Moscow sees one of Ukraine's largest drone attacks as fighting rages in Kursk and eastern Ukraine

Slava Ukraini!

That's really deep beyond Kursk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9Mkgr4vKJc

Let the privileged in Moscow taste a bit of bitterness as

and see just how much they love this “special military operation.”

Time to start moving troops, Putin!!!

thwarted attack attempts by Ukrainian assault groups in the Kursk region, according to a report from Tass. Ukraine’s armed forces saw more than 45 soldiers killed or wounded over the past 24 hours and two were captured while attempting to attack the Kursk region,

Zelensky is furious that his troops haven't yet the Kursk Nuclear Plant yet and keeps ordering them to try to reach it using human wave attacks.

They keep failing and Russian forces have secured the plant and built fortifications around it.

Zelensky has nothing left except to lash out in anger at civilians in Moscow.

Every single bomb targeted at Russian children was shot down, Moscow air defences had a 100% success rate.

“Who will negotiate with them after this, after the atrocities, the terror that they are committing against peaceful residents, the civilian population, civilian infrastructure and peaceful facilities,” she said at a briefing Wednesday in Moscow.

And people wonder why nobody in Ukraine has asked for peace negotiations.

Every single bomb targeted at Russian children was shot down, Moscow air defences had a 100% success rate.

Unfortunately Ukraine hasn’t been completely successful at destroying the huge numbers of drones and missiles the Russians have targeted at Ukrainian children.

As many as 3,000 Russian troops are believed to be trapped in the Glushkovsky district, which Ukraine is likely to try to seize. Over the past week Ukraine has bombed three bridges and a pontoon across the Seym River. It has also blasted a Russian border post in the town of Tetkino, farther west.

I know this is what the Moscow regime is saying, but didn't know anyone believed it.

Plan for week 2 of the Kursk mop up operation: get all of our bridges blown up.

Zelensky is furious that his troops haven't yet the Kursk Nuclear Plant yet and keeps ordering them to try to reach it using human wave attacks.

They keep failing and Russian forces have secured the plant and built fortifications around it.

Zelensky has nothing left except to lash out in anger at civilians in Moscow.

Kyiv has developed an increasingly ambitious drone programme and a new drone command. The commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces said about 200 critical infrastructure sites had been attacked. All were connected with “military logistics”. They included factories, fuel dumps and refineries.

The strategy appears to be working. Fires have continued to burn at a major oil depot in Proletarsk, a town in Russia’s Rostov oblast, four days after it was struck by drones. Another storage tank exploded. Firefighters have been unable to put out the blaze.

Nothing happened with that drone attack, it only shows the desperation of the Kyiv regime..

Despair result of data such as that so far in the failed raid on Kursk, the ukrainian troops have suffered 4,630 casualties. Today, the Russian army liberated 5 more cities and three brigades of the Ukrainian army refused to go to defend the strategic city of Prokrovsk, which when it falls will be the beginning of the end of the war for the kyiv regime..

Just matter of time..

Is this also part of vlads “master plan” to lay a trap for Ukraine? lol.

Ukraine has said large numbers of Russian servicemen gave themselves up during the Kursk offensive that began on 6 August.

One 22-year-old Russian PoW – a conscript – said he and others were “simply abandoned by our command”.

Putin’s diary (in the minds of his supporters):

Day 905. Ukraine launches large scale drone attack on Moscow while its forces continue to advance in Kursk.

Everything still proceeding according to plan.

Wonder what the mothers of the 3,000 hapless conscripts trapped against a river think about the “special military operation”?

Just matter of time..

News Flash: Time isn’t on your side.

Just matter of time..

The fascist Russia supporters are rattled and seem angry. "It was supposed to be over in 3 days!"

Keep cranking out those body bags, fascist Russia!

 But it is also a risky move. Ukrainian forces were already badly stretched, with active hostilities taking place along more than 970 kilometers (600 miles). The gains in Kursk come as Ukraine continues to lose ground in its eastern industrial region of Donbas.

These thirty odd words are the only mention of the main battlefront in the actual war in this article - oh dear, oh dear.

Time to start moving troops, Putin!!!

