Sanctions against Russia

[willedoo]

[willedoo]

It's now official; the Russians have ordered a general retreat from the West bank of the Dnieper in Kherson Oblast. Now all they have to do is get tens of thousands of troops across a kilometre wide river while under fire. The installed Russian puppet in Kherson is dead.

 

The next few days should tell the POW/KIA situation of the retreating orcs. It will be another lend lease windfall for Ukraine as it's unlikely the Russians will be able to get much heavy armour and equipment across the river. What a great plan Putin's special operation is. It would save the world a lot of trouble if he just fast forwarded to the part where he kills himself in the bunker.

[willedoo]

[facthunter]

FAKE Trump is depicted "THINKING". where he just does hissy  fits and blame s everyone else. In THAT respect HE and Poutain are similar, FAILURE is not part of their lexicon  Nev

[willedoo]

It just goes from bad to worse; you just couldn't make this stuff up. This is the televised for the public report from commanding general Surovikin to Russian defence minister Shoigu, recommending a withdrawal from Kherson city and the west bank. Even though only a few weeks ago, it was declared part of Russia and therefore to be defended to the death, Russian TV talking heads, milbloggers, Prighozin and Kadyrov have all fallen into line supporting the decision.

 

It seems like the new plan is to sell defeat to the Russian public. It's a juggling act for Putler. To survive, the Kremlin has to paint it not as a political failure, but a military withdrawl due to the intervention of NATO. Putler will be looking for military scapegoats to carry any backlash from the public.

 

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1590368333727424512

[willedoo]

I wonder if the clowns have any idea how stupid they look in these staged for television events. Even on the more serious side, they have an air force general commanding all ground forces, and a decision making defence minister who is the ex emergency services minister, and has no military experience. He has the uniform and has been given the rank of general of the army, but he hasn't been in the military and is a career politician. What could possibly go wrong.

[red750]

Vladimir Putin is too scared to attend this year’s upcoming G20 summit due to fears another world leader will “slap him in the face” over the Russian leader’s ongoing war in Ukraine, RadarOnline.com has learned.

The surprising revelation comes just one week before 20 of the world’s top leaders are set to meet in Bali, Indonesia, for this year’s conference on November 15 and 16.

 

According to Daily Mail, Putin is not expected to join this year’s gathering over concerns another unidentified world leader has vowed to “slap” the Russian president in the face during a personal meeting between the pair.

 

“This person said, quite openly in his circle, that he was ready to seek a personal meeting with Putin at the summit, even bypassing the protocol,” a Telegram channel with alleged connections to Kremlin insiders revealed.

 

“The information was presented to Putin as unambiguously corresponding to reality, intentions and plans, confirmed by several sources,” the channel continued. “Putin is not ready to risk being humiliated by receiving a public slap in the face.”

[facthunter]

The "Fearless?"T A Bot threatened to "Shirt front PUTIN" Poor Vlad, no wonder he's freaked out. Is nothing Sacred? Can someone translate Shirt front to Russian?  Nev

Edited November 10, 2022 by facthunter

[willedoo]

3 hours ago, facthunter said:

The "Fearless?"T A Bot threatened to "Shirt front PUTIN" Poor Vlad, no wonder he's freaked out. Is nothing Sacred? Can someone translate Shirt front to Russian?  Nev

 

[willedoo]

I doubt Putin would care less who slapped him in Bali. His biggest fear would be returning home to Mordor and finding someone sitting in his throne.

 

He's sending an orc underling, foreign minister Lavrov.

 

[kgwilson]

Lavrov certainly has a thick skull & brain to match. Putin would also not want to display any symptoms of his failing health in public let alone face the scorn from most of the worlds leaders.

[onetrack]

The Russian domestic airline industry is still operating, despite no parts or factory backup. Make you wonder how long before a Russian Boeing or Airbus falls out of the sky, with a major loss of life

This Russian airliner problem is going to have repercussions in many other countries besides Russia, though.

I wonder what will eventually happen to all these stolen and illegal aircraft? I'll wager many third world countries will end up with them, and many dubious parts from them, will end up in other countries aircraft. It's going to become a big headache for the global airline industry.

