Page 4 | Ukraine Invasion: Part 30

MagicFox · 2022-08-28T08:05:02+00:00

We're now on our 30th thread, thanks as usual to all who contribute.

MissConductUS · 29/08/2022 23:08

Here's a good summary of what's known now about the offensive:

Ukraine Update: Ukraine launches major Kherson counteroffensive

So far, it's good news.

Natsku · 30/08/2022 07:37

That is promising stuff.

On an amusing note, the Russian tourists that come to Europe tend to come through Finland then fly from Helsinki, leaving their cars in the airport car park. Locals have been going round the car park sticking pro-Ukraine stickers on all the cars with Russian numberplates

Ijsbear · 30/08/2022 08:35

Key Takeaways

Ukrainian military officials announced that Ukrainian forces began a counteroffensive operation in Kherson Oblast on August 29.

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi announced that the IAEA mission to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant left for the plant.

Russian forces conducted limited ground assaults north of Slovyansk, southeast of Siversk, south of Bakhmut, and in western Donetsk Oblast.

Russian forces continued efforts to advance around Donetsk City.

Russian forces did not conduct any confirmed ground attacks in northeastern Kharkiv Oblast.

Russian forces conducted a limited ground assault in northwestern Kherson Oblast.

Russian federal subjects continued efforts to form new battalions, attract new recruits, and coerce conscripts into signing military contracts.

Ukrainian partisan activity continues to threaten Russian occupation authorities’ control in occupied territories.

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⚡️Reuters: Taliban close to finalizing contract to purchase Russian gasoline.

⚡️At least Ukrainian families flee occupied territories to avoid Russian-enforced education.

⚡️Reuters: US calls on Russia to create demilitarized zone around Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.

⚡️ Russia launches missile strike on Zaporizhzhia.
According to Zaporizhzhia Oblast Governor Oleksandr Starukh, Russian forces launched a missile strike on Zaporizhzhia overnight on Aug. 30. There are currently no reported casualties or significant damages to infrastructure.

⚡️Logitech to leave Russian market.
Logitech International announced it will halt operations in Russia on Sept. 1, after suspending shipments in March. The company manufactures keyboards, mice, speakers, webcams, and other computer equipment

⚡️ NYT: Iran delivers first batch of military drones to Russia.
The delivery is the first of many intended to add hundreds of drones to Russia’s arsenal, the New York Times reported, citing two anonymous US officials.

🪖 EU proposes to train Ukrainian snipers, sappers, and officers – Bloomberg

❌ Ukraine, the United States, and eight other countries refute the Russian fake about the development of biological weapons in the laboratories of the US State Department

🖇 U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will personally host a meeting of the Ukrainian Defense Contact Group at Ramstein Air Base in Germany on September 8, 2022, the U.S. Air Force Europe and Africa Command announced

💥 In the past week, from August 22 to 28, the Ukrainian military demilitarized 27 ammunition depots and 22 enemy bases!

⚡️ The United States has assessed that Ukraine has a "good chance" of reclaiming territory captured by Russia during its initial invasion, U.S. Department of Defense officials said

⚡️The Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed a Russians crossing across the Dnipro River near the village of Lvove in the Beryslav district of the Kherson region — Operational Command “Pivden” (“South”)

📣 The U.S. National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications, John Kirby, called for a "controlled shutdown" of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. According to him, this could be a guarantee of its safety in the near future.

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 30/08/2022 08:52

⚡️‘At least Ukrainian families flee occupied territories to avoid Russian-enforced education.‘

It’s interesting that that might be the final straw that cements one’s decision to leave.

MMBaranova · 30/08/2022 09:47

It’s difficult when one side says ‘don’t talk about this thing we are doing’ as the other side probably will and all sorts of fantasists chip in together with those who don’t want to follow the rules. The Ukrainians are clearly hoping to control the narrative (they can’t in my opinion) and see how well their offensive goes. While I would like the offensive to cut through Russian forces like butter, I doubt that it will be easy. Making any progress in this war after the initial week of the surprise attack is going to be challenging. Some of the reports are encouraging.

I posted Strelkov because he seemed to have some information and was not being too partisan in his analysis. I could have posted a lot more Russian side information that ranged from the clearly government aligned to the even harder line than Putin crew. That’s something I am not keen on doing much as then the narrative has been ceded to the enemy. However, there is a lot of information, misinformation and disinformation out there in Russian language media.

MMBaranova · 30/08/2022 09:49

Taking some of the places Strelkov mentioned and searching on them in Cyrillic with Russian spellings I could find images and videos from most of them posted yesterday or very recently because there are reporters and fellow travellers out there on and behind Russian lines keeping their feeds going. It’s easier to get SOMETHING, however filtered and propagandised it is from the Russian side than the Ukrainian. The latter are more measured control freaks and the former… well I just don’t know sometimes. There are clearly state and friendly state actors, but also a range of encouraged / tolerated types who may well be in the pay of the state but put out a curious mix. What they say may often be dubious but I don’t think the cameras lie much, though of course the images are selective.

So that you can see a sample of what is out there, here’s ‘Yuri’ who sits with a wall behind him speaking as if he knows what is going on and making no secret of who he supports. It came out yesterday evening and covers the Ukrainian offensive and has English subtitles. I assume he is a Russian state agent of some sort. Needless to say, compared to the relative nuance of Strelkov, he is outlining what he reports as a debacle. I hope he is wrong in pretty much all he says.

blueshoes · 30/08/2022 10:28

Natsku · 30/08/2022 07:37

That is promising stuff.

On an amusing note, the Russian tourists that come to Europe tend to come through Finland then fly from Helsinki, leaving their cars in the airport car park. Locals have been going round the car park sticking pro-Ukraine stickers on all the cars with Russian numberplates

blueshoes · 30/08/2022 10:41

@Ijsbear thanks for the key takeaways

⚡️ NYT: Iran delivers first batch of military drones to Russia.
The delivery is the first of many intended to add hundreds of drones to Russia’s arsenal, the New York Times reported, citing two anonymous US officials.