Nope - Russia has immense rear reserves and can shift selected rotational units from North "Sever" Group of Forces as Kharkiv is largely static and geographically the closest. This translates as about a less-than-20-to-over-80 ratio. A good example of redeployed forces from "sever" is the sterling 810th Marine Brigade from Sevastopol, Crimea.

Media are covering up AFU losses in the Kursk Incursion. They are suffering high losses in men and material. There are significant surrenders every day. The picture is far from the rosy one painted here.

Pressure on the Donbass is huge. Certain groups are sending off spurs to wrap up AFU defensive lines from perpendicular-behind the position, rolling up entire lines manned by conscripts. Meanwhile the Battles of Pokrovsk and Toretsk rage.

The attack on Moscow was repelled - clear that they have built a layered and fully integrated AD system to deal with these drone attacks in that direction, St Petersburg too.

Yeah we heard it for almost 3 years now. Just how long is the "beginning of the end" going to drag on? It's starting to sound a bit desperate.

Despair result of data such as that so far in the failed raid on Kursk, the ukrainian troops have suffered 4,630 casualties. Today, the Russian army liberated 5 more cities and three brigades of the Ukrainian army refused to go to defend the strategic city of Prokrovsk, which when it falls will be the beginning of the end of the war for the kyiv regime..

"Ukraine's daring land incursion into Russia"

In Hitler's time they called that a "blitzkrieg".

BellflowerToday  08:53 am JST

"Ukraine's daring land incursion into Russia"

In Hitler's time they called that a "blitzkrieg".

Except Zelensky isn’t Hitler and Putin sure as hell isn’t Stalin no matter how hard he tries.

This battlefield map gives an accurate depiction of the gains of RFAF in 4 weeks of combat on the Eastern Front:

https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/21august2024_Ukraine_Donbass.jpg

Take note of the big mushroom in the Pokrovsk direction. Also note the New York-Toretsk area. And South 'Yug' Group of forces are closing in on Vuhledar/Ugledar in South Donetsk.

Yeah we heard it for almost 3 years now. Just how long is the "beginning of the end" going to drag on? It's starting to sound a bit desperate.

Some people said the beginning of the end in Afghanistan was 1985, but it took til the end of the decade to finally come to their senses.

and winter is almost here.

Quite a bit to unpack here...

Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, said Ukraine’s attack on Kursk has ended “any possibility” of peace negotiations.

You have to admire the sheer level of self delusion it takes to be able to say something like that.

...Russian authorities reported Wednesday, saying they destroyed all of those headed toward the capital.

Course you did, comrade, course you did.

I tell you what - it is genuinely difficult to determine who's better at shameless lying: Trump or the Russian PA machine. I suppose both have the benefit of knowing that their target audience will believe every single word they say...

Someone kindly posted a video of the drone attack being repelled at the very first post on this thread (7:07am), posted by foreign media. If there were large targets hit in Moscow, the foreign media - who have representatives there - would be the first to report on it, and gloat about it, and they didn't because it didn't happen. SM showed drones being shot down.

Truth is Russians have installed a lawyered network of Pantsir family AD systems, adapted for protecting Moscow, St Petersburg and other places. This network is expanding to cover other places and strategic infrastructure while you read this and also includes other systems. Indeed, at the RMoD Army Forum expo 2024 last week they unveiled the latest iteration of said system, specifically designed for point defense against drones, which will employ much cheaper short-range missiles in mass (SMD-E model). "Glory to Russian air defense" people have been chanting in Moscow on SM.

Obviously, with Russia being enormous in size, this drone issue presented a big challenge. And, as previously mentioned, priority was given to Moscow etc and first-tier strategic installations. Now that network is in place, 2nd and 3rd tier groupings will be promptly worked on. This is an ongoing work-of-art that will rapidly expand in coverage, while at the same time improve in technology and efficiency. Which means the good news for Russia on this issue is the challenge is being met and overcome.

Keep in mind the Kerch Bridge is still standing tall and proud, so Russian AD networks have been working feverishly to expand in many quarters. One hardly hears of raids on Crimea these days.

While Kiev propaganda is "renaming villages" in the Kursk region, crematoriums of Swedish and Italian production are urgently being delivered to Sumy.

According to local channels, the bodies of the killed Ukrainian military, from the Kursk direction, are already simply stored in refrigerators. There are no places in morgues.