 

https://www.airlinerwatch.com/2022/11/russia-challenges-international.html

 

 

[willedoo]

It's a peculiar Russian habit where all the passengers clap when the plane lands. It might take on more meaning now. The safety record in Russia was bad enough before the sanctions; now they'll need to pray on takeoff, during the flight and landing. Save the clapping for when the wheels stop turning.

[willedoo]

5 hours ago, kgwilson said:

Lavrov certainly has a thick skull & brain to match. Putin would also not want to display any symptoms of his failing health in public let alone face the scorn from most of the worlds leaders.

I wouldn't mind betting Putin has finally realised he has lost this war, and now it's all about his political survival. Also his vanity would be driving him to salvage some reputation for the history books. Public perception of him back home would be a big part of that survival, and by going to Bali, he would look like a mug and a loser. As said, Lavrov has a thick skull (and skin) and to him, it would be like water off a duck's back.

 

That rabid Kremlin propagandist, Vladimir Solovyov, is getting into top gear. In one of his latest broadcasts, he appeared on TV angrier than he's ever been. He lashed out at those in the military who had lied and deceived, and pondered why they hadn't been executed. Under the new laws, he could be subject to several years jail for discrediting the military, but he seems untouchable. He's one of the Kremlin's biggest assets, and it looks like they've got him setting the scene to scapegoat the military. Putin's plan would be to end up with mid-upper level army officers taking the blame for the disaster, and he keeps his public support.

 

Hopefully, the Ukrainians will stick that three pronged fork of theirs right up Putin's rear end so the world can be done with him.

[willedoo]

There's a lot of unconfirmed reports coming in of the Russian retreat from Kherson turning into a rout. It was always going to be a big problem for the Russians to retreat across the river using ferries and barges. Reports say the Ukrainians have hammered Russian river crossing points with artillery almost constantly during the night, with large losses.

 

Up until this point, the Russian retreat has been fairly orderly, with most crossings happening at night to minimise shelling risk. But then at some stage, I would assume it would have to become a free for all as their forces on the west bank draw down. Ukrainian special forces are reported entering the outer areas of Kherson city to do clearance sweeps for booby traps and ambushes.

 

The Russians don't appear to have any air support covering their retreating ground forces; end result could be a turkey shoot. That lack of air support is most likely due to the amount of foreign air defence systems that Ukraine has received and is a good example why the supporting nations should keep digging into their pockets. If the west chickens out, the war will bog down and Putin will have a victory of sorts. It's obvious Putin only understands total victory or total defeat, no in between. So why not just finish it once and for all.

[willedoo]

I wonder how the mobilised conscripts are faring in this retreat. With a retreat across a wide river like that, they need to defend a front with part of their forces to give the rest a chance to retreat under cover. This becomes more difficult the smaller the defending forces get. There is a collapsing point and that appears to have been reached.

 

The question is, did the Russians have their best troops covering the withdrawal, or have they left the conscripts there as cannon fodder so as to evacuate and save their better troops. Going by their track record, my money is on the latter.

[red750]

Vladimir Putin is reportedly “terrified of assassination” and will not travel outside of Russia as his own forces have been forced to retreat from key Ukrainian territories, RadarOnline.com has learned.

 

The shocking development comes as Russia’s war against Ukraine quickly approaches the 9-month mark, and as the 70-year-old Russian leader was set to attend next week’s G20 summit on November 15 and 16 in Bali, Indonesia.

 

But now, according to a pro-Putin political analyst, the Russian strongman will not be attending the important economic conference over fears he will be assassinated should he leave Russia.

 

"For example, some disabled social activist knocks Putin down – as if accidentally – and all world media splash a picture with a caption ‘President of Russia is down on all fours,’” said Sergey Markov. “I am certain this kind of situation is being planned by some completely mad Westerners."

 

Markov also cited Russia’s recent retreat from the Ukrainian city of Kherson as another reason why Putin will not be attending next week’s G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia.

 

"After defeat in Kherson, Russia’s status as a great state is questionable,” the pro-Putin political analyst revealed. "They will be putting pressure on, and demand soft capitulation.”

 

 

[red750]

Russian forces in southern Ukraine were on the brink of collapse on Thursday as Ukraine cautiously gained ground, edging closer to the port city of Kherson.

