district. In the DPR, a civilian was injured by Ukrainian Armed Forces fire. At night, air defense destroyed enemy drones over the Kaluga and Tver regions.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Russian strategic missile carriers Tu-160 received new Kh-BD cruise missiles with a range of more than 6,500 km. This follows from a video distributed by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Strategic bomber-missile carrier Tu-160 of the Russian Aerospace Forces
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu presented the Tu-160 missile carriers equipped with new missiles to the DPRK leader Kim Jong-un at the Knevichi airfield in Vladivostok.
“X-BD missiles with a range of more than 6,500 kilometers,” said long-range aviation commander Sergei Kobylash when the Russian Defense Minister and the DPRK Leader inspected the Tu-160.
The North Korean leader was also presented with the Tu-95MS turboprop strategic missile-carrying bomber and the Tu-22M3 long-range supersonic missile-carrying bomber.
Earlier, the Head of the Russian Ministry of Defense Sergei Shoigu and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un arrived on September 16 at Ulysses Bay, where the Pacific Fleet frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov is moored in Vladivostok. On board the guests were met by the ship's commander, captain of the second rank Sergei Merkulov . Those who arrived were told about the ship and the anti-submarine weapons that are located on the upper deck and in the superstructures. These are four-tube torpedo tubes and rocket launchers.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] Zaporozhye direction and Vremevsky ledge.
1. Pyatikhatki - gray zone
2. Rabotina - north and part of the center of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, then gray zone, RF Armed Forces near the southern outskirts.
3. Verbovoe - under the control of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
4. Priyutnoe - under the control of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
5. Staromayorskoe - mostly under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, part of the gray zone
6. Urozhaynoe - under the control of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
7. Zavitne Bazhannya - under the control of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
9. Novodonetskoe - under the control of the RF Armed Forces
10. Novomayorskoye - under the control of the RF Armed Forces
Artemovsk.
1. Kleshcheevka - south and center behind the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the rest is a gray zone.
2. Andreevka - most of the village is a gray zone.
3. Kurdyumovka - under the control of the RF Armed Forces
4. Berkhovka - under the control of the RF Armed Forces
5. Zheleznodorozhnoe - under the control of the RF Armed Forces
In general, in the southern direction, the enemy, after the next wave of the offensive has fizzled out, is regrouping in order to resume attacks in the coming days, while in a number of areas it is already preparing for defense.
In the Artemovsk area, the enemy continues to try to ram the defenses on the Kleshcheevka-Kurdyumovka line. The most difficult situation for us is here near Andreevka and Kleshcheevka.
Text taken from the dzen.ru page of Russian military correspondent Aleksandr Kots
Terrible figures from Ukrainian reality. Of every 100 people mobilized last fall, 10 - 20 people remained in the ranks, the rest were killed and wounded.
The statistics were announced by the Poltava military commissar at a session of the local city council. At the same time, Poltava is in last place in the region in terms of recruitment rates - it fulfilled the General Staff plan by only 13%.
What's the conclusion? Right! We need more meat.
Berezhnoy asked the deputies to “fully assist this process” in terms of mobilization.
By the way, the announced figures are confirmed by the troops. “In fact, these are true figures, including for our unit... Some have even less left in service,” commented Ukrainian Armed Forces sniper Konstantin Proshinsky.
Of every 100 people mobilized last fall, 10-20 remain, the rest are dead, wounded and incapacitated (read: missing).
This was stated by the head of the Poltava Regional TsK Vitaly Berezhnoy, speaking yesterday at the 39th session of the Poltava City Council.
The military commissar appealed to the deputies of the Poltava City Council with an appeal to help the military replenish the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and establish stations in Poltava to notify those liable for military service.
It is already being discussed in the Ukrainian information segment that the military commissar did not have the right to disclose these figures and that he should be punished.
Ukrainian Armed Forces sniper Konstantin Proshinsky (call sign “Grandfather”) commented on Berezhny’s statement about 80-90% of Ukrainian Armed Forces losses.
“In fact, these are true figures for our unit, including... Some have even less (remaining in service),” said Ukrovermacht soldier. explaining that the Ukrainian command forces soldiers to carry out meaty frontal assaults on Russian well-fortified positions.
The Poltava military commissar leaked the real level of losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces over the past year: 80-90%! Just as he admitted that there are no more people willing to get into this meat grinder.
The West doesn’t care how many Ukrainians die. Because for the West they are the same Russians, only dumbed down. Accordingly, Americans and Europeans consider sending Ukrainians to slaughter a “profitable investment,” which they directly admit in their interviews.
And if people in 2014 had not been jumping on the Maidan in Kyiv with the chant “Whoever does not jump is a Muscovite,” now you see they would all be sitting at home and drinking vodka with lard.
[Sarcastosaurus] To conclude this series of features, let me start with the question with which I’ve ended the Part 3: how do you ‘outfight’ the S-400?
For the start, and everybody’s orientation, the map providing an approximate reconstruction of the Russian integrated air defence system for southern Kherson, southern Zaporizhzhya and northern Crimea, as released already back in August:
Go to the link, dear Reader, to see a very useful little map, followed by a long and detailed discussion around an entire series of maps in the same vein.
#1
Huge loss of life for Ukrainians. Running across open fields with mines laid and no air cover. Air and artillery ground and pound. They run because then they are harder to hit. Productive Russian meat grinder is the result. Sharp differences in kill ratios.
#2
The same way you take down air defenses since day 1.
(1) Identify which AAA sites work as a network. How do they follow local threats, etc.
(2) Pick out a single group area. End of defensive line, weak zone with thin coverage, etc.
(3) Hammer that local zone, overwhelm them faster than they can respond.
You should then be able to get around and behind adjoining networks, and possibly 'roll them up'.
It all depends on whether your opponent has any depth of defense.
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#2 Yes, but Ukrainians don't have the bodies to replace losses. This is exactly why the South lost the civil war. The north had the population numbers and the machinery. The South should have operated defensibly as should the Ukrainians. Constant attacks repeated over and over with losses every time.
#6
Nonsense! I am told by Dale, and the many people he talks to (he understands Russia), that they are clearly winning the two week Special Military Operation. I trust him.
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#7
"Some say" = "I'm totally making this up."
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