Ukrainian telegram sources write that the OP (office of the Ukr president) recommended to the General Staff gradually hand over the corpses of the dead on the front to relatives so that mass funeral processions would not spoil the PR effect of the attack on the Kursk region.

Yes, Russian official sources give approximately the following figures for the dead of the Ukrainian military, more than 4,000. We must take into account that there are about the same number of wounded who will never return to service. Conditionally, Ukraine lost 10 thousand military personnel in two weeks of its stunning offensive. Why did Ukraine order mobile crematoriums if there were only 45 casualties? What does your Western news say if you don't read Ukrainian and Russian sources?

JJEToday  09:39 am JST

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Just wondering why Russia even needs to be intercepting drone attacks, as they were planning on liberating Kyiv and being welcomed as heroes? Why, it's almost as if...the Ukrainians didn't want them.

Face it, the Russian military action failed on day one, and it's now day nine hundred and something. Everything else is just rationalisation, excuse-making, goalpost-shifting and outright lying.

You have to admire the sheer level of self delusion it takes to be able to say something like that.

What is self delusion? In more detail, please. Did you see the smoke of a fire on the horizon? How did you know what the consequences were? No Moscow source has reported any events related to these drones. But there are reports of drones heading to the Murmansk region. They were all shot down as well

Reply to SD - Russia specifically needs to intercept drones because that has become a reality of the conflict. Moscow will be unlikely to drop the goal of the SVO for this reason alone, ultimately because it is a military mission in support of Russian national security objectives. Being 'welcomed as heroes' or the perceived feelings of people have nothing to do with it. Protecting Donbass, Crimea and stopping NATO expansion into the European invasion routes of Russia is crucial - as highlighted by the Kursk incursion. Moscow is very unlikely to call this off until Ukraine has been rolled back west of the Dnieper.

Let the privileged in Moscow taste a bit of bitterness as

and see just how much they love this “special military operation.”

Russia was carrying out an SMO.

But now that Ukraine carried out attacks against Russian civilian areas, Russia will switch to all out war. Ukrainians will taste even greater bitterness because of Zelensky's foolishness and unwillingness to negotiate.

Just wondering why Russia even needs to be intercepting drone attacks, as they were planning on liberating Kyiv

Russia never planned to "liberate" Kiev. To take the whole of Ukraine to the western border - it was (and still exists) the wish and goal of the majority of the population supporting the military operation. An adequate part of the Ukrainian population especially wants it. But I've never heard that from Putin. Please enlighten us.

Earlier mentioned the Pantsir-SMD-E.

This is the latest version of the Pantsir, unveiled at Army Forum 2024 exhibition at Patriot Park in Kubinka outside of Moscow, over a week ago.

Essentially this latest system will become a scaled down Iron Dome-like system for a fraction of the cost, in terms of platform and interceptors, but similar overall capability. In other words, better cost-performance.

It was one of the many weapon systems which garnered much interest from foreign potential buyers at said event, including the Israelis themselves. Predict they will sell faster than hot cross buns.

Someone kindly posted a video of the drone attack being repelled at the very first post on this thread (7:07am), posted by foreign media. If there were large targets hit in Moscow, the foreign media - who have representatives there - would be the first to report on it, and gloat about it, and they didn't because it didn't happen. SM showed drones being shot down.

Truth is Russians have installed a lawyered network of Pantsir family AD systems, adapted for protecting Moscow, St Petersburg and other places. This network is expanding to cover other places and strategic infrastructure while you read this and also includes other systems. Indeed, at the RMoD Army Forum expo 2024 last week they unveiled the latest iteration of said system, specifically designed for point defense against drones, which will employ much cheaper short-range missiles in mass (SMD-E model). "Glory to Russian air defense" people have been chanting in Moscow on SM.

Obviously, with Russia being enormous in size, this drone issue presented a big challenge. And, as previously mentioned, priority was given to Moscow etc and first-tier strategic installations. Now that network is in place, 2nd and 3rd tier groupings will be promptly worked on. This is an ongoing work-of-art that will rapidly expand in coverage, while at the same time improve in technology and efficiency. Which means the good news for Russia on this issue is the challenge is being met and overcome.