 

A day after Moscow’s defence minister ordered its troops to retreat from the regional capital, the fighting reached within 10 miles of city limits.

 

Russian soldiers were abandoning wounded comrades as they made a hasty retreat, sources on the front line told The Telegraph.

 

Kyiv announced the liberation of more than a dozen surrounding towns, reclaiming some 60 square miles, en route to Kherson.

 

But Ukrainian officials warned Moscow’s planned withdrawal from the West Bank of the Dnipro could be a plot to lure their forces into a bloody urban battle.

 

Mykhailo Podolyak, a top aide to the Ukrainian president, said Russian forces had mined "everything they can" in Kherson, as well as blowing up bridges to slow Ukraine's advance.

 

“RF [Russia] wants to turn Kherson into a ‘city of death’. The Russian military mines everything they can: apartments, sewers. Artillery on the left bank plans to turn the city into ruins,” he wrote on Twitter.

“This is what [the] ‘Russian world’ looks like: came, robbed, celebrated, killed ‘witnesses’, left ruins and left," he added.

 

Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, Ukraine’s commander in chief, said on Thursday morning that his forces had captured 12 settlements from the Russians, in a two-pronged advance on the southern front.

[red750]

Aright-wing combat detachment from Russia's army has described the retreat by Moscow's forces from Kherson as a "betrayal of the Russian people."

 

The comments on the Telegram social media channel of the Sabotage Assault Reconnaissance Group (DShRG) or "Rusich" followed the announcement by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu that his forces would withdraw from the west bank of the Dnieper River.

 

Russian commander Sergey Surovikin said that move would preserve the lives and combat capability of his forces. But the decision was given short shrift by Rusich, a pro-Russian right-wing group that also took part in the war in Donbas from June 2014 to July 2015.

The detachment was founded by Alexey Milchakov, who is described as a neo-Nazi. His group is thought to have a close connection to the Wagner group of mercenaries, whose founder, Evgeny Prigozhin is playing a key role in the war in Ukraine.

[willedoo]

 Avenger air defence systems are part of the latest U.S. military aid package to Ukraine. It's a short range, highly mobile Humvee mounted system with the ability to fire on the move. It has two pods firing a total of eight Stinger missiles. Secondary armament is a .50 FN machine gun. It's a variant of the Browning AN/M3 machine gun developed for aviation during WW2. In the Korean war, it was used in the P-51D, F-86 Sabre, F-84 Thunderjet and F-80 Shooting Star.

 

It's hard to see how Russia can hold out in the long term against the influx of western equipment into Ukraine.

 

 

[willedoo]

I wouldn't like to be on the receiving end of these Ukrainian rockets. The second video shows the view from inside the launcher truck cabin.

 

https://twitter.com/ian_matveev/status/1590778719245045761

[facthunter]

IF you can hand it out you should expect at least the same back. Putler is quite happy to threaten the world with Nuclear Annihilation.  Nev

[kgwilson]

15 minutes ago, willedoo said:

I wouldn't like to be on the receiving end of these Ukrainian rockets. The second video shows the view from inside the launcher truck cabin.

 

https://twitter.com/ian_matveev/status/1590778719245045761

That is one very intense 25 second barrage. it is no wonder the Russians are buggering off in a hurry

[willedoo]

The Russians have made sure the Ukrainians can't use the bridge at Kherson for a long time. They've blown up a large section of it, completely collapsing it into the water. Prior to that, the Ukrainians had put it out of action with precision HIMARS strikes on one span only. I'd guess that would have been to cause the most damage while economising on strikes, and enabling a fairly quick possible repair later. The Russians destroying it would have been expected, no doubt.

 

 

[willedoo]

Kherson city is Ukrainian again. There was dancing in the streets last night and Ukrainian troops are suffering from an overdose of old Babushkas hugging them. Once the orcs left, the civilians started gathering in the town square and started to celebrate while they waited for the first Ukrainian troops to arrive. Probably for the first time, they captured a previous Ukrainian helicopter at the airport (Mi-8).

 

As expected, the Russian press is reporting it in their inverted reality - all Russian troops and equipment safely evacuated and they evacuated the city to save the civilians because the Ukrainians were shelling schools and hospitals etc.. The usual BS.