Keep in mind the Kerch Bridge is still standing tall and proud, so Russian AD networks have been working feverishly to expand in many quarters. One hardly hears of raids on Crimea these days.

You realize it’s a flat 50 Kopecks per post, right?

Funny how the people who insist that the Israeli Palestine war started October 7th, rather than any of the times Israel invaded, or broke a ceasefire and attacked, also insist the Ukraine Russia war didn't start with the overthrowing of the last democratically elected government a united peaceful Ukraine had, of the Azovian invasion of Russia August 6th. Like the 3 year old insisting that things started when he was hit, rather than when the fight kicked off with him hitting someone else, the only people fooled wouldn't really care if he admitted he started it.

You realize it’s a flat 50 Kopecks per post, right?

Do you judge it by your prices? Do you agree to work here for 50 cents per post? You value yourself badly, your posts are much more expensive :))) The longer I stay here, the more anecdotes I read :)))

I'm sorry if I interfered in a personal dialogue.

Within 1 week of launching their SMO, the Russians had controlled an area the size of England, a city and port (Sevestapol) and a nuclear plant.

It's been 3 weeks since Zelensky launched his invasion with his best troops and best NATO equipment and he controls no cities, failed to take the nuke plant and the area he says is his can be driven across in 1 hour at its longest point.

You can't even find the Zelensky pocket on a map unless you zoom into 3 or 4 times.

All russian should experience the war as Ukrainian do and that include putin.

All served in the Ukrainian Azov battalion, including nine women who mostly served as cooks.

Not only these women, but also all Ukrainian military men who were captured, also, it turns out, served as cooks :) And also drivers, paramedics, supply workers... No one has said that he was a sniper :)

Face it, the Russian military action failed on day one, and it's now day nine hundred and something. 

Yeah, that's what happens with these Russians. You can savor it as much as you like, but don't forget the anecdote about the Russian tank on the Champs-Elysees, which I've told you here several times.

PrimusinterToday 10:47 am JST

Face it, the Russian military action failed on day one, and it's now day nine hundred and something. 

Yeah, that's what happens with these Russians. You can savor it as much as you like, but don't forget the anecdote about the Russian tank on the Champs-Elysees, which I've told you here several times.

And it is as nonsensical as when you first told it. Good to see you admit you've been here awhile, though.

BanthuToday 10:28 am JST

Within 1 week of launching their SMO, the Russians had controlled an area the size of England, a city and port (Sevestapol) and a nuclear plant.

4 weeks to completing Baghdad.

You can't even find the Zelensky pocket on a map unless you zoom into 3 or 4 times.

But you can find Zelenskyy's 80% quite easily.

RichardPearceToday 10:11 am JST

Funny how the people who insist that the Israeli Palestine war started October 7th, rather than any of the times Israel invaded, or broke a ceasefire and attacked, also insist the Ukraine Russia war didn't start with the overthrowing of the last democratically elected government a united peaceful Ukraine had, of the Azovian invasion of Russia August 6th. Like the 3 year old insisting that things started when he was hit, rather than when the fight kicked off with him hitting someone else, the only people fooled wouldn't really care if he admitted he started it.

Still Putin's War and still Ukraine's democracy. Those US baseball bats changed nothing.

You're doing the equivalent of insulting a beaten wife because she didn't beat her husband back as badly as she was beaten. We all fight back against bullies with the tools we have (a few surplus NATO weapons in Ukraine's case).

Within 1 week of launching their SMO, the Russians had controlled an area the size of England, a city and port (Sevestapol) and a nuclear plant.

It's been 3 weeks since Zelensky launched his invasion with his best troops and best NATO equipment and he controls no cities, failed to take the nuke plant and the area he says is his can be driven across in 1 hour at its longest point.

You can't even find the Zelensky pocket on a map unless you zoom into 3 or 4 times.

JJEToday 11:00 am JST

The Azovians mentioned at the end of the article are offenders taken during the Siege of Mariupol.

Yes the heroes of that battle.

"Moscow sees one of Ukraine's largest drone attacks as fighting rages in Kursk and eastern Ukraine."

War is not Olympics to cheer about, but unfortunately the clock is ticking towards a brutal third world war. And the aftermath will not spare us in our safe havens, thanks to the ever connected global economy.

BTW, Russia taken Kyiv yet?